In fact, you did - Avengers member Hawkeye/Goliath/Ronin - introduced as a villain in 1964, and joined the Avengers in 1965 - is named Clint Barton, and they were never particularly reluctant to use his real name.
iTunes also has this selection from Quiet Riot: “C*m on Feel the Noize”
The first time the *Blues Brothers *was shown on Israeli TV, back in 1985 or so, they cut out the entire James Brown scene. You know, the scene in the church.
Whenver people say that things have been growing worse in this country from a freedom-of-religion standpoint, I remind them of this.
Melon Farmer
“Hand me the keys, you fuzzy sock-sucker.”
(actually from a parody of network censorship)
This is similar to Wooden Taco’s post. I watched Fargo on AMC the other night. Since when does the word “fruit” even vaguely substitute for “fuck” in any lexicon in the world? When Steve Bescemi (if I remember the scene) yells “What the fruit?!” after getting shot, it kind of takes me out of the movie. C’mon, just bleep the fruiting word; we all know what it’s fruiting supposed to be. It’s less distracting than fruiting replacing it with something kinda sorta phonetically similar.
Fruit 'em.
ETA: I thought this was parodied rather cleverly in Johnny Dangerously: ice hole, cork sucker, bastich, etc.
Fargin’ icehole, ya bastich!
In A Few Good Men: “FORGET YOU!”
It’d work if it wasn’t a close-up shot, where it’s clear Jack Nicholson is saying a two syllable phrase and not a three.
Also While You Were Sleeping on some non-cable network, where they dubbed over all the Yiddish words with English ones, using a different person.
What I find amusing is how being used to censorship in certain contexts makes it so weird when something isn’t censored when you expect it to be. Some examples:
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Network television has slowly eroded it’s list of what it considers to be profanity such that it was surprising to hear “bitch” on Moonlighting and “dick” on more recent teen dramas.
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Some cable dramas use profanity, but usually you expect them in pay for cable series, and usually if they are used they are used often. Then there are commercial cable stations that otherwise seem like network shows (The Closer) and so can use profanity, but only use it occasionally when it makes story sense, and not to show off or create a gritty atmosphere like pay for cable. What’s funny is that this is how profanity should probably be handled everywhere - just the amount that the context would permit in real life situations - yet because of the contrasting extreme of all or nothing on tv, realistic use come across as seeming awkward.
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Some tv series live on as either a movie (X-files) or DVD (Stargate SG-1) and take advantage of the new medium to use some colorful words they couldn’t before.
I also find amusing the stories that Clinton’s testimony forced networks to redefine some of their policies.
When Cam’ron’s “Hey Ma” track was popular on music channels here they used to beep out the word “pipe” in the line, “I lay the pipe.” It actually just made the line seem dirtier.
There’s a radio edit of “Paper Planes” by MIA that changes the sound of gunfire to something that sounds more like a balloon being popped. Also for some reason her vocals are doubled, and poorly at that.
This reminds me of how funny The Blues Brothers can be when cut for tv.
The scene where Elmo and Jake are in little kids desks and The Penguin is describing what’s going on.
Jake: (non edited) Well, I guess you’re up shit creek.
Edited:
“I guess you’re up THE creek”
His repitition of ‘shit creek’ leads to getting whacked with a ruler. But up “THE creek” just makes it look like “Nuns Gone Nuts” or something.
I love that movie and I think laugh harder at the cut version.
Also everyone whispered about how “Girls, rock your boys” was “Girls, suck the boys” back in high school.
Our local newspaper lets you comment on stories or letters to the editor. You can’t say “sex.”
This may be an urban legend, but I have heard that on the American version of the Antiques Roadshow the “naughty bits” on nude paintings and sculptures are pixillated. Is that true?
Here in China, on Skype, I can’t type “Fuck.” Just that word. “Shit” is fine. “Asshole” is fine. But if I type “Fuck”, or even a clever variant of it, my entire comment disappears into the ether.
This was really bizarre, especially given the amount of homocide being sung about songs that could be found on the same stations. Like, it’s okay for me to shoot somebody else, by not myself? 
I once made the mistake of renting Pedro Almodavar’s “Bad Education” from Blockbuster. They actually MOSAIC-ED out one sex scene. If you are going to butcher a scene like that, why not just cut it? Making it blurry is not going to make it any less obvious what happened. Some might disagree that that is extreme enough but it still pisses me off… It was not only useless, but annoying. Jesus H. Christ. This was not Brown Bunny! Gael García Bernal wasn’t actually sucking anyone’s dick! There was no penis involved! Was a porno mosaic really necessary? It wasn’t even being shown on television! It was a movie from motherfucking Blockbuster for the comfort of my own home! And the only reason that movie was even given an NC17 rating anyways was because of THE CROSSDRESSING GAY OH NO but that bullshit is a whole 'nother thread.
I once saw Love Actually on a plane. The story about the stand in porn actors was completely missing.
Public Enemy’s song "Anti-Nigger Machine " got all the “niggers” beeped out on Australian TV. Which probably defeated the purpose of the song.
However Repo Man has been shown uncut lately rather than the extremely humorous censored version.
The wonderful song ‘Hash Pipe’ by Weezer, had Hash silenced out of the song and on the video info at the start of the song, when it was played on MTV. Wouldn’t it make more sense to just not play the song at all, rather than bleep out half its title?