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Censorship Tropes

WARNING: The following program is a realish documentary, and may contain language which is is vulgar, offensive, or grammatically awkward. Such language has been censored whenever possible, but for the sake of higher ratings, we may have let a few gratuitous and especially titillating instances slide.
— The opening of the "American Dicks" episode of Duckman

WARNING: This comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
— Disclaimer from the webcomic XKCD

Interesting tropes about blanking out things not meant for corrupting sensitive eyes or ears.

Compare These Tropes Should Watch Their Language.

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And Some Other Stuff
Atomic F-Bomb
Banned In China
Black Blood
Black Screen of Death
Bleep Dammit
Bloodless Carnage
Bluenose Bowdlerizer
Book Burning
Bowdlerise
But Not Too Evil
Censor Decoy: A vital tool used by daring writers who want to get crap past the radar. Say there's a writer or director with two scenes: one that's too violent or sexual to be shown on TV, and another that's a bit more toned down, but has heavy innuendo or inferences to violence. The censors will have to choose between which scene can be suitable for air (usually the first choice will be picked as the sacrifical lamb while the second scene will be put on TV, but sometimes there will be a goof-up and the radar will be shattered either way).
Censored Title
Censorship by Spelling
Clumsy Copyright Censorship
Cluster Bleep Bomb
Country Matters
Culture Police
Curse Cut Short
Defying The Censors: sometimes you just have to stand up to those who would silence you.
Dropped Abridged On It
Dub Text (when accidental)
Family Friendly Firearms
Finger On Lips
Frothy Mugs of Water
Get Back in the Closet
Getting Crap Past the Radar: Defying The Censors on an underhanded level (leads to Refuge in Audacity if the writers use explicitly racy material or if the writers use this trope repeatedly and the censors either don't notice, don't care, or have fallen for a Censor Decoy).
Hide Your Lesbians
I'm Having Soul Pains
Informed Obscenity
Live But Delayed
Magic Pants
Narrative Profanity Filter
Never Say "Die"
Nipple and Dimed
Nobody Can Die
No Smoking
No Swastikas
Pardon My Klingon
Precision F-Strike
Product Displacement
Relax-o-Vision
Scunthorpe Problem
Seven Dirty Words
Sleeping Single
Sound Effect Bleep
Streisand Effect
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
Symbol Swearing
T-Word Euphemism
Think of the Censors: When characters in a work of fiction are aware that some of what they say or do will get them in trouble with the censors.
Think of The Children
This Trope is [BLEEP]
Thong of Shielding
Too Soon
Unacceptable Targets
Video Nasties
Witch with a Capital B

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