Top 20 Banned TV Episodes

well cancer isn't exactly like a cold there are many different types of cancer but here let me try to show you welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 band tv episodes oh look they left us a movie a mood enhancer filth sounds pretty romantic for this list we'll be looking at episodes of various television shows that were barred from broadcast in certain countries have you seen any of these what did you think let us know in the comments number 20 see me feel me know me the powerpuff girls when you think of band tv you probably don't think of cartoons made for little kids alas one episode of the powerpuff girls was banned in the united states for religious imagery this is the best day of my life today the episode features a destroyed building and executives at cartoon network believed that the exposed beams looked too much like crosses [Music] there's also a hippie character that they felt resembled jesus these inclusions had the cartoon network sweating and they banned the episode from release [Music] however it was aired in many other countries and now appears on streaming and the dvd number 19 the high ground star trek the next generation from the late 1960s to 1998 ireland was embroiled in the troubles a violent conflict over whether northern ireland should remain part of the uk or unify with the republic of ireland sir i am finding it difficult to understand many aspects of onsata conduct much of their behavioral norm would be defined by my program as unnecessary and unacceptable fighting for the latter option was the ira a paramilitary group designated as a terrorist organization in the uk in the 1990 star trek episode the high ground data notes that the ira's terrorist activities worked and that ireland was unified in the year 2024 yet there are numerous examples when it was successful the independence of the mexican state from spain the irish unification of 2024 and the kenzie rebellion because the episode depicted a united ireland attained through terrorism the episode was initially banned in both the uk and ireland then would it be accurate to say that terrorism is acceptable when all options for peaceful settlement have been foreclosed number 18 insane in the membrane teenage mutant ninja turtles in 2003 a reboot of the famous turtle brand began airing on fox however one episode proved too violent for the family-friendly programming block and that episode was season four's insane in the membrane scheduled for release on march 4th 2006 the episode was pulled in the u.s due to its graphic content series producer lloyd goldfein blames the ban on a roster change within fox according to him every step of the episode's production was approved by the network but new personnel were horrified [Music] this experiment is a catastrophe it was cut from rotation and wasn't aired in the u.s until 2015. number 17 unstoppable law order special victims unit produced in early 2016 this episode of law and order special victims unit might never see the light of day i'm a handsome charming millionaire women throw themselves at me even though a promo was aired the episode was pulled before it aired it was reportedly inspired by a real case a woman's accusation that when she was very young donald trump assaulted her at one of jeffrey epstein's notorious parties he really needs a new script but he's not going to change and he's gotten away with it trump and epstein were friends and partied together throughout the 1990s until falling out over real estate in 2004 while the woman's lawsuit was withdrawn about two dozen other women subsequently accused trump of sexual misconduct when trump was elected president in november unstoppable was shelved right now a historic moment we can now project the winner of the presidential race cnn projects donald trump wins the presidency number 16 the great mcgrady arthur cancer is a difficult subject for anyone to discuss let alone children unfortunately my body is also making a few weeds right now my body's trying hard to get rid of those weeds and it takes a lot of work in the arthur episode the great mcgrady everyone reacts differently upon learning that mrs mcgrady has cancer but it doesn't seem to have been the subject matter that got the episode banned it was apparently the presence of lance armstrong francine gets in touch with armstrong knowing that he survived cancer you don't seem like someone who's had cancer why is that i don't know you're so healthy he's depicted as a heroic figure but his reputation was tarnished in real life following the infamous doping scandal reruns of his episode were pulled from rotation in the u.s and it was removed from the itunes store and amazon it was later revised to remove armstrong number 15 conflict mr rogers neighborhood yup even mr rogers neighborhood had some banned episodes in november of 1983 the show aired five episodes about conflict which contained several references to war i'm glad i didn't live there i am too i wouldn't like to live where they're having a war we've never had a war here and make believe have we prince tuesday is taught about war in school and king friday starts to suspect that corny's factory is manufacturing bomb parts well uncle friday we are not building bombs in southward they're not so relieved oh well wait a minute uh what are they using those million parts for the cold war was obviously on everybody's mind and a particularly brutal film called the day after was aired shortly after this string of episodes owing to its difficult subject matter the episodes were permanently pulled in 1996 and are still unavailable to this day number 14 i'll see you in court married with children in this episode of the iconic sitcom the bundys travel to a motel to spice up their love life al i'm serious i want sex hey how long have we been married 40 50 years [Laughter] do we not have two children well yeah then my job is done the suggestion comes from marcy rhodes who slept with her husband at the same motel while there the bundys find a videotape of the rhodes couple getting intimate that guy looks a little like stephen marcy together the couple's attempt to sue the motel for voyeurism before the episode aired the sensors at fox demanded cuts but deemed even the censored version too problematic and pulled it from release in the u.s steve i feel so violated oh gee guys if we had known you didn't know you were being taped we never would have brought you over here and sprung this on yeah i feel terrible [Laughter] it finally aired in 2002 five years after the show ended but even that airing was censored number 13 buffalo gals cow and chicken but who are you guys where are the buffalo gales this surreal animated comedy show offended the censors with sexual innuendo that was a little too on the nose a motorcycle riding gang that randomly burst into people's homes and shoes on their carpet in this season two episode a group of female bikers known as the buffalo gals break into cow and chicken's house inside they begin to chew the carpet one of the bikers is even called munchkelly the innuendo was pretty obvious and got the show in trouble while it did air as scheduled on june 27 1998 it was replaced in reruns with the episode orthodontic police number 12 promises promises boy meets world this popular 90s show deals with all sorts of teenage problems and milestones including the first time having sex in the fifth season episode promises promises cory and dapanga decide to sleep together after prom what do you think we sat down and discussed it how dorky do you think we are what about you in topanga we sat down and disgusted following its initial run on abc boy meets world was picked up by the disney channel for reruns however due to its sexual content promises promises was one of three episodes that the disney channel banned listen you you don't have to be confused okay well we're adults now and adults do not get confused you're right we're adults the other two are the truth about honesty also due to sexual content and if you can't be with the one you love which involves teen drinking number 11. uff hannibal this psychological thriller horror series features a lot of grotesque imagery but it was the way the ideas behind the episode intersected with recent events that proved most troubling the episode sees a group of foster children brainwashed by a mysterious woman into killing their biological families whoever this woman is she wants these children to burst with love for her but she has to erase their family to do that so she abducts them convinces them no one can love them as much as she does and then makes damn sure of it it was scheduled to air in april of 2013 but creator brian fuller personally pulled it from the united states broadcast schedule at the last minute he cited the associations that came with the subject matter and wished to be respectful of the social climate our friend will seems haunted today we don't know what nightmare's like coiled beneath those pillow children killing other children is not that unfamiliar a notion to will it's believed this was in light of the tragic events at sandy hook elementary school in december 2012. number 10 midlife crustacean spongebob squarepants while ostensibly for children spongebob squarepants makes many mature jokes and is enjoyed by adults the world over the third season episode midlife crustacean embraces this and has been repeatedly called out for it panty raid you're talking about girls right girl girls yeah and you're talking about raiding their dressers for their underpants right oh yeah the episode depicts a so-called panty raid which sees patrick spongebob and mr krabs raiding a woman's house and stealing her underwear the episode was originally supposed to air in november of 2002 but was canceled by nickelodeon we hit the jackpot oh yeah you finally came through for me boys i feel young again while it was later shown on the network future reruns have again excluded it it's also missing from the streaming network's paramount plus in prime video number nine partial terms of endearment family guy seth macfarlane's animated sitcom is certainly no stranger to controversy but the eighth season episode partial terms of endearment really push things in this episode lois becomes a surrogate mother for an old friend i've given this long and careful thought and i've decided to carry naomi and dale's child for them you what however the friend and her husband are killed in a car accident prompting lois and peter to consider abortion the episode's difficult subject matter concerned fox who thought it would get them in trouble with advertisers so how's it work doc you strap her down and then go hacking at her like sweeney todd no no good lord this is not 2005. we've come a long way since then this prompted them to pull the episode from rotation in the u.s adult swim also refused to air the episode conceding to fox's demands it was later made available on the season 8 dvd but it's currently absent from disney plus number 8 the encounter the twilight zone this historic show from rod serling often used science fiction and metaphors to comment on real issues of course not every episode dealt with other worldly elements the encounter is a drama centered around an american world war ii veteran and a japanese-american man named arthur it's 20-odd years since pearl harbor but two ancient opponents are moving into position for a battle in an attic in the veteran's attic they have a hostile conversation stemming from their respective experiences in the war arthur's father was a spy who worked construction at pearl harbor and betrayed the americans he was a traitor he signaled the planes he showed them where to drop the bombs he was a traitor this reveal offended japanese american viewers and the resulting complaints resulted in the episode being pulled from syndication it didn't appear on television again until 2004 a full 40 years after its original airing number 7 elephant issues tiny tune adventures this episode of tiny tune adventures contains a segment called one beer in which buster plucky and hampton get drunk in their intoxicated revelry the trio steal a police car and drive it off a cliff to their deaths [Music] the episode then ends on a clever bit of meta-humor with buster commenting on the dark nature of the storyline by asking do we get to do a funny episode tomorrow i hope the kids got the message yeah drinking some cool so do we get to do a funny episode tomorrow i hope so fox kids banned the episode over its mature content turns out they didn't like the protagonist's drinking going for a joyride in a stolen police cruiser and dying who'da thunk the episode remained banned for the next 22 years before it finally resurfaced on the hub network in 2013 number six home the x-files long regarded as one of the best x-files episodes home is also the most controversial it sees mulder and scully travel to the titular pennsylvania town to investigate a deformed incestuous family well i think it goes here is that edmund is the the brother and father of the other two which means that when edmund was a kid he could ground the other two for playing with his thanks the episode is a stew of horrific content featuring a disturbing story and graphic violence and became the first of the series to receive a tvma rating following its initial airing the episode was banned by fox for reruns they also prevented the peacock family from returning in a later episode as was planned by writers glenn morgan and james wong hey sheriff who lives in that house there number five stark raving dad the simpsons this cartoon has found itself in hot water on several occasions in 2002 rio officials considered suing fox for the episode blame it on lisa on the grounds that it presented a negative and inaccurate portrayal of the city taxi my american friend i'm afraid that this is a kidnapping more recently in 2019 the 1991 episode stark raving dad also ran into trouble homer befriends a man named leon kampowski who believes he's michael jackson jackson voiced leon himself i can't believe you never heard of me i'm a very popular entertainer oh of course i've heard of you i mean you'd have to be living under a rock not to know what'd you say your name was but after the series showrunners saw the documentary leaving neverland they were so disturbed by allegations against jackson that they pulled the episode from circulation it's also missing from disney plus and modern reprints of the season 3 dvd number 4 electric soldier porygon pokemon electric soldier porygon nearly destroyed pokemon forever in this episode ash and his friends enter a computer system and pikachu hits the anti-virus program with a thunderbolt resulting in a massive explosion this explosion was depicted with strobing blue and red lights not a good idea it resulted in what is known as the pokemon shock which sent 685 japanese children to hospital with some suffering seizures and blindness the episode currently holds the bizarre world record for most photosensitive epileptic seizures caused by a television show [Music] the resulting controversy caused nintendo's stock to plunge and they demanded that the episode never be repeated on television and it never has number three hee-ha-hee-haw fear factor this stunt show hosted by joe rogan was notable both for its danger and gross factor each episode featured the contestants doing something daring whether it was dangling off a helicopter or eating the private parts of an animal but even for fear factor the episode hee ha hee haw was just too much scheduled to air in january of 2012 the episode featured contestants drinking various fluids from a donkey good job guys what was that like it was just like consistency of it like the taste i was not expecting it it was like a like someone's been eating a lot of hay like someone's been eating a hell of a lot of hay nbc let them get away with a lot but not with this the network decided to pull the episode and it has remained unaired ever since yes you can puke now you girls are awesome you girls are monsters even that guy over there is impressed with you however footage of the stunt has been uploaded to youtube so those daring enough can still check it out number two the puerto rican day seinfeld for a while this was the last episode of seinfeld airing on may 7th 1998 just one week before the big finale this one sees the gang getting stuck in traffic during the puerto rican day parade the streets are all blocked i think every puerto rican in the world is out here well it is our day wrong car sorry kramer accidentally sets the puerto rican flag on fire and stomps on it in a panic after he's chased by a mob he remarks that you know it's like this every day in puerto rico the result was a flood of angry letters and protests outside nbc headquarters nbc apologized and the episode was removed from syndication it was finally brought back in 2002 with the controversial flag burning scene intact before we continue be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one 200 and 201 south park to celebrate the show's 200th episode in 2010 writer trey parker decided to go all in and write a storyline about the show's past controversies you just had to push it didn't you stan you just had to make fun of tom cruise again this included comedy central's refusal to depict the islamic prophet muhammad after cartoons and european newspapers led to threats and attacks after a threatening warning from radical organization revolution muslim comedy central caved and censored references to muhammad and even an anti-censorship speech in the episode 201 that's right friends all you need to do is instill fear and be willing to hurt people and you can get whatever you want the only true power is violence this decision was met with widespread criticism nonetheless both 200 and 201 were pulled from circulation and aren't available on the official website or streaming services do you agree with our picks check out this other recent clip from watchmojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos

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Length: 20min 4sec (1204 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 17 2022