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* The producers of the classic films, ''[[The Pawnbroker]]'' and ''[[
* [[MGM]] when it outright defied the [[Hays Code]] and released ''[[Blow Up]]'' despite their attempts to stop it to great critical and box office success.
* [[Stan Lee]] when he defied the [[Comics Code]] and published his famous ''[[Spider
* When [[The Doors]] were on The Ed Sullivan show, they were told they couldn't sing the line "Girl we couldn't get much higher". Jim Morrison did anyway, getting them banned from the show from then on. Incident appears in the [[Biopic]] as a [[Moment of Awesome]].
** Allegedly, this was actually because Morrison was extremely nervous and forgot to change the lyric, not because of any rebellious intent.
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* [[Otto Preminger]] famously in 1953 released ''[[The Moon Is Blue]]'' without [[Hays Code]] approval, and had to do the same with ''[[The Man With The Golden Arm]]''. Preminger had to pressure the censors to pass ''[[Anatomy of a Murder]]'', whose dialogue on the subject of rape was fairly explicit for its time.
* [[Exploited Trope]] for Marv Wolfman and George Perez in ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]''' "Terror of Trigon". The [[Comics Code]] did not approve of their on-panel scene of Dick and Kory sharing a bed, but losing the approval meant they could get away with a lot more horror elements than they normally would.
* [[In
* [[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:
{{quote| ''I checked with an editor, and he said I could say "breast" as long as I used it scientifically, rather than to arouse prurient interest. For example, I could say "breast" as long as I used it scientifically, rather than to arouse prurient interest. For example, I could say "two breasts plus two breasts equals four breasts," but I could not say: "Hey, get a load of that breast."}}
* 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
* ''[[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.
* Similarly to ''Darkness'', the animated version of ''[[Dororon Enma
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