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* Francine Clara [[MeaningfulName Censordoll]] (FCC) is probably the only recurring character on ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' that's all about making vicious attacks on the FCC. First she never procreates, considers her view of morality to be above all others (believing herself to be just as holy as God), is an enormous hypocrite, doesn't care about actual harm to people (in a un-aired script she's the one who orchestrated Orel getting shot) and, if it wasn't for Clay Puppington or Cecil Creepler, would be the worst character on the entire show.

*** The MPAA also made them change the original title, "South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose" because of the word 'hell' (having "Hell" in the title would have meant the trailers could only be shown accompanying R- or NC-17–rated movies; at the time, movie trailers were either G or R, there was no PG or PG-13 middle ground). The implications of "[[BiggusDickus Bigger, Longer, and Uncut]]" were hilariously lost on them.

** Taken to greater [[StrawCharacter Strawman]] levels than usual in the episode "You Kent Always Say What You Want".
** In the episode where Homer takes to medicinal marijuana, they weren't allowed to show him putting a joint in his mouth. Of course, this is mocked on one of the commentaries as "So kids won't find out about that mysterious last step."

* Say what you will about ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', he's managed to outrage conservatives ''twice''! Once for being gay, despite sponges being asexual, and more recently [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking for talking about global warming]].

* Francine Clara [[MeaningfulName Censordoll]] (FCC) is probably the only recurring character on ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' that's all about making vicious attacks on the FCC. First she never procreates, considers her view of morality to be above all others (believing herself to be just as holy as God), is an enormous hypocrite, doesn't care about actual harm to people (in a un-aired script she's the one who orchestrated Orel getting shot) and, if it wasn't for Clay Puppington, would be the worst character on the entire show.

** In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', two network censors objected to every violent act the Warner siblings did and showed them a parody of ''TheSmurfs'' as how they want them to act. Later on, Attila the Hun attacks them, and the censors try to win him over with kindness. It doesn't work.

* The original ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts would often make fun of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, the restrictive regime of self-regulation that defined what could and couldn't be done in films until the early 1960s. Furthermore, the writers and animators would often [[CensorDecoy put material into the cartoons specifically to be cut]], the idea being that the censors would cut the obviously over-the-top stuff and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar leave the borderline material that the animators really wanted in]]. Sometimes, though, the sacrificial material was unexpectedly left alone. In one example, a dog suffering from flea-bites starts dragging his rump around Elmer Fudd's house. The animators threw in a line where the dog breaks the FourthWall to tell the audience, "I'd better stop this, I might get to like it!" That line was meant to be sacrificed but the whole sequence was left in.

** During the first two seasons of ''{{Reboot}}'' (which is actually a Canadian show, but the concept is the same), several jokes were made at the expense of ABC's Broadcast Standards and Practices Department (BS&P). These include a weapon that fires life rafts being labeled "[=BSnP=] Approved", and a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed thinly-disguised parody]] of the Music/VillagePeople singing a song to the tune of "YMCA" about the BS&P.

** A direct jab at the code was made in a Tweety Bird WartimeCartoon involving two cats, Babbit and Catsello ([[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed transparent pastiches]] of the comedy team Creator/AbbottAndCostello). Catsello goes up a ladder to get Tweety, and his partner tells him "Give me the bird!" The exasperated Catsello [[FourthWall makes a comment]]: "If the Hays Office would only let me, I'd give him [[FlippingTheBird the bird]] all right!"

* Francine Clara Censordoll (FCC) is probably the only recurring character on ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' that's all about making vicious attacks on the FCC. First she never procreates, considers her view of morality to be above all others (believing herself to be just as holy as God), is an enormous hypocrite, doesn't care about actual harm to people (in a un-aired script she's the one who orchestrated Orel getting shot) and, if it wasn't for Clay Puppington, would be the worst character on the entire show.

* Similar to ''The Gong Show'' and ''Looney Tunes'' examples, this was the method BruceTimm and PaulDini used to outwit the censors with their work on the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse. If they made a sequence that got banned, they would take it and replace it with something worse. They never noticed. The Joker's [[NightmareFuel Joker Toxin]] was invented entirely because the writers were mad about not getting to show Joker actually kill people.