Basic Trope: Incompetent and/or inconsistent censorship.
- Straight:
- Alice and Bob: The Movie censors all the swearing but keeps a scene where Alice is shown naked (and with nothing covering her shame).
- At one point in Alice and Bob: The Movie, Bob says "God damn it!" The TV version censors the "God" but keeps the "damn it!"
- Exaggerated:
- Alice and Bob: The Movie censors swear words, anatomical words, and even a scene with a dog peeing, but still leaves Alice's naked scene alone.
- Alice is completely naked and uncensored in every frame of the movie, but all the profanity and violence is censored by the screen going otherwise completely black and the audio being totally muted.
- Alice and Bob: The Movie has so much uncensored nudity that it could be considered porn (even more exaggerated if there are genuine on-screen uncensored sex scenes), yet it censors any word which is as offensive as simply saying “hell”.
- Downplayed: Alice's nudity is censored along with the swear words, but the Censor Box is too small, so it doesn't do a very good job.
- Justified: The swearing is censored in-universe by Bob making noises to drown out the sound of it. However, Bob wasn't around at the time Alice was naked.
- Inverted: Anything and everything that can be misinterpreted as inappropriate is censored.
- Subverted: The movie is screened in theatres once with the swearing censored but Alice's nudity uncensored, but then it gets taken down and redone so that Alice covers up this time.
- Double Subverted:
- But in the new version, some of the swears are randomly not censored.
- The new version is Bloodier and Gorier, with violence that was only implied before now shown in great detail.
- The new version covers up naked Alice, but is a full-fledged Re-Cut that shows Bob naked and uncensored.
- Parodied:
- Confusion arises between characters when they find some of the swear words they're saying aren't being bleeped and that some of the words that do get bleeped aren't obscene at all.
- The movie is otherwise a hardcore porn film whose flimsy plot is built around Alice being nude when it's inappropriate, yet all the obscenities you'd expect in sex talk are conspicuously censored.
- Every Scenery Censor and Censor Box moves out of the way of Alice's sensitive bits if she happens to go behind it.
- Every Sound-Effect Bleep is deliberately set off before Bob starts to say a coarse word or after he finishes saying one.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Alice's nakedness is censored in some scenes while Bob's foul mouth is not, and vice versa.
- Alice's nakedness is censored in the spin-off series consistently.
- Averted:
- There is no censorship.
- Swearing, violence, and nudity are all censored consistently.
- The movie is completely G-rated, with no content that people want to see censored.
- Enforced:
- The Moral Guardians told the writers to "add censorship", but weren't specific.
- These Moral Guardians happen to be firmly against profanity but not nudity.
- The Moral Guardians didn't understand the difference between British and American profanity and thus thought that the movie didn't need recensoring.
- The creators don't care for censorship and are using this trope as their way of saying "screw you" to proponents of censorship.
- The people who were in charge of censorship didn't realize that there was nudity in the film, and only noticed the profanity.
- Lampshaded:
- "We're not allowed to swear, but I'm allowed to be naked?!"
- "TV makes a lot of sense."
- Invoked: Bob deliberately drowns out swearing but doesn't cover up Alice's naked body.
- Exploited:
- Alice realizes her naked body is being shown in all its glory, so she paints important information on it for the benefit of the audience.
- Alice realizes her naked body is being shown in all its glory, so she goes around and becomes a walking sexual-education lesson for children.
- Defied: Bob rushes to cover up Alice's naked body since he's got Medium Awareness and is determined not to let anything sneak past the censors.
- Discussed:
- "What, we can't say ***damn? We've already said every other swear under the sun, so why would using the Lord's name in vain be crossing the line?"
- "The censors are a real ass-(BLEEP)!"
- Conversed: "Man, the censors had one job!"
- Implied: We don’t get to see the movie in-universe, but Carol comes out of the movie theater and tells Douglas that it did a poor job censoring suggestive scenes.
- Deconstructed:
- In-universe, Alice is teased (if she's lucky) or ostracized (if she's not) for being nude in otherwise family-friendly settings.
- Out of universe, Alice's actress Amy is a Shrinking Violet and was only persuaded to get naked for the movie because the filmmakers promised to preserve her modesty by self-censorship. When she sees they didn't do this, she sues them.
- Reconstructed: Amy, Alice, or both comes to own her nudity and decides to be naked more and show off her assets without censorship.
- Played for Laughs: The inconsistent/incompetent censoring overlaps with Censored for Comedy.
- Played for Drama: The movie is a Show Within a Show. It doesn’t get a lot of views due to the poor censoring, and it ends up a flop.
- Played for Horror: Grisly murder scenes are not censored, while swear words are.
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