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** Subverted with Elvis Costello, who was initially banned for playing "Radio Radio" (a song critical of the music publishing establishment, of which NBC certainly was), instead of the planned "Less than Zero" on the season three episode hosted by Miskell Spillman (an elderly woman who [[Contest Winner Cameo|won]] ''SNL'''s "Anyone Can Host" contest). He eventually returned to the show in 1987 (appearing on the episode hosted by Mary Tyler Moore), and eventually took part in the show's 25th anniversary celebration by recreating his song switch.

* In the first season of ''[[Heroes]]'', Ando and Hiro are banned from all of Mr. Linderman's casinos after they abuse Hiro's powers to cheat at poker. This becomes a problem later in the series, when they need to get back into one of the casinos in order to steal an ancient [[Samurai]] sword in Mr. Linderman's collection.

** Sam was banned from participating in beauty pageants for a number of years.

* As recounted in a retrospective episode, the [[Myth Busters]] are banned from Esparto, California after the finale of the "Knock Your Socks Off" myth, which involved (of course) setting off a huge explosion. The problem was that they underestimated just how big the shockwave would be, so it knocked people off sofas, broke windows, set off car alarms, and knocked down ceiling tiles in the town, and a news report erroneously made it sound like the Mythbusters had ''leveled the town''. As they put it: