| 1 | ->''"That's it? That's the lost episode? That was just a bunch of cheap walk cycles!"'' |
| 2 | -->-- '''Patchy the Pirate''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' |
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| 4 | * Unfortunately, most of the animated shorts made during MediaNotes/TheSilentAgeOfAnimation have become lost films due to many factors, including carelessness with the source materials, the films simply deteriorating due to age, and in some cases, the cartoons being deliberately destroyed. And even for shorts that still exist in some form, even fewer still exist in their original form. |
| 5 | ** The bulk of the ComicStrip/KrazyKat Silent shorts were destroyed circa the 1940s when storing them became too expensive and troublesome for Winkler. |
| 6 | ** Creator/WinsorMcCay's films as they are today only exist in dupe prints, as the originals had long since deteriorated. |
| 7 | ** [[Creator/TerryToons Paul Terry's]] very first cartoon, "Little Herman" (1915) is probably lost too (the only evidence it even existed was an illustration and mention of it in the old Nat Falk's "How to Make Animated Cartoons" book), although this is not the case with his second film, which was the debut of Farmer Al Falfa. Unfortunately, many of his silent Aesop's Fables have been lost. |
| 8 | ** Even big series like ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' and the silent Disneys aren't immune to this; only a third of Felix's silent filmography still survives, many of the ''Alice Comedies'' are still missing, and only 18 of Disney's 26 ''WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit'' shorts survive, and in the latter's case, Universal did not properly care for the negatives, so reissued prints and dupes (many of which had scenes rearranged or removed altogether) had to be used in lieu - ironically, this is not the case with the ''WesternAnimation/NewmanLaughOGrams'', as all of them have managed to survive. |
| 9 | ** ''The Newlyweds'' cartoon series by pioneer Emile Cohl, considered the first animated adaptation of a comic strip, is all but completely lost forever, save for one duplicated short, due to a lab fire destroying all of the original negatives. |
| 10 | ** In the worst case scenario, entire series and several important films have become completely lost altogether, such as the very first full color cartoon, ''The Debut of Thomas Cat'' and the first feature-length animated film ''El Apóstol'' (in addition to the entire filmography of its director, Quirino Cristiani, with the sole exception of the CreatorsOddball ''El Mono relojero''). |
| 11 | * While MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation doesn't have it ''anywhere'' near as bad as the films of the silent era, there's still some problems with it occasionally popping up. The good news is that the bulk of the publicly screened theatrical cartoons of the day still exist in some form, and several companies such as Disney, MGM, Warner Bros. and even the Creator/{{Columbia Cartoon|s}} library have had their libraries restored, with only a handful of flat-out missing episodes (tragically, their handful of Barney Google shorts were deliberately destroyed due to a contractual obligation with King Features--only snippets of silent b&w dupes of one of the films is known to exist). Even the [[Creator/VanBeurenStudios Van Beuren studio]] and Terry Toons have virtually all of their sound films still existing in some way. The bad news is that this is definitely not the case with industrial films and commercials of the era, such as the films of the Jam Handy Studio and the shorts of the army based First Motion Picture Unit. On that note, many of the big studio cartoons have had their original titles removed in reissues, even having new titles spliced into the original negatives—this is the case with many of the WesternAnimation/BettyBoop and WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes shorts (this problem also carries over to Max; many ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons have yet to resurface with their original titles, and there are also a few with their titles ineptly re-created in Photoshop). |
| 12 | ** Among the Columbia Cartoons that are missing is 1945 Screen Gems short "Rippling Romance", which was nominated for an Oscar for Animated Short Film. It is the only Oscar-nominated cartoon that has not survived. |
| 13 | *** A milder example from Columbia Cartoons is 1946’s “Mysto Fox”, one of ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheCrow'' shorts. The short still exists, but solely in black-and-white; the Technicolor version of the cartoon is deemed lost. |
| 14 | ** Aside from the aforementioned reissue problems, two of ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'''s later shorts were considered lost for a very long time: "Honest Love and True" and "Buzzy Boop at the Concert". Copies of both cartoons have been located in 2017 and 2019 respectively, although it took until 2022 for them to be released to the public. |
| 15 | ** "Spree For All," a 1946 ''WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoon|s}}'' starring [[ComicStrip/BarneyGoogleAndSnuffySmith Snuffy Smith]], was considered to be lost for decades until a black-and-white copy with French subtitles was unearthed in 2022. Even then, the original Technicolor version is still lost. Much like the ''Barney Google'' cartoons that Creator/ColumbiaCartoons produced the previous decade, this short was supposed to be destroyed after ten years due to a contractual requirement with King Features, but somehow made it through the cracks. |
| 16 | ** Most of the post-Disney ''WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit'' cartoons made at Winkler Productions, along with a few of the earliest Creator/WalterLantz ones, are either flat-out missing or only exist as silent prints. |
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| 18 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'', "Alive 'n Chicken" was pulled from broadcast after the September 11th attacks (it's sometimes shown outside the United States), due to a scene where Spot crashes her airplane into a windmill. "Prima Doggy" was also pulled, but that was only because it was paired with "Alive 'n Chicken", and just airing "Prima Doggy" wouldn't fill 30 minutes on its own. Luckily, as of June 2020, both episodes are now available for viewing on Creator/DisneyPlus. |
| 19 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' was hit with this a couple of times: |
| 20 | ** The episode "Mass Transit Trouble", much of which revolves around a terrorist plot by Dr. Robotnik to destroy the Mobius transportation system with time bombs placed in various locations, was withdrawn from syndication following the Oklahoma City bombing and was never released on VHS, due to the similarities between the plot and the bombing itself. Eventually, Toon Disney picked up the episode and reran it for quite a while, then was pulled again (and yanked off any future DVD releases until 2008) after the September 11th attacks [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents for the same reasons]]. It was not available anywhere until Shout! Factory released the episode on the "Volume 2" DVD and has now been allowed to rerun again. Rumor has it that the episode was close to not being produced ''at all'', thanks to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bomb_attacks very]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing similar]][[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Bombay_bombings events]] during production of the episode. Somehow they finished the episode and aired it anyway, and surprisingly to no controversy. |
| 21 | ** For years there were rumors circulating that the original pilot episode of the show existed somewhere. A workprint of the halfway-completed pilot episode featuring the character dialogue albeit lacking sound effects and music was screened by [=DiC=] to representatives of Creator/{{ABC}} when [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the concept was pitched to the network]], who ultimately turned it down and requested [=DiC=] come up with [[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM another concept]]. While the original concept ended up becoming ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'' and was placed into syndication, the pilot itself was never finished, with parts of the pilot recycled for later episodes (including a notable part where Dr. Robotnik tries to crush Sonic with a giant weight, which was used as the series' closing credits). Nobody could manage to find the workprint for years until it eventually appeared on the internet, courtesy of lead animator Milton Knight, and was uploaded on Website/YouTube. |
| 22 | ** "Magnificent Sonic", which features extensive wielding of guns due to it being a Western-themed episode, was stricken from Toon Disney's circulation for about year following the Columbine massacre. |
| 23 | ** "Robo-Ninjas" was rejected by Toon Disney when they picked up the series for reruns in 1998, for reasons that were not explained. However, the episode in question features a character with a stereotypical Japanese accent and mannerisms (despite the series being animated and based on material from Japan), so it wouldn't be surprising if that caught Toon Disney's censors off-guard. The episode was later released on DVD. |
| 24 | * All sixth season episodes of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' that dealt with Finn [[spoiler:losing his arm]] were skipped by Cartoon Network UK. |
| 25 | ** The episode "Breezy" hasn't aired in the UK either due to its sexual innuendo. |
| 26 | * Although the thirteen episodes of the 1975 [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{Bod}}'' are still readily available, its companion series, ''Alberto Frog and his Amazing Animal Band'', was not so fortunate.[[note]] ''Alberto Frog'' had no real connection to ''Bod'', which was based on a series of books by Joanna and Michael Cole; it was simply created to expand the 3-4 minute ''Bod'' cartoons into something that could fill 15 minutes. That said, the ''Bod'' and ''Alberto Frog'' cartoons in a given episode often had common themes.[[/note]] A victim of the 1993 children's television purge (see MissingEpisode/LiveActionTV for details), only five episodes of the original thirteen initially survived and were released on the ''Bod'' DVD collection in 2004; a sixth was later recovered from a VHS home recording, and a seventh mysteriously turned up in 2020. |
| 27 | * The ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' episode "Cookie Chomper 3", which dealt with the death of a cat, was rarely rerun after its premiere. |
| 28 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'': |
| 29 | ** Dialogue was recorded for the series finale segment titled "Bye Bye Beavers", but it was never finished or aired, as per a rule stating that Nickelodeon series finales should not have [[EndOfSeriesAwareness self-referential humor about the series' end]]. (Supposedly, Nick considered breaking the rules for it, but ultimately left it unfinished due to the fact that the episode ended with the Beavers [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence going to Cartoon Heaven]], which was thought to be too sad for kids.) It was supposed to be paired with a segment called "A Tale of Two Rangers", of which no trace exists. Two other episodes were in some stage of production around this time but were never completed either, and a 2nd Halloween special and a stand-alone segment were also in pre-production at various points. |
| 30 | ** For years, there was no proof that the pilot "Snowbound" actually existed, and fans only had rumors to go on. Eventually, it was uploaded to [=YouTube=] in 2013. |
| 31 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': |
| 32 | ** Episode #55 has a wraparound (featuring the Warners pulling an elephant out of a mailbox) that, for some reason, isn't on the DVD or on contemporary TV airings. However, it is left intact on streaming. |
| 33 | ** When Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network ran this show, [[https://nickstory.fandom.com/wiki/Animaniacs a few episodes]] [[https://cnas.fandom.com/wiki/Animaniacs were skipped]] for reasons unknown. |
| 34 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs 2020}}'' had the sixth episode removed due to flashing lights in "The Cuteining" and the phone number used in "Close Encounters of the Worst Kind" being already in use... ''by a phone sex hotline''. The episode was reinstated shortly afterward without the phone number before the number changed to a different one. |
| 35 | *** When Creator/{{Teletoon}} aired the show, episodes 11 and 12 were skipped. It's understandable for the former as they probably did not want to air an OutOfHolidayEpisode (as that episode was a HalloweenEpisode), but there's no explanation on why episode 12 was skipped. |
| 36 | * ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' had an episode titled "Boston" that originally intended as the first episode of the series' fifth season and produced as its creators' response to the UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} bomb scare that Creator/AdultSwim caused on January 31, 2007 (with the city itself being a big target of the episode). However, [adult swim] pulled it to avoid further controversy surrounding the events of the bomb scare; and the episode to this day has never aired or been released to the public. The episode will now certainly never see the light of day after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. The workprint of the episode was leaked onto Website/YouTube in January of 2015; while the original upload was eventually taken down for copyright, the episode was available long enough [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes for fans to start circulating copies of the episode online]]. |
| 37 | ** Co-creator Dave Willis expressed disgust and disdain for whoever had leaked the episode online [[WordofGod stating]] they had planned to finish the episode someday but would have still never released it even after finishing it to prevent any further backlash the episode may have caused at the time. |
| 38 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': |
| 39 | ** The 2002 special "Arthur, It's Only Rock and Roll" hasn't aired in reruns on television, [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece likely to avoid confusing children as it features the]] Music/BackstreetBoys. It was released on DVD, and was also available to stream on Amazon, but was eventually removed, possibly to the expiration of rights to the band's music featured throughout. However, it did air as part of an Arthur marathon on the PBS Kids channel in February of 2022 held to promote the final episodes of the series. |
| 40 | ** After the 2012 revelation that Lance Armstrong cheated throughout his career by doping, three episode pairs that feature either Armstrong himself, or a parody of his likeness, were pulled from reruns, though they are still available on iTunes, Amazon, and [=YouTube=] Premium. These episodes are: |
| 41 | *** Season 10: "Binky vs. Binky/Operation: D.W.!" |
| 42 | *** Season 12: "Room to Ride/The Fresnky Family Fiasco" |
| 43 | *** Season 13: "The Great [=MacGrady=]". This was a VerySpecialEpisode involving the gangs' various reactions to the beloved Mrs. [=MacGrady=] being diagnosed with cancer. More than a decade after its original airing in 2009, a remake of the episode was produced for Season 24, but with Armstrong's role replaced with recurring in-universe wrestler Uncle Slam Wilson. |
| 44 | ** In addition to the three episodes mentioned above, the Arthur marathon on the PBS Kids channel from February 16, 2022 to February 21, 2022 skipped the following episodes: |
| 45 | *** The specials "Arthur's Perfect Christmas", "Arthur and the Haunted Treehouse" and "An Arthur Thanksgiving" were skipped because [[OutOfHolidayEpisode airing them outside of their respective holidays would make little sense]]. |
| 46 | *** "It's A No-Brainer/The Shore Thing" was skipped because of a brief joke about a noose in one segment. |
| 47 | *** "Arthur Weighs In/The Law Of The Jungle Gym" was skipped because of the use of the words "fat" and "fatty" throughout the first segment. |
| 48 | *** The ''Arthur's Missing Pal'' movie was skipped because the rights to the movie are owned by Lionsgate. |
| 49 | * For over a decade, eight episodes towards the end of the final season of ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' (the "high school era") were never aired in the US. As of October 2016, there are still four episodes left. |
| 50 | ** This includes the three-part series finale "The Wedding Frame", which was released straight to DVD in 2004, a few months after the general run of new episodes ended. At this point, several episodes leading up to the finale had not yet aired. In 2006, the first of the unaired episodes ("Stuff'll Kill Ya") finally aired in the US for the first time on Nicktoons and eventually became part of the regular rerun rotation, but only on Nicktoons and not Nickelodeon. The remaining episodes (minus "The Wedding Frame") were scheduled to air within the next two weeks but were replaced at the last minute. None of these episodes would see the light of day in the US until October 2016, when ''The Splat'' aired half of them, leaving only "Battle of the Bands" and "The Wedding Frame" still unaired. |
| 51 | ** Episode 4, "Sleep on It", was quietly pulled from the rerun rotation on both Nickelodeon and Nicktoons around 2003. The reason was never specified, but it may have been due to a scene near the end of the episode, where Hoodsey wakes up in a puddle of urine amongst a girls' slumber party. The girls all taunt him and when Ginger defends him, Courtney says that bedwetting is "disgusting". It is possible that someone felt this was either inappropriate or insensitive to children with bedwetting problems. The episode aired in other countries and began airing again on ''The Splat'' over a decade later. There are also comments about putting girls' bras in the freezer as a prank, another possibility of why the episode was pulled. |
| 52 | ** Episode 17, "Piece of My Heart", stopped airing on Nicktoons by 2007. This may have been to reserve it for airing on Valentine's Day (although it is not directly themed towards the occasion), though it did not always (if at all) air on that day. |
| 53 | ** Episode 35, "Ginger's Solo", was also pulled from Nicktoons within a few years, again for reasons unknown. Ginger pays a surprise visit to her summer crush Sasha only to find out he has a girlfriend named Clover. The most likely reason of this episode's pulling is that someone complained about the provocative way Clover was dressed, especially for someone who is supposed to be in junior high. The episode did still air occasionally on Nickelodeon and ''The Splat'' in recent years. |
| 54 | ** Episode 57, "Ten Chairs" (a Thanksgiving-themed episode and also the last regular episode), has not been seen in the US since its sole airing on Nicktoons in 2004. In other countries, the episode was part of the normal rotation. |
| 55 | ** Despite all of the above, ''all'' episodes were available for purchase on iTunes and Amazon from 2013-15, and fans who were waiting for the high school episodes could easily find bootleg recordings of international airings on Website/YouTube. |
| 56 | * ''WesternAnimation/BabyBlues'' was cancelled after only eight episodes, so there were five episodes in Season 1 that Creator/TheWB never aired. Creator/AdultSwim eventually aired the rest of Season 1 two years later. However, there was also a second season that was produced, but never released in any form. Despite common belief that Season 2 never went past pre-production, Rick Kirkman (creator of the original comic strip) has confirmed that [[https://www.bubbleblabber.com/exclusive-baby-blues-tv-series-producer-clears-up-misconception-about-shows-second-season/?amp=1 Season 2 was fully completed but will never be released in any form because The WB wrote it off as a loss]]. |
| 57 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': |
| 58 | ** The series had a short pitch reel titled "The Dark Knight's First Night" that was presented to FOX before production of the series formally began. It was never broadcast and left unseen for over twelve years until it was released on DVD as a bonus feature. Unfortunately, the original audio track was lost, and dubbed over by the series' main theme. |
| 59 | ** Happens in-universe in "Beware the Gray Ghost" where the entire Gray Ghost series was destroyed due to fire, including an episode that reveals the MadBomber's secret ''modus operandi''. The series is ultimately released to home video after being restored from the lead actor's personal copies (still on film reels). |
| 60 | ** Interestingly, in the context of the show "lost episode" is most often applied to a collection of cutscenes from the Platform/SegaCD version of ''The Adventures of Batman and Robin'', which boasted storyboards and full voice-acting from the show's cast & crew. While these (totaling about 16 minutes in all) have never been released on home video, they're fairly easy to look up on Youtube. |
| 61 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "The Mask of Matches Malone" never aired in the US nor was it included on the season 2 DVD release, primarily due to the [[DoubleEntendre innuendo]] laden song number performed during the episode. In other markets, it was either shown in full or censored. It was eventually released in the US as a bonus on the season 3 DVD set. |
| 62 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'': |
| 63 | ** The infamous third season opener "Comedians" featured Beavis trying to juggle flaming newspapers and burning down a comedy club. Because it aired only a month before the Ohio mobile home fire that Beavis and Butt-Head were blamed for, this episode was swiftly pulled out of rotation and later heavily censored. |
| 64 | ** Other episodes were banned or heavily censored for instances of Beavis saying "Fire! Fire!" or flicking a lighter ("Stewart's House", "Kidnapped"), animal cruelty ("Frog Baseball", "Washing the Dog"), inhalant and drug abuse ("Home Improvement", "Way Down Mexico Way") or anything that might be considered in poor taste in the aftermath of Columbine and September 11th ("Heroes", "Incognito"). Many of these episodes have aired on Viacom-owned networks overseas unedited. |
| 65 | ** There's also the music video segments. Who knows how many of them have been lost forever due to copyright issues? Fortunately, some of the rights have been secured, and over three dozen music videos have made it to the various Creator/MikeJudge collections. |
| 66 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' has ''four'' episodes that have been removed from reruns on Creator/AdultSwim and streaming on Creator/{{Netflix}} in the United States, although they can still be found on the DVD sets and Netflix in Canada. |
| 67 | ** The two-part Season 2 finale, "The Hunger Strike" and "The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show", which openly and viciously lampooned Creator/{{BET}}, were removed due to legal threats from BET and its parent company Creator/{{Viacom}}. The episodes finally aired on May 29, 2020 as part of a ''Boondocks'' marathon (while Canadian cartoon channel, Teletoon, merely aired the episodes with a warning that stated that the jokes about BET are not the views and opinions of anyone who works at Teletoon, making one wonder [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot why Adult Swim couldn't have done the same thing]]), and it's currently on Creator/HBOMax. |
| 68 | ** The Season 3 episodes "The Story of Jimmy Rebel" and "Pause" were removed, the former because it was deemed too racist / politically incorrect (which is odd for a show that's already packed with a lot of racial humor), and the latter because Creator/TylerPerry complained about how the character [[{{Expy}} Winston Jerome]] was a mockery of him. The latter aired its first rerun since 2010 on May 29, 2020 along with the BET episodes and it's also available on HBO Max. |
| 69 | ** The original pilot episode made for Creator/{{Fox}} has never been aired, and according to [[WordOfGod Aaron McGruder]], it's only ever been shown at conventions. A clip of it does exist online, though it's only a few seconds and in poor quality. |
| 70 | * ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' had the VerySpecialEpisode "Super Nova" that aired exactly twice before being removed from circulation. It used [[RadiationInducedSuperpowers superpowers caused by phasing through radiation]] as metaphor for drugs, complete with ensuing withdrawal. The episodes "Inside Job" and "Conspiracy" were removed from circulation after the September 11th attacks, as both episodes dealt with assassination plots against ambassadors by a group of Anti-Galactic Alliance terrorists. |
| 71 | * ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'': |
| 72 | ** Episode #27, "When Mother Brain Rules", is missing from "The Complete Series" DVD set because [=DiC=] Entertainment did not provide the master tape to Creator/ShoutFactory. Given that it was merely a ClipShow, this move may be justified. |
| 73 | ** "How's Bayou" was never finished when it first aired on Creator/{{NBC}}, due to time constraints. It was later replaced with a second, more common version shown on the Family Channel, with some original dialogue replaced. Surprisingly, only the original version was released on DVD, so in a twist of irony, the second version is now the one considered lost. |
| 74 | * The ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' episode "The Smooch" is missing from the show's complete series DVD set on Amazon due to music rights. The Baha Men's cover of "Coconut" was prominently featured at the end of the episode, and it was too important to mute/edit out. The DVD contains the other episode and the music video it was paired up with originally ("Power Play" and "All The Way to The Top") at least; the [=iTunes=] episode collections didn't include any part of the half hour at all. The full episode did remain in the show's rerun rotation until 2013 (when Nicktoons took ''[=ChalkZone=]'' off the schedule). |
| 75 | * For some reason, the Canadian broadcast rotation of ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}'' featured the pilot episode instead of the second regular episode, "Pretty Great Day with a Girl", at least in the early days of the show. |
| 76 | * Two final season episodes of ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000'' were left unaired from the broadcast order. They are not yet available on DVD. |
| 77 | * The unaired pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' (titled Clone High School U.S.A.) that was made in 2001 when the series was pitched to FOX currently remains as lost media as of 2022. The only things from the pilot that currently exist are old character designs of the main cast as well as a screenshot of a scene with JFK in it. |
| 78 | * The original pilot of ''WesternAnimation/CoconutFredsFruitSaladIsland'' was never aired on television, though clips of it were used for advertising and in the sound studio attraction at the Creator/KidsWB Crash the Backlot tour. Currently, the only remaining footage that exists is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAFNwzCVS-I a promo made out of footage from the pilot]] and a few screenshots. There has been no new information discovered since October 2022. |
| 79 | * The episode "Buffalo Gals" from ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' was only aired once and then pulled out of circulation due to MoralGuardians complaints. It features a lot of lesbian sex innuendos such as the titular all-female biker gang that invades people's houses to chew on their carpets and Mom claiming that she used to ride with them while she [[ExperimentedInCollege was in college]]. |
| 80 | * ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' had two pilots. One, "The Mystery of the Lost Chord", has been released years ago. The other one, "The Great Bone Idol", is nowhere to be found as of 2023, and only a few screenshots exist. There is an episode of the series proper with the same name, but how much it has in common with the pilot is unknown. |
| 81 | * ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'': |
| 82 | ** Reruns on Creator/PBSKids frequently skip over "Daniel's Goldfish Dies; Daniel's Strawberry Seeds", possibly because of the subject matter of Daniel's goldfish dying being too upsetting for the target demographic. Usually, reruns skip to "Daniel Doesn't Want To Go Potty; Daniel Sits On The Potty" or "Daniel Wants To Be Alone; Daniel's Alone Space" instead of showing this episode. |
| 83 | ** Despite a ReCut version existing that removes the problem in question, "Daniel Can't Get What He Wants; Daniel Can't Ride Trolley" is rarely seen in reruns due to the controversy over the episode's strategy of "When you can't get what you want, stomp 3 times to make yourself feel better", which was seen as being too similar to a temper tantrum in the eyes of many parents. |
| 84 | * Several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/DaveyAndGoliath'' were presumed destroyed by the [[http://www.elca.org Evangelical Lutheran Church in America]], the successor to the church that commissioned the series, due to material that today's mainline denominations would consider unfit for airing on a children's program (such as racial stereotypes and sexism). They were later found, re-edited and released on DVD. |
| 85 | * ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': |
| 86 | ** The episode "Rude Removal", where Dee Dee and Dexter go into a machine that removes all of their rudeness and concentrates it into another [[SirSwearsALot foul-mouthed]] version of themselves, was meant to air in the show's second season. It was rejecting from airing on TV, even though [[ClusterBleepBomb all of their profanity was covered by bleeps]] (contrary to rumor, [[https://twitter.com/CrackMcCraigen/status/886351488750018561 there was never an uncensored version made]]). It only aired at a 1998 convention, until 2013 when Creator/AdultSwim received permission to host it on their internet video service. |
| 87 | ** The ''Dial M for Monkey'' short "Barbequor" featured a CampGay parody of ComicBook/SilverSurfer called "the Silver Spooner". Because of Jack Kirby's estate threatening a lawsuit, it was removed from TV airing as well as [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes DVD and digital releases]] and replaced with the Season 2 episode, "Dexter's Lab: A Story". |
| 88 | ** The episode "Dos Boot" (the title being a parody title of ''Film/DasBoot'' and a pun on DOS Boot), featuring a parody of ''Film/{{TRON}}'', temporarily went missing in United Kingdom airings for a long time due to concern over the ending (Dexter and Mandark digitally photoshopped onto girl's bodies in GirlyGirl clothing, arguing with each other, although the StatusQuoIsGod / NegativeContinuity aspect meant it ''shouldn't'' be an issue) being offensive. |
| 89 | * The ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' episode "Stokey the Bear", satirizing Smokey Bear, was pulled from reruns until after 2000 due to complains from the U.S. Forest Service. It later saw a release as part of a ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' DVD set. |
| 90 | * ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': Three episodes are missing from Central European countries including Romania, Poland and Hungary: "The Ed-Touchables", "Pop Goes the Ed" and "Momma's Little Ed". |
| 91 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' has "Twistory" and "It's a Wishful Life", both of which are also CanonDiscontinuity (though they still air on Nicktoons to this day). |
| 92 | ** "Twistory" was pulled from reruns due to the fact that it offended both Americans and British while trying to be patriotic and also said that if American independence never happened, then the world wouldn't have advanced past the 18th century. |
| 93 | ** "It's a Wishful Life" aired in reruns for a few years, but was eventually pulled from TV due to both negative reception and CreatorBacklash due to the fact that it was very harsh to Timmy when subverting the ItsAWonderfulPlot cliche. |
| 94 | ** "Where's the Wand?", an episode from back when the show consisted of ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts, has never aired again after ''The Fairly [=OddParents=]!'' become a full-fledged cartoon. It was released as a bonus feature on the DVD of ''WesternAnimation/SchoolsOutTheMusical''. |
| 95 | ** Back when the show still aired premieres on Nickelodeon, Nicktoons would only air reruns of the earliest episodes. This also happened with ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. This problem has been fixed with ''The Fairly [=OddParents=]'' since the 2014 rebrand and ''[=SpongeBob=]'' since 2016. |
| 96 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 97 | ** "Turban Cowboy" was pulled from FOX and Hulu after the Boston Marathon bombings that happened three weeks later. The main plot was about Peter converting to Islam as part of a terrorist plot and there was a cutaway of Peter driving drunk through a marathon, which only made things worse (especially when someone created a Website/YouTube video that "proved" that Creator/SethMacFarlane somehow predicted this would happen by [[ManipulativeEditing editing scenes together]] to make it look like Peter bombed the marathon). [=MacFarlane=] has gone on record to say that, much like "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven," he [[OldShame regrets making this episode]]. Despite the backlash, the episode has made a comeback in syndication, mostly on TBS and Creator/AdultSwim, and is on Netflix. |
| 98 | ** "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" was banned for potentially being offensive to Jews and Catholics, though [=MacFarlane=] and his crew actually brought in a rabbi to make sure the episode was "kosher," and, despite FOX's decision to pull the episode, it was released on the Volume Two DVD, and when news hit that ''Family Guy'' was coming back with new episodes, this episode did air, but with some alterations[[note]]Peter's "Even though they killed my Lord" line in his song "I Need a Jew" was changed to "I don't think they killed my Lord" and Quagmire "looking for his keys" in front of Lois was shortened so it wouldn't look like masturbation[[/note]]. |
| 99 | ** "Partial Terms of Endearment" was banned for references to abortion, even though the episode is actually very even-handed on the subject and doesn't do a lot of bashing on people who are for or against it. It was most likely cut because FOX feared that people would write in and complain [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence just for acknowledging that abortion is a thing]] (as is the case with a lot of TV shows with controversial stories or series premises -- and this fear also affects advertisers as much as MoralGuardians). The episode also isn't shown on [adult swim], TBS, or Netflix streaming, but has aired overseas on [=BBC3=] (with some parts cut for time and content) and is available uncut and uncensored as a standalone DVD release (the cover of which serves as the page image for BannedEpisode). |
| 100 | ** The VerySpecialEpisode "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q." only aired once on FOX, probably due to its exaggerated depiction of DomesticAbuse, but it can be seen on Adult Swim on reruns, Hulu, and Netflix. |
| 101 | ** Seth [=MacFarlane=]'s personal dislike (he's referred to it as the show's least funny episode) of "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E21ForeFather Fore Father]]" has resulted in it being only very rarely broadcast in reruns. |
| 102 | ** The original pilot episode from 1998, which was an early version of "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E1DeathHasAShadow Death Has a Shadow]]." While about seven minutes worth of footage (roughly half of the pilot) is readily available on [=YouTube=], most of the rest is lost (some screenshots exist, albeit in poor quality). |
| 103 | * The original pilot for the sadly short-lived ''WesternAnimation/FatherOfThePride'' never aired on the NBC run, and even failed to appear on the DVD release. It eventually popped up on Sky One in the UK. In addition to the pilot, three other episodes were produced but left unaired due to NBC's decision to cancel the series. One of them, like the pilot, ended up on Sky One. |
| 104 | * Only 5 episodes of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' aired when the show was shown on WesternAnimation/CartoonPlanet, though this is mostly justified as the show is made up of mostly 22-minute episodes and only 6 episodes of the show meet the 11 minute mark. But "When There's a Wilt, There's a Way" was left out of rotation completely for unknown reasons. |
| 105 | * ''WesternAnimation/FudencioESeusAmigos'' originally aired on the Brazilian ''Creator/{{MTV}}'' channel, from 2005 to 2011. After said channel was discontinued in 2013, the show can only be watched through recordings in the internet; however, at least twenty episodes are completely lost and unavailable anywhere. The show creators have stated they are incapable of putting it on Netflix, and due to the show's BlackComedy [[ValuesDissonance not being too much appreciated nowadays]], it's unlikely to be oficially re-released again. |
| 106 | ** In a non-KeepCirculatingTheTapes example, the Season 1 DVD does not have the episode "Tutti-Fruta" in it. Also, the season finale "Baltazar é um Barato" is classified as an extra. |
| 107 | * Creator/AlexHirsch was hell bent on keeping the pilot for ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' away from the fans as he was [[OldShame heavily embarrassed]] [[NoBudget by its overall quality]]. It wouldn't be until after the series finale aired when Alex awarded the winners of an around the world ''Gravity Falls''-themed scavenger hunt with the actual pilot itself. Since then, it has been available on Website/YouTube. |
| 108 | * ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' was known for reusing many segments from the previous show Mickey [=MouseWorks=] as well as having some [=MouseWorks=] shorts make their debut in ''House of Mouse'', but two [=MouseWorks=] shorts were never recycled as House of Mouse segments: "Minnie Takes Care of Pluto" due to being a BannedEpisode for having Pluto think that Minnie wants to kill him and dreaming that he is in Hell, and "Pluto gets the Paper: Vending Machine", which was omitted for unknown reasons. |
| 109 | * The Dutch Nickelodeon website at one point in the 2010's had the first part of ''WesternAnimation/TheJimmyTimmyPowerHour 2: When Nerds Collide'' available, but the second part was nowhere to be found. What's interesting is that it remained available until long after Jimmy Neutron had stopped airing on Nickelodeon in the Netherlands. |
| 110 | * ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' had a number of episodes skipped once the show went into repeats on Nicktoons for unknown reasons (it was speculated that one reason was due to the ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda'' shorts as it got a spin-off on Fox Family which wasn't affiliated with Viacom in any way, but it turns out Nickelodeon owns the rights to their original shorts). "Not Just For People Anymore!", "All Purpose [=KaBlam=]!", "[=KaBlam=] Gets Results!", "Why June Refuses To Turn The Page", "Comics of Champions", "Won't Crack Or Peel", "I Just Don't Get It!" (despite clips from the episode airing in Nicktoons commercials), "Better Than A Poke In The Eye!", "[=KaFun=]!", "Timeless!", and "Just Chillin'!" never aired on Nicktoons in the US at all (though a few shorts from them played during commercial breaks), while "Cramming Cartoons Since 1627!" and "[=KaBlam=]! James [=KaBlam=]!" aired a few times on Nicktoons during the channel's first two years and then got pulled. Two episodes, "Just Chillin'!" and "[=KaFun=]!" have aired sparingly on Nickelodeon in the original run, and the latter has been speculated to only have aired once (at least in the US; it aired a few times in other countries). Nickelodeon's official sources say the show ran for 47 episodes, however "[=KaFun=]!" would make 48 (Henry and June's creator Mark Marek has since uploaded the episode to his website in late 2015). |
| 111 | ** One of the biggest examples of their missing episodes would have to be ''The Henry and June Show'', a PoorlyDisguisedPilot of a possible spin-off starring the titular hosts of the show. It only aired once in Summer 1999 and never again. It's unknown why it never re-aired, however a few reasons may have been due to the special using a real song ("Roll With The Changes" by REO Speedwagon) and Nick had lost the rights to use it (though because the song was used as background music without anyone singing along, it could've very easily been replaced with an instrumental cue), a good chunk of the special consisting of nothing but [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece pop culture references of the late 1990s]] (thus making it age very badly), and Mark Marek, the creator of the Henry and June segments, thinking that the special came out "too rough". |
| 112 | ** The ''Life With Loopy Birthday Gala-Bration'' special (which many fans had thought to be "Episode 29", a long-rumored SeriesFauxnale for the show that came up on Wikipedia in the early 2000s, only for Mark Marek to debunk the rumor in 2012) from 1998 also only aired once and never again. However, as the special was basically a ClipShow, consisting of previous ''Life With Loopy'' shorts compiled together with wraparounds, it may have not been intended to air afterwards. It should also be noted that this and ''The Henry and June Show'' are not in the show's official episode count, so it wouldn't appear in any repeats on Nicktoons or outside the US. |
| 113 | * Due to the studio making more episodes than the network had ordered, four ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episodes past the GrandFinale (the episode where Hank discovers Bobby's talent for identifying meat cuts and pointing out their flaw) were not in the network run and were only seen in syndication (including Creator/AdultSwim) because Fox was desperate to get rid of it to make room for ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow''. The four episodes are: |
| 114 | ** "The Honeymooners": Hank's mom breaks up with her Jewish boyfriend -- from the ChristmasEpisode where Hank goes blind after seeing his mom and her first boyfriend have sex -- and plans to marry a man she just met and live in an RV. |
| 115 | ** "Bill Gathers Moss": Bill takes in Principal Moss, who has been living in the school following his divorce, and an ex-Playboy centerfold as a roommate, after watching a sitcom about two roommates who get into wacky adventures. Unfortunately for Bill, Moss hooks up with the Playmate and they effectively strip Bill of any say of what is allowed and not allowed in the house and allow the Playmate's Russian counterfeiter boyfriend set up shop inside their home.. |
| 116 | ** "When Joseph Met Lori, and Made Out with Her in the Janitor's Closet": Joseph starts dating a girl named Lori and the relationship quickly turns physical, and Dale, who refuses to talk to his son about sex, checks into a mental hospital for dementia. The episode's B-Story has Nancy and a coworker at her news station waging war with each other to find a human interest angle they can exploit for more airtime. |
| 117 | ** "Just Another Manic Kahn-Day" Hank convinces Kahn to stop picking up his medicine at the pharmacy -- only to learn when they hire Kahn to build a barbecue that Kahn is a manic-depressive and needs his medication to level him out, but Hank doesn't want Kahn to lose his manic energy to make the barbecue. Meanwhile Bobby tries to find the humor in a "Ray J. Johnson" comedy record that Peggy, Dale, Bill, and Boomhauer claim is funny. |
| 118 | * On Cartoon Network and Boomerang feeds available in Eastern and Central European countries, the post-1948 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts are not shown because the channels only have the rights to the pre-1948 ones. |
| 119 | ** As for North America, Boomerang almost never reruns pre-1948 shorts anymore, especially not from TheThirties (with a select few exceptions, like "Little Red Riding Rabbit"). They almost never rerun the post-1964 shorts either (when they paired Daffy Duck with Speedy Gonzales) except for a couple of the Larriva Eleven cartoons [[AudienceAlienatingEra due to their negative reception]]. Since Turner itself owns the pre-1948 shorts, the causes of this are unknown. |
| 120 | ** For unknown reasons, Region 2 copies of ''Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 4'' are missing the shorts "Southern Fried Rabbit", "You're an Education", "Plane Daffy", "Porky the Fireman", "The Stupid Cupid", "Here Today, Gone Tamale" and "The Sour Puss". |
| 121 | *** In a similar vein, Region 2 copies of ''The Essential Daffy Duck'' are missing the shorts ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuckAndEgghead'', ''WesternAnimation/PlaneDaffy'', ''WesternAnimation/NastyQuacks'', and ''My Little Duckaroo'', as well as the second disc as a whole. |
| 122 | ** The Cool Cat cartoon ''[[WesternAnimation/InjunTrouble1969 Injun Trouble]]'' (the final WB cartoon released during MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation; not to be confused with a Porky Pig short from 1938, which is also out of rotation) is omitted from both home video releases and reruns. This is because of the [[ValuesDissonance offensive depictions of Native Americans (which were barely acceptable even during its time)]] as well as [[{{demographically inappropriate humour}} inappropriate humor]] (such as the Topless Saloon). |
| 123 | *** The Merlin the Magic Mouse cartoon ''Hocus Pocus Powwow'' from the same era is omitted for the same reason. |
| 124 | *** ''Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner'' is also generally omitted (although Creator/MeTV ''did'' air this short, albeit unrestored) due to the ending gag of Wile E. Coyote doing a stereotypical Indian rain dance. Notably, it was the only one of the Larriva Eleven that was unavailable on Creator/HBOMax until all of the post-1951 shorts were pulled. |
| 125 | ** Neither WesternAnimation/{{Bosko|The Talk Ink Kid}} nor Buddy (the studio's two pre-WesternAnimation/PorkyPig stars) have any of their cartoons available on Creator/HBOMax; the former most likely due to [[ValuesDissonance resembling a blackface caricature]] and the latter likely due to both [[TheScrappy fan unpopularity]] and being an OldShame for Warner Bros. |
| 126 | ** A number of shorts still have yet to see an official re-release in any form whatsoever. Most of these are due to ValuesDissonance, or in the case of Buddy's shorts, the character's unpopularity. However, two of them, ''Pappy's Puppy''[[note]]a WesternAnimation/{{Sylvester|The Cat And Tweety Bird}} cartoon parodying the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' shorts with Spike and Tyke[[/note]] and ''Unnatural History''[[note]]a spot-gag cartoon about animals engaging in quirky antics[[/note]], are omitted for unknown reasons. Both shorts have aired on [=MeTV=], albeit unrestored. |
| 127 | * The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons'' short ''Daffy in Wackyland'' was shown at animation festivals, even getting nominated for an Annie Award, but it wasn't included in the released episodes of the series. |
| 128 | * When ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' is aired in Italy on Super! TV, each of the first three seasons have an episode that is removed from rotation after a few reruns: "Toads and Tiaras/Two Boys and a Baby" for Season 1, "11 Louds a Leapin'" for Season 2 and "Deal Me Out/Friendzy" for Season 3. The reasons for those removals are unknown, though the second is understandable as it's a ChristmasEpisode, which typically don't air year-round. |
| 129 | * Four episodes of ''WesternAnimation/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie'' are missing on Hulu due to them being [[OldShame not liked that much by Britt Allcroft, the show's creator]]: "The Music of Spring", "Flying Fever", "Lighter Than Air", and "Aiming for the Moon". |
| 130 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': "Shows and Tells" is a rather odd case. It's readily available on DVD, but due to a printing error, the master tape set from U.S.A. Dubs omits this episode and includes "Holiday Special" twice. |
| 131 | * The animated adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' only aired seasons one and three on CBS. An entire season (which includes the infamous "Flight as a Feather" episode) didn't air on CBS, but did find a home in syndication and on overseas Cartoon Network channels. |
| 132 | * ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'': The second season episode "Lady Krillers" was not aired in Europe due to cross dressing being essential to the plot.[[note]]The episode involves a movie studio making a female-led reboot of the [[ShowWithinAShow Krill Hunter movie franchise]] and said movies' star Tobias Trollhammer upset about it, leading Milo & Zack to dress him up as a woman to help him get the role.[[/note]] It was available on the video site [=KissCartoon=], but has since been removed. |
| 133 | * The pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'' is currently missing. It had different animation and voice acting from the official show. A clip of it was available on SPGTV's site, but was soon deleted after the show premiered. The plot of the pilot was remade into the episode "By Sled or Snowshoe". |
| 134 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 135 | ** In the Latin American dub, the 11th episode of the second season "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagicS2E11FamilyAppreciationDay Family Appreciation Day]]" was missing during Discovery Kids' premieres of other season 2 episodes. In fact, it didn't air until October 2013 (although it was made available on the Latin American Netflix a few weeks before it aired on Discovery Kids), after all of season 2 ''and'' Season 3 had premiered, and has been rarely re-aired for unknown reasons. |
| 136 | ** A weird case of this trope is that the episodes "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]," "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Hearth's Warming Eve]]," "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E15ScareMaster Scare Master]]," and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E21Hearthbreakers Hearthbreakers]]" are skipped when Creator/TheHub, and later Discovery Family, rerun the series, despite important world-building happening in the first two and character development in the latter two. This is because they are holiday episodes, so The Hub will only show them once at those times of the year (if they are shown at all), whereas every other episode will be shown repeatedly every month. (Oddly, "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay Hearts and Hooves Day]]" is not taken out of the rerun schedules despite it being a Valentine's Day episode and bearing far less importance to the series overall than either of the former two.) |
| 137 | ** To a lesser extent, the Arabic and Turkish dubs skip the above mentioned episodes simply for being based on holidays that are considered un-Islamic. Many Turkish and Arab fans were not happy, as Luna Eclipsed features an important part of Luna's character development. |
| 138 | ** The episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E11PartyPooped Party Pooped]]" remains unaired on Canada's Treehouse TV network, most likely due to the title of the episode being inappropriate for the channel's preschooler demographic, much to the chagrin of Canada's bronies and pegasisters. |
| 139 | ** Six {{clip show}}s were made during production of Season 9, where Starlight and Spike gather memories from Twilight's friends to make a memory book for her following her coronation as ruler of Equestria. Despite having aired in Australia in April and May 2020, and in Ukraine in July 2021, none of the clip shows have ever aired on Discovery Family in the U.S. or released anywhere else as of 2023. |
| 140 | * The ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' episode "(Un)happy Camper!" was promptly withdrawn from circulation by Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, both from television and from their website, after complaints over a particular scene where a brief background image of a naked woman with exposed cleavage ended up getting through Nick's censors and broadcast to American audiences. Overlapped with RoleEndingMisdemeanor when the series was soon pulled from Nickelodeon and shafted to sister channel Nicktoons. |
| 141 | * For unknown reasons, the ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' episodes "Pup-Fu!" and "Pups Save Sensei Yumi" have not aired since 2020 and have been pulled from all digital services offering the show. |
| 142 | * Seven of the thirteen episodes of ''WesternAnimation/PhantomInvestigators'' never aired in the US, as Kids' WB pulled the show after six episodes had aired due to not getting quite enough views from their desired audience of young boys (and the show never went into reruns). The remaining four episodes after "The Year Of The Snake" did not receive a US broadcast and instead premiered overseas ("The Fifth PI", "Ghosts On Film", "Thank Wad", and "Secrets Exposed!"), as well as earlier episodes "Skating The Plank", "From Egypt With Love", and "Haunted Dreams" (their only reasons for being skipped was due to Kids' WB airing the episodes OutOfOrder. Had the show not been pulled, they would've gotten to airing them). |
| 143 | * Disney Channel did not air an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' for awhile called "Ready for the Bettys" because a real-life band named The Bettys, who the production crew was unaware of at the time, thought the episode was about them. The similarity was in name only as the styles of the two all-girl bands was different. As most half-hours of the series contain two episodes, "The Flying Fishmonger" was also out of rotation because it was paired with the episode. The episode is available iTunes and on Disney+ streaming, and the full episode wouldn't be aired again on Disney Channel until May 22, 2015 at 5:00am, and aired on Disney XD (for the first time) on June 10, during the marathon of every episode they have set to air in anticipation for the GrandFinale. |
| 144 | ** In most dubs of Phineas and Ferb, the episode "Phineas and Ferb Musical Cliptastic Countdown Hosted by Kelly Osbourne" is skipped. It was only dubbed into German, Russian, Hebrew, Latin Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish. |
| 145 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}}'' went through this quite frequently. |
| 146 | ** "Little Accidents", formerly known as "Pingu's Lavatory Story", was banned from airing in the U.S. due to its blatant depiction of PottyFailure in many scenes, and it was deemed impossible to edit the offending scenes without changing the plot. It continues to rerun elsewhere, including in the UK on Creator/TheBBC. |
| 147 | ** "Pingu Quarrels With His Mum" was also pulled from American television, due to a shocking scene where [[AbusiveParents Pingu is slapped by his mother for insubordination]] (though the shock is softened by the fact that Pingu's mother has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment). It was also banned from airing in countries where corporal punishment is a criminal offense. When broadcast on Creator/TheBBC, the offending scene was removed, but the VHS and DVD releases there left the scene intact. |
| 148 | ** The pilot episode as well as "Pingu's Dream" have not been seen on the BBC since 2003. Although the former's reason for pulling is unknown (possibly for a distressing scene where Pingu's head is treated like a bouncing ball by a bully), the latter was pulled over the horrifying appearance of the realistic-looking leopard seal that invades Pingu's dream later on in the episode. Pulled for similar reasons two years later was "Pingu Runs Away", where Pingu encounters ice sculptures depicted as freakish monsters after he runs away from home. The appearance of the sculptures were deemed to be too risque for children. Neither this nor the preceding two episodes have been shown in the U.S. as of 2005. |
| 149 | ** "Pingu and the Doll" was banned in the U.S. and Canada thanks to scenes where Pingu dresses up as a Native American and attempts to imitate the stereotypical mannerisms associated with them. Europe doesn't seem to have a problem airing it, though. |
| 150 | ** All the aforementioned episodes are on the show's Amazon Prime collections in the U.S. |
| 151 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' season five episode "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey" (considered an unofficial finale for the show) has never aired in the United States. The reasoning is either CN's worry of the message of Communism in the episode or a scene with a strobe effect that could affect children with seizures. The episode is on the complete series DVD set. The creator of the show eventually stated on his tumblr it was due to executives at Creator/CartoonNetwork thinking some of the beams of destroyed buildings looked like crosses. |
| 152 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'': |
| 153 | ** Until 2022, "Don't Leave Home Without It" was the only one from the show's original run that Disney didn't release in any form. This had to do with music licensing issues involving the Destiny's Child song "Independent Women (Part 1)", but the DVD and Disney+ fortunately retain it. The episode also resurfaced on iTunes shortly before the DVD's release. |
| 154 | ** "One in a Million" was temporarily pulled from reruns after guest star Kobe Bryant was charged with sexual assault. Once the case was dropped, it returned to the airwaves. |
| 155 | ** The original pilot. It was rarely shown and it is very hard to find images of it online. The only clips of it available online come from commercials that aired around the show's debut. |
| 156 | * The animated ''WesternAnimation/PunkyBrewster'', as included in the live-action series DVD sets, leaves out "The Shoe Must Go On", due to music licensing for use of "Axel Foley's Theme" from the ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' movies. As of this entry, the episode seems to be truly lost, as it's ''nowhere'' to be found on the internet. |
| 157 | * ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': |
| 158 | ** The show's pilot, made in 2013, has yet to see the light of day. Read more about it [[https://lostmediaarchive.fandom.com/wiki/Ready_Jet_Go!_(Lost_Unaired_Original_2013_Pilot_Episode,_Jet_Propulsion) here]]. |
| 159 | ** When the show aired on Uzbekistan kids channel "Aqlvoy", the channel skipped the episodes "Jet's First Halloween" and "From Pluto With Love" because Halloween and Valentine's Day are banned in Uzbekistan. |
| 160 | *** "Holidays in Boxwood Terrace" and "Endless Summer" did not air during Christmas time because Uzbekistan doesn't really celebrate Christmas, though it's not illegal there. Luckily, they eventually did air on New Years Eve, because Christmas traditions are associated with the New Year in Uzbekistan. |
| 161 | * ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': |
| 162 | ** The first season episode "The Unicorns Have Got to Go" has never been shown in several Eastern and Central European countries, such as Poland, Hungary and Romania. The reason for its exclusion is unknown, though it likely has to do with the BDSM-esque appearance of the unicorns, and Benson spraying water at Mordecai and Rigby to snap them out of their non-existent hangovers. It has also been rarely aired in the U.S., though the reasoning behind it could be because of the crude humor that was a little too Creator/AdultSwim for Cartoon Network (Mordecai drinking "unicorn slop," the unicorns pissing on the lawn, and the unicorns farting in Rigby's face). It was later included on The Complete First and Second Seasons DVD and Creator/{{Boomerang}} aired the episode uncut and uncensored. |
| 163 | ** Likewise, the Halloween specials have also been ignored in those regions, up until the 2014 Halloween season. |
| 164 | ** "Go Viral" never aired in Australia for unknown reasons (the episode really isn't any worse than episodes that ''did'' air over there, though it may have been because a lot of the behavior in the episode was imitable). |
| 165 | ** For unknown reasons, the Region 4 release of Season 4 is missing the episode "That's My Television". |
| 166 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' rolled out its own "Missing Episode" just after the end of the show's first run, though this may have been nothing more than a publicity stunt. The countless episodes yanked after one showing would be more serious. (Remember Mr. Horse's presidential bid? Yeah, neither do we.) |
| 167 | ** A legitimate lost episode, entitled "Man's Best Friend", would have aired in 1992, but did not, due to an incredibly violent scene in which Ren beats his and Stimpy's new owner, George Liquor, within an inch of his life with an oar. It did not air in the United States until Spike TV aired it as part of the ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'' series in 2003. |
| 168 | ** ''Adult Party Cartoon'' itself suffered an early cancellation as a result of this, at least nine episodes were planned, but due to unmet deadlines, the show was pulled and only six episodes were made, three of which weren't shown at all outside DVD releases. Out of the three unfinished episodes, at least one, "Life Sucks", was storyboarded and voice recorded. |
| 169 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': |
| 170 | ** Two episodes from the first two seasons, "Adultizzle Swizzle" and "Blankets in a Pig", are edited versions of two previous episodes, "The Sack" and "Veggies for Sloth" respectively. Both have sketches deleted and replaced with new ones, such as a removal of a sketch from the latter crossing over ComicBook/{{Archie|Comics}} and Film/FinalDestination, due to copyright issues. Neither edit of the episodes are included on the DVD releases for those seasons. Interestingly, the original version of "Veggies for Sloth" usually plays as part of [adult swim]'s normal rotation, and not the edit, but both versions of "The Sack" seem to be absent. However, "Adultizzle Swizzle", the edited version, did get one airing on February 14th, 2015. |
| 171 | ** A sketch from the episode "Vegetable Fun Fest", which features WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead joining the WesternAnimation/TeenTitans, was removed from the season 1 DVD set, and has not been included on any home media release to this day, due to copyright issues of its own. However, the episode with the sketch airs normally on [as], as well as on Hulu. |
| 172 | * The original ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' pilot is considered lost. It was a short episode in a FoundFootage-esque video diary format. Only a small clip is known to exist. Parts of the pilot were featured in the intro. According to sources, Sam was Latino in the pilot. |
| 173 | * For unknown reasons, the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "I See London, I See France / The Fat Lands", from the show's third season, is unavailable on Creator/ParamountPlus. |
| 174 | * ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'': |
| 175 | ** Somewhere in the vaults of Nickelodeon[=/=]Creator/KlaskyCsupo's library lies ''WesternAnimation/RugratsGoWild'' in its original form as a 90-minute television special. Apparently test screenings were so positive, [[ExecutiveMeddling Paramount decided to shelve the television special in favor of remaking it as a feature film]]. |
| 176 | ** "Cuffed/The Blizzard" from Season 3 was pulled from US reruns on Nick and Nicktoons by the mid 2000's, probably over concern of small children playing with handcuffs. It still aired in other countries and is available on DVD and iTunes, and Creator/TeenNICK's programming block ''The Splat'' aired it on December 20, 2015. |
| 177 | ** Because of music licensing issues with the song "Vacation" by The Go-Go's, and a scene involving [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Siegfried & Roy lookalikes]] [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents getting mauled by white tigers]], the Season 4 episode "Vacation" was rarely aired on TV and is not available on iTunes or Amazon Instant Video. However, it ''is'' included on the Season 4 DVD. Despite this, ''The Splat'' used clips from this episode in a promo. |
| 178 | ** Due to a manufacturing error on Amazon's Season 3 DVD, the contents of the fourth and fifth discs were exactly the same, meaning the episodes that should have been on Disc 5 were lost entirely, and despite being pulled so Amazon could rectify the issue, the discs were apparently still the same. The episodes in question are available on digital services, and Paramount's release had no such issue. |
| 179 | * The ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' season "Science Rock" contained an episode titled "The Greatest Show on Earth", with weather as its main subject. After the episode was included on the "Science Rock" VHS tape in 1987, the Ringling Bros.-Barnum and Bailey Circus Company objected to using the trademarked name as its title. As a result, ABC only aired the episode a few times during the series' 1990s run and also did not include it on the "Science Rock" tape's 1995 re-issue. The 30th Anniversary DVD named the episode "The Weather Show", with references to the title awkwardly and obviously edited. |
| 180 | * ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': |
| 181 | ** The original broadcast masters for episodes of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' are long lost. The only episode whose master survived destruction was "Go Away Ghost Ship", and that version of the episode continues to air on Boomerang and is available on DVD. All other episodes were remastered from other prints. |
| 182 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' had "Wednesday is Missing", a crossover with Franchise/TheAddamsFamily, omitted from all DVD and Blu-ray releases. It is expected this is a hold up between either the Creator/JohnAstin or Creator/CarolynJones estate. |
| 183 | ** When ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow'' entered syndication in the 1980's, three episodes ("A Menace in Venice," "Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear," and "The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake") were dropped from circulation. Although the reasoning for this has not been explained, some have suggested that the episodes, which were animated in Spain, were [[OldShame deeply despised]] by the higher-ups at Creator/HannaBarbera and refused to allow The Program Exchange, the show's syndicator, to package the episodes with the series.[[note]]Alternately, TPE may have simply left the episodes out due to the syndication order being shorter than the whole season.[[/note]] After Turner acquired Hanna-Barbera, Creator/CartoonNetwork began airing the series with the episodes reinstated. |
| 184 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 185 | ** The special "Springfield’s Most Wanted" aired just once, in September 1995, between a rerun of the season six finale "Who Shot Mr. Burns Part One" and the debut of the season seven premiere, "Who Shot Mr. Burns, Part Two". This episode was mainly a ClipShow with live action segments hosted by John Walsh, and had guest apperences by Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates, Dennis Franz, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Kevin Nealon, Chris Elliott and Andrew Shue. Since this episode was connected to the "Who Shot Mr. Burns" contest, this episode only aired once on Fox (but it was shown more than once on Sky One in the UK). It can now be seen on the season six DVD set. |
| 186 | ** In an attempt to prevent controversy from Japanese viewers, Fox never aired the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E23ThirtyMinutesOverTokyo Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo]]" in Japan or even put it on the season 10 DVD set when it was released over there due to scenes that mock Japanese culture and society (the Simpsons having a seizure while watching a robot anime, Homer tossing the Japanese emperor into a sumo thongs Dumpster, and the Simpsons appearing on a sadistic Japanese game show). Which is just as well, since there is a gag relying on [[TranslationYes Homer saying a full sentence in Japanese, which is subtitled as simply, "D'oh!"]]. |
| 187 | *** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E10LittleBigMom Little Big Mom]]" was also never released in Japan due to ValuesDissonance-- the episode features leprosy as a plot point, which, in Japan, has a lot of baggage attached to it from the country's history of [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/14/like-entering-a-prison-japans-leprosy-sufferers-sue-government-for-decades-of-pain imprisonment of]] and [[https://www.nippon.com/en/features/c02703/hansen%E2%80%99s-disease-in-japan-the-lingering-legacy-of-discrimination.html discrimination against]] leprosy victims. |
| 188 | ** Season 13's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E15BlameItOnLisa Blame It on Lisa]]" was banned in Brazil for the same reasons why Japan banned "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" (stereotypical depiction of the country), though it was later aired in Brazil in December 2002, there was also a statement at the beginning noting that Fox is not responsible for the vision of the producers behind the episode. |
| 189 | ** For a long time, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E1TheCityOfNewYorkVsHomerSimpson The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson]]" was taken out of syndication after the September 11th attacks, but was eventually restored. |
| 190 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E1StarkRavingDad Stark Raving Dad]]" was removed from syndication, streaming, and future releases of the Season 3 box set in the wake of the [=HBO=] documentary ''Leaving Neverland'', about the child sexual abuse allegations made against the episode's guest voice Music/MichaelJackson. The show's producers believed that Jackson's participation was less innocent than it seemed after that. Now, the only ways to see it are to get an original Season 3 DVD or to buy all of Season 3 on Google Play. |
| 191 | ** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS13E1TheSimpsonsGuy The Simpsons Guy]]" did not appear on Creator/DisneyPlus as the producers consider it an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' rather than ''The Simpsons''. It would appear when ''Family Guy'' itself appeared on Disney+ overseas. |
| 192 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 193 | ** "Not Without My Anus" and "Pip" were removed from regular rotation by Comedy Central for not focusing on the main characters, though they occasionally re-aired during marathons years later. "Jared Has Aides" and "Death" were both banned by the network for several years due to content ("Jared Has Aides" for child abuse humor that offended Comedy Central, "Death" for the episode's final scene where the kids decide to become drug addicts when they find their favorite TV show banned). These episodes have all re-entered into regular rotation and syndication, however, and "Jared Has Aides" has remained even after the real Jared Fogle was found with child pornography on his computer. |
| 194 | ** The creation of a syndication package has resulted in less edgy episodes from the first ten seasons usually being broadcast in earlier timeslots and more frequently, with more 'offensive' episodes being only aired without edits during late night slots on Comedy Central. Certain episodes were excluded from the package, being too dirty for syndication or Parker and Stone refusing to allow them to be edited on the grounds of damaging the themes of the episode, such as "It Hits The Fan" (which is the one where they all say "shit") and "Major Boobage" in particular will not show up on local channels that show ''South Park'' anytime soon. The package also cuts off around the twelfth season. |
| 195 | ** For a short time, the episode "Jared Has Aides" (which featured a fictionalized version of Subway spokesperson Jared Fogle) was banned from syndication because of the AIDS/"aides" running joke, the boys trying to do homemade liposuction on Butters (and Butters eating his own vomit), and the ending where Butters gets beaten by his parents and Cartman sits outside and listens in on it. The episode later returned to the air when the real Jared Fogle was arrested for the possession of child pornography and lewd conduct with minors (though on the occasion that it aired during morning/afternoon hours, the sounds of Butters getting beaten are muted, and it is available uncut on home media). |
| 196 | ** "Trapped in the Closet", already infamous for lampooning Scientology, became even more well-controversial when Comedy Central pulled reruns of the episode in 2005 and 2006, supposadly due to pressure on Viacom from target Tom Cruise himself, with rumors he was refusing to promote ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' if it was re-broadcast. Crew member Isaac Hayes would also eventually leave as a result. The episode did eventually re-air, and despite having little to do with many of the show's characters, has remained one of its most well-known episodes due to its controversy. |
| 197 | ** A few weeks later, no less, the episode "Bloody Mary", which pokes fun at the tendency for Catholics to find meaning and images in mundane things, caught the attention of the chief executive of Comedy Central at the time, a devout Catholic. He took so much offense at the episode that it was skipped in reruns. It has since returned to rotation. |
| 198 | ** While many of the above examples were only banned on a temporary basis and have always remained available for streaming, this trope took full effect for the two-parter episode "200" and "201". After heavy promotion by Comedy Central for the show's 200th episode, "200" aired in regular rotation for a week, and was released uncensored for streaming. In the ensuing week, however, threats were made against Stone and Parker, and Comedy Central, for references to the controversy surrounding the depiction of Muhammad. The next episode, "201", has only ever aired once, with no reruns or repeats, and was heavily edited without Parker and Stone's consent to censor the mention of Muhammad's name and the episode's moral sarcastically advocating the use of violence and terrorism to get your way. The episodes were released to DVD in the United States (but not internationally) but are not available for any legal streaming, and Comedy Central would only authorize the TV edit of "201" to be released, with an attached disclaimer explaining that this censorship was not part of a joke. Neither episode has been legally streamed or reran since then, though South Park Studios was able to host 2-3 select clips at one point of scenes unrelated to the Muhammad controversy. |
| 199 | ** The episodes "200" and "201" also pointed out (in-universe) that the earlier episode "Super Best Friends" had portrayed Mohammed without any reaction, a hypocrisy that had frequently been pointed out by commentators and creators, and was mocked by other characters. Unfortunately, following the backlash of "200" and "201", "Super Best Friends" was retroactively banned, being stricken from reruns, syndication, and legal streaming, though it remains on DVD, and was remastered and included in its season's Blu-ray set. When the season 6 intro was reanimated in HD, a brief clip from the episode featuring Muhammad was removed and replaced as well. |
| 200 | ** In addition to "200", "201" and "Super Best Friends", "Cartoon Wars: Part 1 and 2" was also made unavailable on Creator/HBOMax due to the episode's depiction of Muhammad (even though the actual depiction was censored by Comedy Central and hasn't been released to the public). |
| 201 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 202 | ** The first episode, "Help Wanted", was not included on the Season 1 DVD release due to the use of the song "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight" by Tiny Tim. Later DVD releases included it. |
| 203 | ** "Goo Goo Gas", a season five episode, didn't air in the USA until 9 months after the rest of the season (it aired on July 19, 2009). This is possibly because its partner episode "Le Big Switch" didn't air much because of Nick being paranoid over "gay" stuff. It was however aired in multiple countries before the US and released on DVD before its US airdate. |
| 204 | ** The episode "[=SpongeBob=], You're Fired" has not aired on Nickelodeon since 2015, allegedly because ''[=SpongeBob=]'' creator Stephen Hillenburg despised the episode and asked Nickelodeon to pull it when he returned to the series. However, the episode also came under controversy around its air date as it dealt with the controversial topic of cost-cutting employee layoffs, and some critics accused it of putting the practice in a humorous light. There's also the matter of a questionable scene where Krusty Krab competitor Mr. Weiner gets run over by a bus while walking down a road, which for a children's program is quite taboo. As of 2018, Nickelodeon has since restored the episode in rotation, although it airs rarely (It only airs when Nick airs ''[=SpongeBob=]'' specials in hype of a big event in Nick's schedule). |
| 205 | ** "The Sponge Who Could Fly", also known as the "[[BlatantLies Lost Episode]]", parodies this, and actually did an okay job of being a seemingly real example of lost media, thanks to the episode only airing once every few years. [[note]]After it premiered on March 21, 2003, it didn't air again until 2007, which was followed by a third airing in 2011.[[/note]] However, it is available on the Season 3 DVD boxset, and since 2013 airs regularly on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons. |
| 206 | ** [[http://spongebob.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_deleted_scenes According to the official [=SpongeBob=] [=SquarePants=] Wiki's list of deleted scenes]]: |
| 207 | *** The season two episode "Wormy" (aired in the US on February 25, 2001) was banned in some countries due to the scary close-ups of the buzzing horsefly being quite frightening to younger viewers. |
| 208 | *** Another season five episode, "The Two Faces of Squidward", was banned in a few countries due to two reasons: 1. Both "handsome" Squidwards (especially the second one that became MemeticMutation) really frightened younger viewers, and 2. The constant hitting Squidward in the face with a door, which a lot of countries don't tolerate, and is against the standards of several countries' rules for children's programming. [[note]]particularly the UK, whose rules prohibit showing imitable behavior in children's television programming, a rule that also led to the editing of "Just One Bite".[[/note]] |
| 209 | ** ''Spongebob [=Rehydrated=]'', an AllCGICartoon parodying the second ''Matrix'' film, is considered lost by fans. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5meHJuhxH8 Footage of the entire short was eventually found]], although the original audio remains missing. |
| 210 | ** ''Astrology with Squidward'' was a series of WesternAnimation/NickelodeonShortsAndInterstitials that aired circa 2000-2001 where Squidward explained the zodiac. Nick stopped airing them in 2005 and there were believed to be a few missing shorts due to the fact that not every astrological sign was covered[[note]]Libra, Virgo, Aquarius, Capricorn, Aries, and Scorpio were left out[[/note]]. Nick eventually uploaded them onto [=YouTube=] and Vincent Waller has since stated that no other shorts were made besides the ones already posted online. |
| 211 | ** "The Kwaratined Krab" was left unaired in the USA after the COVID-19 pandemic because of the plot being about the Krusty Krab going under quarantine(though it did air in several other countries including Canada where it was even available on demand). Not even the Complete Twelfth Season DVD coming in January 2021 will include this episode, leaving its sister segment "Who R Zoo?" alone on disc 3 (though "Hiccup Plague", which was also unaired for the same reason, was on the disc). Though the episode was finally aired in the USA in April 2022 (along with the aforementioned "Hiccup Plague"). |
| 212 | ** "Mid-Life Crustacean" was removed from rotation in 2021 due to its final scene centering around a "panty raid", the act of stealing women's underwear (though it can still be purchased on [=YouTube=] and iTunes). In a modern world where sexual assault allegations and sexism in general are taken far more seriously than ever thanks to the Me Too Movement, this plot element was deemed too risqué for a children's show. |
| 213 | ** Surprisingly, there ''is'' [[https://lostmediawiki.com/SpongeBob_SquarePants_%22Sailor_Mouth%22_(lost_uncensored_version_of_Nickelodeon_animated_series_episode;_2001) an uncensored version of "Sailor Mouth,"]] confirmed by both Creator/TomKenny in an interview and Creator/RodgerBumpass at the 2021 LA Comic Con. However, for obvious reasons, the original audio is buried deep within Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s archives and is unlikely to see the light of day. |
| 214 | ** Both "Shanghaied" and "Gary Takes a Bath" which were paired together, were banned for a long time in the United Kingdom and have aired there only rarely. The former was banned due to the disturbing nature of the Fly of Despair scene, while the latter was banned due to an inappropriate "don't drop the soap" rape joke and the somewhat frightening "subliminal messages" girl. |
| 215 | *** The original airing of "Shanghaied" (where viewers had to vote for who they wanted to get the third wish) had two alternate endings where Patrick and Squidward got the wish instead of [=SpongeBob=]. While the alternate endings themselves were made available on the Sea Stories DVD, and the Patchy wraparounds for the version where the [=SpongeBob=] ending won were eventually released on The First 100 Episodes DVD, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j-FothoUEM English versions of Squidward's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCXwOT2JhKA and Patrick's]] corresponding Patchy wraparounds (where they won) have never been officially released in any format and took until January and November 2023 (respectively) to be located. |
| 216 | * The Polish dub of ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}'' skipped "Fast Times When The Rip Tide's High" and "Penthouse of Horror". |
| 217 | * ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy'' had a missing episode for a long time, this being the original pilot. The pilot was pitched to Nick Jr. in 1999 (the series premiered in 2007 on PBS Kids), was to be claymation instead of computer-animated, and had character designs radically different from the final product. A pair of screenshots were the only evidence that prove its existence for years, until 2023 where it's available [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mywXYtj6yEw here]]. |
| 218 | * The final episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'', "The Tail End?" and "This is the End" were meant to air in 2000 but the show was cancelled before they could air, and didn't air on television until December 18, 2002 on Cartoon Network. |
| 219 | * The episode "Flying Dupes" of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' was removed from syndication after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, presumably because the plot involved Baloo (unwittingly) transporting a bomb in his plane, for a planned act of terrorism by [[CommieLand Thembria]]. Oddly enough, [=Disney+=] is also currently missing the episode "A Baloo Switcheroo", for unclear reasons (possibly the GenderBender aspect of the FreakyFridayFlip plot between Don Karnage and Rebecca?). |
| 220 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeamoSupremo'' has most of its 3rd Season not available anywhere online. Plus, whatever episodes ''are'' available online are only in Portuguese, and not in the original English version. |
| 221 | * The [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003-2009 series]] of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' had an entire missing ''season'', which was shelved in favor of ''Fast Forward'' (though even the future season considers the missing one canonical). It was later shown on TV as the "Lost Season" and got a DVD release. |
| 222 | ** There is another episode called "Insane in the Membrane" that never aired on FOX and didn't air in the US until after Nickelodeon got the rights to the franchise (though it was available on DVD and shown on the former [=4Kids=] site). It involves [[EvilGenius Baxter Stockman]] cloning his old body and inserting his brain inside. It goes fine for a while, but after a few months he begins to fall apart and constantly tries new ways to fix himself including chopping off limbs. Eventually, he loses his mind and [[VillainousBreakdown blames April for all that has happened to him]]. To be fair, the episode was [[NightmareFuel quite disturbing]] for kids. |
| 223 | ** Averted with "Nightmares Recycled", one of the episodes in the Lost Season, which was never completed due to similarly disturbing content. It apparently would've revealed that [[TheBrute Hun]] and minor villain the Garbageman were conjoined twins crudely separated at birth, with the Garbageman later being thrown in a dumpster. |
| 224 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'': |
| 225 | ** The episode "Serious Business" gets little airtime on Cartoon Network in the United States due to being (unintentionally) aired around the time other stations [[BreakingNewsInterruption broke into news reports]] about shootings and bombings (the episode's plot involved a running gag where their bathroom explodes after 5 minutes). After this happened twice, Cartoon Network removed the episode out of regular rotation and it has only aired in marathons ever since, though it did air paired with a ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino'' episode on May 22, 2019[[note]] This has an explanation: that particular airing, however, was preceded by an airing of "BBRBDAY!", which featured "The Pee-Pee Dance", and was part of a week where episodes featuring {{continuity nod}}s to other episodes would have the episode where the reference came from play after it to hype up the ''Super Hero Summer Camp'' miniseries.[[/note]]. In April 2020, it appeared in a recent "Meanwhile, on Cartoon Network..." promo and then re-entered regular rotation on August 21, 2020. |
| 226 | ** While there is a little bit of justification for "Serious Business", there are two other episodes that rarely have reruns for completely unknown reasons: "Gorilla" and "The Mask", the latter of which didn't return until July 2020. |
| 227 | ** The alternate ending of "Justice League's Next Top Talent Idol Star: Second Greatest Team Edition" rarely airs on Cartoon Network for an unknown reason. |
| 228 | ** "Body Adventure" was pulled from the Cartoon Network app in March 2020 due to the ongoing [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]] as the episode involves with Cyborg getting sick which doesn't sit well with people currently [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents dealing with the virus]]. It rarely airs in reruns as of recently for the same reason. However, this was averted with "Hand Zombie", the episode where Robin refuses to wash his hands, possibly due to its [[AnAesop aesop]] on how important handwashing is and showing the consequences of not doing so. |
| 229 | ** ''TTG vs. PPG'' is also rarely aired, being as it's a CrossOver with the reboot of ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016 The Powerpuff Girls]]''. If a rerun is scheduled, it's likely to be replaced at the last minute. |
| 230 | ** ClipShow episodes like "Top Of The Titans" and "Bottle Episode" are also rarely aired. |
| 231 | ** After getting the OutOfHolidayEpisode treatment for awhile, most of the holiday based episodes are restricted to airing only on said holidays as of 2016. |
| 232 | ** "Classic Titans" regularly aired in reruns until May 2018 but after that, it hasn't been seen much for unknown reasons. It finally returned for the first time in almost two years on January 25, 2020, but it has still been only seen sporadically in reruns. |
| 233 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' has had a couple of sort-of instances of this: |
| 234 | ** An attempted adaptation of ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' was produced for the Creator/{{BBC}} back in 1953. The episode (based on the story ''"The Sad Story of Henry"'') was aired live and by all accounts was a complete disaster. Contemporary articles reported prominent SpecialEffectsFailure; including a hand reaching down when one of the train models derailed ''on camera'' due to a poorly assembled track. Original book author [[Creator/WilbertAwdry Rev. Awdry]] [[DisownedAdaptation panned the pilot]] and refused any adaptations of his books for 30 years. As the pilot was screened live and home recording was non-existent at the time, the episode is permanently lost. All that remains are articles and letters surrounding the production, as well as a few behind the scenes photographs. |
| 235 | ** Based on a single photo, a rumour had been going around that a story called 'The Missing Coach' was filmed but never aired. This was dismissed as speculation until WordOfGod from the technical crew confirmed that it had been half-filmed. The episode would have aired as the 15th episode of Season 2, but showrunner Britt Allcroft felt that the plot point where Donald and Douglas switch tenders would be too confusing for little kids, and was ultimately replaced by "Thomas, Percy, and the Trouble with Coal" (retitled "Double Trouble" in the US). |
| 236 | ** "Gordon Goes Foreign", a story from the Railway Series and among the earliest not to be adapted, was also planned, with plans to modify one of Henry's models to represent the Foreign Engine, but the episode was ultimately scrapped for being too expensive. |
| 237 | ** The other was a number of episodes of a proposed spin-off called ''Jack and the Pack'' that was scrapped when the series was acquired by [=HiT=] Entertainment, who deemed the series a rip-off of their own ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder''. and which were eventually released three years later on DVD as a miniseries (the chronological first two episodes are part of the sixth season, and the members of The Pack went on to appear in the specials ''The Great Discovery'', ''King of the Railway'', and ''Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure'', as well as the twelfth season episode "Percy and the Bandstand"). The rest of the episodes planned for the spin-off went unmade, and with them, a few characters never saw the light of day. |
| 238 | ** There's also the 1983 pilot, which is an early version of "Down the Mine". Little evidence exists, other than a few photographs of the models and testimony from the crew. The early models of Thomas and Gordon were apparently used sparingly in early episodes, but were eventually recycled as scrap engines. |
| 239 | ** In the US, two episodes were never broadcast on ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'', the spin-off that introduced American audiences to ''Thomas''; "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS2E19Daisy Daisy]]" and "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS2E20PercysPredicament Percy's Predicament]]". This was because Rick Sigglekow, one of the show's producers [[CreatorsPest saw Daisy as a female stereotype]] due to her excessive makeup and her lazy and stubborn personality. Her episodes were never broadcast neither during the Music/RingoStarr era nor the Creator/GeorgeCarlin era, although George Carlin's narrations were released commercially on the ''Daisy and Other Thomas Stories'' VHS tape in 1993, which was later re-issued on DVD under the title ''Percy Takes the Plunge'' in 2008. Furthermore, her role in the third season episode "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS3E14Mavis Mavis]]" was given to Devious Diesel for this very reason. The only episode featuring Daisy that was broadcast on ''Shining Time Station'' (specifically, the short-lived ''Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales'' spin-off) was Season 4's "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS4E21BullsEyes Bull's Eyes]]", because by then, Sigglekow was less involved with the show. "Daisy" and "Percy's Predicament" would eventually air on TV in 1998 as part of ''[[Series/CaptainKangaroo Mister Moose's Fun Time]]''. |
| 240 | * ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'': |
| 241 | ** "Whitehouse Weirdness", an episode that parodied a ''Scooby Doo'' mystery, complete with the very same music and sounds from the original 1969 series was pulled for unknown reasons before airing months after its intended release. Some blame the stringent censorship after September 11th at the time which toned down a lot of mockery of the President and U.S. officials, but nothing is confirmed. |
| 242 | ** The finale was presumably "Nobel Peace Surprise", in the summer of 2002, with five more episodes seemingly stuck in limbo until the spring of 2003. Four of the said episodes eventually aired within the course of two months, with one episode held back all the way until November 2003. |
| 243 | ** "Orphan Substitute" (and the preceding cartoon, "Floral Patton") became the final episode of Time Squad, and according to the writer, Carlos Ramos, Orphan Substitute was written and finished before 9/11. Then sometime after attacks occurred, CN executives informed the crew that it would never air. But it's clear that that the reason why after sitting on the episodes for almost two years the network decided to air the episode was that they needed extra material for their November Premieres block. |
| 244 | * ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': |
| 245 | ** "Elephant Issues" had the final short of Buster, Plucky, and Hamton getting drunk off one beer, stealing a car while intoxicated, and ultimately killing themselves. It was last seen on the Fox run of the series and subsequently banned from rotation on The WB, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Nicktoons. The other episode, "Toons From the Crypt" was initially rejected by the Fox broadcast standards and practices due to the final segment "Night of the Living Pets", which depicted [[RaisingTheSteaks Elmyra's dead pets coming back as zombies]]. This short was eventually released on home video and the full episode was eventually allowed to air during reruns on Nickelodeon, while "Elephant Issues" appeared on the third volume DVD. The short is also easily viewable on Website/YouTube. These episodes eventually aired again when Creator/TheHub aired the show in reruns, and was available on Creator/{{Hulu}} until the series as a whole was pulled on January 4, 2023. |
| 246 | ** The "Spring Break Special" aired only once on Fox in March 1994 and was never seen on TV again for reasons unknown. It finally aired again two decades later on Hub Network for Easter 2014. |
| 247 | * ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'': |
| 248 | ** Much like ''Looney Tunes'', ''Tom and Jerry'' has shorts that are missing from regular rotation due to ethnic stereotypes [[ValuesDissonance that have become dated and racist]] such as "The Lonesome Mouse"[[note]]There is a short gag where Jerry gives Tom Hitler-like eyebrows and mustache and spits on it[[/note]], "Mouse Cleaning" (also omitted from DVD)[[note]]Blackface gag with Stepin Fetchit's voice that is extremely hard to edit[[/note]], "Casanova Cat" (omitted from DVD as well)[[note]] also due to lengthy blackface gag extremely hard to edit, plus with the short being even rarer to air than "Mouse Cleaning"[[/note]] "His Mouse Friday"[[note]] The story revolves around Tom and Jerry being pursued by African savages. Even the edited version is hardly shown[[/note]], and "Two Little Indians"[[note]] Native American stereotyping; this short still comes on but it is very rare[[/note]]. However, there are some shorts that are omitted for completely different reasons such as "Blue Cat Blues"[[note]] Dark references to suicide and alcoholism, worse than "Downhearted Duckling" or "Part Time Pal" respectively[[/note]] and "The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R"[[note]]Flickering that can cause epileptic seizures; though it is not necessarily omitted, it is just rarely seen[[/note]]. |
| 249 | ** By extension, as of 2011, any short featuring Mammy-Two Shoes (aside from "Part-Time Pal" briefly) has rarely been seen on Cartoon Network or Boomerang due to ValuesDissonance. These shorts are also missing from Boomerang SVOD. |
| 250 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRama'' skipped "Aquarium for a Dream" and "Snots Landing" in the Polish dub. |
| 251 | * Qubo left seven episodes of ''[[WesternAnimation/VeggieTales VeggieTales on TV]]'' intended for the 2008 season unaired. Only one of them, "Gideon: Tuba Warrior", actually aired on qubo before being shelved again in favor of the previous 19 episodes. The seven aforementioned episodes would eventually air on Cozi TV and syndication networks in 2015. |
| 252 | * None of the ''Wolf Rock TV'' episodes have resurfaced after its 1989 syndication reruns. |
| 253 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheXs'' was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork shooed off the air so fast]] that its final episode ("Theater of War"/"Breaking Camp") never aired on either Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} ''or'' Creator/{{Nicktoons}}. [[ShortRunInPeru However, it did air on international feeds.]] |
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