Sandbox / Getting Crap Past The Radar Wick Check

Getting Crap Past the Radar may be Trivia, because it relies on decisions made by ratings boards, which are outside the context of the story.

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• Rope: The play is explicit about the homosexual relationship between Phillip and Brandon, but production codes of the time required Hitchcock to demote the relationship to an obvious but still implicit subtext in the film. It's already unusual for two men of their age and social class to be living together in the 50's, but it can also be inferred that they share a bedroom.^note When Janet asks to use the phone, Brandon says it's in the bedroom. Not his bedroom or Phillip's bedroom. Hitchhock knowingly cast gay (or bisexual, in the case of Farley Granger) actors for the characters and expressed approval over the chemistry they brought to the film. It's not a great surprise that the radar blipped in a few American cities, where their implied homosexuality got the movie banned from theaters.
• Naughty Marietta: Marie, scrambling to avoid getting forced into a casquette girl marriage, obliquely tells the governor that she used to be a prostitute, in violation of Section II of the Hays Code.
• Digimon Tamers: The Biomerged Megas are piloted by the their respective Tamers, who appear nude but featureless within them. The original Japanese version succeeded in Getting Crap Past the Radar by averting this trope with a couple of Freeze-Frame Bonus shots during certain evolution sequences.
• FLCL: Somehow only got a G rating upon its initial video release despite being jam-packed with nudity and double entendres that go far beyond [["brief" and "infrequent". It seems like someone actually bothered to watch the DVD, because that release was upped to PG.
• Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics: Did you noticed the visual design of the imp-fairy from "the iron stove"? Granted she's a succubus-like being, but even so...
• HEYBOT!: The series isn't afraid to add plenty of innuendos that would fly over heads of young viewers.
• Howard the Duck: Steve Gerber included a sentient space turnip named Phelch in the second issues of the original run; felching is the practice of using a straw to retrieve one's own sperm from a partner's orifice. As such, Phelch's name violates both the profanity clause and the ban on "sex perversion or inference to same" in the 1971 revision of the Comics Code.
• Swamp Thing:
  • According to inker John Totleben, Woodrue's dilated pupils, in the close-up panel after he tastes the Swamp Thing's tuber in issue 2:22, are a deliberate if covert indication of drug use, still forbidden under the then-current version of the Comics Code unless depicted as a "vicious habit." (Totleben states further that Woodrue's subsequent use of an EEG device was a smokescreen for the real method by which he tapped into the Green.) When DC began releasing the title without the Code's seal of approval, it freed the creative team to make the tubers' psychedelic properties more explicit and give them a recurring role in the series.
  • In issue 2:37, when John declines Emma's offer to spend more time in bed with her, she asks whether she's ever told him what her father says about Englishmen; he responds "Yes, you did; "no, we're not; and if I ever meet your dad I'm going to chin him." The implied word after "not" is, of course, "gay," which in 1985 was the sort of "inference" to "sex perversion" which the Comics Code forbade.
• X-Men: There's a lot of naked Storm in the 70s. The Code was on its second revision, which did not allow any form of nudity.
• Breakfast at Tiffany's: The two lead characters are more or less prostitutes, but the film never openly admits as much; when the Hays Code allowed prostitution to even be mentioned, it was only permitted as a contrast to positive social values.
• Black Narcissus: This movie is rife with the kind of innuendo the BBFC was not OK with in 1947:
  • The Old General mentions importing plenty of sausages for the nuns to eat.
  • When the nuns first meet Mr Dean, Sister Clodagh says she wants to talk to him on business. He responds "I don't suppose you want to talk to me about anything else", prompting an offended look from Sister Briony.
  • Mr Dean says of the Old General "he too is a superior being", again getting a scandalised look from the nuns.
  • When Mr Dean asks Clodagh to take in Kanchi and the nun is studying the young woman, he watches the pair of them with barely disguised amusement and almost lasciviously asks "You're sure there's no question you're dying to ask me?" practically daring Clodagh to demand whether Kanchi is his lover. She refuses to ask, so the viewer never finds out either way.
  • The Young General mistakenly says he'll study physics "with the physical sister".
  • Sister Clodagh says of her former beau Conn "I had already shown that I loved him", which seems to imply that they had premarital sex. As she is Irish, it's possible Clodagh fled the Magdalene Laundries where she could have been sent as punishment (or worse yet, been sent there anyway and became a nun that way).
• Beyond a Reasonable Doubt:
  • Tom says he "had to" marry Patty, implying it's because she claimed to be pregnant, something a film wouldn't openly say then without violating Section II of the Hays Code.
  • Susan also makes a just barely veiled request for sex.
    Susan: But I feel like dancing now.
    Tom: All right. Where?
    Susan: I've never seen your apartment.
• Bedlam: When Nell is introducing herself to John Wilkes, he makes clear that he expects more than Compensated Dating with his companions; if she lives with him she'll have to put out. He isn't gross about it, though, and they shake hands and part as friends; still, this isn't the sort of thing that Section II of the Hays Code allowed.
• Bringing Up Baby: At the very beginning, David says he's sure that the bone he's holding goes in the Brontosaurus's tail. His fiance gives a smile and says "we tried it in the tail last night. It didn't fit." This violates at least two different clauses of Section II of the Hays Code.
• The Stanley Parable: In The Stanley Parable 2 expo room, there's a (quite discreet) list of sequel ideas including a couple of slightly lewd ones, such as "artistic intimate wife scene" and one that simply reads "nude Stanley".
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: In the original German version, the Cukemen say, "Give me your juice, I'll give you mine..." and "Never without a condom!". The game was first released before the German Entertainment Software Self-Regulating Body was formed, and as a result, these lines were changed for the later DX release.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom: The police station's description of the Ham-mer robot states that it "goes well with... a nice Chianti", which is a type of wine produced in Tuscany. Not too bad by itself, but the ESRB rating does leave out the "Alcohol Reference" label for some reason.