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{{quote|''[[Hypocritical Humor|The stuff they're gettin' away with on kids' shows these days...]]''|'''Yakko Warner''', ''[[Animaniacs]]''}}
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He was hardly the first, however. Films have flirted with the line for decades, often through the use of [[Double Entendre]] (as demonstrated, for example, by Lauren Bacall's famous line from ''To Have and Have Not'': "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow."). And, of course, Mae West pretty much made her career out of finding ways to get her bawdy comedy under the censors of Hollywood back in the 1930s and 1940s.
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This is where [[Western Animation]] ''shines''; there's pages and pages of it. Especially if you include all the people who are just reading too much into things.
If you're not trying to hide it at all, it's [[Refuge in Audacity]]. If an author [[Lampshade Hanging|makes fun of]] their censors directly, it's [[Think of the Censors]]. [[Censor Decoy]] is when creators deliberately put in something objectionable for censors and editors to catch to distract from the stuff they actually want to put in. Some of these can be [[Fridge Brilliance|brilliant]], especially if you saw it when you were a kid and [[Late to the Punchline|only understood it later]]. Probably won't be very funny in the case of [[Get Thee to a Nunnery]], in which case [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]] will inevitably follow.
Some specific examples are [[Hide Your Lesbians]], [[Frothy Mugs of Water]], [[Something Else Also Rises]], [[Head-Tiltingly Kinky]], [[Bowel-Breaking Bricks]]. Compare [[Subtext]], which may involve this. See also [[Parental Bonus]]
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'''Addendum: Not everything remotely obscene said in the media is necessarily an example. If the offending joke/scene is part of the plot or the main focus of the scene, it is probably not a valid use of this trope. And don't add ones for shows that don't really have radars, and hence have nothing to get past (such as ''[[South Park]]'', ''[[Family Guy]]'' and ''[[Drawn Together]]'').'''
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