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* Just pause at 1:35 in the [[Wartime Cartoon]] short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI9QzNVJK1s&feature=related "Daffy-The Commando"]. If you look closely enough on the upper right, there's a Kaiserhof topless/nude pin-up poster on the wall.

* While producing the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' shorts for Warner Brothers between the mid-1930s and 1946, the animators at the "Termite Terrace" studio threw in gags that obviously crossed the line, so the [[Media Watchdog|Hays Office]] would let more of their riskier gags into cartoons without being censored. (Presumably because they'd feel they had to give the studio a break sometime.) Some of the extreme jokes actually made it past the censors by mistake. (This makes this [[Older Than Television]].)

** Another example came from the nature mockumentary ''Unnatural History'', where they showed a film clip of "a beaver damming a river". Just as the beaver finished building the dam, a big chunk of it breaks loose, water starts gushing through ... and the beaver starts jumping up and down, making garbled swear-noises. Dang, why can't I find this on [[YouTube]]?

*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFtefL_ElzE Ta-DA!]

** "Oh, son of a [[Porky Pig Pronunciation|bi-b-bi-son of a bi-b-b-son of a bi-b-gun]]! ...Ha ha ha, you thought I was going to say "son of a bitch", didn't you?"

*** Which was intended for an in-house "bloopers" film, and not for the general public, so there was no censorship to be passed.

** What about the fact that Bugs was in a frilly, lacy room with a vanity wearing a bra and panties? Nothing wrong with that (at least by today's standards), but then [[Fridge Logic]] and possible [[Fridge Horror]] sets in: Whose room is that if Elmer isn't married and is the only one in the house?

** Joe Adamson points out in his book "Bugs Bunny: 50 Years And Only One Grey Hare" that Bugs is a creature of infinite resources. Where did the confetti come from when he tricked Elmer into believing it was New Year's? Who knows? We were just as snookered as Elmer and quite amused.

* At the beginning of "Easter Yeggs", Bugs was being interested reading a certain book. The name of the book? "How to Multiply".

** And he closes the book immediately after hearing someone cry.

* The Pepe Le Pew cartoons would qualify (after all, the whole series is a [[Stealth Pun]] on men going after pussy{{spoiler|...cats}}), though one Pepe cartoon makes this troper wonder why the Hays Office didn't intervene: 1953's "Wild Over You," in which Pepe's latest feline victim is an escaped wildcat who fights off Pepe by beating him up. The crap that got past the radar is Pepe stating that he liked it. Masochism, much?

** Another example was not so much as getting past the radar as the radar moving behind it: During one pursuit, Pepe calls out to Penelope: "You are too tightly wound up! You should try engaging in some recreational activitiy, [[You Need to Get Laid|like making love!]]" It wasn't quite so risque a term back then as it is now, but it still qualifies given the [[Hays Code]] and its rules on sex in cinema (including verbal implications of it).

* "The Fright Before Christmas" features Bugs reading his nephew's Christmas list to Taz, whom he has mistaken for Santa Claus. Among the items listed is "Frank Sinatra's old address book".

* In "Bewitched Bunny" (Jones, 1954), after Bugs turns Witch Hazel into a female rabbit, he turns to the camera and remarks, "Ah, sure, I know, but aren't they ''all'' witches inside?"

* In the original theatrical release of "Devil's Feud Cake", when Satan first sees Yosemite Sam, he says to him, "Well, who in Hell are you?".

** Averted when the cartoon aired on television and [[Edited for Syndication|the line was replaced]] with, "What the devil is your name?".

* In ''The Trial of Mr. Wolf'', Red Riding Hood mentions her grandma has a huge hangover and quickly brushes it off.

* In ''The Draft Horse'' (1942, Chuck Jones) they snuck in the old marching song "You're in the army now" on an eyesight test, which featured the verse "you'll never get rich/you ''son of a bitch''" (written so small it's almost illegible without pausing).

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