Getting Crap Past the Radar/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

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While ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'' (or rather, [[Robin Williams|its star]]) may be the [[Trope Namer]], [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] has been going on ever since the beginning of television and is unlikely to stop as long as the censors are around, writers willing to mock them by letting the crap slip by them, and viewers who notice and put the instances on this website.

 

== Works with their own Radar pages ==

* [[Arrested Development (TV series)/Radar|Arrested Development]]

* [[Babylon 5/Radar|Babylon 5]]

* [[Hannah Montana/Radar|Hannah Montana]]

* [[Home Improvement (TV series)/Radar|Home Improvement]]

* [[Jessie/Radar|Jessie]]

* [[My Babysitter's a Vampire/Radar|My Babysitters a Vampire]]

* [[Victorious/Radar|Victorious]]

* [[Wizards of Waverly Place/Radar|Wizards of Waverly Place]]

 

== Other Works ==

** Another example is near the beginning of the series. When Mindy is explaining different types of love to Mork, she mentions her dad and says, "The kind of love a father has for his daughter." Mork responds, "I understand all about that - I read Lolita."

** The scene with Robin Williams in cheerleader uniform - [[Lightmare Fuel]] too.

** Robin Williams is part Scottish, don't forget: he'd seriously know. And share the gag.

* Game Shows: Lots of examples:

** ''[[Family Feud]]'': Many times, becoming particularly prevalent during the Steve Harvey era that began in 2010.

* ''[[The Bozo Show]]'': An urban legend persists that a child used the phrase "Cram it, clown!" on the show, with a similar retelling having the mal-behaving child uttering harsh profanity. Each version of the story has the child uttering the "Bozo no-no" after playing a progressive-skill game for a cache of prizes -- called "The Grand-Prize Game," with increasing value depending on the child's success, with a high-valued grand prize offered for successfully completing all attempts) -- the child missing on one of his attempts (the point at which failure occurred varies, most often on the first try for the big prize, in which case nothing would be won), and the child venting his frustration after being handed an undesirable [[Consolation Prize]], usually a towel with Bozo's likeness or a cheap balsa-wood airplane. Snopes.com doubts whether this happened, stating that the tellings vary widely and that because it aired live in most markets the footage of such an event would be [[Lost Episode|lost]].

* ''[[ER]]'': In the eighth-season episode "On the Beach" (an episode documenting one of the last days of his life after suffering from an inoperable brain tumor), Dr. Mark Greene loses his balance while getting out of bed and falls over, after which he screams out a word that suspiciously sounds like "SHIT!!!" (Edwards was leaving the series, and his character dies in a later episode from the cancer, which has by now spread throughout his entire body.)

* ''[[Schindler's List]]'': When the 1993 Academy Award-winning movie (the biopic on the German businessman who forsakes his Nazi Party leanings to save more than 1,000 Jews from death) first aired on NBC, it was aired unedited, unlike virtually all movies featuring harsh profanity, sex and nudity. Although a sex scene was edited, appearances of completely naked women (Jews who had been stripped of their clothing by Nazi soldiers) and utterances of the word "fuck" were left intact, marking firsts (if not one of the firsts) in American television. Although it gained a TV-MA rating by NBC, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) criticized NBC's decision to air the movie, contending at first that NBC had fallen to a new low by allowing the film to air with its nudity, violence and profanity, adding that airing the film was an insult to "decent-minded individuals everywhere" (he later relented on some of his comments, although he thought the movie should have been aired at a different time). PBS has also shown the movie in its original theatrical form.

* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' has topless women appear uncensored many, many times. Add to that all the dirty jokes. But in one of Terry Gilliam's animations, the word "cancer" was considered too offensive and was, rather obviously (the narrator's voice changes dramatically) changed to "gangrene".

* ''[[Bones|"Cluck you! Cluck you!"]]''

*** They did that one on Married... With Children years ago.

** How about Blair's fantasy in a season two episode? She is shown sitting in Chuck's limo while he kisses his way down her body. Eventually he disappears below her waistline and we get a close-up of Blair's face in complete exstacy. All while the song "''Going Down''" plays. And then Dorota walks in and comments "Remember, God always watching."

** One early episode has Gossip Girl referring to the situation as a "fustercluck."

{{quote| '''Georgina:''' Blair locked me out. And judging by the size of the sock on the doorknob I didn't want to knock.}}

* In the season 2 finale for ''[[Chuck]]'', Casey says "Chuck me."

{{quote| '''Gomez''' ''(about the new neighbors)'': It's our turn now. They won't see US for three days.}}

* Simon Groom on [[Blue Peter]] : 'What a beautiful pair of knockers'.

{{quote| '''Mr. Monroe:''' You can be the alternative family!}}

** There is also a rather interesting moment during the first episode of season 3:

'''Gordy:''' Ummm, I can't answer that, due to the fact that I'm 40. }}

** There is Suzie's habit of wanting to share lockers with whoever her current boyfriend is, which is treated akin to moving in together as adults.

* From [[Leave It to Beaver]], how the hell did "Beaver Cleaver" make it past the censors?

** Except the slang goes back to at least the twenties.

* The BBC talent show ''The Slammer'' (which, as with many CBBC programmes, is written more for [[Parental Bonus|adults than children]]) gets a few adult jokes past censors. One of the acts was a young Michael Jackson impersonator, and one of the viewers was approached by the presenter for his views on the act's dance moves. The child replied, 'exotic', leading the presenter to ad-lib as a reference to one of the fake prison's guards, 'Exotic dancing? Mr. Burgess likes ''exotic dancing''.'

** That and the fact that shows produced for the Canadian market are far ''less'' censored than those produced for the US market.

* An episode of ''[[The Real Hustle]]'' did this unintentionally. Offensive language is usually bleeped or cut from the programme so it can be broadcast before 9pm. The first series had a con in which two of the presenters played a couple [[We Need a Distraction|arguing so a third presenter could steal from a jewellers']]. One of the arguing presenters slapped the other, swore and walked out. The scene was then shown another twice as the voiceover explained how they'd stolen a watch, on each occasion the censors failed to realise what she said. The 'best of' episode which showed the scene again did bleep it.