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Since when is it funny to see kids get hurt?


Is it me or is this show getting more sadistic? I don't watch it very often but lately if I tune in I always see a video of some baby getting a ball in the face or falling off a trampoline. Who laughs at that? It's sick.

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It always been funny :)

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I think it's funny!

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Since always.

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This is the only reason I watch the show. Hoping to see either an adult or child get hurt. Who wants to see a baby video with snot hanging from its nose and win $10,000 for it?

"Dinky... Go downstairs and die"

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I think most of you fail to see how times have changed. This isn't the 90's when it was fun to watch some dad get hit in the nuts for half an hour. Or a dog doing something crazy. This show is mostly filled up with internet videos now. Mostly appealing to the youthful crowd. I still find stuff like a chubby kid almost falling out of the roller coaster funny. Especially since I saw it on a website before I saw it on there. And since it nearly happened to me on a viking boat that spins up and down. This show isn't necessarily aimed at families as much as it used to be.

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Lighten up, Francis. The kids don't get hurt. They wouldn't show them if they did.

Obviously LOTS of people laugh at it considering the show's been on for 23 years. Slapstick always kills. Since you only have a problem with people laughing at kids, you must not have problem laughing at adults getting whacked?



This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.

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theres one video they show all the time where a boy and his mother (i think its his mother) are on some type of roller coaster type ride (i think the one that shoots straight up) and the kid slips out of the seat and is hanging on by the strap catching his neck and chin. the kid is rightfully terrified


That kid is so lucky he's alive.

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Since when it it funny to see kids get hurt? Since when was it NOT funny to see kids getting hurt?

We aren't taking medical-emergency issues here so tone it down with the baby worship.


Civility is just a warm and fuzzy name for censorship.

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Since when it it funny to see kids get hurt? Since when was it NOT funny to see kids getting hurt?


LOL, that.
Some videos DO look quite painful and make you, "Ooooooh....! Glad that wasn't me." But apparently none of them ever resulted in anybody actually being severely injured or killed, so you need have no qualms whatsoever about laughing. If the people involved can see the funny in the situation after the fact, then so can I.


In the interest of time, let's agree to disagree--even though I'm always right.

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It's not funny. It's not funny to see the adults get hurt either like that lady who got set on fire on her wedding day.

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Considering the videos (I assume most of them) are sent in with the permission and the hopes of wining by the people that are "hurt" in the video, then they basically give us the okay to laugh at them.

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I throw snowballs at babies....

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