History Main / BannedEpisode

[[DistancedFromCurrentEvents Distancing from current events]] is another reason why episodes may be removed from the schedules. If an episode's content is felt to be too reminiscent of a major RealLife event (it being a war, terrorist attack, global pandemic, genocide, or political social movement), that episode is likely to be withdrawn out of respect. However, it may be reinstated once enough time has passed (or, if the ban is still in place, then the episode will most likely be readily available elsewhere).

[[DistancedFromCurrentEvents Distancing from current events]] is another reason why episodes may be removed from the schedules. If an episode's content is felt to be too reminiscent of a major RealLife event (it being a war, terrorist attack, global pandemic, genocide, political social movement, or allegations against a celebrity), that episode is likely to be withdrawn out of respect. However, it may be reinstated once enough time has passed (or, if the ban is still in place, then the episode will most likely be readily available elsewhere).

[[DistancedFromCurrentEvents Distancing from current events]] is another reason why episodes may be removed from the schedules. If an episode's content is felt to be too reminiscent of a major RealLife event, that episode is likely to be withdrawn out of respect. However, it may be reinstated once enough time has passed (or, if the ban is still in place, then the episode will most likely be readily available elsewhere).

** The original version of "My Name Is" was blocked by Labi Siffre, whose song "I Got The" was SampledUp for "My Name Is", who objected to some comedy homophobia ("''my English teacher wanted to have sex in junior high. The only problem was, my English teacher was a guy...'' [...] "''killin' pedestrians, rapin' lesbians, while they screamin' at me, "[[ActingForTwo let's just be frieeeends!]]"''") and pulled permission to use the interpolation until it was removed. This version was released on a promo 12 inch single for [=DJs=], but the version on the album and CD single alters the lyrics (Slim's teacher's now trying to keep him HeldBackInSchool, and runs over pedestrians in a spaceship).

** The original version of "My Name Is" was blocked by Labi Siffre, whose song "I Got The" was SampledUp for "My Name Is", who objected to some comedy homophobia ("''my English teacher wanted to have sex in junior high. The only problem was, my English teacher was a guy...'' [...] "''runnin' over pedestrians, rapin' lesbians, while they screamin' at me, "[[ActingForTwo let's just be frieeeends!]]"''") and pulled permission to use the interpolation until it was removed. This version was released on a promo 12 inch single for [=DJs=], but the version on the album and CD single alters the lyrics (Slim's teacher's now trying to keep him HeldBackInSchool, and runs over pedestrians in a spaceship).

* The [=PS2=] game ''The Guy Game'' was recalled and pulled from shelves after it turned out that one of the girls featured in the risque FMV sequences was underage at the time of filming.

!!Examples:

* ''BannedEpisode/PokemonTheSeries''

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/AdventuresInWonderland'': "White Rabbits Can't Jump", which featured OJ Simpson as a guest star and aired at least once in 1993, was banned following his arrest in June of 1994.
* The two-part season eight ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' episode "Edith's 50th Birthday" was banned in Australia after audiences complained about the attempted rape scene in which a man attempts to assault Edith while posing as a police detective, leaving her traumatized.
* ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' had an episode which contained a joke about a man exploding on stage in one sketch and a house being crushed by a meteor in another sketch. This episode was banned following the 9/11 terror attacks.
* ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'':
** The ChristmasSpecial from the eighth series, "Roots", has a final number based on ''The Black And White Minstrel Show'' where many members of the cast are in {{Blackface}}. This was considered as in extremely poor taste even at the time of broadcast (1981) and most if not all contemporary repeats either omit this episode or cut this section.
** Possibly the second episode of season four, "Top Hat and Tails". This is most commonly described as a lost episode that was misplaced and rediscovered, but at least one PBS airing in the US described it as a banned episode, possibly because of a dance contest scene depicting two men dancing.
* Creator/TheHub refused to run two of ''Series/Batman1966'''s storylines - Egghead's debut in Season 2 and Shame's return in Season 3 - due to their heavy reliance on HollywoodNatives (sometimes verging on straight-up TheSavageIndian) jokes. Oddly, "Nora Clavicle and the Ladies' Crime Club" is completely untouched, even though it relies on equally dated StrawFeminist jokes.
* The entire run of ''The Black And White Minstrel Show'' (the George Mitchell Minstrels in blackface doing a traditional minstrel show, and [[{{Irony}} ironically]] the first-ever [=BBC1=] show to be screened in colour) is never again likely to be screened, or released on video, for obvious reasons.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Blackish}}'' was pulled from airing due to ExecutiveMeddling shortly before it would air. The episode was supposed to feature Dre discussing controversial themes, such as the national anthem kneeling controversy with Junior, as well as other racial issues. It ultimately was made available on Hulu in 2020.
* The ''Series/{{Brum}}'' episode, "Brum and the Pantomime Cow" was banned from reruns in 2008, due to Barney Dee (who played the busker) getting arrested for criminal offences. Because of this, any other episodes featuring his character got edited to remove the scenes that feature him, with the longer version of the S3-5 closing credits being replaced with the shorter one instead.
* The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episodes "Earshot", "Graduation Day Part 1", and "Graduation Day Part 2" were both postponed from their original broadcast in the USA, as their depiction of mass violence in a high school context was considered [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents in poor taste after the Columbine High School massacre]]. It has subsequently been reported that just about all the ''Buffy'' creators and cast agreed with pulling "Earshot", as it dealt with a (foreseen) mundane school shooting, but the cancellation of "Graduation Day" was seen as much less justified, due to the fantastic nature of a high school's entire student body battling the town mayor, a black magician who had turned himself into a giant snake.
* ''Series/ChicagoHope'' got hit with this once, with the Season 2 episode "Quiet Riot", written by Peter Berg (who played Dr. Billy Kronk). The episode is ''extremely'' strange, and tries to undo the strangeness with an AllJustADream moment. Apparently, then-president of CBS Les Moonves personally hated it and gave orders that it never air again.
* The ''Series/ColdCase'' second-season episode "Strange Fruit" (which revolves around the 1963 death of a black teenager) was pulled from [=StartTV=]'s rotation since summer 2020 due to racial unrest in response to the cop-related killings of Ahmaud Arbury and George Floyd and was replaced with re-airings of season 5 episodes such as "Andy in C Minor" [[note]]in which a deaf 16-year-old is murdered[[/note]] and "Justice"[[note]]with the plot revolving the murder of a college student who had raped several women[[/note]].
* ''Series/TheCosbyShow'': As of 2021 ''most'' cable networks refuse to air it due to the allegations, and ultimately convictions, brought against Creator/BillCosby of drugging women and raping them while unconscious. At least on the Viacom CBS-owned [=TVLand=] (and its related networks), all references to ''The Cosby Show'' have been removed from the website altogether[[note]] (often, even shows that formerly aired on the network and not currently accessible from the main page can be accessed if one knows how to search the site)[[/note]]. [=BounceTV=] aired it until Cosby was convicted in 2018. However, [=TVOne=] still airs it, and it is available in its entirety on [=DVD=].
* ''Derrick'', one of the most popular German detective series ever and a hit in most of Europe, was banned completely when in 2012 it turned out that actor Horst Tappert (who died in 2008) had been a member of the SS during his youth. This had never been reported before and as a result, all episodes were pulled from syndication and DVD availability.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Apart from the below-mentioned "A Fix With Sontarans":
** The BBC never intended to distribute the Season 2 story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E6TheCrusade The Crusade]]" to Islamic countries, for fear of causing offense.
** "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. As a result, of all the [[MissingEpisode lost Doctor Who episodes]], it is the one that is believed to be most likely irretrievably lost.
** The Season 14 story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]", which features stereotypical depictions of Chinese villains and a white actor in {{yellowface}} as the one who gets most of the screen-time and dialogue, was banned from airing on Canada's [=TVOntario=] during TheEighties. Creator/{{YTV}} later picked it up in TheNineties.
* ''Series/{{Doomwatch}}'''s Series 3 episode "Sex and Violence" was never aired due to its unflattering caricatures of MoralGuardians such as Mary Whitehouse. Ironically, it became one of the few episodes the BBC didn't erase, although it was not legally made available until the 2016 DVD release of all surviving episodes.
* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' was pulled from TV Land and other networks due to the response to the Charleston SC church shooting in 2015 and the controversy surrounding the modern display of the Confederate flag (which is displayed on the hood of the 1969 Dodge Charger known as the "General Lee" in the show) after shooter Dylann Roof was seen displaying the flag in online profiles and used it as a symbol for his desire to start a race war. The flag had been a divisive symbol for years, and Roof's use of it was pretty much the final nail in its coffin.
* ''Series/{{Ellen}}'': "The Puppy Episode", in which Ellen comes out as a lesbian, was preempted by Birmingham ABC affiliate WBMA when it first aired in 1997, due to concerns cited by its general manager at the time that the storyline would upset conservatives in the evangelical community (who typically [[Main/HeteronormativeCrusader look down on homosexuality]]) in Central Alabama. Gay rights and civil libertarian activists who criticized the preemption[[note]]which came after ABC rebuffed WBMA's request to air it in a tape-delayed, late-night slot[[/note]] responded by beaming an ABC-provided feed of the episode organized by GLAAD and locally-based gay rights organization Birmingham Pride Alabama for viewing to a 1,000-person (predominantly gay, lesbian and LG ally) audience at a downtown Birmingham auditorium[[note]]some area cable providers fed the episode through adjacent ABC affiliates like Atlanta's WSB-TV[[/note]]. Later subverted as WBMA allowed a rerun to air later that same season.
* ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'':
** "Marie's Sculpture" is banned in the United Kingdom because the episode involves Ray's mother, Marie Barone, making a large sculpture of a vagina, much to the rest of the family's disgust (displays of female genitalia in any form are a no-no on British television).
** "No Roll!", dealing with Ray and Debra's sex life, is also omitted from the eternal re-run loop on Channel Four UK. As ''ELR'' is run every morning on C4 before 9:00AM, presumably so people too busy to watch at the time can record it for later, you wonder if {{Watershed}} issues are at work here.
* The 2011 revival of ''Series/FearFactor'' had one stunt that forced the contestants to [[spoiler:drink a blend of [[{{Squick}} donkey semen and urine.]]]] Unsurprisingly, NBC outright refused to air the episode that included this stunt (the revival was recanceled at the end of its episode order anyway).
* The first episode of ''Series/ForgedInFire'''s eighth season was taken down from all services offering the show after a contestant was publically revealed to have Nazi tattoos on his neck that had been carefully covered by a bandanna during filming.
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'':
** The episode "Dr. Nora", which centered around a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed thinly veiled]] - and rather vicious - parody of the real-life radio personality Dr. Laura, was pulled from syndication packages after the woman herself complained. Supposedly, she was more upset about the episode depicting her mother as an [[AbusiveParents Abusive Parent]] than her own depiction. The episode can still be seen on cable and streaming, however.
** The Hallmark Channel and Channel 4, which tend to [[{{Bowdlerize}} censor most of the raunchiest jokes]], skip over "High Holidays" entirely due to the plot revolving around Martin accidentally eating Niles' pot brownie.
* The original version (not the 2010 remake) of ''Series/HawaiiFiveO'': The season 2 episode "Bored, She Hung Herself" was banned by CBS in 1970 after a viewer reportedly died from imitating a deadly yoga technique that greatly resembled AutoeroticAsphyxiation, which appeared on the show. This episode was barred from ever being seen again, not even on network syndication or home video/DVD release.
* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'':
** "iRue the Day" was temporarily banned from Nickelodeon and Creator/TeenNick when Sony was hacked in 2014. The reason for the temporary ban was because a hacking heist was depicted. The episode started rerunning again the following year.
** "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.
* ''Series/ILoveLucy'': For a period of time in the 1960s, networks stopped airing the final season episode "The Ricardos Visit Cuba", due to the then-strained relationship between the U.S. and Cuban governments.
* ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'': Five episodes were removed from reruns and streaming in January 2022, following Joe Gatto's departure from the group and divorce from his wife. All five featured Joe in suggestive situations. The five banned episodes are...
** "The Dream Crusher", where the Jokers brought in Joe's then wife during a challenge involving kissing people at the mall.
** "Stripped of Dignity", where Joe's punishment involved stripping for strangers in a park.
** "Bull Shiatsu", where Joe hid in a massage chair and rubbed people for a punishment.
** "Sun-Fan Lotion", where Joe's punishment involved having a parkgoer rub suntan lotion all over him.
** "Rock Bottom", where Joe's punishment involved standing half-naked in front of a bunch of college students giving a presentation.
* ''Series/TheITCrowd'': "The Speech", featuring a subplot in which Douglas unknowingly dates a trans woman [[spoiler:and reacts with violence upon learning the truth]] which already [[HarsherInHindsight hasn't aged well]] on its own, was taken off the air in 2020 in light of creator Graham Linehan's openly transphobic views.
* The ''Series/{{Jessie}}'' episode "Quitting Cold Koala" was originally banned from TV by the Disney Channel due to a controversy over Stuart's gluten restrictions; it originally showed Bertram and the Ross kids making jokes about Stuart's allergy to gluten. To address this issue, Disney Channel posted on their Facebook page: "We are removing this particular episode from our regular programming schedule and will re-evaluate its references to gluten restrictions in the character's diet." The episode eventually aired on July 5, 2013, as part of a 2-episode spectacular. The episode was edited and revised, removing any mention of Stuart's gluten allergies.
* The ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' episode "The Glory That Was" has been excluded from the Season 8 DVD set and syndication for "content" reasons. This has never been officially clarified, but the most common theory is that it was because the episode offended Brazilian politicians (it ''was'' banned in Brazil for this reason) by painting them as conducting a massive scandal to secure Rio as an Olympic location.
** Another theory has surfaced that they didn't get proper clearance for the episode's ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' references and it was a copyright issue that got the episode pulled.
* Stemming from the murder of George Floyd and the resurgence of the UsefulNotes/BlackLivesMatterMovement in 2020, a number of American, Australian, and British shows had either entire episodes or the whole series taken off streaming services:
** For its use of characters in {{blackface}}, All 4, BBC iPlayer, Netflix and Britbox took down ''Series/BoSelecta'', ''Series/LittleBritain'', ''Series/ComeFlyWithMe'', ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'' and ''Series/TheMightyBoosh''.
** Also removed from Website/YouTube were certain episodes of ''Series/AntAndDecsSaturdayNightTakeaway'' containing Creator/AntAndDec in blackface and {{yellowface}} and ''Series/TheInbetweeners'', apparently due to its offensive content causing complaints.
** Many American series that used blackface as a joke had certain episodes completely pulled from circulation, including ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', ''Series/ThirtyRock'', ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''[[note]]The episode, "Mixed Blessings", was a VerySpecialEpisode about mixed-race marriage, and the blackface gag consisted of Rose and Blanche wearing mud masks that were ''mistaken'' as blackface[[/note]], and ''[[Series/MrShow W/ Bob & David]]''.
** ''Series/LoveThyNeighbour'', a smash-hit comedy of TheSeventies, will never be seen again on TV because of its subject matter - an intolerant white bigot gets a West Indian neighbour ad a lot of racially-based HilarityEnsues with frequent recourse to racist epithets.
** ''Series/{{Community}}'' and ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' had episodes with blackface removed from Hulu and Netflix, but are still available for digital download.
** The Australian series ''Series/WeCanBeHeroesFindingTheAustralianOfTheYear'', ''Series/SummerHeightsHigh'', ''Series/AngryBoys'', and ''Series/JonahFromTonga'' were all pulled from Netflix over their depictions of blackface and other whitewashed roles.
* The season three ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' episode "I'll See You in Court" was banned from Creator/{{FOX}} in the light of MoralGuardians complaining about the show's raunchy content (the missing episode was about the Bundys and the Rhoades having sex in a hotel room where they're being videotaped). It finally premiered on FX in June 2002 and has been airing on cable syndication ever since (TBS has aired it), though the episode did air overseas and was released on three [=DVD=]s: a compilation of ''Married With Children'''s most outrageous episodes, the Sony version of the complete third season set, and Mill Creek's complete series.
* The Creator/DisneyPlus release of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' does not include the episode guest-starring Chris Langham, as he was convicted in 2007 for possessing child pornography. (The Brooke Shields episode is also missing, but that's not this trope as that's due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers music licensing]].) Episodes of ''Series/AndiMack'' in which Stoney Westmoreland appears are also not included for similar reasons.
* A 1979 episode of the game show ''[[Series/{{Password}} Password Plus]]'' featuring Elaine Joyce and Creator/GeorgePeppard as the celebrity guests was pulled by Creator/{{NBC}}. This was because Peppard started a rant about standards and practices enacted on game shows, comparing them to a "police state". Creator/MarkGoodson-Bill Todman productions also banned Peppard from appearing on their game shows ever again. To make up for the episode, NBC moved up the rest of the week by one day (the Tuesday episode, bumped to Monday, even opened with a disclaimer stating as such), and a later taping session had six shows. Despite this, the banned episode would later air on Creator/GameShowNetwork in the 21st century.
** While Buzzr airs reruns of Password Plus, they skip over episodes with words/puzzles no longer considered politically correct. Among the skipped episodes are two KKK puzzles, an episode where the password was "midget", and another that featured "Sicilians" as part of the puzzle for "Mafia". Interestingly, the last one raised eyebrows even in 1979; the password and all clues for it were blacked out and muted, and host Allen Ludden apologized for the puzzle in a later episode.
* The ''Series/{{NewsRadio}}'' episode "Injury", produced as part of Season 2, was withheld for almost two years - only airing during the gap between Season 3 and 4 - because of a subplot about the word "penis". (Ironically, it was being used in the concept of broadcasting censorship.) While generally considered part of Season 3, this led to the episode being included the "Complete First and Second Season" and "Complete Third Season" boxsets.
* ''Series/PoliceCameraAction'' episodes "The Man Who Shot OJ", a two-part MultiPartEpisode about Zoey Tur produced in 1996, was never aired in reruns after 2008, apparently for reasons that are not clear to many people, and remain unknown today. In the 2013-2014 rotation run, it was not included. Even though it was [[DarkerAndEdgier very serious in tone]], perhaps it was due to the references to Creator/OJSimpson and the Rodney King riots. Even in 2021, it is still never aired on [=ITV1=].
** The 2008 episode "Less Lethal Weapons" in its original form featuring Michael J.Todd, chief of Greater Manchester Police, being tasered by his own force, was never aired again due to his suicide in March 2008; a Recut / EditedForSyndication version was shown instead after its January 2008 airing.
** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] with "Ultimate Boy Racers". Perhaps due to fears viewers could imitate the violence depicted (soccer hooligans and street fighting), it was pulled from rotation mid-2012 and never aired again. The episode was a semi-ClipShow but had a lot of original footage too. However, the episode was skipped over in recent reruns from 2013-2014 onwards.
* The ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' episode "Go Volcanic" was skipped in the UK by Creator/FoxKids due to the appearance of a realistic firearm, but it would air on GMTV in the same country, though.
* ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'':
** A rare game show example; purportedly, on the demands of longtime host Bob Barker, episodes in which furs were awarded as prizes. Some said the ban also encompasses episodes that feature model Holly Hallstrom (roughly, those episodes airing from 1977-1995) due to various disputes in which she sided against Barker, but that was disproven when Fremantle launched an 80s channnel of formerly vaulted ''Price'' episodes on Pluto TV late in 2020.
** Pluto TV announced that it will skip episodes featuring the pricing game Bump. Said pricing game, which was in the rotation from 1985-1991, involved one model making a suggestive wind-up motion to push miniature double-decker buses. Barker's off-camera relationship with model Dian Parkinson and the subsequent sexual harassment lawsuit she filed against him are other factors. Among the affected episodes are Johnny Olson's last appearance and Rod Roddy's first trial appearance.
* ''Series/TheProfessionals'' has a notorious Banned Episode (never shown on terrestrial TV in the UK, although broadcast overseas and later on UK satellite channels) called "Klansmen", which has apparent [[TheKlan Ku Klux Klan]] members acting as muscle for a violent landlord against his black tenants. The episode was banned because one of the two protagonists, Bodie, repeatedly expressed extremely racist views himself (which were not endorsed by the plot), and also perhaps because, [[spoiler:in a final shock twist, the evil landlord behind the Klansmen, and some of the hooded Klansmen themselves, turned out to be black]].
* The Family Channel's run of ''Series/PunkyBrewster'' left out the episodes "Metamorphosis" (where Punky gets her first training bra) and "The Perils of Punky" (likely due to the unexpectedly disturbing content in Punky’s scary story).
* The ''Series/QuantumLeap'' episode "Justice", which has Sam leaping into a UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan member, is consistently skipped over in syndication, no doubt because of the subject matter and frequent use of the "N-word".
* In a less extreme variant of the Cosby example, reruns of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' were pulled from TV Land in 2018 in light of Roseanne Barr's controversial tweets (which also led to the cancellation of the revival). They were reinstated by October of that year.
* [=ITV4=] airings of the colour episodes of ''Series/TheSaint'' exclude the episode "The Gadic Collection" due to Creator/PeterWyngarde playing a villainous brownface Turk, it's also not even on Britbox for the same reason.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': One of the last episodes of the series, "The Puerto Rican Day", was initially pulled after its original broadcast, mainly because Creator/{{NBC}} felt the episode was too offensive with its depictions of Puerto Ricans, as well as a scene involving Kramer (accidentally) burning a Puerto Rico flag, causing an angry mob of Puerto Ricans trashing the streets, and vandalizing Jerry's car (to which, Kramer remarks, "It's like this every day in Puerto Rico."). As of 2010, certain local markets across the country had placed the episode back into their packages; but as of 2012, the episode is now back permanently in the syndication package (Kramer's line, "It's like this every day in Puerto Rico" is absent, though it could be a case of being EditedForSyndication).
* ''Series/SesameStreet'', of all shows, even has its share of these:
** From the show's 33rd season, one episode dealt with Telly receiving a visit from his bully cousin, who essentially swipes all of his triangles away from him; Telly, naturally, wants his triangles back, but fears that it will cause a fight between him and his cousin Izzy – we are even treated to an ImagineSpot where Telly and Izzy do get into a physical scuffle, and we even see both of them lying in hospital beds, all bandaged up and in casts. Kids watching were apparently more entertained by the humorous fight between Telly and Izzy, rather than responding to the episode's actual anti-bullying message, to the point that Sesame Workshop removed the episode, and as such, it didn't appear again on PBS during that year's summer repeats, and the character of Izzy was retired. The episode did appear on the resource video "You Can Ask!", but with the fight scene omitted.
** One episode was banned before it even made it to air: Sometime in the early 1990s, an episode was taped where the subject of divorce was tackled, in a plot where Snuffy and his baby sister Alice now live in a "broken home", since their parents had gotten divorced. ''Sesame Street'' often pre-screens episodes with focus groups of children, to make sure they grasp a message or educational concept before the episode is approved for airing. However, the kids in the test audiences were so emotionally distraught over the episode that it never saw the light of day on PBS, and to this day, remains unaired.
** Another 1970s episode had Margaret Hamilton reprising her role as [[Film/TheWizardOfOz the Wicked Witch of the West]], which only aired once and was banned for being too scary. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9MFOgTvRso A few scenes towards the end of the episode have popped up online]] before it was [[https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/vf7yu2/found_sesame_street_847_margaret_hamilton_wicked/ finally uploaded in its entirety]] in June 2022.
** According to the comments of a [=blameitonjorge=] video on said short, Sesame Workshop decided to not air the short "Cracks" after 1980 because they worried that viewers might see the names of the characters in the short as being drug references.
* The Disney Channel pulled the ''Series/ShakeItUp'' episode "Party It Up" from rotation after Demi Lovato complained on Twitter that one of the jokes on that episode (and an episode of ''So Random'') made light of anorexia (Lovato themself had overcome the eating disorder). "Party It Up" later aired without the anorexia joke while the ''So Random'' episode that also had jokes about eating disorders seems to have been indefinitely shelved, though it did later turn up on streaming services.
* ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' had "The Mayor Runs For Re-Election" pulled from rotation permanently because the episode featured a Richard Nixon impersonator, and many PBS affiliates aired the first re-run of the episode on the day his funeral took place.
** Even the Thomas Stories also fall for this trope. Rick Siggelkow the co-creator and producer of Shining Time Station mention that during production of the show, it was his idea that the two ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episodes from the 2nd series ("[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS2E19Daisy Daisy]]" and "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS2E20PercysPredicament Percy's Predicament]]") were banned from being aired on Shining Time Station. The reason for this was [[CreatorsPest due to his disapproval of Daisy's design]] being overly sexist and her lazy stubborn personality. The episodes featuring her were never aired either during the Music/RingoStarr era nor the Creator/GeorgeCarlin era, but her episodes were only seen by US audiences after being released to home media in 1993. The only episode featuring Daisy that aired was Season 4's "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS4E21BullsEyes Bull's Eyes]]" on Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales, this was after Rick was done working for the show. Daisy and Percy's Predicament were finally aired on TV in 1998 on ''[[Series/CaptainKangaroo Mister Moose's Fun Time]]'' after Shining Time Station ended.
* ''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").
* When the BBC first aired ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', it refused to air "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E10PlatosStepchildren Plato's Stepchildren]]", "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E12TheEmpath The Empath]]", and "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy Whom Gods Destroy]]" for several years[[note]] the series began its British run in 1969, and those episodes weren't shown on the BBC until the ''1990s''![[/note]] (and also refused to repeat "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E8Miri Miri]]" after its initial UK broadcast) on the grounds of those episodes being "unsuitable for children". Never mind the fact that the series as a whole was never supposed to be "for children" (at least in America). On the BBC was shown in its original run in an early evening or late afternoon slot.
** In Germany, the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E21PatternsOfForce Patterns of Force]]" was banned due to [[NoSwastikas heavy references to Nazism]]. (The episode features an alien culture who are in-universe explicitly imitating the Third Reich, rather than the usual [[ANaziByAnyOtherName evil culture who just happen to have a suspicious resemblance to Nazi Germany]].)
** Later, the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E12TheHighGround}} The High Ground]]" was banned by Creator/TheBBC because of a line about Ireland being reunited following "a successful terrorist campaign" (in the context of an episode on a conflict-ridden alien planet where the ethnic conflict was a blatant FantasticRacism version of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles).
* 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]]
* ''Series/TopOfThePops'': A sizeable chunk (mainly episodes that aired between 1964 and 1984) of the run of this weekly countdown series will likely never air again due to Creator/JimmySavile, one of the show's hosts (and arguably the face of its early days), posthumously being outed as a sexual predator whose victims were primarily (albeit not exclusively) teenagers – if it does air, it's only in short clips with the audience blurred out to protect the identities of possible victims. However, clips of Savile that were uploaded to various video-sharing sites before his death and the revelation of his criminal activities remain, and TV specials have aired performance footage from the Savile era that does '''not''' feature him on camera.
** Also banned (at least from BBC Four repeats) are episodes featuring rocker and convicted pedophile Gary Glitter (who, in addition to making several appearances as an artist, mostly in the first half of the 1970s, was a guest host in the 1990s), as well as episodes hosted by Savile's co-worker Dave Lee Travis. Both were arrested and convicted for sexual offences in the wake of the Savile scandal, though, since Glitter's criminal activities first came to light around the turn of the Millennium, it's likely that the episodes he hosted would have been banned anyway. An episode from 1977 which features a performance by Glitter was repeated, but this was before news of the scandal broke. However, the ban only applies to episodes in which at least one of the three appears. Episodes where they are mentioned in passing (including those where Glitter is part of the chart countdown for that week) are unaffected, as are episodes featuring cover versions of Glitter's songs.
** ''Jim'll Fix It'', a show whose premise was having the wishes of kids granted via Savile, was banned outright following the revelations. Interviews with the man before his death suggest – in hindsight – that he only did the show so he could be close to his targets. This includes the skit/''Series/DoctorWho'' crossover "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix With Sontarans]]" once offered on [=DVDs=] containing "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors The Two Doctors]]". When the DVD was re-released in 2014, the skit was pulled. Later, a GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion of the short was included on the Season 22 Blu-ray release, replacing the ending scenes featuring Jimmy Savile with a brand new ending divorcing the skit from ''Jim'll Fix It''.
** It can be assumed that the ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' episode starring Rolf Harris as host will no longer air due to him being found guilty of indecent assault via the Operation Yewtree investigations that the Savile revelations spurred.
** Similarly, the comedy team sport show ''It's a Knock-Out!'' is unlikely to ever be repeated due to the sex offense convictions of its long-term presenter Stuart Hall.
* When Me-TV reran the Western ''Trackdown'' in 2019, they refused to air the episode "The End of the World", about a snake-oil salesman named Trump who vows to build a wall, spurning comparisons to then-president UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
* Related to the above, ''Series/{{Tweenies}}'' once had an episode, "Favourite Songs", where Max impersonated Creator/JimmySavile as part of the "Tweenie Chart Countdown", which featured the titular characters singing, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin their favourite songs]]. The episode first aired in 2001 – well before the allegations gained nationwide attention. The BBC actually missed this episode when initially pulling Jimmy Savile related material from programming – it aired in January 2013 on their preschool subchannel Creator/{{CBeebies}} mere days after the Metropolitan Police put out a report effectively confirming the worst about Savile. The BBC, already doing damage control after allegations emerged that the BBC under-acted in regards to initial complaints against Savile, promptly apologised and locked the episode away.
%%* Similarly, a parody of this show closing one episode of ''Series/TheTwoRonnies'', named "The Short And Fat Minstrel Show".
* ''Series/UltraSeven'' had the infamous twelfth episode, "From Another Planet With Love" (also known as "Crystallized Corpuscles" in US) banned in Japan due to the MonsterOfTheWeek (vampiric aliens from the planet Spell) bearing a resemblance to survivors of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]], especially after a survivor's group complained about it. This episode was also omitted from the Creator/ShoutFactory DVD release.
** The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster also meant that episode 26, or "Super Weapon R-1" (also known as "The 8,000 Megaton Mistake"), is banned from the Japanese airwaves due to a scene where the MonsterOfTheWeek destroys a nuclear power plant through a tsunami caused by it landing in the ocean. This episode was included on [=ShoutFactory=]'s DVD release, but the scene of controversy was cut out.
* 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 were 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 UP channel skips over the Creator/KathyGriffin episodes of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' thanks to her posing with a model of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's bloody head.
* The ''Series/WithoutATrace'' episode "Our Sons And Daughters" is skipped over in syndication (on the Escape channel at least, Pop still airs it) because of the graphic depiction of sex between teenagers.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Workaholics}}'' guest-starring Chris D'Elia as a pedophile was pulled from Amazon and Hulu in June 2020 [[{{Irony}} after allegations of D'Elia grooming underage girls began to surface]].
* In a particularly horrific example, the entire 20th season of the Food Network series ''Series/WorstCooksInAmerica'' (which ran in 2020) fell into this status in January 2021 after [[https://deadline.com/2021/01/food-network-pulls-worst-cooks-in-america-season-20-after-champion-arrested-for-child-murder-1234679156/ its winner was arrested]] for ''murdering her adopted daughter''.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': [[Recap/TheXFilesS04E02Home "Home"]] was the first TV episode to receive a Parental Advisory warning and the only one to be a TV-MA. Despite critics praise, Fox did not rerun this violent, DarkerAndEdgier episode for years.
* The Canadian series ''[[Series/Nurses2020 Nurses]]'' was aired in the US on NBC in 2021 as a COVID replacement series while ''[[Series/NewAmsterdam2018 New Amsterdam]]'' re-wrote their season and shot it more slowly, and ended up with an episode ban when a b-plot of the episode "Achilles Heel" was heavily criticized by Jewish viewers for a WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants AssPull plot that doesn't exist in real life, where a Hassidic Jew refused a skin graft because of fears he might get a graft from a Palestinian or Arabic donor (along with the worn-down IHaveNoSon Orthodox father who will disown said patient because he plays casual street basketball in secret, where he got the gruesome leg injury that required said skin graft). In reality, Jewish rabbis don't care where the skin graft comes from, because they consider modern medicine a blessing from above, even if transplanted tissue comes from someone they might conflict with. NBC then pulled the episode, with the original Canadian network Global following soon after.
* ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'': "The Canine Cure" was banned from syndication because MoralGuardians complained about the episode's moral of standing up to authority figures.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Certain Disney cartoons are never shown on TV, almost all of them WarTimeCartoon material like ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath'', ''WesternAnimation/CommandoDuck'' and ''WesternAnimation/DerFuehrersFace''.
* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes and WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies: The "WesternAnimation/CensoredEleven", a group of eleven Creator/WarnerBros cartoons withheld from all syndication and network rerun packages since 1968 for heavy Black stereotyping. The list includes the following cartoons…
** ''WesternAnimation/HittinTheTrailForHallelujahLand'' (1931) [probably the least offensive of the 11] – The only black & white short on the list.
** ''WesternAnimation/SundayGoToMeetinTime'' (1936)
** "Clean Pastures" (1937)
** ''WesternAnimation/UncleTomsBungalow'' (1937)
** ''WesternAnimation/JungleJitters'' (1938)
** "The Isle of Pingo Pongo" (1938)
** ''WesternAnimation/AllThisAndRabbitStew'' (1941) – the only Bugs Bunny cartoon on the list.
** ''WesternAnimation/CoalBlackAndDeSebbenDwarfs'' (1943)
** ''WesternAnimation/TinPanAlleyCats'' (1943)
** "Angel Puss" (1944)
** "Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears" (1944)
** Note that at least three of these shorts – "Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land", "Jungle Jitters", and [[WesternAnimation/AllThisAndRabbitStew "All This and Rabbit Stew"]] – are known to have fallen into the PublicDomain, meaning that, despite the ban, they can be found on video sites and some gray-market home media releases.
*** 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]]This could refer to either a Creator/BobClampett cartoon from 1938 starring WesternAnimation/PorkyPig, or the last Looney Tunes cartoon made in the original studio by Creator/RobertMcKimson starring Cool Cat, both which rarely airs on TV due to numerous Native American stereotypes as the title of both shorts alone indicates[[/note]], "Tom Tom Tomcat"[[note]]Hasn't aired on TV since 1999 for the same reason as the previous short due to featuring multiple stereotypical Native-American versions of Sylvester[[/note]]"China Jones"[[note]]an obscure WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck cartoon where Daffy is a Cockney detective trying to solve a mystery in Shanghai, although this one is available on Warnermedia RIDE's streaming service[[/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]].
*** ''Warner Bros.''': In addition to "All This and Rabbit Stew" above, 11 other Bugs Bunny cartoons were skipped during Creator/CartoonNetwork's 2001 June Bugs marathon that promised a chronological airing of all of the rabbit's shorts[[note]]though "Any Bonds Today?", "Herr Meets Hare", and clips from "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" were shown on two special episodes of ''[=ToonHeads=]'' ("Any Bonds Today" was shown on the ''[=ToonHeads=]'' special about lost, rare, and obscure works from Warner Bros. studios, while "Herr Meets Hare" and clips from "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" were shown on the ''[=ToonHeads=]'' special about World War II shorts); "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" aired on ''The Acme Hour'' on Thanksgiving 2002; "A Feather in His Hare" aired in Cartoon Network's early days and on some international feeds; "What's Cookin', Doc?" aired on ''The Bob Clampett Show'', "Frigid Hare" aired in 2002 following Chuck Jones' death (initially cutting the line about Bugs not going back to work until July of 1953, then later editing the "What an Eskimo piehead!" line), and Cartoon Network's Japanese channel aired "Witch is Which", albeit edited to remove Bugs getting trapped in the pressure cooker and not the part with Bugs posing as an African native to escape Dr. I.C. Spots, meaning that the only 12 banned Bugs cartoons that have never aired on Cartoon Network are "Mississippi Hare", "All This and Rabbit Stew", "Horse Hare", and "Bushy Hare", though "Mississippi Hare", "Bushy Hare", and "Horse Hare" did air on other networks [mostly Nickelodeon, The WB, FOX, and first-run syndication], with some cuts due to violence and minor politically incorrect content[[/note]].
*** [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales Despite his immense popularity among Latin Americans]], WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales is nowhere to be seen on Creator/HBOMax because Warner Bros. is still concerned about him being an ethnic stereotype. His shorts do air on international networks and on [=MeTV=].
** '''Paramount''': Some ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoons produced during the War are banned (though some have fallen into the PublicDomain and are easy to find via streaming or bootleg), including "You're A Sap, Mr. Jap", "Scrap the Japs", and "Seein' Red, White, & Blue". Also banned from television were two cartoons containing African cannibal stereotypes, “Pop-Pie Ala Mode” and “Popeye’s Pappy”.
** '''MGM''': A few of Creator/TexAvery's post-WB shorts are banned, like "Uncle Tom's Cabana" and "Half-Pint Pygmy". There are also two ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' shorts that aren't on DVD: "Mouse Cleaning" and "Casanova Cat". Edited versions of these two are allegedly still aired occasionally. Additionally various cartoons by Creator/HarmanAndIsing have been banned, notably the ''WesternAnimation/HappyHarmonies'' featuring Bosko and Honey in their original and redesigned looks.
** '''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 on 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 won't be released on home video or featured in network syndication due to its offensive racial stereotypes.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'':
** "Mass Transit Trouble" had Dr. Robotnik plotting to disrupt the Mobius transportation system by [[MadBomber planting time bombs in several transit hubs around the planet]]. Its unusually terroristic undertones [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents led to it being pulled twice from circulation]], the first time by USA Network and local stations following the Oklahoma City bombing, and the second time by Toon Disney following 9/11. Since the episode was also blacklisted from VHS releases, it could only be uncovered through home video recordings of the episode, until it was finally released on DVD.
** Similarly, Toon Disney pulled the episode "Magnificent Sonic" after the Columbine massacre due to repeated wielding of guns throughout the episode.
** "Robo-Ninjas" was skipped over by Toon Disney during their run of the show for seemingly unknown reasons, though it can be assumed that it was because of stereotypical depictions of East Asians. Like "Mass Transit Trouble", it only returned to circulation when it was released on DVD (it ''did'' air on USA Network, though).
* 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 Google Play, and it can also be found on the standalone Volume 6 DVD release.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episodes "The Great [=MacGrady=]" and "Room to Ride/The Frensky Family Fiasco", got pulled due to the Lance Armstrong doping incident (Armstrong cameoed on both episodes). The former episode was remade for season 24, replacing Lance Armstrong with a fictional wrestler named Uncle Slam Wilson.
** The ''Arthur'' spinoff ''WesternAnimation/PostcardsFromBuster'' had an episode titled "Sugartime!" that some PBS affiliates refused to screen as it involves Buster visiting a child in Vermont [[HasTwoMommies with lesbian parents]][[note]] Which, by the way, was only barely stated in a brief scene of the episode where the child describes her family, this being a time of less acceptance for same-sex marriage on the U.S.[[/note]]. The controversy surrounding the episode might also have compelled then-CEO of PBS Pat Mitchell to resign the following year. Ironically, 14 years later, ''Arthur'' itself would feature an actual same-sex marriage....and then ''that'' episode ("Mr. Ratburn And The Special Someone") got banned by Alabama Public Television, along with its sister episode, "The Feud" due to concerns over showing gay marriage to conservative families. It was pre-empted by a rerun on the day of its premiere.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': The episode "The Mask of Matches Malone" was banned in the US for an innuendo-laden song sung by the Birds of Prey[[note]] Black Canary, Huntress and Catwoman[[/note]]. The episode eventually did air in the U.S. with part of the sequence removed (Black Canary wiggling her finger while singing about Aquaman's "little fish") and it also aired in Australia, and the infamous part has appeared on Website/YouTube.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' third-season opener "Comedians" featured Beavis trying to juggle flaming newspapers and burning down a comedy club. Because it aired only a month before the Ohio mobile home fire that claimed the life of a two-year-old girl that ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' were blamed for, this episode was swiftly pulled out of rotation and later heavily censored.
** Other ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' episodes that were banned (some of which did return from being banned with content cuts made) for instances of Beavis saying "Fire! Fire!" or flicking a lighter ("Stewart's House", "Kidnapped"), animal cruelty ("Frog Baseball", "Washing the Dog"), inhalant and drug abuse ("Home Improvement", "Way Down Mexico Way"[[note]]this, despite that both episodes had warnings clearly stating that inhaling paint thinner and swallowing a rubber full of drugs, respectively, was considered dangerous unless you were a cartoon character[[/note]]) or anything that these days would be considered in extremely poor taste in the aftermath of UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} and [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror September 11th]] ("Heroes", "Incognito"). Many of these episodes have aired on Viacom CBS-owned networks overseas unedited. And this isn't even getting into the episodes that are banned due to music licensing issues or Mike Judge just hating them so much that he doesn't want anyone else to see them ever again.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'': "Travis and the Tropical Fruits" from season 12 was skipped over by PBS, due to horse poop being a major part of the episode. Consequently, its sister episode "Scoop the Teacher" was also initially skipped, but was later aired on Sprout.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'': The episode "Dad Baby" has never aired in North America, likely due to its theme of play-pregnancy. The episode is also absent from Disney Junior in Latin America and Brazil, and it is unknown if it was even dubbed due to Disney managing the series' dub for those regions.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' has ''four'' episodes that have been removed from reruns on Creator/AdultSwim and streaming on Creator/{{Hulu}} in the United States, although they can still be found on the DVD sets and Netflix in Canada, while HBO Max has three out of the four banned episodes ("The Hunger Strike", "The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show", and "Pause") and the fourth season:
** The two-part Season 2 finale, "The Hunger Strike" and "The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show", which openly and viciously lampooned Creator/{{BET}}, were removed due to legal threats from BET and its parent company Creator/ParamountGlobal. These two episodes finally premiered on [adult swim] on May 29, 2020, during a ''Boondocks'' marathon (while Canadian cartoon channel, Teletoon, merely aired the episodes with a warning that stated that the jokes about BET are not the views and opinions of anyone who works at Teletoon, making one wonder [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot why Cartoon Network's Adult Swim couldn't have done the same thing]]). They are now available on Creator/HBOMax completely uncut.
** The Season 3 episodes "The Story of Jimmy Rebel" and "Pause" were removed, the former because it was deemed too racist / politically incorrect (which is odd for a show that's already packed with a lot of racial humor), and the latter because Creator/TylerPerry complained about how the character Winston Jerome was a mockery of him. "Pause" finally reran again on [adult swim] for the first time since 2010, following the BET 2-parter's premiere on the same night, and is now on HBO Max (sadly, "The Story of Jimmy Rebel" isn't on there, though this is more because the streaming service premiered around the time of major "Black Lives Matter" protests over George Floyd's murder from police brutality).
** The entirety of Season 4 was not rerun on Adult Swim for years, 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.
* ''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 [[RadiationInducedSuperpowers superpowers caused by phasing through radiation]] as metaphor for drugs, complete with ensuing withdrawal.
** "Conspiracy" and "Inside Job" were also removed from rotation on Disney after 9/11 due to both episodes revolving around terrorist plots.
* Following Dale Earnhardt's fatal crash, MTV pulled a scheduled rerun of the ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' episode "Sex, Lugs and Rock 'n' Roll" in 2001, as the third segment of the episode showed scenes of car crashes and made light of fatal accidents. [[note]]In the segment itself, Earnhardt wins a deathmatch against Jeff Gordon by crushing Gordon's body with his car, and crushing him to a pulp with his back tire.[[/note]] However, MTV actually brought this episode back from being banned by airing it uncut on March 22, 2003, at 11:00 pm.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}'' episode "Straight Illin" only aired once on Creator/CartoonNetwork and was pulled due to complaints over disgusting content. The episode is available to see on HBO Max's "Cartoon Network" section.
* The ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "The Mask" is banned in France due to its higher-than-usual level of NightmareFuel and the implication that two characters are lesbian lovers.
* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'': The infamous second-season episode "Buffalo Gals" was quickly pulled after its original broadcast, after a mother wrote in to Creator/CartoonNetwork complaining about the obvious lesbian stereotypes (involving really butch-looking female bikers who break into people's houses and literally munch on the carpets) and innuendo (mostly focused on lesbian sex, like the carpet-munching pun and the "pitch and catch" pun). As a result, rerun versions of this particular episode replace the segment with a repeat of the first-season episode "Orthodontic Police"[[note]] the episode where The Red Guy is a motorcycle cop who forces everyone in town to wear large, dangerous, elaborate braces[[/note]]. When ''Cow and Chicken'' was on Netflix, the episode was removed there as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'':
** From the first season, a "Dial 'M' for Monkey" segment called "Barbequor" was pulled as it depicted a CampGay version of the Silver Surfer called "The Silver Spooner". While the fact that he was a CampGay stereotype (right down to the effeminate voice and the love for Creator/JudyGarland) would be grounds for having the segment cut (as many MoralGuardians do believe that having a homosexual character on a children's show is a sign that the show is corrupt and immoral), rights issues with Marvel and references to/jokes about the Infragible Crunk being drunk during the barbecue didn't help matters. It is presently available on the Amazon Creator/{{PrimeVideo}} service, but nowhere else, not even on DVD releases.
** "Rude Removal" was thought to be an urban legend until it premiered at a comic book convention and then was shown on Creator/AdultSwim. (What ''is'' urban legend is that the episode used to air on TV or that the creators ever attempted to get it aired. It was made as a joke.)
* 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
** "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS2E10 Hail to the Chief/Twistory]]" These episodes were withdrawn from broadcast on Nickelodeon in the U.S. after their premiere due to inappropriate violent mockeries of the past US Presidents, though they started airing on television again in December 2016. These episodes can be found on the Season 2 DVD and Paramount+.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E22WhenYouwishUponAWeinstein When You Wish Upon a Weinstein]]" was originally a DVD-only release, and was shown on TV for the first time (three years after it was produced) on Creator/CartoonNetwork's Creator/AdultSwim. The episode was pulled by FOX due to fears that the episode would be offensive to Jews[[note]] (despite that Creator/SethMacFarlane brought in an actual rabbi to make sure the episode was kosher. It was, despite what the FOX Broadcast Standards and Practices people say)[[/note]] ''and'' Catholics. In the end, only a single line had to be altered for the episode to air on Adult Swim[[note]] (Peter's line near the end of "I Need A Jew" was changed from "Even though they [the Jews] killed my Lord" to "I don't think they killed my Lord")[[/note]]. After it was announced that ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' was going to be [[UnCancelled brought back with new episodes]], FOX themselves showed the once-banned episode[[note]] (with the same line edited as in the Creator/CartoonNetwork version, and another cut: Quagmire "looking for his keys" in front of Lois was drastically shortened so it wouldn't look like he was masturbating... which was the whole joke in the first place.)[[/note]].
** As shown in page image above, FOX banned the eighth season episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E21PartialTermsOfEndearment Partial Terms of Endearment]]" because it dealt with abortion. The episode was later released as a DVD-exclusive episode (like "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" did before actually airing on TV) and has aired on most international channels like the UK's Creator/{{BBC}}3 (though the international versions are the edited versions that have scenes cut for content and/or time reasons).
** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS11E15TurbanCowboy Turban Cowboy]]" (which centered on a terrorist attack and had a cutaway of Peter killing Boston Marathon runners by driving his car through the race) was removed from both Hulu and the official FOX website after the Boston Marathon bombing. Creator/SethMacFarlane has mentioned he regrets making that episode, but only because some nutter on Website/YouTube made a video that served as "evidence" that [=MacFarlane=] predicted the marathon bombing by piecing together the cutaway of Peter plowing through marathon runners with his car and the climax where Peter is being used by his Muslim friend in a plot to blow up the bridge. The episode has come back from being banned but mostly airs in cable reruns (TBS and CN), on DVD, and on Netflix streaming.
** Following Creator/RobinWilliams' death (and the revelation that it was suicide), the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E22FamilyGuyViewerMailTwo Family Guy Viewer Mail #2]]" has been pulled from Creator/AdultSwim airings due to the second story "Fatman and Robin" (centered on Peter trying to commit suicide after being [[BlessedWithSuck cursed to turn everything he touches into Robin Williams]]). Over in the UK, the BBC banned the episode after they got complaints about airing it on the same day it was revealed that Robin Williams was dead (similar to what happened when they aired the ''Simpsons'' episode "A Streetcar Named Marge" around the time that Hurricane Katrina's destruction of New Orleans made the news). Like Turban Cowboy, the episode has since come from being banned, returning to Creator/AdultSwim's Rotation.
** The Season 10 episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E3ScreamsOFSilenceTheStoryOfBrendaQ Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q.]]" was only broadcast once before it was pulled by FOX in 2011 due to its heavy references to domestic violence landed the episode to be criticized by viewers and critics. However, the episode can be seen on DVD and in syndication.
** When Creator/{{Freeform}} picked up the rerun rights to the series (following Creator/{{Disney}}'s buyout of 20th Century Fox) starting with season 16, they skipped over "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS16E3NannyGoats Nanny Goats]]" due to a scene where WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse murders [[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail Fievel Mousekewitz]] in an anti-semitic hate crime. Starting with the show's move to midnights in June 2019, Freeform has aired the episode in its entirety.
* Not even ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam'' is immune to this trope. In July 2016, Creator/HiTEntertainment withdrew episode 7 of Season 9, "Troubled Waters", as it featured a scene where Elvis slips over a piece of paper while holding a tray of tea. In a FreezeFrameBonus, the paper is showing '''[[http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/07/26/19/369CA3BA00000578-3709281-image-a-8_1469557205964.jpg verses 13-26 of chapter 69 of]] Literature/TheQuran'''. For context, wilfully or negligently damaging any physical copy of the Quran is considered an act of sacrilege in Islam, so having a page from it just lying around to be trodden on like that would be taken as a major insult. [=HiT=] later stated that they would no longer be working with Xing Xing, the animation company that inserted the controversial image. [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes The episode was later removed from Channel 5's on-demand service, so good luck trying to find it online]].
* When re-run on Creator/MeTV, ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' episode "The Prowler" is skipped due to the episode featuring heavy Japanese racial stereotyping.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' episode "Deadly Force" was removed from rotation for a while, then re-aired with the scene of Broadway accidentally shooting Elisa with her own gun edited to remove the blood around Eliza's body. As of 2020, the uncensored version is available on Creator/DisneyPlus.
* ''WesternAnimation/HighSchoolUSA'': Two episodes, "Sexting" and "Best Friends Forever" are banned from syndication; "Sexting" for the frequent use of strong sexual slang and the nudity (though most of it is censored), and "Best Friends Forever" for the ending scene in which the gang make a porn film together (though you don't see anything too risque, the cast are all underage). While "Sexting" did get two airings on American TV with a TV-MA rating and was made available on the official website, "Best Friends Forever" was only available for Hulu subscribers, but has since expired, leaving the only way to see the episode being through illegal downloading.
* The ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' episode "Door to Door" (and its companion episode "FBI Warning of Doom") was originally scheduled to air on September 14, 2001, but was removed from the schedule following the 9/11 attacks. The episode included a scene where alien spaceships are destroying a city resembling UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity with the Art/StatueOfLiberty sinking in the background. A new scene was made to replace this one and remove any New York imagery (although the new scene is arguably even more violent), and the episode finally premiered on March 29, 2002. However, the uncut version of the episode was broadcast by mistake instead of the new version. All reruns of the episode have featured the new scene instead, as do all home video and online releases.
* The ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' episode "The Big Drip" never aired in America, because Disney found the content (which centered around Jimmy having a PottyEmergency) "inappropriate".
* The rerun of ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' episode "I Just Don't Get It'" was banned on Nicktoons TV in the early 2000s, due to the ''Action League Now!'' short ''Caged Thunder''[[note]] The Mayor wanted to destroy the Capitol Building in Washington DC. This episode was banned from airing on Nicktoons after the 9/11 attacks.[[/note]]
* "The New Mr. Franklin" and "Fire Starter", the eighth and ninth episodes of the first season of Canadian cartoon ''WesternAnimation/KevinSpencer'' were only broadcast once, after a viewer wrote an angry letter to the CRTC (the Canadian equivalent of the FCC) over the content featured in both, including Kevin and his dad robbing a church and hurling snowballs at the congregation, and the latter featuring scenes such as Kevin using a severed head as a pet.
* The ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Leanne's Saga" was banned from Creator/Sky1 Television in the U.K. due to its depictions of domestic violence.
** Additionally, the episodes "Propane Boom" and "Death of A Propane Salesman" were temporarily banned after 9/11, due to their plots revolving around Megalo-Mart blowing up.
* The ''Literature/LittlePrincess'' episode "I Want to be a Baby" is not available on DVD, even on the so-called complete series boxsets, probably due to the titular Princess's brattiness being taken to the extreme. This is weird as the episode is still available over Channel 5's On-Demand site.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
** A number of episodes such as "Overnight Success" and "L is For Love" were banned in countries like Greece and Russia for featuring Clyde's [[HasTwoMommies adoptive fathers]] and Luna's crush on another girl respectively. Poland used to air episodes featuring Clyde's dads, but they eventually pulled them as well. Given that both Clyde's parents and Luna's now-girlfriend have gotten main roles in later seasons, it's likely several episodes per season are also withheld in said countries.
** "One Flu Over the Loud House" stopped airing on TV worldwide due to the theme of sickness mirroring the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the episode is still available for purchase via iTunes and the ''It Gets Louder'' DVD set, and can also be streamed on Creator/ParamountPlus.
* When the animated adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' aired on FOX Family (before it was changed to ABC Family and then Freeform, but after it was known as simply The Family Channel), the season two episode "Flight as a Feather" was skipped over due to the infamous sequence in which the mayor's psycho stripper ex-girlfriend Cookie [=BaBoom=] crashes an outdoor ceremony and threatens to kill herself and the mayor with dynamite strapped to her naked body, only for The Mask to strip her and use her nudity to distract Kellaway and Doyle.
** 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") 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).
* The ''WesternAnimation/MaoMaoHeroesOfPureHeart'' episode [[SickEpisode "Sick Mao"]], in which Mao Mao refused to accept that he was sick with a cold, was pulled from reruns in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
* 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 internet]], and in a strange way, it may have garnered the series more attention than ever.
** The episode in question aired back in 2012, meaning that it took ''five years'' for someone to notice the wiener that slipped by. The series is also a France/Germany co-production, and those countries are more relaxed with sexual images than America, though that didn't stop the producers from having to do [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/netflix-childrens-show-producer-says-penis-drawing-was-very-bad-joke-one-artist-1042147 damage control]]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh,]] [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer and Maya is not a Netflix original]] contrary to what some news outlets claim.
* The Mickey [=MouseWorks=] short "Minnie Takes Care of Pluto" was banned and pulled from reruns because it involved the disturbing premise of Pluto having the paranoid belief that Minnie planned to kill him and also had a scene where Pluto dreamed that he was in Hell. As a result, it is one of the only [=MouseWorks=] shorts to never be recycled as part of ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'', alongside "Pluto Gets the Paper: Vending Machine", which was presumed that this short sparked concern for the health and safety of young viewers.
* ''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 next episode, “Super Cider Squeezy 6000”, was not aired in some areas because it centered on making apple cider. Apple cider is usually alcoholic in some areas, with the non-alcoholic variant not being as well known outside the U.S.. Some dubs just changed the drink to apple juice, but U.K. countries didn’t air it.
* In [[UsefulNotes/AustralianWildlife Australia]], a ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' episode of all things was banned, because it taught that [[ValuesDissonance spiders are harmless]], which isn't something you want to teach Australian children, as the spiders in that country are among the most poisonous on the planet. It did accidentally air on the feed of Nick Jr. Australia gets (which is the same as the Asian feed) before a parent complained about it.
* When ''WesternAnimation/PetAlien'' aired on Creator/{{Qubo}}, the episode "Day of the Naked Aliens" was cut and replaced with another airing of "Race with the Clinton". This is speculated to be a result of all the nudity-themed jokes, such as Gumpers' song about being naked and the ending where the entire human cast gets stripped nude.
* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Ready for the Bettys" was pulled from reruns between 2009 and 2015 due to legal issues with a real-life band called The Bettys that the writers were unaware of at the time. As a side effect, "Phineas and Ferb Musical Cliptastic Countdown" was pulled due to featuring that episode's song in the #10 spot, and "The Flying Fishmonger" was pulled due to being paired with "Ready for the Bettys".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}}'':
** "Little Accidents" was banned in multiple countries after its original Swiss broadcast resulted in multiple viewer complaints about the characters [[PottyFailure urinating on the floor on-screen]], as well as references to alcohol addiction. It wasn't even aired at all in the United States until Amazon Prime picked up the series, which showed the original show in its entirety. It was because of the complaints that "Pingu at the Doctor's" became a second season episode, rather than a first season one.
** "Pingu at the Doctor's" was itself banned in some countries due to Pingu's beak bleeding. It ''did'' air in the US, where it was released on a rare VHS/DVD called ''Antarctic Antics''.
** The pilot episode was taken off rotation on the BBC in 2003 due to the scene where Pingg violently smacks Pingu in the head, which was [[{{Bowdlerize}} censored]] in most home video releases there. It was also a reason why the Sprout channel in the US didn't pick up the episode (though it aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''Small World'' block almost a decade earlier, with the scene intact).
** "Pingu Quarrels With His Mother" was rejected by Sprout due to the scene where Pingu's mother slaps him in the face for insubordination, though Cartoon Network aired it uncut. In the UK, the BBC shows the episode with the slap removed. Like the rest of the original series, it's available on Amazon Prime Video uncensored.
** "Pingu Runs Away" was banned in the United Kingdom after complaints that the frightening monster-shaped ice formations Pingu encounters in the episode scared young children (the episode also had a rather upsetting tone).
** "Pingu's Dream" aired only once on Sprout before being quickly pulled from the channel due to the horrifyingly ugly appearance of the walrus in Pingu's dream sequence. It had been banned from the BBC years earlier for the same reason.
** "Pingu and the Doll" is the only episode from season four to be banned in North America due to Pingu exhibiting stereotypical Native American mannerisms throughout the episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' pseudo-series finale "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey" was banned, allegedly due to being about Communism, or the heavy use of strobe effects (which could have triggered epileptic seizures in more sensitive viewers, much like the notorious ''Pokemon'' episode "Electric Soldier Porygon"). However, series creator Craig [=McCracken=] [[http://crackmccraigen.tumblr.com/post/147175691484/a-few-friends-and-i-just-watched-the-apparently revealed on his Tumblr account]] that the real reason the episode got banned was because of what the network perceived as religious imagery -- they claimed the metal beams in the destroyed buildings looked too much like crosses, and one of the hippies looked like Jesus. However, the episode can be seen on the complete series DVD set for the show, as well as on digital download and some streaming services (HBO Max doesn't have the episode).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' had the 1992 episode "Man's Best Friend", which was not aired on Nickelodeon due to the use of the character George Liquor, along with a scene where Ren violently whacks George with an oar repeatedly. This was partly the reason Creator/JohnKricfalusi and Spumco were fired from the series, and Nickelodeon Animation Studios took over. It finally did air on TNN/Spike TV as part of ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'' in 2003, and was also included on the first and second-season DVD set from Paramount Home Video in 2004.
** The final-season episodes "Sammy and Me" and "The Last Temptation of Ren" originally did not air on Nickelodeon. The former was because the jokes about Sammy Davis, Jr.'s glass eye caught heat with Davis, Jr.'s estate, and the latter was withheld due to alleged religious content. Both eventually aired together on MTV in 1996, and "Sammy and Me" eventually was aired on Nickelodeon in the summer of 2000. "The Last Temptation of Ren" not only never aired on Nickelodeon but never aired on Nicktoons either. It eventually aired '''22 years later''' on [=NickRewind=].
* After 9/11, Creator/KidsWB pulled the ''WesternAnimation/RescueHeroes'' episode "Terror in the Tower" from reruns as the plot dealt with the team rescuing people trapped in burning tower floors. Creator/{{Teletoon}}, the show's Canadian network, began showing the episode again a year later, but it was re-titled "High Anxiety" and all subsequent broadcasts worldwide, including Creator/{{Qubo}}, air the episode in that title.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': Despite the myriad of [[DemographicallyInappropriateHumour adult jokes that slipped through the cracks]] – [[SubvertedTrope some of which did end up getting edited in reruns]], the show only banned two episodes for content:
** "Leap Frogs" was banned on the grounds of very risque content. The episode centered on Bev Bighead trying to seduce Rocko while her husband is at work, as she feels that she's not being loved by Ed. It did see some airtime at least twice before Nickelodeon realized the risqué content and demanded it to be cut.
** "Heff in a Handbasket" was pulled after the show's initial run, due to all the references to {{Hell}} and Satanism, in an even more extreme case than "To Heck and Back" did[[note]]The episode involved Heffer trading his soul to Peaches to be on a game show[[/note]]. The episodes that were paired up with these two, "Wallaby on Wheels" and "Bedfellows", were aired together in reruns to still allow for an even number. Oddly, when the show initially began airing on Nicktoons TV, "Leap Frogs" was shown for a while before being pulled again, but "Heff in a Handbasket" remained in circulation until the show was removed from the network. This meant there were two half-hours that included "Wallaby on Wheels" (one with the original "Heff in a Handbasket", and one with "Bedfellows").
** "Jet Scream" didn't have any problems back in the 1990s and is in fact clean by the show's standards, but it was one of the many TV episodes temporarily yanked from reruns [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents following the 9/11 attacks]]. The plot revolved around Rocko and Heffer getting into hijinks on a plane trip. It went back into rotation the following year on Creator/{{Nicktoons}}, though.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E1TheCityOfNewYorkVsHomerSimpson "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"]], which mostly takes place in and around the World Trade Center, was withdrawn from syndication after the attacks on September 11th, 2001. However, in a reversal of DistancedFromCurrentEvents, fans protested its removal (since it's one of the most popular episodes of the series) and it was quickly reinstated, albeit with the jokes and scenes centered around the Twin Towers either heavily edited or cut entirely on some local affiliates. Other affiliates (which often retain the tapes for years and air them in any order besides that suggested by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, the syndicator) have shown the episode uncut and uncensored, save for some time cuts and a man's line about how "They stick all the jerks in Tower One." The original uncut episode is on the season nine DVD (with commentary from the writers on how the episode is now in bad taste thanks to 9/11, but it still has its moments that haven't aged, like the Betty Ford rehab musical).
** [[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 because the entire episode revolves around Japanese culture]]. It was later released in the latter country on the Season 10 DVD boxset, while it still remains banned in the former.
** The later episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E14NewKidsOnTheBlecch "New Kids On The Blecch"]], which aired seven months before the 9/11 attacks, was also temporarily pulled, and later edited to remove a scene involving the destruction of a tower (in this case, it was ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' headquarters).
** The episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E2AStreetcarNamedMarge "A Streetcar Named Marge"]] was also pulled from syndication after Hurricane Katrina because of its references to UsefulNotes/NewOrleans being a horrid, run-down hellhole. The episode also angered residents of New Orleans on original airing, prompting an apology in Bart's chalkboard punishment the following episode.
** The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E2CapeFeare 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.
** The episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E10EPluribusWiggum "E Pluribus Wiggum"]] caused controversy in Argentina prior to its broadcast there. The controversy is over an exchange between Lenny and Carl. Carl says "I could really go for some kind of military dictator, like Juan Perón. When he 'disappeared' you, you stayed 'disappeared'!". Fox decided not to air the episode in Latin America, except in Brazil. Some national TV networks in the region, Caracol in Colombia, Canal 13 in Chile, Televen in Venezuela, and TV Azteca in Mexico have aired the episode. FOX Latin America finally aired the episode for the first time on September 6, 2016, after 8 years of censorship.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E18LookingForMrGoodbart Looking For Mr. Goodbart]]" was banned in Russia for depicting Homer playing a stand-in for ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' in church. Due to the unintentional parallel to a real-life incident where a Russian blogger got in trouble for playing the game in a church in St. Petersburg, the Orthodox Church suspected the episode of being "Hollywood propaganda" seeking to defame their country's society.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E1StarkRavingDad Stark Raving Dad]]", the episode that featured voiceover work from Music/MichaelJackson, was voluntarily removed from circulation (including future pressings of the Season 3 DVD set) in March 2019 by the show's producers upon their viewing of the controversial Creator/{{HBO}} / Creator/ChannelFour documentary [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CXOfz1YkWeA ''Leaving Neverland'']], which documented a ''third'' round of high-profile child molestation accusations against Jackson. Aside from turning up once on FXX that October, it hasn't been rerun anywhere since. The ban apparently extends to Disney-owned international networks (the Latin American channel skipped it when doing a season-per-day marathon of the entire series in May 2019) and also applies to Creator/DisneyPlus.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E21MargeInChains Marge in Chains]]" hasn't aired reruns on Creator/{{FXX}} or Creator/{{Freeform}} since March 2020, due to the episode's plot being kickstarted by a flu epidemic in Springfield, which [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents can be seen as in poor taste due to the]] UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic. It's still on Disney+ and DVD, though.
* ''WesternAnimation/SoupeOpera'': Supposedly, the episode with the bat was banned because its wings gave children seizures.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s MilestoneCelebration episodes "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E5TwoHundred 200]]" and "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E6TwoHundredOne 201]]" only aired once, and cannot be accessed on the South Park Studios site, especially in the wake of a death threat by a small Islamist group towards Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone after the former aired. For ''201'', Creator/ComedyCentral censored every mention of UsefulNotes/TheProphetMuhammad, as well as Kyle's entire monologue about giving in to fear, while Parker and Stone were not allowed to disclose the details of said monologue [[note]]The uncensored version has since been leaked in which the characters say in an inspirational tone that [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall threatening violence is the best route to getting your way]][[/note]]. The censored content still remain for DVD versions of the episode, and the two episodes never aired on syndication since then. On a related note, although it never stirred controversy when it aired, "Super Best Friends" (which depicts various religious leaders, including the Prophet Muhammad) can no longer be syndicated for similar reasons (though it is on the season five DVD).
** The ban on "200"/"201" also extends to several foreign language adaptations of the series. In particular, the director of the French dub had stated that it is highly unlikely they'd be translated due to requiring even more dialogue censorship. Likewise, the scene where Buddha is shown snorting cocaine alongside Jesus looking at pornography, parodying the double standards of which religious figures are and aren't okay to depict, ironically got the episode (and the entire series) banned in UsefulNotes/SriLanka.
** At least seven episodes have been banned in the Japanese version to date (the dub has yet to get to "200"/"201"):
*** "[[Recap/SouthParkS2E1TerranceAndPhilipInNotWithoutMyAnus Terrance and Phillip in: 'Not Without My Anus]]" was skipped in the second season. [[{{Website/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.
*** "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E11Chinpokomon Chinpokomon]]" was completely banned (and thus not available on DVD) due to mockery of the Japanese and Emperor Hirohito, including a plot point where the Japanese were brainwashing the children to bomb Pearl Harbor.
*** "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E9DoTheHandicappedGoToHell Do The Handicapped Go to Hell?]]" and "Probably" were not dubbed by WOWOW for season four. While the official reasons were not stated, the popular theory is that the references to Christianity and the Western concepts of the afterlife wouldn't be fully understood by Japanese viewers. The episodes did later make it on to the DVD releases but were left in the original English version with Japanese subtitles.
*** "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E12ALadderToHeaven A Ladder to Heaven]]" was banned when WOWOW began broadcasting of season six, as it contained more mockery of the Japanese and had again included heavy references to Christianity. Despite this, a clip from the episode was retained in their dub of "Casa Bonita".
*** "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E2KrazyKripples Krazy Kripples]]" was to be aired in the dub of season seven, but was pulled from broadcast due to the death of Creator/ChristopherReeve (who had been the villain in the episode).
*** "[[Recap/SouthParkS9E8TwoDaysBeforeTheDayAfterTomorrow Two Days Before The Day After Tomorrow]]" was banned in FOX Japan's broadcast of season nine, on the heels of the 2011 tsunami, earthquake, and nuclear disaster. Another part worth noting is that for some reason (perhaps to do with expenses), the entirety of season 9 besides this banned episode was also not dubbed and only broadcast in a subtitled format.
** The Spanish-language dub aired in the Latin American markets has had its own cases of banned episodes. Aside from "200" and "201" (which were already banned for international adaptations and DVD box sets), there are at least eight other cases to date:
*** "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E1RainforestSchmainforest Rainforest Schmainforest]]" was banned late in the game in 2011 (several years after it was dubbed), due to its mockery of Costa Rica. A toned-down redub was produced as a way of getting the ban lifted for it to air again.
*** "[[Recap/SouthParkS9E13FreeWillzyx Free Willzyx]]" and "[[Recap/SouthParkS15E9TheLastOfTheMeheecans The Last of the Meheecans]]" were initially left completely banned and untranslated due to their mockery of Mexicans, although these bans would wind up lifted for the DVD releases for each season.
*** "[[Recap/SouthParkS13E6PinewoodDerby Pinewood Derby]]" would have been aired on MTV, but the portrayal of Felipe Calderon (the President of Mexico from 2006 to 2012) wound up getting the episode banned before it was broadcast.
*** A few episodes of season six have been banned by MTV Latinoamerica in reruns of the series (with the season having originally aired on Locomotion). The official reasons remain unstated (though given the episodes banned, it was probably because of content considered too vulgar for broadcast), but the episodes include "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E3FreakStrike Freak Strike]]", "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E11ChildAbductionIsNotFunny Child Abduction Is Not Funny]]", "A Ladder To Heaven", and "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E14TheDeathCampOfTolerance The Death Camp of Tolerance]]".
** The original Italian dub by SEFIT-CDC Group banned and left three season 4 episodes untranslated: "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" (due to Kenny attempting to force an abortion on his mother, as well as references to pedophilia with NAMBLA), "Do The Handicapped Go To Hell?", and "Probably" (both due to mockery of Catholicism and religion in general).
** Related to the Italian dub above British Satellite Channel [=Sky1=] had pulled the season 4 episode "Cartman Joins NAMBLA", (due to the similar reasons in the Italian dub above), however the channel had also pulled the season 5 episode "Proper Condom Use", (due to its highly sexual and violent content), and the season 6 episode "Jared Has Aides", (due to its AIDS references, heavily discussing disgraced Subway pitchman Jared Fogle, and the ending scene where Butters is beaten up by his parents after Cartman impersonated him), as of 2018 those episodes are still very rarely shown on British television.
* The episode of the first season of [[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 the 1967 Spider-Man series]] titled "The One-Eyed Idol/Fifth Avenue Phantom" is occasionally left out of circulation as it contains a lot of content that, [[ValuesDissonance these days, would be considered racist and sexist]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** 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 [=SpongeBob=] tries subliminal messages on Gary and a very freaky image of a goofy-looking hillbilly girl appears without warning (Even [=SpongeBob=] is disturbed by this, and he apologizes to Gary, as well as presumably the audience). Even today, these two episodes remain controversial and are very rarely shown on British television.
** "Kwarantined Krab" from Season 12 was not aired in the USA initially due to Nick being concerned about the sensitivity it would cause regarding the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, according to [[https://www.twitter.com/VincentWaller72/status/1336460910144102400 Vincent Waller's Twitter]] it was even missing from the Season 12 DVD (though oddly enough another season 12 episode "Hiccup Plague" which was also unaired in the U.S. due to COVID was included on the set). The episode was released digitally in other countries, however and both it and Hiccup Plague were finally aired in the U.S. in April 2022.
** Viewers in 2021 have noticed that the episode "Mid-Life Crustecean" was missing from [=Paramount+=] and quietly removed from Amazon. Nick later [[https://www.ign.com/articles/spongebob-squarepants-episodes-pulled-over-storyline-concerns confirmed]] the episode had been "out of rotation" since 2018[[note]]However, this only applied to the main Nickelodeon channel, as the final time "Mid-Life Crustacean" aired on American television at all was actually on the [=NickToons=] network, specifically on February 26, 2021 as part of the second (and quite possibly final) incarnation of the channel's "Every [=SpongeBob=] Ever" marathon.[[/note]], due to having "story elements were not kid-appropriate". They never specified which, but it might be due to this episode involving [=SpongeBob=], Patrick and Mr. Krabs engaging in a "panty raid" (which winds up [[CrossesTheLineTwice being at Mr. Krabs' mom's house]]). Though the episode can still be bought on Youtube and iTunes (albeit only as part of a collection of episodes on the latter).
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'':
** "The Banagic Incident" was banned in some European countries for unknown reasons. Most guess it's because the MacGuffin of the episode resembles a self-pleasuring device.
** In May 2017, "Just Friends" was pulled from Disney XD's schedule and site, most likely due to [[https://onemillionmoms.com/current-campaigns/disney-airs-its-first-gay-kiss/ One Million Moms sending the channel a complaint]] about a scene depicting several same-sex couples kissing. It was eventually restored.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** Episodes such as "The Answer", "Reunited" and "Hit the Diamond" were never allowed to broadcast in Russia and the Middle East due to the presence of same-sex couples. Other episodes containing these themes were not outright banned but heavily edited.
** Eventually, the ENTIRE SHOW was pulled from air in the Middle East, North Africa, and Kenya.
* The [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003-2009 series]] of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' had an episode called "Insane in the Membrane" that never aired on FOX (though it was available on DVD and shown on the former 4KidsTV site). It involves [[BigBad Baxter Stockman]] [[spoiler:cloning his old body and inserting his brain inside. It goes fine for a while but after a few months, he begins to fall apart and constantly tries new ways to fix himself including chopping off limbs. Eventually he loses his mind and [[VillainousBreakdown blames April for all that has happened to him]]]]. To be fair, the episode was [[NightmareFuel quite disturbing]] for kids. It finally aired in the US in 2015 on Nicktoons.
* ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' had an episode pulled by Cartoon Network after it had just finished production and wasn't even scheduled to air yet when 9/11 happened. It was called "Orphan Substitute", which involves the time squad having to briefly help a dim-witted President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush. According to writer Carlos Ramos, when 9/11 happened the episode was outright banned by the network and was told it would "never air". But it did air eventually, in November of 2003 as the series finale. The creator Dave Wasson stated that the episode was never intended to be the last to end the series, so one would suspect that CN felt that the episode would probably not be too damaging to the company by that point in time, and they probably just needed to fill in that extra timeslot for their "November Premiere" block that was running new episodes leading up to Thanksgiving Weekend.
* The ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoon'' short "The Kitchen Casanova" was removed from the show later on due to a scene where Casanova accidentally cuts his finger off while trying to cut come carrots.
* ''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. It is still available on digital platforms.
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* Following Dale Earnhardt's fatal crash, MTV pulled a scheduled rerun of the ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' episode "Sex, Lugs and Rock 'n' Roll" in 2001, as the third segment of the episode showed scenes of car crashes and made light of fatal accidents. [[note]]In the segment itself, Earnhardt wins a deathmatch against Jeff Gordon by crushing Gordon's body with his car, and crushing him to a pulp with his back tire.[[/note]] However, MTV actually brought this episode back from being banned from airing it uncut on March 22, 2003, at 11:00 pm.

** "Pingu at the Doctor's" was itself banned in some countries due to Pingu's beak bleeding. It ''did'' air in the US, but wasn't released on home video.

* Following the Wrestling/ChrisBenoit double murder[=/=]suicide, the WWE went about [[UnPerson deleting any mention of Benoit from any of its past archives]], regardless of the importance of his involvement in any particular storyline of that time. It led to the WWE not showing certain matches that involved Benoit in any way. When the WWE had its Classics On Demand service, for example, the War Games 1997 match was not on the list of viewable War Games matches because of Benoit's involvement. It got to the point where many fans were willing to at least let WWE acknowledge his existence, especially after the revelation of Benoit's severe brain damage being the likely cause. The Benoit footage was reinstated when the WWE launched the WWE Network (which includes near the entire WWWF/WWF/WWE, WCW, ECW and other video library), but with the same Parental Advisory Warning that they usually show before a program that might contain any aspect of its "Attitude Era". Benoit cannot be searched out individually as his name yields next to no results and he is not in event descriptions, instead replaced by something along the lines of X in a Y stipulation match for Z, X obviously being Benoit's opponent for that match. Certain pay per view posters remove Benoit and the match he no-showed during the incident was edited to remove any commentary mention of him, and the tribute show that was aired for him before the circumstances of the event became known was replaced by the program shown in the internationally aired version of the same time slot, a highlight reel showing some championship matches.

** Pluto TV announced that it will skip episodes featuring the pricing game Bump. Said pricing game, which was in the rotation from 1985-1991, involved one model making a suggestive wind-up motion to push toy double-decker buses. Barker's off-camera relationship with model Dian Parkinson and the subsequent sexual harrassment lawsuit she filed against him are other factors. Among the affected episodes are Johnny Olson's last appearance and Rod Roddy's first trial appearance.

* ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'': A rare game show example; purportedly, on the demands of longtime host Bob Barker, episodes in which furs were awarded as prizes. Some said the ban also encompasses episodes that feature model Holly Hallstrom (roughly, those episodes airing from 1977-1995) due to various disputes in which she sided against Barker, but that was disproven when Fremantle launched an 80s channnel of formerly vaulted ''Price'' episodes on Pluto TV in 2021.

* "The New Mr. Franklin", the eighth episode of the first season of Canadian cartoon ''WesternAnimation/KevinSpencer'' was only broadcast once, after a viewer wrote an angry letter to the CRTC (the Canadian equivalent of the FCC) over the episode's content, which included Kevin and his dad robbing a church and hurling snowballs at the congregation.

** "Pingu's Lavatory Story" was banned in multiple countries after its original Swiss broadcast resulted in multiple viewer complaints about the characters [[PottyFailure urinating on the floor on-screen]], as well as references to alcohol addiction. It wasn't even aired at all in the United States until Amazon Prime picked up the series, which showed the original show in its entirety. It was because of the complaints that "Pingu at the Doctor's" became a second season episode, rather than a first season one.

** Taylor decided to remove the sixth episode from Websitw/YouTube for some reason. In fact, the fake DVD cover for Season One of the show even says, "Includes all 10 episodes from Season 1 (except Episode 6)." and "Episode 6 has been banned due to the creator not liking it." However, another user named [=TrickyMario7654=] reuploaded a fake TV broadcast that includes the episode, and this "broadcast" was later reuploaded by Taylor himself.

** The original version of "My Name Is" was blocked by Labi Siffre, whose song "I Got The" was SampledUp for "My Name Is", who objected to some comedy homophobia ("''my English teacher wanted to have sex in junior high. The only problem was, my English teacher was a guy...'' [...] "''runnin' over pedestrians, rapin' lesbians, while they screamin' at me, "[[TalkingToHimself let's just be frieeeends!]]"''") and pulled permission to use the interpolation until it was removed. This version was released on a promo 12 inch single for [=DJs=], but the version on the album and CD single alters the lyrics (Slim's teacher's now trying to keep him HeldBackInSchool, and runs over pedestrians in a spaceship).

* The ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' episode "Door to Door" (and its companion episode "FBI Warning of Doom") was originally scheduled to air on September 14, 2001, but was removed from the schedule following the 9/11 attacks. The episode included a scene where alien spaceships are destroying a city resembling UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity with the UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty sinking in the background. A new scene was made to replace this one and remove any New York imagery (although the new scene is arguably even more violent), and the episode finally premiered on March 29, 2002. However, the uncut version of the episode was broadcast by mistake instead of the new version. All reruns of the episode have featured the new scene instead, as do all home video and online releases.

* The Mickey [=MouseWorks=] short "Minnie Takes Care of Pluto" was banned because it involved the disturbing premise of Pluto having the paranoid belief that Minnie planned to kill him and also had a scene where Pluto dreamed that he was in Hell. As a result, it is one of the only [=MouseWorks=] shorts to never be recycled as part of ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''.

** "Hail to the Chief/Twistory" These episodes were withdrawn from broadcast on Nickelodeon in the U.S. after their premiere due to inappropriate violent mockeries of the past US Presidents, though they started airing on television again in December 2016. These episodes can be found on the Season 2 DVD and Paramount+.

* 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 [[BuryYourArt 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 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.

** Even the Thomas Stories also fall for this trope. Rick Siggelkow the co-creator and producer of Shining Time Station mention that during production of the show, it was his idea that the two ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episodes from the 2nd series ("[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS2E19Daisy Daisy]]" and "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS2E20PercysPredicament Percy's Predicament]]") were banned from being aired on Shining Time Station. The reason for this was due to his disapproval of Daisy's design being overly sexist and her lazy stubborn personality. The episodes featuring her were never aired either during the Ringo Starr era nor the George Carlin era, but her episodes were only seen by US audiences after being released to home media in 1993. The only episode featuring Daisy that aired was Season 4's Bulls Eyes on Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales after Rick was done working for the show. Daisy and Percy's Predicament were finally aired on TV in 1998 on ''[[Series/CaptainKangaroo Mister Moose's Fun Time]]'' after Shining Time Station ended.

** "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.

** Even the Thomas Stories also fall for this trope. Rick Siggelkow the co-creator and producer 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 only from being aired on Shining Time Station. The reason for this was due to his disapproval of Daisy's design being overly sexist and her lazy stubborn personality. The episodes featuring her were never aired either during the Ringo Starr era nor the George Carlin era, but her episodes were only seen by US audiences after being released to home media in 1993. The only episode featuring Daisy that aired was Season 4's Bulls Eyes on Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales after Rick was done working for the show. Daisy and Percy's Predicament 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 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 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.

* ''Series/{{Community}}'' and ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' had episodes with blackface removed from Hulu and Netflix, but are still available for digital download.

*** 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]], "Tom Tom Tomcat"[[note]] Hasn't aired on TV since 1999 for the same reason as the previous short due to featuring multiple stereotypical Native-American versions of Sylvester[[/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]].

*** [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales Despite his immense popularity among Latin Americans]], WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales is nowhere to be seen on Creator/HBOMax because Warner Bros. is still concerned about him being an ethnic stereotype.