There's been plenty of debate.
One of the biggest obstacles is that we'd have to determine whether there is a radar, and if so whether a specific entry got past it. As I understand it, Family Guy is up against a radar on certain American channels.
Maybe it's just me but I don't really understand why Radar is permissible when it has long veered off the road and the wheels are left spinning in a ditch. The main issues to me are that for some examples there isn't a radar to slip past like mentioned. The other is that if there is a radar then anything which could be vaguely interpreted as crap is acceptable even if that perception only exists in the mind of the Troper who added it. It's little more than WMG about things which may or may not be innuendo or simply Parental Bonus interpreted wrong.
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This prolly should go in special efforts.
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The Campbell Biology is one of the problematic examples because it was not meant for kids nor is the content inappropriate in any manner for the audience it was intended for. A key idea of getting something past the radar is that it was meant to be inappropriate or prohibited on the network and the Campbell Biology textbook meets neither of the rules. Should we emphasize that it has to be in a media that would be viewed by the general populace and that if someone saw it without someone mentioning it, they should also ask how it got past the radar?
There is complete obliviousness in some cases. Like pointing out very homosexual and or incest situations, even though it was very clear that the character thought the other one was a woman at the time and didn't knew they were his/her brother, sister, daughter etc. in disguise. You know, one of the oldest jokes in the book.
edited 7th Jun '11 4:12:35 PM by marcellX
This is already being worked on in Special Efforts.
Do we need this thread open?
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No, we don't, and the page doesn't need two tags for the same thing. Locking.
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I have noticed that many items with their own pages have items on the genre pages as well,(for example, Newspaper Comics has a folder in the main page dispite having even sub-pages in Comic Books). Also, there are many works that are mature enough to not even have radars. There were quite a few Family Guy examples before I deleted them. This may only require some minor cleanup, but its quite widespread.