The last TV show I saw in which a child respected his parent was The Andy Griffith Show. Opie always said "yes sir" and "no sir" to his dad.
On the other hand, I had to turn off a stupid '60s-generation-mindset movie. In the movie, grandparents asked their son and daughter-in-law why they were not having their new baby baptized. In that '60s, we're-too-sophisticated-for-God way, the couple replied, "We're not going to push any religion on our child. We'll let him grow up and make up his own mind."
This type of anti-parent, anti-societal rule behavior is also seen in some of the cartoons for the little ones. Mom and Dad are portrayed as morons and the kids are rude and extremely disrespectful. Over the years, I have forced myself to watch the programs and monitor which cartoons are appropriate or not.
I have noticed this trend for many years - my oldest is 24 and my youngest is 14. It is one of the reasons that watching television was/is severely rationed in our home.
So far this “lack” of much TV watching has produced good results in our daughters. The disrepect of American children toward their parents and teachers is appalling. It also goes directly against the Honor thy mother and Father commandment. It is up to the parents to form their children and not allow this insidious attitude to take root.
And, as someone else pointed out - it starts right at the beginning with the cartoons. Don’t let your kids get hooked on those seemingly innocuous cartoons - they have insidious subliminal messages.
We cut our kids off from the worst offender: The Disney Channel.
You will be lucky to see parents at all. iCarly there are no parents. The main character lives with her older brother who is more a perpetual 18 year old. Another show Victorious the parents of the main character are also a no show. Both are shows on Nickelodeon.
Where have they been? TV producers have been doing this since around 1972...