SYSK’s Summer Movie Playlist: How the MPAA Works

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

You may be surprised to learn those ubiquitous ratings, from G to NC-17, put on movies in America are actually handed down by anonymous employees of a secretive organization that serves as a lobbying firm for Hollywood's six biggest studios.

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1:22.1	Hey everybody, Chuck here for another summer movie playlist feed drop.
1:42.6	Today we're going to be covering how the MPAA works, and this is from June 2014, and it delves into the ends and outs of the MPAA and how they decide on rating movies, because it's sort of a dark art as far as we're concerned, so check it out.
1:46.8	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from from how stuff works.com hey and welcome to the podcast i'm josh clark there's charles w chuck
1:57.2	bry and jerry but where's Waldo? Right over there, apparently.
2:02.9	Man, I wish people could hear the in-between stuff.
2:06.2	I think Jerry was recording that last one.
2:09.0	Oh, yeah?
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