History Main / GettingCrapPastTheRadar

** [[https://i.imgur.com/qccnNbw.jpg One of the bonus strips that bookends the comic collections]] of Jon's Scariest Dates includes Señorita Del Fuego, who is [[ADateWithRosiePalms a handpuppet with lipstick]]. When this one was reprinted in ''Garfield's Guide To Everything'', Señorita Del Fuego was nowhere to be found; from this, we can infer that she shouldn't have appeared in the first instance, either.

* Creator/SabrinaCarpenter went for this while performing on Radio 1's Live Lounge by ad-libbing an outro for "Nonsense": [[https://twitter.com/SCANews_/status/1629175267947077632?s=20 “I’m American, I’m not British/So BBC, it stands for something different/This Live Lounge is so lit because I’m in it."]] That line was removed from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVxH3FKaZl8 the uploaded video]].

--> '''Charles''': How can I possibly mix anatomy with romance?
--> '''Jean''': Well, that shouldn't be too difficult.

* In 1992,Music/JoeDiffie got "Ships That Don't Come In" to #1 despite having the lyric "we bitch about a dollar" in it. This is pretty much the only mainstream country song ''ever'' to have that word in it.

* The 2014 hockey documentary ''Red Army'' [[https://www.filmratings.com/Search?filmTitle=Red+Army&x=0&y=0 was rated PG by the MPAA]] despite including one use of the word "cocksucker", which usually results in an automatic R-rating. [[https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/red-army-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zotu4odk The film was rated "15" in the UK]], which is also automatic for that word.

-->-- '''Steve Ressel''', director of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim.''

* ''Series/{{Mork and Mindy}}'' is the {{trope namer}}. As Creator/{{Robin Williams}} himself says in the documentary ''Pioneers of Television: Robin Williams Remembered'', he would try to sneak all manner of things past the censors, frequently hiding dirty foreign jokes within Mork's gibberish alien language[[note]]To his disappointment, ABC eventually put a stop to this by specifically hiring censors fluent in the languages they knew he used[[/note]].

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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Mushroom the Fool produced the unsanctioned narrative of the Dance of the Dragons, a war of succession between the Targaryen kings, with trash, sex, treason and murder included. It's a remarkable thing that with all their power, the Targaryens were not able to purge his book.

** In the episode "Feral Scream", Megatron curses "Fuck" after being attacked by Cheetor, covered by only the barest of distortion.

* Jelfonzo in ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' wears a different T-shirt each day. On Tuesdays, he wears one with Inkling text that reads [[https://twitter.com/rassicas/status/1517251140076728320?s=21&t=1iaSdwMXOyL0QmGMu-B9Dg Fuck You]]". ''Splatoon 2'' is rated E10+, with no content warnings for language.

* Jelfonzo in ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' wears a different T-shirt each day. On Tuesdays, he wears one with Inkling text that reads [[https://twitter.com/rassicas/status/1517251140076728320?s=21&t=1iaSdwMXOyL0QmGMu-B9Dg Fuck You]]". ''Splatoon 2'' is rated 7, with no content warnings for language.

* Quite infamously, in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' and ''II Final Mix'' it's possible to maneuver the camera underneath Kairi's skirt and find a fully-rendered pair of panties with a little bow, despite the ESRB rating not including descriptors for any suggestive content. The Radar ''did'' eventually catch on to that one--the panties are no longer present in the HD remasters.

* The ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei'' subseries ''VideoGame/DevilChildren'' had two entries localized by Atlus as the ''[=DemiKids=]'' series. While they are LighterAndSofter than the main series, as the E rating would have you believe, they still contain SuccubiAndIncubi - without as much as a “Suggestive Themes” descriptor - despite both demons being highlighted in ratings information for SMT titles with higher ratings. And yes, the Incubus in ''[=DemiKids=]'' still has the same “phallic-shaped torso” that catches the ESRB’s eye [[https://www.esrb.org/ratings/34693/Persona+5/ every]] [[https://www.esrb.org/ratings/37916/Shin+Megami+Tensei+V/ time]].

* In ''VideoGame/SpongeBobSquarePantsBattleForBikiniBottom'', the police station's description of the Ham-mer robot states that it "goes well with... a nice Chianti", which is a type of wine produced in Tuscany. Not too bad by itself, but the ESRB rating does leave out the "Alcohol Reference" label for some reason.

* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'''s commercial release managed to get away just fine with a barely-subtle OptionalSexualEncounter and a hidden pair of women's panties without so much as an "Innuendo" flag from the ESRB.
* Jelfonzo in ''Videogame/{{Splatoon 2}}'' wears a different T-shirt each day. On Tuesdays, he wears one with Inkling text that reads [[https://twitter.com/rassicas/status/1517251140076728320?s=21&t=1iaSdwMXOyL0QmGMu-B9Dg Fuck You]]". ''Splatoon 2'' is rated E10+, with no content warnings for language.

* Jelfonzo in ''Videogame/{{Splatoon 2}}'' wears a different T-shirt each day. On Tuesdays, he wears one with Inkling text that reads [[https://twitter.com/rassicas/status/1517251140076728320?s=21&t=1iaSdwMXOyL0QmGMu-B9Dg Fuck You]]". ''Splatoon 2'' is rated 7, with no content warnings for language.

* Music/BrunoMars' ''24K Magic'' also lacks a parental advisory warning, despite the TitleTrack containing a few utterances of "Shit"

* Music/{{Busted}}'s song "What I Go To School For" includes the word "ass", uncensored. And yes, it's explicitly referring to a bum and not a donkey.

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.

--> '''Darkwing:''' [[spoiler:Now all those orders I filed for [[NoodleImplements chains and cowboy hats]] make sense! All this time I thought someone had a ''unique'' way of enjoying the weekend]].

--> '''Darkwing''': [[spoiler:Now all those orders I filed for [[NoodleImplements chains and cowboy hats]] make sense! All this time I thought someone had a ''unique'' way of enjoying the weekend]].

* The title of the ''Westernanimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "The Beagle Birthday Massacre, a reference to the Valentine's Day Massacre, was eventually caught on Disney Channel's radar, who changed the title to "The Beagle Birthday Breakout". Disney+ still retains the original title, though.
* In ''Westernanimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', Fang exclaims "Kinky!" upon seeing Demona change from gargoyle to human. Greg Weisman himself admitted he wasn't sure how they got that one past the censors. Eventually, S&P did notice and the line was cut from reruns (but it's still present on the DVD).

[[folder:Film]]

** [[https://i.imgur.com/qccnNbw.jpg One Sunday strip]] of Jon's Scariest Dates includes Señorita Del Fuego, who is [[ADateWithRosiePalms a handpuppet with lipstick]]. When this one was reprinted in ''Garfield's Guide To Everything'', Señorita Del Fuego was nowhere to be found; from this, we can infer that she shouldn't have appeared in the newspapers, either.

** 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.

--> '''Marie''': Surely you have room in New Orleans for a girl who doesn't want to become a housewife, who likes to be charming and pleasant?"

* The ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei'' subseries ''VideoGame/DevilChildren'' had two entries localized by Atlus as the ''[=DemiKids=]'' series. While they are LighterAndSofter than the main series, as the E rating would have you believe, they still contain [[HornyDevils the Incubus and Succubus]] - without as much as a “Suggestive Themes” descriptor - despite both demons being highlighted in ratings information for SMT titles with higher ratings. And yes, the Incubus in ''[=DemiKids=]'' still has the same “phallic-shaped torso” that catches the ESRB’s eye [[https://www.esrb.org/ratings/34693/Persona+5/ every]] [[https://www.esrb.org/ratings/37916/Shin+Megami+Tensei+V/ time]].

[[folder:Broadcasting Standards Authority (New Zeland)]]

->''"The bloody GIR was the single frame drawing that Chris Graham drew and I was putting it into the show at random points hidden within things. It is very hard to make out...and I am not telling where or when those frames are (you have to be a master to see Bloody GIR, even with a frame-by-frame VCR). If anyone finds it...let me know."''

* ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}'' dodges dodges the rule against "sex perversion" by only subtly implying the homosexuality of Wilmer Cook and Joel Cairo. Cairo kisses his phallic cane lovingly at one point. Spade refers derogatorily to Wilmer as "the gunsel", both in the movie and in [[Literature/TheMalteseFalcon the book]]. "Gunsel" was Yiddish slang for a a male passive sexual partner, but not many people knew that. As the slang was all but forgotten, it was re-imagined as slang for a gunslinger or a gun-toting hitman.[[note]]In Yiddish, the suffix ''-el'' is also a diminutive, so given Wilmer's unprepossessing stature, it's easy to think Spade's calling him a "little gun".[[/note]]

* [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Vinny]]'s [[WebVideo/VinesauceTomodachiLife Tomodachi Life streams]] feature an odd version of this: since his [[VulgarHumor particular brand of comedy]] is usually blocked by the game's curse filters, he attempts to circumvent them in various ways (misspelling, phonetic pronunciation, etc.) Sometimes it works (i.e. getting the islanders to say "fuck" by spelling it "fuhck"), and sometimes it doesn't ("Honk honk fhuker" ends up pronounced as "Honk honk few-ker"). Not to mention the various dirty allusions that the filters ''don't'' catch...