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* Happened in many Looney Tunes shorts with surprising frequency. See just about any short Bob Clampett directed, for instance.

** Which is why a lot of Looney Tunes cartoons have ended up banned from being shown on American TV, and the shorts that weren't banned were [[Edited for Syndication]], ranging from slight snipping to being gutted and unwatchable.

* 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!]

** Every time [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] dressed in drag. He's made out with Elmer (and Yosemite Sam and others) too many times to count and has ''married'' him at least twice (in the ends of both ''The Rabbit of Seville'' and ''Bugs' Bonnets'', in which Elmer and Bugs ended up as a Bride and Groom, respectively).

*** Lampshaded in ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'', when a female executive complains about the family-unfriendliness of Bugs' humor:

'''Bugs Bunny:''' Lady, if you don't find a rabbit wearin' lipstick amusing, then we ain't got nothin' to say to each other. }}

*** "Rabbit Seasoning": note Elmer's hat when Bugs-in-drag gives him a kiss. [[Something Else Also Rises|Boi-oi-oing!]]

** In the short ''Duck! Rabbit! Duck'', Bugs and Elmer have the following conversation:

While this may be innocent to children (this troper in particular - she knew fricassee was a cooking method and thought Bugs was stalling for time), say "fricasseein'" ten times fast. Or like an expletive. }}

** "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.

* "Little Man, You've Had A Busy Day" (''Dog Daze,'' Freleng, 1937).

** A variation of that line is also spoken at the end of ''Wild Wife'' (McKimson, 1954), which has several references to sexism.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlbOahK5BWk Ah-HEM.]

* In "An Itch In Time", Elmer's dog is being bitten in the butt by a flea and runs around the house yelping and dragging his butt on the carpet, moments later the dog pausing and starts panting heavily with a big smile on his face saying "Hey, I'd better cut this out; I might get to like it".

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZPatWPaF04 This clip from the 1963 Chuck Jones short "I was a Teenage Thumb".]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2qu9zrYCP0 This infamous clip] from the final Bosko Looney Tunes short "Bosko's Picture Show", depending on your own point of view on whether he 'really' said the word or not.

* 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).

* In the Three Bears short "A Bear For Punishment" at the beginning when it shows Papa Bear sleeping in his bed there is a box of tissues and a book entitled "The Kinsey Report" lying on the floor, now for those of you who don't know the Kinsey Reports are a series of books based on the studies of sexual behavior.

* "Hare Conditioned" (Jones, 1945), has Bugs in drag as a female customer in the shoe department trying to fool the store manager (who wants Bugs mounted and stuffed, having served his purpose as a store window prop). What the manager does following this dialogue would be tantamount to sexual harassment today:

'''Manager:''' Confidentially, so would I! }}

* Daffy's opening line in "Plane Daffy" (Tashlin, 1943):

This Hata Mari tomater! }}

* "Hollywood Daffy" (Freleng, 1946) has Daffy impersonating a studio director fooling the o-fay Joe Besser-like gate cop into thinking he'll make him a star. Daffy examines him and asks "What's Errol Flynn got that you haven't got?" before interjecting, [[Rhetorical Question Blunder|"Don't answer that!"]] So what '''''does''''' Errol Flynn have that the studio cop doesn't? Apparently, [[wikipedia:Errol Flynn#Personal life|a statutory rape charge]]. Errol Flynn was notorious as a ladies' man and was accused of seducing two teenaged girls a couple of years prior to the cartoon's premiere. Flynn was acquitted of all charges.

* "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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