Disney Playhouse Cartoon Interrupted with Hardcore Porn

Pornagraphy Replaces Handy Manny Show on the Disney Channel

This is a parent's worst nightmare. If you can, imagine yourself cleaning the kitchen adjacent to the family room where your child is watching the Disney Channel. Then you hear the words "What are they doing?" You look toward the T.V. and for about five eternally long seconds, your brain is disconnected from your eyes as you try to make sense of what is playing on the screen. "Oh my Goodness!!", you shout as your brain tells you a truth you cannot possibly fathom. Just three feet from your child who is looking to you for an answer, while pointing to the screen, are two adults on the television in an explicit sex scene. Your mind's eye goes blind. You are rendered deaf and dumb.

Well, hundreds of families had this exact experience or something very close to it on Tuesday when the Handy Mandy cartoon was replaced with pornography. The programming mishap was limited to Comcast in an isolated local New Jersey Facility. It was aired to families in and around Middlesex New Jersey.

Paul Dunleavy, a parent who was interviewed described the scene as "disgusting" and "full-on" sex with "two people doing their thing". He continued saying, "It wasn't something you'd expect to see on Cinemax, never mind Disney." The parents claim the child is extremely upset, and thinks he did something wrong. They are hoping he is not scarred for life because of what he saw. Of course they never answered his question as they say they will "have to find a way to discuss it with him" if he asks them any questions.

Someone at Comcast has put these parents in a difficult position, as they will certainly have to find a way to explain the pornography to their preschoolers as well as their reaction to it. A quick-thinking parent would have grabbed the remote and turned the channel while explaining that they were watching some complicated medical procedure. Other parents would blankly say, "I don't know". Others would run around screaming and waving their hands. Still others would tell the truth. Regardless of how parents have and will explain this to their kids, I do not envy their task thanks to what appears to be a prankster's actions at the local cable network.