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  • IV series:
    • Aobon likes the idea of his grandpa Graybon marrying Purple... because then Aobon's new grandma would make him food, bathe with him and sleep with him.
    • To release Sildork, Dark Baaya turns into a younger attractive form and goes to the guards; the door is closed and we just see hearts coming from the door until the key is thrown outside so Dark Jigoro can release Sildork.
  • V series:
    • In the episode about mirrors that have anybody seeing a handsome form in the reflection, one of these is used to distract a guard who sees himself as a woman wearing a feather boa.
    • Mervamon from Digimon Fusion really takes the "Ms. Fanservice" trope and runs with it to the end zone. Her bustier is flesh-toned.
      • In the sequel, in the second-to-last episode she Xrosses with Beelzemon, and uses an attack called Sexy the Cannon.
      • Stingmon and Lilamon from the original Xros Wars. One is an insect and another is a flower. They're portrayed as lovers. Insert pollination jokes here.
    • Lilithmon is similar to Mervamon at least in the original dub of Digimon Fusion. A particular standout moment is in The Dark Side of Bright Land, when the radar is outright shattered as she fondles her breasts and tells her comrades how being in Hell's Field is getting her ''excited'' because of how the area feels to her.
  • Radar.Doraemon
    • "Vacuum Cleaner Super Car" has Noby and Doraemon trying to win a race by riding a vacuum cleaner while their friends ride in a supercar. At one point, Noby reaches into Doraemon's gadget pocket to find a gadget that can help them win the race. This scene is played as if sticking your hands into someone's pants (or their pockets). Complete with Doraemon practically shrieking, "YO, COLD HANDS!"
    Noby: (reaching into Doraemon's gadget pocket) Excuse me, buddy, I need to grab this.
    Doraemon: (shocked) YO, COLD HANDS!
    • In one story, there is a gadget that is able to sell or refund any items. It's innocent enough until the end, where, in an attempt to return Shizuka's borrowed book that's unintentionally sold through the gadget, Doraemon and Nobita rush to sell used books only to find what is clearly a porn magazine, that is sold for high price, thus able to return Shizuka's book. The last panel implies that porn magazine belongs to Nobita's father.

    Values Dissonance 
  • Radar.Doraemon
    • Any time when Nobita walks in on Shizuka bathing. Special mention in one chapter where Nobita unconsciously convinces Shizuka to go out naked thanks to a reverse-ventriloquist doll that’s supposed to be able to convince everyone to do what Nobita says.
    • In one chapter, Nobita attempts to separate himself from Shizuka forever, the topic of suicide is brought up, complete with a gadget being pills. This is changed in the 2005 anime to being a (non-consumable) potion for obvious reasons.

    Standards "unusually" low 
  • Radar.Digimon
    • In general, Digimon really did have more translator bravery than a lot of anime aired in the Saturday morning cartoon block. Other series lost entire episodes or even arcs, had stories and characters changed drastically because God forbid there should be any drama, angst (kids can't handle it!) or romance (that's tantamount to admitting sex exists!/Boys will think it's yucky!) happen. Digimon will keep the handgun given to an eight-year-old out of frame but that's about the extent. Never Say "Die" applied pretty much to death words only, and the occasional use of The Hit Flash. (They did try to pretend away two deaths in the Myotismon arc, but then they realized just how huge a body count the series was going to rack up from here on in and gave up.) You get things like the sight of Chuumon with one of Piedmon's knives sticking out of him (we lose only the instant the knife goes in.) The letter of the law is adhered to
      • Death and related words are actually said fairly regularly in Adventure, 02, and Tamers. They gloss over it a bit, but they don't outright hide it. Heck, they've even used "kill" before!
      • That was T.K. When BlackWarGreymon was going after one of those stones that tied the Digital World together, Cody stood in between him and it all on his own. Just before it cut to commercial you get a chilling, "He'll be killed!"
    • Tamers definitely averted the Never Say "Die" trope. When Guilmon first biomerged to create his Mega form, Kenta was worried about Takato's disappearance and thought he may have fallen off a cliff "and be hurt or dead or something" amongst other points.

    Things that may qualify 

    Just people gushing about "maturity"/other things that should be cut 
  • Radar.Digimon
    • Thanks to the higher demographic target, Digimon Data Squad can get more leeway than usual. Even then, some of those aspects are ridiculous, such as:
      • Yoshino barging in and insisting on 'accompanying' Masaru for security reasons, which results in her sleeping in his room. Consider this: at this point their relationship is defined by bickering and mockery, and there's 4 years of difference between them. Chika even lampshades how they act somewhat too close.
      • Masaru's mom let it go without further ado, so that's a bonus.
      • Emphasis on Rosemon's Digivolution as well as transition from local Bridge Bunnies to Lovely Angels (training suit with loose zipper).
      • Taking the cake and eating it is Touma vs Nanami. To say this is not sexual at all is the same as saying how sincere GLADOS is.
      • Chika drags Ikuto and Falcomon to the bathroom and then throws them into the bathtub, but not without stripping down poor Ikuto first.
      • The way Ikuto's mother is Bound and Gagged.
      • Given how the previous seasons' dub censored all the instances of "real" guns being used, it was a surprise to see Kurata and his soldiers keeping their guns intact in Data Squad.
      • With Masaru and Touma gone, it's up to Yoshino, Ikuto, Miki, and Megumi to fight Belphemon. Think about it: three grown-up ladies who wear somewhat fanservice-y clothes are bringing a pre-pubescent boy with motorcycles at night. The situation might be intense, but it's hard to not snicker at the party's composition and accuse the ladies of being paedophiles.
  • The entire Radar.Jewelpet subpage is pretty poorly-written.

    Not Sure 
  • Radar.Doraemon
    • The UK dub that aired on Boomerang is fine with letting a lot of things pass, like a body switching episode where this happens. Want to know? Sue, in Noby's body, saw Noby's privates and wants Noby in Sue's body to switch back with her.

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    Actas 
  • The director of Girls und Panzer forbade his crew from inserting any panty shots, but dared them to try anyway. They resorted to doing so by proxy.
    • : Ch-Ha-Tan Academy's name somewhat resembles, and their logo strongly resembles, shimapan (blue-and-white horizontally stripped panties).
    • one of Erika's crewmen sitting next to her superior, apparently staring up through her legs even as Erika was into a screaming fit.

    American radio stations 

    BBC 
  • The Who slipped one past the BBC radio censors in 1966 hit single Substitute. Allegedly hacked off with Beatles-style fangirls coming to their concerts to scream hysterically and ignore the music, there is a point in the song where they play with words and clearly sing "Prostitute..."
  • It took several seasons before the censors realized the implications of having a character named "Mike Hunt" in KYTV
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    Atlantic Records 
  • Atlantic Records insisted on a placing a Parental Advisory warning label King Missile's album Happy Hour, which the band weren't happy with. According to John S. Hall, for their next album, King Missile, they submitted a self-censored lyric sheet to the label, but kept the cursing in the recorded versions of songs, figuring no one at the label would actually listen to the music. The ploy apparently worked - despite probably having about as much objectionable content in it as Happy Hour did, the self-titled album had no such warning on the cover.

    Australian Classification Board 
ACB, as its name suggests, assigns ratings to TV, movies, and games in Australia. Their criteria, current as of 2012, can be found here.

    Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) 
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is the main Australian industry group responsible for promotion and self-regulation of the Australian music industry. In 2003, they adopted a three-tier labelling scheme for potentially objectionable songs, known in common parlance as The Code, by which music with strong language or themes would be labelled Moderate, Strong, or High-Impact, the last of which was not to be sold to minors. In 2020, The Code was revised, and now uses just one label which simply says "Explicit". The criteria for both schemes can be read here.

    CBS 
  • In the Hawaii 5-O episode "Tricks Are Not Treats", the writers apparently weren't allowed to refer to the pimps as pimps, but managed to work in Lolo's nickname for them: "pimples".

  • The writers of WVRP in Cincinnati weren't allowed to say directly that Johnny uses marijuana, so they found many ways to imply this without incurring the wrath of the network censors. In one episode, Mr. Carlson brings some visitors into the booth and surreptitiously waves his hand to clear away any smoke that might be surrounding Johnny.

  • Oswald and Danny's Mat Chat clip from the end of The Amazing Race: All-Stars episode 2 was pulled from the CBS website after less than a day, as no one at CBS seemed to notice that Oswald made an overt reference about oral sex towards Phil until people started commenting about it.
- did this really happen, and was it for the reason stated?
  • Community: Chevy Chase's section of the opening credits cootie-catcher has a drawing of a woman with bare breasts. The censors caught this later on and his drawings were changed to lips and "eyeballs" for the next episode.

    Central Board of Film Classification (India) 
  • Given the strict censorship of Indian films of the era, the word "pregnant" couldn't be uttered in Apur Sansar. So Apu says something about how they'll save expenses because Aparna is going to her parents' house for two months, and Aparna says "What about the extra expenses when we come back?"

    Classification and Ratings Agency (USA) 
  • Wes Craven failed to get an R rating for The Last House on the Left, even after removing 30 minutes from the movie. Ultimately, he got the movie into theaters by lying that it was R-rated. He spliced the "Rated R" certification from a different movie into his own film. No one noticed.
, and listicles don't qualify
  • The Shining: Stanley Kubrick told the MPAA that the torrent rushing out of the elevators was rusty water and not blood in order to get the movie's trailer shown. At the time the MPAA did not allow blood to be depicted in trailers.

    Comics Code 
  • Groo the Wanderer occasionally had topless women in the background. While not the focus and done in Sergio Aragonés's cartoony style, they still managed to get Code approval.
[citaton needed] - specifically, which issues did it happen in? Groo the Wanderer was published from 1985 to 1995; background boobs were forbidden under the 1974 version of the Code, but were just about acceptable under the 1989 revision.- where and when did Kim De Mulder say that?
  • Back in the '80s, Jim Shooter forbade Chris Claremont from depicting homosexual relationships in the X-books. Claremont proceeded to sneak two lesbian couples past Shooter in subtle ways. One was Mystique and Destiny; the other is arguably Storm and Yukio. At one point, Storm is offered her "heart's desire", which is to live in Tokyo with Yukio with no cares or responsibilities.

  • Chris Claremont famously managed managed to sneak a same-sex romance into his X-Men stories by portraying Mystique and Destiny as, ahem, very, very good friends; Mystique even refers to Destiny as her "leman", an old-timey word for "lover.
- we need a primary source. Supposedly, Claremont confirmed the sapphism in an interview, so try to track that down.
  • One of the first indicators that Nightwing and Starfire in 'Teen Titans'' were intimate was a scene where he was wearing pajama pants while she wore the shirt. Word of God from Marv Wolfman stated that was so they could depict Kory and Dick as having a sexual relationship and still get it past The Comics Code.

    Cotton Club 
  • Cab Caloway was the undisputed world champion of his time. "Minnie the Moocher" is a prostitute high on opium; "Smokey Joe" is a pimp; "The Hi-de-Ho Miracle Man" is a lying con artist; "The Reefer Man" was a street pot dealer. Few of the white patrons of the Cotton Club caught on.
- was he actually trying to sneak things past the Cotton Club?

    EMI Columbia 
  • Pink Floyd's "Candy and a Currant Bun" contains the line "Please, just fuck with me". This was written as a Writer Revolt after the record company censored the drug references in the previous version of the song (it was entitled "Let's Roll Another One" and contained lyrics like "I'm high; don't try to spoil my fun"), but the record company failed to notice. note 

  • Possibly the only reason The Residents got away with the artwork (NSFW) for Tweedles! was the way that they packaged it.
- which rule does it break?

    British Horseracing Authority 
naming is governed by Rule 5 of the British Horseracing Authority's Rules of Racing, which prohibits "a name which the BHA considers offensive or inappropriate."

    Fox Kids 

  • An on-camera murder is shown in Power Rangers. How did they get away with this? Because the story editor lied to Fox Kids that it was going to be revealed in the finale that Cole's parents weren't dead but turned into Toxica and Jindrax, knowing full well that the show was going to move to ABC Kids in the second half. Because ABC Kids censors never knew about this the show never had to get around to fulfilling its promise to Fox Kids censors.

    Hays Code 
  • Sam and Captain Wiles in The Trouble with Harry discuss Miss Gravely's presumed virginity (a scene the studio told Alfred Hitchcock to change, but he never did).

    Japanese government restrictions 
  • Dir en grey's MACABRE gives use "Egnirys Cimredopyh + an injection" from MACABRE Read the first part backwards. Japanese law forbids the mention of syringes and needles.

    Lucas Arts 
  • Knights of the Old Republic had a lesbian romance vetoed by executive fiat, though a very subtle female-only romance arc with Juhani managed to sneak in anyway.
- specifically, we need a source on it being vetoed.

    Main Office of Control of Press, Publications and Shows (Poland) 
  • Sex Mission: Basically the whole movie is a satire on communist society but one particular line, a solid Take That! to the Soviet Union, stands out in particular and has become one of the most-cited quotes in the whole Polish movie history:
    Maks: On to future, please check the East! There must be some civilization out there!
    • That particular line is trope page to make sure your example fits the only bit which the censorship did cut when the film, but only when it was scheduled TV airing — it was left untouched in cinemas.
[citation needed]

    Medieval French Aristocracy 
  • Chrétien de Troyes managed to sneak in criticism of the ruling class at the time by combining two tropes. First, it was certainly common opinion that the Good Old Ways were better, so even the aristocracy of the day would agree that Arthur and his advisers were nobler, more courtly, more enlightened. After driving that uncontroversial point home, de Troyes then mentions how the court of Arthur was not that interesting most of the time, filled with petty bickering, people waiting for things to happen, and Arthur himself falling asleep at the table out of boredom. It was his way of saying "these guys certainly had their problems, and you're nowhere near as good as they were."

    Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (Iran) 
The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, or Ershad, is the Iranian government's ministry of culture, and responsible for censorship. All media is required to conform to conservative Muslim values and portray Iran in a positive light, which means that artists have to get creative if they want their work to be interesting. Ershad's (rather broad) guidlines can be viewed here
  • In Komaa, Hassan and Maryam very obviously kiss at the end — just offscreen, while the camera focuses on a flower in a vase. Iranian cinema is fairly censored, so this was necessary and in fact unusually explicit.

    Creator/MGM 
  • Skittish MGM producers didn't allow the word "Jew" in the 1940 The Mortal Storm, so Viktor, Freya, and Rudi are only identified as "non-Aryan". And it was a pointless gesture, as Hitler still banned MGM movies.

    Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (Philippines) 
The MTCRB is the state agency which applies age ratings to movies and TV shows released in the Philippines. The Board is also empowered to suspend shows. The age ratings can be found here; in addition, there is an X rating, which means the work cannot be aired in public.

    MTV 
  • Somehow rear male nudity got past the MTV censors for Billy Joel's "Allentown".
- was there a rule against men's bums?
  • In the original music video for Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again", Tawny Kitaen's left nipple was visible for a split second. The censors did not notice and the video aired on MTV for a while before people spotted it. The original version of the video was quickly pulled from the air and replaced by an edited version that removed the brief nudity.

    Nazi regime 
  • Douglas Sirk toyed with the message of La Habanera, which was supposed to be an anti-American propaganda film. Notably, at the end of the movie Don Pedro is moved by Astrée's performance of "La Habanera", tells her that he loves her, and offers to go with her to Sweden. She cruelly rejects him. In the last scene Astrée is leaving Puerto Rico with obviously mixed emotions, proclaiming that she has "no regrets".
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    NBC 
  • Hannibal: The painting in Hannibal's dining room is Leda and the Swan by François Boucher. It depicts the mortal woman Leda and the god Zeus, who has taken the form of a swan to do what Zeus always does with mortal women. Check out the painting online. The show depicted it totally uncensored. This may well be the first time nudity of that level (not to mention the blatant swan-placement) has slipped by the censors on one of the Big Three networks. By the second season, it pinged the radar, so Leda's now draped in cloth and the swan's head is elsewhere. Still, it sure took them a while.

    Polar Music 
  • In ABBA's "Summer Night City", Björn sings the lyric "Walking in the moonlight, love-making in a park" in the chorus. As the song progresses, it sounds more and more like "Fucking in the moonlight". Years later, Björn admitted that maybe he had dropped the f-bomb once or twice towards the end of the song.

    Ritchie Blackmore 
  • In 1973, Deep Purple were recording their Who Do We Think We Are album. Domineering band leader and perpetually black-clad guitarist Ritchie Blackmore was being difficult by staying up all night, sleeping late (during most of the day, actually), and only showing up at the studio when the rest of band had already called it a day. Blackmore was also discussing with the managers about replacing the singer, Ian Gillan, behind Gillan's back. Gillan sensed this and wrote a song about it, "Smooth Dancer". Ostensibly being the words of an embittered lover, the song all but spells out Blackmore's name and just about every line expresses Gillan's disgust about his behaviour. Blackmore apparently never caught on (or cared), and just like with most other songs on the record, he added a guitar track to the song on his own after the others had finished it. Soon after, Gillan chose to quit rather than be fired. Examples of lines gotten past Blackmore's radar:
    "Baby, you're the one who can never see the sun / Because it don't shine nightly"
    "Don't you look at me because I'm gonna shake free"
    "You've swollen up inside with nothing but your pride"
    "Your two-timing ways / They don't bother me none / [...] I'm gonna walk to freedom"
    "Black suede, I sense your mockery / I tried to go along with you / But you're black and I know just what to do"
    "Baby, you can rock'n'roll / But you can never show your soul, smooth dancer."
- you can cite a book if you like, just as long as we have SOME sort of source.

    Sci-Fi Channel 
  • Zelenka's Czech tirades in Stargate Atlantis are, by David Nykl's own admission, often more vulgar than anything the showrunners could get away with in English.note 

    Sports Illustrated 
— was there a rule saying he couldn't give the finger?

    Taito 
  • The developers of Metal Black thought that their initial idea for the story was too dark, so they originally pitched the game to Taito's heads of development as a spin-off to Gun Frontier, with a Foiler Footage plot involving the Wild Lizards from that game as returning villains. By the time Taito found out the truth, the game was about to be released, and so it was too late for Taito to make any changes. Consequently, they were forced to go with the downer plot that had originally been intended by the game designers. "Project Gun Frontier II" can still be seen at the start of the attract sequence explaining the plot.

    Ten Words of Wisdom 
  • In the webseries Ten Words of Wisdom, a usually kid-friendly web competition, contestants sometimes sneak questionable material past Cary. Some include Riley's controversial dog-slaughtering response, SpicyMan33's ode to Riley, SpicyMan33's (partially censored) angry discord messages to MidnightLight, and TheMightyMidge's TWOW 17 Fun with Acronyms confessional (The words spelled "Yessoan," and the "A" was "*sscr*k"). Cary himself unintentionally used an offensive word when he combined the words "TWOW" and "chat" into "TWAT".
— do the hosts have specific rules about what's allowed?

    T. Fisher Unwin 
  • Getting Crap Past the Radar: In the first edition of Whose Body?, Parker says that he's confident that the mysterious naked corpse isn't the missing Sir Reuben Levy because "Sir Reuben is a pious Jew of pious parents, and the chap in the bath obviously isn't" — i.e., the corpse isn't circumcised. This anatomical allusion apparently pinged somebody's radar later, as subsequent editions have omitted the observation, leaving Parker equally confident but less forthcoming about his reasons.
- in particular, was this actually a case of GCPTR, or just a matter of changing standards?

    TSR 
  • In the 2nd-edition days of Dungeons & Dragons, a large number of Forgotten Realms guidebooks (particularly the "Volo's Guides" series of in-universe travelogues) made reference to "festhalls" scattered across the Realms in just about every city and town. And by "festhalls" we mean "brothels".
— were they not allowed to mention brothels?

    United Feature Syndicate 

This next example is valid if it was published c 1980

  • One of the pre-"nice Liz" strips had Jon asking a woman for a date over the phone. She tells him she'd "rather go out with camel spittle." Garfield urges Jon to retaliate with an insult of his own...and Jon comes up with "But what if your brother already has plans?!" - but hours later, when the two are going to bed. So not only is the brother "spittle", but Jon is insinuating that the woman would seduce her own brother.

    USSR State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino) 
  • Alexander Nevsky features a Russian Orthodox saint as a protagonist, presents medieval Russia in a positive light, and glorifies non-Communist Russian patriotism. All these things were looked down upon by Soviet authorities and intellectuals critical of what was termed Great Russian Chauvinism, yet Sergei Eisenstein got away with it.
  • Part of what makes the characters' problem so bad in Letter Never Sent is that their radio is damaged in the fire. It can receive but it can't transmit, leaving the group listening to their contact back in Moscow but unable to call for help. The endless banal platitudes of the guy back in Moscow, yammering on at length about what a victory they've won for socialism, while the protagonists are in a desperate fight for their lives, seems like a veiled criticism of Soviet propaganda.

    Verve Records 
Verve Records signed two of the most daring an experimental bands of The '60s, leading to this trope.
  • The producers of Freak Out, the first album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, attended the first sessions of the album when the Mothers were recording more traditional material, such as "Any Way The Wind Blows". On hearing this they assumed the band was just "another blues rock band" and left without being alarmed. This may have saved Zappa and the Mothers from not being outright rejected while playing the more heavy and experimental stuff.
  • The Velvet Underground singing about someone "sucking his ding-dong" in "Sister Ray", a track from White Light/White Heat, only ended up on the album because the producer refused to listen to the recording.

    Videogame Rating Council 
In the wake of the controversy over Night Trap, Sega of America proposed having the Motion Picture Association of America rate games as well as movies. When MPAA president Jack Valenti declined, Sega founded the Videogame Rating Council in 1993 to assign age ratings to games. Ratings were based on those of the MPAA and comprised G, MA-13, and MA-17. The VRC was rendered defunct in 1994 with the foundation of the ESRB.— specifically, something describing what each rating meant. Wikis are not acceptable sources.

    WH Smiths 
  • Private Eye tried to publish an issue with the word fuck on the front cover. They were advised that if they did this, the biggest ditribution chain in the country would simply refuse to handle the magazine on profanity and morality grounds. Artist Willie Rushton designed an elaborate front cover based on mediaeval monastic scrolls. Hidden in each of the four corners were the ornately drawn letters F, U, C and K. The W.H. Smiths print distribution system handled the issue and got it to retail outlets — only realising afterwards that they had been had. This was the beginning of a long feud between Smiths and the Eye which led to the Eye renaming their distributors ''W.H. Smug's''.

    World Rally Championship 
  • Rally driver Lorenzo Bertelli, who just happens to be the son of fashion house heir Miuccia Prada, somehow managed to slip in his team's name, "Fuckmatiè World Rally Team", in the World Rally Championship, despite the obvious ramifications it might bring with broadcasters and perhaps the FIA, on top of the WRC All Live hosts having to apologise for many a "merde" or "perkele" the drivers might blurt out in frustration. Bertelli did register his team under the acronym "FWRT", but the car itself and their helmets do have the name intact more or less—the livery on his Fiesta has the "u" in "FUCKMATIE'" inverted, but his co-driver's helmet is shown uncensored. Considering his relation to the fashion house and all, it isn't like he's going to change it any time soon.
— Do the WRC or FIA have rules against curse words?

    Williams Electronics 
  • Doug Watson did not get approval to make the eponymous Barracora on the playfield naked. However, they're shown in profile and have no visible nipples, so there isn't anything exceptionally scandalous.

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