Banned Cartoons

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Sometimes, corporate censorship removes episodes cartoons from broadcast, never to be seen again. Thanks to the internet, these lost episodes are now fairly easy to track down.
I watched three banned episodes from cartoons I enjoyed growing up, just to see what all the fuss was about.
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[@Huggbees]

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[@platigold]

bet

[@Sponkest]

Mhmm special deals 🤤

[@Feradile]

among us

[@EonSlumber]

The ripping friends was awesome

[@bruh8587]

Missed you on the podcast man -_-

[@johnstudies]

To be fair, corporate censorship is not to protect the children. It's to appease the parents and keep them willing to let the kids watch the show. Parent sees something inappropriate on one episode, they completely shut off the show. And yes, kids can always find a way, but most easy are through friends and online piracy, both of which reduce viewership numbers.

[@chasedogman2032]

It's not even for parents. It's for the advertisers.

[@Jason0binladen]

It doesn't really reduce the numbers that consume it, just the money they get paid for said consumer ship, if anything it raises the number of people consuming it

[@limehazard]

It could be argued that this stems from parents' unwillingness to actually teach their children the moral lesson when they see something uncouth. It's much easier to just shut them off from the bad-no-no things and save yourself the hassle of explaining why these things are bad.

[@Jason0binladen]

Greed didn't kill capitalism bureaucracy killed it

[@BierBart12]

@@chasedogman2032 Advertisers originally were all about what the parents want, but something must've happened to gradually drive them more and more insane. Like an algorithm that kept doubling back on itself and is completely overdoing it now with no grasp of humanity left

[@mathieuleader8601]

Fun Fact: in the Latin Spanish dub of Cow and Chicken Supercow speaks English

[@greenaum]

That is a fun fact. But I think it would have been better to have her speak German. Because few people study German but it's close enough to English in some ways that you can guess what they're saying. But it's for Spanish-speaking viewers so that wouldn't matter. Hm.

[@vitalost9935]

The same applies to Dora the explorer

[@sonofastudstudios4552]

That also applies to the gumball episode the remote

[@ErickC]

That also applies to most telenovelas, where Supercow is a regular guest.

[@chalkbored]

same thing happens with doll in the Russian dub of murder drones! in the English version she only speaks Russian, but in the Russian dub she only speaks English.

[@ASTRONEER-pp1dk]

I like how you can tell that the kitchen scene is a greenscreen effect because we all know that Huggbees would NEVER own a knife set

[@judeoberfoell]

Ong

[@blissfuldj7627]

Doesn't he just karate chop his food

[@AK-sx4zp]

​@@blissfuldj7627nah him and Charlie got slap chops after seeing how incredible they were

[@Sera_AI]

Alex Hirsh's videos on the S&P fights he had with Disney over Gravity Falls are comedic gold

[@pengmaeda9908]

Huggbees: "They pulled the tiny toons episode because they were afraid it may actually encourage children to drink. This is ridiculous!" Huggbees less than 5 minutes ago: "Damn If I had seen this episode when I was a kid I would have killed someone for a beer"

[@DeathGripsIsOffline696]

its funny because before that segment rolled up, i was drinking a beer lol

[@Psynechotic]

​@DeathGripsIsOffline696 lmao i literally took a shot of vodka then that popped up. I was like "...oh."

[@V0IDWARE]

Also thw fact he started drinking pepsi nitro

[@I_AM_A_ROCK]

Another thing about rude removal is that with sailor mouth SpongeBob and Patrick are oblivious and unaware to the words that they were using, but with rude removal on the other hand the rude clones are fully aware of what they are saying with obviously rude intentions. So definitely another thing about the tone.

[@ISoldßinLadensViagraOnEbayఔ]

Who the fuck cares it’s still fucking funny

[@TheStopmotion2]

SpongeBob: I would like to f*** your mother Dexter: I’m gonna f*** up your f***ing f*** lab

[@sonic23233]

Sailor Mouth was pulled from broadcast

[@Pwnz0rServer2009]

@@sonic23233except sailor mouth actually aired and rude removal didn't even get the chance

[@Black_Revue]

They can NEVER Truly Ban a Cartoon They can only pretend it didn't happen...

[@MicahMotion]

​@DontReadMyProfilePicture.273Get outta here you bot

[@iicybrii4883]

@DontReadMyProfilePicture.273 ok

[@I.C.Weiner]

Just like all my ex's do.

[@cherrycolareal]

​@DontReadMyProfilePicture.273piss off ❤❤❤

[@flopdeop135]

applies to pretty much anything

[@WeyounSix]

The thing I think people like about Gennedy's shows, is that they genuinely respect the audience that is children, as a legitimate interested group of people who want quality stories, and not just some easy demographic to get cheap views.

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

I'm an adult, and I like what I've seen from him so far. His shows may be kid friendly, but they're not just for kids.

[@joshuasgameplays9850]

I feel so bad for the writers, animators, and voice actors who were forced to make an entire episode because of corporate meddling only to have those exact same executives delete it.

[@Enteringdullsville]

Funny how they made an entire PSA about alcohol and THEN had it pulled…for having alcohol.

[@bluebaron6858]

That tiny toons short was never officially banned...they did poor research

[@AnnoyingSquib]

It was the 90's. Drug PSAs were more scare tactics rather than informative. Adults thought that teaching us properly would just make us more curious and tried scaring us away instead. Cue the failure that was the DARE program. ​@@bluebaron6858

[@leowilliamson1573]

That's because the executives mandating it wanted it made about as much as the actual creatives. The "very special episodes" about the dangers of alcohol and drugs that were ubiquitous in the 80s and 90s were actually the result of a government anti-drug campaign corporations received money for participating in and could face some soft repercussions for coming off as "pro-drugs" if they didn't.

[@Cantimule]

A big thing you overlooked with the Dexter vs Spongebob thing is that the swearing is integral to the Spongebob episode's plot, while in Rude Removal, you could quite literally remove that rudeness and not lose anything, save for that gag at the very end.

[@amberwingtundrawing776]

Maybe its also bc Sailor Mouth was about characters who didn't know what the word meant while Rude Removal had them use the words consciencely? Also Spongebob and Patrick are dorks so no kids would want to copy them anyway

[@ak74udieby]

Also spongebob had the customers bad reaction to them swearing, not just the mom with dexter

[@HauntakuTV]

@@amberwingtundrawing776 It got banned because Dexter's rudeness called Deedee a "spaz" which is an ableist slur.

[@Kwauhn.]

I'm pretty sure that that was not their main concern in 1998 lol. You saw the clips too; ain't no WAY the ableism was the deciding factor. "Spaz", especially, was seen as a totally normal word back then. In fact, didn't Rugrats have a character named Spaz at some point?

[@Hershewed]

@HauntakuTV As an autistic person that’s literally the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard. I’ll spaz out all I want, to hell with ableism lmfao

[@Enteringdullsville]

I love that Polite Dexter has a British accent ON TOP of his usual vaguely Russian one.

[@thesuperloregod4815]

Russian? I thought it was French!

[@AshWilliamsGirthyBoomstick]

I thought it was German!

[@montanajackson3713]

@@thesuperloregod4815 I thought it was French, too.

[@CLove511]

Pretty sure it's French, but like, during the period the Germans occupied them

[@AshWilliamsGirthyBoomstick]

@@CLove511 That sounds about right

[@memereview305]

I think this is why I like Total Drama Island so much. The show was made under far less censorship practices and ended up doing some wild things for kid's TV back in 2007

[@rompevuevitos222]

A shame it was a cartoon version of the worst kind of show, "Reality shows"

[@BreakerBea]

Dude i still remember Heathers top ripping off and it pixel censoring her bare chest, and being as young and dumb as i was, even i was like "HOW DID THAT GET ON TV?!"

[@averysmith9943]

@rompevuevitos222 I wouldn’t call it a cartoon reality show, it’s meant to be a parody. They make fun of bad reality TV tropes a lot.

[@rompevuevitos222]

@@averysmith9943I mean, reproducing it with a slight exaggeration is not exactly the best way to do parody. It's like making a parody of crazy frog by making a series about a frog that sings obnoxiously. I get it, it's a joke. But it's still the exact kind of stuff i don't want to see and i'd make fun of.

[@nado1908]

Interestingly, the US version of the show was more censored than the original Canadian version. The two most notable examples are a line about bull testicles being changed to "beef meatballs" and Lindsay cursing out Heather being changed from a long censor bleep to a string of obviously dubbed over PG insults.

[@SollowP]

To be fair about the "Muchaco" line from Cow & Chicken, the entire show had a running joke about calling men "ma'am, ladies girls etc." and women "sir, men, guys". Cow even does it in the beginning of the episode.

[@nook7189]

When I was a child, it wasn’t cartoons or tv that inspired me to drink, smoke, curse, etc. It was family members that inspired me to do all of the above.

[@cubechan1938]

Have you ever recovered from any of it?

[@Jebu911]

Im not even sure how i started drinking beer but im 100% sure it had nothing to do with cartoons. Actually seeing people in my teens getting drunk just made me think it couldnt be fun at all. I was wrong as its pretty fun time if used in moderation.

[@ironprince72]

fun fact: in china (or atleast in the past) giving someone the finger actually meant you were threatening them with sex.

[@roo.pzz4380]

Oh!

[@fangirl3086]

That's taking "F you" literally.

[@specs.weedle]

what if a mirror was involved or just someone pointing it at themself

[@Runenut]

definitely not anymore

[@belosneshkaaaa]

heard the same case being that in canada (correct me tho if im wrong)

[@connor48880]

Rude Removal is strange because if I recall, it wasn’t FOR us It was for the creators to laugh at the fact that it’s public at all is especially fun

[@queencancerous5332]

I don't think so, it was clearly produced and animated by Hanna Barbera.

[@milliondollarmistake]

I'd buy that if it was some animatics and the voice actors dubbing it over but this is a full fledged episode. It's entirely produced from start to finish. And from what I know about animation studios (which is admittedly very little) it's not like the entire crew has the time or budget to just make an episode that was never meant to be seen.

[@2-Way_Intersection]

​@@queencancerous5332its possible all of the episodes ordered by CN were finished and this was just overtime for the animators and an excuse for the rest of the crew to fuck around

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

Thats the same as SpongeBob. They wrote it cause it was funny as hell, and according to the voice of Patrick, in some basement at Nickelodeon, theres an uncensored version of the episode.

[@queencancerous5332]

@@2-Way_Intersection that would be incredibly hard to believe, usually when the crew of a show does this it's only available as storyboards or an animatic. This was a fully made episode.

[@WolfHagenSdW]

Not gonna lie, I laughed so hard it echoed from the walls, as the mom of cow and chicken describes the Buffalo Gals so nonchalantly after getting their home busted by them.

[@BigK13372]

Yeah. The description the mother gave on the Buffalo Girls is a big “Oof” especially nowadays, but the delivery os definitely funny as that isn’t the typical response to give when a bunch of strangers break in and start literally eating your carpet. . . . Wait, is that scene inplying that the mother is bisexual?

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

@@BigK13372 cow and chickens mom and dad were . . . Interesting and complex individuals with deep back stories.

[@willothewild]

@@BigK13372 Dad Legs clinging to her in fear like a startled cat was what really sold it for me. Total opposite reaction.

[@Keenath]

To me, part of the comedy of the Dexter one is that the "swears" are sometimes incompletely censored and you can tell they're saying extremely mild words like 'crap'.

[@shrimpdan2557]

Honestly, I don't think Buffalo Gals is even that bad in terms of adult comedy in children's shows. The issue is that the adult jokes are the ENTIRE EPISODE, when children are unlikely to understand what the joke IS. They're just going to be confused as to what they're supposed to be laughing at. I don't see what a child would get out of the episode other than it just being a series of wacky movements and loud noises.

[@MadocComadrin]

I'd add that some of the jokes are a bit too much on the gross side too.

[@pvzgamer6029]

Honestly I would probably laugh at the concept of people eating a literal carpet even if I didn’t know what it meant as a kid.

[@Alex_Barbosa]

That's just an average Cow and Chicken episode. Loud and gross. The only problem with this episode is there is too much focus on puns. Not enough physical and absurd humor like the rest of the show. Kids got nothing to laugh at.

[@shrimpdan2557]

@@Alex_BarbosaYeah, exactly. The kids aren't gonna understand what "carpet muncher" means. Maybe a kid would laugh just at the idea of a woman eating carpet?? But I'unno. Feels like a massive case of forgetting your target audience.

[@Alex_Barbosa]

@@shrimpdan2557 honestly the carpet munchers flew over my head til it was explained. I've never heard that before, so to me it was just an absurd joke. Ain't no kids gonna understand most of these jokes.

[@grfrjiglstan]

I gotta admit, the Tiny Toons one is a pretty smart move. Make a pearl-clutching PSA you don’t want to out of contractual obligation, then end up getting it banned for the very content you didn’t want to add in the first place? Hot damn, what a flex. Wouldn’t be surprised if they intentionally called the censor board to pull the episode for them.

[@troodon1096]

I don't know if this is true, but it should be.

[@itsjayden8002]

The episode wasn't officially banned.

[@AdamGlory]

As a child, I would’ve just taken the content of the Cow and Chicken episode literally, and laughed at the funny antics. But my functioning adult brain guessed its underlying premise the second I saw this video’s thumbnail. Just another reason to wish I could re-experience the 90s.

[@starkillersneed]

Honestly I think the problem with that one is it only works for adults. For kids it's just too confusing even for Cow & Chicken standards. Like, kid me saw Shrek saying Lord Farquaad's castle is tall because he's "compensating for something" and assumed it was a dig at his height, and watched Shaggy say "Mary Jane? That's my favorite name!" in the Scooby-Doo movie and thought it was a Spider-Man reference, but would be totally lost on what the fuck is going on in that episode.

[@XavierTheNeonTiger]

I did take it literally as a kid. I had no idea what was going on but what else is new, it's cow and chicken.

[@TacoBelle100]

@@XavierTheNeonTiger Same. I remember watching that episode as a kid and remember how some of it confused me, and everything else I just took at face value.

[@KitaBFawkes]

> Ignores instructions on the Pepsi Nitro can > Thinks it tastes awful because the chemical reaction is not complete > Drinks it anyway Never change Huggbees.

[@XYZB0RG]

what the fuck? they sell drinks that require you to cause a chemical reaction? I'm not drinking a fucking science experiment

[@emeraldhillzone1992]

Why does Pepsi Nitro have instructions?

[@KitaBFawkes]

@@emeraldhillzone1992 Because unlike regular, everyday CO2 sodas, nitrogenated sodas like Pepsi Nitro require agitation for the full effect. So the instructions on the can tell you how to do that safely.

[@buttershy_]

i think another main difference between sailor mouth and rude removal is the way the words are censored, parents will hear the 1kHz bleep while their children are watching cartoon network and wonder what the hell is going on. whereas they are a lot less likely to bat an eye (ear?) to dolphin noises. and on sailor mouth spongebob is immediately met with disapproval from everyone else in the room when he swears

[@noireisbest6786]

Arthur also had a swearing episode, complete with a Sopranos parody explaining why words get censored. And that was on PBS, not cable. But Arthur was a kid show that was willing to "go there" including Arthur just straight up punching his sister. I get the educational factor, but it's still wild.

[@2-bit567]

I was just thinking about that

[@elishafollet5347]

Arthur was the best it still has some good jokes like muffys father giving Francine who's Jewish a ham

[@eldrichnemo9312]

Arthur always respected how smart kids are, even if they're uneducated or misinformed. I still remember that swearing episode and Arthur's mom explaining "it's words you use when you want to hurt peoples' feelings on purpose."

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

To be fair if ANYONE deserved to get hit in the face it was Arthur younger sister, she was vile sometimes.

[@Wnick1996]

Not going to lie, out of all the shows shown here, Buffalo Girls really shows why it was banned

[@dinosaysrawr]

Hell, when I saw it on TV back in the day, I could scarcely believe my ears and eyes, and wondered if the Parents Television Council and Focus on the Family had all been raptured. :D

[@amberwingtundrawing776]

Its strange bc Cow and Chicken has a ton of "subtle" adult and gay jokes in it regularly. Makes me think they were testing the censors to see if how far they could go

[@gregvs.theworld451]

​@@amberwingtundrawing776Honestly, it's a pretty good strategy. IIRC Monty Python did that all the time. They'd have a joke, skit, or gag they suspected the censors would never allow, so they'd write something so outrageous it would never fly in 1000 years and hope the bit they wanted to slip through would go unnoticed and be allowed to be made and aired.

[@Al7249]

Yeah like none of these felt too weird. Rude Removal I always found funny just from the characters swearing and the title card. Seeing the different between innocent and quick reprimand compared to Dexter's intentional and asshole behavior might've warranted the ban. Buffalo Gals always just seemed excessive, one note and kinda boring since it's not subtle

[@oddmustelid4339]

I remember being shocked by Mordecai saying, "You pissed me off."

[@user-pz5du5nz7j]

Honestly,I think making the One Beer episode being boring was intentional,since they were basically forced into making something they clearly didn't want to,so it was kinda like a big middle finger...so in that context,I kinda like it.

[@jeremyriley1238]

I have to agree, as they knew kids were not that stupid to drink alcohol, just as they were not stupid enough to imitate the slapstick gags they see on TTA or even the classic Looney Tunes shorts.

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

I could swear I remember seeing a broadcast version of Rude Removal that simply used a different title card and took away the beeps. I remember it so distinctly because when hearing these lines again I can remember a lot of the actually-not-swears-at-all that were spoken before the beeps were added. I particularly noticed when Dexter says, "This tastes like caca!" after spitting the possibly-potatoes. You can even still see how his mouth was animated in line with the two syllable not-really-an-expletive. Is this just a case of mixed up memories, or is anyone else sitting there in their thirties remembering this same experience?

[@theAlchemyst11]

Not thirties, twenty six here but I am having the exact same recollections from when I saw it as a kid. I even started saying "caca" instead of crap for like a year because of it I think.

[@brettlivingston595]

Yes, this is how I remember it. Just wasn't 100% it wasn't all in my head untill you also mentioned it. Weird.

[@258thHiGuy]

Ed, Edd n Eddy was a banned cartoon when I was a kid, but only because my mom thought whoever made it was on drugs

[@thelordz33]

What did she think of Alice in Wonderland?

[@dongojangle106]

Have you ever seen Danny Antonucci's other work? Your moms closer than you think

[@nytrodioxide]

Same, my mom didn't let me watch it because she thought it was too gross and a bad influence on me. Yet, I still watched Flapjack.... And Chowder.....

[@flashcardz3150]

Dang, you missed out on some nice slapstick humor. Shame.

[@lowerweb8466]

My grandmother didnt want me watching adventure time.

[@RabbiHerschel]

There was an episode of Peppa Pig that was banned in Australia because it featured a message about spiders being harmless.

[@CThyran]

To be fair in Australia most of the spiders *aren't*.

[@_Venvel]

That's actually fair because male Sydney funnel weaver spiders are highly aggressive on top of being deadly venomous.

[@WayneGlensky-vx5er]

Well maybe the reason why they said that spider was harmless is because it wasn’t like 7 foot tall unlike in aussie town

[@TheScottymo]

technically, and this may be only anecdotal evidence, most of the spiders I've ever come across have been harmless and actually their existence is just good pest control (eg huntsmans, daddy long legs, st andrew's cross). Most other spiders here will either give you a stroke, heart attack, or fleshrot. Fun!

[@glitterbitesback]

The best “one joke for the kids, one joke for the parents” show has to be The Animaniacs. The show was funny when I was a kid in the 90’s but has taken on a whole new tone now that I’m 33. The original Ren and Stimpy is also good (I have a feeling that it wasn’t a kid show though).

[@jasonkeith2832]

Ren and Stimpy was the most blatant of the "adult jokes said just oblique enough to show to kids" trio that was it, Cow and Chicken, and Rocko's Modern Life. It had as much subtlety as a 00s teen boy using 1/3 of a can of Axe before talking to his crush, and I'm genuinely surprised it was allowed to be aired (and reran) on a channel that wasn't specifically adult-oriented, let alone one that was specifically child-oriented, even if it was put in their mature content block.

[@SarafinaSummers]

Animaniacs got a reboot in 2018… And it’s better than ever.

[@SheepUndefined]

Toots was technically a term of affection, but boomers usually used it and a lot of other female-gendered "positive" language like that as a way of being dismissive and rude to women. Though Dexter isn't quite a boomer so it's amusingly out of character lol

[@GunSpyEnthusiast]

huggbees : " they named the lesbian gang the buffalo gals so the writers could make them sing ' won't you come out tonight ' as many times as they want. the complete lack of sublt- " me: * finally gets the joke *

[@TesterIsDone]

Hugbees seems like the type of person to run for president for the express purpose of resigning and causing a constitutional crisis.

[@Rale881]

He'd have my vote if I could

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

He has my vote

[@lindsayshanks7555]

I'd vote and I'm bot even American lmao

[@borisstojanovic6646]

He was a president already, he did not do that

[@kratangg-arang]

100%, and he would definitely pull some shit in the Oval Office on his way out

[@zeroattentiongaming820]

I think the most ridiculous censorship from my childhood was what Reboot's writers had to deal with. Dot giving her little brother a kiss on the cheek on his birthday was seen by the board of standards and practices as incestuous, Dot had to have a monoboob because a grown woman having two tits was seen as not appropriate for kids for the two big examples. The writers got so sick of it all that once the restrictions were loosened up they made a whole damn song about how ridiculous all the shit they had to deal with was iirc

[@gonzoGnostalgic]

When your job is to sit in a room all day and get paid to think of every possible way your network could potentially offend commercial-watching households and avert it, I'd imagine that after awhile, everything starts looking offensive.

[@JimmyJohn89808]

Okay, I have to listen to that damn song, please tell there is a link somewhere!

[@dinosaysrawr]

And Reboot pushed back with a ton of snarky jokes at the expense of S&P sprinkled throughout the show! Gravity Falls also got ridiculous notes from Standards and Practices. Alex Hirsch shared all of that dirt on Twitter after the show ended.

[@notoriousgoblin83]

​@@dinosaysrawr"Not S+P Approved" has been approved by S+P.

[@gregvs.theworld451]

​@@notoriousgoblin83I still love that story.

[@KremBotop]

After the Loonatics video it's neat seeing Hugbess slowly cover animation more often. This banned/censored cartoons topic is one big rabbit hole worth digging into.

[@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917]

I feel like something he should have mentioned is that, at the time (according to some prominent animators), cartoons meant for kids weren't being censored because the people approving them for television weren't even watching them. They'd literally be like "Oh, it's a children's cartoon from Cartoon Network. They wouldn't make anything inappropriate for kids." Then, someone actually watched an episode of Johnny Bravo, saw an inappropriate joke, and then they went back to see what else they missed. This coincided with the launch of Adult Swim and a feud between Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Cartoon Network because for some reason they gave the animation teams on children's shows a stern talking-to, but were incredibly strict on the adult shows. So, the ATHF creators were mad because The Powerpuff Girls could be excessively violent and bloody, while ATHF on Adult Swim could barely show a bloody nose. That eventually led to season 2 of ATHF featuring an episode that ends with the characters in a room full of body parts and blood, as well as Carl being brutally murdered. Later on, they specifically mocked the rules they were forced to follow.

[@TheTrumpReaper]

Rabbit hole. I see what you did there. 🐇🕳️😁

[@eksortso]

​@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917The Cow and Chicken folks loved to take advantage of that naivete. One of their cartoons (not censored, mostly) featured a tribe chanting "ah-SWEE-pay ah-SWEE-pay" for no reason other than to-- well, I didn't watch the cartoon, but I did see the original credit roll for that particular show that included the VA who voiced the Asswipe tribesmen. Later airings of the show only showed credits for the entire series, for no reason other than to, well, y'know.

[@ThatGreenSpy]

"Censorship is a worthless tool that is only good for people who are too stupid to not know how to ignore things they don't like." Truer words were never spoken.

[@EpicWinNoob]

Except for pro nazi shit. Pro Nazi shit can stay in the storage closet.

[@korayven9255]

Censorship should not be for people who can't ignore things but for people who will otherwise obey them. It is (or should be) primarily a matter of precedence. If an allegedly harmless public statement leads to consistent or mass instances of serious physical harm or death, I think everyone can agree that it's reasonable to censor and ban public displays of that allegedly harmless statement.

[@karrawr9538]

So do you think spam callers should have no laws 'censoring' them? what about nazis making movies where they hang minorities in them? Anyone who says censorship is wrong in all cases is an idiot

[@arkhani.]

Being able to ignore things that people say about you is not a signifier of how tough you are. Its a marker of your privilege. Its a lot harder to ignore words when they carry violence behind them, systemic or accute.

[@rynobehnke8289]

@@korayven9255 Ah no. Only because some people are dumb should not something be demonized. If anything does censoring it only strength the dumb people that would act upon it in there believes that lead to the violance in the first place.

[@sonofhades57]

"Contagious thirst for life" actually pretty much covers it. It's clear that you both deeply enjoy and have a good sense of humor about the topics you cover, and the fact that you're willing to brave Pepsi Nitro for your viewership is just more proof that you're willing to go above and beyond.

[@deathraygonzo6339]

I'm imagining the kidnapper crying while the kid absolutely verbally wrecks him.

[@sa-amirel-hayeed699]

"watcha gonna do, grape me? My uncle's already been there so get in line. Get it over with already, I know from the way you look you're not that big. Just let me go after, I really gotta charge my phone."

[@CarlowitizChalshushky]

"Big Bill's Bastard Beating Emporium" sounds like something a Floridian would say, so that checks out.

[@DigitalxGamer]

Honestly, I think the real important difference between Sailor Mouth and Rude Removal is the fact that one has them saying swears innocently without understanding their meaning and are then repentant at the end when they find out the truth and panic when they accidentally say it. In Rude Removal, it's not only being said completely intentionally to be insulting but it's also played even more as a joke (as in "Haha, saying swears is funny!"). So in a way, you could say it makes light of insulting language way more than Sailor Mouth does.

[@fatcat1414]

The end of Sailor Mouth features Mr. Krabs, a much more adult-coded character compared to Spongebob and Patrick, cursing intentionally. I don't remember how they resolved that, but it always stuck with little me as a message about how adults had a tendency to be hypocritical and not explain why.

[@mitchfletcher2386]

​@@fatcat1414Adult coded? Mr. Krabs is in his 70s and was born in the 40s.

[@dinosaysrawr]

Yeah, I'd wager Rude Removal was removed on account of its "imitable behavior," which has historically made S&P clutch their pearls.

[@fatcat1414]

@@mitchfletcher2386 Yes, but his actual age is rarely mentioned in-universe, while Spongebob and Patrick are nominally adults that live alone, but they are purposefully ambiguous so they can exhibit childish or adult behavior depending on what is convenient. So 'coding' is just an easy way to say Krabs is meant to represent a parental figure in Sailor Mouth, while Spongebob represents a small child who just learned what curse words are.

[@HauntakuTV]

@@fatcat1414 Mr. Krabs explains that it's a bad word and that they shouldn't say it. Then Spongebob and Patrick play eels & escalators which ends with Spongebob's potty mouth and a race to tell Mr. Krabs.

[@alexnemec2992]

The Dexter's Lab episode was probably removed because of the way the kids behaved to their parents in that cartoon. If a parent watched that episode, they would think: "This show is teaching kids to be rude to their parents. My kids can't be allowed to watch this show." Back then, parents could monitor what their kids watch much easier than to now, therefore if parents banned their kids from watching a cartoon that would mean less watchtime. In the Spongebob episode the swearing didn't have this problem.

[@punky100]

I had to pause a minute in because calling sex "a business exchange between one woman and 2-4 men" had me DYING.

[@danielmontoya5525]

Same. Im delivering amazon packages with this in the background. I had to pull over I was laughing so hard

[@HoV326]

I don't get it. Is it a threesome/gangbanging joke, a pimping joke, or something else?

[@kratangg-arang]

I was absolutely *deceased* when I heard it

[@user-tf9ob2dp5v]

Is one an option

[@thecoedbutcher52]

​@HoV326 it's just the everyday experience.

[@undead_g0at]

From what I recall the reason why regular show could get away with using swears during their initial premieres was because regular show was scheduled on the second latest time slot for cartoon Network which gave them a bit more wiggle room but for reruns that could be played throughout the day they couldn't really use the non-censored version

[@gregvs.theworld451]

Huggs reaction to that opening scene from the Cow and Chicken episode, the appalled silence we were all feeling, freaking slayed me.

[@BheeseAndCrackers]

Can you explain the chewing on carpet joke? For some reason it's going completely over my head (I take things too literally quite often)

[@amberwingtundrawing776]

​@@BheeseAndCrackerscarpet/rug is slang for vagina, so when they eat carpet...

[@MusiciansRule07]

​@@BheeseAndCrackersIt's slang for oral done on a woman. It's like saying eating pussy but like 1000x more explicit.

[@icantthinkofagoodnameso69f89]

Oh god whos gonna tell him 😭😭 Poor child

[@YourFatherVEVO]

@@BheeseAndCrackers chewing carpet = cunnilingus

[@krimsonklaww611]

Buffalo gals hit me like a sack of bricks when I heard the words "chewing on carpet" and that's when the entirety of this verbal Rube Goldberg contraption went off in my face.

[@icantthinkofagoodnameso69f89]

Yeah that caught me offend guard

[@elizabetalarcon4068]

Future me, is chewing on carpet worse than it seems?

[@elizabetalarcon4068]

It is.

[@The-Anathema]

The cow & chicken episode additionally has two more issues 1) "they enter people's houses and eat their carpets" which is kinda... how do I avoid the censorbot? let's say unwilling participation in carnal activities adjacent? (it rhymes with the gatorade flavour fierce grape). 2) cow is a stand-in for a child character so it also can be seen as a wee bit towards the direction of grooming which is not only offensive, but immensely problematic for broadcast reasons. Naturally the network did the right thing in pulling it, too many potential controversies and too many potential PR issues with keeping it (in addition to mentioned wrong audience for the jokes), it would make no business sense to do otherwise and it's honestly surprising it even got to air once.

[@passingrando6457]

I remember the when that episode was airing. It flew right over my head, but my dad nearly choked on his food laughing at it. He then calmly explained that it was a joke about women who were attracted to other women, and that it was unrealistic because the biker lesbians in the show were _less_ ugly than most he'd encountered in his time working on motorcycles.

[@AHHHHHHHH21]

How do you want to avoid censorship? Just say it. I'm guessing that you mean rape here, so why don't you just say it?

[@marreco6347]

Can't wait for Qanons using fucking Cow And Chicken imagery

[@buttershy_]

@@AHHHHHHHH21sometimes when you use words like that, youtube hides your comments. pretty much every time i've commented with the word f##k it has been auto hidden

[@AHHHHHHHH21]

@@buttershy_ well, you can tell me if this fucking comment gets auto hidden, just as a little test.

[@Jakewake52]

There's something so perfectly sesinct and pure about "We're going to go fuck up your lab" that tickles me

[@susannahmitchell5558]

28:19 “You didn’t drink beer…..you somehow drank METH.” 😂

[@dotsandboxesmaster3885]

To be fair, Dee Dee has four fingers. That could also be considered her ring finger instead, something I'm sure the showrunners were trying to argue, for why it's okay. A visual beep of sorts, but one far easier to decipher without prior knowledge.

[@syndrette]

I don't think it's physically possible to lift your ring finger on it's own

[@dotsandboxesmaster3885]

Not sure it's physically possible to reduce your entire vocabulary to "omelette du fromage" in the span of an 8 hour sleep either. There's scientific research to be done here.

[@ronaid-with-an-i]

​@@syndrette force the others down with your thumb

[@theotherjared9824]

Some clarification about the regular show moment: the initial censored version was done for the european market, which is typically more scrutinous than america when it comes to S&P. While the censored version could have aired in the states a few times, it definitely didn't after 2014 when cartoon network greatly relaxed its content guidelines, which led to the total drama series airing uncensored and Steven Universe existing as a whole.

[@2-bit567]

Regular Show is goated

[@HauntakuTV]

Total Drama was actually censored in some episodes like when Heather's bra is torn off

[@thomasgamer4000]

​@@HauntakuTVit was always supposed to be censored, it's supposed to be emulating reality tv

[@iamdb1990]

I will always love both Dexter's voice and the fact that his glasses are his eyes, which makes no sense (his glasses change depending on his reaction)

[@Hershewed]

… Did you just I was today years old when I realized this, your absolutely right holy fuck

[@Jiopera99]

Holy crap you dealed with that cow and chicken episode so well without coming off as pretentious and spouting homophobia. Man I would've clicked off so fast if I had to hear all of that which is already spouted in my ear everywhere. Keep up this good work man. You've got yourself a new subscriber.

[@Chineseisntalanguageapparently]

That Pepsi nitro fucked him up more than any alcoholic beverage

[@thatguythatdoesstuff5899]

Huggbees is just Ed, Edd and Eddy all rolled into one.

[@AarturoSc]

I like to imagine that the sunglasses are Andrew’s eyes and the little squares reflecting on them his pupils. It’s hypnotic!

[@elementalt4nick]

Great now I cant unsee it

[@PinoShroom]

Cow and Chicken was a fever dream of a show and I IMMEDIATLEY knew this episode when the girls started to eat the carpet. It must of been locked away from the rest of my brain until this key moment in history

[@KokNoker]

Years of experience has taught me that "I'm not offended by anything" usually just means no one has hit that button yet.

[@BigPuddin]

Two years isn't much experience.

[@cayenne_pepper7665]

Right? It's really easy to ignore things that are offensive when they aren't aimed at you.

[@bcancerninja]

As an adult looking back at the episode of Cow and Chicken, then thinking about all of Cow and Chicken... How much of that show was appropriate? How much did they get through the censors that maybe shouldn't have?

[@greatkentuckian9032]

That first statement made in this video rings true. Thank you for showing your intelligence and wisdom in a thoughtful sentence again, Huggbees.

[@leeah7743]

The devil just hopping away on his absolute dumpy had me at the end

[@gooeydude574]

He’s the best character in the show

[@peety0792]

I can see why glitter force was a bad localization and why hugbees needs to make a video on it

[@peety0792]

@DontReadMyProfilePicture.273 why do people think this is funny

[@BananaJr0_o]

As someone who watched glitter force, youre damn right

[@Robert08010]

You're overlooking one thing: In that dexters lab episode, one character spat food in his mother's face and insulted her cooking AND IT WAS FUNNY. I think they might have gotten away with it IF there were immediate and swift consequences. But the fact that he got away with it might just encourage some 3 foot tall bastard to try it at home. "Toots" isn't exactly an insult but its a diminutive and so it is considered disrespectful for a kid to call his mother that.

[@jeremyfischer7856]

The Dexter's title card is also funny when you realize that none of the characters actually _have_ middle fingers.

[@ALTEMERI]

the tiny toons episode is so clearly made because they had to and i love how they poke at that with the "can we do a funny episode next time" line

[@OliveDasi]

DARE taught me more about drugs in the 1990s than I ever could have dreamed of at that age in the 4th grade. I could have been as innocent and ignorant as possible until they rocked up with a suitcase of that stuff. Yet they were all worried about a beeped out swear. Priorities.....

[@thinkinyblinko6666]

True story, I once bought mushrooms off of a traveling drug salesman who looked just like Danny Devito in a motel in the middle of nowhere. He had one of those big thick suitcases with the trays that come out and it had pretty much every drug I've ever heard of in it. He was listing everything off and I interrupted him to say do you have mushrooms? He turned around and like pulled his see through amber aviator sunglasses down and said "oh yeah kid, I got mushrooms" and then sold me a half oz of solid black psilocybin mushrooms and they gave me the most visually powerful trip I ever did have. lol it was a very magical day

[@ianharrison5758]

@@thinkinyblinko6666I’m 90% sure your plug was one of the fae

[@gregvs.theworld451]

I would definitely love a follow up to this where Huggbees watches more banned cartoons, if he can find another sampling of interesting cartoons.

[@TheLastArbiter]

I love Sailor Mouth and Rude Removal, and I assume the difference was that SpongeBob and Patrick were innocent in the delivery of swears for the better part of the episode whereas Dexter and Dede were being rude to their mom, and adults were probably concerned it would influence their children to behave similarly to them? Idk it shouldn’t have been banned. And what you said of intent with the noise makes sense too haha

[@hollyumbreon]

Your glasses are giving wilky wonka Florida man

[@guiAstorDunc]

The Huggbees lore enthusiasts are going wild from this one folks

[@strikermodel]

DeeDee's hand gesture on the title card is good enough to me. The words are easy enough to censor and it be ambiguous what can fill in the blanks. There is only one hand gesture DeeDee can be doing.

[@petertaylor9432]

Did some digging and apparently the title card wasn't made until after the episode was banned Makes a lot more sense than the producers thinking they could put it on a children's network

[@strikermodel]

@@petertaylor9432 yeah that does make a lot more sense.

[@MusiciansRule07]

Bruh, as soon as you brought up Buffalo Gals and I remembered that you said you were going in blind, I knew your reaction would be amazing. It didn't disappoint! Cow and Chicken was unhinged with the episodes they actually aired but I completely understand why they 86d this one. There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a part of The Alphabet but they threw in so many lesbian stereotypes and sexual jokes that even a kid with pudding for brains would've picked up on it and been uncomfortable. It was Explicit Adult humor expressed to a Child Audience and it wasn't okay. Colleen Ballinger was definitely inspired by Buffalo Gals. Rude Removal has been hyped up so much over the years but honestly, it's pretty lame and tryhard. It reminded me of being in middle school when folks have just picked their favorite curse words to throw around like a Frisbee. I don't think it should've been pulled because despite the Cringe, it gave a great message to not be an asshole, to respect people's boundaries and to Watch Your Profanity, especially when around adults. Plus, as you showed, Gendy's later work makes Rude Removal look like an episode of Dora the Explorer. One Beer reminds me of all of the cartoons the Cult I escaped from (JWs) make and of the absolute menace that is Dhar Mann. The episode was so heavyhanded that it didn't have a chance in hell of being funny and it wasn't even scary. It's existence is a perfect example of malicious compliance in the face of a boss giving you an unavoidable and stupid task. I respect that. The beginning and end were perfect. Plus, it's inaccurate. One beer can't properly get 3 people drunk and reckless like they were supposed to be. Speaking from experience, if you end up like they did, there's Hennessy or Moonshine involved with an illicit substance or prescription pills as a Chaser. Like you said, kids are WAY smarter than they get credit for and they need to be treated accordingly in an age appropriate way. Great video as always, man.

[@Randomizer482]

To add on to the Regular Show comparison, I distinctly remember one of the main 2 saying "this S is so F'd up!" (the letters, not the actual words) and subsequently remember that line being removed/altered in later airings. I couldn't tell you what episode it was but it must have been the first season, it was very early in the show's life.

[@randomvids1231000]

It was definitely the first season, and I remember it being Rigby saying "How the H are we gonna fix this S?"

[@zackarysouthard7263]

​@@randomvids1231000it was the very first episode

[@tovarischkrasnyjeshi]

I think Rude Removal might have actually been less the language and the way they treated Mom. Like the language would have been part of it, but the negativity being thrown around was less 'dexter's cartoonish super science etc' or 'stupid shit kids deal with' and more a very domestic, realistic kind of familial abuse. Like kids who saw it could directly model it, or it might remind them of how Dad treats Mom when he's had a bad day, or how a teen sibling with problems might be acting. Too heavy and real at the same time.

[@VioletElite4]

The premise and execution of the episodes of Cow & Chicken are completely timeless for 90s TV. Seeing a stampede of buffalo gals literally munching carpet really spoke volumes to the children of their time

[@waluigiwaluigireal]

I can’t believe they banned SpongeBob for being too bad in modern day

[@cursorlate]

​@DontReadMyProfilePicture.273bro go *nondescript threat* yourself you rapscallion

[@user-xe4sh6gc1h]

@DontReadMyProfilePicture.273 shut up

[@ItzBIULD]

​@DontReadMyProfilePicture.273ok

[@johnyamahakeyboard7472]

@DontReadMyProfilePicture.273shit your pants, now.

[@normalhuman2046]

@DontReadMyProfilePicture.273 k

[@capt.sparky854]

Gonna be real, if My Little Pony can show a slave army at war several times, pre-censored cursing and a bare ass is barely notable in my eyes.

[@californianightmares6463]

What the fuck is going on in MLP

[@capt.sparky854]

@@californianightmares6463 My memory is foggy but this guy named Sombra enslaved an entire empire and waged war on a different empire before he was banished into the northern ice by the gods of the Sun and Moon, taking the entire city and its occupants with him.

[@monkofdarktimes]

God Damm that's dark

[@Slightly_Decent]

And people say MLP is for children.

[@californianightmares6463]

@@capt.sparky854 Jesus

[@welchnome4132]

I had never heard of cow&chicken, so that first clip hit me like a freight train lmfao. Thank you for introducing what looks like a 5 second clip goldmine. A confused screaming buffet.

[@masedaace5473]

I love the unique art for the thumbnail! The video as a whole is awesome too. While I do think some censorship is ok for separating hard adult stuff from little kids or whatever, but things like these cartoons have no right to be kicked off the air. Especially the Tiny Tunes where they're trying to TEACH KIDS AN IMPORTANT LESSON!!!!!

[@X2011racer]

There was also Mass Transit Trouble from Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog, which was only banned during a rerun in the 2000s as it involved bombs planted by Robotnik. Post 9/11, anything involving bomb plots was considered too inappropriate at the time. While there's no need to explain Electric Soldier Porygon, 4Kids actually did some localization work on the episode, with the troublesome scene getting the same treatment as all the other Thundershock scenes by 4Kids. However, because the Japanese government banned the episode internationally, 4Kids was unable to finish the episode and release it in America. And of course, there's the actual pilot episode of Osomatsu-San, which was banned due to copyright infringement claims regarding the overall nature of the episode. This is why on Funimation, Episode 1 is skipped over, starting on Episode 2 instead.

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

Didn't Pokemon also ban a beach episode where James inexplicably has massive dobonhonkeros?

[@X2011racer]

@@nessesaryschoolthing No, that wasn't banned. 4Kids simply had no idea how to censor that episode as the problematic scenes were critical to the story. Same for the Safari Zone episode due to the abundance of guns.

[@jeremyriley1238]

@@X2011racer As well as that one episode of the Johto season where Jynx was actually involved with the story a lot and could not be edited without destroying the story.

[@kalersmith1569]

I honestly love the message about censorship in this video thanks for the content

[@cosmonauthal7651]

My Grandmother would sometimes talk about the “Funny Dexter episode where he swears” whenever it was on as a kid. From my knowledge as I get older that episode never aired until much much later after Dexters original run. So how the fuck did she know about that episode?

[@passingrando6457]

I've heard numerous claims about it being aired, to the point I suspect a broadcast station or two did one of three things: received a copy and aired it accidentally, received a copy and aired it in defiance of orders, or just plain old missed the memo not to air it. That kind of thing happened occasionally back then, and the records having gaping holes in them due to the nature of physical storage makes verifying difficult if not impossible.

[@cosmonauthal7651]

@@passingrando6457 that would make a lot of sense because I know she used to talk about it and it’s the only thing I could think of.

[@kyanbogard2993]

SpongeBob gets a pass for their swearing episode both because spongebob is known for having hidden adult humor in it, but also because the tone of the episode (from what I remember from watching it) is anti-swearing via the lesson that Mr. Krabs teaches them at the end of the episode

[@michaelsolomon3496]

Ok, that bit with you just being completely silent for like 20 seconds as you grab a chair and your "beer" honestly had me laughing harder than anything else I've seen in the last month, and I was genuinely expecting it to end with you just deadpanning the camera and saying something along the lines of "the fuck?" 😂😂

[@daytwaqua]

Usually, I'm the one who misses the hidden innuendo jokes, but I suspect Huggbees missed one while discussing the Buffalo Gals episode of Cow & Chicken. To give you an example of such jokes flying over my head, I've watched the Senile Scribbles parody of Skyrim countless times, as it's the best, and arguably the only truly good Skyrim parody. I'm just sayin', there's a lot of bad ones out there. Anyways, at the beginning, where he's at the guardian stones with the old man, the old man says he'd give him his helmet, but it's got a two-handed wielding enchant. When the old man is asked if he can even lift a greatsword, he responds that he's never tried, and it just helps him when he pees. I probably watched that scene a couple dozen times before realizing that the old man is saying he's veey well-endowed. Well anyways, back to Cow & Chicken, when Chicken is discovered spying, the Buffalo Gals say, in unison, "We Hate chicken". Now, I could be mistaken, but I believe that's code for saying they hate the male reproductive organ that is referred to in slang as the name for a male chicken, the one beginning with the letter 'c'. Even if that wasn't what the writers meant, I'm still gonna list it as a happy little accident, much like I believe Bob Ross would, if he was still alive.

[@XYZB0RG]

we should get you to write a book

[@Callaghan552]

How you going to take 200 words to write a 10 word comment bro

[@daytwaqua]

@@Callaghan552 Yes, it's a gift, thank you for noticing.

[@ianharrison5758]

@@daytwaquaI see you too Are a master of comedic yapping, respect I love reading comments like this lmaoo

[@ArendAlphaEagle]

I think Huggbees is aware of the "we hate chicken" innuendo, since he highlighted it with the video unlike the "long sword" part. I mean, it's kinda obvious anyway when you realize one of the crass synonyms for the male genitalia is _also_ synonymous to "rooster", a male chicken. Every single innuendo makes use of synonyms and word play to get away with it.

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

There’s only one beer left Hugbees screaming in our ears like we’re deaf

[@tapiocattundra]

idk if it's mentioned here but the tiny toons beer episode was never banned and the rumor was started with an unverified Wikipedia claim, there's a good video by poparena that covers the myth

[@nintendo-relatedchannel5810]

I’ve never watched you before. The commentary during the Cow & Chicken part made me laugh so hard that I subscribed.

[@thatfunkadeus]

I would like to state that cow and chicken was where I learned the phrase "carpet mucher" as a kid and proceeded to regularly use the term before I was old enough to consider that I shouldn't be doing that

[@greencomet2011]

Rude Removal is pretty old news at this point, but I like that you brought the other cartoons along for us peeps that already seen that Dexter's Lab episode.

[@Professional_FunHaver]

Remember kids, don't appease people. That's how you lose Czehoslovakia.

[@primetimeandy]

I feel like the Dexter's Lab episode being in 1998 kind of makes it rough since it's a year after South Park started so everyone was probably more aware of what their children were watching.

[@Sollace]

12:21 The definition Hugbees is quoting is the archaic usage. In context, it's demeaning and the entire speech Dexter gives is considered mysoginistic in tone and letter.

[@shealenebresnahan4469]

THE FIRST SENTENCE OF THIS VIDEO IS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE SENTENCE I’VE EVER HEARD

[@drakegears]

I feel like when my dad used to make dvds of cartoons for me, he may have added that dexter episode without telling me, because I distinctly remember watching that ep multiple times over the years. He definitely did it on purpose but like you said, it runs like any other ep so I never noticed it being that bad.

[@ravioli6394]

I remember seeing the carpet munching episode again later in life and getting the joke. Not so bad. I feel like some Ren & Stimpy eps would be more offensive 😂

[@rowybowie]

As a lesbian I can confirm that we will break into your home, devour your flooring, and invite little girls to join us when we hang out to sing folk tunes about coming out and play softball. I don't think the episode should've been banned because it works as a PSA to young children in order to let them know what will happen if they're ever around a lesbian

[@lauravturner]

You unlocked the memory of that Cow And Chicken episode. I wasn't alive when it released but I remember seeing vague clips of it in the 00s. I didn't realise the entire episode all revolved around that joke... fucking hell.