14 Bonkers Reasons Television Episodes Were Removed From Syndication
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The history of broadcast television is littered with programs that have been banned. Certain television series are deemed excessively risqué again to the average viewer. They must be eliminated, either because of the series' contentious subject matter or because of the impact of current events. On the other hand, some shows have made it through the first-time transmission only to be dropped from the network's schedule.
What are the similarities between Sesame Street and South Park? In addition to themes that sparked some controversy during their time. Here are a few of the oddest reasons why the powers that be decided to cancel a television episode:
We'll look at a couple of various scenarios with restricted episodes. Certain episodes have only been broadcast on the original graph before being taken off the air. On the other hand, dozens of other people were prohibited from the network but instead were re-aired without trouble on other sites.
![STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION The High Ground CRACKED.COM In this episode, Data predicts that a terrorist organization will succeed in reunifying Ireland in the distant year of 2024. The BBC kept it off of British airwaves until 2007, and it still hasn't run in Ireland.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/8/780638.jpg)
Source: BBC
![THE SIMPSONS The City of New York VS. Homer Simpson CRACKED.COM Originally aired in 1997, Fox took it out of rotation for several years following 9/11, since the World Trade Towers feature pretty prominently in the episode. They say New York City is the 6th Simpson! Anyway, the episode is still slightly edited when it runs almost 20 years later.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/6/780626.jpg)
Source: YouTube
![SESAME STREET A month's worth of programming CRACKED.COM This may come as a shock, but the state of Mississippi once suffered from a bad case of institutionalized racism. In 1970, their Commission for Educational Television declared they were not ready for the show's highly integrated cast of children, and banned it for a month](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/9/780629.jpg)
Source: MentalFloss
![THE X-FILES Home CRACKED.COM It's now a fan-favorite episode, but Fox tried very hard to bury this freaky tale of habitual incest, genetic mutation, and infanticide.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/3/780633.jpg)
Source: YouTube
![BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD Comedians ANT NOLE ANATOR Note CRACKED.COM B&B accidentally burn down a comedy club (but only after Beavis suggests they go intentionally burn sh* elsewhere). The pro-arson episode was pulled after two children died in a trailer fire, ostensibly inspired by this episode.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/6/780636.jpg)
Source: YouTube
![THE POWERPUFF GIRLS See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey CRACKED.COM The episode didn't air outside of the UK, and US audiences speculated that it was chock full O' communist propaganda. It turned out to be a classic case of oops our animation is giving kids seizures.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/9/780639.jpg)
Source: IMDB
![HERE COMES HONEY BOO-BOO Season 5 CRACKED.COM This show probably shouldn't have lasted as long as it did, seeing as it further exploited the most exploited minor in a pageant circuit that runs on exploited minors. But the final straw for producers was when Honey Boo-Boo's mother, Mama June, started openly dating a convicted child sex offender.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/4/780634.jpg)
Source: ScreenRant
![MIKE AND MOLLY Windy City CRACKED.COM This 2013 episode, about a tornado hitting Chicago, was supposed to air on May 20- the day a huge tornado hit the town of Moore, Oklahoma. In solidarity, they held the episode for 10 days, or just enough time for non-Oklahoma residents to forget about the whole thing.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/8/780628.jpg)
Source: IMDB
![HAWAII FIVE-0 Bored, She Hung Herself CRACKED.COM This episode featured a (hopefully) fictional form of yoga that involves auto asphyxiation. Someone accidentally died trying to replicate it, and the episode was nuked Due to viewer reaction following the original telecast.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/0/780630.jpg)
Source: IMDB
![LAW AND ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT The Glory That Was... ONE POLICE PLAZA CRACKED.COM This episode has been scrubbed from DVDs and Amazon, most likely due to pressure from the International Olympic Committee and the Brazillian government. It heavily implied high-level bribery was responsible for the 2016 Olympics being held in Rio de Janeiro.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/7/780637.jpg)
Source: IMDB
![BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Earshot CRACKED.COM This story, about a school shooter in a bell tower, was set to air one week after the 1999 Columbine shooting. Even though we find out that this ostensible murderer was merely planning on killing himself, the WB chose to postpone it a few months. Y'know, long enough for everyone to forget about Columbine.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/2/780632.jpg)
Source: YouTube
![BOY MEETS WORLD Prom-ises, Prom-ises CRACKED.COM Disney pulled this episode because it implied Cory and Topanga were open to maybe boning after prom, but it's got some much weirder stuff going on. In essence, Cory accidentally enters a key party-esque situation with his parents, and his dad ends up in a seedy hotel room with his girlfriend.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/5/780635.jpg)
Source: YouTube
![MARRIED... WITH CHILDREN A Period Piece CRACKED.COM A no-girls-allowed camping trip is ruined when girls show up and get their periods at the same time! It sounds like shameless bro bait, but it was the first time a sitcom had tried to deal so directly with menstruation, and Fox was nervous. EP Ron Leavitt said Geraldo burns babies in prime time, and we're just saying women have periods.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/3/1/780631.jpg)
Source: YouTube
![SOUTH PARK 200, 201 CENS CENSORED CRACKED.COM They were trying to one-up their inflmmatory skewering of Tom Cruise and Scientology in Trapped In A Closet, and they did such a good job that Comedy Central bleeped a large portion of the episode. Matt and Trey said the censorship wasn't some meta-joke... In fact, Kyle's final customary speech was about intimidation and fear.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/2/7/780627.jpg)
Source: YouTube