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* Somewhere between this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHXZ-UMLY60 promo] and the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEjnqsk83dE actual show] the last line of ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'' theme song went from "My happy black guy face" to "My happy mustached face." Interestingly enough, the closed captioning on the first several episodes still used the "black guy" line, despite it being redubbed in the audio.
* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' got quite a bit of this during its original run on Nickelodeon. Standout examples include the Family Bath in the episode "Big Baby Scam", Powdered Toast Man burning the Bill of Rights, and some of Ren's grislier death threats to Stimpy and Sven in "Sven Hoek".
* The opening song to Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', ''Arabian Nights'' was changed from "Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face/It's barbaric, but, hey, it's home" in the original theatrical version to a more acceptable "Where it's flat and immense, and the heat is intense/It's barbaric, but, hey, it's home." for the home release. The original version made it to the early pressings of the soundtrack on CD, but later versions used the less racist version. The original version was also reused for the TV series, with no changes.
* Virtually all ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' shorts have been anywhere from lightly cut to lopped, cropped, and chopped when aired on television (on network TV, syndication, ''and'' cable) for reasons ranging from violence (mostly involving guns and [[Suicide
** ''Also'' thankfully, now that [[Cartoon Network]] recently started airing the shorts again after being absent from the airwaves since 2004, most cartoons are shown uncut and uncensored (some cartoons like "Scaredy Cat" are still shown edited, but done in a less intrusive way, though [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on that).
* Similar to the Looney Tunes, many of the gags deemed racially insensitive in MGM cartoons were edited when shown on [[Cartoon Network]], which made a few shorts, including [[Tex Avery]]'s "Magical Maestro" (which edited out the opera-singing dog turning into a Chinese stereotype and a blackface singer), very disjointed and confusing.
** Of note are the ''[[
* The opener for ''[[Scooby Doo|The New Scooby Doo Movies]]'' includes a shot of a Western gunfighter pulling out his gun and firing it into the air. At some point in time, this clip was cut out and replaced with a clip of Scooby running away, while you can ''still hear the gunshots with the music.'' The show's re-release on the Boomerang network includes the unedited opener.
** The shot of Scooby running was actually used earlier in the theme, just on an orange background instead of a blue one. They basically just took the hand drawn animation cels and pasted onto a new background. Then, another animation was made of Scooby pointing over to the left towards the gunman was animated to cover up the rest of the clip that the running didn't replace.
* In [[Don Bluth]]'s [[Disney]] Swan song ''The Small One'', the "Jewish" merchants <ref> which, in reality, look more like Medieval Arabs instead of first century Jews</ref> have a line in their song, "We simply cheat a little if we must" changed to "We work a little harder if we must" even though their hand actions haven't been altered in any way. A lesser edit occurs at the end when the {{spoiler|star that appears over the manger}} was given more lines to look less like a cross, although the lines that form the cross remain and are the most prominent.
* ''[[G.I. Joe:
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' in the UK has also suffered from this. One instance was particularly pointless because the unedited version was used in a trailer that immediately preceded the episode. The season nine episode "Trash of the Titans" (the 200th episode) has the following edits:
** Homer announces to a courthouse clerk that he wants to run for Sanitation Commissioner. The clerk states that it's nice, but the line Homer is in is for people who have to register as sex offenders <ref>The sex offenders in line are Patty and Selma -- who either don't realize that they're in the wrong line or are in line for abducting and raping a TV repairman in "The Cartridge Family", Jimmy the Scumbag from "Lisa's Date with Density," Mayor Qumiby's nephew from "The Boy Who Knew Too Much," and Moe Szyslak, who complains about how long the registered sex offenders lines are</ref>. The edited version in the U.K. ends with Homer announcing his candidacy for Sanitation Commissioner to the courthouse clerk.
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** ''[[South Park]]'' on American syndication is edited with scenes of characters vomiting or pooping being replaced with a [[Relax-O-Vision|black "Censored for your protection" screen]].
** The Russian dub of the "Woodland Creature Christmass" episode removed all references to Satan, Antichrist and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Jews]].
* The [[Cartoon Network]] airing of ''[[
* The direct-to-video movie ''[[
** [[Justified Trope|Note that the first TV release occured]] [[Too Soon|two weeks after the Columbine school shootings]].
** Other minor changes were bits like Bruce telling Terry that Robin ''defeated'' the Joker, rather than the original line where he states that Robin ''killed'' him.
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** Sticking with UPA, when the Warren Beatty ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' movie was released in 1990, some stations reran the old UPA shorts. Yes, ''including'' Joe Jitsu and Go-Go Gomez (Mexican stereotype, complete with Mel Blanc's [[Speedy Gonzales]] voice). This was the case for awhile, and then the cartoons were pulled. Only to return, but now mysteriously only having Heap O'Callory and Hemlock Holmes shorts.
*** On RTV (a digital TV network that mostly airs episodes of old shows from the past), these cartoons air as [[Filler]] after the channel's block of [[Filmation]] cartoons, and they have shown several of the Joe & Go-Go shorts.
* Here's an unusual case: when [[Toon Disney]] ([[Network Decay|now called]] [[Disney XD]]) started airing episodes of the animated [[Superman: The Animated Series
* The ''[[Batman:
* ''[[
** Another time, Butthead suggests they take the batteries out of the smoke detector (because it was always going off whenever they were cooking burritos), to which Beavis says "But what if there was a...um, never mind."
** And the time they were watching Rollins' Band's "Liar" and Beavis declares: "Liar, Liar, pants on...oh, whoa!"
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** Hell, they removed an entire episode from syndication because it featured Mrs. Bighead attempting to seduce Rocko.
** And the "Best of" DVDs that are out now also contain heavy censorship, which has prompted Joe Murray (the show's creator) to attempt to negotiate for the rights to rerelease the show himself.
* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series
** They actually [[Beyond the Impossible|weaponized Bowdlerisation]] to fight bowdlerisation. They would make a scene that they knew they would get told to remove because the censors never checked the replacement. They only chickened out once on this, when they were going to have the Joker refer to Harley and Ivy as "busy little beavers". It got changed to "bees."
** There was also a proposal for an episode featuring Nocturna that was axed because the censors wouldn't allow blood-drinking to be shown on a cartoon aimed at children. An animation model for Nocturna was even created before the plug was pulled.
* The UK release of ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'' was edited to have Lilo climb out under a table covered by a pizza box rather than out of a laundry dryer due to the BBFC's strict policy against showing characters doing imitable acts that could get impressionable viewers [[Beavis and Butthead|hurt, expelled, arrested, and possibly deported]] (one of which includes children climbing into and/or playing around in dangerous appliances that they can easily get into, but can't get out of because of how easily the doors lock, such as dryers and washers).
* In the original ''Den'' storyline in the magazine, ''[[Heavy Metal (
* ''[[Star Trek:
* A couple of ''[[Darkwing Duck (
* Professor Hubert J Farnsworth of ''[[
* ''[[
** Parodied on the episode "Gee Whiz," which has a video on acceptable and unacceptable television content. In this case, "unacceptable" is a nun getting her head gorily shot off with a shotgun, while "acceptable" is the same but with rainbows instead of blood.
* On re-airings of its fourth episode, ''[[Frisky Dingo]]'' has bleeped out a joke in which Watley says it's not prom night because he's not [[Black Comedy Rape|getting raped]].
* ''[[
** When the cartoons were shown, Charlie, Magoo's Chinese houseboy, had his original heavily accented voice replaced with a less overdone one. The original voice always seemed a hair away from total panic.
*** On a channel called RTV, these cartoons air on Saturday mornings, and several of the one's with Charlie's [[You No Take Candle]] accent have been shown.
* Recent releases and airings of ''[[The Land Before Time]]'' have some of the more brutal parts cut out of the scenes of Littlefoot's mother being attacked by Sharptooth, because of the kid-friendly reputation that the [[Sequelitis|many sequels]] have given the franchise.
* An episode of ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'' bleeped out "shut up" to sate concerned parents who thought that "Shut up" was too rude. When this generated ''even more'' controversy over people thinking that a far more profane word had been bleeped, it was replaced with a "shush up".
* While Fox Kids was airing the ''[[Transformers]]'' series ''[[
** In Argentina, Cartoon Network broadcast ''[[
** When broadcast in Canada, ''Beast Wars'' was changed to ''Beasties'' as YTV found the word "war" offending. YTV forgot that Canadian kids see more American commercials (such as for ''Beast Wars'') than they do Canadian TV shows.
*** That's not YTV's fault. Under Canadian broadcast regulations, a Canadian network can't broadcast a cartoon with "War" in the title. It's the same reason that ''War Planets'' was called ''Shadow Raiders'' in Canada.
*** Amusingly both ''Beast Wars'' and ''War Planets'' are made by the same Canadian animation studio.
* When ''[[
* ''[[
** For a while, Channel 4 in the UK aired an edited version of ''Family Guy'' in the mornings. Just one edit was the cutaway gag where Peter swears in court. The "I do...you bastard" was changed to just "I do."
** UK airings of "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" cut down the masturbation joke so Quagmire is only rummaging for his keys for a second. It was also used when FOX finally aired "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" around the time that ''[[Family Guy]]'' was returning to FOX (and [[Cartoon Network]] gained fame for airing "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" before FOX did).
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** Promos for "Skips Strikes" had Rigby telling Death's bowling team they'd rub their bowling balls in their faces. In the aired version it's changed to "bowling bags," but there's still a callback when Rigby makes a bet for Death's bowling ball full of souls.
{{quote| '''Rigby:''' I could rub that in so many people's faces.}}
* When ''[[The Rescuers (Disney film)|The Rescuers]]'' was rereleased onto VHS and DVD, the scene where Miss Bianca and Bernard were flying on Orville Albatross through the streets of New York City and towards Devil's Bayou actually had to be reanimated because the original theatrical release featured a naked woman seen inside a window in the background for a split-second.
* In the original Web Series for ''[[Making Fiends]]'', there's a song about eating vegetables with every meal, "or your eyeballs will fall out." When it was briefly picked up by Nicktoons, one episode featured an extended version of the song that instead warned of your '''eyebrows''' falling out.
* The last third of ''[[Three Little Pigs]]'' has the Big Bad Wolf disguise himself as a "Fuller Brush man" who is working his way through college. In the original version, he was a Jewish peddler, complete with Yiddish accent (though some versions exist in which the Big Bad Wolf's Yiddish accent is redubbed, but the animation of him as a Jewish man is not altered in any way).
* The song "The Bunny Song" from the ''[[
** But it is funny in the new version when Mr. Nezzer gets mad at the girls who sang the offending lyrics by yelling things like "NO, NO GIRLS! That's wrong!"
* A Disney Sing Along Songs video actually rewrote the lyrics for the song "Topsy-Turvy" from ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' in a way so they do not show Esmeralda's makeshift pole dance involving a spear.
* Not even ''[[
** Over in America, the episode in which Chuckie freaks out over germs has him accidentally refer to germs as "Germans." All reruns edit the line by simply splicing out the "an" to make it sound like Chuckie said "germs."
* When the U.K. showed the ''[[
** In the episode "I Will Kick No More Forever", there's a scene where Ashley Q. is playing kickball and kicks the ball all the way to communist China. In a few overseas airings, the scene is edited to make it look like she kicked the ball into a Dumpster on the other side of the school.
* The Rankin/Bass animated version of [[The Hobbit]] appears to have been bowlderized both in its oldschool TV broadcast days and in its migration to DVD. At one time, the scene where the Dwarves are captured by the Goblins ("Ho Ho my lad!") was shortened and all of the scenes with the Dwarves being violently chained were removed altogether. The scenes where Bilbo kills the Spiders in Mirkwood also removes the death screams of the Spiders. This purely audio edit seems to have survived to the DVD release. Curiously, this scene was neither gory, nor graphic to begin with; it was more purely suggestive due to the audible death screams, the removal of which more suggests that Bilbo simply chased them off instead of killing them.
* ''[[
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