Getting Crap Past the Radar/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

 

While ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'' (or rather, [[Robin Williams|its star]]) may be the [[Trope Namer]], [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] has been going on ever since the beginning of television and is unlikely to stop as long as the censors are around, writers willing to mock them by letting the crap slip by them, and viewers who notice and put the instances on this website.

 

* [[A.N.T. Farm/Radar|ANT Farm]]

* [[Arrested Development (TV series)/Radar|Arrested Development]]

* [[You Can't Do That on Television/Radar|You Can't Do That On Television]]

 

* Prior to the late 1960s, there were very few (if any) network TV shows that got away with even the mildest of profanities. Even "hell" and "damn" would be bleeped if included in news reports, while scripts rarely (if ever) had those words. The only times "hell," "damn" and "ass" were allowed on TV were in religious contexts (such as, on a locally-produced TV program where a lay reader is quoting directly from the Bible, or a charismatic preacher referencing Hell in his sermon).

* ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'', as noted above.

* In one episode of ''[[Modern Family]]'', somebody calls Phils and, thinking that he's running an escort service selling his wife and daughter, asks if "the carpet matches the drapes". Phil, [[One Dialogue, Two Conversations|thinking he's talking about buying a house]], responds accordingly.

* A re-run episode of rock music show ''The Old Grey Whistle Test'' from 1978 opens with BBC music presenter Annie Nightingale sitting at a desk. Pinned to the wall behind her are a multiplicity of rock posters and gig flyers. She is smiling happily. All we can see above and to the right of her head is the one word, in masive font, "COCKS". She maked the show introduction as if nothing had happened, and straight to a live set by Siouxie and the Bandshees. The camera returns to the presentation desk and pulls out a little, revealing the full word is a band name "THE BUZZCOCKS".

 

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