Basic Trope: The creators attempt to throw the censors off by giving them something explicit to object to, so that they can continue Getting Crap Past the Radar.
- Straight: To distract censors from a plethora of Toilet Humor and Double Entendre, a scene of Bob masturbating is thrown in. As a result, the masturbation scene is cut, and the other jokes go by unnoticed, seeing as they're comparatively innocent.
- Exaggerated:
- This happens Once per Episode (or every five minutes of any given episode).
- A blockbuster action movie that features Stuff Blowing Up everywhere, one Family-Unfriendly Death after another, Cluster F-Bombs, the explicit gang-rape of the hero's thirteen-year-old Ingenue daughter, Hookers and Blow, etc. features a 10 minute close-up of Bob's erect penis. Everything else is left in the film, but the "penis scene" is cut out of the movie.
- Downplayed: A scene of Bob being kneed in the groin is thrown in to distract the censors from a fart joke.
- Justified: The writers are revolting against the stuffy censorship board either by Getting Crap Past the Radar.
- Inverted:
- A blockbuster action movie that features Stuff Blowing Up everywhere, one Family-Unfriendly Death after another, Cluster F-Bombs, the explicit gang-rape of the hero's thirteen-year-old Ingenue daughter, Hookers and Blow, etc. features a scene where the hero adopts a kitten he found on the street and a long-winded speech about the moral of the story is made to appease the censors.
- The movie's writers think that the content could come off as too adult for a film of its age rating, and intentionally avoid adding as much inappropriate content as possible, thinking that the executives wouldn't approve. The executives actually think that the content isn't mature enough, and ask the writers to add more adult-oriented content (often overlaps with Avoid the Dreaded G Rating).
- Subverted: The censors don't notice the masturbation scene, and so it gets past the radar.
- Double Subverted: But later, the Moral Guardians complain, and the scene is deleted from future reruns or broadcasts.
- Parodied:
- A Take That! at the censors, by doing this with a Show Within a Show.
- A Moral Guardian happily sits through three hours of sex, violence, rape, and blatant in-universe discrimination, then goes running off to form a protest group after a scene where the lead character reads random swears off of a paper.
- Zig Zagged: The scene gets in, but Moral Guardians complain. Despite this, the scene is left in, but cut for TV.
- Averted: The writers don't go too far with the content, so they don't bother doing this.
- Enforced: Getting Crap Past the Radar (or Refuge in Audacity if they really want to piss off the censors) and the belief that not everything aimed for children's audiences has to be kiddie.
- Lampshaded: "Next to Bob pleasuring himself, the constant fart jokes aren't so bad."
- Invoked: Censors start getting complaint letters from Moral Guardians and start cracking down on the series.
- Exploited: The advertising team mentions how much content was cut in the advertising for the episode, attracting attention.
- Defied:
- The creators just decide to take a Refuge in Audacity and put in any kind of jokes and references they want. If stuffy soccer-moms don't like it, too bad.
- The censors have their radars at super-high gain the day they review the work, and both the decoy and the stuff the decoy was meant to distract from both are ordered to be removed.
- Discussed: 'This scene is art, not just a cheap way of getting past the censors!'
- Conversed: 'I reckon the reason this scene got in is because of the age-old trick of putting in worse scenes to distract the febsors.
- Deconstructed: The "Invoked" entry, plus the creators cancelling the show due to Executive Meddling or getting fired for arguing with the censors and the arguing escalating and impeding on production.
Back to Censor Decoy, this is only to make that look better.
