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23rd May '13 4:11:25 PM CoughDropz

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* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' the Joker wasn't allowed to kill people onscreen, so any sort of mentions of him being a mass-murderer were restricted to police bulletins or news reports.
** They actually weaponized Bowdlerization to fight bowdlerization. They would [[CensorDecoy make a scene that they knew they would get told to remove because the censors would never check the replacement scene and assume that it's acceptable for broadcast]]. They only chickened out once on this, when they were going to have the Joker refer to Harley and Ivy as "busy little beavers". It got changed to "bees."
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' got this treatment by the German TV station ZDF since they figured [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids something animated just had to be for kids]]. The ZDF dub goes straight into GagDub territory in the eyes of any reasonable Trekkie -- with the characters delivering horrible puns, random cuts, and edits of scenes to get the episodes from a length of 22 minutes to 15 minutes as well as making everyone's personality easygoing and joyful -- '''''including Spock's''''' and every episode ended with a crew member doing a supposedly clever recap in rhymes. Thankfully, there was second dub in 1994 that made it onto the DVD release later with all episodes being uncut, as well as all characters being voiced by their actual voice actors from the live action series.
* Professor Hubert J Farnsworth of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' had the pleasure of having a notable quotable, "Sweet Zombie Jesus!" (as heard on season two's "The Deep South") edited to "Sweet Zombie..." when ''Futurama'' aired on Cartoon Network's Creator/AdultSwim line-up and TBS's short-lived late-night line-up "Too Funny To Sleep" [[note]]It was left uncut on FOX and Comedy Central[[/note]]. Also muted (on the same channel) was the Professor's "Holy Zombie Jesus!" as heard in the season two episode "Bender Gets Made" [[note]]Again, with FOX and Comedy Central leaving the line uncensored[[/note]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' ended up redubbing Santa's description of his elves from "faggy" to "sweet".
** Parodied on the episode "Gee Whiz," which has a video on acceptable and unacceptable television content. In this case, "unacceptable" is a nun getting her head gorily shot off with a shotgun, while "acceptable" is the same thing, only she bleeds out a rainbow rather than blood.
* On re-airings of its fourth episode, ''FriskyDingo'' has bleeped out a joke in which Watley says it's not prom night because he's not [[BlackComedyRape getting raped]].
* Recent releases and airings of ''TheLandBeforeTime'' have some of the more brutal parts cut out of the scenes of Littlefoot's mother being attacked by Sharptooth, thanks to the kid-friendly reputation that the [[{{Sequelitis}} many sequels]] have given the franchise.
* When ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' was first screened in New Zealand on [=TV3=], many of the violent scenes were cut from broadcast, to the point where the storyline became incoherent.
** In the U.S., the episode "Deadly Force" was initially banned for its depictions of gun violence (even though the episode was supposed to teach viewers that guns are only dangerous if you don't know how to handle them, which is what happened when Broadway played around with Elisa's gun and accidentally shot her) after it first aired on ABC in the 1990s. When the episode aired on the former Toon Disney channel, the scene of Elisa lying injured on the floor after getting shot was cropped so the blood by her body was no longer visible.
** The second-seasion premiere episode featuring the Pack was also generally dropped from syndication loops, most likely because the gargant Bronx savagely mauled one of the villains ''before'' it was shown that that particular villain was a Terminator-style robot masquerading as a human. 
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'' was utterly ''ripped apart'' by CartoonNetwork when they aired it, removing pseudo-swear words like "suck" (used in the context of "This sucks!") and "crap" and editing out anything considered remotely sexual or off-color. Most infamously, Lindsay telling Heather off with a bleeped-out ClusterFBomb was redubbed with kindergarten-style insults. Ironically, Cartoon Network would later let ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', ''RegularShow'', and even the short-lived series ''{{Robotomy}}'' use the word "suck" (and other near-curse words, like "blow" and "screwed") without any censorial interference.
* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' where Squidward becomes obsessed with patties originally had a scene where he gets covered in gasoline after breaking into the Krusty Krab at night. This is removed in later airings.
** The Italian dub of the one where Spongebob gets ill and ends up getting cured in a live action montage cuts out said montage and replaces it with a still image of a hospital (with the picture shaking as though someone had paused a VHS tape) and then cuts to a scene from another episode with Spongebob arriving at his home saying something about being thankful for doctors.
** In Taiwan, Yoyo TV's airing of the episode where Spongebob falls in love with a Krabby Patty cuts a shot toward the end where we are "treated" to a close up view of the festering Patty, instead going from Spongebob dropping the Patty in shock to Mr. Krabs telling Spongebob he needs to let go from being in love with the Patty. The edit makes it look as though Krabs materialised at Spongebob's side out of thin air.
* The UK DVD of ''TheSwordInTheStone'' cuts out Madam Mim's line "Sounds like someone's sick. How lovely!" for a U rating (apparently they thought the witch taking pleasure in someone who's ill was too much for their age range). A PG-rated version has the original line uncut.
* In Canada, ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' airs on Treehouse TV, which is geared towards preschoolers (really strange considering the huge PeripheryDemographic for ''Friendship is Magic''. Then again, the decision to have ''Friendship is Magic'' air as a preschoolers' show may have been Canada trying to scrub the stench of bronyism off the show by showing it to its intended audience). Because of that, [[http://thedeathsock.deviantart.com/journal/Rant-My-Little-Pony-on-Treehouse-TV-269751752 several scenes are cut]] and any line that has the word "loser" or "losers" in it is bleeped, as Canadian censors felt it would hurt children's feelings.
* In the Scandinavian version of ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', some scenes had to be cut, as the censors over there do not like it when kids' movies (Disney ones, especially) are scary. The changes were mostly to the scenes of Ursula stealing Ariel's voice and the climatic battle during the boat wedding.
** The Swedish VHS release removed the "Les Poissons" song because of the fish being decapitated and gutted, most of the scene of King Triton destroying Ariel's human treasures, and Ursula's death scene. These scenes were later reinstated in the special edition DVD.
* The ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' episode "Hail to the Chief" was heavily censored due to it portraying the Secret Service as {{Personal Space Invader}}s.
* The older ''Franchise/{{Bionicle}}'' DirectToVideo movies saw heavy editing in Germany, where they have been marketed towards a slightly younger audience. Most of the even remotely scary, intense or exciting shots got removed, which in the DarkerAndEdgier third movie, ''Web of Shadows'', amounted to ''55'' different cuts, nearly the seventh of the entire running time, including many vital scenes.
* The UK release of ''LiloAndStitch'' was edited to have Lilo climb out from under a laundry table with a pizza box in front of it rather than out from a laundry dryer due to the BBFC's strict policy against showing characters doing imitable acts that could get impressionable viewers hurt (one of which includes children climbing into and/or playing around in dangerous appliances that they can easily get into, but can't get out of because of how easily the doors lock, such as refrigerators, dryers, and washers).
* In Malaysia, [=TV3=]'s airing of the final episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' cuts the part where the spies put their uniforms by hand as opposed to their X-powders, presumably because we end up see bare bits of their flesh (such as their legs and chests) the censors didn't want kids to see.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' faced some amount of censorship in some countries. The most noticeable omissions are understandable -- a few of the more brutal but less plot-significant on-screen kills -- but there are some nitpkcky ones as well, such as the cutting of a brief shot from one of the last episodes of the show, which showed Ahsoka turning over, revealing just a teeny-bit more cleavage than usual.

13th May '13 12:18:09 PM triassicranger

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Lumping the Angelica vomiting thing with the other Rugrats example.

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12th May '13 11:59:50 AM mimitchi33

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10th May '13 1:07:39 PM Vrahno

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10th May '13 12:07:13 PM triassicranger

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When I restored this, I removed the Beavis And Buthead (sp?) pothole (someone explain to me how that was relevant). The sentence being potholed, however, wasn't doing the entry any favours.

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10th May '13 10:43:21 AM triassicranger

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Are you seriously trying to tell us showing someone vomiting isn't offensive? And please tell me what is unoffensive (sp?) about any of the other examples I listed. You might not find them offensive, but clearly someone at the censors did.

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4th May '13 7:19:30 PM Malph

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4th May '13 8:54:19 AM bunchacrunch

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* Virtually all ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts have been anywhere from lightly cut to lopped, cropped, and chopped when aired on television (on network TV, syndication, ''and'' cable) for reasons ranging from violence (mostly involving guns and [[SuicideAsComedy suicide gags]]) to ethnic stereotyping to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking cuts to fit the time frame for more commercials]] [[SophisticatedAsHell about which no one gives a damn]]. The ones that have objectionable content but can't be cut without turning the cartoon into a plotless mess are simply banned (i.e., The Censored Eleven, the final Golden-Age cartoon "Injun Trouble," and a glut of World War II cartoons, such as "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips," "Tokio Jokio," and "Confusions of a Nutzy Spy"). A website called "The Censored Cartoons Page" has been made to catalogue all the cuts. See [[http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ltcuts/ here]]
** ''Also'' thankfully, now that Creator/CartoonNetwork recently started airing the shorts again after being absent from the airwaves since 2004, most cartoons are shown uncut and uncensored (some cartoons like "Scaredy Cat" are still shown edited, but done in a less intrusive way, though opinion is divided on that).
* Similar to the Looney Tunes, many of the gags deemed racially insensitive in MGM cartoons were edited when shown on Creator/CartoonNetwork, which made a few shorts, including TexAvery's "Magical Maestro" (which edited out the opera-singing dog turning into a Chinese stereotype and a blackface singer), very disjointed and confusing.

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* Virtually all ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts have been anywhere from lightly cut to lopped, cropped, and chopped when aired on television (on network TV, syndication, ''and'' cable) for reasons ranging from violence (mostly involving guns and [[SuicideAsComedy suicide gags]]) to ethnic stereotyping to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking cuts to fit the time frame for more commercials]] [[SophisticatedAsHell about which no one gives a damn]]. The ones that have objectionable content but can't be cut without turning the cartoon into a plotless mess are simply banned (i.e., The Censored Eleven, the final Golden-Age cartoon "Injun Trouble," and a glut of World War II cartoons, such as "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips," "Tokio Jokio," and "Confusions of a Nutzy Spy"). A website called "The Censored Cartoons Page" has been made to catalogue all the cuts. See [[http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ltcuts/ here]]. ''Also'' thankfully, now that Creator/CartoonNetwork recently started airing the shorts again after being absent from the airwaves since 2004, most cartoons are shown uncut and uncensored (some cartoons like "Scaredy Cat" are still shown edited, but done in a less intrusive way, though opinion is divided on that).
**Similar to the Looney Tunes, many of the gags deemed racially insensitive in MGM cartoons were edited when shown on Creator/CartoonNetwork, which made a few shorts, including TexAvery's "Magical Maestro" (which edited out the opera-singing dog turning into a Chinese stereotype and a blackface singer), very disjointed and confusing.

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3rd May '13 7:26:42 AM bunchacrunch

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**''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has a FOX-edited version (which is the version that first airs), a Creator/CartoonNetwork version (which has a lot of scenes and lines that the FOX censors vetoed before the episode aired), a DVD version (which is the Cartoon Network version with more things that were edited from TV; mostly for time reasons, mostly because Cartoon Network's censors found the scenes and lines offensive like FOX did), and a syndicated version (which is the FOX version, only more bowdlerized, often including lines being redubbed, like Brian's "I'm gonna go chew on the back of my ass" changed to "I'm going to chew on the back of my leg," and some unusual edits, like Peter asking his Gregg Allman poster for life advice, and Stewie mispronouncing "penis" and "vagina").
** For a while, Channel 4 in the UK aired an edited version of ''Family Guy'' in the mornings. Just one edit was the cutaway gag where Peter swears in court. The "I do...you bastard" was changed to just "I do" (which kills the joke about Peter's claim that sometimes it's okay to swear).

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30th Apr '13 12:03:51 AM Zeanobia

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