# Television Censors **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 29, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-censors/773339 "2016-11-29T00:12:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-censors/773339/41 "2016-12-01T20:04:29Z")
> [@Arkcon](#): > > I don’t believe the FCC is manning every station, 24/7 for what to cite people for, but instead rely on people lodging complaints. A few years ago someone did a study and discovered that the vast, vast majority of those complaints were form letters (in one case something like all but 3 out of 6000 complaints about one show) from the Parents Television Council. Most of the complaints come from members who never see a show but receive an email asking them to send in a complaint using a web page at their site. So this question could almost be answered by simply calling the PTC and asking them how they missed any particular joke. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-censors/773339/42 "2016-12-02T00:08:26Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I remember “glory hole” and “golden showers”, but must have missed “lemon party”. The Simpsons gets away with _alot_ it seems. My personal favorites were [“Sneed’s Feed and Seed (Formerly Chucks’)”](https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Sneed's_Feed_%26_Seed#Trivia) and the one where Lisa was babysitting and had to take Bart to Dr. Nick’s clinic. Smithers was there all bent over and it was implied that he had an injury to his rectum. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-censors/773339/43 "2016-12-02T00:20:22Z")
Actual line on Justice league: **Flash:** “Fastest man alive.” **Wonder Woman:**" Guess that explains why you can’t get a date." Mind you, this is a cartoon for kids! WTF? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-censors/773339/44 "2016-12-02T00:31:12Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > The Simpsons gets away with _alot_ it seems. My personal favorites were [“Sneed’s Feed and Seed (Formerly Chucks’)”](https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Sneed's_Feed_%26_Seed#Trivia) and the one where Lisa was babysitting and had to take Bart to Dr. Nick’s clinic. Smithers was there all bent over and it was implied that he had an injury to his rectum. And Marge’s alma mater, Springfield Heights Institute of Technology. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-censors/773339/45 "2016-12-02T00:44:02Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Television made a great leap forward back in the '70s when the NBC censor let _ **SNL** _ do a commercial for “Pussy Whip: The first dessert for cats!” The story is, Michael O’Donoghue, the SNL writer, read that bit to the head of Standards, Herminio Traviesas. “Travie,” as he was known at the network, was a conservative man, as censors tend to be, but he laughed out loud at the “Pussy Whip” line and let it by. Comedy tends to push the envelope a little more, since Standards is supposed to keep people from getting mad at the network, and they’re hardly going to be making angry phone calls while ROTFLTAO. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-censors/773339/46 "2016-12-02T04:49:20Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > [Sensor Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sensor) > > [Censor Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censor) Yeah yeah. That’s what I get for being all squinty on my phone. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-censors/773339/47 "2016-12-02T04:56:16Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Yeah yeah. That’s what I get for being all squinty on my phone. You have a Cyrillic keyboard?!? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-censors/773339/48 "2016-12-02T04:59:51Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > How the hell does Family Guy get away with references to a woman’s “box”? Most recently was the line, “Feel free to use the seat warmers to keep that box hot” or something to that effect. This was said to a teenaged high-school student. It’s not like she was holding a box or anything that could possibly have dual meanings like the time Quagmire said, “I love watching her box… That means _two_ things. Gigigity” when Lois was in the boxing ring. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not offended and I think it’s hilarious. I just can’t believe it makes it past the sensors. “Box,” I can understand. It’s just ambiguous enough to get by. What genuinely shocked me (and you can believe I’m pretty hard to shock) was when Peter said “Shut your vag!” to Lois in one episode. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-censors/773339/49 "2016-12-02T08:13:43Z")
Oh well, AFAIK, in the UK Family Guy plays to the after-pub crowd, as late as 11pm. On the other hand, there was a presenter on a much-loved children’s show who would amuse his fellow presenters with the occasional double entendre, as in this piece on the countryside that mentions the [technicalities of maintaining a field hedge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZcpLxBUKk). ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-censors/773339/50 "2016-12-02T13:35:21Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > You have a Cyrillic keyboard?!? :eek: Da [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-censors/773339.md?page=2)