History Radar / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/CitizenKane'': Charles Foster Kane is a thinly veiled NoCelebritiesWereHarmed shot at George Hearst. The plot revolves around finding out who is beloved "Rosebud" was. According to legend, "rosebud" was what Hearst called his mistress's clitoris.

* ''Film/{{Splash}}'' is a [[UsefulNotes/ParentalGuidanceSuggestedRating PG-rated]] Creator/{{Disney}}-distributed RomanticComedy {{Fantasy Film|s}} that showed Creator/DarylHannah's bare butt, breasts, nipples and genitalia.

--->'''Mikey:''' Dude, she's so hot I can feel [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything my shell tightening]].\\

* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': Fellatio, cunnilingus, bestiality, paedophilia, topless women, a young girl who takes her coffee black (like her men), pornographic magazines, suicides, and repeated drug use, and it gets a PG rating? (Granted, PG-13 was still four years off...) In an interview on ''Later with Bob Costas'', Creator/RobertStack was amazed A) that the directors got away with the 'Shit hits the fan' joke and B) that it made him laugh a lot.

'''Gomez:''' Well, there's [[ADateWithRosiePalms Thing]]...

* ''Film/{{Paddington}}'' manages to sneak in a few adult jokes. As Mr Brown disguises himself as a cleaning lady to [[spoiler: break into the Geographer's Guild's archive]]:

* Radar/Beetlejuice

* With profanity, violence and sexual references abound in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'2014', you start to wonder if director Creator/JamesGunn straight-up cold-cocked the entire censor board in the opening five minutes. Special mention has to go [[ReallyGetsAround Quill]] admitting that his spaceship is filthy, to the point of "if you had a blacklight, it'd look like a Jackson Pollock painting". A semen joke in a PG-13 film ''has'' to be some kind of record.

* With profanity, violence and sexual references abound in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', you start to wonder if director Creator/James Gunn straight-up cold-cocked the entire censor board in the opening five minutes. Special mention has to go [[ReallyGetsAround Quill]] admitting that his spaceship is filthy, to the point of "if you had a blacklight, it'd look like a Jackson Pollock painting". A semen joke in a PG-13 film ''has'' to be some kind of record.

* Radar/TheMuppets

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* Radar/{{Head}}

*** In another scene, the Farlows hint to Humbert that they're very "[[ThreeWaySex broad-minded]]". *** When Quilty checks into a hotel with his wife, he gets into a conversation with the manager that's laced with homosexual innuendo, as well as implying that his wife is something of a dominatrix.

--->'''Woman:''' "That's a kid's game.\\

* Remember those old-time cowboys in [[TheWestern Westerns]] who would mosey up to the bar and order sarsaparilla? A lot of viewers assume that this was a substitute for ordering alcohol, as UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode had rules against drug use (mostly alcohol and illegal drugs. Tobacco smoking was still kosher in those days). But sarsaparilla was actually not so much a drink as it was a traditional medicine, and in the 19th century was mainly used as a treatment for syphilis. It's supposed to be an aphrodisiac, as well.

* ''Film/{{Midnight|1939}}'': In the time of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode swearing or referring to number two was a no-no, so this is a nice innuendo.

* ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': ComicBook/{{Loki}} calls [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha Romanoff]] a "mewling quim", Victorian era slang for "whining [[CountryMatters cunt]]". WordOfGod is that the Radar actually caught this, gave [[Creator/JossWhedon the director]] a stern talking to, then let him run the joke anyway.

** Even in [[Film/GhostbustersII the sequel]], the subtlety flies, such as Egon noting the ladies in the lab are more than likely interested in his ''epididymis'' (a ''very'' scientific reference to the obvious).

** The same sign is seen earlier in the movie, hanging over a house-ship occupied by heavily made-up women in low-cut dresses. It's also hinted that Smee is a regular customer: when one of the ladies sees him coming, she announces, "Put on your faces, girls! Here comes Smee!", prompting the rest to happily coo his name.

* The 1934 pre-code film ''Wonder Bar'' featured [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9y-AVSj8ns a rare instance]] of homosexual humor that came very close to getting the film banned altogether. During a dance, a gentleman approaches a dancing couple and asks if he can cut in; when the woman accepts, however, he dances away with the ''man'' instead. Al Jolson responds to this by waving a limp wrist and musing, "Boys will be boys!"

* ''Film/{{The Merry Widow|1934}}'', directed by Creator/ErnstLubitsch, had minor cuts as UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode was starting to come into effect. Left in was the close-up during the trial scene of Danilo's handcuffs, which are personally engraved.

** In one short, Curly tells a woman they should play "Post Office," she replies, "That's a kid's game." Curly says "Not the way I PLAY it..."
* ''Film/{{Fallen Angel|1945}}'': It's no surprise that an Creator/OttoPreminger film has an open-mouth kiss in the era of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAChp2BSV3M See for yourself.]]
* After watching Creator/PrestonSturges' classic comedy ''Film/TheMiracleOfMorgansCreek'', reviewer James Agee wrote, "The Production Code must have been raped in its sleep." How else do you explain a movie about a young woman who goes out with a bunch of soldiers, gets drunk, and can't remember what she did, except it turns out she's both married and pregnant? Not to mention the fact she has tries to trick the man who's been in love with her since they were kids into marrying her, so there's also bigamy involved. And that's not even mentioning the fact the whole movie is basically a parody of the Nativity story. \\\

* ''Film/StrangersOnATrain'' has no shortage of themes that pushed the limits of the Hays Code, but a particularly shocking line occurs just after the protagonist's cheating wife has been through the Tunnel of Love with her '''two''' dates; as they're climbing out of the boat she stumbles and one of them says (paraphrased) "Don't break your leg, we've got a use for you later."
* During the climactic final battle in ''Film/RobotJox'', Alexander's HumongousMecha unfolds a chainsaw from its groin in an attempt to kill Achilles, cutting through the cockpit to get at him. In other words, Alexander's mecha was ''tea-bagging'' Achilles'.

** Bond's famous one-liners originated as a way to get the violence and nudity, which was sometimes quite shocking at the time, past the radar so as to secure U.S distributors. For instance, a brutal hearse crash is mellowed with the line "I think they were on their way to a funeral", not to mention the "You've had your six" line, which dulls Bond shooting an unarmed man in cold blood.

** ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'' had Bond and Fatima Blush coming out of the ocean and Bond quipping, "I think we scared the fish!"
** ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'': Moneypenny says "You always were a cunning linguist, James".

* ''Film/DraculasDaughter'' features a steamy scene where the daughter, who is artistically talented, attacks and bites the female model she had hired for a head and shoulders portrait. The model is just wearing her bra with the straps pulled down, and the attack is quite intense, with lots of "No, don't touch me!" Maybe no one in the Hays Office wanted to admit that the first lesbian-vampire movie had just been made. (The Hays Office was well aware of the lesbian implications, issuing detailed notes on the script so as to avoid any suggestion of "perverse sexual desire". Universal advertised the film with the tagline "Save the women of London from ''Dracula's Daughter''!")
* One of the most notable scenes in ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' has this little exchange between Marcus Licinius Crassus (Creator/LaurenceOlivier) and his slave Antoninus (Creator/TonyCurtis) (all of which happens while Antoninus is ''bathing'' Crassus. They're talking about sexual preference, not seafood). Apparently this metaphor seemed so obvious to Universal executives that the scene was cut after its premiere to avoid the wrath of the censors. It was not reinstated until 1991.

* A blink-and-you'll-miss-it example from the end credit sequence in ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'': the end titles are modeled after the Marauder's Map featured prominently in the film, a magical map that can track the locations and movements of nearby people and that displays each person as a pair of footprints. [[http://i.imgur.com/A0rIo.gif Two particular sets of footprints]] are hidden in a remote niche, and based on their positioning and movements, it's pretty obvious that the two are having sex.

** 1997: Dolores has just been sitting in the lap of [[CovertPervert Humbert Humbert]], only to rush out when her mother comes in.

'''Humbert:''' [beat] No...
** Not that the 1962 Creator/StanleyKubrick adaptation stints in this trope either; when Humbert goes to pick up Dolores from summer camp [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse after the death of her mother]] he passes a sign saying WELCOME TO CAMP CLIMAX. In another scene, the Farlows hint to Humbert that they're very "[[ThreeWaySex broad-minded]]". Likewise when Claire Quilty is checking into a hotel with his wife, he gets into a conversation with the manager that's laced with homosexual innuendo, as well as implying that his wife is something of a dominatrix.

* Creator/FritzLang made many amazing films in his lifetime. One of his final films, ''Das indische Grabmal'' (''The Indian Tomb'') (1959), featured A-list Hollywood actress Debra Paget performing a dance basically in the nude, except for a few strategically placed pieces of cloth. Read that date again: 1959 was at the height of the Hays Code era when screen nudity - never mind sexy dancing while nearly nude - was forbidden. (Since the Hays Code only applied to films distributed in the US, this is more a case of ValuesDissonance.)
* Children's movie ''Horrid Henry'' has the naughty boy of the title threatened with going to a fee-paying school called the Brickhouse Academy. Insert the word "shit" in between "brick" and "house" and you have something else entirely.

* Creator/FritzLang made many amazing films in his lifetime. One of his final films, ''Das indische Grabmal'' (''The Indian Tomb'') (1959), featured A-list Hollywood actress Debra Paget performing a dance basically in the nude, except for a few strategically placed pieces of cloth. Read that date again: 1959 was at the height of the Hays Code era when screen nudity - never mind sexy dancing while nearly nude - was forbidden. (Since the Hayes Code only applied to films distributed in the US, this is more a case of ValuesDissonance.)

* In the first ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'' movie, there are some hints that Dana, the elder daughter, goes on dates with boys to have sex with them, but they're kept a secret from her parents. Stronger if you pay attention to a scene near the end of the movie: the family is about to move out of the house, but Dana is going out to see "some friends". Her mother tells her the name of the hotel where they plan to stay the night and Dana just says "oh, yes..." and smiles, implying that she knows that place pretty well and that she remembers something that happened there. Her mother catches this and asks her about it, but Dana waves it away by changing the topic. She leaves the scene and we don't see her until the end of the movie, where she returns home, sees all the ruckus and yells "What's going on?!" If you look closely at her neck on both sides, you will see lovebites...
* ''[[Film/ShortCircuit Short Circuit 2]]'': Both films have their fair share of Radar evaders, but this scene really pushes it: Fred is getting his loan from a loan shark ''in a stripper bar'', and the woman on stage at one point ''bares her breasts and shakes them at her audience.'' She's out of focus, but it's very obvious. Note: the film is rated PG.
* One wonders how Creator/MelBrooks got a PG on his space parody ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''. The movie includes: several {{Groin Attack}}s by AgonyBeam and a RunningGag revolving around that, the ''[[FlippingTheBird bras d'honneur]]'' being used as a ''salute'' (not to mention one explicit use of the Finger), a gag revolving around much of the Spaceball crew belonging to a family named "Asshole," assorted {{Double Entendre}}s and some pretty bare-faced sexual innuendo, several uses of the word "shit" and exactly one PrecisionFStrike.
* ''Film/TheSweeper'' has NC-17–style violence and really violent scenes that could make you sick. See [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiHsFmbuLqs these]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUTtLu2OAaw scenes]] as examples. Note: The film is rated R.

* In ''Film/TheWolverine'', Wolverine standing in the cold rain after he and Mariko are stuck in a LoveHotel is ''very'' easy to see as him taking a cold shower.
* With multiple swearwords, violence, and many sexual references in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', you start to wonder if director James Gunn straight-up cold-cocked the entire censor board in the opening five minutes. Special mention has to go to the fact that [[ReallyGetsAround Quill]] admits that his spaceship is filthy, to the point where "if you had a blacklight, it'd look like a Jackson Pollock painting". A semen joke in a PG-13 movie ''has'' to be some kind of record.
* In the Norwegian ''Film/CaptainSabertooth'' movie from 2014, there is a scene where one character, speaking in a fake French accent (he's supposed to be German but got the accents mixed up) tries to assert his authenticity by listing things like "Chateau Neuf," "Chateau Marmont" and "Chateau Fuck Up." Keep in mind that this is a kids' movie.
* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'', aside from Raph's handful of swear words in a Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} film, there's Mikey's first reaction to April.
--->'''Mikey:''' Dude, she's so hot I can feel [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything my shell tightening.]]\\

* The community John builds on the farm in ''Film/OurDailyBread'' -- no private property, everything going into a common pot, everyone working together and sharing the proceeds equally, one big boss to run everything -- is ''communism''. It's actually pretty amazing that director Creator/KingVidor got this film made and distributed in America in 1934. The film bears an obvious debt to Soviet propaganda films, specifically the 1930 silent classic ''Earth''.
* The lyrics to Afasi och Filthy's [[http://lyricstranslate.com/en/bomfalleralla-bomfalleralla.html "Boomfalleralla"]] would probably be enough to bump ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'' up to an R rating by itself, if it was not in undubbed [[BilingualBonus Swedish]]. The crap also got past all of the characters in the novel and film, none of whom speaks Swedish. It may be a [[RealitySubtext reference]] to John Green's experience in Dutch department stores, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL96ckeyfVo which have a tendency to play hardcore English Gangsta Rap as background music]].
* ''Film/{{Paddington}}'' manages to sneak in a few adult jokes. As Mr. Brown disguises himself as a cleaning lady to [[spoiler: break into the Geographer's Guild's archive]]:

'''Mr. Brown:''' That's what they're gonna say to me in [[PrisonRape jail]].
* In ''Film/ModernTimes'', the Tramp 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! Quite daring for its time, since UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode (in effect from 1930 to 1968) didn't allow drug references in movies.

--->'''John:''' No thanks, I've [[DrunkDriver got the car]].
* In the pre-code ''Film/SkyscraperSouls'', a drunk woman tries to say "We're being awfully shitty" but she ends up slurring instead and it comes out as "silly"/"shilly". She even lampshades it when the person she's talking to thinks she said "silly".
* ''Film/DoctorAtSea'' snuck one in on its original 1955 release, with one character describing the ship's captain's fearsome and unpredictable temperament as being from a man whose father wasn't married (i.e. a bastard), whilst still maintaining its U (suitable for all audiences including children) rating. Subsequent re-releases under different rating schemes have seen it bumped up to PG, although this was for the depiction of an attempted suicide by hanging.

* ''Film/DrJekyllAndMsHyde'': They managed to get away with a lot while keeping a PG-13 rating, such as Creator/SeanYoung briefly appearing topless, an obvious penis bulge and a visible erection.
* With Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', there is a rumor that this film was not passed for release because Creator/JanetLeigh's nipple (or more accurately, that of her body double) was visible during the shower scene. Hitchcock made no changes and merely sent it back, assuming that nobody at the Hays Office would bother to watch it. They also objected to the scene of the flushing toilet, another cinematic first.

* Quite a bit of it in 1930 film ''Film/TheDivorcee''. The most blatant instance is the scene where Jerry comments about her boyfriend having an erection. The camera shows a tight closeup of hands and arms that makes clear Jerry's lover is embracing her from behind. He says something to her in French, and she parries with "I don't understand French, but I know the symptoms of high blood pressure in any language."
* In ''Film/AfterTheThinMan'' (1936), Asta returns home to find Mrs Asta with a litter of puppies...including one [[ChocolateBaby black]] one. Later, Asta chases away a [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt black]] terrier lingering around the doghouse. This joke references not just adultery but miscegenation, two deeply tabooed topics under UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode.

** As this is a Creator/{{Disney}} film, the "n" word is not used to refer to the black players and Coach Boone -- the word "coon", which is also a derogatory, albeit far more obscure term for African-Americans, is used instead.
** John Brown. It's an old Southern euphemism for the word "damn", "damned", or "God damn", and Coach Boone uses it often in the film, usually when exasperated or trying to prove a point. His wife even utters "Well, I'll be a John Brown" in amazement in one scene.

** "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" is a song InTheStyleOf Music/BobDylan addressing homosexuality.
** When the record producer asks "Boys, are you [[AddledAddict buzzing]]?" John answers "No thanks, I've [[DrunkDriver got the car]]."
* In the 1932 film ''Film/SkyscraperSouls'', a drunk character tries to say "We're being awfully shitty" but she ends up slurring instead and it comes out as "silly"/"shilly". She even lampshades it when the person she's talking to thinks she said "silly".
* The 1955 movie ''Film/DoctorAtSea'' sneaked one in on its original release, with one character describing the ship's captain's fearsome and unpredictable temperament as being from a man whose father wasn't married (i.e. a bastard), whilst still maintaining its U (suitable for all audiences including children) rating. Subsequent re-releases under different rating schemes have seen it bumped up to PG, although this was for the depiction of an attempted suicide by hanging.
* Unusually for a ''Franchise/StarWars'' film, ''Film/TheLastJedi'' features several examples of this. They’re all pretty tame for a PG-13 film, but are surprising considering the franchise's MultipleDemographicAppeal:
** When Threepio remarks that the Master Codebreaker sounds like a guy who can do anything, Maz chuckles, "Oh, yes... He can," in a very lascivious manner. The awkward looks on the other characters' faces really sell the moment. Note that when she says this line, Maz is stroking a blaster.

*** In addition, there’s his MrFanservice ShirtlessScene. Despite her deep loathing of Kylo, Rey seemingly [[DistractedByTheSexy can't help]] [[EatingTheEyeCandy enjoying]] the sight of his glistening, sweaty [[MemeticMutation pecs]].
** This movie also contains the [[ObligatorySwearing harshest language]] heard yet in the franchise, including words such as "bastard" and "big-ass".
* ''Film/ANewHope'' has the moment when Han winks after getting his medal from the Princess. It could be interpreted as irreverence, but it also could be that he just took a look right down her cleavage.

* With Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', there is a rumor that this film was not passed for release because Janet Leigh's nipple (or more accurately, that of her body double) was visible during the shower scene. Hitchcock made no changes and merely sent it back, assuming that nobody at the Hays Office would bother to watch it. They also objected to the scene of the flushing toilet, another movie first.
* ''Film/{{Splash}}'' is a [[UsefulNotes/ParentalGuidanceSuggestedRating PG-rated]] [[Creator/{{Disney}} Disney]]-distributed RomanticComedy {{Fantasy Film|s}} that showed Creator/DarylHannah's bare butt, breasts, nipples and genitalia.
* ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit Part 3'' is rated PG despite multiple depictions of topless women.
* In ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' during the transformation scene, Robin Williams is dressed as a Jewish grandmother, and says 'I should never buy Gribenes from a Mohel. It's so chewy!'. Gribenes (Gri-ben-es) is crispy chicken or goose skin akin to crackling. A Mohel is specially trained in the Jewish rituals and procedures of circumcision. It's unlikely the censors would have allowed a reference to eating fried foreskins had they known.
* The documentary film ''Reel Injun'' demonstrates that Native American actors, when they [[BrownFace were actually used]], would sometimes curse in scenes in their native languages because they knew white people couldn't understand them, and the directors only cared that it sounded [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign "Indian."]]

** ''Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore'' gets away with this in the title alone. Once upon a time, there was once a Franchise/JamesBond [[Film/{{Goldfinger}{ character performing as a catwoman, training to be a cat burglar]]. That's where that comes from.

* ''Film/{{The Merry Widow|1934}}'', directed by Creator/ErnstLubitsch, had minor cuts imposed on it as UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode was starting to come into effect. Left in was the close-up during the trial scene of Danilo's handcuffs, which are personally engraved.

** In ''Film/YouNaztySpy'' as well as ''Malice in the Palace'' and ''Rumpus in a Harem'' the boys discuss going "over the Giva Dam". Not bad for the time period of the films.

* ''Film/{{Fallen Angel|1945}}'': It's no surprise that an Creator/OttoPreminger film has an open-mouth kiss in the era of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAChp2BSV3M See for yourself]].

This only shows the hypocrisy of the Hays Code. One of the things the Code claimed to promote was "The Sanctity of Marriage;" however this example only appears to give the impression of them arguing "as long as there's no sex before marriage, everything else is permissible."
* The 1923 version of ''[[Film/Scaramouche1923 Scaramouche]]'' manages to convey with nothing but pantomime that the Marquis has fathered a baby with a local village wench.

* During the climactic final battle in ''Film/RobotJox'', Alexander's HumongousMecha unfolds a chainsaw from its groin in an attempt to kill Achilles, cutting through the cockpit to get at him. In other words, Alexander's mecha was ''tea-bagging'' Achilles's mecha.

** ''Film/{{Spectre}}'': As M confronts C (who has been revealed to be working for the nefarious titular organization). C sneeringly suggests that M stands for "moron" as he tries to shoot him, only to realize that the gun is empty. M responds in kind as he reveals that he has the clip, saying, "And now I know what "C" stands for. ({{Beat}}) Careless." While he uses a very benign word, the pause leaves no doubt as to [[CountryMatters what M was really getting at.]]
* The 1935 film ''Film/DraculasDaughter'' features a steamy scene where Dracula's daughter, who is artistically talented, attacks and bites the female model she had hired for a head and shoulders portrait. The model is just wearing her bra with the straps pulled down, and the attack is quite intense, with lots of "No, don't touch me!" Maybe no one in the Hays Office wanted to admit that the first lesbian-vampire movie had just been made. (The Hays Office was well aware of the lesbian implications of the scene, issuing detailed notes on the script so as to avoid any suggestion of "perverse sexual desire". Universal advertised the film with the tag line "Save the women of London from Dracula's Daughter!")
* One of the most notable scenes in ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' (1960) has this little exchange between Marcus Licinius Crassus (Creator/LaurenceOlivier) and his slave Antoninus (Creator/TonyCurtis) (all of which happens while Antoninus is ''bathing'' Crassus. They're talking about sexual preference, not seafood). Apparently this metaphor seemed so obvious to Universal executives that the scene was cut after its premiere to avoid the wrath of the censors. It was not put back into the film until 1991.

* This exchange from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'':

'''Young Woman:''' I came with Captain Rénault.\\

'''Young Woman:''' ''[primly]'' My husband is with me too.\\

** 1997 movie: Dolores has just been sitting in the lap of [[CovertPervert Humbert Humbert]], only to rush out when her mother comes in.

** Not that Creator/StanleyKubrick stints in this trope either; when Humbert goes to pick up Dolores from summer camp [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse after the death of her mother]] he passes a sign saying WELCOME TO CAMP CLIMAX. In another scene, the Farlows hint to Humbert that they're very "[[ThreeWaySex broad-minded]]". Likewise when Claire Quilty is checking into a hotel with his wife, he gets into a conversation with the manager that's laced with homosexual innuendo, as well as implying that his wife is something of a dominatrix.

* In 1930 prison film ''Film/TheBigHouse'', the prisoners are getting magazines as reading material. One, a magazine called "Bride's Confession", has been "worn out".

* Creator/FritzLang made many amazing films in his lifetime. One of his final films, ''Das indische Grabmal (The Indian Tomb)'', released in 1959, featured A-list Hollywood actress Debra Paget performing a dance basically in the nude, except for a few strategically placed pieces of cloth. Read that date again: 1959 was at the height of the Hays Code era when screen nudity - never mind sexy dancing while nearly nude - was forbidden. (Since the Hayes Code only applied to films distributed in the US this is more a case of ValuesDissonance.)

* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': Fellatio, cunnilingus, bestiality, paedophilia, topless women, a young girl who takes her coffee black (like her men), pornographic magazines, suicides, and repeated drug use, and it gets a PG rating? (Granted, PG-13 didn't exist back then...) In an interview on Later With Bob Costas, Robert Stack was amazed A) that the directors got away with the 'Shit hits the fan' joke and B) that it made him laugh a lot.
* In ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', the Mad Hatter proclaims: "When that day comes I shall futterwacken... vigorously." This refers to a type of dance. It's ''how'' he says it.

--> '''Fester''': I have needs!
--> '''Gomez''': Well, there's [[ADateWithRosiePalms Thing]]...
* In ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'', Austin is approached by two attractive Japanese twins named Cindy Fook Mi and Sally Fook Yu. Due to their accents, and Austin's obvious reaction to hearing their names, it is very obvious that they are implying the word "fuck." However, as the film is PG-13, only one use of "fuck" is allowed throughout the entire film in accordance with MPAA regulations. By making it not technically the word, they get away with saying it multiple times.

** ''Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore'' gets away with this in the title. You see, there was once a James Bond character who was performing as a catwoman, training to be cat burglar. That's where that comes from.
** The first movie depicts belly scratching as an enjoyable expression of friendship that gains sexual implications when lovers do it to each other- roughly equivalent to RealLife massages.

** One segment in this British horror AnthologyFilm features ventriloquist Maxwell Frere (Creator/MichaelRedgrave) and his DemonicDummy, "Hugo". During a performance, the following exchange takes place:

** At the time Creator/{{Universal}} was producing its [[Film/TheBakerStreetDozen series of movies]] in the 1940s, the Hays Code forbid any mention of drugs -- including Holmes' canonical cocaine habit. However, the writers did manage to slip one reference in: in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAndTheSecretWeapon'', Holmes, captured by Moriarty and stalling for time, suggests to the professor that instead of just shooting him, he should try something [[ComplexityAddiction "more imaginative"]] -- like inserting a needle into his vein and slowly drawing out all of his blood. To which Moriarty snidely quips:

** This was after the 1939 ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' had attempted to include a similar reference, and had it cut by the censors. The movie's original final line was only restored upon the film's revival in 1975:

** Similarly, cocaine is never mentioned in the [[Film/SherlockHolmes2009 2009 movie]]. However, at one point Watson looks at some bottles, picks one up and says disgustedly, "You do know what you're drinking is for ''eye surgery''." Cocaine was used as a topical anesthetic in eye surgeries, an application first discovered in the late 1800s.
* In ''Film/BringingUpBaby'', while David is taking a shower, Susan secretly takes away his clothes to get him to stay. He is forced instead to wear her frilly bathrobe and answers the door in this bathrobe. The following scene is arguably the first time the word "gay" was used in a film to mean "homosexual", and the meaning would have been lost on most audiences back when the film was made.

* ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. Loki calls Natasha Romanoff a "mewling quim" which is Victorian era slang for "whining [[CountryMatters cunt]]". WordOfGod is that the Radar actually caught this, gave the director a stern talking to, then let him air the joke anyway.

** During the scene where Dana is captured by Zuul, several demonic arms burst out of her chair and hold her down; one hand very clearly gropes her on the left breast. In the original cut of the scene, her breast actually [[WardrobeMalfunction pops out of her top]] as she's struggling. It happens so quickly that the censors missed it, and the scene was allowed to air on TV for ''years''.

** Even in the sequel, the subtle jokes fly. Such as Egon noting the ladies in the lab are more than likely interested in his ''epididymis'' (a ''very'' scientific reference to the obvious).
* ''Film/{{Hook}}'': During the kid's baseball game in Neverland, a banner can be clearly seen advertising some sort of business: "Pussycat -- Come and give us a peek".
** The same sign is seen earlier in the movie, hanging over a house-ship occupied by heavily made-up women in low-cut dresses. It's also hinted that Smee is a regular customer: when one of the ladies sees him coming, she announces, "Put on your faces, girls! Here comes Smee!" (Prompting the rest to happily coo his name.)
* In ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'', the Teddy Roosevelt character has [[spoiler:from his hips to the bottom of his chest flattened by a mail coach]]. Sacajawea uses a lit candle to soften and pour the wax to re-mold the damage to his midsection. The "oh boy" moan ''could'' have been bracing himself for the pain, but let's pretend that it's not.

* In Music/TheBeatles' first movie ''Film/AHardDaysNight'', John jokingly [[StealthPun "snorts" his unopened bottle of Coke.]]
* The 1934 film version of ''Film/{{The Merry Widow|1934}}'', directed by Ernst Lubitsch, had minor cuts imposed on it as UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode was starting to come into effect. Left in was the close-up during the trial scene of Danilo's handcuffs, which are personally engraved.

* In the first ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'' movie, there are some hints that Dana, the elder daughter, goes on dates with boys to have sex with them, but they're kept a secret from her parents. Stronger if you pay attention to a scene near the end of the movie: the family is about to move out of the house, but Dana is going out to see "some friends". Her mother tells her the name of the hotel where they plan to stay the night and Dana just says "oh, yes..." and smiles, implying that she knows that place pretty well and that she remembers something that happened there. Her mother catches this and asks her about it, but Dana waves it away by changing the topic. She leaves the scene and we don't see her until the end of the movie, where she returns home, sees all the ruckus and yells "What's going on?!" If you look closely at her neck on both sides, you will see lovebites...

* In the 1989 Filipino film ''Si Malakas at Si Maganda'', Vic Sotto's character chants a magic spell that goes "angna-angna, sunilakihin, somaskidot, moko-moko." When these seemingly made-up words are arranged from top to bottom, the syllables can be arranged to make up the sentence "ang suso mo nilamas ko, ang kiki mo, nahindot ko." In English, this means "your breasts I mashed, your pussy I fucked."

** In one short, Curly tells a women they should play "Post Office," she replies, "That's a kid's game." Curly says "Not the way I PLAY it..."

** The Gozer, the "Gatekeeper" inhabits the body of the female Dana, while Vinz Klortho the "Keymaster" inhabits the male Louis Tully. They start making out when they "get together," and it's heavily implied that Vinz puts his "key" in Gozer's "gate."

** For that matter, at the end of the film Dana is the "Gatekeeper" and Louis is the "Keymaster." Guess how it's ''very'' heavily implied they unlocked the door between worlds in order to allow Gozer through.

* Speaking of PG, one wonders how Creator/MelBrooks got that rating on his space parody ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''. The movie includes: several {{Groin Attack}}s by AgonyBeam and a RunningGag revolving around that, the ''[[FlippingTheBird bras d'honneur]]'' being used as a ''salute'' (not to mention one explicit use of the Finger), a gag revolving around much of the Spaceball crew belonging to a family named "Asshole," assorted {{Double Entendre}}s and some pretty bare-faced sexual innuendo, several uses of the word "shit" and exactly ''[[PrecisionFStrike one]]'' use of the word "fuck".

* ''Film/CitizenKane'' has Rosebud. That is, if the [[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1989/aug/17/rosebud/ source]] is a reliable one.

'''Crassus:''' My robe, Antoninus. [[BiTheWay My taste includes both snails and oysters.]]