I don't in the least mind a comedy that has an incident where some yappy little lapdogs or a parrot or something supposedly meet a sudden and violent end...like in "A Fish Called Wanda" for example. It doesn't upset me because I don't see it as real. Now if I saw a film of someone supposedly torturing an animal...that would upset me.

Nope, but the thing that can totally turn me off to a show is seeing scenes of brutal and sadistic violence toward women. I can't bloody well stand watching that. I quit watching the Sopranos on account of that kind of stuff, and I'd have to say that the Sopranos was, in its own way, a darned good show.