Getting Crap Past the Radar/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

** [[Chowder (Animation)/Radar|Chowder]]

** [[Codename Kids Next Door (Animation)/Radar|Codename Kids Next Door]]

** [[Generator Rex (Animation)/Radar|Generator Rex]]

** [[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (Animation)/Radar|The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]

** [[The Batman (Animation)/Radar|The Batman]]

** [[DCAU (Franchise)/Radar|DCAU]]

*** [[Batman Beyond (Animation)/Radar|Batman Beyond]]

*** [[Justice League (Film)/Radar|Justice League]]

* [[Family Guy (Animation)/Radar|Family Guy]]

* [[Hasbro]]

** [[Transformers (Franchise)/Radar|Transformers]]

*** [[Transformers Prime (Animation)/Radar|Transformers Prime]]

** [[Hey Arnold (Animation)/Radar|Hey Arnold]]

** [[Invader Zim (Animation)/Radar|Invader Zim]]

** [[Rocko's Modern Life (Animation)/Radar|Rocko's Modern Life]]

** [[Rugrats (Animation)/Radar|Rugrats]]

** They also got away with S.O.B (Son Of a {{spoiler|Briton}})

* ''[[Joshua Jones]]'' features a character called Spanner. The word Spanner is used as a somewhat vulgar insult, and its very surprising, considering that it was aimed at the same target audience as [[Fireman Sam]].

* The 1980s children's cartoon of ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Animated)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' is full of stuff that wouldn't have made it past the radar if it were made today.

** The first scene in the first episode has Link staring at Zelda's cleavage and commenting on how she looks good from where he's standing (which would be in a tower above Zelda's balcony). Seriously. This was in a ''children's'' cartoon based off of an NES game.

*** It may be worth noting that the 1980s ''Legend of Zelda'' was shown in afternoon syndication, once a week, on Fridays no less, as part of the ''Super Mario Brothers Super Show'', the one that had Captain Lou Albano as the live-action Mario. Also, the in-show adverts for it never featured episode previews, just the same few clips over and over again. If any show was set up to get past censors, it was this one.

*** It probably only got by because Spryte is a three-inch [[The Fair Folk|fairy]].

** Another episode opened with Stork apparently finishing a bath, walking into the room with ''only'' a towel around his waist...and then losing it seconds later.

* ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' is remembered fondly largely due to this trope.

"That's right, a hog flogger!" }}

* See how perverted the first episode of ''Rayman: The Animated Series'' is. Take Lac-Mac's act for example. A skinny teenage boy wearing what looks like a REALLY tight body suit comes into the middle of the ring, and the entire act is focusing on juggling, then rebounding the balls off his chest. Then his butt. Then he gets dragged off stage by a whip-wielding robot and shoved into a cage. And he's a FREAKING TEENAGER. Tell you what, while you're at it just handcuff him.

** While tame compared to some things on this page, ''Rescue Rangers'' had its moments of "Ew dirty!" here and there, including the unsavory implications of the obviously pre-teen Tammy the squirrel, a one-shot character, showing the adult Chip way too much affection. But my favorite would be this: Zipper, the team's mascot, of sorts, is a '''fly'''. Zipper the fly. Think about it.

* In the children's cartoon ''[[Captain Pugwash]]'', shown during children's viewing time on BBC TV in the UK, the Captain's crew were actually called: The Mate (usually addressed as "Master Mate"), Pirate Barnabas, Pirate Willy and Tom the Cabin Boy. Okay, "Master Mate" might sound like "Master Bates" if you weren't listening hard, and "Willy" is potentially lewd, but that's all. However, students' rag mags and other such publications soon started spicing up the names, introducing Master Bates, Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy. Ever since there has been a persistent urban legend that these were the ''real'' names. Many people even insist they remember hearing them on children's television. The BBC actually sued a national newspaper for printing this. (Snopes.com has [http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.htm the details].)

** The characters enter a ''[[Dragonball]]''/''[[Pokémon]]''-spoofing game called "Pantsu Hebi X". This literally translates to "underwear snake".

** Bob is wondering whether he is himself or a copy and Cecil the waiter comforts him.

** Just... this:

{{quote| '''Ray:''' You blokes look uptight. You should try logging off, it relieves tension. }}

** In "Mind Over Matter", Jenny has difficulty fighting an opponent and so tries to "download [[The Internet Is for Porn|something off the Internet]]" to help. Her mother replies, "XJ-9, no! [[A Date With Rosie Palms|You'll go blind!]]"

** In the episode "The Price of Love," which is about Sheldon wanting to [[Operation Jealousy|make Jenny jealous by paying a girl to be his]] [[The Beard|faux-girlfriend]], there are a few things that caught this troper's attention. One is that all the popular girls get in on the action, all offering their services for cash. But don't worry, as the original girl put it, there are ''stripulations'', causing Sheldon to go, "Don't you mean ''stipulations''?" Granted, they're "no hugging, no kissing," and a few unreadable things, but this troper found some of the connotations with the plot to be... ''interesting'' for a Y-7 rated show.

*** If you liked that, you'll love this. In the episode "Voyage to the Planet of the Bikers" the Space Bikers are revealed to have normal day jobs on their home world as staff and faculty in an elementary school. Tammy is a teacher shown standing in front of a blackboard with a diagram reading "birds + bees = babies". While pointing to this diagram she directs her students to turn to page 69 in their textbooks.

* [[Sonic the Hedgehog|SnooPING AS usual]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyM1UGD8sqM I see!]

* In an episode of ''[[Jacob Two Two]]'', the titular character has to give a speech. His assignment? The birds and the bees. Buford doesn't get what's so bad about two cute little animals, and Renee whispers something into his ear. After getting off the ground, Buford decides,

{{quote| '''Buford:''' I will never look at a bird or a bee the same way again.}}

* In the opening to one episode of ''Being Ian'', a sign reads, "Hello, students!" Then, the O falls off and the camera ''zooms in on the new word''. Also, there's a Canadian Tire knock-off called... Crappy Tire.

* ''Isidoro'' managed to successfully portray [http://www.todohistorietas.com.ar/isidoro.htm Isidoro Cañones] as a womanizer despite being a comic book/cartoon aimed mainly at kids and preteens. It should be noted that, unlike Johnny Bravo, Isidoro almost ''never'' strikes out, having thus to overcome harder censor restrictions than Bravo. Hell, the cartoon made a point of sexualizing Cachorra to a degree never found in the comics.

** Another episode had a dorky unpopular kid take the dogs in for show and tell. While showing the dogs to the class he says "They're...boy dogs. You know how you can tell if they're boy dogs?" After this he lifts up the smaller dog, two boys gasp in shock and one girl smiles with an excited "Ooh!"

** Yet ''another'' had the dogs attempting to get into the supermarket by [[It Makes Sense in Context|piling shoes on the rubber mat outside.]] At one point on their search for more shoes, they find themselves at a '''''strip club''''', with the little dog telling one of the dancers (shown in silhouette with ''her removed bra in hand'') to take off her shoe.

* In the CGI Halloween special ''Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy'' (sequel to ''Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktacular'') Bug-A-Boo enters the party late in the special only to be trampled and then scared silly by Jimmy (getting his revenge from the first movie). Take notice of what Bug-A-Boo was carrying in... it was a large beer keg.

* Since this IS ''[[Sam and Max]]'', after all, the [[Sam and Max Freelance Police (Animation)|animated series]] was rife with this (despite reportedly being toned down from the source material). The Christmas episode has two in the space of less than a minute: As Sam, Max, and Sam's Grandma Ruth emerge into a prison shower room, Sam says, "If these walls could talk!" Max shudders and opines that they can just keep their mouths shut. Then, Max finds himself presented with a bar of soap on the floor. As he bends over to pick it up, his butt is festooned with a sign that reads "Do Not Open Until X-Mas".

** One episode showed an alternate timeline where Sam, instead of becoming a police officer, decided to dedicate his life to peacefully observing and worshipping the interconnectedness of all things. The justification for this was that he'd discovered hallucinogens. In a similar vein, the war movie parody "We Drop At Dawn" shows them finding a hippie hiding in a bush with suspiciously-shaped leaves.

* In one episode of ''[[X Men Evolution]]'', An extremely angry Wanda is looking for Pietro. He sees her coming, and dashes off screen while giving a panicked order that the others are not to tell her where he is. When she enters the room and asks where he is, Toad snickers and says "Oh, him? Hiding in the closet." There's a reason fanfic writers like Pietro so much...

* In one episode of [[The Snorks]], Bigweed sprayed "silly spray" on the Snork's reefberry crop, and when the Snorks ate them, they started "acting silly"- in other words, the started acting like they were on weed. And to top it all off, the title of this episode was "Reefberry Madness".

* In one episode of ''[[Trollz]]'', Coal distracts Snarf, who's a puppy most of the time, by telling him that his fly's undone. After being tricked, Snarf realizes that he doesn't wear pants.

I hope I don't come off like a {{spoiler|jerk}}. }}

* In the ''[[Dragon Hunters]]'' episode "Prince Charming", at one point a hick wants to know if Gwizdo knows Prince Charming personally, to which Gwizdo replies: "Well, [[It Makes Sense in Context|he slept in my bed]]. [[Ho Yay|Can't get much more personal than that!]]"

** In "Space People", the Space People in question speak Kazoo language. Kronk says, "There's no such thing as Space People," to them, makes them repeat it (in Kazoo) and walks off. After Kronk is gone, one of the Space People says "What was that?" or at least, he's supposed to. It sounds more like "What the ---- was that?". Some people may say "It says heck" because there's no way of telling, but it's clearly a one-syllable word ending in a hard c sound.

* In the cat-and-dog-on-sofa sketches from [[Creature Comforts]], there's a shelf full of books behind them. You'd never be able to read the titles on-screen, but the set is on display in Bristol, and you can make them out. One clear example of this trope is a book that has the word 'art' in (relatively) large letters on the spine, but a very close examination reveals that there are smaller letters to either side of this, making the full title 'piss artist'. <ref> Other books include [[Eat the Dog|How To Wok Your Dog]] and Black Holes: Does [[Stealth Pun|Mars]] Look Big In This?</ref>

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