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#1526: Jun 17th 2021 at 1:06:36 PM

Yeah, Trey and Matt talk in one of the DVD commentaries about ways they got around the censors. But Shadow was right to remove those examples.

Edited by VampireBuddha on Jun 17th 2021 at 9:24:46 AM

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#1527: Jun 19th 2021 at 2:09:46 AM

Thought I might as well go through Radar.Crash Bandicoot:

    Cash Banooca 

The original game had Tawna, Crash's love interest, a tall female bandicoot with blonde hair, short shorts, and large breasts. And that's the bowdlerized version! Tawna's original design, modeled after Pamela Anderson but "with a brain" (according to Naughty Dog's artist), had even larger breasts and wore high heel shoes and a skimpy miniskirt. This form somehow made it into the scrapbook of Crash Team Racing. Tawna is a weird case here. Ms. Fanservice characters by themselves aren't Radar worthy, but the reason she didn't appear again until the remakes was because Universal(?) were miffed about her sexualized appearance and her having no characterization aside from "Crash's hot girlfriend that he saves". So I guess it was objectionable at the time and Universal didn't notice it at first? Idk.


  • Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back:
    • The game has a level named "Piston It Away". This feels more like PB or DIH.
    • While more of an inside joke for the developers, if one were to open up the game's files for the character models, they would find that Cortex's lab assistants are listed under the names "obj_asshole" and "obj_motherfucker". If you have to dig through the games files to find it, then it isn't Radar.
    • There is a good reason the Final Boss is so easy. Lose and you get to watch as everyone on Earth becomes a mindless slave of Cortex. It's only told to us through Coco and we only hear the scientist's evil laugh, but it's exactly what happens. Not Radar worthy, not even in a kids game.

  • Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped:
    • Cortex says this after being defeated: "Maybe I should retire to a nice big beach, with a nice big drink, and a woman with nice big... bags of ice for my head." Complete with hand gestures. In case you missed the joke, the hand gestures are exaggerated in the remake, and a pause, complete with musical Beat, is added to make sure you notice. This feels more like PB.
    • In the medieval levels, if Crash touches a frog, the frog will kiss him and turn into a lab assistant dressed as a prince. Considering that both Crash and the lab assistant are male... Don't think this is Radar worthy.
    • In the N. Sane Trilogy version, Coco can get kissed by the frog as well, which just...looks wrong. Yeah, and?
    • Another type of enemy is a knight, who will cut Crash with his sword in half if he hits him. And the dismemberment happens on-screen. As mentioned in the Nightmare Fuel cleanup thread, this isn't objectionable in a kids game. There isn't any blood and it's barely visible because it isn't in-your-face. The PS1 graphics in the original version don't help with this being a shoehorn.
    • One of the secret levels is named "Eggipus Rex", a pun on Oedipus. PB or DIH.

  • Crash Team Racing:
    • The Trophy Girls. Not only do they have noticeable chests, but they also come with Gainaxing... in an E-rated game! Liz even has her panties clearly visible at all times! Ms. Fanservice characters aren't Radar worthy. I think Liz might be an example of different standards rather than GCPTR considering the remake changed her design so that you can't always see her underwear.
    • There's also the 100% completion ending that says one of the trophy girls is posing for "Bandiboy" magazine, which may or may not be related to Playboy. PB or DIH.

  • Crash Twinsanity got away with a huge amount of this, mostly from Cortex. Coco kicks him in the crotch at one point, at which point he says in a high-pitched voice, "My crystals!" (he was holding crystals). The opening stage sees him masquerade as Coco, where he says, "It's true! Blondes do have more fun!". And of course, the cutscene where they Humiliskate through Moulin Cortex...
    Cortex: Coming through! Ladies... Excuse me, madam! Are those real?! {after an older-sounding woman screams at him} MOTHER?!!
Groin Attack isn't Radar worthy, especially because of the literal context. Characters crossdressing isn't Radar worthy, not sure about the quote, although I don't think it counts because I think it's more of a "I'm having a lot of fun screwing with you right now" thing. "Are those real?" might count, if not then it's DIH. It doesn't have a clean context, but it's also barely audible (skip to 14:52)
  • The deleted scenes even had an example of this with Coco's proposed Tenth Dimension counterpart.
    Evil Coco: Ain't that sweet. It's a real man, who ain't afraid to show his feelings, and my mom says real men prefer their cocoa hot and bitter.
    Cortex: (awkwardly) I'm...not thirsty.
It's a deleted scene though, it isn't in the actual game. Ms. Fanservice isn't Radar worthy.
I think this counts? It doesn't really have a clean context...
  • Not to mention N. Gin outright asking one of the women in the credits to touch him, "if she wants". And his rather unsettling Ho Yay obsession with one of the men, where they'll "go to the lake and braid each other's hair". N.Gin being weirdly pervy isn't Radar worthy. Sadly, while having positive gay representation in your main characters was a big ol' no-no in the 2000s, queer coding the villains was completely fine, so this isn't Radar worthy.
  • One of Coco's voice clips has her screaming "YES! YES! YEEEEEEEEEEEEES!" Sounds more like Accidental Innuendo, granted, I doubt people didn't know how weird that would sound out of context, but it still feels too clean in context to count as Radar.

Cortex calling Nina a skank is another weird case here. Skank has a clean definition of an unpleasant person, but I haven't heard of it being used that way until I googled it just now, children's media doesn't touch the word with a ten foot pole because of its more widely used slut shame-y context. "How long have you had that in your pants?" might be AI, or at least not dirty enough for Radar.
  • Half the stuff Cortex says in that game, period. A notable example for how sheerly audacious it is, particularly given that he's talking to Coco specifically.
Coco: "Cortex, why do you keep doing stuff like this?"
Cortex: "Well, actually it's pretty fun. You should try it! You know, riding around in huge rumbling machines and whatnot? Veeery stimulating!"
Crash (and the audience): *take* "Buh?"
Sounds more like AI, or at least it isn't lewd enough for Radar.
  • There's also another instance of N. Gin having sadomasochistic tendencies. He thanks Cortex for spitting and dumping hot tea on his face twice. And during his little two-persona rant, part of him admits he likes it when Cortex kicks him "in the tuchis and other very gentle spots". Again, N.Gin being a masochist better fits Accidental Innuendo.
  • Nina's remark about Crash breaking into her ship has to be one of the blatant examples.
Nina: "Crash? Get out of my body.This is my body and my right to choose!"
This is either AI, or it's too clean in context to count as Radar.
  • Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (first game to be rated PEGI 12 in European territories):
    • First off, we have level names:
      • The first level in the Salty Wharf dimension is named "Booty Calls", and the Dingodile Timeline version of it is called "Thar He Blows!" I haven't played Crash 4, but I think "Booty Calls" might be too clean in context because it sounds like a pirate level, it is a blatant reference to a sexual slang term though, so Idk. "Thar He Blows!" sounds too clean for Radar because it's a pirate level and Dingodile uses a vacuum cannon in Crash 4, might be AI.
      • The Cortex Timeline level for Snow Way Out is called "Ship Happens". Don't think so?
      • One of Dingodile's stages in the Eggipus Dimension (itself an example carried over from Warped) is called "Rock Blocked". Not sure about this either.
    • As for Crash and Coco's unlockable skins:
      • The chicken skin for Crash is called "Mother Clucker". Feels too clean in context to count for Radar.
      • The unicorn skin for Coco is called "Big Horn Energy". Feels too clean for in context for Radar.
      • The pirate skin for Crash and Coco is called "Booty Seeker", appropriately unlocked by collecting six clear gems in the aforementioned "Booty Calls" and "Thar He Blows" level(s). Feels too clean in context.
      • The PS 4-exclusive caveman skin for Crash and Coco is called "Marsupus Erectus". Yes, it's also likely meant to be a reference to the homo erectus, but it's too specific to have been anything but an intentional innuendo. Isn't erect also used in a non lewd context though? I don't doubt that a lewd context was intended, it just doesn't feel lewd enough for Radar.
    • In the level "Snow Way Out" and "Ship Happens" there is a gruesome death animation with Crash and Coco that involves a zombie fisherman enemy, He picks them up and snaps them in half with a realistic bone snapping sound then throws them on the ground. This is odd seeing that most of the other death animations are slapstick and cartoony in nature but this one is more realistically violent compared to past and present death animations. Not Radar worthy, especially because Crash 4 got away with Dingodile swearing 3 times, so the standards are a bit tamer.
    • Plenty of scenes involving alternate-dimension Tawna give particular spotlight to her... um, assets. Not Radar worthy.
    • After N. Brio's boss fight, there's a cutscene where he transforms into a pterodactyl and prepares to attack Crash and Coco again, only to get stomach pains, which makes him say out loud "my cloaca" (a posterior orifice in lizards that serves as a reproductive/urinary opening, kind of like an anus or urethra) and lay an egg. Coco looks absolutely traumatized by the end of it, but Crash holds up the egg triumphantly then when coco drags him away he caresses it. Not Radar worthy.
    • The selfcest implications behind Doctor Nefarious Tropy flirting with his Gender Flipped alternate self, which disgusts the bandicoots, Oxide, and Cortex. Dingodile finds it amusing while crash stares in confusion, however. Not Radar worthy.
    • When Doctor Nefarious Tropy is listening to the alternate Doctor Nefarious Tropy talking about killing Tawna's friends, the hands on his clock point upward. Not Radar worthy.

Edited by RainbowPumpqueen on Jun 19th 2021 at 6:42:58 PM

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#1528: Jun 19th 2021 at 1:56:12 PM

Tawna doesn't sound like an example. It sounds more like they didn't like how she was portrayed in the final game and wanted somebody less shallow, or there was a change in internal standards. In any case, not every instance of Executive Meddling is radar-related; sometimes editors just don't like things.

The 7 and E10+ ratings do allow for some mild innuendo, so the Crash Tag Team Racing example isn't valid.

Crash of the Titans is rated 7 (PEGI), E10+ (ESRB), and PG (ACB). It can probably get away with "skank".

Nothing in It's About Time goes beyond a 12 rating, and "Marsupius Erectus" is obviously a reference to Homo erectus, so it's AI.


After five days, DIH/ is the clear winner for the DIH namespace. I think we can call this one.

Edited by VampireBuddha on Jun 20th 2021 at 1:45:15 PM

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#1529: Jun 19th 2021 at 6:41:34 PM

[up]DIH is a much better name than the long Demographically Inappropriate Humo(u)r.

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#1530: Jun 19th 2021 at 9:42:59 PM

I was always under the impression that Tawna stopped appearing because the devs realized they didn't need her and/or wanted to not come across as ripping off Mario. She was Damsel in Distress with less personality than Princess Peach surrounded by a bunch of whacky characters already carrying the game's narrative.

Edited by Karxrida on Jun 19th 2021 at 9:50:35 AM

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#1531: Jun 20th 2021 at 9:33:19 AM

All right, let's take a look at Radar.Magic the Gathering.

There is not, as far as I know, any body that enforces standards on collectible card games, so the only standards that apply are WOTC's internal rules. I don't know what those are; I heard they have a policy against chainmail bikinis, but I can't find a source for that, and in any case internal policies can be bent or even bypassed by internal decisions.

As to whether anything can qualify as DIH, Magic is mostly sold and marketed to adults, though I get the impression it's intended to be suitable for teenagers. Children do play it, but they're not the target audience.

To make this one easier on myself, I'm going to sort examples by what trope they really belong under.

    Visual Innuendo ... 

    Accidental Innuendo ... 
  • On the same note, Witch-Maw Nephilim. Its appearance is rather phallic, its flavor text mentions it "making way for its passage", and its abilities (which allow it to grow until it can bypass some of the opponent's defenses) could also have a somewhat suggestive interpretation.
  • Clergy en-Vec. Whatever that second person is doing to him down there, he sure looks happy about it, that's for sure.note 
  • Both Siege Wurm and its successor Armada Wurm are more than a little phallic-shaped, and their 'helmets' certainly don't help matters.
  • Daily Regimen. Why is only his right arm that ripped? The flavor text also states "what self-indulgence tears down, discipline builds up again".

    Double Entendre ... 

    Funny Background Event ... 

    Stripperiffic ... 
  • The art on Reversal of Fortune is pretty revealing. Probably more so when you realize that the Vulshok of Mirrodin have metal that grows organically from their bodies, so she's probably not actually wearing a bra. And that's nothing — check out Alluring Scent.

    No 
  • An article about four aforementioned secretly somewhat offensive cards.
  • Psychic Network: "And the man in the back – let's just say he's providing a different kind of pay service."
  • Ethersworn Canonist. Heavily implies that, on Esper, sex is suppressed.
  • Tunnel Ignus. Yes, that's its name. But if the name refers to love, then the card itself is pure hate for decks that focus on fetching a lot of lands.
  • The various descriptions of the Rakdos manage to imply without ever actually raising the topic that among their violent, binge-drinking, gluttonous revels, there's also a ton of freaky-deaky sex going on. They're hedonists, after all. For example: Deviant Glee.
    • In the same way, Theros satyrs are implied to be into quite the sexual depravity. Many of Xenagos' quotes are worded in Double Entendre manners, such as his description of Phenax in the Born of the Gods trailer.
  • Vraska the Unseen's art for the Jace vs. Vraska duel decks. As befitting a gorgon, Vraska is surrounded by "statues" heavily implied to be Taken for Granite... until you realize they're all naked men, and she's caressing them. Either Vraska turned on her lovers, or she went hunting naked men (or worse, forcefully stripping them) to turn to stone for her own amusement. Plus, the upright statue appears to have a penis.
  • Nightsoil Kami. It seems like an innocent-enough card... until you realize that "nightsoil" is an old-fashioned euphemism for "human feces." It's literally made of crap. It's not Toilet Humour because this isn't a joke card.
  • The original Legend, Gwendolyn di Corsi, is a temptress. She is wearing very revealing clothes and she is about to do something very interesting to that man in front of her...
  • The short story on the website "The Veil of Deceit" about Liliana Vess mentions sex. Liliana sees an old ogre city and sees statues of ogres doing many things, including having sex. Liliana even says "I didn't need to see that."
  • Similarly, it's implied that once Liliana joins the Gatewatch, she and Jace are constantly hooking up. Liliana is known to visit Jace's room at late hours of the night, and whatever they do, it goes on for hours... and Gideon has had to break them up more than once.

    Valid examples 

Nothing to see here.

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#1532: Jun 20th 2021 at 9:56:48 AM

Yeah, sounds like that's all innuendo or cases where the rules were specifically relaxed.

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#1533: Jun 20th 2021 at 7:08:10 PM

The image on Radar.Crash Bandicoot was pulled thanks to an Image Pickin' thread and I got rid of most of the examples on the page. Come to think of it, I don't really think there's much -if anything- on the page that's salvageable, cut or nah?

Edited by RainbowPumpqueen on Jun 20th 2021 at 11:38:46 PM

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#1535: Jun 22nd 2021 at 1:46:04 AM

This entry on Radar.Power Rangers Samurai feels creepy:

Jayden & Lauren, though siblings, act like they want to bang each other. Not helped by their dialogue about how they "can't be together".

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#1537: Jun 22nd 2021 at 1:49:49 AM

If so, I'd want to rewrite it completely, but I haven't seen enough of Samurai to do so.

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#1538: Jun 22nd 2021 at 4:32:40 AM

Seems like fan interpretation, which can't be an example of GCPTR regardless.

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#1540: Jun 22nd 2021 at 4:38:05 AM

When I get the energy to, I will likely go over Oggy And The Cockroaches.

"Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th“ “DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!”
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#1541: Jun 22nd 2021 at 5:12:18 AM

Here is what I have gathered. I added most of the links, but I started to get tired so some were skipped.

    Visual Innuendo 
  • Jack briefly spying on a prepossessing woman in "Oggy and the Giant Roaches", who is only seen in silhouette. Furthermore, Oggy catches him in the act and tries to see what he's looking at, only to look into the wrong house and think he was admiring a male bodybuilder's physique. Parental Bonus, plus Oggy did not mistake him for spying, Oggy himself started to spy on the man.
  • In "Olivia", Oggy stops watering his grass and looks over his hedge to see Olivia for the first time, [[Something Else Also Rises at which point his hose]] points upward and starts spraying water. It describes it in a way that it seems like his private parts started doing stuff anyway.
  • Jack's profile in the show's official Flash website (circa 2009) has the third picture involving him being on Monica, in bed, and they're both smiling. It's clear that he seems to be having sex with her.
    Accidental Innuendo 
Nothin' here.

[[Double Entendre]] Nothin' here.

[[/folder]] [[Funny Background Event]]

  • In "Oggy And The Magic Smile", Oggy goes into a joke shop and ends up causing havoc by accidentally knocking down a pile of fake eyes and getting his finger stuck in a Chinese finger trap, causing him to knock down more merchandise. After the manager catches on, he tries to leave. At this point, A pedobear doll can be seen above a statue of Boba Fett Maybe valid
[[/folder]] [[Stripperific]] Nothin' here [[/folder]] [[No]]
  • There are also scenes where Oggy ends up getting injured in the groin. Examples: "Upside Down" and "Welcome to Paris". Jesus Christ...
  • In "Happy Birthday", Jack gets mad at Oggy for messing up his glass tower. This ends up DRIVING OGGY TO SUICIDE and the rest of the episode is based around Jack trying to thwart his attempts. In fairness, most of these are fairly non fatal or silly, such as trying to fire himself into a target that reads "[[Blackjack Comedy HAPPY BIRTHDAY]]" with a large piece of elastic. Parental Bonus at best.
  • In "(Un)Happy Camper", there's a brief shot of a picture of a topless woman with rather prominent breasts and nipples in Oggy and Olivia's trailer. It was finally noticed by a kid, and not only did the entire episode ended up being banned from future airings in the U.S., but the show was soon canceled by Nickelodeon and sent to sister channel Nicktoons TV instead. The video of the episode on the official Oggy channel removes this in favor of a landscape photo. Entry admits it is invalid.
  • In "Jack-in-a-Box", the roaches turn into anal thermometers in the end. Anal thermometres are not rare.
[[/folder]] [[Valid Examples]]
  • Most of the female characters are depicted as [[Impossible Hourglass Figure hourglass-figured]] beauties (much like how most of the women in [[Creator/Tex Avery Tex Avery]]'s cartoons are depicted)...and let's not get started with the female racer in "Formula 1". Maybe? I am not sure.
[[/folder]]

Edited by Delibirda on Jun 22nd 2021 at 2:12:48 PM

"Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th“ “DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!”
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#1542: Jun 22nd 2021 at 5:52:44 AM

I think the topless woman did initially get past the radar, so it may count in that regard.

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#1543: Jun 22nd 2021 at 5:58:55 AM

The pedobear thing is a visual gag but not something kids would be expected to get. Females having "hourglass figures"... what? That's incoherent.

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#1544: Jun 22nd 2021 at 6:02:46 AM

To be honest, I am not sure that even many adults would get the "pedobear" thing.

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#1545: Jun 22nd 2021 at 7:16:59 AM

Pedobear is Parental Bonus - there's nothing objectionable about the bear itself, it's the meme surrounding it.

The topless woman is a valid example. It's already on the trope page, with sources.

The hourglass women aren't valid examples - simply being attractive and feminine isn't radar-worthy.

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#1546: Jun 23rd 2021 at 10:06:25 AM

So, can I cutlist the page?

"Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th“ “DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!”
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#1548: Jun 24th 2021 at 4:05:26 AM

Done, citin' this thread.

"Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th“ “DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!”
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#1549: Jun 24th 2021 at 7:28:35 AM

Since the M&Ms subpage is gone, I'm going to take a look at Radar.Advertising.

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    Double Entendre; overlap with Sex Sells 
  • The Bud Light commercials on "The Bud Light party", which boast of having the biggest "caucus" in the country. Dead link.
  • Remember Little Baby's Ice Cream, the company that made the infamous "This Is a Special Time"? Well, this company kept making commercials and in 2015, it made one called "Check Out Our New Package", where they announce the release of a brand new pint container that is said to be "100% recyclable". The commercial features a well-built, shirtless guy posing for the audience. Then the guy proceeds to slide down the zipper of his pants, with ice-cream squirting out of his crotch, as if he...Oh yeah. This is probably the weirdest thing to come out of this company so far. No, I don't remember Little Baby's Ice Cream; this is the first time I've heard of them.
  • One of General Motors' Super Bowl ads in 2014 is called "Romance" and is for the new Chevrolet Silverado HD truck. It starts innocuously enough, with a man purchasing a bull and loading it into a trailer. Then "You Sexy Thing" starts to play, and it's all but confirmed that the man isn't getting the romance at the end.
  • Club 18-30 did a similar thing to the above ad in a series of 2002 poster ads. At first glance, it looks like groups of people frolicking at the beach, bar, etc. Upon closer inspection, however, nearly everybody is positioned in a sexually suggestive manner.
    • Earlier in the mid-90s, they had a series of ads that didn't even try to be subtle. Featuring statements such as "Beaver Espana", "Summer of 69", or (accompanied by a picture of a man wearing boxers) "Girls, may we interest you in a package holiday?" These wound up earning plenty of complaints to the ASA, who eventually ordered the company to pull them. These aren't GCPTR because the ASA only gets involved if people complain after the fact. There is no body in the UK that hands out approval to ad campaigns before they're launched.
  • One of the commercials for Pepsi in Argentina features every kind of sexual innuendo imaginable while "I Touch Myself" by Divinyls is played.
  • The Australian anti-littering campaign with the slogan "Don't Be A Tosser". "Tossser", like "jerk", literally means "wanker", but is sort of a general-purpose insult
  • For their Molson Canadian beer, Molson brewery made a commercial about how many beavers we have in Canada, so many that sometimes we have to chase them out of the house. The commercial ends with the phrase "Molson Canadian, for when you're chasing beavers." note 
  • There is a regular series of ads on Australian TV for a brand of Peanuts called Nobby's. It involved someone talking about "Nibbling Nobby's Nuts". In every case people nearby would all look suspiciously when that someone, it was usually a woman, said this out loud. It's been going strong since the 1980s.
    • When this company aired ads in the UK, they used the same slogan, though the advert featured UK 70's Slade frontman Noddy Holder. The ad showed a group of men who, upon reading the title, started to lunge towards Noddy's crotch, stopping just short when he announced "Not Noddy's. NOBBY'S!". God knows how they got away with that one.
  • A TV3 ad from the mid 2000s. Feic, feicim, feicamar etc. said the teacher. The joke being in Ireland feck is a swear word while feic is the Irish for see and pronounced exactly the same.
  • Pretty much any commercial from Joe's Crab Shack. Ads like telling a woman to "take [her] top off" and an entire family cursing are some of the things that went past the censors. Also, this one has three girls state what they're "doing", with a man boasting that he's "doing all three".
    • Unfortunately, in some markets (including Florida), someone caught on to that second ad. Later airings completely ruined the joke by cutting away from the bleep entirely.
  • In a tie-in with the movie Thor Charmin ran an ad featuring a bear wearing Thor's helmet and carrying his hammer, with the caption "We've Always Been An Asguardian".
  • During the 2009 Indy 500, Firestone had a blatant example. The station had paused for a station ID (which was announced by the analyst) and it went to a radio commercial that invited the listener to strap down tightly, feel the rubber and smell the excitement, gripping it tightly with sweaty palms (amazingly, no complaints were made about this ad).
  • The ads for FX's Nurse Jackie: first one was "Life is full of little pricks", while another was "Holy shift".
  • A Toyota commercial for the Sienna has a woman in her new van, marveling at how relaxing it is to be in it. The woman then explains that she escapes the hours in the Sienna by saying that time in the van "gives her fewer headaches."
  • One commercial for Fruit by the Foot has one kid claiming to have replaced something vital of another kid's with Fruit by the Foot while pointing at his crotch. His skis, what else?
  • A Jack in the Box commercial features Jack conversing with his mother about whatever product he's now selling, when his father barges in exclaiming "Honey, call the doctor! It's been more than four hours," accompanied by a panicked glance downward.
    • Jack in the Box seems to be adopting this as a core element of their ads (which isn't a bad thing, mind you). One ad features Jack discovering some...rather intimate purchases amongst his wife's groceries, which she tells him are for "later". He then finds a spiked collar and gets VERY excited...until being told it's for the dog.
  • An advert for Tetley tea bags had the head mascot Gaffer and his date in a taxi outside her house. She asks him if he'd like to come in for some "coffee". But Gaffer takes this literally and, as a tea man, he's disgusted. He says "What sort of a bloke do you think I am?" and leaves her standing on the curb.
  • A commercial for the Mini Countryman had a game show called "Cram It In the Boot" where the (British) host asks the (American) contestant if he'd ever crammed it in the boot? The commercial was advertising how Countryman's boot is able to hold more stuff, so you can cram more things in its boot. The radar obviously had no idea what else that means.
  • One Bigspot ad shows some kind of yo-yo product (which, as all the Bigspot ads imply, is a failure). At one point, a woman walks up to a man in a very suggestive tone and says "Can I play with your yo-yo?" The guy winks at the screen, and the ad ends.
  • Overstock.com's (now O.co's) tagline "The big, big O" is odd but reasonably innocuous. Their Jingle Bells-esque Christmas jingle ("Oh Oh Oh, the big big O, Overstock.com", which never comes after the company is identified) crosses the line into a disturbingly unrelated attention-grabber. (In case you don't understand, the Big O is slang for an orgasm).
  • Wilkinson Sword's "mow the lawn" did make it past US censors...for a little while. See here.
  • This legendary Fiat commercial from the 2012 Super Bowl. One shot even has the girl smear a white foamy substance on a guy's mouth and drop some on her chest. It's a wonder how this commercial got the okay to air. Dead link
    • The commercial also involves a man getting turned on by a car. Considering that there is a car fetish, and the phrase "Auto erotica", it's safe to say that this was intentional.
  • The Liquid Plumr ad for its Double Impact. From the deep voiced narration, to the woman's reactions, to the many plumbing double entendres, to that other possible meaning of "Double," to the guys respectively working the meat (he's a butcher) and handling melons (fresh grocer) at the end, it's amazing this ad made it on the air. Dead link
  • "The name of this game is Ball Buster."
  • The Wunder Boner, anyone? It's a product for easily removing a fish's bones.
    Dave: It's the Wunder Boner.
    [everybody is snickering]
    Man #2: The Wunder Boner?!?!
    Dave: Aw, you laugh now. JUUUUST watch...
    [later, the men are really convinced this product can work]
    Man #2: The Wunder Boner!
    Man #3: My wife would like that!
    [even later]
    Man #2: So, uh, Dave, where DID you get the Wunder Boner?
    Dave: Funny you should ask!
  • A Progressive ad talking about the bonuses for people who stayed with Progressive, and the rival company apprently gives customers a calendar as a prize, featuring one insurance man laying on the cover somewhat suggestively. One of the guys says, "You should see November!" and Flo replies very seductively, "Oh, yeah?"
  • This Scotch video cleaner commercial. It's supposed to help you clean your "dirty videos".
    Skeleton: Look at that bone structure!
  • The commercial for Three Million by the New York Lottery features a couple talking to their kids. They talk about wanting to spice up their lives, claim to have been "horsing around last night" until "it happened". An announcer appears to close with, "Unplanned millionairehood: It happens when you play three million from the New York Lottery."
  • Time Warner Cable commercials featuring the stars of Hot in Cleveland involve the four women from the show at the airport, complaining about missing the aforementioned program. The Time Warner Cable guy comes in and talks about how TWC allows programs to be viewed from a mobile device, "anytime, anywhere." Betty White then says to one of the women, "'Anytime, anywhere'? Isn't that your nickname?"
  • A mattress commercial was going around with different people saying different variations of "ask me how it worked/improved my life/etc." One of them was an obviously pregnant woman saying "Well, just ask me!" while her partner smiled into the camera.
  • British hair and beauty salon Wahanda has a spectacular example in their "Book Yourself Fabulous" ad.
    Female protagonist (singing): My life is like a jungle, I'm a (sly look)... little overgrown.
    (Picture of fluffy pussycat)
    • Believe it or not, that one went out on daytime TV. Dead link
  • A 2015 Fiat commercial starts with an older woman lying in a seductive pose on her bed, beckoning her husband for what can only be sex. Excitedly, her husband grabs a bottle of blue pills and tries to pop one in his mouth, but it falls out the window instead and lands in a nearby Fiat's gas tank, causing the car to... swell. And this not only aired on daytime television in the United States, but debuted during the Super Bowl, in front of an audience of millions. It's debatable if the radar was even at work that day.
  • One of the more recent commercials for Serta (featuring their Counting Sheep) has a couple tell the sheep they now have the Serta PerfectSleeper mattress and don't need to count them. The woman then casually mentions she hasn't been counting the sheep in months. Cue the lead sheep's reaction; complete with obvious Double Entendre:
    Lead sheep: "You've been faking it for months?"
    Woman: Every night.
  • A Specsavers advert (shown during the day) has a museum security guard going around at the end of the day and flicking off all the lights... and accidentally snapping the willy off a statue. And then at the end, he stops to glance at a painting of a cockerel.
  • This tweet from Iceland. All completely intentional and done in response to the #sheeranalbumparty hashtag.
  • This Sling TV ad has "slinging" mistaken for a Double Entendre for swinging. Right down to the husband popping open his shirt. The later ads with Nick Offerman and Megan Mullaney were even less subtle about the entendre.

    Accidental Innuendo 
  • Many years ago Sask Pork, the agency promoting Saskatchewan pork producers, started an advertising campaign with a new slogan: "Pork. The one you love." However the billboards (second entry on this list) featured a woman hugging a guy (with a bit of a goofy grin) presumably grilling some pork chops. The period seemed to disappear and suddenly most people read it as one statement.
  • You're gonna love my nuts.
  • Subway's ads have included referring to subs as "yum rockets". Manages to be a Narm too.
  • Aspercreme's original slogan was "You bet your sweet Aspercreme!" Then somebody realized the ad was talking about people's sweet asses, so they changed the third and fourth words to "if it's".
  • You'll see the "Suck da head and pinch da tail" slogan all over New Orleans. It's the technique for eating crawfish: break in half, pinch tail to get the meat out, and suck the juices from the head.
  • An older Burger King commercial, in which a Whopper sandwich is berating his son, Whopper Jr., for selling himself for only a dollar. dead link
    • "Your dad's really throwing his weight around!" "All quarter-pound of it!"
  • The Spanish lollipop brand Chupa Chups, which is distributed to other countries, got away with their slogan "The Joy Of Sucking" for many years before changing it to "Life Less Ordinary".
  • The Jello Pudding's "Pudding Face" commercial. The Urban Dictionary definition of "pudding face" gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "$#!+-eating grin".
  • A commercial for Mario Kart 7 features a group of guys playing. One's kart is struck by the lightning weapon which shrinks the kart. He asks "Hey, why am I small?" and his buddy replies, "Genetics".
  • The Sega 32X commercial and magazine ads were filled with sexual innuendos about how the 32X inserts into the Genesis.
    Guy: Just stick it in your Genesis!
    [cuts to a 32X being inserted into a Genesis in slow motion, with a voice suggestively saying "All right, baby..."]
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  • Handgun manufacturer STI in a print ad, referring to its competitors: "We've upped our standards, now up yours."
  • A commercial for Koodo Mobile has El Tabador helping a family move into their new house. At the end, he knocks over a long, rectangular box, which then starts vibrating with enough frequency to move around the room. He hastily says it "must be their alarm clock", obviously trying to cover up what it really is. Dead link
  • For a while in Minneapolis they were running advertisements for an AIDS awareness program at most of the bus stops. One, showing a picture of a man in a baseball uniform, said something along the lines of "Just because you're the pitcher doesn't mean you can't get AIDS."

    Toilet humour 
  • The Energy Sheets commercial. The people in the commercial are saying stuff like "I take a sheet in the pool" and such, referring to where they take the product.
  • The Charmin bears: the toilet paper company has an entire international advertising campaign based around taking the phrase "Does a bear shit in the woods?" to its logical extreme. (Apparently, the answer is "Yes, and they use Charmin toilet tissue to clean up afterwards.")
    • Lampshaded in one episode of Saturday Night Live (not verbatim): "An ad for Dancing with the Stars was banned from airing due to a woman showing too much cleavage, yet the lewd commercials with bears showing off their asses still manage to air."
    • A German toilet paper company proceeded to make a parody. "Scheißt ein Bär in den Wald?" is the German version and means exactly the same.
    • And the German version of the initial Charmin bear advert is even more explicit than the American one (then again, they can get by with more shit on German television...).
  • One wonders how this ad for Luvs Diapers got past the radar. Yes, you saw it correctly. Those babies are having a competition for...who can be the most "heavy duty". Dead link

    Visual innuendo 

    Rhymes with a curse but isn't a curse 
  • A commercial for Late Night Liars, which appears to be an even more dysfunctional Greg the Bunny, has one aged starlet puppet (think Miss Piggy on a bender after realizing she was too old to have a career) doing a screentest drunk. She falls asleep, and this exchange happens:
    Director: Okay, cut!
    Puppet: (wakes up) What did you call me?!
  • There was once an anti-littering PSA starring Aquaman called That Dirty Beach.
  • CheapOair has ads with a picture of Phuket, Thailand and the tag line "Cheap Flights make it easy to say 'Phuket... Let's Travel'." (Un)fortunately, locals say "poo-KET." Dead link
  • Most ads for the Seven Psychopaths movie had the slogan, "They won't take any shih tzu" on them.
  • The K-Mart "Ship My Pants" ad. Needless to say, it's gone viral.
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  • Similarly, the Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain Sheetz invited you during summer 2013 to use your loyalty card to "save on the Sheetz you love."
    • It's not on their website anymore, but that same link now has this:
    Just how many ways can you save with the My Sheetz Card loyalty program? In a word, a Sheetzload.
  • The 2014 advertising campaign for the Toyota Aygo. The two TV ads are meant to convey the fun and joyful aspects of driving the car. Nothing wrong there. So what's the slogan? "Go Fun Yourself". Dead links
  • There's a Verizon ad that will tell you their competitors are giving you "half-fast" internet. (Say it quickly.)

    Sex Sells 
  • An earlier line of Herbal Essences commercials had women moaning and squealing with delight while in the shower (using the shampoo, of course), ending with an exhilarated "Yes! Yes! YES!" as they see how shiny their hair has become. The tagline? "A totally organic experience."
  • In this commercial for a Samsung cell phone, a family man is leaving for a business trip. His two young daughters excitedly tell him that they made him a video and link their cell phones with his to upload it (a new feature for the phone). Then his wife walks up and says "I made you a video too," and links her phone with his, but quickly adds, "You probably shouldn't watch it on the plane." This commercial somehow made it on ABC.
    Mrs. Claus: You probably shouldn't watch it on the sleigh!
  • Seen the 2013 ad for draft king sweepstakes? No idea how they got that past the radar! The guy says very clearly "Derek Bradley went from a guy with holes in his underpants, to bikini models in them!" watch it here. And this aired on national TV and all over Youtube.
    • Furthermore, the earliest versions of the commercial said you could win a boatload of money, but later versions changed it to "shipload", which seems synonymous but is not a real saying and sounds suspiciously like "shitload". Again, this is the newer version of the commercial.
  • Klondike's ads for its Kandy Bars line, which are literally porn parodies without the sex. Specifically, they feature a typical porny set-up such as a patient and a sexy nurse or an astronaut and a group of sexy aliens, except in each scenario the man is a Klondike bar and the sexy women are candy bars. Before anything sexy happens, the scenario cuts away to a man explaining to his confused girlfriend that's how the Kandy Bars were made. The tagline is "The best ice cream bars ever conceived." And if YouTube comments are to be believed, the funky music in these commercials is the same music used in actual pornographic movies.
    • Delissio (the Canadian name for DiGiorno pizza) did an ad on the same theme. The punchline was that the woman and the "pizza delivery guy" were a husband and wife role playing, and their kid walks in and corrects them about it being delivery (saying the tagline "It's not delivery, it's Delissio/Digiorno") along with "And you're not a real pizza delivery guy, DAD. No wonder I don't have any friends."

    Gosh Dang It To Heck 
  • There was an even older Orbit Commercial that used "Shut the front door!". Orbit commercials in general are known for their Unusual Euphemisms, including "Who are you calling a cootie queen? You LINT LICKER!", "What the French toast?", "Well, kiss my- ASHTON!", and of course, "I will pineapple slap your ASCOTS!" The whole purpose is to show that Orbit gum makes your mouth so clean that you won't say any dirty words.
    • Speaking of Orbit, there's this ad with Sarah Silverman. "I've got your lipstick all over my rim" is quite the thing to hear in a business meeting.
  • Nutra Nail Gel started airing this spot on American television in fall 2013. It promotes the quick-drying nature of the product by depicting the ptifalls of standard nail polish. A woman looks down and disappointedly says "Oh, smudge"note . The last woman wakes up, looks down at her bed and says "Oh, sheet."
  • Fresh And Easy grocery chain had a commercial that stated "Get your food the F and Easy way." However how it was said clearly sounds like it was saying "Get your food the Effing Easy way". The posters made it even more specific: "It's so F'in Easy!" Maybe that's why they closed down in 2015.

    Black Comedy 

    Surprisingly Lenient Censor 
  • The famous Portuguese drink Licor Beirão ("Liquor from the Beira region"). Its slogan? O Beirão de que todos gostam ("The one from Beira which everybody loves"). Who was "The one from Beira which not everybody loves"? António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal's then dictator! Yes, they basically pulled a joke on a dictator and the best of all is that he knew about it, didn't try to censor it and complimented on the liquor makers audacity!

    Comedic Underwear Exposure 

    Literal Metaphor 

    No 
  • Advertisers dealing with "intimate" products need to be more circumspect than most. French prophylactic maker Manix has a habit of producing ads so subtle they're family friendly at a casual glance, and very not after a few moments consideration. OK, this one took me a while to get. Funny, but not radar-breaking.
  • There's an Old Spice body wash commercial featuring a centaur and his (human) wife. Old Spice works for him because he's two things in one, a man... and a provider. There are definitely some Squicky things implied, despite the horse's body being that of a mare. That, and mythology states that centaurs have a nasty habit of raping human women. You're reading too much into it.
  • A campaign for Burger King's Chicken Fries featured a GWAR-like, chicken-themed band singing tunes such as "Bob Your Head" and "Cross The Road". The band's name? Coq Roq (try saying it out loud). If the band's name isn't mentioned it's not part of the ad.
  • The bee having fun with a flower was actually an advertisement of a mobile phone tune which somehow managed to air midday. This is pretty mild; by the time custom ringtones came into existence, it was acceptable to discuss sex on TV in the middle of the day.
  • In a certain Cartoon Network ad...
    Wonder Woman: You girls are developing into quite the superheroes.
    Bubbles: Someday, we'll be as developed as you!
This one aired late at night, after the children had gone to bed, and was aimed at adult fans.
  • The Tiddy Bear! Which sounds very similar to what the product is hugging half the time. Good thing those women were adults wearing seatbelts.
  • An ad for Herbal Essences shampoo features women using the shampoo and hallucinating their fantasies with the slogan "Someone's been doing the Herbal". One example.
  • G.I. Joe toy commercials were made under the same restrictions as the TV series. However, this episode managed to sneak in a little lethality: When introducing the joe Sub-Zero, he comes up behind two Cobra troopers and fires one shot each.
  • This trope is the whole point of the women in the KGB Deals promotions, online and on television. Not to mention the fact the dark-haired, pale-skinned girl is an Expy of Michelle Ryan, although she is never named as such. Huh?
  • "Whatever happened to drinks? It used to be real liquor, in a real glass. Now it's cocktails called razzle...twatitinis and who knows what. This cocktail's called tequila." Yes, 1800 Tequila certainly "changed the game" with that commercial.
    • Note that the censors eventually did catch on to that one; the commercial was later censored to "razzletinis". After probably close to a year.
Dead link, and typing "1800 Tequila" into DuckDuckGo only turns up this page.
  • A 2002(?) ad for Comcast Cable Modem did this literally by showing a newly-wed husband and wife retrieving their wedding photos, only for the photographer to upload a "special shot" from the husband's bachelor party, much to his wife's dismay.
  • The commercial for Kraft Habanero Heat shredded cheese has a Big Red Devil giving out free samples at a grocery store. He claims it's hotter than "you know what" and then becomes increasingly frustrated as one couple can't figure out what he means by "you know what" and keep guessing incorrectly. He even starts to think he's the victim of a Candid Camera Prank, since he doesn't think there's any way the couple could really be that stupid.
  • A Sonic commercial had a line, "My mom told me not to play with my tater tots."
  • There's a Motel 6 radio ad about all the various ways to book a room at Motel 6. But if you want to book a room via telegram, you're "dot-dot-dot-dash-dash-dash-dot-dash-dot-dot".note 
  • In the UK, the 2013 TV commercial for Flora butter depicts a cartoon animation of two brothers making breakfast for their parents on their anniversary. When they go upstairs to give it to them, the narrator (the youngest sibling) describes how the mother was good at wrestling in bed with the father. What makes this even more questionable is the parents would decide to get it on in the morning when everyone else in the house was already awake! Married couples have sex
  • One guy is showing off the slogan he wrote for 7 Up in a commercial, "Make 7 Up yours." He split the slogan in half. The front of the shirt read "Make 7" and the back read "Up yours." Hilarity Ensues along with traffic accidents.
  • The end of this commercial for a Dollar Shave Club probably only gets past the radar because of the Fridge Logic. After all they make the blatant link of the coconuts, but nobody mentions the cat... Dead link

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  • This is one of those cases where Getting Crap Past the Radar was actually done literally: in the newest commercial for the Chevy Volt, the woman in that spot said that the car will "save you a crapload of money." (A caption at the end showed that she meant to say a boatload of money.)
  • This Corn Nuts radio ad was unfortunately pulled a few weeks after it began broadcast, although given its plainly obvious masturbation innuendos it's a wonder how it even made it to air at all.

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#1550: Jun 24th 2021 at 10:15:50 AM

Some of the "No" folder could be moved to Accidental Innuendo, like Tiddy Bear and Coq Roq and the Caught with Your Pants Down one. I'm pretty sure some of the Double Entendre ones are actually Accidental Innuendo, like the "Fruit by the Foot" one (it aired on Nick when I was a kid and I never made that connection). On the flip side, some of the Accidental Innuendo entries (like the Genesis one) seem very intentional.

I'm wondering if some of them are still Parental Bonus if they aired on kids' networks. I know the M&M ones could have possibly been DIH since they did air on kids' shows but they apparently don't claim to market to kids... kind of an Uncertain Audience thing.

Side note: this is one of the first subpages I ever read and edited on this site. I'll prepare my eulogy for its cutting.

Edited by mightymewtron on Jun 24th 2021 at 1:20:06 PM

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.

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