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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]].)
** My all-time favorite example: in ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blHmI1iHrJA A Tale Of Two Kitties]'', the two cats (based on [[Abbott and Costello]]) are trying to catch Tweety Pie. Catstello is standing at the top of a shaky, rickety ladder, while Babbit is down at the bottom shouting, "Give me the bird! GIVE ME THE BIRD!" (To which Catstello mutters, "If [[Hays Code|the Hays Office]] would only let me, I'd 'give him the bird', alright!")
** 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!]
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** "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.
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* Friz Freleng slipped an ''extremely'' clever one in "The Wabbit Who Came To Supper" (1942): At the end, Elmer opens a door to find Bugs wearing a bra, who screams - and then Elmer runs in closing the door - [[Unfortunate Implications|cue thrashing of the house]], Bugs speeding out and straight to the door, with Elmer saying "Good widdance to bad wubbish!" And then, a delivery man comes to give Elmer an
** 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.
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* 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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