It may be a matter of who complains the loudest. It's not clear how networks decide what to omit in adult cartoons. "Whenever we would fight with them to get it in, that would be what (promotions would) put in the ad," said Verrone. While writers for adult animation shows often have more freedom, even they can run into trouble at times.Ĭensors would sometimes balk at certain Futurama scenes, recalled Patric Verrone, president of the Writers Guild of America, West and a writer on the show.īut the promotions department often had the last word. Miller, meanwhile, once wrote the script for a show called Pocket Dragon Adventures and was told not to use the word "beseech" in a scene with a knight because it's somehow "blasphemous." Miller took it out. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other troublesome words for censors include "furnace," "vacation," "envy" and "remove" because they're supposedly too complicated for kids to understand, Nichols said.
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