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GettingCrapPastTheRadarCriteria
18th Oct '20 3:40:29 AM
Crown Description:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Getting Crap Past the Radar has a major problem with misuse. This crowner is an attempt to curb the insanity by agreeing a set of criteria by which examples will be ruled as valid. Upvote criteria you think should count, and downvote those that should not be allowed. If you do downvote something, please drop by the repair thread[1] and let us know why [1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1591292801058841200
References to written standards, which cite the exact rule which was broken.
Example:
- In 1974, Captain America first encountered the Comittee to Regain American's Principles, a villainous organisation whose acronym violated the ban on "[p]rofanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, or words or symbols which have acquired undesirable meanings" in the 1971 revision of the Comics Code.
Word of God: Examples where the creator describes circumventing the censors.
Example:
- Brian Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino decided to work a same-sex romance in The Legend of Korra; as Koneitzko explains here, the higher-ups at Nickelodeon wouldn't allow an explicitly lesbonic relationship, but they were able to work it in through lots of subtle signs and hints, culminating in a final shot of Korra and Asami holding hands and gazing into each other's eyes as romantic music plays.
Works which get released, and are swiftly recalled to either change the age rating or to remove objectionable content.
Examples:
- Atelier Meruru was originally released with an A rating from CERO. When they realised what they'd done, they recalled it to change the rating to B.
- In Disney's The Rescuers, during the scene where Bernard and Miss Bianca are flying aboard the back of Orville through the city, a small image of a topless woman is visible (for two nonconsecutive frames) pasted in the window of a building in the background. The 1999 Masterpiece Collection VHS tapes containing the image were recalled almost immediately, and all subsequent releases of the film have, of course, have been edited to exclude the image. There have been many urban legends surrounding Disney movies and purported hidden risqué content, but this remains the only incident to have been clearly deliberate and of an unquestionable nature.
Reports of censorship failure from investigative journalists working for reliable news outlets. Blogs, social media, and comment sections DO NOT qualify.
Example:
- India's Central Board of Film Classification accepted bribes in exchange for awarding valuable U ratings to movies which objectively warrant higher classifications.
A creator giving anecdotal evidence that censors are particularly strict.
Example:
- Paul Villeco, a storyboard artist on Steven Universe, reported that he got a notice from S&P that said "NO SEXUAL REFERENCES"... because he used the number 69 to refer to the scene between #68 and #70. Given this, it's a wonder how all the actual sex references (such as in "Story for Steven" when Marty chastises Greg for going after "one big woman" instead of "many smaller ones") managed to get into the show.
Examples which a reasonable person would not expect to get past the censors.
Example:
- One of The Nostalgia Chick's images in the slowed-down "Chipmunk Song" is a silhouette of a dragon graphically fucking a car, visible cum and all. The radar in this case being Blip, who probably would not have let that through if they'd noticed.
