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[A Human Becoming]

talking about PPGs

I remember seeing a episode, where bubble's hair turns into a chicken leg and then something controversial happens

I dont remember the name of the episode and only remember that part.

anyone know that episode? it been YEARS, how i remember that, i dunno...

I googled it and that scene happened in the pilot.

UK GAF...who remembers Rainbow?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=007tojIefng&feature=related

Shocking:lol

:lol

 

[The Frankman]

That's a surprisingly deep cartoon show. Although, imo, the seizure-inducing effects seem a more likely candidate for as to why the episode was banned, though.

Thing is that can be edited out. Considering this was the friggin' series finale (WTF?) I'd be stunned if that was the real reason. I bet S&P complained about the communism angle.

 

[Rlan]

Gargoyles ("Deadly Force")

In this episode one of the characters finds the policewoman's gun, and accidentally shoots her with it. Doesn't kill her, but he's grief-stricken throughout the episode. Since it's an actual weapon and not some laser pistol shenanigans is probably the reason why it's banned.

 

[gerg]

EDIT: The person responsible for that should have been stoned to death in the streets, that is the most obscene shit I have ever seen feed to children.

It wasn't actually shown to children. The clip was filmed for the Thames TV staff Christmas video.

Thing is that can be edited out. Considering this was the friggin' series finale (WTF?) I'd be stunned if that was the real reason. I bet S&P complained about the communism angle.

Fair enough. I myself don't know.

 

[-x.Red.x-]

The was the "true" pilot. Several Easter Eggs are contained in that episode (The Townsville Mall backdrop is used extensively in Aqua Teen Hunger Force).

Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins

EDIT: Now I remember what you consider controversial. :lol :lol

thats the one!!

and :lol :lol :lol

thanks alot

 

[123rl]

It wasn't actually shown to children. The clip was filmed for the Thames TV staff Christmas video.



Fair enough. I myself don't know.

Don't spoil the plucking fun

 

[StuBurns]

It wasn't actually shown to children. The clip was filmed for the Thames TV staff Christmas video.

Oh, then it's just very very poor.

 

[gerg]

Oh, then it's just very very poor.

It's still very, very funny, imo.

Don't spoil the plucking fun

I'm sorry, but I couldn't bear to read endless replies containing variants of "OMG, I can't believe they let children watch this! Burn them at the stake!

Now, Master Bates is something to complain about. :lol

 

[The Frankman]

In this episode one of the characters finds the policewoman's gun, and accidentally shoots her with it. Doesn't kill her, but he's grief-stricken throughout the episode. Since it's an actual weapon and not some laser pistol shenanigans is probably the reason why it's banned.

Oh WTF. I remember that episode... part of TheDisney Afternoon. That was a FANTASTIC episode, sent a message about gun safety and everything. Plus, they actually foreshadowed back to that incident in a later ep. when Eliza always locked her gun away when coming home.

Starts at 5:13 if you want to fast forward.

Part 2

 

[StuBurns]

It's still very, very funny, imo.

I didn't laugh beyond the initial foreskin gag, which I think was more a nervous tick.

Ironically I was writing a script vaguely playing with the same idea a few months ago.

I thought watching it maybe it was fake actually, because the quality is pretty bad I thought maybe people had just done some ADR and replaced the voices. Never thought it'd be real but not shown to kids. I certainly did fall for it.

 

[Recon]

There is an xfiles episode that is banned from tv. It's called "House" or something like that. It is a fucking awesome creepy episode about a mutated inbred family. (oh, this episode was banned cause its so fucked up. You want to watch the episode though)

Was coming in to post this, that episode was all kinds of fucked up. THey actually did air it though, i think a year or so after it was suppose to air, i remember because it was on halloween lol.

 

[Walshicus]

Now, Master Bates is something to complain about. :lol

Another Urban Legend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Pugwash#Libel_case_regarding_double_entendres

 

[123rl]

There is a persistent urban legend, repeated by the now-defunct UK newspaper the Sunday Correspondent, which ascribes sexually suggestive names – such as Master Bates, Seaman Staines, and Roger the Cabin Boy (meaning to have sex with) – to Captain Pugwash's characters, and indicating that the captain's name was a slang Australian term for oral sex. John Ryan successfully sued both the Sunday Correspondent and The Guardian newspapers in 1991 for printing this legend as fact.

Roger The Cabin Boy:lol

 

[Captain Howdy]

All this talk about episodes getting banned for featuring use of real guns... Didn't Batman TAS have real guns in tons of the episodes?

 

[The Frankman]

Was coming in to post this, that episode was all kinds of fucked up. THey actually did air it though, i think a year or so after it was suppose to air, i remember because it was on halloween lol.

Ugh, I still remember that ep. too vividly for my taste. The end when

Spoiler

the boys got in the trunk of the car for some "motherly compassion" *vomits*

 

[InfiniteNine]

Cartoon Network is known for banning several eps. from 1995-2005

Cartoon Network's Banned Episodes

Totally nonsensical. :lol

Also this ep. of The PowerPuff Girls is banned, possibly for supposed socioeconomic/political innuendo contained in this LEGENDARY song. The song starts in the 3rd video, so you may start to skip this link and watch the ep.

See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey
See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey 2
See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey 3

That song has an neat solo. :lol Do they have PPGs on DVD now?

 

[markatisu]

TaleSpin ("Last Horizons", "Flying Dupes") - Terrorism and Guns
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command ("Supernova") - Topic of kidnapping and Political Assassination (if I remember, it has been years and I have the episode on VHS)

There was 2 episodes of Disneys Hercules which were banned (Hostage Takeover I think was the title, it was about kidnapping and terrorist negotiations and the other was about a sickness outbreak, too close to SARS)

And 1-3 episodes of Ducktales I think due to guns, as well as 2 episodes of House of Mouse which deal with the supernatural and halloween in general

 

[Evenball]

You Can't Do That On Television -the Adoption episode.

it was shown once then banned from airing.

 

[The Frankman]

That song has an neat solo. :lol Do they have PPGs on DVD now?

Yes

Lemme track down the Tale Spin/DuckTales ep., those were more innocent times so what was banned then probably isn't anything big.

 

[B.K.]

Episodes 200 and 201 of South Park are banned because of the references to Muhammed and the death threats Matt and Trey got.

All the Speedy Gonzalez cartoons were banned from tv for years because a few people started crying that the shorts were racist. They finally put them back on the air a few years ago though.

 

[Baconbitz]

Is that the episode where Ash has a gun?

Edit: nevermind

 

[The Frankman]

TaleSpin ("Last Horizons", "Flying Dupes") - Terrorism and Guns

Last Horizons being banned is a joke, I watched that as a kid. Nothing remotely offensive

Spoiler

unless they consider the "Asian = panda" thing racial profiling

. Even the

Spoiler

terrorism/invasion fleet/Pearl Harbor

thing doesn't jibe.

Flying Dupes is banned :lol :lol :lol insane. These are retroactive bans, these eps. aired MULTIPLE times on TV. I thought you meant "banned" as in never aired because they were killed by S&P/censors.

 

[hamchan]

UK GAF...who remembers Rainbow?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=007tojIefng&feature=related

Shocking:lol

That's great. The British make the best comedy.

 

[Jay Shadow]

Was coming in to post this, that episode was all kinds of fucked up. THey actually did air it though, i think a year or so after it was suppose to air, i remember because it was on halloween lol.

"Home" aired normally. It was banned from being replayed. Back in the day when shows actually were replayed.

They did an X-Files viewers choice marathon on FX every Thanksgiving and Home won pretty much every year since people knew it was banned from Fox.

 

[Lard]

One ep of Deep Space Nine (I think it was Our Man Bashir) got pulled from syndication because the James Bond people complained that it was a little too close for their liking.

 

[Medalion]

One ep of Deep Space Nine (I think it was Our Man Bashir) got pulled from syndication because the James Bond people complained that it was a little too close for their liking.

Thats bullshit, was that not the point?

Banned cuz of copyright than actual content being too risque for syndication, thank god i have the dvds

 

[meppi]

I believe the Takashi Miike episode of Masters of Horror (Imprint) didn't air in USA. It has abortions (or infanticide, can't remember) and graphic torture involving needles.

I wonder how Dumplings got released in the US then.
Really love that movie but it freaks a lot of people out.

 

[JADS]

South Park has some banned and censored episodes: Cartoon Wars 1 and 2 and episode 200 and 201:

Parker and Stone note the contradiction in being allowed to feature a profane depiction of Jesus, while being forbidden to feature a purely benign depiction of Muhammad, but claim they harbor no hard feelings toward Comedy Central for censoring the scene, since the network confessed to being "afraid of getting blown up" rather than claim they refrained from airing the scene uncensored out of religious tolerance. Parker and Stone claim the only regrets they have over the incident was that their mocking of the show Family Guy in the episode generated more attention than its commentary on the ethics of censorship.Previously, Muhammad was depicted uncensored and portrayed in a heroic light in the season five (2001) episode "Super Best Friends", which resulted in virtually no controversy. Muhammad also appears among the large crowd of characters gathered behind the main characters and "South Park" sign in some of the show's previous opening sequences. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park_controversies

 

[Zabka]

 

[Mik2121]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennō_Senshi_Porygon

In Japan, over 600 people went to the hospital after/during this episode aired...

 

[brianjones]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennō_Senshi_Porygon

In Japan, over 600 people went to the hospital after/during this episode aired...

jesus christ, i knew about that but i didn't realize it affected that many people.

that's insane

 

[Forkball]

I laughed way harder than I should have.

Anyways, they actually did air both the James boobs episode and the Porygon episode in the US eventually. They edited out the controversial content though. What's funny is that in the James boobs episode, there's a bikini contest that Ash's mom ends up winning. She gets a trophy for it, but in the edited English version, her trophy is for Best Mom or something like that.

 

[oatmeal]

Undeclared "God Visits"

 

[Vincent Alexander]

Firefly - Heart of Gold

There were 3 episodes that didn't air, but I think this one was specifically found offensive. The bad guy tells the whore spy to get on her knees and do what women are meant to do (or something like that). She goes down---off camera---and the camera stays on his top half.

 

[Shotgun Kiss]

The pilot episode of "The Lone Gunmen", the spinoff of the X-Files. The plot had the US government hijacking a plane and attempting to fly it into the World Trade Center, and blame it on terrorists in order to justify increasing the arms budget. It was originally aired six months before 9/11.

It's not surprising why it wasn't shown again afterwards. It is available on the DVD set though, and the creators even talk about what a shock it was for them when they heard.

 

[Sobriquet]

There is an xfiles episode that is banned from tv. It's called "House" or something like that. It is a fucking awesome creepy episode about a mutated inbred family. (oh, this episode was banned cause its so fucked up. You want to watch the episode though)

I thought that episode won an Emmy. I could be wrong.

It's my favorite non-mythology episode.

 

[Replicant]

IIRC, an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer called "Earshot" (which dealt with mass-shooting in high school) was postponed from being screened for a while due to the Columbine incident.

 

[esquire]

This thread is great!

I'm especially enjoying the banned cartoons and children's programming.

 

[Drkirby]

The Porygon episode of Pokemon

Yeah, isn't that only one that is flat out banned and pretending to not exist? I think the rest of them are just "Banned in AMERICA!"

Edit: Oh the Barboach VS Whiscash is still out of worldwide rotation. I bet that one, like the Tentacool one, will one day make it back in. Has it shown yet at all even though?

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Dexter's Rude Removal. Only aired once publicly, at a comic convention.

Dexter tries to make Dee Dee less rude, making her half-nice and half-rude. The episode was only shown during select animation conventions. It was never aired publicly on Cartoon Network due to inappropriate content. The Johnny Test episode The Good, the Bad, and the Johnny later used this plot.

This was an in-house "Dexter's Laboratory" short, which was un-aired because it's "not for kids". It was shown once, in The Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention, where Genndy made an appearance.

According to people who've seen it, it contains lines like...
"Aw shit! I'm fucking starved."
"Aw fucking hell mom, this shit is fucking great!"
"Shut the fuck up you shithead...you can't fucking curse in front of fucking Mom!"
"Skullfucking Douchebag!"

Obviously, never intended to air.

 

[Slavik81]

Boondocks, BET episode was banned here in the states. They aired it in Canada, though.

Really? That was one of the better episodes. Not for the BET part, but the Bob Ross parody.

 

[teh_pwn]

Lots of WW2 and earlier Disney cartoons.

 

[Patryn]

IIRC, an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer called "Earshot" (which dealt with mass-shooting in high school) was postponed from being screened for a while due to the Columbine incident.

It was. It was a third season episode that didn't air until the middle of Season 4.

They also delayed airing the third season episode Graduation, Part 2 for the same reasons (sensitivity about Columbine). The kicker is that was the second half of the season finale, and a fairly major episode. Didn't air until the middle of July, I believe. Late enough that Joss Whedon actually suggested that fans go find bootlegs of the Canadian airing of the episode.

 

[The Frankman]

Dexter's Rude Removal. Only aired once publicly, at a comic convention.





According to people who've seen it, it contains lines like...
"Aw shit! I'm fucking starved."
"Aw fucking hell mom, this shit is fucking great!"
"Shut the fuck up you shithead...you can't fucking curse in front of fucking Mom!"
"Skullfucking Douchebag!"

Obviously, never intended to air.

WHAT

THE FUCK??

 

[BatDan]

Not exactly a ban, but two episodes of Cowboy Bebop were prevented from airing on Adult Swim after 9/11. Sympathy for the Devil and Cowboy Funk.

 

[N4Us]

james-boobs.gif

They eventually aired this episode in the US, removing this scene altogether. They changed the plot from a beauty contest to a "Pokemon fashion show" and it was just roughly edited overall. They should've kept it banned, honestly.

edit: I think most of the banned Pokemon eps (except for that safari one and Porygon) ended up eventually airing in the US after some edits. There were also a couple that they almost didn't air here because they were based off Japanese holidays or something like that.

 

[Wickerman]

The pilot episode of "The Lone Gunmen", the spinoff of the X-Files. The plot had the US government hijacking a plane and attempting to fly it into the World Trade Center, and blame it on terrorists in order to justify increasing the arms budget. It was originally aired six months before 9/11.

It's not surprising why it wasn't shown again afterwards. It is available on the DVD set though, and the creators even talk about what a shock it was for them when they heard.

I've heard about this but I've never seen it until now. Really eerie stuff.

 

[Callo Merlose]

All this talk about episodes getting banned for featuring use of real guns... Didn't Batman TAS have real guns in tons of the episodes?

Yeah, Bruce Timm (on the dvd behind the scenes) said that it was the first American cartoon series to use actual bullet-shooting guns in a long time. The way they sold the censors was by saying that since it was trying get a retro feel for the series, they had to use actual guns. They surprisingly went for it, but with the one condition that the gun could never be pointed at the screen.

 

[Instro]

Wasnt that episode from DBZ involving the burning skyscraper banned in America, or at least it wasnt shown during its first run due to 9/11.

 

[Sir Ilpalazzo]

This is a really interesting topic.

unless they consider the "Asian = panda" thing racial profiling

That would make sense. It wasn't banned, but there was an episode of the Chip and Dale cartoon on Disney that featured some Chinese gangsters who spoke with very stereotypical accents and were dubbed over in later reruns.