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* In the Three Bears short "A Bear For Punishment" at the beginning when it shows Papa Bear sleeping in his bed there is a box of tissues and a book entitled "The Kinsey Report" lying on the floor, now for those of you who don't know the Kinsey Reports are a series of books based on the studies of sexual behavior.
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* In the Bob Clampett cartoon "The Hep Cat" at one point the cat falls in love with a female cat puppet that the dog uses to distract him, at one point he starts feeling where her butt would be which is the dog's nose and he squeezes it and says with a sly smile "Something new has been added!, woo hoo!".
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*** "Rabbit Seasoning": note Elmer's hat when Bugs-in-drag gives him a kiss. Boi-oi-oing!

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*** "Rabbit Seasoning": note Elmer's hat when Bugs-in-drag gives him a kiss. Boi-oi-oing![[SomethingElseAlsoRises Boi-oi-oing!]]
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* In "Acrobatty Bunny" when the lion is finished doing the hula wearing only a lei, Bugs says they are also available for "Picnics, Lodge Meetin's, Children's Parties and Smokers". Smokers was a term for Men's only parties that had the secondary meaning of "stag parties".
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* More ToiletHumor: an implied bed-wetting scene is used by Clampett in ''Porky's Badtime Story'' (1938) and its remake "Tick Tock Tuckered" (1944).
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*** Try searching for "The Eager Beaver" (1946, Jones). The gag was first used in that cartoon.



* in "What's Cookin', Doc?", one of the films is a "stag reel" (the old name for a porno movie, particularly one that plays as part of the entertainment at a bachelor party). Since the films are ones Bugs starred in, the implication is that ''Bugs was a porn star''.

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* in "What's Cookin', Doc?", one of the films is a "stag reel" (the old name for a porno movie, particularly one that plays as part of the entertainment at a bachelor party). Since the films are ones Bugs starred in, the implication is that ''Bugs was a porn star''.star''.
* Tex Avery's "The Sneezin' Weasel": The little chick runs for the bathroom after a pediatrician administers castor oil to him.
* More ToiletHumor: an implied bed-wetting scene is used by Clampett in ''Porky's Badtime Story'' (1938) and its remake "Tick Tock Tuckered" (1944).
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** Another example was not so much as getting past the radar as the radar moving behind it: During one pursuit, Pepe calls out to Penelope: "You are too tightly wound up! You should try engaging in some recreational activitiy, [[YouNeedToGetLaid like making love!]]" It wasn't quite so risque a term back then as it is now, but it still qualifies given the HaysCode.
* in "What's Cookin', Doc?", one of the films is a "stag reel" -- a pornographic movie intended for a bachelor party. Since the films are ones Bugs starred in, the implication is that this is one too.

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** Another example was not so much as getting past the radar as the radar moving behind it: During one pursuit, Pepe calls out to Penelope: "You are too tightly wound up! You should try engaging in some recreational activitiy, [[YouNeedToGetLaid like making love!]]" It wasn't quite so risque a term back then as it is now, but it still qualifies given the HaysCode.HaysCode and its rules on sex in cinema (including verbal implications of it).
* in "What's Cookin', Doc?", one of the films is a "stag reel" -- a pornographic movie intended (the old name for a porno movie, particularly one that plays as part of the entertainment at a bachelor party. party). Since the films are ones Bugs starred in, the implication is that this is one too.''Bugs was a porn star''.
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*** "Rabbit Seasoning": note Elmer's hat when Bugs-in-drag gives him a kiss. Boi-oi-oing!
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** Another example was not so much as getting past the radar as the radar moving behind it: During one pursuit, Pepe calls out to Penelope: "You are too tightly wound up! You should try engaging in some recreational activitiy, [[YouNeedToGetLaid like making love!]]" It wasn't quite so risque a term back then as it is now.

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** Another example was not so much as getting past the radar as the radar moving behind it: During one pursuit, Pepe calls out to Penelope: "You are too tightly wound up! You should try engaging in some recreational activitiy, [[YouNeedToGetLaid like making love!]]" It wasn't quite so risque a term back then as it is now.now, but it still qualifies given the HaysCode.
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** Another example was not so much as getting past the radar as the radar moving behind it: During one pursuit, Pepe calls out to Penelope: "You are too tightly wound up! You should try engaging in some recreational activitiy, [[YouNeedToGetLaid like making love!]]" It wasn't quite so risque a term back then as it is now.
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* While producing the ''LooneyTunes'' shorts for Warner Brothers between the mid-1930s and 1946, the animators at the "Termite Terrace" studio threw in gags that obviously crossed the line, so the [[MediaWatchdog Hays Office]] would let more of their riskier gags into cartoons without being censored. (Presumably because they'd feel they had to give the studio a break sometime.) Some of the extreme jokes actually made it past the censors by mistake. (This makes this OlderThanTelevision.)
** My all-time favorite example: in ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blHmI1iHrJA A Tale Of Two Kitties]]'', the two cats are trying to catch Tweety Pie. One is standing at the top of a shaky, rickety ladder, while the other is down at the bottom shouting, "Give me the bird! GIVE ME THE BIRD!" (To which the other mutters, "If the Hays Office would only let me, I'd 'give him the bird', alright!")
** Another example came from the nature mockumentary ''Unnatural History'', where they showed a film clip of "a beaver damming a river". Just as the beaver finished building the dam, a big chunk of it breaks loose, water starts gushing through ... and the beaver starts jumping up and down, making garbled swear-noises. Dang, why can't I find this on YouTube?
* LooneyTunes was never specifically aimed at kids to begin with, so it's full of ParentalBonus:
** Throwaway gag in a Speedy Gonzales short: "Speedy knows my sister." "[[{{Casanova}} Speedy Gonzales]] knows ''everybody's'' sister!"
** One of this troper's favorites was a street merchant who offered BugsBunny "Flowers for his doxie" to which Bugs purchased some and gave them to his girlfriend. A doxie is a prostitute, and only adults would have known the definition.
** Every time Characters/BugsBunny dressed in drag. He's made out with Elmer (and Yosemite Sam) too many times to count and has ''married'' him at least twice (in the end of ''The Rabbit of Seville'' and another short where hats were raining out of the sky and Elmer and Bugs ended up as a Bride and Groom, respectively).
*** Lampshaded in ''LooneyTunesBackInAction'', when a female executive complains about the family-unfriendliness of Bugs' humor:
----> '''Kate Houghton:''' Okay, about the crossdressing thing - then, funny; now, disturbing.
----> '''Bugs Bunny:''' Lady, if you don't find a rabbit wearin' lipstick amusing, then we ain't got nothin' to say to each other.
** In the short ''Duck! Rabbit! Duck'', Bugs and Elmer have the following conversation:
----> '''Elmer:''' I'm gonna make you into rabbit stew (as he points gun at Bugs)
----> '''Bugs:''' Hold on there, Doc. I'm not a stewin' rabbit, I'm a ''fricasseein''' rabbit. You got a fricaseeing rabbit license?
---->While this may be innocent to children (this troper in particular - she knew fricassee was a cooking method and thought Bugs was stalling for time), say "fricasseein'" ten times fast. Or like an expletive.
** "Oh, son of a [[PorkyPigPronunciation bi-b-bi-son of a bi-b-b-son of a bi-b-gun]]! ...Ha ha ha, you thought I was going to say "son of a bitch", didn't you?"
*** Which was intended for an in-house "bloopers" film, and not for the general public, so there was no censorship to be passed.
** Beaky Buzzard getting combative: "C'mon, ya big sack o' shhhhoe leather..."
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* The Pepe Le Pew cartoons would qualify (after all, the whole series is a StealthPun on men going after pussy[[spoiler:...cats]]), though one Pepe cartoon makes this troper wonder why the Hays Office didn't intervene: 1953's "Wild Over You," in which Pepe's latest feline victim is an escaped wildcat who fights off Pepe by beating him up. The crap that got past the radar is Pepe stating that he liked it. Masochism, much?

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* The Pepe Le Pew cartoons would qualify (after all, the whole series is a StealthPun on men going after pussy[[spoiler:...cats]]), though one Pepe cartoon makes this troper wonder why the Hays Office didn't intervene: 1953's "Wild Over You," in which Pepe's latest feline victim is an escaped wildcat who fights off Pepe by beating him up. The crap that got past the radar is Pepe stating that he liked it. Masochism, much?much?
* in "What's Cookin', Doc?", one of the films is a "stag reel" -- a pornographic movie intended for a bachelor party. Since the films are ones Bugs starred in, the implication is that this is one too.
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** And he closes the book immediately after hearing someone cry.

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** And he closes the book immediately after hearing someone cry.cry.
* The Pepe Le Pew cartoons would qualify (after all, the whole series is a StealthPun on men going after pussy[[spoiler:...cats]]), though one Pepe cartoon makes this troper wonder why the Hays Office didn't intervene: 1953's "Wild Over You," in which Pepe's latest feline victim is an escaped wildcat who fights off Pepe by beating him up. The crap that got past the radar is Pepe stating that he liked it. Masochism, much?
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** And when he heard someone cry, he closes the book immediately.

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** And when he heard someone cry, he closes the book immediately.immediately after hearing someone cry.
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** And when he hears someone cry, he closes the book immediately.

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** And when he hears heard someone cry, he closes the book immediately.
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* At the beginning of "Easter Yeggs", Bugs was being interested reading a certain book. The name of the book? "How to Multiply".

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* At the beginning of "Easter Yeggs", Bugs was being interested reading a certain book. The name of the book? "How to Multiply".Multiply".
** And when he hears someone cry, he closes the book immediately.
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* If you look closely enough on the upper right in one scene, you'll notice that there's a Kaiserhof topless/nude pin-up model in the WartimeCartoon short "Daffy-The Commando" during the Schultz/Von Limburger bunker scene in the beginning of the cartoon.

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* If you look closely enough on the upper right in one scene, you'll notice that there's a Kaiserhof topless/nude pin-up model in the WartimeCartoon short "Daffy-The Commando" during the Schultz/Von Limburger bunker scene in the beginning of the cartoon.cartoon.
* At the beginning of "Easter Yeggs", Bugs was being interested reading a certain book. The name of the book? "How to Multiply".
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* If you look closely enough on the upper right in one scene, you'll notice that there's a topless pin-up model in the WartimeCartoon short "Daffy-The Commando" during the Schultz/Von Limburger bunker scene in the beginning of the cartoon.

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* If you look closely enough on the upper right in one scene, you'll notice that there's a topless Kaiserhof topless/nude pin-up model in the WartimeCartoon short "Daffy-The Commando" during the Schultz/Von Limburger bunker scene in the beginning of the cartoon.
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* If you look closely enough on the upper right, you'll notice that there's a topless pin-up model in the WartimeCartoon short "Daffy-The Commando" during the Schultz/Von Limburger bunker scene in the beginning of the cartoon.

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* If you look closely enough on the upper right, right in one scene, you'll notice that there's a topless pin-up model in the WartimeCartoon short "Daffy-The Commando" during the Schultz/Von Limburger bunker scene in the beginning of the cartoon.
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* If you look closely enough, you'll notice that there's a topless pin-up model in the WartimeCartoon short "Daffy-The Commando" during the Schultz/Von Limburger bunker scene in the beginning of the cartoon.

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* If you look closely enough, enough on the upper right, you'll notice that there's a topless pin-up model in the WartimeCartoon short "Daffy-The Commando" during the Schultz/Von Limburger bunker scene in the beginning of the cartoon.
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* If you look closely enough, you'll notice that there's a topless pin-up model in "Daffy-The Commando" during the Schultz/Von Limburger bunker scene in the beginning of the cartoon.

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* If you look closely enough, you'll notice that there's a topless pin-up model in the WartimeCartoon short "Daffy-The Commando" during the Schultz/Von Limburger bunker scene in the beginning of the cartoon.
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* If you look closely enough, you'll notice that there's a topless pin-up model in "Daffy-The Commando" during the Schultz/Von Limburger bunker scene in the beginning.

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* If you look closely enough, you'll notice that there's a topless pin-up model in "Daffy-The Commando" during the Schultz/Von Limburger bunker scene in the beginning.beginning of the cartoon.
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* If you look closely enough, you'll notice that there's a nude pin-up model in "Daffy-The Commando" during the Schultz/Von Limburger bunker scene in the beginning.

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* If you look closely enough, you'll notice that there's a nude topless pin-up model in "Daffy-The Commando" during the Schultz/Von Limburger bunker scene in the beginning.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2qu9zrYCP0 This infamous clip]] from the final Bosko Looney Tunes short "Bosko's Picture Show", [[YourMilageMayVary depending on your own point of view on whether he 'really' said the word or not]].

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2qu9zrYCP0 This infamous clip]] from the final Bosko Looney Tunes short "Bosko's Picture Show", [[YourMilageMayVary depending on your own point of view on whether he 'really' said the word or not]].not]].
* If you look closely enough, you'll notice that there's a nude pin-up model in "Daffy-The Commando" during the Schultz/Von Limburger bunker scene in the beginning.
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** Also, in one scene in which there's a nude picture in Elmer's house while Elmer cradles Bugs singing him "Rock-a-bye Baby".

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** Also, in one scene in which there's a nude picture in Elmer's house while Elmer cradles Bugs singing him "Rock-a-bye Baby". No, scratch that, ''many'' nude pictures in Elmer's house.



--->'''Babbit:''' Give me the bird! ''Give me the bird!''
--->'''Catstello:''' If da Hays Office would only let me, I'd give give 'im da boid, all right! (*whistle*)

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--->'''Babbit:''' -->'''Babbit:''' Give me the bird! ''Give me the bird!''
--->'''Catstello:''' -->'''Catstello:''' If da Hays Office would only let me, I'd give give 'im da boid, all right! (*whistle*)
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZPatWPaF04 This clip from the 1963 Chuck Jones short "I was a Teenage Thumb".]]

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZPatWPaF04 This clip from the 1963 Chuck Jones short "I was a Teenage Thumb".]]]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2qu9zrYCP0 This infamous clip]] from the final Bosko Looney Tunes short "Bosko's Picture Show", [[YourMilageMayVary depending on your own point of view on whether he 'really' said the word or not]].
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** Also, in one scene in which there's a nude picture in Elmer's house while Elmer cradles Bugs singing him "Rock-a-bye Baby".
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZPatWPaF04 This clip from "I was a Teenage Thumb".]]

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZPatWPaF04 This clip from the 1963 Chuck Jones short "I was a Teenage Thumb".]]
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* In "An Itch In Time" Elmer's dog is being bitten in the butt by a flea and runs around the house yelping and dragging his butt on the carpet, moments later the dog pausing and starts panting heavily with a big smile on his face saying "I think we'd better cut this out or I might get to like it".

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* In "An Itch In Time" Elmer's dog is being bitten in the butt by a flea and runs around the house yelping and dragging his butt on the carpet, moments later the dog pausing and starts panting heavily with a big smile on his face saying "I think we'd better cut this out or I might get to like it".it".
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZPatWPaF04 This clip from "I was a Teenage Thumb".]]
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlbOahK5BWk Ah-HEM.]]

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlbOahK5BWk Ah-HEM.]]]]
* In "An Itch In Time" Elmer's dog is being bitten in the butt by a flea and runs around the house yelping and dragging his butt on the carpet, moments later the dog pausing and starts panting heavily with a big smile on his face saying "I think we'd better cut this out or I might get to like it".

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