Banned episodes that didn't deserve to be banned

Oh, I've never heard of the Censored 11, I just looked it up on Wikipedia....seems pretty interesting. I might have to try to watch some of these to see how bad some of this stuff is.
 
Well in Network Executive Land 1 complaint equals a billion angry viewers, so going by that, they had 3 billion angry viewers.


And yeah, banning the Supernova episode is rediculous. So if the episode did promote drug use, they'd probably would still be airing it.
 
WTTW PBS Chicago once banned the Season 3 Arthur episode "Popular Girls/Buster's Growing Grudge" from 2004-2005.

Hope WTTW is not temporary banning 2 season 11 Arthur episodes - "Buenas Noches, Vicita/Prunella Packs it In" and "Phony Fern/Brain's Shocking Secret".
 
Hmmm, interesting this thread is being brought up again. And it reminds me that there wasn't any talk of the Family Guy "When You Wish Upon A Wienstein" episode being banned for awhile. In case you didn't know the whole story, FOX and the network had censors had problems with the episode parodying jews but only when it was finished and ready to air did they deem it unsuitable for TV. Which seems pretty ridicolous to me but it was banned during FG's first run on FOX, and only first aired on Adult Swim November 9th, 2003. And even then it was sort of edited (they had to change the line "Even though they killed my lord" to it's alternate version "I don't think they killed my lord"). Speaking of editting when FOX finally did air the ep (in Christmas 2004 along with the "Freaking Family Guy Christmas Special" ep) it was even moreso edited, beginning the policy of Adult Swim versions of Family Guy episodes being more uneditted and "offensive" then the FOX versions of the eps.
 
Frankly, there shouldn't have been any problems airing the episode as some of those who worked on the show I believe were Jewish and had no problem with the episode.
 
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Song of the South. even though there was nothing wrong with the cartoon subjects the film was banned only in the US for "the unrealistic and idealist portrayal of slavery."

OK then, why not ban Gone With the Wind for the same reason. However there is no slavery in the film because the movie takes place after the Civil War.

Fortunately I was able to get the DVD from Canada over the Internet. Coal Black was also on it.
 
Like I said, it discourages the use of drugs. If the episode glorified drug use, then it would be pulled.

Yeah, I know that's not true, but unless they got complaints about it, then it should still air with no problem.
 
I don't recall any episodes being banned during its original run on Fox Kids, but I do remember seeing it when it ran during the early days of Toon Disney they replaced Fuji's voice completely with a different actor - with no discernable accent.

Chances are if Warner Bros.' Coal Black was on a DVD of Disney's Song of the South, it was a bootleg. I think it might be available in other countries, but Song of the South has not been released in Canada.
 
You're probably thinking of "All This and Rabbit Stew", which is also on the Censored 11 list. A 1941 Tex Avery cartoon, it pits a black hunter (sometimes called Sambo by those who've seen the cartoon) against Bugs in a series of spot gags, much akin to "A Wild Hare" a year earlier, but wilder and more fast paced. Bugs one-ups the hunter in a dice game in which he wins the hunter's clothes (and there's a very funny gag at the end of the cartoon in which the hunter stands there, wearing nothing but a fig leaf, and says "Well, just call me Adam!" - and as the iris closes on the cartoon, Bugs rushes in, reaches through the hole, and grabs the leaf to display it to the audience).

It's the only Bugs Bunny cartoon on the Censored 11, but it's by no means the only Bugs cartoon to be banned. The cartoon is also part of the 12 Missing Hares, which were a series of cartoons that were withheld from Cartoon Network's 2001 June Bugs marathon. Among the others are:

- "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" (banned for its portrayal of Native Americans)
- "A Feather in His Hare" (also banned for its portrayal of Native Americans)
- "Horse Hare" (same as the above two cartoons)
- "Mississippi Hare" (banned for its setting of the slavery-era Southern United States)
- "What's Cookin', Doc?" (banned for featuring a lengthy clip of "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt)
- "Frigid Hare" (banned for its portrayal of Eskimos)
- "Any Bonds Today?" (banned for a scene in which Bugs does a blackface impression of Al Jolson)
- "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" (banned for its wartime portrayal of the Japanese)
- "Herr Meets Hare" (banned for its depictions of Hermann Goering and Adolf Hitler)
- "Witch is Which?" (banned for its portrayal of African natives)
- "Bushy Hare" (banned for its portrayal of Australian natives)

Since "Frigid Hare" was on the first Looney Tunes Golden Collection, and "Mississippi Hare" is slated for the fourth, I think it's safe to say that Warner Bros. Home Video doesn't have the same qualms with these cartoons that Cartoon Network did.
 
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