10 Smutty Movies Which Somehow Got Rated PG In The 1980s

2. Howard The Duck (1986)

You just can't have a conversation about inappropriate content in PG rated movies without this one coming up. The 1986 George Lucas production, which proved a somewhat inauspicious first step into Hollywood for Marvel Comics, took a character who was really never meant for children and tried to push the envelope for what movies could get away with under a PG. In a sense it succeeded, as there's stuff in here that should simply never be in a kids' movie. Indeed, there are those who'd say it's all stuff that shouldn't be in a movie full stop. Let's do a brief recap: Howard, the hard-drinking, cigar-chewing, potty-mouthed anthropomorphic duck from another dimension, is minding his own business reading Playduck when a mysterious energy force suddenly pulls him hurtling though space - not before breaking through the wall of a neighbour lady duck, sitting in the bath with her breasts exposed. Yes, lady ducks have human-like breasts, it seems. And then once Howard gets to Earth, there is the oft-discussed relationship that develops between himself and Lea Thompson's new wave rock chick Beverly, which appears to go beyond the platonic - most notably when the two share Thompson's bed whilst she's clad in some very skimpy undies. It's fair to say a lot of kids who saw this on the cusp of puberty got some very strange feelings indeed.