Top 10 Surprising Things that Used to Be Banned from TV
Top 10 Surprising Things that Used to Be Banned from TV
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Can you believe that political satire, homosexuality, cartoon nudity, pregnancy, shared beds, drug references, and female belly buttons used to be banned from TV? What a long way we’ve come. For this list, we’re focusing on topics that were not allowed to air on American broadcast television at some point in TV history. Join WatchMojo as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Surprising Things that Used to Be Banned from TV.
#10. Political Satire
#9. Cartoon Nudity
#8. Homosexuality
#7. Drug References
#6. Sexual Allusion
#5. Female Belly Buttons
#4. Underwear Models
#3, #2 & #1: ????
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makes you think why society is so degenerate now
There's a good reason to ban homosexuals from tv
No longer! Thanks Ellen
My god, number 1 is really shit.
Nudity, gayness, and drug banned? Lol there's porn on tv now called erotic t.v.
Times change. Isn't that common knowledge?
Am I catholic? Yes. Do I mind homosexuality? No.
Am i he only one who thinks elvis is ugly
33th
somabody toucha my spagettttt!
How come you guys never finished your "Messed Up Things That Happened on 1990s and 2000s Television" videos ? You guys only did the 1980s then you stopped.
I'm early so can I get a LIKE
45 Likes, 29 Views, 13 Comment, and 1 Dislikes
Mariette Hartley gat back on the censors in 1973 in the sci-fi film by Gene Roddenberry movie Genesis II in which she played a mutant woman who exposed, not one naval, but two.Tv couples must breed through immaculate conception and have no buttholes like Kim Jong Un in those days
Cartoon Nudity= TRY ANIME FANSERVICES LIKE KILL LA KILL!
Do Top 10 Slapstick Series
My personal favorites are "Tom & Jerry" and "The Three Stooges".
the only way to get away with political satire on tv in the 1960s was to have it set in a parallel universe, it seams, since The twilight Zone mannaged to get away with it on multiple ocasions.
One like to end censors
4:00 I remember CM Punk talking about that moment and what happened backstage and I thought it was one of the coolest shit that I’ve ever heard
Everyone gets a LIKE for the next 10 minutes
6:37 one of the only interesting things that I learned from school was that:
I'd rather watch Ed Sullivan reruns than today's talk shows.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTEGUBaOO_HhshqXlqqBERw
Anything offends Americans doesn't it
Homosexuality.
Why was that bad exactly?
Guess what wasn't banned
Racism in cartoons and violence
Thank Odin we live in the future!
When Mojo mentioned Shared Beds, I am surprised they didn't show scenes of Mr. and Mrs. Howell from Gilligan's Island.
that was a great scene to end on. nice job
Please do an episode on animals of farthing wood.
Don’t worry,thanks to liberals and the pc police everything on this list will be banned again
I'm sorry but I don't find this interesting
Remember when you couldn’t brutally kill favorite characters on TV? Oh how times have changed.
Fashion and entertainment
1990's >/= 2000s > 1980s > 1970s >>>>>>>>> 2010s
The concept of Divorce ! I do believe that nearly every single parent on American TV was either a widow / widower up until the One Day At A Time sitcom.
Of course they were banned. Those things are Obscene. They erode the values of strong moral families. ⬆Sarcasm
Can you see all of the Double Standards and Hypocrisies of this list?
0:20 that moment made me laugh hard when I was a kid
Yes and today snowflakes want to ban anything they dont like. The right to be offended.
I agree with most of the list, expect for homosexuality (in a way of praising that). It should've been still banned nowadays in my opinion. Thank you so much.
#3 is just… what!?
Oh well, most of the doors are dead anyway
Family Guy (1992-2003; 2005-) Nope.
TV executives violating the sanctity of marriage a God given right for couples to have sex and lots of it
Do white people really use one square of the toilet roll to wipe their ass? Serious question
I feel like censorship should be avoided. I feel like it restricts creative freedom.