History Main / CensorBox

* An underwear sales presentation for the shopping channel QVC showing two very attractive women wearing hideously unflattering undergarments went viral on Website/YouTube. When the British sales pitch reached QVC viewers in the USA, it provoked lots of complaints. The reason is apparently that both models had very visible erect nipples under their vests. This highlighted the gulf between British and North American social attitudes to visibly erect female [[NippleAndDimed nipples]] under clothing; it's no big deal in GB but is apparently almost as bad as toplessness in the USA. [[note]]American style guides for women's clothing do not like this ''at all'' and consider it socially unacceptable.[[/note]] Strangest of all, [[http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/12976-curvaceous-qvc-lingerie-models-gain-online-admirers-real-women-real-curves American websites covering the item]] ran edited excerpts from the show but still considered it necessary to run a Censor Box over the chest of a woman who was otherwise fully covered! [[ValuesDissonance Link is presumably NSFW in the USA but OK everywhere else]]....

* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'': WhenJames Rolfe was reviewing ''Orgy of the Dead'' as part of his Creator/EdWood-a-thon, there were a lot of topless girls in there, so he covered their breasts with Creator/BelaLugosi's face.

* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'': WhenJames Rolfe was reviewing ''Orgy of the Dead'' as part of his Creator/EdWood-a-thon, there were a lot of topless girls in there, so he covered their breasts with Creator/BelaLugosi's face.

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': The first time Jusge Dredd's helmet is removed his [[TheFaceless face]] [[TheUnreveal is covered with a white censor bar]].

** One of the recurring background characters include a naked couple with black bars over their genitals. Careful observation will reveal that they're actually wearing see-through ponchos with black bands in the appropriate places.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' when the FCC begin to censor real life after shutting down Peter's tasteless cable channel. FCC G-men are poised to cover naked people with black cardboard cut-outs (with one G-man asking if he should censor Peter's chin since it looks like a pair of testicles). Earlier, the same episode had the FCC censor the top of a skimpy bikini in a ShowWithinAShow with a censor bar, which had the effect of making the character look topless instead.

** "Hot Chick", in a first for the show, had the Warden going about with full-frontal nudity. To try to make the censored version look funnier, the Warden's censor box is a bit long and even spins about in one scene. It's uncensored in the DVD, although [[TeenyWeenie it's not all that impressive]]. The episode also included a censor box at the end to obscure Hunter's breasts, although all other scenes let her [[BarbieDollAnatomy undetailed body]] remain exposed (this was most likely because her breasts were pressed against crystal, creating dark spots that vaguely resembled nipples). It too is uncensored on the DVD, although nothing is really under it.

** Season 3 had some last-minute censorship employed when the Standards and Practices department got cold feet on some of the shots in episodes just before they were broadcast. An inmate being torn apart and devoured by dogs in "Superfail" had a HUGE censor box (even reading "Censored" in bold red letters) stamped over the scene to obscure the violence, while Alice's bulge received the same treatment during her wrestling scene. An inmate snorting cocaine in "Sticky Discharge" had the same treatment done to obscure the act. Unlike the season 2 DVD, the season 3 DVD used the edited copies of the episodes (complete with the censors and bleeped cursing) even though its label claimed all episodes were uncensored.

* WWE 2000-2001: The MoralGuardians {{Heel}} PowerStable Right To Censor, led by [[Wrestling/StevieRichards Steven Richards]], had as its entrance video a crossout circle and a [[HellIsThatNoise warning buzzer]].

* An underwear sales presentation for the shopping channel Creator/{{QVC}} showing two very attractive women wearing hideously unflattering undergarments went viral on Website/YouTube. When the British sales pitch reached QVC viewers in the USA, it provoked lots of complaints. The reason is apparently that both models had very visible erect nipples under their vests. This highlighted the gulf between British and North American social attitudes to visibly erect female [[NippleAndDimed nipples]] under clothing; it's no big deal in GB but is apparently almost as bad as toplessness in the USA. [[note]]American style guides for women's clothing do not like this ''at all'' and consider it socially unacceptable.[[/note]] Strangest of all, [[http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/12976-curvaceous-qvc-lingerie-models-gain-online-admirers-real-women-real-curves American websites covering the item]] ran edited excerpts from the show but still considered it necessary to run a Censor Box over the chest of a woman who was otherwise fully covered! [[ValuesDissonance Link is presumably NSFW in the USA but OK everywhere else]]....

* A piece of video art by [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible performance artist]] Pina Bausch featured a shot of a topless woman sitting in a room with a censor box over her eyes.

* Used in ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' for comedy. Especially in the case of the telepathic superheroine Mind████, whose name is always rendered like that.
* The first time ComicBook/JudgeDredd's helmet is removed his [[TheFaceless face]] [[TheUnreveal is covered with a white censor bar]].
* A ''ComicBook/RichieRich'' comic book cover has a big dollar bill on the shower door covering Richie's midsection when he shows himself taking a shower in a non-Fanservice-y way.
* In the ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendsForever'' issue Pinkie and Twilight, after Pinkie destroys Twilight's elaborate plan to keep her contained, Twilight's swear is covered by a Cheezburger panel.

* In the ''VideoGame/Police911'' series, the eyes of criminals in their portraits are censored out, not unlike in Japanese television broadcasts. When you fight them, their faces are pixellated.

* Creator/AdultSwim took this trope to its logical conclusion when they aired ''Film/TheRoom''. Ridiculously oversized black boxes were used to cover just about every inappropriate scene.

* ''Series/CanadasWorstDriver'' fittingly uses a stop sign, with exception of season 5 contestant Jakob, who had an anarchy symbol used for him instead. Sister show ''Series/CanadasWorstHandyman'' respectively uses animated duct tape.

* ''Series/CanadasWorstDriver'' fittingly uses a stop sign. Sister show ''Series/CanadasWorstHandyman'' respectively uses animated duct tape.

* ''LightNovel/MagiciansAcademy'' has {{claymation}} versions of Tanarot appear to cover up the animated her whenever she does anything that might be considered too fanservicey. It ends up looking really weird.

* In the Blernsball episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' there is a machine that censor-boxes reality in a men's changing room. It gets accidentally knocked off and all the bars disappear, which means the men have to cover themselves up manually except the one guy with his back towards the camera, who proudly proclaims, "I ''win''."

* ''LightNovel/{{Inukami}}'' applies most of its Censor Boxes to the ''males'' (usually Keita) in the form of blue elephants on parade. Said elephants are usually right around the crotch. There's a lot of manservice in ''Inukami''.
* Parodied in ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' during the obligatory HotSpringsEpisode. We see all the main male characters go into a communal shower, with black dots covering their modesty. Then, after they go behind a opaque wooden screen, they throw the dots over the top of the screen like towels!