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As a kid who wasn't allowed to watch it because it was a "mindless" show according to my parents, I feel irritated that they misjudged it likely based on a few random moments they chanced across. We didn't have cable so it didn't matter much anyway
I have heard some kids say their parents banned it because the voice acting annoyed them, which is fair tbh. But I personally would allow the kid to watch it with headphones in that case.
I get the sense most parents that banned it did so for a similar reason to mine; they saw it as a dumb show about dumb characters doing dumb things. I also saw it that way as a kid because I had a preconceived opinion after hearing that from adults, and any random out of context clip I might see at a friend's house confirmed that bias.
After having watched some in college to catch up after being deprogrammed by friends (and getting sick of meme-induced FOMO), I now consider it a smartly written show about characters of (mostly) average intelligence doing (mostly) neutral and sometimes dumb things, lol