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He appears to be looking at his guitar because \'\'he\'s looking at his guitar.\'\' There\'s just no other reasonable way to interpret it unless you\'ve got a crush on Vanessa and want to take everything in that song to its dirties conclusion possible. I\'m not trying to be a hater, here, but it\'s just not feasible.
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He appears to be looking at his guitar because \\\'\\\'he\\\'s looking at his guitar.\\\'\\\' There\\\'s just no other reasonable way to interpret it unless you\\\'ve got a crush on Vanessa and want to take everything in that song to its dirtiest conclusion possible. I\\\'m not trying to be a hater, here, but it\\\'s just not feasible.
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As far as other stuff, like Vanessa\'s line about showing a girl a good time or the scene where Ferb is straddling Vanessa while she\'s prone, there\'s just no way those were \
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As far as other stuff, like Vanessa\\\'s line about showing a girl a good time or the scene where Ferb is straddling Vanessa while she\\\'s prone, there\\\'s just no way those were \\\"sneaked by\\\" the censors. They couldn\\\'t possibly have missed them in any script or storyboard, and there\\\'s no other way to interpret them. Clearly, the censors were fine with them.

** Then there was \\\"The Ballad of Badbeard,\\\" where Candace spent most of the episode out of her mind on hallucinogenic moss. [[spoiler: Actually, it was the placebo effect.]]

Clearly not an example because it was explained away in the context of the episode, and it also wasn\\\'t a realistic depiction of hallucinogen use.

** Doofenshmirtz\\\'s discussion of the De-Evolution-Inator in \\\"Phineas and Ferb\\\'s Hawaiian Vacation, Part 2\\\", complete with stoner-like voice:
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Doofenshmirtz:\\\'\\\'\\\' I had to disable it. It was [[LiteralMetaphor doing weird things]] [[MyBrainIsBig to my head]], man.

This, like many ostensible examples, actually belongs in ParentalBonus if anywhere. The tots are just going to think that Doof is being silly, mom and dad are going to chuckle at the 60s connotations of the line. But what absolutely did \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' happen the day after this episode aired was that one of the censors facepalmed and said, \\\"Oh God, how did we let Doof say that? It clearly violates our guidelines about not having characters talk about their head.\\\" Or something similar.

*** In her song in that episode, \\\"I\\\'m Me\\\" Vanessa describes herself as \\\"a hot apple pie/With a cherry on top\\\". Now apple pie usually comes with ice cream, not cherries so just what kind of \\\"cherry\\\" are you talking about Vanessa? Especially since a previous line has her calling herself a \\\"cherry bomb\\\" which, among other things, is a slang term for jailbait. Plus the major hip action she\\\'s got going.

This is reaaaaaally reaching, yet again. People are inclined to take everything Vanessa says in any context to its dirtiest possible conclusion. Although in retrospect, I probably should have kept in that part about the \\\"cherry bomb,\\\" that\\\'s the sort of thing that reasonably \\\'\\\'could\\\'\\\' have been a line sneaked by censors who just thought it meant \\\"I\\\'m a firework.\\\" But I\\\'m not really convinced they meant \\\"jailbait,\\\" either.

* In \\\"Toy to the World\\\" we get this exchange:
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Toy Store Owner:\\\'\\\'\\\' Candace, come on out.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Candace:\\\'\\\'\\\' You\\\'re kidding, right? (wearing giant platypus costume)\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Toy Store Owner:\\\'\\\'\\\' Fantastic. You look like number one.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Candace:\\\'\\\'\\\' I feel like number two.
** Also, at the beginning of the episode, during the commercial advertising \\\"[[http://youtu.be/7KmlSTEAcGA?t=11s Shimmy Jimmy]]\\\", the monkey, the lyrics go:
--> \\\"You better watch what he\\\'s throwin\\\'!\\\" [Shimmy Jimmy on a baseball mound, with a ball; he throws it]
--> \\\"He ain\\\'t wearin\\\' no pants!\\\" [something \\\'\\\'brown\\\'\\\' splatters all over the monkey at bat and the catcher.]

I don\\\'t know why people think you can\\\'t make poop jokes in children\\\'s media. You\\\'ve been able to do that for about three decades now. It\\\'s not some kind of subversive, edgy thing. Okay, I\\\'m sure there\\\'s extents you can\\\'t take it to in censorship guidelines, but just referring to the term \\\"number two\\\" in its scatological context doesn\\\'t come near crossing them.

* In \\\"Get That Bigfoot Outta My Face\\\", one of the lines in the Bigfoot song goes [[DoesThisRemindYouofAnything \\\"He carries a big stick so he can whomp ya...\\\"]]

This is exactly the sort of example that left me in such a terrible mood by the end of this exercise.

Everything in the oft-quoted time travel episode that treats the Perry-Doof relationship like a strained marriage with a torrid affair is ParentalBonus.

* In the episode \\\'\\\'Greece Lightning\\\'\\\', one of Candace\\\'s first lines is: \\\"At least there\\\'s hunky guys in skirts\\\".

THINK OF THE CHILDREN! I think it was socially acceptable to use more lascivious language than this when the first season of GrowingPains was running.

** \\\"There\\\'s something in my trousers, you know it ain\\\'t ants.\\\"
** \\\"It ain\\\'t about love, it ain\\\'t about romance, I\\\'ve got squirrels in my pants!\\\"
** The \\\"How can I qualify for government grants?\\\" line- and several others- have a rather disturbing meaning in this context.

For the record, Squirrels In My Pants is all \\\'\\\'sorts\\\'\\\' of legitimately GettingCrapPastTheRadar, especially the extended video, but this stuff really beats the joke to death and reaches way too hard for the joke when it\\\'s right in front of them.

So, anyway, I think I\\\'ve explained my reasoning pretty well and you can sort of imply the rest. If there are particular examples you want to contest my reasoning on or that I didn\\\'t cover here that you\\\'d like explained/contested, feel free to bring it up here or on the forum thread.
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As far as other stuff, like Vanessa\'s line about showing a girl a good time or the scene where Ferb is straddling Vanessa while she\'s prone, there\'s just no way those were \
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As far as other stuff, like Vanessa\\\'s line about showing a girl a good time or the scene where Ferb is straddling Vanessa while she\\\'s prone, there\\\'s just no way those were \\\"sneaked by\\\" the censors. They couldn\\\'t possibly have missed them in any script or storyboard, and there\\\'s no other way to interpret them. Clearly, the censors were fine with them.

** Then there was \\\"The Ballad of Badbeard,\\\" where Candace spent most of the episode out of her mind on hallucinogenic moss. [[spoiler: Actually, it was the placebo effect.]]

Clearly not an example because it was explained away in the context of the episode, and it also wasn\\\'t a realistic depiction of hallucinogen use.

** Doofenshmirtz\\\'s discussion of the De-Evolution-Inator in \\\"Phineas and Ferb\\\'s Hawaiian Vacation, Part 2\\\", complete with stoner-like voice:
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Doofenshmirtz:\\\'\\\'\\\' I had to disable it. It was [[LiteralMetaphor doing weird things]] [[MyBrainIsBig to my head]], man.

This, like many ostensible examples, actually belongs in ParentalBonus if anywhere. The tots are just going to think that Doof is being silly, mom and dad are going to chuckle at the 60s connotations of the line. But what absolutely did \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' happen the day after this episode aired was that one of the censors facepalmed and said, \\\"Oh God, how did we let Doof say that? It clearly violates our guidelines about not having characters talk about their head.\\\" Or something similar.

*** In her song in that episode, \\\"I\\\'m Me\\\" Vanessa describes herself as \\\"a hot apple pie/With a cherry on top\\\". Now apple pie usually comes with ice cream, not cherries so just what kind of \\\"cherry\\\" are you talking about Vanessa? Especially since a previous line has her calling herself a \\\"cherry bomb\\\" which, among other things, is a slang term for jailbait. Plus the major hip action she\\\'s got going.

This is reaaaaaally reaching, yet again. People are inclined to take everything Vanessa says in any context to its dirtiest possible conclusion. Although in retrospect, I probably should have kept in that part about the \\\"cherry bomb,\\\" that\\\'s the sort of thing that reasonably \\\'\\\'could\\\'\\\' have been a line sneaked by censors who just thought it meant \\\"I\\\'m a firework.\\\" But I\\\'m not really convinced they meant \\\"jailbait,\\\" either.

* In \\\"Toy to the World\\\" we get this exchange:
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Toy Store Owner:\\\'\\\'\\\' Candace, come on out.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Candace:\\\'\\\'\\\' You\\\'re kidding, right? (wearing giant platypus costume)\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Toy Store Owner:\\\'\\\'\\\' Fantastic. You look like number one.\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Candace:\\\'\\\'\\\' I feel like number two.
** Also, at the beginning of the episode, during the commercial advertising \\\"[[http://youtu.be/7KmlSTEAcGA?t=11s Shimmy Jimmy]]\\\", the monkey, the lyrics go:
--> \\\"You better watch what he\\\'s throwin\\\'!\\\" [Shimmy Jimmy on a baseball mound, with a ball; he throws it]
--> \\\"He ain\\\'t wearin\\\' no pants!\\\" [something \\\'\\\'brown\\\'\\\' splatters all over the monkey at bat and the catcher.]

I don\\\'t know why people think you can\\\'t make poop jokes in children\\\'s media. You\\\'ve been able to do that for about three decades now. It\\\'s not some kind of subversive, edgy thing. Okay, I\\\'m sure there\\\'s extents you can\\\'t take it to in censorship guidelines, but just referring to the term \\\"number two\\\" in its scatological context doesn\\\'t come near crossing them.

* In \\\"Get That Bigfoot Outta My Face\\\", one of the lines in the Bigfoot song goes [[DoesThisRemindYouofAnything \\\"He carries a big stick so he can whomp ya...\\\"]]

This is exactly the sort of example that left me in such a terrible mood by the end of this exercise.

Everything in the oft-quoted time travel episode that treats the Perry-Doof relationship like a strained marriage with a torrid affair is ParentalBonus.

* In the episode \\\'\\\'Greece Lightning\\\'\\\', one of Candace\\\'s first lines is: \\\"At least there\\\'s hunky guys in skirts\\\".

THINK OF THE CHILDREN! I think it was socially acceptable to use more lascivious language than this when the first season of GrowingPains was running.

** \\\"There\\\'s something in my trousers, you know it ain\\\'t ants.\\\"
** \\\"It ain\\\'t about love, it ain\\\'t about romance, I\\\'ve got squirrels in my pants!\\\"
** The \\\"How can I qualify for government grants?\\\" line- and several others- have a rather disturbing meaning in this context.

For the record, Squirrels In My Pants is all \\\'\\\'sorts\\\'\\\' of legitimately GettingCrapPastTheRadar, especially the extended video, but this stuff really beats the joke to death and reaches way too hard for the joke when it\\\'s right in front of them.

So, anyway, I think I\\\'ve explained my reasoning pretty well and you can sort of imply the rest. If there are particular examples you want to contest me reasoning on or that I didn\\\'t cover here that you\\\'d like explained/contested, feel free to bring it up here or on the forum thread.
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