In the 70s and 80s, back when vinyl was still king, various Christian right types (and the Parents Music Resource Center) made a lot of noise about how rock bands (including, notably, Led Zeppelin) were supposedly promoting Satanism through their recording via backmasking, the process of recording something backwards that is meant to be listened to forwards. Rappers frequently use backmasking to censor dirty words on the “clean” versions of their songs, but back in the day rock bands used it to embed subliminal Satanic messages in their music. Or so Tipper Gore said.

It would have been funnier if time and resources hadn’t been wasted on proposed state and federal legislation seeking to eliminate or regulate recordings involving backmasking because, as the 1983 California bill said, it “can manipulate our behavior without our knowledge or consent and turn us into disciples of the Antichrist”

NAMBLA is the acronym for the North American Man/Boy Love Association “a pedophile and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States that works to abolish age of consent laws criminalizing adult sexual contact with minors.”

Yo Gabba Gabba! is a popular children’s television program:

Jean may not be joining Biz Markie and The Roots as a special guest star on the show any time soon

Sad!

Dora the Explorer has such nice, educational adventures that always have a happy ending

Nellie Oleson was a character in several of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiographical Little House novels and the television series based on them. Nellie was a sadistic brat of dubious ethics, as opposed to spunky, wholesome protagonist Laura.

Actress Alison Arngrim played Nellie. She later wrote a memoir about her experience:

“Earth Crusher” is a reference to the previous song on the album and means nuclear weapons. “Conceive a fetus” means to have a child— ‘The nuclear apocalypse came before I could start a family.’

Jean is so nervous about the procedure that she sakes like an addict in withdrawl