Cartoon moments: Getting crap past the radar

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Did I really read this whole thread and see nothing from Animaniacs? Just from Nostalgia Critic's special alone.

Dot: I found Prince
Yakko: No... finger prints!
Dot: I don't think so... (as she throws Prince out a window)

Wakko: You forgot Uranus

The whole lake Titikaka song.
 
Well, for any who don't know, "getting crap past the radar" means to have something from a cartoon that's ordinarily deemed inappropriate for kids slip past the censors and air. So what are your favorite cartoon moments of this? So this won't end up as a list thread, feel free to post links and discuss.

There's many to choose from, but one that immediately comes to mine is the ever popular Animaniacs "Fingerprints" clip.
 
:^: Fun fact: Him was partially inspired by the Blue Meanies from Yellow Submarine, whom Craig McCracken admitted to being scared of as a child.
 
  • In an episode of The Flintstones, Wilma is pregnant with Pebbles, and is close to giving birth. At one point, she informs Fred and Barney, who rush to get her to the hospital, making various mistakes along the way. Finally, Barney and Fred spirit Wilma into the hospital, but Barney moves so fast through the revolving door of the hospital, that Fred is spun out and across the street, through the revolving door of a hotel, and slams against the front desk. Innocently enough, he states the truth to the clerk, whom he thinks is a hospital admissions clerk, "I'm looking for my wife, she just came in here with my best friend." The Desk Clerk, responds with "Look, we don't want any trouble." Fred, not realizing the double entendre he's just made, says, "What kind of a hospital is this?" To which the desk clerk responds, "This is a hotel, the hospital is across the street."
  • Cow And Chicken. WHERE DO WE START?!?!
    • The Red Guy (apart from the fact that he was basically, you know, Satan) was always a champion of butt-related puns ("Ben Panced", "Ivan Panced," "Larry Lackapants," "Baron von Neinlederhosen," "Officer Pantsoffski", "Rear Admiral Floyd", "Mrs. Barederriere," "Geraldo Rearviewa" among many other pseudonyms), but he may have crossed the line (twice) in one episode where he involved himself with an island tribe called the "Asswipe"- pronounced "az-wee-pay" (but showed up quite clearly on the closed captions).
    • Perhaps the most egregious of these, though, was an episode where he crossdresses as a Charm School mistress. The name? Mrs. Beaver. Think about that in the context of nudity-related puns!
    • Plus, you know, the fact a human woman gave birth to a chicken and a bipedal cow while her husband didn't think twice about it. ("Dad was proud, and he didn't care how!")
      • Last time I checked humans didn't stop right before the torso...
      • Actually, this troper remembers several similar innuendos in Cow and Chicken, the whole family of Cow and Chicken for example, there was a great grandfather that was married to a hen (an actual hen, that didn't talk or anything), there was also an episode in which an aunt who married a slug appeared, along with her son, a slug-human hybrid. And there was an episode in which Cow got an invisible dog as a pet. The dog get lost, and at the end of the episode the new owner of the dog visits Cow, along with the dog and his puppies, and it's implied that the new owner, who is A MAN, is the MOTHER of the puppies.
    • Cow and Chicken also appeared in a parody of the "Got Milk" commercials, where Chicken decides to bulk up to impress the ladies. He takes a trip to the "Ben Panced School of Getting Beefy", where the Red Guy takes him into a cafeteria full of shirtless sumo wrestlers stuffing their faces, as he tells Chicken "My sumo food will make you big and fat! Just look what it done to these third-grade girls."
    • In the episode where they go to a prison, Cow asks Chicken "Do you want to suck my teat?" Come to think of it, when you consider that an udder is basically a cow equivalent of breasts, the many milk jokes in the show take on a whole new meaning.
    • Not to mention the episode where a spectral milkman created from Cow's nightmares chases Chicken, Flem and Earl. Who is introduced with the following line: Milkman: I smell MILK! Little BOY MILK and little CHICKEN MILK!
    • Not to mention the literally carpet-munching Badass Biker women in the later banned episode "Buffalo Gals". Well it did get past the radar.
    • Or what about that episode in which Chicken believes that he laid an egg, so everybody (even Chicken) believes that he is actually a girl, and he dates both Flem and Earl.
      • That episode made this troper nearly choke to death while drinking water. When chicken is on his date with Flem and Earl, they go to an ice cream shop, and Flem and Earl have a large ice cream with a cherry on top. This leads to Flem (or Earl) yelling, "Take my cherry, chicken" repeatedly (while offering Chicken the cherry from his ice cream.) It is amazing that this got past any censor. The writers must've celebrated that night.
      • "Boys, boys, please. I've got my own cherry."
    • "I've got Crabs! The warthog doll."
 
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The entire episode of The Powerpuff Girls where the girls race so fast the travel 50 years into the future causing the entire world to go to Hell (or "Heck" as they refer to it in the show) was pretty shocking in itself considering that this is a children's cartoon we're talking about.
 
The rather-obscure Three Friends & Jerry was pretty much a South Park lite, despite airing on Nickelodeon and Fox Family (now ABC Family). It had things you wouldn't normally see or hear on "kids'" shows: pornography, voyeurism, alcoholism, devil worship, murder, vandalism, theft, fraud, and many other morally-questionable things dealt in a light fashion.

Also from the same creator, Da M?b had words like "damn" said out loud, and it was broadcast that way also on Fox Family.
 
Do those really qualify for this thread? Both shows have a much higher rating than typical CN cartoons of the past and the press releases do mention these shows are meant for an older audience.
 
Man, it's....really difficult to avoid temptation and not go directly to TV Tropes and scope the extensive list there :P

Powerpuff Girls has an awful lot of this, ie. that one episode in which Sedusa disguises herself as Miss Bellum.
But the one that always sticks in my mind was the episode title 'Forced Kin'.
Yeah. Definately had to catch a repeat airing to check my eyes weren't playing tricks on me.
 
They might still be getting past the radar but they're considerably more blatant and obvious.

I'm watching Superman: TAS right now and Lois just looked at a picture of Superman and she said "Nice S". Gotta love 90s Warner Bros. cartoons for their word play.
 
Another Spongebob moment:

While making a sundae with some rather... nasty ingredients, Spongebob decides to add peanuts to the mixture, but he's all out.

"Wait, I know where we can find peanuts!"

Cue Spongebob looking into the bathroom at the toilet... just before he reveals a peanut plant in the window above the toilet.
 
I always wondered about this line from an episode of "Superman: the Animated Series":

Mala: You have performed well, Alterus. As you always do.:o

Lois even once said, while looking at a picture of Superman, nice "S".
 
From Batman: TAS:

Harley Quinn, dressed a cop, comes to take 'The Man Who Killed Batman' out of police custody. Bullock recognizes her. "Don't I know you?"

"I gave you a subpeona once," said Harley. "It was a small subpeona."
 
In the Southern Raiders episode of Avatar, there is one scene where Zuko goes into Sokka's tent and finds him with little clothes on and with a rose in his mouth. After Zuko leaves the tent, Sokka yells out for Suki, his girlfriend, and is seen the next day with a lei.
 
Not sure if it was mentioned, but in the Teen Titans episode "Fear Itself", there's a moment where all five titans fall down together, and off-screen Starfire yells "Someone's hands are on my grebnaks!", Beast Boy then quickly stands up, flushed red, and quickly says "Heh... my bad."
 
Rocko's Modern Life has too many examples to list, but one comes to mind occurs in "Gutter Balls". Ed Bighead goes to Rocko's house to dupe Rocko and his friends into becoming a patsy bowling team so his team can beat them and win the tournament. He asks Rocko if he'd be interested in playing a game, and Rocko replies, "We're already playing a game," then cut to Heffer and Filburt who are seated at a table playing a board game, which depicts a plastic monkey figurine on the board sticking its' rear out, while Filburt and Heffer and brandishing paddles.

Also, on Wacky Races, take a gander at Peter Perfect's car, the Turbo Terrific:

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Looking at it with adult eyes, its' basic shape is somewhat suggestive, don't you think? :sweat:
 
In the 2nd season of Beast Wars, when the other Maximals begin to pick up on Silverbolt's love interest with Blackarachia, Rattrap turns to Silverbolt and asks, "Been scoutin' the enemy, eh? Find any new positions?"

Also, in the Powerpuff Girls episode "Child Fearing" when the girls are talking about Napoleon, Buttercup states that he "died a miserable death from stomach cancer." Not dirty, but I'm just surprised CN allowed them to say that. Guess it's okay if it's legitimate history.
 
Part of that can be contributed to the fact that the show was made in Sweden, and that the creator was the same person behind the music video for Radiohead's "Paranoid Android".
 
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