History Main / GettingCrapPastTheRadar

[[caption-width-right:350:When you see it...[[labelnote:Given up?]]Look between the lower two leaves.[[/labelnote]]]]

* The Department of Motor Vehicles has rules about what is allowed on a vanity plate. The details vary from state to state, but generally they amount to "anything that might be even remotely offensive is disallowed". That said, [[http://jalopnik.com/5113782/50-vanity-plates-that-slipped-by-the-dmv there's so much crap you can get past the DMV when you want a vanity license plate...]]. For example, you can use features of the license plate to get "(picture of a moose) KNUKL", "(University of Michigan 'M') ORONS", "A55 (Florida orange) RGY", or the ever-popular "EATTHE (Kids First)". Or you can use markings on the car itself to get "GIVE ME A (Hummer)". Or any of a number of other options.

** The issue with the large article on ''New Super {{Mario}} Bros. Wii'' included the line "Lemmy's bouncing balls won't hurt you, but they will push you away."

* With all this talk of web videos, one can't help to point out that Website/YouTube itself has a ''lot'' of porn on there despite the site's policy against it. This is because most of it is fetish porn, which might not involve nudity or explicit sex but is still in something of a grey area regarding the "No porn" policy.

[[caption-width-right:350:When you see it...[[labelnote:Give up?]]Look between the lower two leaves[[/labelnote]]]]

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* In the Campbell/Reese (6th Edition) Biology textbook, it describes a particular type of breeding, technically referred to as semelparity, from Latin roots. However, the first and easier to remember name is...[[IncrediblyLamePun big-bang reproduction.]] [[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O8-bigbangreproduction.html It]] [[http://www.funnelbrain.com/c-8524-big-bang-reproduction.html gets]] [[http://www.google.com/search?q=big+bang+reproduction&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.yahoo:en-US:official&client=firefox better]].
* The Literature/CambridgeLatinCourse has its moments. Any language book that includes the line "ancilla dominum multum delectat" (the slave girl pleases the master very much), can't exactly claim innocence.
** "The master said "I am leaving for a while." The cook says "hooray!" The slave girl pleased the cook and he was happy. Then he pleased her for a long time."
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* ''There must be '''Radar''''': It must be in a medium and format where {{Media Watchdog}}s exist and actively censor content. Self-censorship does not count.

* In some Medieval and Renaissance period religious works, Satan and various incubi are drawn with large noses as a metaphor for being well-endowed. [[note]]UnfortunateImplications applied later when the [[SinisterSchnozzlarge nose thing]] was interpreted to mean the demons were [[AncientConspiracy Jewish]] [[/note]]

* In some Medieval and Renaissance period religious works, Satan and various incubi are drawn with large noses as a metaphor for being well-endowed.

* Creator/{{Mattel}}'s [[strike: Cock Ring]] Earring Magic [[Franchise/{{Barbie}} Ken doll]] didn't remain on store shelves for very long. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earring_Magic_Ken because of its resemblance]] to a CampGay man.

* The "ComicBook/SubMariner" episode of ''WebAnimation/BadDays'' has him watching [[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Invisible Woman]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YZoW8DBX7c take a shower.]] [[spoiler:She is invisible at the time]]

** The title of "Primp My Ride" references [[Series/PimpMyRide a show that most of the little girls watching might not gotten permission to see...]]

* In the Campbell/Reese (6th Edition) Biology textbook, it describes a particular type of breeding, technically referred to as semelparity, from Latin roots. However, the first and easier to remember name it...[[IncrediblyLamePun big-bang reproduction.]] [[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O8-bigbangreproduction.html It]] [[http://www.funnelbrain.com/c-8524-big-bang-reproduction.html gets]] [[http://www.google.com/search?q=big+bang+reproduction&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.yahoo:en-US:official&client=firefox better]].

* In a FoilArmsAndHog sketch. The extra dialogue at the end of “Ceoil agus Ól” probably wouldn’t have gotten past YouTube’s filters if not for the fact that it was in Irish.

* ''There must be '''Crap''''': It must be something that a reasonable person would expect to be censored by said {{Media Watchdog}}s. ParentalBonus, HoYay and LesYay do not count.

** And in ANOTHER example of this trope and 2nd Ed ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', pretty much ''every Planescape supplement ever written falls under this to greater or lesser extent''...seeing as the term "Berk" was used in this setting as "Chummer" was in ''Shadowrun'' and quite gratuitously at that. The problem is that...well...[[note]]There is an Urban Legend that "Berk" is short for "Berkley Hunt"...which rhymes with...oh, a certain four-letter expletive referring to, well, CountryMatters [[/note]] and was primarily released in a country in which, because of the false association with a certain other word, the term "Berk" is a ''far'' stronger expletive than in its native Britain (where it usually tends to be used in the context of being a complete dumbass).

* One of the early Harry Potter movie tie-in toys was a Nimbus 2000 replica aimed at children in the 8-12 age bracket. This battery-operated gizmo had sound effects and vibration. Somehow, nobody seems to have noticed what they were making until after it was already on store shelves.
* The Series/HannahMontana dolls they seem perfectly harmless until you discover where you press the button for them to sing.
* ''MyLittlePony'' once had a pony named "Pillow Talk." And currently has a pegasus named "White Lightning."
* ''EverAfterHigh'' has Cerise Hood, daughter of Red Riding Hood [[FridgeHorror and]] '''[[{{Squick}} The Big Bad Wolf.]]''' [[FlatWhat WHAT]].
* In 1971, Creator/{{Mattel}} introduced a Hot Wheels car called the "Strip Teaser."

In-universe examples only, as Web comics generally doesn't have a radar to get past.

* The HannahMontana dolls they seem perfectly harmless until you discover where you press the button for them to sing.

** Ed Greenwood himself once actually made a statement to the effect of "TSR won't let us ''say'' 'brothel,' so if you see the word 'festhall'..."

** The Revelation to John is considered by many scholars to be a disguised warning against Rome. Since it was to be read by a Roman audience, it had to get past Rome's censors, so it couched its accusations in crazy imagery. For instance, the Beast was said to have 7 heads, and a later passage said "The seven heads are seven hills" (referring most likely to the seven hills of Rome).

Getting Crap Past the Radar refers to instances when a writer, artist or other creator puts inappropriate content into their material that would be shocking not only to the {{Media Watchdog}}s and MoralGuardians, but to everyone else, sneaking it past the censors by using implication or allusion rather than stating it straight out. Often, what makes it shocking is not the specific content, but that it is out of keeping with its context. Most examples are found in materials aimed at children or shows alleging to be family-friendly. The way these examples are used in such media directed towards children of family is mostly through disguising the inappropriate material as something more appropriate so it could visibly slip through the eyes of sensitive viewers And there are times when creators will do this even when they don't have to, simply because [[RuleOfFunny it's funnier than being blatantly vulgar]].

* ''MyLittlePony'' once had a pony named "Pillow Talk."

* Topps' "Wacky Packages" stickers were aimed at child consumers and had strict limits on the kinds of humor that could be included (there wasn't so much as a ''[[ToiletHumor fart joke]]'' in any of the sticker series). However, the artist managed to sneak a rather ... [[FreudWasRight suggestive image]] onto the lower-middle of [[http://www.wackypackages.org/stickers/12th_series/robotburns_small.html this sticker]].

* ''EverAfterHigh'' has Cerise Hood, daughter of Red Riding Hood [[FridgeHorror and]] [[Squick '''The Big Bad Wolf'''.]] [[FlatWhat WHAT]].

* ''EverAfterHigh'' has Cerise Hood, daughter of Red Riding Hood and '''The Big Bad Wolf'''. [[FlatWhat WHAT]].