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** In "George Discovers How Mescal-ed Up His Life Would Have Been Without the Benny-fits", George rants about how Benny never took him to Treetop Rangers camp when he was a kid, and he laments that he has to invent his own Indian name for himself: [[DoubleEntendre "Boy Who]] [[ADateWithRosiePalms Plays with Himself"]].

--->'''Sheldon:''' The show must go on; and thankfully, all the things my girlfriend used to do can be [[ADateWithRosiePalms taken care of with my right hand.]]

** When former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens made his infamous "[[StupidStatementDanceMix series of tubes]]" speech, he claimed that "Your message can be delayed by anyone who puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material." Jon responds with the best way ever of saying that someone is full of crap.

* On the current version of the [[AvoidTheDreadedGRating TV-G-rated]] ''[[Series/LetsMakeADeal Let's Make a Deal]]'', host Wayne Brady and [[TheAnnouncer announcer]] Jonathan Mangum (sometimes - although very rarely - joined by [[GirlNextDoor model Tiffany Coyne]]) have turned this into an artform. (Ironically, on sister show ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', host Drew Carey, whose [[CompromisingMemoirs memoirs]] were entitled ''Dirty Jokes and Beer'', almost never does this.) In one of the slicker examples, Mangum came out with a miniature box (much smaller than the typical Small Box), and Brady teased him about the tininess of his box, even using a [[HeliumSpeech squeaky voice]] and saying, "[[TeenyWeenie It's not the size of the box, it's what's inside.]]" When Mangum revealed the prize (a trip to [[WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon Jamaica]]), he referenced the punchline to an [[OlderThanDirt old joke]] regarding the comparative sizes of white men's penises and [[BlackIsBiggerInBed black men's penises]].

First Presenter: And [[ADateWithRosiePalms baiters]].

** In the episode where Kripke badgers Sheldon for the specifics of Sheldon's non-existent sex life with Amy, they are standing in front of a whteboard bestrewn with advanced formulii. Right next to Kripke's head is a set of complex nested brackets and maths terms drawn to look like the classic toilet-wall "cock-and-balls".

** According to [[WordOfGod Rick Mitz's The Great Sitcom Book]], Robin Williams was often looking for ways to improve the show's humor by improvisation: "Sometimes I have an idea I want to go with-- like Mork falling in love with a manikin and then breaking up with her", he explained. I don't know what I'm going to do or say until I do it. I improvise about one-third of my dialogue. The director gives me a time slot and I fill it. I walk all over the script. I pick up a verbal shotgun and go berserk."... But he added a warning to himself: "You can 'nanoo' your heart out. It would be very easy to do that. So I try to work on several levels at once, to slip in tiny innuendos. It's a game I play with the censors called [[LampshadeHanging "Getting Shit Through the Radar."]] Yiddish is good because the censor is Spanish. She knows what 'putz' means. [[note]] Yiddish for penis.[[/note]]

* ''Radar/{{Monk}}''

** The video's gone down the memory hole, but [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} TOW]] has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_protests fairly comprehensive coverage]]. 'Teabagger' later became runner-up for the Oxford English Dictionary New Word of the Year, for which [[Series/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann Keith Olbermann]] is claiming some responsibility.

* ''Series/MatchGame'' The CBS version built its ''reputation'' on seeing how much they could get away with. The most frequent example comes with questions that involved a female and a pluralized blank, leading at least one member of the panel (but far more often, most of the six celebs) to respond "boobs."

* ''Radar/TheMonkees''

* ''Radar/ICarly''

* ''Radar/PowerRangers''

* ''Radar/UltramanGeed''

* ''Radar/{{Victorious}}''

* In a flashback on ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'', Felix tells Oscar he has to marry Gloria. "[[ShotgunWedding You]] ''[[ShotgunWedding have]]'' [[ShotgunWedding to marry her?]] A man who covers up every piece of furniture with plastic, and you ''have'' to marry her!?"

[[quoteright:350:[[Series/MorkAndMindy https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Tickled.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:He's just getting tickled...honest!]]

*** ->'''Fred:''' Don't let it go to your head.\\

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' got away with a doozy (again, for its time). In "Goodbye Radar pt. 2", a generator is stolen and Klinger wheels and deals for another one. An enormous major shows up at the depot and announces he's here for HIS generator, and Max mutters ''Ya ibn kalb!'' Let's just say that "ibn" is Arabic for "son."
** It means "son of a dog". Take from that what you will.

* Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything actually got away with saying damn (at least, according to the closed-captioning) in "The Stings"at around the 2-4 minute mark. How the bloody hell that was approved, ''we will NEVER, EVER'' know. The censors were quite clearly on vacation for that to slip by. The quote is below:

---> '''Cordelia:''' "I know Lorne pays you to cast this spell. What will it take for you to lift it?"
---> '''Furies:''' "This is not a debt you can pay."
---> '''Cordelia:''' "You don't know that. My credit has been ''very'' good this last year."
---> '''Furies:''' "[[VampiresAreSexGods Only Angel is equipped to make good on this debt.]]"
---> '''Cordelia:''' Angel, I don't know. For a guy who's a couple of centuries old--not very big with the wise investing...and when you say 'equipped' that isn't what you mean, is it?"
---> '''Furies:''' "[[CatchPhrase Mmm, Angel.]]"

** In the episode "Pseudoscience," he mentions the belief that lightning was the work of "a guy named Zeus," and contrasts it with the more interesting reality of the phenomenon. From the eyes of a child familiar with the broader context of Zeus, a baffling reduction of his role - to adult eyes (especially in light of his later career), a transparent substitute for something Disney and PBS wouldn't have let him say in "millions and millions of years."

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--->'''Fred:''' Don't let it go to your head.
--->'''Gunn:''' That's not the direction it's flowing. (kiss)

* ''Radar/BananasInPyjamas''

* ''Radar/TheBigComfyCouch''

* ''Radar/ThePhilSilversShow''

** Arguably the show's entire premise counts. For context, it came out at a time when criticizing the Vietnam War was seen as unpatriotic at best and downright treasonous at worst. M.A.S.H., however, was able to get away with those themes because it was set during the ''Korean'' war, even though the Vietnam parallels were obvious to viewers.

* ''Radar/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''

** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E11ElaanOfTroyius Elaan of Troyius]]", Kirk, shirtless, sits on his bed to talk on the intercom and Elaan is lying down next to him.

** In "[[Recap/AngelS0403TheHouseAlwaysWins The House Always Wins]]", Wesley sexually controls Lilah on the phone, telling her to take off her panties during a meeting? It wasn't a schoolgirl outfit, it was a Fred outfit. Still, how role playing made it past the radar is amazing.

*** Special Guest Star Raquel Welch's two henchwomen are named [[Literature/{{Kamasutra}} Kama and Sutra]].

** And then there was Mindy's landlord. his name went unremarked in America but Robin Williams, who grew up for part of his youth in Scotland, knew ''exactly'' why it made parents in Britain choke on their Sunday evening tea. The rest of the cast must have been in on the joke, as all involved placed extra stresses on the name ''Mr Wanker'' whenever it came up in the script.

** Firefly gets bonus points for this one being found by someone who lip reads. In the episode "Trash", Mal ends up quite naked. Wash cannot be heard, but by lip reading, you find out that he said "[[http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2aljri/redditors_who_are_deaf_andor_can_read_lips_what/ I didn't know Mal was Jewish]]."

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' has topless women appear uncensored many, many times.[[note]]Unremarkable today outside the USA, but the original TV show dates from a time when even British TV was prudish about these things and only allowed female nipples to be seen, very sparingly, very late at night[[/note]] Add to that all the dirty jokes. But in one of Terry Gilliam's animations, the word "cancer" was considered too offensive and was, rather obviously (the narrator's voice changes dramatically) changed to "gangrene".

*** There were complaints afterward. The BBC responded by editing the punchline out of the master recordings, so it's nowhere to be found on the DVD release. The punchline was put back into the sketch on ''Monty Python's Previous Record'' and was used in live show, as heard in ''Live at the Hollywood Bowl''.

--->'''Michael Palin''': *All are starving in a lifeboat* Still no sign of land...how long is it?
--->'''Graham Chapman''': [[spoiler:That's a rather personal question, sir!]]

** The only reference to masturbation in the entire Star Trek universe comes from Rom in Deep Space Nine, after he got sick from a near-fatal ear infection.

** And ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' is far more adult oriented than TNG or Voyager, so there are several other risqué references by the other characters:

** In an episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', a disease-addled Sulu bursts onto the bridge armed with a sword, sweeps Uhura up in his arm, and says "Aha, fair maiden!" Uhura says "Sorry, ''neither!"'' and elbows him. ...because she's neither "fair" (she's black) [[OfCourseImNotAVirgin nor a maiden.]] (In the 1960s, yes, that did have to go under the radar.)
** The most classic instance from original Trek: In "Wink of an Eye", one act has a time-accelerated Kirk and Deela in his quarters, after she's told him she wants him as her consort while the rest of the crew is to be cryogenically frozen to allow the Scalosians to rebuild their population from their breeding stock. She's coming on to him. The scene cuts to another scene with the rest of the crew trying to figure out where Kirk went, then goes to a commercial. When it comes back, Kirk and Deela are in their quarters. She's brushing her hair and he's putting his boots back on.
** In "Elaan of Troyius", Shatner, shirtless, sits on his bed to talk on the intercom and Elaan is lying down next to him.

* Back in TheSixties, U.S. TV networks, particularly Creator/{{NBC}}, wouldn't allow women to show their belly buttons, most famously affecting Jeannie on ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie''. In the original ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' episode "Mirror, Mirror", Uhura's mirror outfit included a bare midriff and her navel is visible in several shots. The producers achieved this simply by having someone take the Standards guy out to lunch and lowering the bottom half of her costume while he was gone. The shots with her bare navel were edited into the episodes and evidently no one caught it.

* ''Buffy'''s spinoff, ''Series/{{Angel}}'', which sure as heck got more than its share of crap past the radar -- and Joss (and other writers) comments on it in several episode commentaries. Examples include:
** In "That Old Gang of Mine" Cordelia is sent to ask the Furies to lift a spell.

** The scene in "Waiting in the Wings" where Angel and Cordy get trapped in a room that has a...somewhat erotic effect due to ghostly presences. When they leave, Cordy makes a comment to the effect of "Thank god the effect only lasts in that room..." whereupon Angel glances down, agrees with her, and hastily whips off his tux jacket and drapes it to cover... certain areas.
** From the same episode, Fred happily telling Cordy that [[TooMuchInformation her first sexual dream was about the Mouse King]].

** Wesley sexually controls Lilah on the phone, telling her to take off her panties during a meeting? It wasn't a schoolgirl outfit, it was a Fred outfit. Still, how role playing made it past the radar is amazing.

** Squicky dirty talk, ''Hell Bound''. Pavayne seems to be torturing Spike in an unusually, er, playful way. It's gone from sadistic vibes to outright [[NoYay rape vibes]]. Were Spike female, they would have gotten away with having a domineering older man strip him naked, cut him up, and talk about the ''naughty'' things Spike's done.

** In the episode "Deep Down", Lorne says take care of Fluffy to Fred. Fred say to Gunn, "You don't think he's referring to anything of mine that's fluffy, cause that would just be inappropriate."
** In "Deep Down":

** Faith gets a few good ones in during "Salvage"

** Kate Lockley is nervous about giving a speech for her father's retirement party. Angel suggests she try to ImagineTheAudienceNaked. Kate's eyes flick downward to check out Angel's body and she mutters "Way ahead of you."
** Angel sleeps with Darla and [[YouNeedToGetLaid feels a lot better afterwards]].

** "Smile Time". [[TheChewToy Angel gets turned into a puppet, then mauled by his werewolf love interest]] who wakes up naked the next day with white Angel stuffing in her mouth. "I ate him!"