20 Creators That Schemed Their Way Past Censors

Turns out pixelation isn’t the only way to get around that NC-17 rating.
20 Creators That Schemed Their Way Past Censors

Scenes where movies and tv shows get by the censors have almost always resulted in more unforgettable and hilarious onscreen encounters. Censors may be inconvenient, but they force directors to be inventive; after all, it is thanks to censors that perhaps the cinematic genre exists. Although uncensored TV shows and films have their own charm, directors sometimes have had more fun sneaking things through than if they'd been free to do whatever they wanted. And that is what keeps these sometimes contentious movies and Television series so entertaining: viewers are invited to join in on the joke with a laugh and a poke.

In theory, the rating system for movies, TV, games, music, and other media is a wonderful thing. It assists consumers in making informed entertainment decisions. But it doesn't stop innovators from coming up with delightfully ingenious ways to get through the censors. These entertaining methods might occasionally backfire and can result in films with incomprehensible moments. However, the often subversive manner in which filmmakers got away with this stuff has only added to their appeal to spectators.

SOUTH PARK THE PLTRE BUT WHOLE aBt M Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were told that their game would never be allowed on store shelves with butth
To get the extremely bloody and violent film TAXI DRIVER into receiving an R rating instead of X, director Martin Scorsese desaturated the film. This
CRACKED COM I haven't been f*cked like that since grade school. Fight Club's iconic line was actually more light than the one originally intended.
Dilbert creator Scott Adams once submitted a strip showing a cop firing a gun. It got rejected. POLICE NEGOTIATOR ILL LEAVE AN EVALUATION FORM SURREND
CRACKEDCOMT The word 'pregnancy' was considered too inflammatory for T LOUE LUCY CBS thought it was too racy to have a pregnant woman on TV. but relen
ABC said that Fonzie could only wear his leather jacket when he was next to his bike. HA THD Henry Winkler got around it by telling the writers to alw
The network didn't want to show two womem in sexual al relationship om #uffy the Yaimpire Slayer In the episode Once More with Feeling, Tara and Wil
The NBC wanted to cut TV'S first scripted interracial kiss, but William Shatner sabotaged the censored versions. Kirk's and Uhura's kiss on Star Trek
The 1999 South Park film was originally named: South Park:All Hell Breaks LoOSE The MPAA didn't allow Trey Parker and Matt Stone to use the word He
CRACKED.COM JOHN CARPENTER'S ON ASSAULT PRECINCTI3 INITIALLY RECEIVED AN X RATING FOR THE SCENE WHERE KIM RICHARDS' CHARACTER IS SHOT WHILE BUYING ICE
In the 1980s, parents disapproved of the PG rating for movies like Gremlins and Indiana Jones, SO Steven Spielberg invented the PG-13 rating for his f
REN & STIMPY CREATORS OFTEN PUT IN RED HERRING JOKES TO DISTRAGT PCENSORS. In one particular episode, Prehistoric Stimpy, censors missed the red her
Director Brian De Palma had to tone down Scarface's violence manY times to appease the MPAA. Yet, they wouldn't budge and insisted on giving the film
FAMILY GUY'S 2005 KEVIN SPACEY IS A SEXUAL PREDATOR JOKE GOT BY FOX CENSORS BECAUSE IT WAS AKNOWN RUMOR AT THE TIME. Reportedly, Fox Standards and P
How do you keep a puppet-on-puppet sex scene in your movie and still escape the dreaded NC-17 rating? Simple. Add a golden shower sequence. Trey Parke
Meet the Fockers was almost renamed to Meet the Fokkers, title a that the censorsconsidered to be more family-friendly. Fortunately, Universal Studios
A bald-faced lie helped get an interracial kiss on 1960s television. The TV special, Movin' with Nancy, featured Nancy Sinatra performing with other f
CRACKED GO The Joker is a well- known homicidal maniac in the Batman universe, but the creators of Batman: The Animated Series weren't allowed to show
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The bloodiest scenes in Kill Bill were changed to black and white to make the violence more stylized. It worked; the MPAA approved the R rating for th
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