Getting Crap Past the Radar cleanup

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#1426: May 15th 2021 at 5:00:06 PM

I kinda wanna look at The Amazing World Of Gumball. Luckily most of this isn't really shoehorning by the previous definition, so a lot of the content can probably be moved to Demographically Inappropriate Humor and Parental Bonus (the former may even warrant its own subpage — we could move the page image there).

For some bonus context, here's a list of ways the show has been censored, so we have an idea of what is and isn't allowed in certain countries.

PS: This took me, like, an hour and a half to sift through. TV Tropes really did ruin my life, huh?

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General

Banana Joe frequently takes off his peel, sometimes even swinging it around, even though many other occasions make it clear that it's the banana equivalent of stripping and/or streaking^note. It was even in a promo and mentioned in "The Butterfly": Naked People Are Funny, not explicit.
Miss Simian: Joseph, we've been here before. When is it appropriate to take your skin off?
Banana Joe: Uh...Christmas!
The word "nipples" is said numerous times^like, a word Adventure Time was not allowed to say despite being higher rated (TV-PG) and on the same network. I think this can stay because there's a precedent set that even shows with higher age ratings can't get away with saying "nipples."
In a rather literal example, Mr. Poop, a recurring background character (for instance, in the line at the beginning of "The Pony") appears to be◊ an anthropomorphic wad of feces. Toilet Humor, probably not too far for Y7? I know some censors don't like feces on TV but I don't think it's explicitly banned.

Season 1

The Responsible

The "baby sitter" Richard found online and almost hired is depicted as a literal slimeball^note who wants to sit on children. His name on the concept art is even "Albert the Pervert◊". The fact he's meant to be a pervert is dodgy, so maybe it's a Parental Bonus? Kids won't get the pedo implications (I didn't as a kid) but adults might.

The Third

The plot for the episode seemed like it was about a ménage à trois or exploring the possibility of a polygamous relationship and, later, infidelity. Ho Yay, maybe? Or Does This Remind You of Anything?. Probably not radar though.
Darwin: Three best friends? Won't that be a bit... weird?
Gumball: It's only weird if we make it weird. Do you find it weird?
Darwin: Not if you don't.

The End

At the beginning of the episode, Gumball and Darwin both sit on their couch lifelessly flicking through TV channels and eating junk food with red-rimmed eyes for the entire scene. It's clearly because they are sleep-deprived, but their conversation blatantly makes it look like they're stoned. The context says they're sleep deprived, so it might be Accidental Innuendo if that covers drug implications, but probably not much more. Maybe G-Rated Drug if they come across as too stoned?
Darwin: Can you think of any better way to spend our lives?
Gumball: Dude...I can't even think. Is my heart still beating?
(Darwin feels for a pulse. Six seconds pass before Gumball's heart starts beating again.)

The Dress

Gumball spends a good portion of the episode completely butt naked. Things get even weirder when he's about to go to school and his four-year-old sister is at eye level and looking at his exposed junk. Naked People Are Funny; his genitals are always pixellated.
Gumball receives a letter from Darwin for date in the roller coaster and at the end there are three "X"s. For Gumball this "shows how extreme it will be". Probably an Accidental Innuendo as those X's are meant to be kisses.
Gumball has an Imagine Spot that he and Darwin are married... and he's surrounded by cat/fish babies while Darwin comes home and yells, "I WANT MORE KIDS!" What really crosses the line with that scene is not only are they both children, but they're also both siblings through adoption. Weird and dodgy scene, but probably Ho Yay at worst.
Penny, Masami, Jamie, Tina and Carrie are included in the people who think Gumball as a girl is hot and would do anything for them. Just Ho Yay.

The Spoon

Gumball makes a Mustache-Sausage. Accidental Innuendo.
Gumball: How about a hot dog? They’re delicious! [His fake mustache falls off his face and lands on the hot dog, which he holds out to Donut Cop]
Donut Cop: [disgusted] Ughh... There’s a mustache on your sausage!
Gumball: Yeah, it’s our secret ingredient! [Gumball and Darwin wink at camera]
Donut Cop: I think I’ll go for something without hair.
Following this metaphorical or, the episode becomes a bit weird when Richard starts licking the mustache-sausage and Nicole uses it to turkey-slap a man unconscious. If you listen to that scene with your eyes closed, it doesn't sound any less risqué. Accidental Innuendo since the entry admits you have to ignore context.

The Pressure

The girls (falsely) brag about who has the older boyfriend, and Carrie says "Mine is so old that he doesn't have teeth." A little dodgy but it's so childish and exaggerated that I don't think the radar has a problem with it.
Tobias apparently suggests that the guys do a blood pact. He then proceeds to try to make a wound/make himself bleed by scraping a stick on his hand.
When Gumball falls in the swimming pool and ends with his body fully red, steals two ice creams and put them on his chest, looking like he has pointed breasts or a cone bra. Man in a Bikini is a joke seen in other kids' shows and isn't inherently sexual.
Rocky: Hey, dude! Nice bikini!
Gumball: [alleviated] Thanks.
Gumball and Darwin kiss off-screen accidentally and both are after so surprised, and Gumball describes it as "being run over by a unicorn". (On the season three episode, "The Name," it's revealed that they know who kissed who in that scene and don't mind that Gumball's Zach personality erased it.) More Ho Yay than anything, though it's still a dodgy scene for 2011 CN, since they're brothers.
"Pal before gals" is a play on the expression "bros before hoes". Parental Bonus at worst.

The Laziest

Richard tries to win the laziness contest by changing the TV to a shopping channel. On display is a figurine of a girl kissing a boy on the cheek, which is titled "Innocent Age Figurine Boy & Girl w/ secret object hidden by the boy". This is so brief and not even explicitly sexual, it might be Accidental Innuendo but nothing more.

The Ghost

The premise of the episode, Carrie repeatedly possessing Gumball to eat things and him trying to learn to turn her down, seems a bit strange if you think about it. The official episode descriptions for "The Ghost" didn't sound like it belongs to a kid's show. Accidental Innuendo.
"The Ghost": Carrie the Ghost often uses Gumball's body but now he has to learn how to say "no" to her, which may prove to be an extremely difficult thing to do considering Carrie normally uses his body against his will anyway.
Darwin describes the situation to Gumball by saying Carrie "likes going inside your body". Also seems like Accidental Innuendo.

The Prank

When Richard comes back from being stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean, with only the raft covering him: Joke of the Butt
Darwin: What happened to your clothes?
Richard: I ate them. [Turns around, revealing his sunburned butt, and walks up the stairs back to his room, which was upstairs in Season 1]

The Gi

"Weiner doesn't mean "winner". It means "sausage"." This is nothing, it's about Gumball being called a wiener by friends, which means "coward" and not "penis" or anything.

The Party

While Gumball is searching for a date to the party, his observation of Teri (a bear made of paper) has a strange multiple meaning: Maybe DIH if it's a Double Entendre reference to her boobs, but nothing more than that.
Gumball: Nicely drawn features, but a little flat.
While the party is being busted wide open by Principal Brown and Miss Simian, Alan motorboated two balloons. DIH at worst.
Miss Simian and Principal Brown are making out in the closet when Jackie and Harold come home. I think this got cut out of some international airings but kissing is not inherently radar breaking.

The Picnic

Gumball spends the episode's second half butt naked again (due to Darwin eating his clothes out of starvation). Just Naked People Are Funny.

The Poltergeist

Mr. Robinson explains to Gumball and Darwin how he and Margaret would argue, sometimes six times a day, sometimes in public, even once in their sleep! Anyone who is or was married or in a similar long-term committed relationship will recognize what he is really talking about. Parental Bonus at worst, but since we actually see them arguing in their sleep, it's probably more of an Accidental Innuendo.

The Mustache

Gumball, Darwin, and Anais accidentally take their Dad's testosterone supplements that he was going to use to impress his wife (and make his man-boobs stick up). Parental Bonus at worst.
Leslie's reaction to Gumball's butt as the latter transforms into a man. ZCE, probably not an example.

The Wand

Richard spends a good chunk of the episode's second half with his man-boobs in full display (his clothes were ripped in the front). Are manboobs too much for Y7?

The Car

Richard's man-boobs once again are shown in close-ups (the closest one is before he tries out the Electro-Fat). Are manboobs too much for Y7?
- By the episode's end, Richard flexes his boobs (and new muscles) saying the device was worth the time. Same as above.

The Meddler

As Gumball prepares for a cheerleader tryout to win Penny back, he ends up having to lift the skirt he's wearing up to his mother. I looked it up and we see his underpants but IDK if that's too much.
- A little later at the actual tryout, his skirt flops down on him as he flips, displaying his lower body, much to everyone's shock. Same as above I guess.

The Fight

Gumball runs through the girls' shower room to escape Tina. Not necessarily radar breaking especially since we presumably don't really see anything.
When Anais tells Mr. Small that Tina Rex is bullying Gumball, the color runs from his body to his feet, forming a rainbow puddle on the floor. Toilet Humor at worst, not radar breaking.

Season 2

The Colossus

The very poorly censored Captain Punch comic clearly has a page where a man is kicked in the crotch so hard he's lifted back off his feet; the white-out covering this is even in the shape of a boot. He's also spitting up blood, something the white-out does not cover at all. Not sure... almost feels like an in universe example of the censored comic (albeit edited by a character's overprotective mother, not a mother) failing to censor something.

The Knights

Richard is forced to shower outside the house, and Penny and Patrick see him. Naked People Are Funny at worst.

The Fridge

The Sausage Pen◊ looks like a sex toy, isn't it? The finger's position is curious as well. Accidental Innuendo.
Richard: Well, I invented... the Sausage Pen! Everything it writes is delicious.
Nicole: Mmmm... innovative! But... ultimately useless.
[Nicole puts Richard's face onto the cloud column, next to Darwin's, and Richard's face slowly changes from happiness to disappointment]
The abuse (played for laughs) Nicole puts Gumball through to make a winner out of him, most notably making him stand on the roof of the house during a lightning storm while holding a golf club and leaving him in the desert so he can walk home. 'Comedic Sociopathy at worst, not radar breaking or even out of the ordinary for kids' shows (Phineas and Ferb'' constantly put Doofenshmirtz through comically terrible parental abuse).

The Flower

Gumball's jealousy drives him to keep weed-killer and vandalized photos of Leslie in his locker, implying his jealous side was planning to murder Leslie (which he actually tries to do by attacking him with slugs). Dark, but is it Y7 breaking? Leslie is a flower, so it's not necessarily gory or anything.
During one of Gumball's tirades about Leslie, a long list of insults includes "self-pollinating." If you know anything about reproduction in flowers and plants, he basically just called Leslie a jack-off. Parental Bonus, maybe DIH.
From the end of the episode: Not really explicit enough. Leslie is Ambiguously Gay but this doesn't seem to be an obvious reference to that, and that probably wouldn't be radar breaking anyway.
Gumball: Wait, did you just say he was your cousin?
Penny: Well duh, everyone knows.
Gumball: Well duh, I didn't.
Leslie: There's a lot of things you don't know about me, Gumball.
Gumball: Oh...

The Banana

Mr. Small's "herbal tea" gives him some adverse effects; most notably towards the end of the episode, where after taking a sip his eyes begin to get weird and his face gets all loose.◊ After Gumball and Darwin leave, Mr. Small proceeds to let out a "WOO-HOO!", like that "herbal tea" is more enjoyable than it should be... G-Rated Drug, Parental Bonus at worst.
When Darwin is raiding Joe's locker, he pulls out a jockstrap and tells Gumball to chew on it. Neither addresses what it actually is, but Gumball looks at it with absolute disgust, and then he pretends to chew on it when he obviously is not and does not want to. Is a jockstrap joke too inappropriate for Y7?
Darwin chews up Joe's pen from the locker. Later in the episode Joe says it's an heirloom his ancestor used and "I'm not even gonna tell you where he had to hide it to keep it safe", then Darwin starts wiping his tongue in disgust. Butt joke, probably not too much for Y7.

The Phone

Gumball silences a firecracker by sitting on it. Then he coughs up smoke, making clear that even if the thing itself didn't go up there, the explosion did. Brief butt joke, probably not too much for Y7.

The Job

Gumball and Darwin deliver a pizza to a couple of pizza-headed people, which they apparently consider to be their new child. As Quattro is paying Gumball, he accidentally drops the box while reaching for the money he gives them, which completely horrifies the couple◊. Even worse, Darwin slips on the "dead" pizza baby as they run away, further smearing its tomato sauce, or, as Quattro and Siciliana see it, blood, on the concrete. Probably DIH since it's very violent imagery and one of the most infamous scenes on the show, buuuuut it's not actually a baby so it's probably not GCPTR.
When one of the reality-warping waves inverts everyone's gender (turning Anais and Nicole male and Gumball, Darwin, and Larry female), girl Larry has little cube breasts. The existence of breasts is not inappropriate for children.

Halloween

A male ghost character phases his head through the girls' bathroom. A feminine scream is heard after. Dodgy joke, but I've seen similar on other kids' shows.

The Skull

While Clayton is disguised as Principal Brown, Miss Simian seduces and almost makes out with him, not knowing how close she was to making out with a student. A little dodgy but probably not GCPTR.

The Bet

Gumball abuses his power over Bobert by sending him to the nurse's office with fire coming out of his butt, telling Joan it's been happening ever since, “I fell in love with Your Mom," and making out with the wall defibrillator. Not really radar worthy, as it's not necessarily a sexual joke.
Bobert's picture equation written on the school football field: "Glasses + horse's ass = Principal Brown." Not necessarily GCPTR worthy to make a butt joke.
Miss Simian trying to warm up in the walk-in freezer by hugging a shirtless Gumball. Lampshaded when she says, "I'm sorry, Watterson. I know this is inappropriate, but I just need to warm up." I know this got edited in some other countries but it's probably DIH at worst.

The Bumpkin

When a wasp appears, Gumball hides from it in Nicole's skirt. Not really explictly sexual.
During the party montage, Gumball funnels Idaho with a soda bong and Idaho gets baked in an oven with some fries. Parental Bonus? DIH?

The Virus

"What the pox?!" which serves as a stand-in for another, more commonly said phrase. Gumball always says "What the what?!" so it's not really any more explicit than that.
"And he's making rude gestures at me with those little tentacles!" Subtle reference to Flipping the Bird, I guess? But not radar.

The Storm

Alan the balloon explains to Gumball that his knot, the only orifice his body has, is used to breathe, eat, and excrete. In a later scene (pictured above), Gumball has to "inflate" Alan in the school bathroom. Alan's knot deflates slightly, causing it to move upward in a very questionable manner just before the scene skips to them than leaving the bathroom. Gumball has a traumatized look on his face while Alan has an incredibly happy look on his. Oh god, that scene's a lot. The page image shows the context, FYI. It's definitely DIH, not sure if it's too far as to be DIH.
After Gumball accidentally kisses Carmen, his classmates essentially call him a slut, including one joke where they say only he could break up molecules and then he'd make out with the carbon. But they don't use the word "slut" I'm pretty sure. I think he said something like "bimbo" and it got censored later to "coward." Jokes about kissing may have adult subtext but are not GCPTR.
At the start of the episode, when everyone is watching Alan and Carmen eating their food together, Darwin thinks that it is kind of sweet but Gumball asks him "is there anything sweet about that?", while Alan is putting his string in Carmen's mouth Probably an Accidental Innuendo. Whenever the show makes dick jokes about Alan, they use his knot, not the string.

The Lesson

Principal Brown is shown to have a rather suggestive calendar he planned on giving Miss Simian. One picture has him laying on a bearskin rug, invoking the cliche of someone laying on such a rug naked. Suggestive but not so sexual as to violate Y7, especially since he's always naked.
It is implied that Gumball ate and then pooped out an entire rake, in one piece, to smuggle it. If it's just implied it's probably not explicit enough to be radar breaking.
Mowdown literally pops the rotten cupcake's cherry during a detention riot, prompting this dialog. Definitely feels like something dodgy... though cis men don't really have a "cherry" as colloqually known. Still probably counts as DIH?
Gumball: Did you see what that bear did to that guy's cherry?

The Game

Richard kisses Donut Cop against his will. Kissing is not a Y7 violation, even if it's a gay joke.
The address of the pizza parlor is 420 Grove Street. Is it an explicit 420, Blaze It joke or just a coincidence? Either way, not explicit enough for radar. Parental Bonus at worst.
Richard later has to date a sheep, keep in mind Richard is married and has kids. So? Y7 doesn't forbid cheating jokes, does it?
- In the date scene, Richard says he would like the lamb to which the sheep objects, then chicken which the waiter objects. Possibly implying cannibalism. Fridge Horror which isn't even fridge because it's basically the joke, but I don't know if a Carnivore Confusion joke is too much for Y7.

The Promise

Gumball pretends he's pregnant by stuffing Darwin in his shirt so he can get a seat on the school bus (which normally don't have reserved seats for the elderly, pregnant women, and anyone who's temporarily or permanently handicapped). He even complains of having hot flashes and craving sardines and ice cream. Jokes about pregnancy are not banned on Y7.

The Voice

Gumball and Darwin offer Tobias a hug in the locker, but they're both wearing nothing but towels, so he refuses. The two then tackle him to try and force him, and eventually, Darwin takes Tobias's towel and spanks him with it in the middle of the school corridor. Is this too sexual for Y7? Not sure. Definitely sounds like Ho Yay though.

The Boombox

When Miss Simian orders everyone to get back to class after telling them that she's not retiring, Gumball grumbles, "Ah, curse word!" Referencing that curses exist is not GCPTR.

The Castle

Harold likes touching things, including sticking his finger in Anais' mouth. Harold even gets thrown out the Watterson house for it, with someone yelling, "Hey, go poke yourself!". Parental Bonus at worst, if it's really supposed to be like "go fuck yourself."
Gumball, Darwin, and Anais disguise themselves as a pizza delivery man to get back into their house full of party animals. Being at the bottom of the disguise, the way Anais hands over the receipt probably couldn't be any more wrong. Maybe DIH if it's meant to be a subtle dick joke but not sure if it's explicit enough to be GCPTR.
Hot Dog Guy: Uh... you can keep it.

The Tape

"Hi, my name's Darwin Watterson, and this flim, and this fil, flim, ahh... Curse word!" Referencing that curses exist is not GCPTR.
During the Wildlife Commentary Spoof, part of the name Gumball uses for Richard ("Moobus Gelatinous") is dog Latin for "moobs" ("man boobs"). Is a vague reference to "man boobs" really too much for Y7? Genuine question.

The Sweaters

Gumball's butt is injured by a lightning-fast tennis ball, but he hurriedly claims it feels better the moment Mr. Small tries to massage it. Joke of the Butt, though a teacher offering to massage it is... creepy, yeah.

The Internet

One of the video remixes had Gumball's face on a bunch of roasted sausages◊ when making a rather pained expression. Way too inexplicit◊. I wouldn't have gotten a dick joke out of it had the entry not suggested the subtext.
Gumball tries to enter the Internet by scanning himself without his clothes on. It doesn't work, but it does give Darwin a nice (high definition!) close up photo of Gumball's privates. Afterwards, Darwin tries to wash his eyes out with the showerhead. Probably DIH at worst.
The Internet tells Gumball and Darwin to "get bent", a phrase that's usually considered at least moderately profane (it's generally considered short for "get bent over and take it up the ass"). Not sure about this. I know Total Drama and other PG shows got away with "get bent" but IDK about Y7 shows.

Season 3

The Kids

Larry threatens to kick Gumball and Darwin out of the store when their voices begin wrecking the merchandise. John the security guard comes in and looks as if he's about to shoot them, but pulls out a baton (that goes limp) and the guard meekly replies that he can't do anything but ask them nicely to leave. The scene doesn't sound sexual in any other way, so it's probably just Accidental Innuendo with the baton.

The Fan

Sarah makes a video and song about her stalking Darwin and Gumball. A lot of it portrays her attraction toward them as less like a child's crush and more like open sexual lust: Kind of creepy, and it has sexual overtones, but I don't know if any of this is radar breaking.
- Staring at Gumball through the window while he was undressing (and recording the whole thing); he saw this and closed the blinds while covering his chest with his arm.
- Watching them while hiding inside their closet.
- Looking at them, trying to nuzzle Gumball's hair, and taking pictures of them while they're unconscious
- Standing around in the bathroom while Darwin takes a shower.
- Wearing some of Gumball's clothing and enthusiastically smelling others.
Mr. Small seems to be high when staring at the painting that Sarah hides in. It doesn't help that he's carrying a mug (which may or may not have that herbal tea he drank on "The Banana") which is steaming (giving off an appearance similar to smoke) and laughing in a way similar to a stoner laugh after everyone is done screaming. Parental Bonus at worst.

The Joy

When Ms. Simian zips up Banana Joe's peel, some of his "banana" gets stuck in the zipper, prompting a very painful looking reaction◊, reminiscent of that one scene in There's Something About Mary.
Miss Simian examines Gumball and Darwin in the nurse's office and throws a jar of yellow liquid at them when they advance on her. Joan cries out, "That's not water." and pauses for a few seconds as we see the pair drenched in it, giving the impression that they're covered in urine... before clarifying that it's cough medicine.
When the Joy virus begins spreading, Rocky is in the locker room, spraying an Axe-like male body spray deodorant on himself. Joan (who has been infected with the Joy Virus) tackles him and Rocky says (before he's brainwashed as well), "Hey, it really works!", thinking that Joan is sexually attracted to him because of the spray. '''Parental Bonus as a reference to the Axe/Lynx ads, but probably nothing more.

The Recipe

The episode in general is almost ridiculously dark and violent: All of these are covered by the same issue: is this violent enough to violate Y7 when it's very cartoonish and the character in question is a piece of toast?
- It begins with Anton being disintegrated in the pool and falling to pieces in Gumball's hands as he tries to revive him, causing a horrified reaction from almost everyone present.
- When Anton comes back the next day, Darwin and Gumball try to figure out how by hurting him in incredibly over-the-top ways, including slicing him into pieces with a paper shredder, inducing a heart-attack by shock, and tricking Tobias into eating him alive. These seem only slightly worse than the show's usual Amusing Injuries, until it revealed Anton actually died and was replaced with a clone all those times, as well as every time before this episode.
- Darwin and Gumball start making their own clones and it gets even worse: Darwin mentions he accidentally caused his half of the clones to commit mass suicide, and Gumball almost does the same to the rest.
- The evil clone turns the sprinklers on to turn the remaining clones to mush, before himself getting sucked down the pool drain and torn apart by the grate.

The Extras

One of the cardboard cutout people from "The Sweaters" tries to get his change out from another one's back pockets. However, they both have their arms frozen in place above their head, so the one going for said change ends up suggestively poking his face around the other one's butt. Butt joke, probably not GCPTR.
The colorful bird does his mating dance for the black bird who turns out to be male — and tells him to continue the dance since it was actually good. Due to the homoerotic undertones, Cartoon Network's Latin American channel cut that scene. Homoerotic Subtext may not be banned under Y7 standards.

The Gripes

The hairy hobo gives Gumball a sandwich which he tentatively eats before retching. We don't see what was in the sandwich, but there was a mysterious pink tail-like object sticking out of it that heavily implied it was a rat. Okay, and? I Ate WHAT?! jokes are made on kids' shows all the time.

The Fraud

Principal Brown has an incredibly awkward sleepover with Gumball and Darwin where he starts having a relationship talk with them. Brown immediately shuts up when he realises how inappropriate he sounds. Not enough context to determine exactly how inappropriate it is.
All the school faculty are revealing their own lies. The Coach's is "And I'm not a woman... who can say she's never lied on her résumé either." Is a subverted Unsettling Gender-Reveal joke (because it could be read as that or a trans reference, and knowing the tone of the show it's probably intended as the former) really Y7 worthy? I've seen other shows joke about it.

The Void

Similar to the herbal tea drinking in "The Banana", Mr. Small explains how he's so good at navigating the crazy otherworldly dimension of the world's mistakes: he's "used to feeling spaced out." Parental Bonus at worst, as he is coded as The Stoner, but "spaced out" could easily just mean he's The Ditz.
Gumball tells Mr. Small to run a Crazy Frog Expy over. Like many things, it sounds less horrific because it's a cartoon, but Gumball was essentially encouraging vehicular manslaughter. Violent joke but probably not violent enough to break the radar.

The Boss

The episode has a side story of Mrs. Robinson leaving her husband, who's in the hospital with a stuffing deficiency, so she can go on an island vacation. When she returns, it's revealed that she nearly married one of the sailors she met in the conga line and broke up with him when Mr. Robinson was recovering.

The Allergy

When he thinks that Darwin's ailment is worms, Gumball delivers this throwaway line: Toilet Humor, probably not too inappropriate for kids?
Gumball: Just squat over a bowl of milk and whistle till they come out.
Joan prescribes herself a dose of heavy sedatives so she doesn't have to listen to Teri the bear's latest worries over having an illness. Maybe DIH if drug jokes are considered explicit enough.

The Mothers

Probably an unintentional one, but Gumball says "Did your bring your F?" Given that there's only really one word that is commonly substituted with F, well... Accidental Innuendo, and it doesn't even make sense in this context.

The Password

Gumball was under the impression that Richard loves and favors Anais so much that they finish each other sentences, which Darwin incorrectly interjects with "Sandwiches". Then it cuts to Anais letting Richard finish her sandwich, which leads to Gumball... Last-Second Word Swap joke, probably doesn't count.
Gumball: Sandwiches as well?! Aw man, this is total...*gestures at Darwin to finish*
* beat*
Gumball: *sigh*
Darwin: SENTENCES!

The Shell

After Penny cracked, Penny remarks that the shell isn't the real her. Then Gumball asks if he can see and gives a subtle eyebrow wiggle. At worst DIH, but probably too subtle even for that.
- After they get to Penny's house, she, Gumball and Darwin stand on the porch to her house. Preparing to tell Patrick what happened, Penny and Gumball stand faced to each other and wobble their tongues. When Patrick comes out, he catches them, and looking from the angle where Penny's back is facing him, it looked to him is if they were French kissing. Is French kissing really banned on Y7?
Jackie (Tobias' mom) describes Penny in her red minotaur form as being a "cow on steroids". Is "steroids" a banned word from Y7?
Gumball walks in on Banana Joe watching a video of a peeled orange being spread apart, which to him is obviously supposed to be like porn. To really hammer it home, Joe has a box of tissues right next to his laptop.Because of this, this scene has been cut on Cartoon Network channels in Australia, Asia, Brazil, Latin America, and Poland. Definitely a case of DIH, but I'm not sure if it's GCPTR since they're fruits and all, and the orange isn't anthropomorphic.

The Burden

Miss Simian and Principal Brown's loud and obnoxious flirting after Miss Simian comes in and yells, "Romance, NOW!".^note Is it set up to resemble sex at all, or just flirting?
In the "It's Love" song, Gumball and Darwin are shown having a bath with "Chris Morris", sleeping in the same bed (Richard and Nicole's bed) and kissing him and laughing while bizarre pictures showing Brown depilating appear on the screen intermittently.^note It's a creepy scene but it doesn't explain what makes it GCPTR worthy, though it was heavily edited overseas.
After checking about the alarm, Miss Simian says if she can continue with her romance week-end. Donut Cop puckers his lips and Miss Simian says: "Not you!". Kissing isn't a violation of the radar.
A somewhat more subtle example occurs when Gumball and Darwin are simultaneously trying to catch Chris Morris and avoid Miss Simian, Principal Brown, and Donut Cop: Curse Cut Short isn't a violation of the radar.
Gumball: Where is that little-
Darwin: (cutting him off) Shh!

The Bros

A weeping Gumball asks Darwin if it's weird that he thinks about Penny "all the time, even in the bathroom". Gumball most likely didn't mean that in a dirty way, but it immediately comes to mind anyway. Accidental Innuendo.

The Mirror

Gumball greets Mrs. Jotunheim by shouting "sup, wizards!" - a child friendly (and context-specific) riff on "sup, bitches!" I don't know if it really is meant to sound that way.
Carrie's "Forbidden Book" is a reference to the Necronomicon. What makes it radar is that once you realise it the book's cover is obviously supposed to be human skin. The book doesn't appear to resemble human skin◊ so I think this is a reach.
Gumball's says the word "damnation", though in the literal sense rather than a profane one (preferring a "life of damnation in limbo" to watching a home shopping channel). Maybe. The fact it's in a literal context and not a swear might allow it some leniency.
The Snatcher/Carrie's dad unceremoniously falls out a window and dies (which seems bad at first, but now allows him to hug his ghost daughter). I don't think Gumball is held to high standards about death.

The Man

Granny Jojo had her 63rd birthday in this episode. It's also stated Frankie left them 42 years ago, and that Richard was old enough to remember him. If you do the math, that implies Richard was conceived when his mother was about 15-17 years old. This is Retconed in "The Signature", where the time is brought down from 42 years to 33 years, probably because of potential discrepancies and Unfortunate Implications such as this. The fact it was later retconned might be worth something, which would also put into question the "28 years old" joke with the witch that aired later and implied something similar. Is the implication of a Teen Pregnancy too bad for Y7? Regardless the Unfortunate Implications pothole should be cut as it's uncited and misused.

The Lie

During the beginning showing everyone depressed in January, the black pigeon sighs despondently and hurls himself down the Wattersons' chimney. Unsure if it's violent enough to count.
Gumball tries to make up a description for Sluzzle Dude, a Santa equivalent for a holiday he made up, but his description comes off the wrong way. More a joke about Naked People Are Funny at face value.
Gumball: He's got a beard, sneakers, and a leather coat.
Darwin: Is that all he's wearing? Sounds like he should be running from the police.

The Butterfly

Rocky stumbles upon Alison while eating a bagel. She thinks he is proposing marriage to her and mentions that she has been "saving herself" until that moment. Regardless of what she meant, it's pretty easy to interpret her words as her Vow of Celibacy (which left her unemployed, homeless, and depressed). Not explicitly sexual, as it could just mean she hasn't dated anybody casually unless she wanted to get married, and maybe it's a Parental Bonus at worst.

The Question

Gumball and Darwin have a G-Rated Drug trip after eating cereal marshmallows through their eyes. Gumball wakes up in a ballerina tutu and Darwin wakes up handcuffed with a tattoo on his butt. Special note for how said handcuffs are covered in red fuzz, which very specifically implies they're the kind of handcuffs used for sexual bondage (or sexual roleplaying involving someone playing a police officer) and not the kind the police use to restrain criminals. Probably a Parental Bonus.
When Larry realizes he's wasted his life on nothing but work, he suddenly starts incessantly reciting his daily schedule while driving to the beach and swimming straight out to sea. It is a very strong possibility that he's trying to kill himself. It's too ambiguous to really count, I think.

The Saint

Gumball breaks a computer in the library, and says he'll probably hanged and quartered, among other things, by the school librarian. Dark joke, but more a Parental Bonus as kids won't know what it means.
Gumball makes Alan out to be a cheater in front of Carmen by showing pictures of Alan (actually Darwin's face on a green balloon) kissing female students, male students, and a toilet. And while the photo of Leslie enjoying his kiss, unlike everyone else was cut before the episode aired, a few frames of it can still be seen if you pause at the right time. Hmmm... the fact that it got cut but is still somewhat visible means it might count. It also brings to question whether other gay jokes count as GCPTR or is the CN standards simply changed in the next few years.
Gumball (posing as Alan online) makes a downright racist comment about how "drawn people" should go back to their own country. Fantastic Racism joke, not necessarily radar breaking as Y7 shows have spoken about real life racism without repercussions.
Gumball: (typing) "Oh, my gosh! Why are there so many DRAWN people in Elmore? Go back to your flat country and stop ruining our economy!" ...No one likes a 2D-ist.

The Oracle

Darwin spills coffee on Gumball. Darwin cools him by inhaling air while Gumball puts his butt directly in front of Darwin's face and makes a very relieved expression. Marvin passes by and comments that "I don't know what you're doing, but you should be ashamed of it!" Probably closer to something like Ho Yay or Mistaken for Gay. Maybe DIH?
In the prophetic painting, Gumball's crotch is obscured by a maple leaf. Later, as Gumball approaches the mall and starts noticing elements of the painting, he fixates at one point on a maple leaf - an anthropomorphic one, headed to the mall to shop. In the end, when Gumball decides that the prophecy is inevitable and tears off his clothes preemptively, Anais grabs the maple leaf and covers Gumball by throwing them onto his crotch. Dodgy, but I don't think a Hand-or-Object Underwear is Y7 violating, even if the creature's alive.

The Safety

For the sake of Gumball never exposing his genitals, even to himself, Darwin apparently removed his entire crotch. Maybe DIH but not sure.
The child filters muting words or phrases that Darwin deems unsafe make some of the things Gumball says (like "What the what?" or "Gosh darn") seem a lot worse that they actually are. I don't think that's GCPTR when the censored phrases aren't even curses.
The incredibly peaceful live action photos which cut off Darwin's venting after Gumball stomps on his foot imply that he said something especially foul. The images shown actually suggest a specific message: it's a mother with a baby, a man with a pitchfork next to bales of hay, a donkey, and a happy clown. He's cut off saying "Oh, you—". Put it all together and... Could be a Parental Bonus. The use of the donkey, which often is used for "ass" jokes on kids' shows, makes it seem deliberate, but it's a bit too subtle to cross into GCPTR.
Oh, you mother-forking^*or "farming" or "bucking" ass-clown!
The emblems on Darwin's banners in the town hall resemble the Nazi Parteiadler, only with a yellow triangle exclamation point sign in place of the swastika. Is A Nazi by Any Other Name really radar breaking?
The guard (Tony) that sees Richard in drag slowly mouths "What... the...." then gets smacked with a fire hydrant. Not radar breaking if he doesn't even curse.

The Spoiler

When Gumball throws his hot dog, it comes to Hot Dog Guy's mouth◊ and HDG remains immobile during the whole scene. Accidental Innuendo?

The Countdown

When time is frozen, Darwin and Gumball pull a prank on Tony who is licking an ice cream cone with his eyes closed by replacing the cone with his dog. The specific positioning◊ implies they meant to trick him into licking the dog's anus once time starts back up. They also make it so Gary the purple moose stops Sal Left Thumb from stealing the black hexagon woman's purse. Gumball decides that's too nice, so he pulls down Gary's pants and smears lipstick on his face, making it look like he's exposing himself◊. Not really sure about either of these. The latter probably doesn't count though, as characters' pants come down in Y7 shows all the time.
One Alternate Timeline is created when Gumball and Darwin create a bunch of copies of themselves and leave them fighting each other in the past. In the present, everybody looks like themselves mixed with Gumball and/or Darwin. Reach your own conclusions from this. Fridge Horror at worst, but the implication that the Gumballs and Darwins all started families in the past isn't obviously sexual enough to kids.
In another Alternate Timeline created by Gumball and Darwin, everyone is very angry and speaking in German, implying that Gumball and Darwin somehow allowed Nazi Germany to win World War II. Too vague, not really any other Nazi imagery there, Parental Bonus at worst.

The Triangle

Leslie advises Darwin to picture everyone naked in order to alleviate his performance anxiety, which works when he sees Juke (the boombox-headed kid) naked, but not Mr. Small. Especially when Mr. Small bends over in front of him to pick up the peas he knocked over and talks about how he used to play the bongos in the school band. Naked People Are Funny at worst. Not even any nudity onscreen here.
Mr. Small: Hours and hours of slapping those skins made me the man I am today.

The Downer

When trapped in the darkness of his bad mood Gumball gropes what he thinks is the sofa, but when it's revealed that Gumball imagined everything that happened, it turns out it was Richard's man boobs^note. The fact it was cut overseas might be worth something but over here, it could just be DIH at worst.
In one scene, Gumball imitates his family in an attempt to have a family dinner. When he get to Richard's part, he says the line "You see, food is like...food; even when it's bad, it's still pretty good." While most kids might see this as Gumball's view of his gluttonous father, it's also a play on the adage "Sex is like pizza; even when it's bad, it's still pretty good. Parental Bonus as even I never heard of this phrase before, so I doubt kids would pick up on it.

The Egg

Gumball wears Pimp Duds because he misheard Nicole's order to wear something respectable as "to wear something that commands respect." He even does a pimp strut before Nicole orders him to stop. Parental Bonus, too inexplicit to kids to get the pimp reference.
As Nicole and Felicity are fighting off-screen, there's a pause followed by an barely-audible exclamation of disgust. Darwin and Gumball look very confused at what Richard describes as "territorial scent marking", implying one of the mothers (more likely Nicole, as the groan sounded closer to Felicity's voice) just urinated in public. Toilet Humor, not banned by Y7.

Season 4

The Return

Richard imagines himself in Hell with Gumball, Darwin, and Anais as "the demons of guilt" accusing him of being a bad father.

The Nemesis

While Rob is holding melons, Gumball says he found the thing that Rob misses for being an enemy, and Darwin says if they're "melons" (as in "testicles"). Accidental Innuendo at worst. Who says "melons" as a synonym for balls anyway? I usually hear it in the context of boobs.

The Crew

In Gumball's vision of Marvin, Betty, and Donald as gangsta-rap style thugs, Marvin is shown wearing a pimp hat surrounded by money and poodles displaying Tertiary Sexual Characteristics.^noteIn other words, bitches and money. Parental Bonus at worst.
After being bowled over by the fastest and heaviest of metal objects being attracted to him, a recently telepathic Gumball reminds Darwin to mind his language. No actual swearing, not really an example.

The Signature

The things the Wattersons do to their family tree by adopting each other throws up all sorts of incestuous implications, most notably both Richard and Granny Jojo ending up married to their grandchildren.

The Gift

To put out a fire, Gumball and Darwin ask Masami to rain on it. Masami replies that she can't rain with people watching her. Does This Remind You of Anything? mixed with Toilet Humor. Not inappropriate.

The Parking

While Nicole is looking for a parking space in the garage, Richard and the kids sing "99 Bottles of Age-Appropriate Beverages on the Wall". Lampshaded censorship, probably not GCPTR but could be another trope.
Dr. Old Man Reaching For A Jar Of Olives begins examining a patient, then the scene cuts to him throwing the Wattersons and their car out of the hospital. The Wattersons somehow managed to park their car inside the patient's rear end! Joke of the Butt, probably dodgy for TV-Y7 but probably not outright GCPTR. Maybe DIH?
At one point, Gumball accidentally stabs a milk carton guard, causing milk to spill out. The poor guy is unambiguously bleeding out before Gumball plugs up the wound. Not sure if it's explicit enough.

The Routine

Richard (with his Stripperiffic warrior costume showing a bit of his pectorals) tells Cartax to watch its language as it sinks in the asphalt swamp. No actual cursing, not radar breaking.

The Upgrade

Thanks to a faulty request on his Siri-style voice-activated personal assistant, Bobert marries off Alan and Leslie. Alan doesn't object (even though he's dating Carmen) and neither does Leslie (who was already labeled as Ambiguously Gay by most fans/viewers). To top it off, Leslie tells a confused Banana Joe that "You had your chance," before leaving with Alan, who has an overjoyed look on his face. Homoerotic Subtext, and I don't think gay jokes were banned from Y7 by this point.
The disc Gumball uses to downgrade Bobert to a version that actually works is labelled "BS 7". The letters presumably stands for "Bobert System", but given the episode is a very unflattering parody of Apple products and iOS (with a slight burn against Windows updates), it might also stand for "bullshit". Could be a subtle Meaningful Initials gag, but the ambiguity means it's not GCPTR.

The Comic

Sarah draws a comic called Laserheart, whose title character is based on Gumball and has a very Stripperiffic costume: very high boots with hot pants, and a tank top that barely covers his pecks, all of which are skintight. Laserheart is also shown in numerous suggestive poses, including a Boobs-and-Butt Pose and another drawn like Spider-Woman by Milo Manara◊! Either it was one of the instructions from the how-to-draw book or Sarah has been checking out Gumball's backside. The reference to the Boobs-and-Butt Pose might be Parental Bonus but probably not so inappropriate as to break the radar.
Darwin's initial criticism of Laserheart includes that he's "anatomically incorrect". This could just be in reference to his badly drawn body structure, but also calls attention to how his shorts, despite the aforementioned tightness, have no visible bulge. Might be Accidental Innuendo due to the noted ambiguity.
Right before getting mugged, Gumball attempts to alleviate Sarah's fears and accidentally makes a rather suggestive comment. Probably not explicit enough.
Sarah: Are you sure we should be in the park at night?
Gumball: Fear not, young lady, Laserheart can strike down any foe! He's here to force the light of justice where the sun doesn't shine... eh, that came out a bit wrong.

The Hug

Gumball ends up inviting Hot Dog Guy to a sleepover. Anais tells Gumball that she's not going to be there to help him because, "You made your bed; now you gotta awkwardly lie next to a stranger in it." Accidental Innuendo. Probably not entirely accidental but also not clearly sexual.
- In the same scene, Darwin says that Gumball is "talking out of his backside". While he's being literal (Gumball has stuck his head inside his seat), the sentence is more commonly said as a metaphor that someone is talking bull. Not really using swears or anything, probably not GCPTR.
While sleeping in the tent, Hot Dog Guy accidentally touches Gumball, so Gumball climbs on top of him to reposition his arm. Unfortunately, this wakes Hot Dog Guy up, and they begin CUDDLING. While already it's questionable to cuddle with a stranger, the act is then shown from the outside of the tent, which may make it appear as if they are doing something else. This scene was edited when shown on Cartoon Network's Latin America channel, as well as the Brazilian dub and the Turkish dub. The fact this was edited overseas is worth something, and this is an infamous scene, but IDK if it's explicitly sexual enough to be GCPTR. Maybe DIH?
While Hot Dog Guy is using the school shower, Gumball turns the water temperature way down. When Hot Dog Guy has come out, he's experienced some major shrinkage. Probably a Parental Bonus mixed with Visual Innuendo.

The Wicked

Mrs. Robinson switches the tags on the baby of the pizza couple and two shape people’s baby right before both pairs of parents pick them up. Both fathers pick up the baby the label says is theirs, notice the obvious resemblance between that baby and the other father, then start fighting each other. Probably just DIH, maybe Parental Bonus if it's vague enough.
While Darwin and Gumball investigate Mrs. Robinson past, they find one picture where she happily sits on a boat as her brother drowns and another where she's standing outside Elmore Junior High as it burns down and Hank and another LEGO man are called to put out the blaze. Gumball's line "Yeah, probably the last [day] for a few others", implies that some people died in the fire. Is it too violent for TV-Y7? Nothing explicit is shown onscreen and Gumball has referenced death before.

The Traitor

There's Cutaway Gag where Gumball is being held back from stabbing Alan with a pencil in class, an amazingly violent and imitable act to make it to air. Is this too violent for GCPTR though?
When looking for clues at Joyful Burger, Gumball realizes that the stuff on Alan's plate isn't ranch dressing because his feelings of guilt were too much for his weak stomach. Jackie and Harold are disgusted until Gumball explains that he meant that Alan used the light dressing instead. Gumball then berates them for having dirty minds. Maybe DIH if it's a reference to, like, cum or crap or whatever, but the context honestly reads more like a vomit joke, which isn't DIH and definitely not GCPTR.
The biological diagram of Alan's body makes it very explicit that his knot is his anus: it shows a human's lower digestive system overlapping his body and the part that leads to the knot is labelled "colon". In the scenes immediately following:
- Another diagram shows an organ transplant simply involves shoving your hand into his body and pulling the organ out. Gumball does exactly that. Probably not explicit enough.
- As in "The Storm", Alan requires re-inflation, but Darwin doing so is on-screen this time. The Band-Aid doctor bursts in, demanding an explanation, sees them in the act, then quickly exits with a disgusted look on his face. It's a pretty dodgy setup reminiscent of oral sex, but that might better fit Ho Yay or DIH.
- A side-effect of the surgery causes Jessica to start literally talking out of her ass. More of a Joke of the Butt than anything.
  - The episode ends in that way:
Alan: What the... !? Is she talking out of her backside now?
Gumball: Oh, nothing is ever good enough for you, is it! MISTER PERFECT!! Since when did you have a surgeon's license!? Oh but please! Judge away! Looking down from your high horse, making everyone feel like—- (episode ends)
The whole surgery scene, in general, would be intensely gory and graphic if Alan wasn't a balloon. Since he is a balloon I don't think it's really radar worthy, is it?
Darwin: "AAAHH! He's gushing air everywhere!"

The Origins (parts one and two)

It looks like Richard and Nicole both got the idea to get Gumball a pet, but when they both say their idea, Richard says his is to go back in time to make sure we never... then quickly cuts himself off with a nervous laugh saying he was totally thinking of the pet idea. It's obvious he was going to say they should prevent Gumball from being conceived, possibly by stopping themselves from having sex unprotected. More of a Parental Bonus or DIH. A kid could easily assume he was gonna say "had kids," which doesn't necessarily imply sex to an innocent child.
- "The Choices" reveals that Gumball was indeed born because they didn't use protection. Nattery.

The Signal

When Gumball is about to try and grab the steering wheel to stop the runaway car, Darwin is about to explain why that's not a good idea, only for the glitching to cause cutaways to a claymation car crash, a headache commercial showing a diagram of a human brain, and a watermelon exploding. It's definitely conveying something violent they can't explicitly show but I don't know if it's outright GCPTR.

The Parasite

Among the long list of "cons" Gumball and Darwin come up with for why they shouldn't read Anais' diary are their fear that she knows how to "keep someone alive and in pain" and the fact that she will "someday be old enough to buy power tools."^note Dark joke, not violent enough to be GCPTR.
Richard passed out in front of the phone with Poison Control on the other line after Gumball asks what happened to the poisoned sandwich he was supposed to use on Jodie. Same as above.

The Love

In the "Love is Chemistry" section, a man and woman are shown going through the chemical reactions of falling for each other...only for the woman to run into the arms of another woman and the man to run into the arms of another man. I don't think Y7 explicitly bans gay stuff anymore, at least not on Cartoon Network. It's also not Ho Yay because they're clearly intended as gay, no subtext at all.
Felicity calls the cops on Richard after seeing him hug her son, Billy and hugging her, which she construes as sexual harassment. I don't know if this is explicit enough to be GCPTR. Maybe PB at worst.
The judge that tries Richard is based on the one in The Wall, including the ass for a face and a scrotum for a chin.^note

The Awkwardness

The Hot Dog Guy Lookalike has a rather suggestive nose if it is considered a part of the actual Hot Dog Guy's body. Probably an Accidental Innuendo.

The Nest

In Anais' natural history book, the trionyx turtle's Latin name is "occidere machinae ex infernum". Translated, it means, "Killing machine from Hell". Not sure if a reference to Hell in Latin is radar worthy.
During the baby turtles' attack on Elmore, one of them bites the groin of the green goblin Chanax CEO as he's taking a shower. Subverted later, when all the turtles in town perk their heads up and the one that bit the Chanax CEO in the crotch comes out from behind. Groin Attack isn't barred from TV-Y7. Not even sure what the subversion really means — did he actually bite his butt?

The Points

Gumball waxes Harold's car in the same manner as an aesthetician waxes someone with body hair. It's implied he finished by waxing the undercarriage, which causes the car alarm to go off as if it was in pain. Does This Remind You of Anything?, maybe a Parental Bonus since kids won't get the wax joke.

The Night

In his dream, Hector points out that in real life, he's too big to wear clothes, so he's always "naked and just hoping nobody looks up!" Could be DIH, but not sure.
Teri dreams she is naked in school. She doesn't have any... features, so to speak, so it's not really GCPTR.
Daisy dreams Anais is a doll (but clearly still alive) which she abuses under the guise of playing with her. This includes shoving Anais's head underwater, hanging her off the side of car to drag her face along the road, and ripping her in a tug-of-war with another doll. Nightmare Fuel, but probably not GCPTR as it's technically just toy abuse.
Anais: Please. End this.

The Misunderstandings

The hairy homeless guy makes a comment that causes Gumball to question if the man is wearing any clothes under his trenchcoat. The man responds, "I don't know, am I?!" and pulls the coat off. Gumball was clearly expecting to be flashed, as he closes his eyes and screams until he sees the man is fully clothed. Might be DIH or PB if flashing a child is seen as too edgy a joke for TV-Y7, but not GCPTR.
Gumball stands up to three LEGO construction workers by giving a hand gesture they guess is "the Vulcan gang sign" and whose meaning he admits to not knowing. A freeze frame shows that he has everything but his middle finger extended, making it clear he's Flipping the Bird in reverse. See for yourself here.◊ Accidental Innuendo at worst, especially given his Four-Fingered Hands.
The LEGO construction workers seem to be giving Construction Catcalls and insults, but were really just making bad attempts at sincere compliments. The initial attempts to correct this come off as even more lecherous, including a Wolf Whistle and drawn out "Nice" ("That just went from 'uncomfortable' to 'unacceptable'.") When they try again at the mall, their tone sounds outright seductive and stalkerish, drawing a comparison to "...the last thing the victim hears in a horror movie." Gumball also narrowly averts an even worse debacle: Probably Parental Bonus stuff.
Gumball: You guys really need to get out more.
Hank: You're right. We need to hang out with some other people, but where?
Steve: The mall?
(other workers agree)
Gumball: Definitely not the mall! That's where I'm going.
Steve: Schools?
Gumball: Ugh... alright, the mall.

The Roots

Gumball, Richard and Anais rush to destroy several electronic devices once they find out Nicole knows how to search their browser history. Parental Bonus at worst but might not even be that. Browser history can include embarrassing stuff that isn't porn.
- Keep in mind that Anais is only four years old. Natter.
We get a nice dose of bloodless carnage when Richard decides to eat fish hooks and drink salt water, uttering, "I love the way salt water stings my insides," before passing out. It's a deeply disturbing scene but probably not GCPTR since it's bloodless.
During the hurricane of fish puns, Gumball tells Darwin "Minnow you've been giving us a lot of carp about this whole fish thing..." I don't think punny swears break the radar, but Y7 usually doesn't allow the word "crap," so could this be a means of technically letting it through?

The Slap

The premise of the episode is about Gumball obsessed over about Tobias not slapping him on his butt. Basically, Ben Bocquelet is playing sexual harassment for laughs. It's a very dodgy premise for a Y7 show but could be boiled down to Joke of the Butt mixed with Ho Yay.
- Gumball insists that he will get Tobias to slap his butt by the end of the day, then realizes that people are usually in their bedrooms at the end of the day.^noteThis line was cut in Spain. Could be DIH. The fact the line was cut overseas might be questionable though.
- The episode features several suggestive lines, such as Tobias saying that he will get physical if Gumball keeps making advances toward him. Gumball is very excited to hear this. Seems like Ho Yay, probably not much more.
- There's also a LOT of focus on Gumball's behind including the first musical number. The potholing of Female Gaze creeps me the fuck out. He's 12. I don't think it's sexualized, it's just Joke of the Butt.
- When Tobias knocks himself unconscious, Gumball goes to slap his own butt with Tobias' hand himself before deciding this method is a step too far. Similar feelings as all of the above.

The Detective

Gumball and Darwin are shown several times under the effects of sugary cereal. G-Rated Drug is not banned under Y7.
Darwin is relieved that the object in Anais' hands when she enters the shed was just a paper fan, initially fearing it to be something to hurt (i.e., torture) him with. Anais replies that that's what the tools (including pliers, drills, hatchets, saws, and hedge clippers) hanging on the wall are for... Dark joke, but probably not GCPTR.

The Fury

This episode at one point comments on Nicole's big bottom. Joke of the Butt.
As Nicole is jumping across cars with her children in tow, there's exactly one frame (right before she lands on Hot Dog Guy's car) where her Magic Skirt falters, lifting up far enough to show her underwear. It's a single frame, but it could be an attempt for animators to get it past the radar. It's not an error or anything either. I looked it up and [[tinyurl.com/adc4rffd it looks deliberate]]. Maybe a keeper?
Pantsbully nearly calls Nicole a "dumb bitch" at the beginning after she jumps on his car. He only gets to the word "dumb" when Nicole threatens him with a death glare, reducing him to gibberish.
Gumball makes a Catchphrase variation, "What the actual what?", which is clearly based on the phrase "What the actual fuck?" Parental Bonus at worst.
Yuki tries to piss off Nicole by sexually harassing Richard in front of his whole family. She hits on him despite his obvious discomfort, grabs a piece of his flab, and sticks her legs up in front of him to keep him from walking away. Not sure if any of this breaks the Y7 standards but there might be Parental Bonus at play? IDK.

The Scam

Darwin's crush on Carrie includes a rather questionable interest in being possessed by her: Double Entendre, maybe DIH at worst.
Carrie: (blushing) So, Darwin. Do you mind if I use your body?
Darwin: (nervous murmurs)

The Disaster

Rob uses the remote to turn off the parent filter. Nicole and Richard then tell the kids to cover their ears before having a heated shouting match, the audio of which is muffled.
Gumball and Rob are literally rolling on the ground wrestling and accidentally change the music to a "romantic" jazz tune. Gumball comments "Is it me or does this music give a whole different vibe to the situation?" Homoerotic Subtext, could be DIH, not GCPTR.
As soon as Gumball grabs the remote: Curse Cut Short is not a violation of Y7.
Rob: (in slo-mo) Give me that remote you little-
Gumball: (presses the shut down button)
Rob:(collapses)

Season 5

The Rerun

When time is rewound, Nicole is seen briefly in only her panties (or diapers if you wanna be correct), using balls from the ball pit to cover her breasts. More of a Gag Censor, and I don't think that's banned for Y7, even if using the balls to cover breasts is pretty dodgy. DIH?

The Stories

When Darwin is asked about his special dark place, he slowly points at his bottom. Not sure exactly what this means in context.
Gumball: Wha?
Darwin: Never mind.
Principal Brown pretends to be cheating on Ms. Simian with Joan and that it resulted in an unplanned pregnancy—his. The Surprise Pregnancy reference is a little dodgy but it's so brief that I think it's too jokey to count. Not sure if it's DIH or not.

The Guy

Gumball encourages Josh to rag on the fat purple cowboy by saying he wears a big hat to compensate for... Josh doesn't guess right. More of a Parental Bonus.
One of Gumball's suggestions to force Josh to be Anais's friend again is to sneak into the locker room and blackmail him with nude pictures. Pretty dodgy, especially since this is a kid we're talking about, but probably not GCPTR. Not sure what it is.

The Boredom

After Gumball sits on the floor too long, his butt grows roots. Darwin pulls him out of the ground, and we see the roots coming right out of his crotch. This prompts a dialogue blatantly speaking of them as if they were pubic hair. It's even shot with both their mouths offscreen, as if the editors expected the lines to be redubbed or muted out on and didn't want to risk the lip sync not matching up^note: The fact this was edited out overseas might be worth something. The reference to pubic hair is definitely DIH; not sure if it counts as GCPTR for the US and UK.
Darwin: Ew... you're gonna have to wax that.
Gumball: Nah, it's OK, I'll just prune it.
During Gumball and Darwin's walk to find something interesting in the neighborhood, a lawn mower runs over Principal Brown's lower half, he shouts out in panic, and his entire lower half is left pixellated.
Harold accidentally pulls Miss Simian's clothes off in public after slipping on some mayonnaise, looks down at her naked body (covered by a headless mannequin), and vomits inside the Hexagon Lady's purse (with the vomit partially obscured by Tony drinking water from a water fountain). Naked People Are Funny.

The Vision

The episode begins with Gumball and Darwin changing clothes in a locker room. Gumball has accidentally taken Alan's bag, which contains just a string. One of Gumball's attempts to wear it involves tying up his crotch to look like a present. Darwin even refers to the look as "Really Inappropriate Birthday Gift." DIH.
When reading Alan's manifesto, one of his plans is to force unhappy people into "happy camps". The boys' reaction draws even more attention to the parallels with concentration camps. '''A Nazi by Any Other Name is harsh for Y7 but not explicitly banned.
- The mere mention of "A manifesto on how I will gain the power I need to purge Elmore Junior High of its greatest problem" immediately conjures images of a potential school shooting in the making. Reading too much into the scene.
When miming ways to kill Alan, Darwin mimes sucking the air out of him. Given Alan's biology, Darwin was basically going to suck his guts out. Fridge Horror means probably not GCPTR.

The Choices

After Harold insults Nicole for the millionth time in the future where they're married, there's a cut to Nicole being arrested in front of their burning house. Harold is nowhere in sight despite Nicole's furious responses to his last comment, suggesting she may have actually murdered him. Gumball has never been shy about referencing murder and I don't think that alone is GCPTR if there's nothing explicit shown.
They silent montage of Nicole and Richard's life shows them attending a doctor and clearly finding out Nicole is pregnant. At first they are very happy, then get a shocked expression... and then they get married. Not sure about this. The fact they make it clear that Richard and Nicole had a child out of wedlock is dodgy and the only CN show I know that got away with it is Adventure Time, which is PG. Maybe Parental Bonus? But even kids could recognize that the pregnancy came before the wedding.
During the flashback of Gumball's birth, Richard "breastfeeds" him by taping a milk carton to his chest and Gumball drinking it through a straw. I assume breastfeeding isn't allowed on Y7 but maybe this is something like a Censor Decoy?

The Code

"What the hashtag, dollar sign, at-sign, asterisk is going on here?!"
Gumball drops his butt in order to represent "LMBO- Laughing My Butt Off". This is almost never used in real life, instead referencing the more common "LMAO" acronym. ^note I think I added the main entry a while ago. It's probably closer to Parental Bonus as it's using a kid friendly equivalent of online lingo. The note is nattery though.

The Slide

Mrs. Robinson is using Trawlr, a dating app, despite being married already. She, upon seeing Rocky's heavily edited profile picture, swipes down. References to cheating aren't inappropriate for a Y7 show, and since he never does anything with his mom and she doesn't know it's him, I don't think this really got anything past the radar.

The Test

Gumball decides to become the opposite of himself by doing the opposite of literally everything he does in every activity. Once he starts taking food out of his mouth and putting it on his lunch tray, Darwin decides he needs to "put an end to it before [Gumball goes] to the bathroom." Toilet Humor is not GCPTR.
Gumball and Darwin blithely talk about suicide: Explicitly saying "off himself" may be too much for Y7, and the line about the Spanish dub, complaining aside, sounds like it counts.
Darwin: You're poisoning yourself!
Gumball: It doesn't matter! I'm like that Roman emperor guy who kept drinking a bit of poison everyday to build up a resistance.
Darwin: Oh, and how did that end?
Gumball: Uh, his palace was invaded and he tried to off himself^note drinking poison, but it didn't work and he got hacked to pieces by his own soldiers.
Darwin: Okay, that's— It would've been better if he had poisoned himself. But either way, you can see it didn't end well, right?

The Copycats

Gumball feeds Darwin Cowboy Caviar (completely obscured from view). When Darwin asks what it's made of, Gumball replies "Eggs... from cowboys." and Darwin wisely avoids inquiring further. Most kids watching would probably assume the joke is that Darwin unknowingly ate fish eggs, but cowboy caviar is actually another word for Rocky Mountain oysters^sidenote, which are made with the testicles of livestock. Parental Bonus given all the layers of the joke that go beyond the surface-level joke for kids.
There's a rather dark joke involving the 'deletion' of the Anais ripoff. Anyone who knows about how the Chinese One-Child Policy works... yeah, you can take a wild guess. Is a reference to that law really GCPTR? Maybe a Parental Bonus? Also needs more context.

The Potato

Gumball looks on the internet for something Darwin can do instead of eating potatoes, and sounds like he's talking about masturbation. Parental Bonus at worst. It's very inexplicit but I've seen a lot of people assume the scene is a masturbation joke, and it likely is one.
Gumball: You know, a lot of people find doing something with their hands helps take their mind off cravings. Let's search for... "Things to do with your hands."
(Gumball and Darwin look at a screen off-camera)
Both: Whoa!
Gumball: Origami! That's a great idea!

The Outside

Gumball pretends to be a Tattooed Crook, but the tattoo that was supposed to be a lion with a baseball bat is instead described as "a butt with a wig playing an oboe". The "whiskers", however, make it also look like a scrotum. Sounds more like an Accidental Innuendo.
Richard makes some extremely invasive attempts to cozy up to his father, including cuddling him from behind while they're bathing, most of which make Frankie freeze in place and shudder. That they're acting like prison inmates doesn't make it any less suggestive. More like No Yay, probably not sexual enough to count as GCPTR.

The Matchmaker

Gumball describes the potential future he could set up for Darwin and Carrie, which includes "experimenting a little more" in college. Too vague, Parental Bonus at worst.
When Gumball asks Carrie to make a Love Potion, his description makes her think of a different kind of potion: Parental Bonus at worst.
Gumball: Can kids buy potions?
Carrie: What do you mean?
Gumball: You know, some kind of love potion that tricks you into thinking everyone is beautiful.
Carrie: That sounds more like a mistake potion, and we need a fake I.D. to buy one.
Gumball convinces Darwin that girls like boys who are open about their lives. Darwin's response couldn't be more poorly worded. A reference to Naked People Are Funny, not radar
Darwin: She wants me to expose myself, then I'll expose myself!
Gumball: What?
Darwin: (embarrassed) V-verbally.
One of Darwin's confessions is that he has a cloaca, but doesn't know what it is, and is afraid to look it up. Basically, he was unknowingly yelling about his genitals and anus. Probably too technical language to be GCPTR. Maybe a PB?
The first time the Love Potion causes Darwin and Teri to make out, Carrie and Gumball cover their eyes as if it was something far more explicit. Later on, Teri is baffled by the nurse telling her she has cooties, asks Darwin who he's kissed, and we get a Grossup Closeup of Darwin's horribly diseased mouth. Does This Remind You of Anything? in this context isn't really GCPTR since it's not a direct sexual reference. Parental Bonus is a better fit as well as DTRYOA.

The Console

Gumball mentions Anais could have worn an unseen outfit (that included leather platform boots), and she replies by looking down at her own body and saying it was not "age-appropriate". Might be DIH or maybe PB since gamers know the type of fanservicey outfits those characters often wear.
When Gumball summons Richard in the battle with the final boss, his dad's "overdrive" ability consists of him emitting a powerful beam from his...behind. The ability's name? "Ring of Fire." Toilet Humor, not GCPTR.
When Gumball holds back on attacking the final boss, he explains that "I don't know where its tentacles have been". DIH at worst.

The Ollie

Darwin asks Gumball to show him a skateboard trick called as "dark side grind". Gumball rubs the skateboard on his own butt, bringing to mind another use of the word "grind". Parental Bonus or DIH.

The Catfish

In a reference to American Beauty, we see Granny Jojo posing naked and moving "seductively" (with flowers covering her boobs and crotch) while Grandpa Louie describes the first time they met. The American Beauty scene is probably a valid Parental Bonus, but not GCPTR. Not sure about the suicide joke.
Louie: Everything about her was magical. Her luscious lips... her flowing hair... her cutie patootie...
Phone: I'm sorry, but I refuse to picture that last image. Goodbye, cruel world! (falls down and breaks)
This line: Probably also PB.
Louie: Our romance was ravenous, insatiable, our hearts melting with hunger until we consumed each other like a pair of feasting lions...
Jojo gets angry when the machine in the supermarket says to Louie "Please scan your items". Way too vague to be radar breaking.

The Cycle

Gumball tells Richard that Harold seems to be a major thunder-jerk^notethundercunt. Likewise, Darwin remarks that it seems like everyone who rides a hoverboard is a butthat^noteasshat. Fake swears aren't radar breaking. Maybe just a Parental Bonus as they're used in the context of real swears?
The kids ask Richard to tell them the one thing every adult dreams of. Parental Bonus, maybe DIH.
Richard: (counting on his fingers) Mmm... can't say that, can't say that, two of those at the same time—can't say that either.

The Grades

Principal Brown at one point explains, "I'm not a furry, I just wanted to see what I'd look like with a tail." While furry can have an innocent meaning, the fact he's so ashamed of it implies this is likely referencing the infamously less innocent part of the Furry Fandom (the fact he's courting an anthropomorphized primate doesn't help). I think I added this a while ago. Sorry 'bout that. I think it could be a Parental Bonus due to the shameful associations adults have with furries and Rule 34, but on its own it isn't redar breaking.

The Diet

After Richard gets fit and gains 6 pack abs, he goes on an egotistical spree. Later, a firefighter on the radio reports a fire in a building and says that Richard (offscreen) is "taking the hose" and "posing with the hose". Accidental Innuendo at worst. He could just be holding the hose up in a heroic fashion.

The Menu

Richard: Listen, little man! I'm the [Imitates static] customer here, and I [Imitates static] don't want to have to repeat my order! [Imitates static] One secret [Imitates static] burger to go, you little [Imitates static]! A Cluster Bleep-Bomb is not banned by Y7 standards.

The Uncle

Gumball begs Ocho to marry him in the school hallway, and Masami and Teri overhear it and have this exchange: Is a gay joke on a TV-Y7 show radar-breaking in the mid 2010s?
Teri: Called it.
Masami: Guess I owe you 20 bucks.
- Gumball's reaction to being thought of as bi is to dial it down to dating. Not really sure what this means.
Ocho's fake kidnapping prank not only leaves Gumball with realistic PTSD flashbacks, but forces Gumball to think he has to kill himself by jumping off a tall building to save Ocho from being killed. Not sure about this, mostly because I don't remember the context, which might make things clearer.

The Weirdo

Gumball threatens to fight the Gang of Bullies picking on Sussie and starts a Battle Strip, but keeps taking off clothing until Darwin stops him. Just Naked People Are Funny.
Gumball: Alright, I'm-a fight these punks!
Darwin: What, Greco-Roman style?

The Singing

When Mrs. Jötunheim is singing about how she's really ugly, she mentions that this is odd, because she's "only 28." Her son is supposed to be 12 since he's in middle school. If you subtract 12 from 28, that would mean Mrs. Jötunheim got pregnant at 16. Not sure if that's really radar breaking since it's something you have to think about.
Earth makes a joke about the pronounciation of Uranus. A lot of shows with similar ratings have gotten away with it. I don't think it's radar breaking.

The Best

Carmen warns Gumball that he'll get a cramp if he's not careful with how he holds his pen. Gumball responds by indignantly planting his elbow on his desk with his hand sticking up, and begins to raise his middle finger before a hand cramp causes his fingers to spasm. Probably not explicit enough since I think Gumball has Four-Fingered Hands.

The Worst

Nicole tries to describes being a woman as like playing a video game without a joystick, which is already a pretty blatant Double Entendre, but she misremembers the term as "stick of happiness". Could be an Accidental Innuendo, maybe a Parental Bonus at worst.

The Petals

Gumball needs to perform CPR on Leslie but hesitates because of Leslie's ugliness. Darwin forcibly pushes Gumball's face into Leslie's, and when he comes up for air, Leslie slaps him and asks "Who told you to stop?" So Darwin pushes Gumball down again and he screams while performing "CPR". More Ho Yay or Homoerotic Subtext.

The Puppets

One of the old toys is a Bop-it parody that was damaged at some point. When Darwin tries to turn it it, it plays the words "press me, hold me, squeeze me" in a slow, distorted, and vaguely suggestive manner, and Darwin admits it no longer sounded "kid-friendly". DIH at worst.
Once Darwin starts using Howdy and Frank again, he promises to never take them off his hands. Cut to Darwin stepping out of the bathroom, with the puppets silently aghast. Just Toilet Humor.
Darwin: Sorry, but you did make me promise.

The Nuisance

Gumball makes Mr. Small to go crazy by pouring bath salts into the town's water supply. I looked it up and this was actually edited out and replaced with "soda suds" in later airings. So it probably did initially get past the radar, but it was too much of an explicit drug reference to remain, and Y7 shows usually can't go beyond G-Rated Drug. As such, it actually sounds like a valid example.

The List

During Gumball's Imagine Spot of what his mom's life would have been like if she never had kids, it shows Nicole spending her life as an aristocratic lady. The Imagine Spot cuts off as Gumball says "And so the Duke arrives in person on horseback, and he's like, ripped, and he-" before Darwin cuts him off. Then Gumball decides to finish with his mom and the Duke getting married after that. ^note I have no idea what's radar-breaking here. A handsome man is not inherently sexual, nor is marriage
On the "round the world trip," Gumball, Darwin, and Nicole find themselves on a beach, but when they turn around they find it's a NUDIST beach. How that got past we may never know. Presumably because Naked People Are Funny is not inherently a banned concept, and the characters don't have their junk out or anything. Not radar breaking.

Season 6

The Rival

When Gumball and Darwin reminisce what could entail when their sister is born, one of them is them marrying her friends... cut to them, grown adults, marrying babies. Essentially child grooming. In their defense, they reject the idea afterwards precisely because of that. I don't think it was meant to be taken that seriously. They envision her friends as babies because she's a baby.
When Gumball and Darwin decide to play hide-and-seek with Anais, they count to ten, and when they open their eyes, they're in the highway almost getting run over by a truck. Darwin gets so scared his ghost escapes him for a brief moment, but he pulls it back. Then comes this gem from Gumball: Is a reference to Hell radar-breaking?
Gumball: Yeah, well, at least your soul was going upwards.
When Gumball decides he's had enough of Anais' evil tendencies, he says she's going back to where she came from, while pointing upward. Cue horrified look on Darwin's face. Probably just a DIH at worst.

The Lady

The opening scene shows the school getting closed for the day due to the staff having a bad trip due to mistakenly eating candles. It's your choice if this is meant to parody edible use, or bath salt use. G-Rated Drug, not radar breaking.

The Cringe

When Gumball and Hot Dog Guy end up in adjacent bathroom stalls at the same time, each tries to relax by doing breathing exercises, but ends up hyperventilating and then screaming at the top of their lungs, leaving both too distracted by the other to go. At best they thought the other was constipated, but them both standing and Hot Dog Guy asking "What is he doing in there!?" makes it seems more like The Immodest Orgasm. Parental Bonus at worst due to the subtlety of the reference.
Gumball trying to convince Hot Dog Guy why they need to get it out all the tension between them turns into a huge Double Entendre-fest. Seems more like Ho Yay or even Homoerotic Subtext.
Gumball: You have to air out the awkwardness, let it all hang out. Free and loose flopping in the wind like a panting dog's tongue!
Hot Dog Guy: That’s awkward enough already.
Gumball: And then we'll roll in our awkwardness, slather ourselves in it like a couple oiled up prized hogs until the bitter shame finally tastes sweet.
Hot Dog Guy: I feel like I need a shower.
Gumball: Ah, funny you should say that.
There's also the scene that comes right after the scene above. Gumball and Hot Dog Guy are standing in the shower and Gumball insists that the fact Hot Dog Guy is wearing shorts makes things more awkward. An argument ensues that culminates with Gumball screaming "Just take off your clothes!" Same as above.
- In the very same scene, it turns out Banana Joe was in the same stall as them the whole time. After he takes his peel off and Hot Dog guy comments on how the situation couldn’t get any more cringe-worthy, Banana Joe proceeds to use a pair of peaches to visually explain that a "moon landing" is when two people accidentally bump butts. He ends up holding the peaches together in front of him, making his (at the time unpeeled) body look incredibly phallic. The "moon landing" thing is just Joke of the Butt while the peaches are probably an Accidental Innuendo (though who knows if it's really that accidental, knowing this show.
Gumball dresses up as Hot Dog Guy's step-father and tries to give him The Talk. Probably doesn't count — The Talk can be referenced on a Y7 show.

The Faith

Darwin has a questionable line after he walks into a fire hydrant, which hits him between the legs. A Y7 show can have a Groin Attack so I don't think it fits here.
Darwin: Ow! Right in the... neck.
The police officers at the park are mauled by hungry ducks. One of them, the anthropomorphic soda can, staggers into view with his drink spilling through a gash in his body before he falls to the ground and a duckling drags him away. Not explicitly blood so I don't think it violates anything.
During the song: Sound-Effect Bleep = DIH at worst.
You gotta find the good that's in this great big load of (raspberry)

The Candidate

The adults' charity gig turns into a wild party in which they all clearly get hammered and pass out, most likely to lead to a case of What Did I Do Last Night? Parental Bonus.
The TV gets so sick of the video it's playing that it turns itself off, in what is clearly a TV-Y7 imitation of blowing one's brains out. Does This Remind You of Anything? at worst, not enough details to show how explicit it is. Still might count as DIH.

The Pact

After Gumball finally reveals to Miss Simian she has bad breath, the scene cuts to Principal Brown's office where he asks Gumball how it went. Gumball reports: The implication is an Ass Shove I guess, but this line alone doesn't specify that it's an Ass Shove, so it could just be stuck in his head or something.
Well, I didn't need to go to the hospital. The nurse said it would be more dangerous to surgically remove the pencil.

The Shippening

The police raid on the Awesome Store results in the horrific injury of one of the police officers. Not enough detail to prove that this is too violent for Y7 standards.
Sarah draws humanised anime versions of Gumball and Darwin getting married, and although this version of Gumball is female, no one addresses the fact that they're siblings (through adoption but still). Granted, the show itself has been at these implications since the beginning. Is incest explicitly banned by America's TV-Y7 standards? I'd be surprised if it weren't but otherwise IDK where to put it. In-universe Ho Yay maybe?

The Brain

Rather than argue with a teenage cashier over how he wasted so much time that her coupon expired, Nicole asks to speak with someone higher up. Each subsequent higher up that Nicole then meets with is younger than the last the further up the chain of command they are with the supervisor being a preschooler, the store manager being a baby, and the CEO still in his mother's womb. The real kicker however is when the CEO asks his shareholders to step in. A single man then enters the scene but is accompanied with a bunch of disembodied voices, the implication of this being the shareholders are talking sperm. Could be DIH, though it's a pretty explicit reference to sperm that I can't imagine having gotten on a Y7 show if the sperm were not simply disembodied voices, so maybe it is GCPTR.

The Ad

Darwin's suggestion to make money off the family house comes out very wrong: Might better fit DIH.
Darwin: Oh, I know! We invite people who need hugs and kisses to come to our house, and we give it to them for money!
(Beat)
Darwin: Oh, I know! We all forget I just said that.

The Potion

Darwin asks Gumball to clarify whether one of the ingredients for the potion was the head of a rosemary flower or the head of Rosemary Flowers. When Gumball answers the former, Darwin quickly removes a brown sack from the room, admitting he should have made sure before he started digging.

The Ghouls

In a rarity for shows that are Y7 rated in general and is seen more in CN's PG rated fare, the word sucks is uttered by Gumball when describing the former horror monsters' situation. This might be valid as it outright cites the standards. I also know that "sucks" was edited out of previous CN shows like Total Drama, which was rated PG, but that was a decade before this series so IDK.
Man, that sucks.
One of the monsters is a shadowy figure that unflinchingly stalks Rocky, a la It Follows. Keep in mind, the "It" from the original movie is passed through sex; in other words, this could be the show's way of saying Rocky is indeed sexually active. This is a Parental Bonus, referencing a movie adults know to imply adult things.

The Awareness

This line: Sounds like Accidental Innuendo.
"I mean, you're gonna wanna go home to get milked, right?"
When Gumball tries to do photosynthesis, his body completely dries up, his eyes get inside of his body, and the full mouth can be seen. After that, a new, naked Gumball rips the dried body from inside and gets out of it. Naked People Are Funny or Nightmare Fuel, neither of which are explicitly banned by the network.

The Buddy

Bobert literally craps himself, except it was oil not poop. Toilet Humor.

The Web

Nicole innocently refers to Gumball and Darwin as her "baes", though it turns out she meant "babies" in the context of them being her children. Of course with "bae" holding a far more romantic connotation, Gumball and Darwin are immediately squicked out. Is a very subtle reference to non-sexual Parental Incest radar-breaking? IDK.

The Mess

When Gumball and Darwin have a kissing booth, Hot Dog Guy and Leslie are in line.

The Heart

Mr. Robinson is arrested after searching up how to brainwash children online. '''Is this explicitly a Mistaken for Pedophile joke, or is it

The Revolt

Darwin wants to feel what it's like to be a pencil sharpener so he turns his back towards Gumball. This later becomes a Brick Joke where Darwin says it's happened to him before and is about to now. DIH.

The Decisions

Alan teaches a group of little kids about healthy eating and demonstrates by struggling to eat a large eggplant through his balloon knot (note what the eggplant emoji tends to be used for). One of the kids points out that Alan was talking while he was eating and is about to ask where the eggplant went before Darwin interrupts, to Alan's relief. The kid then offers him a pineapple which horrifies him more. As infamous as the scene is, it's DIH, probably not breaking Radar.

The BFFS

Throughout the episode, Darwin keeps mocking Gumball about all the "darns" he doesn't give. Probably just standard Gosh Dang It to Heck!.

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#1427: May 16th 2021 at 10:37:47 AM

Ratings from IMDB:

USA: TV-Y7-FV
Canada: G (a few episodes are rated C8 on iTunes)
Australia: G (TV, IMDB notes it was heavily edited), PG (DVD)
New Zealand: G (TV, apparently used the Australian TV edit), PG (DVD)
UK: PG (TV), U and sometimes PG (online)
Ireland: PG

The examples also bring up the Spanish and Portuguese dubs, so:

Mexico: All ages; does allow for some minor allusions to sex and drugs, and non-imitatable violence. (Source in Spanish)
Argentina: All ages; Wikipedia says this does allow for mild references to sex, drugs, and violence. IMDB notes that the Argentinian broadcast is censored.
Chile: I (for children; IMDB mentions it was censored)
Colombia: 7 (Internal Netflix rating, which does not correspond to the Colombian government age ratings; appears to be based on Spanish government ratings. IMDB notes it is censored)
Spain: TP (all ages) (TV), 7 (online); IMDB mentions it is censored, so it's probably the Mexican dub
Brazil: L (all ages; IMDB notes it is censored)
Portugal: T (all ages, industry standard; no mention of censorship but this is possibly the Brazilian dub)

Things being cut overseas just means that foreign radars have different standards.

"Nipples": ^{[citation needed]}. The shows did run concurrently, so the standards were likely the same. Is there a source on Adventure Time not being allowed to use that word?

manboobs: That's probably OK; Nipple and Dimed is a trope, after all. Tit censorship is... pretty weird and inconsistent.

"The Colossus": The TV-Y7-FV rating allows for this kind of thing.

Gumball threatening Leslie in "The Flower" falls under FV.

Jockstraps, and underwear in general, fall under gross humour; this is TV-Y7-FV compliant.

"The Man" and "The Singing" sound more like someone forgetting to do the maths (and Mrs Jotunheim might just be lying about her age); it only counts if it was an intentional flouting of the rules.

Carp vs crap: Carp is a real word, and different to crap. They're not saying "crap". They're saying "carp". Not GCPTR.

Nicole's panty shot does look deliberate, but it might also fall under Comedic Underwear Exposure.

The disembodied sperm voices are pushing it, but I still think that's just DIH. Kids are aware that it takes a daddy as well as a mommy to make a baby, so if a kid who hasn't had The Talk yet were to see that, they'd more likely assume the voices are of babies who have yet to be conceived; in other words, whose ages are negative.

"Sucks": Yeah, no. "Sucks" has been used by children for decades, it's not an unsuitable word despite what may be thought by the troper who added that example.

Edited by VampireBuddha on May 16th 2021 at 6:38:24 PM

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#1428: May 16th 2021 at 11:32:02 AM

The Radar page for AT references Adam Muto saying the word "nurp" was a substitute for S+P not allowing them to say "nipple" but I can't find any source on that.

I personally think "using a word as a substitute for a different word banned by the censor when it sounds extremely similar to the original word and is meant to be a pun on that word specifically" should be enough to edge over to GCPTR. It's a way to say "crap" without actually saying "crap" and it's not even a traditional euphemism in this context as it's part of a Hurricane of Puns. But I understand that might be a personal wonk.

The Panty Shot could be a mix of GCPTR and Comedic Underwear Exposure right? Though the latter feels like it'd require more attention to truly be a gag. TAWOG has used the latter trope but only for kids in a nonsexual manner.

Kids also use the words "fuck" and "shit" constantly. And networks can ban even tamer language than "sucks," like "shut up." The important thing: is the word "suck/sucks" banned by Cartoon Network's Y7 shows?

Everything else we can migrate to a subpage for DIH... though the namespace title should probably be shortened.

God, I hate that we don't have a catchy namespace for that new trope. (Of course I also hate its long-ass inconvenient name with a deep passion.)

Edited by mightymewtron on May 16th 2021 at 2:33:50 PM

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#1429: May 17th 2021 at 12:15:10 PM

How about Inappropriate/ for the namespace?

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#1430: May 17th 2021 at 12:24:56 PM

That could work.

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#1431: May 18th 2021 at 12:53:54 AM

Better yet: Get rid of the namespace. Its existence is a hole that encourages people to fill it with Accidental Innuendo. If after the cleanup it turns out that examples are still widespread, we can reintroduce it. But a rename is making assumptions that are not certain to be borne out by the post-cleanup state of the page.

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#1432: May 18th 2021 at 5:58:57 AM

Well, I already went through seven seasons of a page and found several examples of one show that qualify for DIH, enough that listing them on the YMMV page would get too long. The entire point of that item was to catch GCPTR misuse to prevent it from being shoehorned into GCPTR further.

It doesn't need to be a main namespace again... but like any trope, if there's a lot of examples, it's going to naturally need to be split off. I was only asking for a shorter title under the impression that the trope name combined with the work name would be too long (DemographicallyInappropriateHumor.The Amazing World Of Gumball). But it looks like it might work there.

Edited by mightymewtron on May 18th 2021 at 9:30:17 AM

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#1433: May 18th 2021 at 6:00:36 AM

...Honestly, I agree with Septimus.

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#1434: May 18th 2021 at 6:57:26 AM

Me too.

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#1435: May 18th 2021 at 10:31:05 AM

... so anyway.

I think that using "carp" in place of "crap" falls under the same umbrella as "Sugar!" for "Shit!" and "Fudge!" for "Fuck!" It's a replacement for a dirty word which is not dirty itself, and so does not trigger the radar.

This is what Nicole apparently looks like; gonna be honest, I doubt anyone is going to find her panties arousing in the absence of some sort of fetish. I agree that one's a bit of an edge case, but I'm leaning on the side of "not unacceptable".

As for "sucks", in the absence of any evidence that the CN censors consider it strong language, I would say it's not an example.

There are some strong opinions against making a DIH namespace right now, so maybe just give Gumball a dedicated folder.

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#1436: May 18th 2021 at 1:29:27 PM

"Sugar"/"shit" is a false equivalency since the point here is that it is part of a Hurricane of Puns using fish words that sound like other words ("We know" becomes "Minnow," etc.) But I'll concede. I just thought it would count as an example of getting crap past the radar since it only makes sense if you know the word "crap" (unlike "fudge" which can work as an Unusual Euphemism devoid of penny context).

This is what Nicole apparently looks like; gonna be honest, I doubt anyone is going to find her panties arousing in the absence of some sort of fetish.

Oh sweet summer child. Nicole has... a special fandom. One the show has even acknowledged before, I think. I found the panty shot linked from sites like Fur Affinity and 4chan. Besides, the point isn't whether others would find the panty shot arousing, it's whether the censors would get rid of it if they knew about it.

Also there is precedent for CN disallowing "sucks" on even other PG shows but that was 2007 so the standards were likely different. I need to look more into if modern Y7 shows get censored.

Do we still give folders on trope pages to entire works? I thought thought was a depreciated practice. Also, using a trope name as a namespace for a subpage is not giving it a "dedicated namespace," it is simply making a subpage when there are too many examples to list on main. Alternative Character Interpretation is not a standard namespace, but pages like AlternativeCharacterInterpretation.South Park exist. The only reason I asked about a shortened namespace was due to a misconception that the page would be too long to edit, due to that earlier issue with the character limit on video trope sources.

Edited by mightymewtron on May 18th 2021 at 4:41:11 AM

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#1437: May 19th 2021 at 7:47:16 PM

Also, I still don't see why we let the Radar subpages stay open and editable without going over them. People are still adding shoehorns.

I'm probably gonna make the move to DemographicallyInappropriateHumour.The Amazing World Of Gumball in the next few days and then cutlist its GCPTR subpage. Then maybe I'll look over other CN and Nick pages.

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#1438: May 19th 2021 at 8:03:05 PM

I've been meaning to get to the Victorious page when I have the time, I just...haven't had time.

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#1439: May 19th 2021 at 8:09:15 PM

That one's been on my watchlist for years as an artifact of my tween interest. It and its sibling pages are... uncomfortable reads. Definitely lots of Demographically Inappropriate Humour in Schneider shows but some of the entries skew towards fetishizing Accidental Innuendo. Usually fetishizing teens in the process.

(The crowner: I recall an entry on Radar.Victorious that listed "Gotta love big moms" as an entry because of "porn categories." I didn't get it as a kid and I still just barely get it at 21.)

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#1440: May 19th 2021 at 8:11:01 PM

That's such a reach, even Mr. Fantastic can't reach it.

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#1441: May 20th 2021 at 8:49:24 AM

I support Inappropriate/ for the namespace, both because it's more concise and because it's region-neutral. If we use the full name, there will inevitably be Americans defaulting to the "Humor" spelling.

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#1442: May 20th 2021 at 11:45:14 AM

I know I end up doing that both because I'm American and because it's shorter.

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#1443: May 20th 2021 at 11:54:09 AM

Why not DIH/ ? So it can't be shoehorned with anything the viewer finds inappropriate? Not suggesting there will be enough examples for a namespace to be necessary.

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#1444: May 20th 2021 at 12:41:28 PM

Sounds too nondincative for such a new trope name.

We can just use the full trope name for now and move the Gumball examples and worry later.

There should be a sizable number of examples since this was made specifically to catch the most common usage of GCPTR that's now misuse.

Edited by mightymewtron on May 20th 2021 at 3:42:33 PM

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#1445: May 20th 2021 at 8:57:19 PM

Though I am a Canadian (I personally use the "humour" spelling), DIH should be spelled the American way ("humor") as more than half of TV Tropes readers and Tropers are American.

Edited by Nen_desharu on May 20th 2021 at 11:57:38 AM

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#1446: May 20th 2021 at 8:58:24 PM

Uh, not really. We have commonwealth spelling redirects for a reason- so people who don't spell the American way can use their way. (And Vice Versa.)

Also, that title is too clunky anyway and I don't want to see overly-long page glitches occur just because the namespace is too long.

Edited by WarJay77 on May 20th 2021 at 12:01:16 PM

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#1447: May 20th 2021 at 9:00:24 PM

Fair enough.

The title still needs to be shortened regardless.

Edited by Nen_desharu on May 20th 2021 at 12:00:50 PM

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#1448: May 20th 2021 at 9:16:30 PM

Not having a better, shorter title idea to suggest in the TLP is one of my biggest regrets.

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