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There are rules of taste and decency on TV. There are also legal requirements to be followed. In order to enforce these, governments set up media watchdogs. People (more often than not Moral Guardians) complain about a program, the body looks at it and rules whether their complaints are justified. In the UK, the media regulator is Ofcom, while the ASA (the Advertising Standards Authority), handles the adverts seen in shows and online, while the PCC (Press Complaints Commission) handles print media, though interestingly the latter two are voluntary bodies, not legal ones, so an ad agency could ignore the rules, but in practice they don't as distributors tend not to go against them. The current UK record for the most complaints (over 39,000) about a TV program is held by Celebrity Big Brother, particularly the bullying and racial abuse directed at eventual winner Shilpa Shetty during the fifth season of the show. The US version is the Federal Communications Commission. Many stations (in the US, at least) also have their own self-regulating "Standards and Practices" department (commonly known as "the network censors"). Even though the FCC only has regulatory authority over broadcast networks and not cable channels (except for content considered obscene or forbidden by other laws, and requiring equal opportunities for political candidates), most cable channels self-censor to please advertisers (though they become more lenient late at night). In Japan, the relevant body is the Eiga Rinri Kanri Iinkai, or Motion Picture Code of Ethics Committee (colloquially abbreviated as "Eirin;" don't ask it for help). These Media Watchdogs are frequently subjected to Values Dissonance. In the Anglosphere (US/Canada, UK/Ireland, and Australia), "old" New Zealand, Scandivania (Norway, Sweden and Finland), the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan), Turkey and Cuba, sex and nudity, no matter how mild, will be censored and criticized to hell, even though huge and over-the-top violence is left alone (unless it's on a show targeted to children). In the rest of Europe, and "new" New Zealand, the opposite Values Dissonance happens: sex and nudity can be found easily, but any violence is censored to hell. Likewise, there's dissonance even in the Anglosphere - the UK and Canada are fairly relaxed when it comes to bad language, ie occasional swearing is increasingly overlooked on pre-teen shows, but the US can be very strict in how a single cuss affects the rating of an entire series. Getting Crap Past the Radar is the art of outsmarting the Media Watchdogs. See also: Executive Meddling. |
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Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana has a little fun with this: In one dialogue exchange, Norn is afraid of monsters, so she asks the hero, Klein, to sleep with her. She thinks what she's saying is totally innocuous, but a flustered Klein responds by Breaking the Fourth Wall and saying: "I can't! The ESRB would go nuts!" This line is actually missing in the PAL version (though the game retains its fourth-wall wonders), and Klein simply answers with a flustered "...you're joking..." | |
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In Wes Craven's New Nightmare there is a psychiatrist who blames violent movies as the cause of the (pre-teen) protagonist's mental condition. Her name is Doctor Heffner, a hint at the MPAA's former chairman Richard Heffner, who gave Wes Craven a hard time repeatedly. An extra Take That! was in just how out-of-touch the psychiatrist was. She tells the actress who was in A Nightmare on Elm Street movies that her son apparently knows who Freddy Krueger is, and from this assumes the mother has been showing her child her old movies (all of this in a disapproving tone). The actress snaps back, in exasperation, "Every kid knows who Freddy Krueger is! He's like Santa Claus!" |
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The Gong Show: Chuck Barris, producer and host, tired of network censors nixing acts which he thought were fairly innocuous, began throwing deliberately outrageous ones at them so as to distract the Watchdogs from the acts he really wanted to broadcast. Naturally enough, in accordance with Finagle's Law, several of these intentionally over-the-top acts were allowed on the air, including the infamous Popsicle Twins, a pair of women made up as teenaged girls who sat on stage and provocatively sucked popsicles while the audience howled. It was allowed on the East Coast broadcast of the episode, but after the quick and predictable outcry it generated, NBC removed it from the West Coast broadcast that aired a few hours later. |
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Parodied in Mortal Kombat II and Mortal Kombat 3 with babalities and friendships. | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Lampshades this with "The Big Cheese of the Publishing Industry" vetoing the Rentarou family's idea of having a pretend drinking party with a non-alcoholic drink that causes similar effects to getting drunk since the depiction of minors consuming alcohol or anything similar in a positive light is a "no can do." To get by this, Rentarou gives everyone normal drinks, but has everyone do a bunch of things that make it look like everyone is drunk (turning up the temperature and drinking cold drinks to make everyone get hiccups, having everyone recite tongue twisters for hours in order to slur everyone's speech, etc.) and then slaps a disclaimer that no alcohol is actually being consumed on every single panel so that nobody flipping through the pages can take anything out of context. | |
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In a Dilbert comic, the syndicate made Adams remove a police officer's gun, which he replaced with a doughnut. This would be pretty standard, except for the fact that the punchline was the officer shooting an unarmed suspect, which he still does...with the doughnut. Someone get Dunkin' to start selling those. Adams was also told that he couldn't use the Devil as a character. Thus was born Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, who rules Heck with a pitchspoon. Adams admits that this was a case of the syndicate being right, as Phil has been a much funnier addition than the Devil would have been. |
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Notoriously, the final episode of Excel♡Saga was designed specifically to violate the standards of Tokyo Air Check (the Japanese version of the BS&P). Everything down to the length of the episode (one minute longer than normal) was designed to make it impossible to air. The episode was titled, appropriately, "Going Too Far" (and indeed, it didn't make the air in Japan; it ended up a Bonus Episode). | |
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Oruchuban Ebichu was designed to push the boundaries of the Japanese broadcast code, trying to get away with as much as possible without being censored. However, certain parts did end up getting censored, though a lot of edgy material made it in. | |
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In May 1970, a state commission in Mississippi voted to ban Sesame Street, because it portrayed characters of all races as equals. When the vote was leaked to the New York Times, the counter-guardians pressured Mississippi to release the ban after 22 days. | |
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The MPAA's habit of ratings biased in favor of their studios was known even before the Bully documentary even existed. An NC-17 rated documentary called This Film is Not Yet Rated covered the MPAA and their rating bias extensively. | |
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We may, as future generations may not have heard George Carlin's work. The "Seven Dirty Words" are "shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfuckernote "Motherfucker" was briefly removed, because (as pointed out to him by a fan) "fuck" is already one of the Seven Dirty Words and therefore "motherfucker" doesn't warrant a separate entry. Carlin would later put "motherfucker" back on the list because the verbal flow of the bit doesn't really work without it., and tits". Things have gotten lenient in the modern era, and the second word on the list has been said in kids' movies such as Elf and The Secret Life of Pets 2. | |
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UHF: The film ends with the villainous Channel 8 getting its broadcasting license revoked by the FCC. Partly because they had failed to file paperwork to renew, but mostly because a recording of Channel 8 manager R.J. Fletcher giving a slanderous and negative appraisal of the population of the city was secretly recorded and rebroadcasted publicly (on Channel 8 no less). The FCC even tells Fletcher that they'd normally overlook a late filing, but considering his "latest comments", they're pulling the plug. Similarly, Tapeheads ends with Tim Robbins and John Cusack arrested by FBI agents for airing a sexually explicit video of a politician to discredit him. This includes a Shout-Out to Jello Biafra's PMRC-inspired obscenity case by Biafra himself, cameoing as an agent. |
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Head of the British Board of Film Censors at the time, John Trevelyan, didn't like the early James Bond movies, making cuts to them. EON's revenge was to name Alec Trevelyan, main villain of GoldenEye, after him. A Villain with Good Publicity, no less, to the point that his Face–Heel Turn was originally a spoiler. |
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Though in one awkward incident, the MTRCB banned Entourage on HBO for not being properly classified, but only on one cable provider (the largest one, yes, but still) | |
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In Fushigi Yuugi, Miaka is told to remove her clothes as part of a test to see if she is worthy to receive an object of power; she starts stripping, but stops while still wearing a one-piece undergarment and says "This is the limit of what the broadcast code allows." (Curiously, Miaka is seen in just a bra and panties, and even fully nude, at other points in the series. She is also not the only character to be seen in any state of undress.) | |
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Mary Whitehouse was also satirized in an episode of The Goodies. It seems she wrote to the show to compliment them as being one of the few "clean" shows on TV. They didn't like that. | |
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut got its name because of this: it was originally going to be titled either "South Park Goes To Hell" or "South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose", but the MPAA rejected the trailer because "hell" was in the title. So Matt and Trey changed it to a blatant innuendo... And it went through. This became a running theme in the editing process, because every time they were informed that something was too raunchy or excessive, they would replace it with something "ten times worse", and it would make it to the final cut. Parodied not only in the entire "Blame Canada" portion of the plot but this infamous line from Sheila Broflovski: | |
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Familles de FranceTrans.Families of France regularly bashes material it views as obscene and sued Second Life (with the net providers) for promoting gambling, paraphilias, pornography and having online sex shops. | |
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Team America: World Police had a scene where two anatomically incorrect marionettes simulate various sex acts. The censors made them cut two extreme examples (both involving bodily waste) but allowed the rest of it...along with scenes of puppets being blown up, decapitated, eaten by live cats, shot to pieces and defenestrated. Evidently, that was okay but puppet scat was a no-no. | |
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In early episodes of Lost, ABC's Standards and Practices insisted that Charlie's heroin use could not be shown. Instead, it had to be implied with cutaway shots. | |
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Painfully obvious in NCIS which depicts borderline realistic, and often gruesome, autopsy scenes...but the corpse's genitals are always conveniently blotched out by what looks like glare from a high-powered lamp. In one episode, DiNozzo tests a theory by asking the coroner, Ducky, to see a deceased man's member. |
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The United States has the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which regularly stages protests against anything they deem to be advertising disguised as children's media or promotion of commercial culture to children. One notable example was their complaints about Zevo-3 thinking it was shilling Sketchers sneakers when in reality it barely mentioned them at all. They also staged a protest against the short-lived Cartoon Network preschool block Tickle-U at one point, and tried to stop international expansion of BabyFirstTV on the grounds of "TV is bad for children of any age!" and "kids under two shouldn't watch television!". They've also claimed Pizza Hut's Book It promotion "promoted junk food to a captive market, made teachers into promoters for Pizza Hut and undermined parents by making visits to the chain an integral part of bringing up their children to be literate." | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series was subjected to what would today be considered a quite extraordinary degree of censorship. (You can still make old-line Trekkies laugh with the phrase "Avoid the open-mouth kiss", which NBC's Broadcast Standards department rubber-stamped onto any mention of kissing in a script.) In the episode "That Which Survives", Lee Meriwether wears a crop-top and bell-bottom pants — with a rectangular tab about four inches by five extending up from the waistband to conceal the forbidden sight of her navel. | |
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Muppets Tonight had a parody of NYPD Blue called NYPD Green, in which the Network Censor objects to the (very mild; it's the Muppets) profanity, only for Kermit and Gil to explain that it wasn't profanity, it was an accurate description of the items and characters. | |
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The most contentious battle Saturday Night Live fought with censors was over the otherwise innocuous "Nerds Christmas" sketch in which the Nerds were putting on the Nativity as a school play. Each Nerds sketch featured Todd giving noogies to Lisa Loopner. Here "Lisa" was playing the Virgin Mary and the network insisted that the show could not noogie the Virgin Mary. An exasperated Lorne Michaels kept insisting that it was not the Virgin Mary, it was Gilda Radner playing Lisa Loopner playing the Virgin Mary with a paper plate pinned to her head. Sanity eventually prevailed and Lisa got her noogies. | |
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No More Heroes parodied the censorship issue by joking that putting anything more extreme into the game would get the game an AO rating. (An Adults-Only rating is suicide for a game, because a certain large retailer refuses to stock games with the AO rating.) In the dialogue before the final battle, no less. There's also the implication that the game would have to be re-edited if the plot point referenced was actually uttered, thereby delaying the game. To top it off, this is all followed by the line, "You don't want this game to become No More Heroes Forever, do you?" This line is in the original Japanese version as well, since CERO (Japan's equivalent of the ESRB) is similar in how they act. You can slow down the speed so you can hear what is really being said. | |
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Similarly, the radio comedy Round the Horne (itself a victim of overzealous censorship) aimed a number of Take Thats including one where a team of censors object to the title of a then-popular TV Show 'Have A Go With Wilfred Pickles' (the joke being that it's not the obvious innuendo in 'have a go' but the name 'Pickles' was promoting alcohol abuse). | |
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Implied for dark humor in the graphic novel Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, when the news airs the Mutant Leader's ultimatum to Batman but declares it "unfit for broadcast" past "...and then I'll find your new cop — your woman cop — and I will-" | |
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Parodied in Sam & Max Season 2: What's New, Beelzebub?, where we find that the FCC is run by the forces of Hell. | |
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Many fans of Veronica Mars joke that the storm of double-entendres present in the dialogue simply overloaded the censors' filthometers and they gave up. | |
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The Goon Show opted to take the piss by putting in completely out of context punchlines to dirty jokes, then pointing out that anyone who got the joke had no right to be offended. And let's not even get started on the brandy. | |
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Lilo & Stitch was infamously given a 12 rating (the equivalent of PG-13) in the UK simply for a brief scene where Lilo hides in the dryer. Though most children would probably know better, it was given that on the criteria of "dangerous behavior that could be imitated." However, once the dryer was awkwardly replaced with a pizza box, it was given a much-deserved U (or G) rating. | |
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