Basic Trope: Content which is not appropriate for a work's age rating makes it in anyway.
- Straight: The ratings board gives The Adventures of Bob a G rating despite a couple of allusions to sex.
- Exaggerated: Refuge in Audacity.
- Downplayed: The ratings board gives The Adventures of Bob a rating commensurate with its content. However, the show has some veiled references to things the censors don't care about, but the executives always order cut because it offends the moral guardians.
- Justified:
- Bob is being subtle about innuendo because of in-universe censorship.
- The show airs on a channel whose censorship standards are notoriously flimsy or non-existent (e.g., NBC, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, FOX, Teletoon, Comedy Central, etc.).
- Inverted: The Adventures of Bob is an allegedly adult show with little to no risque content.
- Subverted: Executive Meddling in the form of catching the raunchy jokes before they go on air.
- Double Subverted: The censored joke is replaced by another inappropriate joke that doesn't get caught.
- Parodied: The Adventures of Bob features an episode where Bob starts an anti-indecency brigade against a kids' show that's notorious for its racy content.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- The show's content is actually age-appropriate.
- None of the writers try to go too far with risque content.
- Enforced: See Justified point 2.
- Lampshaded: "It's a good thing the network censors don't care what we say or do — within reason. Any other channel would have canceled us by now."
- Invoked:
- The creators of The Adventures of Bob believe in Defying the Censors and use many tricks to get the producers to let risque content through.
- The producers want The Adventures of Bob to have a Periphery Demographic (read: appeal to older viewers as well as younger ones), and they find that the best way to do this is to use this trope.
- Exploited: What? The censors are asleep? Oh, hell yes!
- Defied: See Subverted.
- Discussed: "Why does every cartoon these days feel the need to push the envelope? Not every cartoon needs to be like Family Guy. Then again, if it weren't for overgrown cartoon fans and stoners, this show wouldn't have a fanbase at all."
- Conversed: "Wow. The things they're getting away with on kids' shows these days. I counted ten sex jokes, five counts of Ho Yay, a Family-Unfriendly Death, a possible reference to marijuana smoking, and a joke about dogs using trees as bathrooms."
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