Defying the Censors: Difference between revisions

* Also, there's an entry on [[Histeria!]]'s [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] section that might fit, where they ''actually'' got "Damn the torpedoes!" into the [[Sincerity Mode|daytime children's cartoon]]. There's no way the censors ''overlooked'' that, so I think it fits much more with this trope.

* One of the first times (if not [[Ur Example|the first]]) the word "ass" was used on US TV was by [[Jimmy Stewart]], in a poem he read on ''[[The Tonight Show]]''.

But getting to Lake Barengo is a genuine pain in the ass. }}

::After the taping, the NBC Censor called up the producer.

Censor: Oh, ''Jimmy Stewart'' said it? [[Sincerity Mode|That's OK then.]] }}

* [[FoxTrot|Bill Amend]] says that words like "sucks" are a big no-no for newspapers, so it's fun to occasionally make them central to a strip's joke so that the can't be easily edited out.

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': [[Invoked]] by Bart when his boy band has a gig at Springfield Elementary.

Skinner: That's not true! This assembly was my idea. I like your brand of inoffensive pop-rock. }}

* [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Psycho]]'':From imdb: There is a rumor that the this film was not passed for release because it was claimed that Janet Leigh's nipple was visible during the shower scene. The nipple wasn't in the film at all, but the cinematography and score are so well performed here, it caused the release board originally to think that there was a nipple visible and send the film back for re-editing. The production team went through the shower sequence cut by cut to illustrate that there was not. Alfred Hitchcock made no changes (none were needed), but merely sent it back, assuming that they either wouldn't bother to watch it, or would realize their mistake.

* [[In-Universe]] example: In ''[[Echo Bazaar]]'' (where you have Victorian-era ideals of decency) a couple mid-level Persuasive storylets involve this, especially notable if you have or want Bohemian connections; you can help a poet friend get his banned work republished and organize readings of banned poetry.

* [[Dave Barry]] had lots of fun in his columns at the censor's expense. When he arrived at the subject of breastfeeding, he had this to say:

* Producer David O. Selznick insisted that the famous line "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" had to be included in the final cut of ''[[Gone with the Wind]]''. The censors relented, but not without slapping a $5,000 fine on Selznick.

* ''[[To Love Ru Darkness]]'' seems to be written with this goal in mind, upping the [[Fan Service]] in response to [[Moral Guardians]] protesting such works. It's telling that the recap chapter was six color pages of [[Fan Service]] from the previous series.