See also Censored for Comedy, which is what this trope can become. And on top of all that, inconsistency in the censorship may be the result of a Censor Decoy - an earlier version of the work that was blatantly offensive in order to make the work the writers wanted to produce seem tamer.Ĭompare Clumsy Copyright Censorship, Curse Cut Short, and Narrative Profanity Filter. Alternatively, the writers may "censor" perfectly innocuous content and invite the viewer to imagine something naughty in its place.
This trope can also be Played for Laughs if the writers just want to mess around with the admittedly-funny bleep noises. It can be a way of getting back at the Moral Guardians - fulfilling their demand for censorship in a perfunctory and half- asterisked way. This trope can occur because of simple incompetence on the censors' part, but it tends to occur on purpose just as often as not. At any rate, it's clear that the work is supposed to be censored but ultimately nothing is actually concealed.
Maybe they cut out all the swearing but left in that scene with the women's nudist colony and the tub of bacon grease. Perhaps the Censor Box is so small that you can clearly see what's behind it, or a word is bleeped out in some scenes but not in others. The Angry Video Game Nerd, "Episode 90: Action 52"Īn instance where a work is censored so randomly or ineffectually that the attempted censorship doesn't hide a nything and makes you, the viewer, wonder why they even bothered.
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