History Main / GettingCrapPastTheRadar

* ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' had a game show sketch, "Don't Be Dirty!", where the contestants had to explain risqué subjects "without being dirty". The contestant winds up losing the bonus round despite picking the most innocuous option--sports presenter David Vine--for using the phrase "on the game".[[note]]([[DontExplainTheJoke A slang term for prostitution]])[/note]]

* At a convention, ''Westernanimation/{{Regular Show}}'' creator JG Quintel admits that the "Summertime Lovin'" song played in "This is My Jam" once had a dirty line that couldn't be played on television. International dubs of the episode accidentally have this slip through on television (likely because the song is in English), revealing the line to be [[https://youtu.be/TKiWM75ghfo?si=m8bz6lgSz6kXTIBU "gonna take off all my clothes, put my balls on your cheek"]].

* The song "Ain't There Anyone Here For Love" in the film version of ''Literature/{{Gentlemen Prefer Blondes}}'' has Jane Russell, in a low cut top, with a bunch of half-dressed guys at the gym who steadfastly ignore her. ''Film/TheCelluloidCloset'' presents this as a textbook case of subverting the Code, and offers [[CampGay an]] [[IncompatibleOrientation alternate]] [[SorryImGay reason]] why she's ignored.

* ''Film/TheCelluloidCloset'': One of the central themes of the movie is how creators got crap past the radar and introduced homoerotic and AmbiguouslyGay gay content past censors. One of the most jaw-dropping examples is Jane Russell's "Ain't There Anyone Here for Love" number from ''Literature/GentlemenPreferBlondes'', a whole sequence in which muscular dudes wearing nothing but swim trunks dance and twirl and do backflips, while Russell's character sings about how she can't get any of them to pay her any attention. The homoeroticism couldn't be much more overt, but because none of the men actually touch each other, it got past 1953 Hays Code censors. Some clear [[WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame gay bars]] are depicted too, including drag king acts, but as nothing's explicit it went through censorship.

The Usefulnotes/{{Comics Code}} entered force in 1954 amid widespread (and unfounded) fears that comics were corrupting the youth of America. While not legally binding, American retailers would usually refuse to sell comics that didn't conform to the Code's strict regulations on morality, violence, and sex. You can view the original 1954 version [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comic_book_code_of_1954 here]], the 1971 revision [[http://cbldf.org/comics-code-revision-of-1971/ here]], and the 1989 revision [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100709063557/http://www.reocities.com/Athens/8580/cca3.html here]]. The Code was officially made defunct only in 2011, but by that time only Creator/{{Archie|Comics}} were still seeking approval.[[note]]And since an Archie Comics administrator was ''running'' the CCA, said approval was always a formality.[[/note]]

* [[http://www.angelfire.com/pop/bay55/SwampThing/SwampBook022.html According to inker John Totleben]] regarding ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' Vol. 2 #22, Woodrue's dilated pupils, in the close-up panel after he tastes the Swamp Thing's tuber, are a deliberate if covert indication of [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs drug use]], still forbidden under the then-current version of the UsefulNotes/ComicsCode unless depicted as a "[[DrugsAreBad vicious habit]]." (Totleben states further that Woodrue's subsequent use of an EEG device was a smokescreen for the ''real'' method by which he tapped into the Green.) When DC began releasing the title without the Code's seal of approval, it freed the creative team to make the tubers' psychedelic properties more explicit and give them a recurring role in the series.

The UsefulNotes/EntertainmentSoftwareRatingBoard is the industry body responsible for assigning age ratings to video games in America and Canada. Their current ratings criteria can be found [[https://www.esrb.org/ratings-guide/ here]].

The Irish Film Censor's Office, modelled on the British Board of Film Censors, was established by the Censorship of Film Act 1923 to ensure films (and later [[UsefulNotes/{{VHS}} videos]] and UsefulNotes/{{DVD}}s) released in the newly-independent Ireland were suitable for public viewing. At the time, this really meant censoring films to comply with the dictates of the Catholic Church, and as such IFCO has long been one of the most notoriously strict, conservative ratings agencies in Europe. Fortunately, as Irish society has become more liberal, so has IFCO, with the C in its name being changed from ''Censor'' to ''Classification'' in 2008 to reflect the fact that its duty is just to apply age ratings, not to change or ban films ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland mostly]]). Their age ratings and the criteria can be viewed [[http://ifco.ie/en/ifco/pages/guidelines here]].

The Classification And Rating Agency (CARA) is a board appointed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) that has assigned age ratings to movies shown in America since 1968, following the demise of the Hays Code. CARA are stricter about sex and more lenient on violence than ratings agencies in other countries, though are generally more liberal on both counts than people think. By their own rules, the body is composed solely of parents living in the state of California. You can read their official guidelines [[https://www.filmratings.com/Content/Downloads/rating_rules.pdf here]]. Note that CARA assigns ratings based on whether (they estimate) American parents would find the movie objectionable rather than by (somewhat) measurable criteria, as is done by other bodies; this policy infamously leads to movies with LGBT content automatically garnering higher ratings than if everybody was heterosexual. As such, care must be taken when judging a movie's rating against the guidelines.

The Production Code of the Motion Picture Industry, commonly referred to as MediaNotes/TheHaysCode, was a set of guidelines to which the American movie industry was subject from 1934 to 1968; while not legally binding (indeed, it was adopted specifically to avoid legal restrictions on movie content), no movie could be shown in American cinemas without approval from the MPPDA (today known as the MPAA). You can read the entire thing, complete with the various revisions, [[https://productioncode.dhwritings.com/multipleframes_productioncode.php here]].

The Production Code of the Motion Picture Industry, commonly referred to as the Usefulnotes/HaysCode, was a set of guidelines to which the American movie industry was subject from 1934 to 1968; while not legally binding (indeed, it was adopted specifically to avoid legal restrictions on movie content), no movie could be shown in American cinemas without approval from the MPPDA (today known as the MPAA). You can read the entire thing, complete with the various revisions, [[https://productioncode.dhwritings.com/multipleframes_productioncode.php here]].

** While it actually show Charlie and Emily having sex, but later confirms that they did by having Emily fret over the possibility that she might become pregnant.

* ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'': The game starts with Banjo, Kazooie, Mumbo Jumbo, and Bottles gambling by playing poker with each other. Because gambling is outright illegal in the U.K., video games that include gambling in them are almost always guaranteed to earn a PEGI 12+ rating, but even with it being rereleased multiple times, ''Tooie'' has always managed to maintain a consistent PEGI 3+ rating, despite the gambling being shown off in the first three minutes of the game.

** However, the infamously explicit {{ecchi}} ''Manga/ToLoveRu Darkness'' has repeatedly shown vaginas in the reflections of things such as eyes and faucets. This is especially glaring considering the manga was serialized in a {{shonen}} magazine, Shueisha's ''Jump Square''[[note]]a sister magazine of ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Shōnen Jump]]'', which ran its predecessor series[[/note]].