History Main / GettingCrapPastTheRadar

* Monroe always SleepsInTheNude, but could not say so bluntly in radio and TV interviews in the 1950s. Prying interviewers hoping to get a titillating rise from their audiences would regularly ask her about her nightwear. She had pat answers depending on how she was asked. "What do you wear (at night/etc)?" was answered with "Chanel No. 5" (A popular perfume). If asked "What do you have on at night?" her answer was "The radio".

*** One of the reasons why Kenny is TheUnintelligible is that his voice actor (Matt Stone) can easily get away with saying stuff that would normally get bleeped out on television.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' occasionally found ways against BS&P's absolute rule against killing. As story editor Michael Reeves said in ''Animato'' magazine regarding the episode "Mudslide", which ends with Clayface slipping through Batman's fingers as he melts::

* The WebVideo/AngryVideoGameNerd gives us a funny example::

* ''VideoGame/KingsOfTheBeach'': A picture of a woman is shown on the password screen between matches. Both women appear twice and the former has covered nipples visible through her swimsuit. However, Nintendo's policies from 1988 officially revealed in the 1994 book ''[[https://legendsoflocalization.com/game-localization-and-nintendo-of-americas-content-policies-in-the-1990s/ Parent's Guide to Video Games]]'' state that it's forbidden to have sexually suggestive or explicit content.

* As described by writer Eric Trueheart in the first collection of scripts, the writers and animators on ''Westernanimation/InvaderZim'' made a game of sneaking in a [[FreezeFrameBonus single frame]] of [[http://www.eeggs.com/items/42675.html bloody GIR]] into various episodes without Nickelodeon noticing.

* [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/02/03/esad-ribics-gay-porn-wolverine-cover-marvel-never-noticed/ This]] ''Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}'' cover. Kurt's obvious nudity aside, note both Wolverine's eyeline and the placement of the beer bottle. And it was intentional too, and to quote Greg Rucka, who once asked artist Esad Ribic about it:

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* In ''Literature/{{Pride and Prejudice and Zombies}}''. Darcy and a [[TheDitz silly girl]] have a discussion about how little she knows about balls. She, of course, is talking about a [[DancesAndBalls dance]], and Elizabeth seems to be the only one who realizes that Darcy is "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar flirting with]] [[ToiletHumour impropriety]]".

*** One of the reasons why Kenny is TheUnintelligble is that his voice actor (Matt Stone) can easilly get away with saying stuff that would normally get bleeped out on television.

* The Tramp in ''Film/ModernTimes'' gets high on cocaine while in prison. It's not referred to as cocaine, only as "nose powder", but there's no other way to interpret that scene! While the Code at the time only specifically forbade portrayal of the drug trade, using drugs in prison plausibly falls under that.

* Johnny "Guitar" Watson's "Real Mother For Ya" repeats the song's title several times at the end of the song. The last time he says it is slightly lower, and drops an actual F-bomb. It wasn't caught for decades.

* ''Westernanimation/{{Batman the Animated Series}}'' occasionally found ways against BS&P's absolute rule against killing. As story editor Michael Reeves said in ''Animato'' magazine regarding the episode "Mudslide", which ends with Clayface slipping through Batman's fingers as he melts::

--->'''Hurby:''' Yo, what are y'all gonna do with this shit, man? I could get in trouble with these tapes man!\\

* The creators of ''Westernanimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' have said in interviews that when they had a joke they thought the censors might object to, they would suggest an even more outrageous joke, making the intended joke seem tamer in comparison. It usually worked.

** Even so, a lot of creators get away with showing virtually (or even straight-up) uncensored genitalia, especially in doujinshi circles, usually by thin black bars that barely cover anything, or light mosaic pixellation, under the pretense that they are abiding by the law by doing the bare minimum. Even in non-hentai series, they can get away with showing genitalia if it they are whited out, outlined, or are crudely drawn.
** 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]].

* Article 175 of the Penal Code of Japan requires genitalia to be censored, even in pornography[[note]] This is where the phenomenon of "tentacle porn" comes from-- makers of drawn and animated pornography in Japan, wishing to remain compliant with the penal code, replaced genitalia with more absurd things[[/note]]. 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]].

* A ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperheroes'' story from a 1973 issue of ''Superboy'' has Dream Girl, who is unmarried, sleeping in a bed large enough for two people, and Dave Cockrum draws a [[https://www.cbr.com/first-unmarried-superhero-couple-shown-sharing-bed/ human-shaped bulge under the blanket next to her and the top of a blond head of hair peeking out from under the blanket]].

* Isadora in Creator/{{Erica Jong}}'s ''How to Save Your Own Life'' has a license plate that says "Quim", which is an (obscene, comparable to "[[CountryMatters cunt]]") old English term for vagina.

* Patrick [=McGilligan's=] biography ''Creator/AlfredHitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light'' describes how the infamous kissing scene in ''Film/{{Notorious}}'' ingeniously circumvented the rule against "excessive and lustful kissing". The censors defined "excessive" as "longer than three seconds", so Hitchcock had Alicia and Devlin embrace, kiss each other, nuzzle a little, chat softly about making arrangements for dinner, kiss again, nuzzle, kiss again...

* In ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'', Nick discovers that he can get swears past his ProfanityFilter if it doesn't recognise them. Unfortunately (for him) it ''learns''.

* In ''Literature/{{Fear Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail 72}}, under [[spoiler: Rumsfeld, the film industry was highly censored]], but some filmmakers were able to sneak in [[spoiler: some anti-Rumsfeldian themes. ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' featured an ending in which Marty discovers that his alteration of the past wrote him out of existence, which was an attempt by Spielberg at drawing a metaphor about Rumsfeld's Orwellian alteration of history]]. The movie ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' is used to convey another [[spoiler: anti-Rumsfeld message by drawing comparisons between Rumsfeld and [[MorallyBankruptBanker Mr. Potter]], but its history as a beloved American classic means that these themes were ignored by censors]].

** Beyond a similar instance when Belgium qualified (once again, it appeared one of the members of Hooverphonic exclaimed "Fuck yeah!" when they advanced), Italy's winning entry, "Zitti e buoni," had to change a lyric with the Italian word ''cazzo' (basically "fuck" - the lyric basically translates as "They don't know what the fuck they're talking about") and the phrase "toccarvi i coglioni" (literal: grab your balls, a crude version of 'knock on wood wood') to get past Eurovision standards. However, when Måneskin performed the song again after they won, frontman Damiano David sang the offending lines uncensored, knowing they couldn't be penalized now.

** Beyond a similar instance when Belgium qualified (once again, it appeared one of the members of Hooverphonic exclaimed "Fuck yeah!" when they advanced), Italy's winning entry, "Zitti e buoni," had to change a lyric with the Italian word ''cazzo'(basically "fuck" - the lyric basically translates as "They don't know what the fuck they're talking about") and the phrase "toccarvi i coglioni" (literal: grab your balls, a crude version of 'touch wood') to get past Eurovision standards. However, when Måneskin performed the song again after they won, frontman Damiano David sang the offending lines uncensored, knowing they couldn't be penalized now.

** Beyond a similar instance when Belgium qualified (once again, it appeared one of the members of Hooverphonic exclaimed "Fuck yeah!" when they advanced), Italy's winning entry, "Zitti e buoni," had to change a lyric with the Italian word ''cazzo'' (basically "fuck" - the lyric basically translates as "They don't what the fuck they're talking about") to get past Eurovision standards. However, when Måneskin performed the song again after they won, frontman Damiano David sang the offending line uncensored, knowing they couldn't be penalized now.