History Bowdlerise / Film

* The opening song to Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', ''Arabian Nights'' was changed from "Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face/It's barbaric, but, hey, it's home" in the original theatrical version to a more acceptable "Where it's flat and immense, and the heat is intense/It's barbaric, but, hey, it's home," for the home release when Disney received complaints that the ear-cutting part was offensive to those living in Arabic countries (even though punishments like that ''do'' exist in Arabic countries). The original version made it to the early pressings of the soundtrack on CD, but later versions used the less offensive version. MTI's junior musical of the movie uses the less offensive version, but "It's barbaric" was replaced by "It's a furnace!".

* The UK version of ''Film/TheAbyss'' edits out all shots of Hippy's pet rat immersed in the liquid oxygen due to the BBFC's rule against showing animal cruelty (mostly cockfighting, horses getting tripped by wires or diving into water, and animals being forced to fight each other by humans) and to get rid of the possibility that someone could imitate this at home with their pet rat (or any kind of pet rodent).

** When ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' was promoting the movie in its original release in 1996, they edited "The Price is WRONG, bitch!" to "The Price is WRONG, Bob!". However, in their 2007 primetime special, ''
The Price is Right: A Celebration of Bob Barker's 50 Years in Television'', they showed the uncensored clip.

* Movies of the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' series can do this during kills. Particularly bad examples can be seen in the beginning of ''Halloween II'' where kills are simply replaced by a still shot of Michael Myer's mask with cuts to the soundtrack. Also, video quality decreases.

** When the film now airs on ITV, during the dance sequence and Fetcher was getting emotional, the question Nick asks Fetcher "What are you sobbing about, you nancy?" was edited to have "nancy" replaced with "fish".

** Creator/{{ITV}} airings from 2020-2022 keep the drugs parallels in the ''COPS'' parody, but remove the scene of Donkey yelling "Police Brutality!" as he's pinned down by knights due to its possible [[HarsherInHindsight increased-Harsher in Hindsight implications following the George Floyd protests and riots]].

* The JeemTV Standard Arabic dubs of animated Disney/Pixar films (with the exceptions of ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Winnie the Pooh|2011}}'') are infamous for this, mainly because of JeemTV censors them (such as removing references to romance).

** The final version of the film is actually a bowlderized version of the original cut, which contained scenes featuring [[DeletedRole a removed villian]].The reason why the film had to suffer cuts before release was because most of the test audience were bored and restless when seeing the live-action scenes, since they were [[JustHereForGodzilla only here for the Sodor scenes with the engines]].

* Whenever ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' airs on ABC...

* Speaking of ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', the Hebrew Dub inverts this: the scene where Vector plays with the shrink ray includes an uncensored "Shit", and [[EmbarrassingSlide "I sit on the toilet"]] is translated as "אני עושה קקי" (I poop).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'':

* The usual TV-edit of the ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'' movies has Buford T. Justice's frequent use of 'sonnovabitch' with they arguably worse 'scum-bum'. A later scene is completely ruined: Justice's car is stopped in traffic, and a police officer curses up a storm (but changed in the TV-edit to very mild words) to tell Justice to move it. After the police officer continues "cursing" at the car, Justice finally snaps and tells him to "Stop using that kind of language in front of my son!", which completely confuses anybody who hasn't seen the original movie. It's such a long tirade that it's completely obvious they got the voice actor for Fred Flintstone to dub Gleason's lines. Somewhat appropriate (given Fred was based upon Gleason's Ralph Kramden), but not even close voice-wise.
** The redubbing even extends to the gag reels that end each movie. In particular, during ''Part II's'' gag reel there are frequent uses of the curse "your mother's ass" which, for the edit, becomes "your father's face".

* In the Creator/USANetwork edited version of ''Film/TwoFastTwoFurious'' the main character flips off someone going reverse in the car. The edited version has him holding a fist towards the character which is apparently offensive. [[note]](though, in most countries, a closed fist presented to someone in the same manner as the middle finger is considered offensive and/or threatening)[[/note]]

* The 1984 ClipShow ''Terror in the Aisles'', a retrospective of horror and thriller movies, had an alternate commercial television cut prepared which not only dropped/condensed some of the more violent clips but brought in less objectionable scenes from other movies (including ''Film/Fahrenheit451'' and ''Film/{{Firestarter}}'', which weren't included in the theatrical cut at all). This was ''longer'' than the theatrical cut (95 minutes versus 84) and was released in full as a bonus feature on the 2020 Blu-Ray release.

*** Note that the above examples only applied to CBBC-airings on BBC 1 did not have the above edits.

** Some networks change Nicky calling Ace a "Jew motherfucker" to him saying "[[GreedyJew Jew moneylover]]". Apparently, cussing is right out, but anti-Semitism is a-OK.

* On the USA channel's airing of ''Film/{{Clueless}}'', Dionne's line about the politically correct term for a virgin is someone who is "hymenally-challenged" is changed to "hermetically-sealed." There are two things wrong with this cut: 1) Apparently the censors of USA think "hymen" is a dirty word (it ''refers'' to something racy, sure, but how often is "hymen" used in casual sex talk? and 2) (the most obvious of all): It's not an improvement over the original line, since the hymen is technically considered a type of seal. [[FridgeBrilliance Though it arguably made the original line more accurate]] - "challenged" is politically correct for "lacking" (e.g. "vertically challenged" as a euphemism for "short") and virgins are, by definition, ''not'' hymenally challenged. [[note]]Then again, "hermetically sealed" isn't really an accurate description either.[[/note]]

* The Creator/CartoonNetwork airing of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' muted out "lust" and "dinky" in Baby Herman's infamous line, "I got a 50-year-old lust in a three-year-old's dinky!" [[note]](most TV versions of this movie that air during the hours when children and families are watching TV just redub the line as "I'm a 50-year-old lost in a 3-year-old body")[[/note]], cut out Baby Herman's line "How many times do we have to do this damn scene!", also cut out Benny's "what the hell happened here?", and cut the "Booby Trap" part [[note]]Most TV versions -- particularly the Disney Channel version in the 1990s and a FOX version that aired back when FOX aired edited-for-TV movies on weeknights and special weekends keep the "booby trap" part in, but replace Eddie's line of "Nice booby trap!" to "Nice one, Jess!"[[/note]]

* A broadcast version of ''Film/HotShots!'' cut almost the entirety of the ''9 1/2 Weeks''-inspired foreplay scene.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'':

* Many TV editions of ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' (particularly the one shown on the former FOX Family Channel) have the [[NightmareFuel disturbing]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKZT2u3gYQI boat tunnel]] DisneyAcidSequence removed. The Disney Channel airings of the '80s and '90s keep the sequence but remove the chicken decapitation.

* The airplane edit of ''Film/{{Goon}}'' removes so much of the profanity and violence that some scenes become downright mystifying.

** Marge's line, "Somebody throw the [[BreakingPointSwearing goddamn]] bomb!" was shortened to "Somebody throw the damn bomb!" on FX and "Somebody throw the bomb!" on FOX and Global.

* The TV version of ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' has Robin Williams' uttering of [[OhCrap "Oh, shit!"]] changed to "Oh, shoot!". Another one muted out "shit", while another edit had the line becoming "Oh, sugar!" and others remove the line entirely. In the UK version, the scene of Mrs. Doubtfire naming off euphemisms for sexual intercourse ("Sink the sub? Hide the Weasel? Park the porpoise? Bit of the old Humpty dumpty? Hmm? Little Jack Horny? The horizontal Mambo?... The bone dance, eh? Rumpleforeskin? The baloney bop? Bit of the old cunning linguistics?") was cut in order to secure a PG version. An uncensored version of the film didn't come around until 2003 (when it was first released on DVD and VHS in the UK, it was the edited version).