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** Some broadcasts omitted "What's Black, White And Depressed All Over?" from the lineup due to offensive content.
* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' rolled out its own "Missing Episode" just after the end of the show's first run, though this may have been nothing more than a publicity stunt. The countless episodes yanked after one showing would be more serious. (Remember Mr. Horse's presidential bid? Yeah, I can hardly remember it either.)
** A legitimate lost episode, entitled "Man's Best Friend", would have aired in 1992, but did not, due to an incredibly violent scene in which Ren beats his and Stimpy's new owner, George Liquor, within an inch of his life with an oar. It did not air in the United States until Spike TV aired it as part of the ''Ren
* Here's a missing segment of an episode: the ''[[Schoolhouse Rock]]'' episode "Science Rock" reaired in 1979 and was supposed to air a segment titled "The Greatest Show on Earth", which weather was its main subject. Before the episode aired, the Ringling Bros.-Barnum and Bailey Circus Company objected to using the trademarked name as its title. As a result, ABC left this segment off the episode and also did not include it in the 1995 Science Rock VHS, either. It finally made its first appearance in the 30th Anniversary DVD under the name "Weather Show", but the references to the title were excised
** Then how come they didn't get miffed about the ''[[Popples]]'' episode where Party said "The Almost-Greatest Show On Earth"?
* ''[[Family Guy]]'''s "When You Wish Upon A Weinstein" was originally a DVD-only release, and was shown on TV for the first time (three years after it was produced) on [[Cartoon Network]]'s [[Adult Swim]] Block. The episode was pulled by FOX due to fears that the episode was offensive to Jews (despite that [[Seth MacFarlane]] brought in an actual rabbi to make sure the episode was kosher. It was, despite what the FOX Broadcast Standards and Practices people say) ''and'' Catholics. In the end, only a single line had to be altered for the episode to air on Adult Swim (Peter's line near the end of "I Need A Jew" was changed from "Even though they [the Jews] killed my Lord," to "I don't think they killed my Lord"). After ''Family Guy'' was [[Uncancelled]], FOX themselves showed the episode (with the same line edited as in the [[Cartoon Network]] version, and another cut: Quagmire "looking for his keys" in front of Lois was drastically shortened so it wouldn't look like he was masturbating).
** FOX banned the eighth season episode "Partial Terms of Endearment" because it dealt with Lois becoming a surrogate mother and choosing whether to abort her best friend's baby following her best friend's death. The episode was later released as a DVD-exclusive episode (like "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" did before actually airing on TV), although it has aired in first-run in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
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** WGBH and other affiliates have also banned "Arthur's Big Hit" from the airwaves due to a scene where a furious Arthur punches D.W. in the arm for destroying a plane he created. You can see that scene [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKxyaQFtXGg&feature=related here]
*** It is interesting to note that the scene itself has become a cultural internet phenomenon, as many YouTubers have parodied the scene itself.
** There's also an episode of the ''Arthur''
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson," much of which takes place in and around the World Trade Center, was withdrawn from syndication after 9/11. However, in a reversal of the "[[Too Soon]]" situation, fans protested the removal of the episode (since it's one of the most popular episodes of the series) and it was quickly reinstated (with the jokes centered around the Twin Towers either heavily edited or cut entirely on some local affiliates -- others have shown the episode uncut and uncensored, save for some time cuts and a man's line about how, "They stick all the jerks in Tower One"); the original uncut episode is on DVD).
** The later episode "New Kids On The Blecch" was removed from syndication in some areas, presumably because of the destruction of the Mad Magazine headquarters by naval seacraft. Though one may jokingly assume it's because of the backlash from having all five members of NSYNC as guest stars.
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* Political correctness seems to have forced the ''[[Tale Spin]]'' episode "Last Horizons" off air in the USA, with its depictions of a [[Yellow Peril]] tinged country of Pandas, although it's available on DVD.
** Another episode,"Flying Dupes", was banned because it had a terrorist-esque plot revolving around a bomb (possibly removed after 9/11).
** In Germany, ''[[Tale Spin]]'' has got only 64 episodes because "Vowel Play" must have proven impossible to translate sensibly in the first place (due to its plot of Baloo
* In 1968, [[United Artists]] permanently pulled eleven ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoons from circulation, due to content the studio deemed so racist and so pervasive that no amount of editing could render them suitable for contemporary audiences. (This is in contrast to the many Warner cartoons with brief, and therefore easily cut, instances of now-questionable content such as blackface gags.) To this day, the [[wikipedia:Censored Eleven|Censored Eleven]] cartoons have been neither aired on television nor included in Time Warner's official VHS and DVD collections; however, several have turned up on bootleg video.
** A 1990 VHS called "50 of the Greatest Cartoons" that contains ''All This and Rabbit Stew'', one of the Censored Eleven. This cartoon is in the public domain and has been since the year after the list was made. (Two others were in the public domain ''when'' the list was made.) And this cartoon features ''Bugs Bunny.'' So, if you want a legal hard copy of that one (damn the racism, Bugs Bunny ahead!), look in your local dollar store -- you might get lucky.
*** For the record, that's the one that basically has a black version of Elmer Fudd. Actually, he's treated pretty much exactly the same as Elmer Fudd, which shows that Bugs Bunny doesn't discriminate.
** These cartoons are not to be confused with a number of [[Wartime Cartoons]] that Warners has also resisted releasing due to problems with depictions of Japanese characters, or Nazi imagery. One of these, ''Herr Meets Hare,'' (in which Bugs Bunny matches wits with Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering, and marked the very first "[[Wrong Turn At Albuquerque|wrong toin at Alberquerque]]") was finally aired on the [[Cartoon Network]] in 2002 as part of a documentary special about World War II cartoons.
*** ''Head Injury Theater''{{'}}s Jared von Hindman wrote [https://web.archive.org/web/20130910101301/http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article27.htm an article] describing both the propaganda and the otherwise offensive cartoons.
* This trope even crops up in cartoons that you don't expect to be censored. One ''[[Dudley Do-Right]]'' cartoon, "Stokey the Bear", featured a pyromaniac bear in a ranger's hat. The US Forestry Service was, shall we say, not pleased. After finding out that they couldn't sue for trademark infringement (Smokey the Bear is a registered trademark), they pressured Jay Ward Productions to never broadcast it again in the US. It hasn't, but it can be found on the Net thanks to overseas broadcasts.
* The 1980s ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (animation)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' cartoon had a lost [[Series Finale]]. While a script was written for the episode, the episode itself was never produced. It does appear in radio-play format on the DVD, using the original voice actors.
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** Other Beavis and Butt-Head episodes were banned or heavily censored for instances of Beavis saying "Fire! Fire!" or flicking a lighter ("Stewart's House", "Kidnapped"), animal cruelty ("Frog Baseball", "Washing the Dog"), inhalant and drug abuse ("Home Improvement", "Way Down Mexico Way") or anything that might be considered poor taste in the aftermath of Columbine and September 11th ("Heroes", "Incognito"). Many of these episodes have aired on Viacom-owned networks overseas unedited.
** There's also the music video segments. Who knows how many of them have been lost forever due to copyright issues? Fortunately, some of the rights have been secured, and over three dozen music videos have made it to the various [[Mike Judge]] collections.
* Fans of ''[[Daria]]'' had been waiting forever for a proper DVD release of the show, and the only way to watch the show was through bootlegs and edited reruns on Noggin's teen block, "The
** It should also be noted that, thankfully, the original masters of the show's episodes were used for the set; every episode was released in its original form (minus the music cuts, natch), ensuring that none of the episodes
* Comedy Central pulled the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Jared Has Aides" from their rotation due to the depiction of [[Abusive Parents|Butters getting beaten by his parents]]. It is still available on the Season Six DVD box set, it (and every other episode listed below, except "Super Best Friends", "200", and "201") is still viewable on the official South Park website, and (as of June 17 2009) it appears to have crept back into the lineup again. Only ''[[South Park]]'' could make an entire episode with a running gag about ''AIDS'' and get in trouble for ''something completely different''.
** The episode "Pip" has only been repeated ''twice'' since its premiere in 2000. The reason? The crew doesn't like the episode that much (to be fair, neither did anyone else). Same goes for "Not Without My Anus", the infamous [[April Fools' Day]] Terrance and Philip episode, which has never been replayed outside of its original airdate, due mainly to fan outrage - it was aired in place of the conclusion of the previous season's cliffhanger finale. As of 2010, "Pip" started appearing on broadcast network syndication (and ''only'' in syndication, [[Comedy Central]] has yet to rerun it again).
** "Super Best Friends", an episode which actually shows the Muslim prophet Muhammad, was removed after the controversy regarding the depiction of Muhammad in a political cartoon published in a Dutch newspaper; eventually, the episode made its way back into rotation, then was pulled again (and yanked off the website) after the show's creators
** What really sucks is that the person in the bear costume wasn't even Muhammad, but in fact Santa Claus as the 201st episode revealed. The creators
** ...and the episode "Trapped in the Closet", which directly ripped the controversial group apart with damned-near pinpoint accuracy, was taken out of the lineup for obvious reasons (and it was rumored that a repeat of the episode just a couple of months later was pulled at the request of the group ''and'' the episode's main celebrity target, noted Scientologist [[Tom Cruise]]).
*** Actually, up until the night that "Awesom-O" premiered, commercials WERE advertising a Lemmiwinks sequel. Supposedly, The Return of Lemmiwinks wasn't funny, and was replaced with "Awesom-O". The episode opens with an announcement stating "Due to [[Noodle Incident|this week's tragic events in Hawaii]], the Lemmiwinks episode will not be shown."
** "200" and "201" were pulled from reruns immediately after the latter's premiere and are currently only available on the season 14 DVD set ([[No Export for You|In the US]]) due to their depiction of Muhammad (see above on "Super Best Friends", which was also pulled).
** Sky One skipped "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" (for its plots of Cartman Joining NAMBLA [[Name's the Same|(the man/boy love association, not the club made up of guys who look like Marlon Brando when he became bald and fat)]] and Kenny killing his mom's unborn child), Proper Condom Use (due to explicit sexual content), and "Jared Has Aides" (due to the jokes about AIDS [despite that the episode was about how it's okay to make fun of AIDS since enough time has passed where making fun of the disease is no longer considered in poor taste] and the scene of Butters getting beat up by his parents after Cartman crank calls Butters' dad). Channel 4 however aired all 3 a few months later.
* The ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'' episode "Hot Spells" was banned after its initial run on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] due to the plot revolving around Goslyn making a [[Deal with the Devil]] to get magic powers.
* The original run of ''[[Dexter's
** The pairing episode,
*** "Barbequor" has been show in
*** This troper has seen it in the UK on Boomerang's recent rerunning of the series, as well as Virgin's On Demand service.
** There was an episode called "Dexter's Rude Removal", the plot involved Dexter creating clones of himself and Deedee to do their chores but which do nothing but swear and other rude gestures
** The episode "Dexter Dodgeball" had been edited for a certain point in time; when Dexter gives the substitute coach a fake excuse the coach cries out "What's this [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|crap]]?" The offending word was muted in the edited version. Surprisingly, current reruns have kept the word intact.
*** The word "crap" in general seems to be viewed in a less negative light in recent years.
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** Though the lost episode in question is currently available to watch on [[YouTube]].
*** The episodes "Inside Job" and "Conspiracy" were also omitted from the [[Disney Channel]] run of the series, as they both dealt with terrorist assasination plots.
* ''[[Cow and Chicken]]'' had an episode, "Buffalo Gals", with rampant and blatant examples of [[Les Yay]]. Cartoon Network's censors must've been asleep at the switch (nothing new or surprising, given Cartoon Network's track record.) because the episode aired at least twice. Examples include a character busting into the title characters' home and munching on the carpet, handing out a carpet sample-shaped business card with "Munch Kelly" written on it, choking Chicken and -- during an impromptu baseball game -- Kelly told Cow, "I'll pitch and you catch!" When Cow turned into her superheroine persona, Supercow, Kelly asked her if she'd "like to be on her team". At the end, when the characters return home, Red Guy (the [[Ambiguously Gay]] villain) shows up and declares the moral of the story is a secret. Funny? Gut-bustingly. See for [https://web.archive.org/web/20100106145352/http://www.livevideo.com/video/A2466C01997E41B09BFD615E978CD5A1/cow-and-chicken-buffalo-gals.aspx yourself].
** The pilot episode of the show was taken off the air and never seen again, because it shows Chicken smoking (and going to Hell for accepting a cigarette from the Red Guy, who openly introduces himself as the Devil).
*** Both of these episodes are
* ''[[Histeria!]]!'' didn't have a [[Missing Episode]], but did have a missing ''part'' of an episode. In the "Megalomaniacs" episode there was a sketch in which the Spanish Inquisition was portrayed as a game show called ''Convert Or Die''. [[Moral Guardians]] complained about it "teaching" kids to reject Catholicism, so for all subsequent broadcasts it was replaced with a sketch in which the kids mistakenly get Custer's Last Stand mixed up with an actual custard stand. The original sketch was, however, restored to its original version in the web broadcast on In2TV; so in a piece of irony, the sketch about the kids at Custer's Last Stand is now the lost sketch.
* ''[[Teamo Supremo]]'' had an episode with two segments titled "Will You Be My Valentine Bandit?" and "Uncontrollable Goopy Substance!", which [[Toon Disney]] aired only once, on the morning of March 13, 2004, and was never included in the show's rerun rotation. Confusingly, a few clips from "Uncontrollable Goopy Substance!" were used in the promotional spots for Toon Disney's ''New For You!'' show.
* ''[[The PJs]]''{{'}} final three episodes were never aired until two years after the show's cancellation in 2001 when Channel 4 in the UK picked up the series. They were again never shown for another five years. They weren't shown in the US, the show's origin country, for seven years before [[Adult Swim]] picked up the series.
* The 2000s version of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' had an entire Missing ''Season'', which was shelved in favor of TMNT {{smallcaps|[[Recycled in Space|IN THE FUTURE!]]}} (though even the future season considers the missing one canonical). It was later shown on TV as the "Lost Season" and got a DVD release.
** There is another episode called "Insane in the Membrane" which never aired in the US (though it's available on DVD and the 4KidsTV site). It involves Baxter Stockman cloning his old body and inserting his brain inside. It goes fine for a while but after a few months he begins to fall apart and constantly tries new ways to fix himself including chopping off limbs. Eventually he loses his mind and blames April for all that has happened to him. To be fair, the episode was [[Nightmare Fuel|quite disturbing]] for kids.
** "Nightmares Recycled" was never completed, due to similarly disturbing content. It apparently would've revealed Hun and minor villain the Garbageman were conjoined twins crudely
* 1970s British kids show ''[[Mr Benn]]'', in which the title character dressed up as various things and had adventures in that guise: the
* An example of a missing ''series'': the late 1960s animated series ''[[The Beagles]]'', created by Total Television (the makers of ''[[Underdog (animation)|Underdog]]'') and about the adventures of a singing dog duo. The series has been unaired since its original run, with the master copies of the series accidentally thrown away by the family of someone on the production staff, with only a few production negatives and clips (one available on [[YouTube]]) remaining today, along with an LP (later transferred by someone to CD) of songs from the show.
* Due to the studio making more episodes that the network had ordered, four ''[[King of the Hill]]'' episodes past the [[Grand Finale]] ({{spoiler|The episode where Hank discovers that Bobby has a talent for inspecting and identifying cuts of meat}}) were not in the network run and were only seen in syndication (including [[Adult Swim]]). The four episodes are:
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* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' had an episode entitled "Boston", which was originally intended as the first episode of the series' fifth season and produced as its creators' response to the [[Boston (useful notes)|Boston]] bomb scare that [[Adult Swim]] caused on January 31, 2007 (with the city itself being a big target of the episode). However, Adult Swim pulled it to avoid further controversy surrounding the events of the bomb scare. The episode has never aired, and has never been released to the public.
* Several episodes of ''[[Davey and Goliath]]'' were presumed destroyed by the [http://www.elca.org Evangelical Lutheran Church in America], the successor to the church that commissioned the series, due to racial and other material that today's mainline denominations would consider unfit for airing on a children's program. They were later found, re-edited and released on DVD.
* Because of a very limited VHS release and no DVD releases, it's virtually impossible to get a hold of any of the later episodes of ''[[Street Sharks]]'', especially the ''Dinovengers'' crossover season. A bit more mysterious is an episode which was said to involve an appearance by their missing father, who fights Paradigm to save a mutant held captive. It is uncertain as to whether this really aired or if it was originally planned but scrapped and modified into a different episode.
* HIT Entertainment pulled the ''[[Pingu]]'' episode "Pingu Quarrels With His Mum" off of [[PBS Kids]] Sprout's rotation due to the
*** Keep in mind that this episode is what led to ''Pingu''{{'}}s fall from grace. After the episode aired, The Pygos Group received threats from [[w:Schweizer Fernsehen|SF DRS]] that they would take legal action and cancel the series if any further inappropriate content was added to future episodes. The producers promised that season 4 would be completely "clean" and not feature ''any'' adult content. The results in the ratings were, shall we say, a [[Recipe For Disaster]].
** Numerous other ''Pingu'' episodes were also pulled or heavily censored in other countries due to other offensive practices, such as "Pingu Runs Away" (Pingu runs away from home after {{spoiler|ruining a pleasant dinner}}), "Pingu's Dream" (Pingu suffers a [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmare]] when {{spoiler|he encounters a giant walrus}}), the pilot episode "Pingu is Introduced" (Pingu is [[The Bully|bullied]] by his friends when they steal his ball), "Pingu's Lavatory Story" (Pingu drinks so much drinks at a local bar that {{spoiler|[[Potty Emergency]] he has to go to the bathroom}}, only to {{spoiler|[[Potty Failure]] pee all over the floor}} back at home) "Pingu at the Doctors" (Pingu causes his beak to bleed after chasing his sister). None of these episodes have ever appeared on US VHS (although "Pingu Runs Away" has gotten a VHS release titled "Antarctic Antics", and "Pingu at the Doctors" has aired on PBS Kids Sprout's rotation).
*** Initially, "Pingu is Introduced" was shown on the BBC and other non-Swiss networks where a moment when {{spoiler|Pingg repeatedly bonks on Pingu's head during the fight over the ball}} was cut to tone down controversy over the violence in the episode. This edit was not shown in Switzerland (as they showed the episodes uncensored due to the fact that the country was the origin of the character), and even in Cartoon Network in the U.S. However, in 2003, the censors eventually agreed that the edit made no sense at all, and decided to pull the episode off entirely (it has not been shown in Britain ever since), and was never reinstated in America when the show made it to PBS Kids Sprout.
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** For unknown reasons, two episodes made for the fourth season before the [[Grand Finale]] were made but never aired in the initial run on SF DRS. It was not until a year later that they were aired on a marathon of ''Pingu'' episodes (they were only shown once due to the cancellation of the show before HIT took over). Surprisingly, these episodes failed to appear on the episode guide for the Japanese ''Pingu'' website and were not shown on the Season 4 Japanese DVD.
** Also for reasons unknown, the second series (seasons 5 and 6) never seemed to air on Sprout at all, despite some Advertisements that showed clips from the seasons. It was not until 2008 when the second series finally appeared in the U.S. on DVD.
* ''[[The Tick (animation)|The Tick]]'' animated series, episode #11 was missing after 9/11 due to the image early in the episode showing the World Trade Center towers being destroyed by an as-yet-unseen force (which turned out to be Proto-Clown).
* ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' episodes "Hail to the Chief" and "Twistory" were aired for the first year or so, but Nickelodeon stopped airing them apparently because they were offensive. They are, however, available on the Season 2 DVD available from Amazon.com.
** It was mostly due to the scenes in "Twistory" that portray [[George Washington]] as a crazy person constantly muttering "must..chop...WOOD!"
* ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' has had a couple of sort-of instances of this. Based on a single photo, a rumour had been going around that a story called 'The Missing Coach' was filmed but never aired. This was dismissed as speculation until [[Word of God]] from the technical crew confirmed that it had been half-filmed. The other was a number of episodes of a proposed spin-off called ''Jack and the Pack'' that didn't get picked up and which were eventually released three years later on DVD as part of the regular series.
* Two regular episodes of ''[[The Emperor's
* An episode of ''101 Dalmatians: The Series'', "Alive 'n Chicken", was pulled from broadcast after 9/11 (it's sometimes shown outside the United States), due to a scene where Spot crashes her airplane into a windmill. "Prima Doggy" was also pulled, but that was only due to that it was paired with the episode and it wouldn't fill 30 minutes on its own.
* ''[[KaBlam!]]'' had half the series pulled from reruns on Nicktoons, though some of them were shown when the network launched in 2002. 2004-ish is when the episodes were being pulled, usually without any reason.
** "I Just Don't Get it!" was the only episode pulled with a reason: In the ''Action League Now!'' segment, the Mayor is portrayed as a terrorist, and the segment was pulled from reruns in the United States after 9/11.
** "Just Chillin`!" only aired a few times in late 2000/early 2001 and was never seen again (and didn't air outside the US)
** "Ka-Fun!" was an episode produced and mentioned in a few TV guides, but never aired (at least in the US. There are rumors that it may have aired in Japan). Clips have appeared in Nickelodeon promos, however.
** The ''Life with Loopy'' Special, which many fans rumored to be "Episode 29" (Keep in mind that the information for "Episode 29" has been [[Jossed]] and the special is not part of the episode count) only aired once in 1998.
* ''[[Rugrats]]'' has ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20121219104732/http://www.rugratonline.com/rreplost.htm 16]'' lost episodes. Most of these were planned for the second or third season. One of these lost episodes was the pilot (this was slated to air on Nick around August 1990 but never did) which can only be found on a special VHS.
** In a more traditional fashion ("Made but rarely shown" vs. "not made at all"), there is the half-hour special "Vacation." Although originally released specially on VHS, it was still considered a regular "episode." However, it's not available on the compilation DVDs and, after being shown a few times, vanished from TV. There are likely a couple reasons for this: One may be rights issues associated with the opening using the song "Vacation" by [[
* The animated adaptation of ''[[The Mask (animation)|The Mask]]'' had its entire second season missing when it aired on [[CBS]] (on CBS, only the first and third season aired). The second season was only shown on cable channels such as [[Cartoon Network]] and the syndicated animation block, BKN (Big Kids Network), which showed a lot of cast-off cartoons that never made it to network TV, like ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'', ''[[Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys|Captain Simian and The Space Monkeys]]'', ''[[Street Sharks]]'', and ''[[Extreme Dinosaurs]]''. The only explanation that can be given for this is that season two's episodes of ''The Mask'' are a lot racier than those of seasons one and three, particularly the episode "Flight as a Feather" which features {{spoiler|1=a strip- er, "exotic dancer" named Cookie BaBoom threatening to kill herself with a suicide bomb because the Mayor broke up with her, and a scene where Cookie ends up naked (though no nudity was shown, Kellaway and Doyle's reactions to seeing Cookie naked tell the viewers more than if any actual flashes of breasts or genitalia was shown) after The Mask uses her suicide belt bikini as the main ingredient in an explosive cocktail drink}}.
** And speaking of "Flight as a Feather," when FOX Family (ABC Family back when FOX owned it) aired old reruns of ''The Mask'' in the late 1990s-early 2000s, "Flight as a Feather" was ''always'' skipped over because of that part with Cookie BaBoom (it would be easier to just edit out the entire sequence, but then that would ruin the continuity, because later in the episode, {{spoiler|1=Cookie BaBoom [clad in her trenchcoat] is seen in the angry mob that has The Mask cornered at the Bavariaville golf course}}).
* The artbook ''"[[Dofus]] - Les mains d'Eniripsa"'' presented the plot of an unseen episode of ''[[Wakfu]]'', going as far as providing a full summary, character design, and even background design. The episode was about Yugo and friends trying to save a village from complete dryness. For some reason, the episode was scrapped and never produced. The only remaining bit is the titular character of the episode, a charming Enirpisa called Mey d'Elongrot, who was present in the crowd as a cameo in episode 10.
* Dialogue was recorded for an ''[[
** In addition to the unaired finale, ''six'' other episodes were left out from the original run, and they were not shown until the six episodes aired on Nicktoons (the finale, or parts of it, has yet to see the light of a day).
* The eighth episode of the first season of Canadian cartoon ''[[Kevin Spencer]]'' was only broadcast once, after a viewer wrote an angry letter to the CRTC (the Canadian equivalent of the FCC) over the episode's content. This content, including having Kevin's father getting his finger bitten off by an alligator, accidentally drinking the beer containing his finger and then vomiting it up, and finally getting into an extremely violent fight with the gator and ending up gashed and bruised, was apparently so <s>funny</s> offensive that it was never broadcast again.
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* The ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' episode "Mass Transit Trouble" was withdrawn from syndication after the Oklahoma City bombing as it dealt with Robotnik plotting to destroy the Mobius transportation system by {{spoiler|placing bombs on three major Mobian transportation hubs}}. Eventually, [[Toon Disney]] picked up the episode and allowed it to run in their rotation (with at least one scene {{spoiler|where Sonic finds one of the bombs under a chair}} cut), then was pulled again (and yanked off the DVD releases) after 9/11 (that very episode became a major target of parody and controversy). The episode was not shown again until 2008 when it was reinstated on the Shout! Factory DVD releases.
** The pilot was never completed, although dialogue and animation were already produced. The unaired pilot eventually [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EZ54vXrcVU showed up on YouTube], save for the music and sound effects. A scene from pilot where {{spoiler|Robotnik tries to squish Sonic but gets himself squished}} was recycled for the show's ending credits.
* ABC's ''[[Sonic Sat AM|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' had an entire ''season'' that was scheduled to air around the 1995/96 season, but [[Cut Short|never did]]. The season would have had the Freedom Fighters attempt to finish the job and liberate Robotropolis from Snively (who would have taken over in the end), however the group and Snively would be forced to work together when Nagus reappeared (free of the Void's influence and holding King Acorn and Robotnik hostage). It is not a missing season, as it was never actually produced. According to animator Ben Hurst, the season was [[Executive Veto|vetoed]] because ABC was disappointed with the ratings Season 2
* The 1980s version of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' suffered heavy editing in Europe due to controversies over ninjas and nunchucks at the time. The show was released under the title ''Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles'', the opening lyrics for the theme song removed all references to ninjas, and every scene that features Michelangelo
** Ironically, ''[[Ninja Turtles: The
* When the ''[[Tom and Jerry]] Spotlight Collection Vol. 1'' was released in the U.S. in 2004, many of the cartoons on the set (excepting those made post-1951) were in poor quality. This was because the original negatives for most, if not all, of [[MGM
** Political correctness seems to have kept the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon "His Mouse Friday" from re-airing on American television. The cartoon featured {{spoiler|Jerry in blackface [[Meat-O-Vision|trying to eat Tom]]}}. The cartoon did manage to be released on video, but ''all'' the releases (including ''T&J Spotlight Collection Vol. 3'') had an edited version instead.
** Meanwhile, "Mouse Cleaning" and "Casanova Cat" were left off the spotlight collections entirely, due to [[Blackface]] gags, and rarely if ever appear on TV (always edited of course). Someone at Warner promised they'd appear on the next Tom and Jerry DVD release, however.
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''' "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Lost Episode]]". It featured a villain named Punk Rocket who used a [[Instrument of Murder|weaponized guitar]]. Punk Rocket would later show up in a very minor role near the end of the 5th season as part of the Brotherhood of Evil. Originally only available to be viewed online as part of a cereal promotion, it is included as a special feature on the ''[[Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo]]'' DVD.
* The pilot episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', "Help Wanted" was oddly absent from the Season 1 DVD. The reason? The producers could not get a copyright clearance for the song
** The episode "Procrastination", though otherwise complete, does have a missing scene. The last few years it has aired, there have been a few random seconds of
*** The scene where SpongeBob sees his friends outside has also been removed from reruns, though it's on the DVDs. It may have been cut out for more commercial time.
** The episode "Just One Bite" has a questionably blatant reference of dangerous gas materials. Nickelodeon must have been asleep at the censor switch, because the sequence aired at least until a year after the episode's
** In-universe example (see page quote): Patchy the Pirate laments that the "Lost Episode" is truly lost forever after his VCR spits out video tape while he is attempting to rewind the tape. (But of course, it's not really lost in [[Real Life]].)
** The season 2 episode "Shanghaied" was originally shown in 2000 and was aired as a Patchy the Pirate special (Despite the fact that it was the same length as the other
* The 1998 pilot for ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius|The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'' was
* There are three lost episodes of ''[[Ed, Edd 'n'
* The ''[[Mighty Mouse the New Adventures]]'' episode "The Littlest Tramp" wasn't considered missing, but however ''has'' a missing part. After Mighty Mouse finds crushed remains of a flower, he begins to think about his girl ("I know someone else like that") and decides to sniff it, nearly inhaling it inside his nose. The creator of the show apparently did not want to air the scene, because he thought it inspired cocaine use. [[John Kricfalusi]] disagreed, stating that the sequence was harmless, and the episode aired without, initially without controversy, in 1987. A year later, [[Media Watchdogs]] accused the creator for the cocaine-inspired scene, and as a result, subsequent airings pulled the scene out of the episode. However, fearing that the show would lose popularity due to the scene, CBS axed the series after only 19 episodes.
* ''[[Captain N: The Game Master]]'' had episode #27, "When Mother Brain Rules", missing from "The Complete Series" DVD set because [[DiC]] did not provide the tape to [[Shout Factory]].
* The American broadcast of ''[[Code Lyoko]]'''s fourth season had the worst luck with this. First, "Lab Rat" was skipped over in the broadcast order for reasons unknown, and was never shown on television. The kicker? The episode that aired in its stead, "Bragging Rights," was the second part of a two-episode mini-arc that "Lab Rat" began. The fandom was saved from confusion by an eerily
* The (tragically) obscure Australian animated series ''The Adventures of Sam'' has yet to be released on DVD (and probably never will be), and the VHS edition is missing at least one episode.
* The ''[[House of Mouse]]'' animated short "Minnie Takes Care of Pluto", in which [[Mickey Mouse]] leaves [[Pluto the Pup|Pluto]] at Minnie's house while he is on vacation, and [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|Pluto's conscience]] convinces him that Minnie is out to get him. About halfway through the short, Pluto has a brief nightmare about him being buried alive by Minnie, who zips up his grave, and later imagines himself going to Hell. The offending short only aired on the ABC run and was never shown on Toon Disney or Disney Channel.
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* The sixth season of ''[[Recess]]'' was never re-broadcast on [[Disney Channel]] or [[Toon Disney]] after it's initial airing in 2001 (it was shown in the U.K. and other areas. The season had no "offensive" content; Disney was probably being lazy)...until 2007.
** Only the first two seasons made it in the Portuguese dub, and the Italian dub skipped half the episodes.
* The episode of the first season of [[Spider-Man (1967 TV series)|the 1967 ''Spider-Man'' series]] titled
* After''[[Time Squad]]'' was canceled soon after being renewed for its second season (early 2002), a few episodes were held back/misplaced from the [[Cartoon Network]] line up for a while for unknown reasons, including "Whitehouse Weirdness", a episode that parodied a ''Scooby
* [[Disney]]'s ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'' was the missing episode of the [[Disney Animated Canon]] for a while; because of
** It was originally going to be released to VHS in 1989 and it even had a tape master prepared, but it, among other things, was cancelled due to the success of ''[[The Little Mermaid]]''.
* Fans of ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' usually assume "Tourist Trapped" was the show's pilot, but show had an ''actual'' pilot, of which only a 46-second scene has been leaked online. The scene shows older-looking versions of Dipper and Mabel, plus an uglier version of Grunkle Stan eating a popsicle and getting it on his shirt, which Dipper and Mabel seem to mistake for blood. An outline for the pilot has surfaced too, showing the plot to be similar to "Tourist Trapped". When writer Alex Hirsch was asked if the unaired pilot would ever be released, he half-jokingly replied, "Oh lord, I hope not! That thing was a ''mess''! Haha. That would be like showing you awkward photos of my high school prom. [[Old Shame| We all have dark secrets; that 11 minute flash pilot was mine]]."
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