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.
The Simpsons gets away with alot it seems. My personal favorites were “Sneed’s Feed and Seed (Formerly Chucks’)” 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.
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?
And Marge’s alma mater, Springfield Heights Institute of Technology.
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.
Yeah yeah. That’s what I get for being all squinty on my phone.
You have a Cyrillic keyboard?!? :eek:
“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:
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.
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