History Main / BannedEpisode

** The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS05E02CapeFeare Cape Feare]]" was not aired in Germany in a few years, probably due to the "Up Late with [=McBain=]" sequence featuring the show announcer (Obergruppenfuhrer[[note]]which is the equivalent to a "lieutenant general"[[/note]] Wolfcastle) dressed in S.S. gear, complete with a swastika armband (display of Nazi symbols is illegal in Germany, unless it's for educational reasons, but even that's iffy). The episode was finally aired in 1999 in an edited form.

* When ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' aired on the over-the-air comedy channel Laff, the two-part Season 3 premiere "Fun with Dick & Janet" was never shown. Though no reason was officially, given, it's probably because both episodes feature Creator/RoseanneBarr in a guest role, and this was not too long after her RoleEndingMisdemeanor. [[/note]] When the show moved to Cozi in 2021, both episodes were shown, likely because Cozi still airs reruns of Roseanne's [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] [[/note]]

** Similarly, the comedy team sport show ''It's a Knock-Out!'' is unlikely to ever be repeated due to the sex offence convictions of its long-term presenter Stuart Hall.

** Taken to extremes on CBS, which only aired seasons one and three of ''The Mask'' while season two (the season that has "Flight as a Feather" on as an episode) was put in syndication (mostly on affiliate stations that once ran The WB or UPN) and some Creator/CartoonNetwork and Boomerang channels overseas (some of which also banned "Flight as a Feather" due to content).

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': The episode "The Last Roundup" was briefly removed from [=iTunes=] and reruns after [[AscendedMeme a scene involving]] MemeticBystander [[EnsembleDarkhorse Derpy Hooves]] was criticized for being a stereotype of those with mental disabilities - which she wasn't intended to be, but which she unfortunately resembled. The episode was eventually re-instated, but the scene was [[EditedForSyndication edited]] to remove the character's SimpletonVoice[[note]]which was a mistake on the part of [[Creator/TabithaStGermain her VA]]; Derpy's first voice actress [[ViewerGenderConfusion thought she was a stallion]], and tried to give her a masculine voice, which made her sound odd[[/note]], her FishEyes, and any mention of her name[[note]]which was thought to be a slur; it was [[AscendedFanon an Ascended]] FanNickname intended to mean something closer to "wacky"[[/note]]. After backlash from fans, the original is available once again, and Derpy has since been re-included in the series albeit with some changes: she has the FishEyes once more but is written as TheDitz and TheKlutz, there is no mention of the name[[note]]even [[MerchandiseDriven on merchandise]], which typically includes a picture of [[TrademarkFavoriteFood a muffin]] where the character name would normally go[[/note]], and she now plays a much more significant role in the show (even starring in ''Slice of Life'') much to the [[AuthorsSavingThrow joy of the fans]].

* The original ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' title contains mini-games that require players to quickly rotate the control stick, and many players ended up with burns on the palms of their hands as a result. This led to a class action lawsuit that Nintendo lost, forcing them to pay thousands of dollars in damage reparations as a result. Possibly why it's not on Virtual Console, as well as why control stick rotating mini-games aren't in any other Mario Party titles[[note]]save for rotating it only once in one mini-game in ''5'', as well as a board event in ''4''[[/note]] until ''Island Tour'', with ''The Top 100'' additionally bringing back one of the controversial mini-games from the original; however, this is alleviated by the 3DS's Circle Pad being safer. And again in ''Superstars'' on the Nintendo Switch, now with a safety warning before the minigame begins.

* The ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode "Shake Like Me" was pulled from Creator/HBOMax in the wake of George Floyd's murder and the ensuing "Black Lives Matter" protests against police brutality, making the racial humor of the episode seem a little too inappropriate. In September 2020, it was officially banned for good by [adult swim]. However, it remains available on DVD and Google Play.

** "The Feast of Steven", the FormulaBreakingEpisode / ChristmasEpisode of the Season 3 serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]", was never broadcast anywhere or at any time except in Britain on Christmas Day. It would not have made sense to air except in the context of Christmas.

** "iLost My Mind" was removed from Creator/ParamountPlus and banned from future reruns on Creator/TeenNick in October 2021, due to its plot [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents being too eerily similar]] to the[[Music/BritneySpears "Free Britney"]] movement. However, the episode is still available to purchase via ''The Complete 4th Season'' DVD set and it can be bought on iTunes, Youtube and Google Play(albeit only if you buy the complete season 5 on the latter two and the entire series on the former. Strangely, though, "iFix a Pop Star", which featured a '''direct parody''' of Britney Spears, wasn't pulled from circulation.

* A number of Music/SiIvaGunner rips over the years have been taken down by the team themselves with no intention to reupload them, usually due to SensoryAbuse or [[OldShame general poor quality]]. Of course, there are the occasional outliers, such as a VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot rip that included an image of a baby with [[BodyHorror harlequin ichthyosis]] (which led to the ripper's removal from the collective), and a VideoGame/WarioWare rip removed due to [[UnfortunateImplications lyrics that could be seen as]] [[PaedoHunt pedophilic]]. The Wiki/LostMediaWiki keeps [[https://lostmediawiki.com/SiIvaGunner_(partially_lost_removed_parody_music_videos_from_YouTube_channel;_2016-present) a fairly thorough list]] of banned rips and the reasons behind their removal.

* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' had "Super Nova", a VerySpecialEpisode that aired exactly twice before being removed from circulation in America, though it has been aired overseas. It used [[ILoveNuclearPower superpowers caused by phasing through radiation]] as metaphor for drugs, complete with ensuing withdrawal.

*** "[[Recap/SouthParkS2E1TerranceAndPhilipInNotWithoutMyAnus Terrance and Phillip in: 'Not Without My Anus]]" was skipped in the second season. [[{{Wiki/Wikipedia}} A Japanese version of the Other Wiki]] had speculated it was due to UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein's appearance, although the popular belief is that the episode got banned because fans didn't like it, as it aired in place of the second part of the season one cliffhanger (the one where Cartman tries to find the identity of his biological father) as a joke, though Trey Parker and Matt Stone have said that this was one of the few episodes from seasons one to three that they don't hate.

*** Less official than the "Censored 11" above, ''several'' Golden-Age cartoon shorts from multiple studios have been dropped from rotation in recent decades due to ethnic stereotyping of various races. A large number of these are, naturally, from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, though there are some post-WWII WB shorts that have been phased out due to ValuesDissonance, like "Injun Trouble"[[note]]The last Looney Tunes cartoon made in the original studio, hasn't aired on TV since the 70s due to numerous Native American stereotypes as the title alone indicates[[/note]] "China Jones"[[note]]an obscure Daffy Duck cartoon where Daffy is a Cockney detective trying to solve a mystery in Shanghai[[/note]], "Wise Quackers",[[note]] Daffy ends up becoming Elmer Fudd's slave after crashing on his farm[[/note]], "The Oily American"[[note]]a one-shot cartoon about an American Indian millionaire who hires a moose to hunt[[/note]], and "High Note"[[note]]banned because it shows drunkenness for laughs[[/note]].

** The entirety of Season 4 has not been rerun on Adult Swim, due to its [[SeasonalRot overwhelmingly negative reception by fans and critics]]. In 2020, [adult swim] finally started rerunning Season 4 at a 4:00am graveyard slot on Saturdays. The season is also available for viewing on DVD, Netflix Canada, Hulu, and HBO Max.

* Creator/{{Netflix}} had to pull the ''WesternAnimation/MayaTheBee'' episode “King Willi” after a mother caught what appeared to be a phallic shape carved on a log and [[MoralGuardians openly railed against it]]. That image she caught [[StreisandEffect spread all over the]] [[WesternAnimation/RegularShow Interwebs]] and in a strange way, it may have garnered the series more attention than ever.

** [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E23ThirtyMinutesOverTokyo "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"]] was banned in Japan due to scenes considered offensive to Japanese culture, and also in South Korea [[UsefulNotes/KoreansInJapan ''only'' because the entire episode revolves around Japanese culture]]. It is later released for the first time on the Season 10 DVD boxset in the latter country, while it still remains banned in the former.

* ''WesternAnimation/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum'': "I Am Jackie Robinson / I Am Anna Pavlova" was banned after August 2020, because viewers complained about the Jackie Robinson episode watering down history and systemic racism. To be specific, the episode compared minor disagreements between kids (i.e the playground bully not liking Yadina's red jacket) to racism. The Anna Pavlova episode was taken along with it. It is still available on digital platforms.

** Rick Siggelkow the co-creator of Shining Time Station, mention that during production of the show, two ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episodes from the 2nd series ("[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS2E19Daisy Daisy]]" and "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS2E20PercysPredicament Percy's Predicament]]") were banned from being shown on Shining Time Station. The reason for this was due to his disapproved of Daisy's design being design being overly sexist. The episodes featuring her were only seen by US audiences after being released to home media in 1993 and were finally aired on TV in 1998 on ''[[Series/CaptainKangaroo Mister Moose's Fun Time]]'' after Shining Time Station ended.

** Rick Siggelkow the co-creator of the show, mention that he had two Thomas episodes from the 2nd series ("Daisy" and "Percy's Predicament") banned from being shown on Shining Time Station. The reason for this was due to his disapproved of Daisy's design being design being overly sexist. The episodes featuring her were only seen by US audiences after being released to home media in 1993.

* ''Series/SonOfTheBeach'' episode "Chip's a Goy!" only aired twice in the summer of 2001 before being banned after the 9/11 attacks, due to the fact that the episode involved an UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden CaptainErsatz called Osama bin Layden. The episode can still be found on DVD (where it's stated to be "Never Before Seen").

** In the United Kingdom, the paired episodes "Shanghaied" and "Gary Takes A Bath" were banned for several years. "Shanghaied" was banned because of its frightening images (especially a disturbing, surreal sequence where [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are sprayed by perfumes, and Squidward falling through the Fly of Despair) and "Gary Takes A Bath" was banned for three reasons: The inclusion of an inappropriate "don't drop the soap" gag (which refers to prison rape), a scene where [=SpongeBob=] deliberately straps a bomb onto himself (which brings suicide bombers to mind and came off as [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents distancing from current events]] following the 7/7 London bombings), and a short scene where a very creepy image of a deranged hillbilly girl appears without warning ([=SpongeBob=] is even disturbed by this, and apologizes to Gary, as well as presumably the audience). Even today, these two episodes remain controversial and are very rarely shown on British television.

** '''Universal:''' ''WesternAnimation/ScrubMeMamaWithABoogieBeat'' is particularly notable in that it was considered offensive even back ''then'', to the point that it was banned in 1949 after being re-released, only eight years after its release. It also prompted Creator/WalterLantz to [[AuthorsSavingThrow avoid any further racial/ethnic stereotyping in his cartoons and promised to never allow it to air on television]]. Though it has since fallen into the public domain and can be found online and many bargain bin [=DVDs=].
** '''Columbia''': It Happened To Crusoe (1941) is the only Columbia Pictures cartoon short, that has never been seen again after its release, and it cannot be release on home video, nor on network syndication, due to its Offensive Racial Stereotypes.

* The 1988 Halloween episode ([=S1E3=]) of ''Series/UnsolvedMysteries'' cannot be found in its original form on Amazon Prime or on the [=FilmRise=] Youtube channel. Three of the segments from the paranormal-only installment where split off and migrated into other episodes, but the infamous "Tallman's Ghost" segment --widely held to be the most frightening of the entire series run-- has been excised completely. The only way to watch it now is to try [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes tracking down a long out of print]] DVD collection of the show's supernatural stories or find an alternate upload on Youtube.

* The 1988 Halloween episode (S1E3) of ''Series/UnsolvedMysteries'' cannot be found in its original form on Amazon Prime or on the [=FilmRise=] Youtube channel. Three of the segments from the paranormal-only installment where split off and migrated into other episodes, but the infamous "Tallman's Ghost" segment --widely held to be the most frightening of the entire series run-- has been excised completely. The only way to watch it now is to try [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes tracking down a long out of print]] DVD collection of the show's supernatural stories or find an alternate upload on Youtube.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' short "Stokey the Bear" was banned after the U.S. Forest Service complained about the titular Stokey the Bear, who is essentially a version of Smokey Bear that is [[BrainwashedAndCrazy hynotically turned into a pyromaniac]] by the villain Snidley Whiplash. [[note]] (yet ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'' got away with an alcoholic, hedonistic version of Smokey Bear called Flamey the Bear in "My Favorite Bear" and, in the pilot episode, they got away with killing a Smokey the Bear-looking mascot...twice)[[/note]] and all prints were ordered to be destroyed. However, a print was found by Classic Media and is now included on the ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' DVD sets.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' short "Stokey the Bear" was banned after the U.S. Forest Service complained about the titular Stokey the Bear, who is essentially a version of Smokey Bear that was turned into a pyromaniac by the villain Snidley Whiplash. [[note]] (yet ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'' got away with an alcoholic, hedonistic version of Smokey Bear called Flamey the Bear in "My Favorite Bear" and, in the pilot episode, they got away with killing a Smokey the Bear-looking mascot...twice)[[/note]] and all prints were ordered to be destroyed. However, a print was found by Classic Media and is now included on the ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' DVD sets.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' short "Stokey the Bear" was banned after the U.S. Forest Service complained about the titular Stokey the Bear, who is essentially [[CorruptedCharacterCopy a pyromaniac version of Smokey Bear]][[note]] (yet ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'' got away with an alcoholic, hedonistic version of Smokey Bear called Flamey the Bear in "My Favorite Bear" and, in the pilot episode, they got away with killing a Smokey the Bear-looking mascot...twice)[[/note]] and all prints were ordered to be destroyed. However, a print was found by Classic Media and is now included on the ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' DVD sets.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' short "Stokey the Bear" was banned after the U.S. Forest Service complained about the character Stokey the Bear, a pyromaniac version of Smokey Bear[[note]] (yet ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'' got away with an alcoholic, hedonistic version of Smokey Bear called Flamey the Bear in "My Favorite Bear" and, in the pilot episode, they got away with killing a Smokey the Bear-looking mascot...twice)[[/note]] and all prints were ordered to be destroyed. However, a print was found by Classic Media and is now included on the ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' DVD sets.