History Main / CensoredForComedy

** It's not so much that Stolas is swearing, but rather that he's often excessively and graphically describing [[AbhorrentAdmirer his sexual desire toward Blitzo]]. [[NothingIsFunnier The audience can only imagine what obscene things he's describing.]]

** Similarly, one episode combined NWordPrivileges with LeaningOnTheFourthWall to make it so only homosexuals were physically capable of saying "fag" or "faggot": anyone else attempting to say it would simply '''BLEEP''' instead. Then Jimbo says it's unfair that only homosexuals can say "fag"... [[ForcedOutOfTheCloset which isn't bleeped]]:

* During Jim Steranko's run on ''ComicBook/NickFury: 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 [[SomethingElseAlsoRises 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.

** A premiere of a Miles From Tomorrowland episode accidentally bleeped out part of the theme song.
** It's not just the regular shows-an airing of the Nina Needs to Go! "Wedding" short bleeped out the last word in the sentence "Speak now, or forever hold your peace", and an early airing of the Big Block Sing Song short "Happy" bleeped out "sunshine" in the line "With all this sunshine, it's a beautiful scene".

* 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 ---".

* The [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames licensed game]] for Film/{{Grease}} had very inconsistent censorship regarding the lyrics, as [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Vinny]] [[https://youtu.be/67iQQ673FPA found out the hard way]].

* The visual novel ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' uses it interestingly by (actual spoiler) [[spoiler:blanking out the word 'kill' to make the line "I want to her."]]

* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' uses this at times, usually to censor the names of copyrighted material, and also to make things sound perverted when they aren't [[NoFourthWall (Which almost always get lampshaded by somebody).]] The {{Pixellation}} they apply to poop and vomit probably could count, as well.

** Episode 252, [[BlatantLies which the cast devotes to apologizing to all the viewers they might've offended]] (Due to it having been planned as the final episode at the time), has this in spades. They censor things that normally aren't censored, such as the names of copyrighted material they got away with mentioning in previous episodes and Kondo's butt. They also add a CensorBox saying "We're sorry" on top of Kondo's already pixeled groin (Though while having him pose in a fashion that emphasizes it and zooming in with each take...). Then Gintoki points that they can make vomiting less offensive by covering up the sound of it with something else, which leads to pleasant music playing while he, Kagura, and Shinpachi puke their guts out for about 10 seconds straight

* The [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames licensed game]] for Film/{{Grease}} had [[{{Understatement}} very inconsistent]] censorship regarding the lyrics, as [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Vinny]] [[https://youtu.be/67iQQ673FPA found out the hard way]].

* In an omake of the ''FanFic/MyHeroPlaythrough'' ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia''/''Webcomic/TheGamer'' crossover fic where instead of gaining One for All, Izuku gets access to The Gamer, The Gamer apparently comes with a profanity filter. Which Izuku turns on when dealing with [[SirSwearsALot Bakugo]]. Predictibly, it [[ClusterBleepBomb bleeps out the vast majority of his words]]. Which, just as predictibly, only gets him even more angry.

* One bit where Ryan and Colin were doing everything like a film noir, the setting was a pizzeria. Ryan’s aside was bleeped out.

* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' bleeps when Hana says she'll *BLEEP* you with her poison rays. This is done both in the manga and anime.

* The [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames licensed game]] for Film/{{Greased}} had [[{{Understatement}} very inconsistent]] censorship regarding the lyrics, as [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Vinny]] [[https://youtu.be/67iQQ673FPA found out the hard way]].

** The episode "Preschool" bleeped out words like "dummies" to make it appear the preschool-age characters were swearing as much then as they did in fourth grade. All preschool and kindergarten-aged characters on the show are voiced by small kids in the studio, so Matt and Trey made those kids say nice words when recording this episode's dialogue, but bleeped them to make it sound like swearing.

* A common practice in comedy anime in general is to censor any names of anime/manga not from the production studio. Partially because of actual copyright laws, and it's funnier that way. Anime like ''Lucky Star'', ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'', and ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' love to replace one letter with an asterisk to censor the name while still giving enough of a clue of what they're referring to.

* In the episode ''HELP! We are Angels'' in ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', Panty saying the word "fuck" is completely censored due to parodying MTV, in spite of the show [[ClusterFBomb having a lot of rapid fire uses of the word "fuck".]]

* The opening theme to Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged. For a time the series used an uncensored version of Tenacious D's Karate. After a while though, they started using a funnier censored version of the song

* ''HelluvaBoss'' features Stolas. When he swears (sometimes {{ClusterBleepBomb profusely}}), he is usually (but not always) censored. No one else in the show is censored. In the third episode of the show, {{HypocriticalHumor he even calls out Blitzo and his daughter for "language", after they swore in response to his own crude language.}}