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When a show removes a perfectly innocuous word or words in a sentence, giving it dirty connotations. This can be done intentionally for comedy, to parody censorship, or unintentionally as a result of actual censorship because some {{spoiler|one}} really {{spoiler|mess}}ed up.
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Intentionally bleeping out sections of innocent dialogue to make it sound {{spoiler|dir}}ty for comedic purposes has become known as [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/unnecessary-censorship Unnecessary Censorship].
Compare and contrast [[Innocent Innuendo]], [[Accidental Innuendo]]. See also [[Cluster Bleep Bomb]], [[Sound Effect Bleep]], [[Manipulative Editing]], [[Scunthorpe Problem]], [[
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=== Intentional Examples ===▼
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== Advertising ==▼
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▲=== Advertising ===
* A Tecate "cerveza" radio commercial aired in California in 2007 has the word "beer" beeped out.
* A commercial for Knorr frozen dinners deliberately bleeps out the word frozen, but only enough that you can still hear the "f" at the start and "n" at the end. Near the end of the commercial, the narrator notes "frozen doesn't have to be a bad word".
* A Swedish insurance company is currently running radio commercials of the form: insurance clerk repeats the claimant's story, with every third word or so bleeped. The claimant confirms that this is what happened, and the clerk tells him that no problem, we can cover that.
* Commercials for the then-new TV Land channel featured clips from wholesome shows like "[[The Brady Bunch]]" and "[[The Andy Griffith Show]]" with random censor bleeps, as if they'd been re-edited into something [[Darker and Edgier]].
** [[Cartoon Network]] made similar bumpers for [[Adult Swim]], using clips from ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' and ''[[
* Around March 2010, [http://www.packagingnews.co.uk/news/987324/Tango-cans-use-temperature-sensitive-ink-cheeky-campaign/ limited edition cans of Tango] were printed with risqué slogans printed with temperature-sensitive ink, so the cans would have to be chilled to reveal hidden words in phrases such as "Chilled Tango froze my {{spoiler|pips}} off", "Chilled Tango made my {{spoiler|stalk}} shrivel" and "Chilled Tango made my {{spoiler|stones}} shrink".
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiuq2BKLhgo Frank's RedHot]. "I put that (bleep) on everything!"
▲== Anime/Manga ==
* ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'': It wasn't a literal bleep, but some people found Mikuru's "I tried to contact but they said Classified Information, etc., thing in Endless Eight similar to this. Especially when you consider what could be in there. Kyon even asks whether it's meant to censor something obscene.
** Haruhi gets bleeped in the anime as she blackmails the computer science club president to give her a computer by taking photos of him groping Mikuru. In the event he tries to deny it Haruhi says she'll say all the male thugs ganged up on Mikuru and *BLEEP* her.
* ''[[Lucky Star]]'''s Kagami in the OVA:
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** This is apparently supposed to mean {{spoiler|'cosplay'}}, though that could have its own [[Fetish Fuel]] in itself...
** [[Kyo Ani]] also seems to like to censor any names of anime/manga not from [[Kyo Ani]] (although it's blatantly obvious what they're talking about), with the exception of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]''. They can get very creative with the types of sounds used to bleep things out.
* Episode 7 of ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]? Fumoffu'' has tons of censoring speech by Sousuke, in order to butch up the sissy-pants rugby team. Arguably one of the best examples in anime ([[Crowning Moment of Funny|and one of the funniest as well]]).
* ''[[
* According to ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' volume 8's Q&A, Loke's guild tattoo is on his {{spoiler|ba}}ck.
* Some episodes of ''[[
* One of the previews in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai]]'' cover what the hell {{spoiler|Hanyuu}}'s {{spoiler|horns}} are. Well, it's obvious isn't it? They're {{spoiler|horns}}!
* ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' bleeps when Hana says she'll *BLEEP* you with her poison arrows. This is done both in the manga and anime.
=== [[Fan
* ''[[
* Episode 19 of ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' makes use of this trope.
=== Film ===
* The "Lazy Pirate Day" interlude in ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Epic Movie]]'' has a short bit parodying rap censorship.
** Which in turn is based on "Beep" by The {{spoiler|Pussy}}cat Dolls, which does the same thing.
* Several instances in the [[Austin Powers]] movies.
** In ''Austin Powers in Goldmember'' there is a scene where Austin visits Mr. Roboto in his office looking for his father in Japan. He speaks Japanese to Austin for most of the scene {{spoiler|but is revealed to have known how to speak English the entire time}} so subtitles are used to translate his words into English. The subtitles are displayed in white, and coincidentally, many objects in the office also happen to be white. Austin is aware of the [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|subtitles]], and as a result of carefully aligned camera angles, certain words in the subtitle are blotted out creating [[Accidental Innuendo|seemingly dirty phrases]] which elicit shocked reactions from Austin. Of course, once the objects blocking the subtitles are removed, the phrase is revealed to be perfectly normal. Mr. Roboto and Austin lampshades heavily on this trope.
*** "Please eat some shit{{spoiler|ake mushrooms.}}"
*** "Your ass{{spoiler|ignment}} is {{spoiler|an un}}happy {{spoiler|one}}."
*** "I have a huge rod{{spoiler|ent problem.}}"
* In ''[[The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl]]'', Sharkboy is singing to get Max to sleep;
** "..Dream a dream you little {{spoiler|[[Sound Effect Bleep|bleem]]}}."
=== Literature ===
* In a ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' parody about a reality dating show, one of the crew is a sound editor, whose job is "bleeping out random, inoffensive words of a couple's conversation - making even the most articulate, civilized discussion sound like a drunken sailor's profanity-laced tirade". Example:
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'''Woman''': Oh, {{spoiler|than}}k you! }}
* There was a book called ''Mother Goose Censored'' that did this, way back in the 1926, with nursery rhymes. (e.g., "He put her in a pumpkin shell, / And there he [CENSORED] her very well.")
* In ''[[Catch
** For one letter, just for the hell of it, he blanks out the entire thing and replaces the text with a fake love letter purportedly from one of the other characters. It leads to some unpleasant consequences.
=== Live-Action TV ===
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'': On a [[Jerry Springer]] clone, the Spellman family finds random words bleeped out, so that their arguments sound more heated than they really are.
* The short-lived Jay Wolpert [[Game Show]] ''[[Blackout (
* ''Jimmy Kimmel Live'' has a recurring segment called "This Week in Unnecessary Censorship", which consists entirely of this trope. So, for example, a clip of the President saying "I visited the Queen and we talked for hours" will have the words "visited" and "talked" bleeped out.
* The writers behind the ''[[Match Game]]'' series loved this trope; many of the questions allowed the audience to go {{spoiler|make up dirty words for}} themselves.
* The explanation of the "Jewish mistletoe tradition" by Jon Stewart in ''[[The Colbert Report|A Colbert Christmas:]] [[Christmas Special|The Greatest Gift Of All]]''. A ''forty-five second'' censor bleep, complete with hand gestures, ending "...with a [[Noodle Implements|lamb shank]]." The audience's mind is always filthier than anything the writers could have come up with.
* In ''Time Trumpet'', innocuous political rhetoric like "these cuts must be stopped" is bleeped into sounding like "these c__ts must be stopped". [[Armando Iannucci]] appears to be quite a fan of subversive wordplay.
* Similarly subverted in ''Harry Hill's TV Burp'' with bleeps dubbed over a wildlife documentary on penguins: "I just can't find any **** king penguins! Ah! There's a **** king penguin!" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2eNMWdNCqU The presenter is of course searching for ''king'' penguins...]
* Done ''so very many times'' on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?
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* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'' - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqxnm6t3QMw "Mother Uckers"]
** Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT5AQIlmM0I "Boom"]. The word "boom" is used as a substitute for many words in different contexts. What each usage of the word actually means is up to the audience.
* ''[[
* ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' As Corey is being grounded for sneaking off to [[Disney World]].
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'''Morgan''': A month? I got more the time I said [BLEEP]
'''Alan''': MORGAN! Get up to your room there, you're grounded for two months!
'''Morgan''': I've got to learn self control. }}
=== Music ===
* [[
** The amusing thing is that the first two choruses have "fucking" beeped while saying "They're gonna beep it anyway." It's only the last chorus, after doing that twice, that they leave the profanity and beep the actual word beep.
* [[Five Iron Frenzy]] did this to parody the [[Cluster F-Bomb|copious swearing]] of gangsta rap in Part 8 of their mock rock opera "These Are Not My Pants": loud BEEP's are applied liberally and completely at random over Micah's improvised rapping.
** Similarly, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090919020535/http://www.cbsradiobaltimore.com/mix_morning_show/?p=276 this "MIX Morning Show"] version of Sally's tirade from ''[[
* When someone on the [[Lemon Demon]] forums asked for a version of "The Ultimate Showdown" with the word "ass" bleeped, he was given [https://web.archive.org/web/20130622003507/http://media.illemonati.com/parodies/ultimate-clean.mp3 this] instead. Made even better when "ass" remains one of the only words ''not'' bleeped.
** Another Lemon Demon example is his version of ''[[Sesame Street]]'''s "Song of the count", where everytime the Count count something, it's bleeped out. Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA here]
* One version of Dropkick Murphys "Pipebomb On Lansdowne (Dance Remix)" has bleeps in the entirely wrong spots at times (you'll have bleeps and then a clear "FUCK!" right after).
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*** Sure they do, it was "My Name is David Ruffin... and These are The Temptations"
* As mentioned above, the Pussycat Dolls song "Beep" sounds incredibly dirty, as the end of almost every line is a beep, talking about what men "look at" and what men "play with." The most explicit thing mentioned, however, is wanting to hold the singer's hand.
* Used in the [[Songs to Wear Pants To]] song [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514131713/http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/songs/little-eeeee-foo-foo/ Little Eeeee Foo Foo] where 'bunny' is among the random bleeped words.
* Benny Bell's legendary "Shaving Cream."
* [http://www.songfight.org/artistpage.php?key=sta_27_warz&sortkey=date "Gallows Hill" by Sta' Warz], which was an entry in a songfight competition: It's a mock-gangsta rap song where nearly every line had a bleep or two, but the members also posted the full lyrics, which were completely clean, if [[Word Salad Lyrics|pretty nonsensical]]. For instance, "Mother {{spoiler|said}} you can suck on my {{spoiler|peppermints}}!", and "They call me fireman, 'cause I {{spoiler|am one}}!".
* Subverted in The Notorious Cherry Bombs' song "It's Hard to Kiss the Lips At Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long". They even Lampshade it with the lyrics 'It's okay if we say it, 'cause the radio won't play it'.
* [[Spike Jones]]' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u07gqBqHc4 "I Dream of Brownie in the Light Blue Jeans"] does this with the song "I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" starting at the 2:10 mark.
=== Newspaper Comics ===
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20101114013138/http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2010-11-09/ Mad Libs] [https://web.archive.org/web/20101115051914/http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2010-11-10/ strips] of [[Pearls Before Swine]] from November 2010, and before them, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100616015517/http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2010-06-11/ this.]
* A ''Robotman and [[Monty]]'' comic strip did an inverted version. When the [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot]] gave them a letter complaining about swearing in the strip, the characters explained that the asterisks and other symbols actually stood for words like "puppy" and "Iowa".
=== Radio ===
* [[Britney Spears]]' "Oops I Did it Again" was played on Radio Disney with the word "innocent" obviously silenced:
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* A certain game on ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll
** One ISIHAC Christmas special played the Censorship Game with "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus". It worked very well indeed. So did one with "Underneath The Arches" ("...I [buzz]<ref>
* The day after the first McCain-Obama Presidential debate in 2008, an Atlanta radio station aired the audio of the event...with random bleeps inserted, while the DJs tried to determine whose fake profanity-laden tirade was funnier. {{spoiler|1=Obama, apparently. McCain just sounded like a generic [[Grumpy Old Man]].}}
* British radio presented Danny Baker inserted random bleeps into John Denver's ''Annie's Song'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soJejdVGT2Q and the results sounded like this].
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* One of the stock games on the [[CBC]] Radio show ''Because News'' is to bleep out words from a politician's sound bite and have the panelists guess what the quote was originally about.
=== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ===▼
▲== Stand Up Comedy ==
* [[Neil Hamburger]] has a bit on one of his comedy albums called "The Top 10 List - Censored!". The whole joke is that [[Laugh Track|the "audience" apparently finds the list hilarious]], but anyone listening to the album can't make anything out because almost every other word is bleeped. Occasionally, the bleep will be too short to actually obscure a word, but the word will clearly be something completely unoffensive anyway: The word "internet" is censored, for instance.
=== Video Games ===
* In ''[[The Adventures of Sam
** The whole point in this exercise is to get a vital piece of information out of Tiny Timmy, whose [[Tourettes Syndrome]] seemingly turns the little rat tyke into a fountain of bleeped-out cursing. Of course, once you switch the lists, it turns out that his "expletives" were all [[Gosh Dang It to Heck|family]] [[Curse of the Ancients|friendly]] to begin with, although it's soon obvious why the demented [[Media Watchdog]] responsible would censor out the information as well ( {{spoiler|it's the name "Dick Peacock"...think about it}}).
* The visual novel Tsukihime uses it interestingly by (actual spoiler) {{spoiler|blanking out the word 'kill' to make the line "I want to her."}}
* [[
* [[
=== Web Comics ===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090322034251/http://www.drunkduck.com/Stickman_and_Cube/index.php?p=296810 This] ''[[Stickman and Cube]]'' comic.
* An early ''[[
* [http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=54 This] ''[[Mezzacotta|Square Root of Minus Garfield]]'' strip.
* ''Lowroad'' used [http://lowroad75.comicgenesis.com/d/20090816.html another variation.] "{{smallcaps|Mosaic filters.}} The instant porn maker!"
* ''[[Full Frontal Nerdity]]'' has [//ffn.nodwick.com/?p=190 this] commentary on trademark disputes over common words such as ██████████. What a bunch of total █████████s.
* ''[[The Noob]]'' had [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/90/ a character] [[The Trope Formerly Known as X|formerly named Dick Tracy]].
=== Web Original ===▼
▲== Web Original ==
* [http://sonicsez.ytmnd.com/ Take a look] at this YTMND. Now take a look at [http://sonicbeep.ytmnd.com/ this one].
** [http://doitbythebook.ytmnd.com/ Here's] another YTMND that uses this. If you didn't know, the song is about baking cakes...
* A popular gag on [[
** [[Tomb Raider|I just want to f]]{{spoiler|ind}}[[Tomb Raider|someone.]]
*** [[Crosses the Line Twice|And I'M going to be the one!!!]]
*** Nowadays, censor beeps are just seen as lazy and unprofessional among the community, who usually consider it more entertaining to [[Manipulative Editing|make the characters appear to actually swear]].
* [[YouTube]] musician Julia Nunes does this in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JaPNKslTxI&feature=plcp&context=C3eacf40UDOEgsToPDskKWGoy0zUB5NwhL82e9Zv0a video] answering viewers' questions. Apparently, someone objected to Julia's mild, infrequent language as they allowed their children to watch her videos. Julia responded: "{{spoiler|Hot}} d{{spoiler|og}}! When will you bi {{spoiler|lly goat}}s realize that I'm twenty years old, and I'm gonna say whatever comes to my mind? Fu {{spoiler|ngus}}! Ti {{spoiler|ngly}}! {{spoiler|D}}uck!Sh {{spoiler|eets}}! F{{spoiler|ond}}ue!"
** What made it even better, though, is that the beep she used to censor herself was a recording of her own voice saying the word "beep".
* OAFEnet did this with their review of [[G.I. Joe|Shipwreck]], under the conceit that since he's a sailor, he'd be cursing like one. Though all of the bleeped words were chosen at random, some of them [http://www.oafe.net/yo/gij25ship.php worked out well]:
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM This Youtube video] of ''[[Sesame Street
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* Due to difference in cultures, some Australians are amused when commonly used words such as ''hell'' and ''damn'' are censored on some websites and message boards, making the censored words seem a lot worse than they actually are.
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20120121020758/http://ds.ign.com/articles/115/1153589p1.html IGN review] of ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' was "redacted" prior to the game's release to avoid spoilers. This resulted in humorous bits like this:▼
▲* Episode 19 of ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' makes use of this trope.
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▲* The [http://ds.ign.com/articles/115/1153589p1.html IGN review] of [[Pokémon Black and White]] was "redacted" prior to the game's release to avoid spoilers. This resulted in humorous bits like this:
* ''[[My Little Pony:
▲{{quote| But then he turns into ¦¦¦¦¦¦, who looks like ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦ narwhal ¦¦¦ ¦ drunk bear ¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦. ¦¦¦¦¦ conveys the image of ¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ melted ice cream sandwiches ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ cigarette butts.}}
* Though the original videos are only rarely bleeped (most often in the case of [[Precision F-Strike]]), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOUBuqI0o-o this edit] manages to take the soft spoken and eloquent [[The Engineer|Engie]] of ''[[
▲* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITr90v7UaNg with censor] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yNoeEqIcQw&NR=1 bleeps].
* The Micro-Episodes of ''[[
▲* Though the original videos are only rarely bleeped (most often in the case of [[Precision F-Strike]]), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOUBuqI0o-o this edit] manages to take the soft spoken and eloquent [[The Engineer|Engie]] of ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' and manages to make him sound much more crass than he [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipYkuCZ2IYI actually is.] And then there's the bit at 0:54 in the edit which takes a bit of the game's innate abuse of [[Ludicrous Gibs]] and turn it into positively [[Crosses the Line Twice|hilarious black comedy]]...
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▲* The Micro-Episodes of ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (Animation)|The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' got this treatment [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OverXxNSE38 here].
▲{{quote| '''[[Ant-Man]]:''' There were a couple of mercenaries on the beach, and I shrunk them down. Could you make sure the ants don't {{spoiler|eat}} them? Thanks.<br />
'''[[The Wasp]]:''' {{spoiler|Eat}} them? Eww! }}
* ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwVC8IdEy_I TANGLED | Unnecessary Censorship]'' by Ninja Panda creatively bleeps selected scenes from Disney's ''[[Tangled (2010 film)|Tangled]]'' for maximum humor value.
=== Western Animation ===▼
* ''[[
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'' uses this in the episode "A Hero Sits Next Door": On ''Wheel of Fortune'', a contestant ponders the incomplete puzzle phrase "GO _UCK YOURSELF". After the complete phrase is shown as "GO TUCK YOURSELF IN", Chris - watching at home with Peter - turns and says, "You were close, Dad."
** Actually, "GO TUCK YOURSELF IN" is the [[Fridge Brilliance|only option that is actually possible]] - there is already an "F" in "YOURSELF", which would have revealed the other "F" had it been guessed. Also, the two unguessed letters in the word "in" would have been visible on a real-life Wheel of Fortune board.
** Another puzzle phrase turned out to be "MY H{{spoiler|A}}IRY {{spoiler|A}}UNT" (not shown onscreen because the hidden "A" in "hairy" would've given it away) and, once again, Peter got it wrong.
* Another ''Wheel of Fortune'' gag turns up in the ''[[
* Another episode of ''South Park'' bleeped out words like "dummies" to make it appear the kindergarten-age characters were swearing as much then as they did in fourth grade.
* The ''Sealab2021'' episode "Radio Free Sealab": The end of the episode, the Father-Son FCC duo have an exchange that is heavily but masterfully bleeped, implying a nasty conversation. A DVD extra features the unbleeped dialog which is much tamer and in many cases the opposite of what you were expecting. The younger agent's entire last line of dialog is bleeped to implying that he is cursing out his father, when he's actually saying something like "I love you, dad."
** Bleeped lines of dialog followed by unbleeped lines like "That's legal in Tijuana" make this an example of a [[Noodle Incident]].
* An episode of ''Kablam!'' had Henry being bleeped randomly as a practical joke.
* Zig-zagged in the ''[[Danger Mouse]]'' episode "One Of Our Stately Homes Is Missing". The brick-and-mortar theft of the Duke of Bedbug mansion prompts DM to conclude they need help:
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'''Penfold:''' Who's that?
'''Colonel K:''' Organization called BLEEP, Penfold.
'''Penfold:''' Oh, go on. You can tell me. I'm a trustee.
'''DM:''' Penfold, it's BLEEP.
'''Penfold:''' All right then. I shan't tell you where I hid the corn flakes.
'''DM:''' Penfold, shush. BLEEP is the '''B'''uilding '''L'''ocation and '''E'''mergency '''E'''xpedition '''P'''latoon. }}
== Unintentional Examples ==
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* During Jim Steranko's run on ''Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' he had drawn a passionate, yet fully-clothed heterosexual kiss. Knowing that it wouldn't pass the Comics Code Authority, Marvel editor Roy Thomas simply replaced it with a blow-up of a portion of an earlier
▲* During Jim Steranko's run on ''Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' he had drawn a passionate, yet fully-clothed heterosexual kiss. Knowing that it wouldn't pass the Comics Code Authority, Marvel editor Roy Thomas simply replaced it with a blow-up of a portion of an earlier panel-- which depicted Fury's gun in its holster.
** The best part is that Thomas didn't realize what he'd done until Steranko called him up to congratulate him for making the page dirtier than he himself could ever have dreamed up.
=== Film ===
* Occasionally efforts to censor or cut a scene on the grounds that it would be objectionable to viewers might make the result seem worse due to [[Nothing Is Scarier]]:
** In ''[[Frankenstein (1931 film)|Frankenstein]]'', there is a scene where the Creature is playing with a little girl, throwing flowers onto a pond. After they are out of flowers to throw, he looks for something else pretty to throw into the pond, and chooses her, not understanding that she would drown. His killing the girl accidentally was deemed too intense for audiences of 1931, so execs cut off the scene just as he reached for her, jumping to her bereft father carrying her lifeless body back to town. Unfortunately, audiences imagine that the Creature had done something far worse than accidental murder.
** In ''[[The Brood]]'', the birthing scene was similarly cut. David Cronenberg lamented at the cut, saying that he had a long and loving scene of Nola biting the infant free of the birthing sac and licking it clean, but the censors cut it just as she bit through the sac, leaving audiences with the impression that she was eating her baby.
=== Live-Action TV ===
* The first time episodes of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' were shown in the US, on ABC (yes, ABC's ''Wide World of Entertainment''), there was some interesting censorship. Specifically, for this trope, in the episode about the Montgolfier brothers the narrator says "That night the Montgolfier brothers had a good bath, they washed their [a list of body parts follows] and also their BLEEP BLEEP." The words that were censored were "naughty bits".
* On [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFX3C-QO4RM&t=1m30s one episode] of the American ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'', during game called "Title Sequence", Drew asked the audience for "Unlikely Roommates in a Sitcom". One audience member shouted "Bill Cosby and Hitler!", and the group all looked really excited to run with it... until the director walked over and told them they couldn't use Hitler. Carey and the crew, obviously pissed, ripped on the whole fiasco up until Ryan's fantastic verse during "Hoedown" -
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For yelling and screaming, he's never at a loss,
He's the meanest guy you will ever see,
He should sprout a mustache and move to Germany! }}
** Sidenote: Here, Ryan is not subject to [[Godwin's Law]].
** Drew: "If Tarzan and Tonto were roommates -- oh, I like that, let's make fun of Native Americans, who gives a {{spoiler|fuck}} about them?
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** The magic words are [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rdCTdn4s1w Stephen Hawking].
** A game of "If you know what I mean" with a gym theme ended in hilarity when one of them mentioned a 200 pound snatch (a weightlifting move). Ryan correctly predicted "I don't think that will make it to air, if you know what I mean." (The segment did make it to air.)
* One season of ''[[Survivor]]'' featured a contestant whose regular outfit included camouflage-pattern pants. For some reason, CBS censors blurred out the pants, thus making it look like the contestant was pantsless.
** The reasoning (well, "Reasoning(TM)") was probably that camo... Somehow... Indicated gang affiliation.
* In one episode of ''[[
* BBC America censors the use of the word "cock" as an exclamation, which makes ''[[Top Gear]]'''s James May sound much more potty-mouthed than usual.
* GMC (The Gospel Music Channel) censor words like "stupid" and "jerk" from its reruns of ''[[Sister, Sister]]''.
* On the TV show ''[[Never Mind the Buzzcocks]]'', a guest uttered a stream of swear words, which were bleeped out. The guest then informed the production team that [[Unwitting Pawn|they had just broadcast the Morse Code for "fuck"]].
=== Music ===
* The radio version of Lily Allen's "Alfie" lets her mention her brother's "lazy arse" but transforms "smoking weed" to "smoking ..." and "high on THC" to "high on ...". It's not even a positive portrayal of drug use, and seems especially bizarre.
** Similarly, MTV's version of Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life" uses back-tracking to garble the words "crystal meth" and mutes out a couple of other references to drugs ("hit a bump") and sex ("She goes down on me").
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* MTV does this a ''lot'' with any lyrics relating to guns, violence (particularly against women), or drug abuse. One example that makes the song sound filthier was the video edit for "Le Disco" by Shiny Toy Guns, which turned "on your back, with loaded guns" into "on your back, with ---".
** There's a line in Eminem's "Cleaning Out My Closet" where he refers to his altercation with a guy who was having an affair with his wife:
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But the smartest shit I did was take the bullets out of my gun
'Cuz I'd have killed him, shit, I would've shot Kim and him both
It's my life, I'd like to welcome y'all to the Eminem show }}
** MTV censored "shit," "bullets" and "gun," thus destroying a condemnation of violence. [[Serious Business|There's probably some kid somewhere who drifted into a life of crime because he never got to hear his idol denounce violence.]]
** Everlast's "What It's Like" contains the line "He pulled out his {{spoiler|chrome .45}}, talked some {{spoiler|shit}}, and wound up dead" on some radio stations. The second bleep is a legitimate swear word, but the first is "chrome .45." The gun-less version easily leads to some bad guesses about what exactly he "pulled out" that got him killed.
** British MTV even edited out the line "I drank a fifth of vodka, do you dare me to drive?" in [[Eminem]]'s "Stan"
** Perhaps the most ridiculous example: the video for Electric Six's "Gay Bar" (already a masterpiece of comedic raunch) that censors words like "war" and "nuclear war." That's right, "''nuclear war''" is a dirty word. Even better is how the verse is censored with whip cracks: "Let's start [wha-khish!]/ start a [wha-khish! wha-khish!]/ at the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar!"
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* The radio edit of [[Scissor Sisters]]' "Filthy/Gorgeous" bleeped the word "acid" (slang term for LSD)... but only the second syllable, which makes it sound weird and vaguely sexual ("Trip on a hit of ass"? ''Really''?!)
* In Malaysia, Katy Perry's song "I Kissed a Girl", after playing uncensored for a couple of weeks, had the word "Girl" censored out of the title and the song. The first thing that comes to mind after hearing the beep in the chorus are certain...erogenous parts of anatomy, which makes the song sleazier than intended.
** Which seems odd, considering they ran Jill Sobule's song of the same name with absolutely no cuts back in the '90s, much to the delight of [[Beavis and
* At Jamba Juice, the music that plays is from disks sent to the stores from the company. In an effort to be more hip, the disks have been including more recent hits, like [[
* The radio version of the 30 Seconds to Mars song "From Yesterday" suffers from this as well.
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Not of gold but of {{spoiler|sin}} }}
* There's at least one radio edit of [[Lady Gaga]]'s "Poker Face" that blanks out the line: "When it's love, if it's not rough, it's not fun."
* A music video and a radio version of "Almost" by [[Bowling for Soup]] edited out a reference to underage drinking...and ended up making this line sound either really risque or really incomprehensible:
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** This also happened with "No Hablos Ingles". There's a bit in the video where they microphone up to someone bare ass on the line "Where'd you leave your pants?/''No hablos ingles!''" When aired it gets the black bar with the song title on it, making it look worse than it actually is. (You can't see anything in the uncensored version.)
* The original radio edit of Eve's "Let Me Blow Your Mind" simply blanks the cuss in the line, "Don't fight that good shit in your ear / now, let me blow your mind". A cover by Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra, however, has the line, "Don't fight that [boing] in your ear...", making it sound like [[Freud Was Right|something else entirely]] is being inserted into the listener's ear.
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* There is a radio edit of Foster the People's song "Pumped Up Kicks" that censors the words {{spoiler|"bullet"}} and {{spoiler|"gun"}}. The Other Wiki notes that the song was intended "to bring awareness to the issue of gun violence amongst youth."
* The song Love The Way You Lie by Eminem and Rihanna is heavily censored on radio stations to get rid of offensive language and references to violence against women. One line is usually completely censored, which inadvertently gives the message that committing arson is okay {{spoiler|by editing out the reference that a woman is being forcibly tied to the bed just before the aforementioned act of arson}}:
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I’ma {{spoiler|tie her to the bed}} and set this house on fire. }}
== Western Animation ==▼
* [[Treehouse TV]]'s broadcast of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|censors out every instance of the word "loser".]] This only makes anything the character said sound like it must've been worse, the most jarring example being in "Party of One" when Pinkie Pie holds a party with inanimate objects after believing her friends abandoned her and provides the objects with voices.▼
{{quote| '''Rocky''': Not so bad?! Pu-lease! Dey’re a bunch’a [censored]!<br />▼
'''Pinkie Pie''': Oh, c’mon now. “[censored]” might be a little strong, don’cha think?<br />▼
'''Sir Lintsalot''': After the way they treated you? I say “[censored]” isn’t strong enough! }}▼
▲=== Western Animation ===
▲* [[Treehouse TV]]'s broadcast of ''[[My Little Pony:
▲'''Sir Lintsalot''': After the way they treated you? I say “[censored]” isn’t strong enough! }}
=== Real Life ===
* Chicago Police released body cam footage showing Jussie Smollet with a noose around his head after an supposed (but by the release shown to have been done by two black men if not outright faked) hate crime. Smollet's face is blurred out even though the video was released because it was of him.
* Some local TV stations' weather tickers will have three beeps as a sound effect, which may overlap with dialog and unintentionally censor it.
** Also happens on BBC radio when presenters "crash the pips" - accidentally overrun so that their dialogue overlaps with the hourly time signal.
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