PG penguins?

I like penguins. My Netflix avatar is a king penguin. I once had a poster of the bumbling, beleaguered Opus of Bloom County on my wall when he ran for VP as Bill the Cat’s running mate back in ‘84. (Reagan/Bush won though – I think Mondale/Ferarro took third.) I even like clueless Chilly Willy and Burgess Meredith’s (not DeVito’s) version of Batman’s monocled nemesis.

So, recently, I decided to watch the Penguins of Madagascar – again.

So I called the movie up on my streaming service, and saw the rating: PG.

Someone suggests parental guidance is needed to watch animated penguins…on account of what?

What dangerous, nefariously influential and brain corrupting stuff must parents guide their children through? The MPAA says,

“mild action, some suggestive and rude humor”

Like this?

“High one! That’ll be our thing!”

Or,

“Leopard Seals…nature’s snakes!‘ ‘Sir, I think snakes are nature’s snakes, sir,”

maybe for this,

“Smile and wave, boys, smile and wave!”

or, this:

“Kowalski, options!” “Sir, we could train a small monkey to obey rudimentary commands, then…”

So, now I’m thinking, ‘to get a G rating, the content has to be sedentary, non-suggestive, and polite.’ Now, I’ve tried, and I can’t think of anything AT ALL that is funny – while being sedentary, non-suggestive and polite.

Nothing.

Zounds! Thanks MPAA, almost let myself be exposed to everyday life.

So, I’ll watch the movie, I guess, once my mom calls me back and says, ‘ok.’