Cartoon moments: Getting crap past the radar

My friend told me he was watching Cow and Chicken recently, and when watching it with Closed Captioning on he realized they managed to get away with naming some tribe as "the Asswi-pes".
 
It's not a cartoon, but it's in the 'close enough' category I suppose:

Pee-Wee's Playhouse was LOADED with stuff getting past the radar, especially when it came to Miss Yvonne. Some examples:

- Pee-Wee using the 'shoe mirror' gag to look up Miss Yvonne's dress while playing doctor.

- While daydreaming he's a superhero, Pee-Wee uses his x-ray vision in a not very subtle way to look under her clothes.

- After putting out a fire, Miss Yvonne hits on the fireman.

"You know, I have a smoke detector. It's over my bed."

I kid you not, these actually were broadcast on CBS Saturday Morning.
 
Yeah that aired last night actually. Another cartoon in the same half hour (I forgot the name) had Chicken thinking he was a girl because the Red Guy placed an egg in his bed. At one point he's having sundaes with Flem and Earl and both of them keep asking Chicken to take their cherries.

Wow.
 
Near the end of the episode "Shadow of Courage" in Courage the Cowardly Dog we see the shadow guy make a shadow of Muriel pulling her head off with drips of blood coming from it. I just saw the episode and I was extremely suprised they got away with showing that on a kid's show.
 
Today I was watching "Martha Speaks" and the second segment was about habits. So then, it shows a scene where Truman is about to suck his thumb but immediately remembers not to do that and then he puts his hand, with thumb still sticking out, under his, well butt. :p

And in the end of the "Cyberchase" episode about Valentine's Day, Inez and Jackie find Matt's Valentine's Card and they both kiss him at the same time on opposite cheek and he turns red.
 
In the Justice League Unlimited episode "Shadow Of The Hawk", there's the ourageously suggestive moment where Carter Hall, ogling Hawkgirl's figure, says "I sure miss that dress", to which she purrs in reply, "You didn't miss it last night". :eek:
 
I fail to see how that qualifies, given that it's a play on the title Freaky Friday.

In the "T.U.F.F. Puppy" episode "Dog Daze", the Chief is sure that his pies will be a hit. However...

Keswick: "His pies taste like sh-sh-shshsh-shoes!"
 
Avatar, The Last Airbender: In "The Beach", a character (it's on the tip of tongue but I can't remember the name) sees a painting of two ladies posing in bikinis and asks who it is. The old ladies respond, "It's us! Can't you tell?" and turn around and do the same pose in the picture. And the shot we get of their pose is rather suggestive...and did they change into their bikinis that fast or...?
 
On a forum for the show Codename: Kids Next Door, we came up with this list of "Past the Radar" moments:

Season 1
ARCTIC-- Numbuhs 1, 2, 3,and 5 lose their clothes when they get blasted by a torpedo-like device.
LIZZIE-- After Lizzie says, "I'm sorry about yesterday, and I want to patch things up," Wally mutters under his breath, "Are you gonna do it?"
POINT-- In this episode, the kids investigate what teenagers are doing at "the point." Seems suggestive.
QUIET-- When Numbuh 3 starts teasing Numbuh 4 (disguised as Numbuh 1) after he returns, she is doing a naughty dance.

Season 2
SUPPORT-- Numbuhs 1 and 2 investigate what Numbuh 5's older sister Cree is doing with bras. How this ENTIRE episode got past the censors I'll never know!

Season 3
GRADUATES-- After Numbuh 86 gets turned into a dog: "Well that figures."

Season 4
SITTER-- Numbuh 2: (Purrs) Kitty's got claws!

Season 5
MAURICE-- Cree flirting with Maurice
FERAL-- Numbuh 1 and Lizzie making out after Numbuh 1 is "ape-ified."
HOLIDAY-- Numbuh 2: She (Numbuh 10) can fly my ships any day!
MISSION-- Stickybeard: Blow it out your port-hole!

Season 6
PARTY-- Cree flirting with Maurice
INTERVIEWS-- The "Drop a Log" ride.
 
The episode of Spongebob where Squidward conducts Spongebob and Patrick in a symphony. In one scene you see Patrick standing there in a hospital gown with his back to Spongebob, who, and slips on a rubber glove. He reaches over (off camera) and you hear squeaking sounds. The camera pans over and you see he's just squeezing a rubber duck.
 
There was an episode of The Mask were the mayor was attacked by a crazy woman covered in dynamite. But the green wacko manages to take away her explosives, leaving her completely naked.
And earlier in the same episode The Mask made a pizza customer loose his appetite by opening his chest and showing his organs.
 
On the episode "When Calls Galactus" from the 90's Fantastic Four, we meet Frankie Raye, who turns out to have Human Torch powers. First thing she does upon bursting into flames is she flies too high and her flame burns out due to lack of oxygen in the upper atmosphere. When Johnny catches her, there's no getting around the fact that she's burned off all her clothes.

Funnily enough, when the character was intro'd in the comics, John Byrne devised this convoluted origin that basically explained how a flame-proof costume appears on her when she's naked. I guess since they didn't have time to do that on the cartoon, they were instead just reeeeealy careful with the camera angles when her flame goes out mid-flight.
 
My favorite Angry Beavers line, and probably the first "adult humor" line I remember seeing in a cartoon.

Here's one I caught from The Penguins of Madagascar:

King Julien: I do not intend to fail. I intend to do the opposite of fail!
Marlene: You mean...succeed?
King Julien: No, I will not suck seed. No one will be sucking seed!

Another episode full of blatantly obvious Rico/Julien ship tease had Julien saying "You know, I could think of a many other things that could use a good... kabooming... if you know what I mean." while giving Rico bedroom eyes.
 
In the Cow and Chicken episode "Boneless Kite", their cousin Boneless Chicken gets literally tangled in a kite duel between the Red Guy and some asswipes...or "as-wee-pays", as it was pronounced. The credits for the episode actually spell it "asswipe".

On the anime front, in .hack//SIGN a relationship emerges between the female character Subaru and the male character Tsukasa, which makes it surprising that this show aired on Cartoon Network when you take into account that
Tsukasa turns out to be a girl in real life.
And they're still together at the end of the series.

Another Rocko one: Heffer's brother Peter leaves the house dressed in a cheerleader's outfit. After George reacts, Virginia replies "we were afraid to tell you."
 
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