Wait, GTA gets high ratings and kids want to play it...
Manhunt 2 got banned here, but kids still import it (you can as long as youre the only one playing it, meaning the ban is useless)...
Horror movies are frequently viewed by minors...

£10 says giving it an adults only rating will make kids want to watch it more

that tv shows are insane

The things people think their kids need to hide from these days. I accidentally encountered a lot of stuff that was allegedly inappropriate in my youth and I didn't turn into a heroin junkie or anything. Today's kids have shit like Lemonparty to look forward to, and no amount of sticking ratings on things will prevent that.

you know, the taking the hands of strangers thing is really the only questionable event on that entire list.  the rest, even if when you state it in such a skewed way, is presented in such a benign manner that it's really not nearly as huge an issue as it seems like they want it to be.  it's like they went looking for anything that could be considered even remotely close to controversial, BY ANYONE, and blew it out of proportion.  even if kids were smart enough at their age to know that what big bird is doing is hallucinating, and that in actuality it's a symptom commonly associated with drug use, the context and tone of the skit really makes it clear, even to the kid, that it's not due to anything so negative.  if you just want to take it out of context, then sure, cookie monster smoking and then eating a pipe can seem kind of odd.  but if you watch it in its entirety, it's pretty obviously a harmless parody that's topped off by an action more typical of cookie monster (the eating) than it would be of the character he's mimicking.  a kid would just think this is cookie monster being silly and up to his same old tricks as he as he eats more and more junk; he'd think it was funny.  he wouldn't think it was cookie monster actively condoning the act of smoking.  no kid would ever think this. even from an adult perspective, one could argue that the eating of the pipe at the end of the scene sends the opposite message.  this is what i thought when i was watching it as a four year old (not the part about eating the pipe being symbolic of anything).  being a stupid four year old, i didn't associate the act of cookie monster smoking a pipe with ANY sort of message, positive or negative.  it was just him pretending to be an old guy with a funny accent smoking a pipe (as i had noticed, by then, many old guys with funny accents did). it was funny!

this entire thing is really mostly absurd.  it's like they're making an assumption that children who know absolutely nothing about clinical depression and eating disorders and nicotine addictions will see this in anything resembling the same way an adult who was actively looking for controversy would.

People are a bit too concerned with what they don't know about children and how they think.  Although I believe children are the brightest people on earth, I do not think they would make the same connections nor try any of this stuff in real life *unless they are complete dumbasses.  I watched Seasame Street when I was a child, and I don't remember getting diabetes, smoking, or being gay in a shitty basement apartmnent.  Seasame street was funny.

Wait how is Snuffleufagus (sp?) a hallucination and not just IMAGINARY FRIEND

i think the difference lies in whether or not the person who sees him truly believes he's real.