History Main / TooSexyForThisTimeSlot

Sometimes, {{Fanservice}} gets a bad reaction from certain members of the audience (often MoralGuardians), mainly because ''children can see it''. Shock and horror!

* {{Moral Guardian|s}} Jack Thompson got notoriously annoyed at the fact that a game pitched for a T-rating, ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', could have the option of [[GayOption making the protagonist bisexual]]. As in, he can smooch boys the same as he smooches girls, which is comparatively tame. He attempted to claim that this constituted hardcore gay porn- in a children's game! Gasp! Never mind that most teenagers already know that yes, real life gay people exist, and it's mostly done for the benefit of the {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s playing it.[[note]]Not to mention that...y'know...the game is about bullies and their victims beating the shit out of each other.[[/note]]

** Surprisingly, Toonami's host TOM (specifically his 3.0 model) was considered perfectly fine for daytime TV.

* ''Anime/BlueGender'' was originally meant to be played on Toonami (back when it was a daytime pre-teen/teen block), but was moved to Adult Swim because, even after the heavy censorship, Toonami found a handful of episodes too risque. This left Adult Swim viewers with a hackjob that seemed like it belonged on some sort of middle-ground block (even 'what the hell' was edited out).

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* Complaints are starting to be levelled at ''StrictlyComeDancing'' for female dance outfits that are little more than bikinis with frills.

* ''BlueGender'' was originally meant to be played on Toonami (back when it was a daytime pre-teen/teen block), but was moved to Adult Swim because, even after the heavy censorship, Toonami found a handful of episodes too risque. This left Adult Swim viewers with a hackjob that seemed like it belonged on some sort of middle-ground block (even 'what the hell' was edited out).

* An episode in season 2 of ''WithoutATrace'', "Our Sons and Daughters", fell under fire from the Parents Television Council due to a teen orgy scene (which basically amounted to shirtless teens grinding against each other; even daytime syndication edits as of 2015 have left the scene unedited). Somehow the complaints worked, kind of; Eastern-time affiliates that aired the show at 10PM were not fined, while all other time zones that aired the show at 9PM or earlier were fined.

* An episode in season 2 of ''WithoutaTrace'', "Our Sons and Daughters", fell under fire from the Parents Television Council due to a teen orgy scene (which basically amounted to shirtless teens grinding against each other; even daytime syndication edits as of 2015 have left the scene unedited). Somehow the complaints worked, kind of; Eastern-time affiliates that aired the show at 10PM were not fined, while all other time zones that aired the show at 9PM or earlier were fined.

* Although ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a ''long'' tradition of casting gorgeous female companions as [[ParentService "something for the dads"]], Karen Gillan as Amy Pond, attracted some short-lived opprobrium for being [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/7554825/Viewers-think-new-Doctor-Who-is-too-sexy.html too sexy]]. It all seemed to start with the miniskirted Police costume (literally a costume - in-universe, she's a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissogram#Variants kissogram]]) she wore in her first appearance. How has the production team addressed this issue? [[TakeThat They put her back in the same costume for the Christmas Special]]. Possibly in the spirit of equal opportunity, they also put Arthur Darvill back in his Roman Soldier get-up. Why? Um, they were in the honeymoon suite...

* Although ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a ''long'' tradition of casting gorgeous female companions as [[ParentService "something for the dads"]], the most recent, Karen Gillan, attracted some short-lived opprobrium for being [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/7554825/Viewers-think-new-Doctor-Who-is-too-sexy.html too sexy]]. It all seemed to start with the miniskirted Police costume (literally a costume - in-universe, she's a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissogram#Variants kissogram]]) she wore in her first appearance. How has the production team addressed this issue? [[TakeThat They put her back in the same costume for the Christmas Special]]. Possibly in the spirit of equal opportunity, they also put Arthur Darvill back in his Roman Soldier get-up. Why? Um, they were in the honeymoon suite...

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''. The BBC received one hundred complaints for the episode ''A Scandal in Belgravia'', for showing a nude Irene Adler (Lara Pulver), censored only by [[SceneryCensor the scenery]] and her own limbs/position. Much of the uproar was because the show was aired before the watershed, but it turned out the nude scenes were in fact shown after nine o'clock. It didn't very much to alleviate the ire of the MoralGuardians

* ''Series/{{Scandal}}'' had an incident of this occur when the premiere of the season four episode "An Innocent Man" aired right after ''ItstheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown'' and opened up on protagonist Olivia fantasizing about having sex with two different men. The Parents Television Council compared the incident to "a peep show in the middle of a playground" and actually estimated how long it would take a parent to change the channel compared to the twenty-six seconds between the first sexy shot and the last shot of Charlie Brown (which seems a bit obsessive, but hey, who are we to judge?).

* ''Series/Scandal'' had an incident of this occur when the premiere of the season four episode "An Innocent Man" aired right after ''ItstheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown'' and opened up on protagonist Olivia fantasizing about having sex with two different men. The Parents Television Council compared the incident to "a peep show in the middle of a playground" and actually estimated how long it would take a parent to change the channel compared to the twenty-six seconds between the first sexy shot and the last shot of Charlie Brown (which seems a bit obsessive, but hey, who are we to judge?).

This reaction is generally the reason for {{Watershed}} and SafeHarbor laws.

* The anime for ''[[Manga/SaikinImoutoNoYousuGaChottoOkashiindaGa Recently, my sister is unusual.]]'' went through this, originally airing at 10:30 p.m. (which, unlike in other countries where this is past the watershed, is an hour many junior high and high school kids just getting out of cram school watch TV during). A media watchdog group took attention to a few risque scenes (particularly one where Hiyori tries to masturbate in Mitsuki's body) and made a public complaint, and the show was moved to 2:00 a.m. shortly after.

* ''{{Cavegirl}}'' got some complaints for having the main character in a milder form of the "{{fur bikini}}"- in a {{CBBC}} show.

Sometimes, [=FanService=] gets a bad reaction from certain members of the audience (often MoralGuardians), mainly because ''children can see it''. Shock and horror!

* The English dub of the fifteenth episode of ''{{Digimon Frontier}}'' [[{{Bowdlerise}} removed a scene]] showing [[{{TheChick}} Zoe]] [[[=Fanservice=] in a red bikini]]. However, it's mostly for the word "sexy" being in the scene in GratuitousEnglish; we see ''all'' the other swimsuits she tried on, and even the scene where she is nearly walked in on while undressing (we see it from the inside; she stops when she hears a noise ''just'' before her shirt was about to show some [=Underboob=]. This episode arguably had the highest "''how'' did that get [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar left in]]?" quotient of the franchise. (In fact, most serious contenders for that award are in that season.)

Sometimes, FanService gets a bad reaction from certain members of the audience (often MoralGuardians), mainly because ''children can see it''. Shock and horror!

* {{Moral Guardian|s}} Jack Thompson got notoriously annoyed at the fact that a game pitched for a T-rating, ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', could have the option of [[GayOption making the protagonist bisexual]]. As in, he can smooch boys the same as he smooches girls, which is comparatively tamely. He attempted to claim that this constituted hardcore gay porn- in a children's game! Gasp! Never mind that most teenagers already know that yes, real life gay people exist, and it's mostly done for the benefit of the {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s playing it.[[note]]Not to mention that...y'know...the game is about bullies and their victims beating the shit out of each other.[[/note]]

* The English dub of the fifteenth episode of ''{{Digimon Frontier}}'' [[{{Bowdlerise}} removed a scene]] showing [[{{TheChick}} Zoe]] [[{{FanService}} in a red bikini]]. However, it's mostly for the word "sexy" being in the scene in GratuitousEnglish; we see ''all'' the other swimsuits she tried on, and even the scene where she is nearly walked in on while undressing (we see it from the inside; she stops when she hears a noise ''just'' before her shirt was about to show some {{underboob}}. This episode arguably had the highest "''how'' did that get [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar left in]]?" quotient of the franchise. (In fact, most serious contenders for that award are in that season.)
* ''{{Sherlock}}''. The BBC received one hundred complaints for the episode ''A Scandal in Belgravia'', for showing a nude Irene Adler (Lara Pulver), censored only by [[SceneryCensor the scenery]] and her own limbs/position. Much of the uproar was because the show was aired before the watershed, but it turned out the nude scenes were in fact shown after nine o'clock. It didn't very much to alleviate the ire of the MoralGuardians

* ''LawAndOrderSVU'' had an InUniverse example where Moral Guardians were trying to get a show about a 16 year old female cop that dressed provocatively to a later timeslot.