History Main / ThinkOfTheCensors

* In Episode 45 of ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', the Bishop and Brigadier try to settle down and talk about their deep feelings for each other. They conclude that there's not much they can do about it on television, even though "they are a lot more permissive these days than they used to be."

* The {{MythBusters}} have run up against this more than once. For instance, when testing if it's possible to polish a turd, Adam starts the show by dutifully listing all the euphemisms for "turd" that they're not allowed to use (which, of course, were all bleeped out). In another one, they were testing if swearing helped to deal with pain; Adam made mouth guards to help the censors out by keeping people's foul mouths from needing to be blurred out - "Blurs are expensive, but bleeps are cheap!".

* Eric Idle, on ''MontyPython's Contractual Obligation Album'', sings "I Bet You They Won't Play This Song on the Radio".

* An episode of ''USAcres'' on ''{{Garfield and Friends}}'' had the wolf disguise himself as a businessman, where he convinced everyone on the farm, except for Orson, to procrastinate their jobs. Whenever he mentioned procrastination, the characters would respond with, "You can't talk about that on a kid's show!"
* ''LooneyTunes'', "A Tale of Two Kitties":

* On ''RoadRovers'', when sicking [[AxCrazy Muzzle]] on some bad guys for some [[BattleDiscretionShot offscreen violence]]:

-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', not content with just GettingCrapPastTheRadar for once.

** That was the version on the Jonah album. The version used in other media is this:
-->'''Peter Furler:''' It might behoove me to be heaved/ Head out like a human comet, hmm, I wonder what rhymes with comet?\\

'''Larry the Cucumber:''' Uh, guys, you might not want to rhyme with "comet"

** and:

** The "give me the bird" line was itself a ShoutOut to an old LooneyTunes short featuring a pair of cats that were AbbotAndCostello [[{{Expy}} expies]], but the gag was that the HaysCode wouldn't allow it.

* ''MyNameIsEarl'': On one episode, Darnell explains that a ShowWithinAShow in the episode had to censor profanity because the FCC doesn't allow curse words [[{{Watershed}} until after 10PM]]. Joy looks at her watch, then says "Assholes."

* At one point in the ''MahouSenseiNegima'' manga, a panicked Konoka readies a [[RelaxOVision censor image]] and protests that children are reading the comic when Jack Rakan begins getting a bit too perverted.

* At one point in the ''MahouSenseiNegima'' manga, a panicked Konoka readies a censor image and protests that children are reading the comic when Jack Rakan begins getting a bit too perverted.

-->'''Pumbaa:''' And I felt downhearted / Every time that I...\\

* ''{{Histeria}}'' had a version where they didn't try to dodge the censor; rather she would actually come out "onstage" and complain from time to time to similar effect. Of course, this means they actually got to say the things the censor objected to - the list includes the quotes "War is hell" and "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead"; and a discussion of the toilet's inventor Thomas (snicker) Crapper.

* In the {{Newsboys}} song "Belly of the Whale", which was written for the VeggieTales "Jonah" movie...

-->--''{{Animaniacs}}'', not content with just GettingCrapPastTheRadar for once.

* ''{{Animaniacs}}'' is full of these, in addition to the one on top of the page:

* ''FamilyGuy'' does this in "The Road to Rhode Island:

* An episode of ''USAcres'' on ''{{Garfield and Friends}}'' had the wolf disguise himself as a businessman, where he convinced everyone on the farm, except for Orson, to procrastinate their jobs. Whenever he mentioned about procrastination, the characters would respond with, "You can't talk about that on a kid's show!"