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You might be wondering why a show like The Simpsons would have a Getting Crap Past the Radar page, seeing as how it's not supposed to be for kids in the first place ^[1].

Thing is, it's still subtle enough about its dirtiest, most subversive moments that some consider it still acceptable enough at least for older kids, since even kids who realize that it's a dirty show probably don't realize just how dirty it is.

Examples:

Bart intoning brand name condoms for a magic spell ("Trojan, Ramses, Magnum, Shiek!") to get the town's zombies back to their graves ("Treehouse of Horror III"; the "Dial Z For Zombie" story).
Krusty wondering if he should tell the joke about "the twelve inch pianist"(pianist sounds like penis) during Selma's wedding video ("Black Widower" ^[2]).
Disco (or rather, Discus) Stu hitting on Bart during the Odyssey segment of "Tales from the Public Domain."
Marge whispering to Homer what the Washington Monument resembles on the season 3 episode "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" ^[3]. ("Oh, grow up, Marge!")
On the season eight episode, "Homer's Phobia," John tells Marge that Helen Lovejoy's "cuffs and collar don't match" ^[4]. On the commentary, the writers are still amazed that the censors let that slide past (despite that "Homer's Phobia" was almost banned for its content -- at the time, doing an episode about homosexuality and homophobia was either not done or written as a very special dramatic episode. It was saved from being banned thanks to a change in management, but the censors still asked the writers to remove or tone down some lines for being too homophobic).
In the episode "Brother From the Same Planet", Homer and Bart are having an argument. Homer asks Bart if he remembers how he used to have fun pushing him on the swing, which Bart denies, and says he was "faking it". Homer calls him a liar, and Bart then enthusiastically starts to say "Higher, Dad, Higher! Whee!" to prove his point ^[5].
"Whacking Day", anyone? It's that episode where the town celebrates a Fictional Holiday that involves whacking snakes with bats. Think about it for a minute.

(Homer pulls the cover off a bat that is positioned near his crotch),

Homer: "Do you want me to whack fast or slow?"

Marge: "Slow, then fast."

In one episode a sign reads "Sneed's Feed and Seed" and in smaller letters "formerly Chuck's." (Imagine if they had to keep that rhyming scheme with the same letters)
In one episode Ned Flanders was shown a tape of himself as a little kid. While bullying the other children, Young Ned first declares himself Dick Tracy, saying "take that prune-face" followed by "Now, I'm Prune-face, Take that Dick Tracy! Now I'm Prune-Tracy,Take That Di-"
In a recent episode ("Flaming Moe"; not to be confused with the season three episode where Homer invents a fiery cocktail and Moe lies and says he invented it so his bar can have more business), Smithers and Moe open a gay bar, and at one point Mr. Burns comes in to see what Smithers has done. A Manly Gay hollers at them, saying "Hey, Smithers, I didn't know you were a geezer-pleaser! Having a lemon party?"
- Burns's reply: "Ohoho! A good old-fashioned lemon party! I call first squeeze!"
  - Lemon Party was also referenced one season later in "Politically Inept with Homer Simpson," when Homer mistakes the Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence for the shock site ("What is this, a bicentennial Lemon Party?").
    - That's similar to when Mr. Burns appeared on the Howard Stern-esque radio show, "Jerry Rude and the Bathroom Bunch," and he misinterpreted his "first gay experience" as a "happy" experience rather than a time he had sex with a man (as Mr. Burns is so stuck in his antiquated ways that he doesn't know "gay" doesn't mean "happy" anymore). It doesn't help that the "gay" experience was a picnic and that "[he] ate [his] share of weiners that day."
On the DVD commentary, the writers were surprised they got away with "Flaming Moe's" (the season three episode in which Homer creates that alcoholic cocktail out of Krusty Brand kids' cough syrup), though "moe" (meaning "homo," not "mo-ay") wasn't that common of a slang term back in the 1990s (or now, for that matter).
The 451st episode ("Once Upon a Time in Springfield") had Anne Hathaway as Princess Penelope to bring in more female viewers for Krustys show. It turns out she's had a crush on Krusty since she was little, then makes out with him. The act ends when Krusty's trick boutonniere squirts.
From the Treehouse of Horror episode with the dolphins: "Don't forget - we invented computers, leg warmers, bendy straws, peel-and-eat shrimp, the glory hole, AND the pudding cup!"
Kent's "super swear", "God's least favorite word" in the 400th episode, You Kent Always Say What You Want.
- And later on in the episode, Homer tells Lisa something really bad about Fox that can't be said on this show.
In "Postcards From the Wedge", Bart had to have an anal thermometer. Lisa advised him to "Close (His) eyes and think of Milhouse."
In "The President Wore Pearls", after dropping off Lisa at her new school, Otto muses "I guess this story has a happy ending after all. Just like my last massage."
Roger Myers' reply to Marge's concerns over the violence in Itchy 'n Scratchy.

{{quote| Myers: "In reply to your specific concerns about the cartoon, it's been shown that no one crackpot can change the world on their own, so let me conclude by saying..."
Marge: "...and the horse I rode in on?!?!?" [[hottip:*:[[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fuck }}

From "Treehouse of Horror VI":

Homer: (Reading a notice) "Do not touch Willie. Good advice!"

- They probably got away with it since "willie" is much more commonly said in England than the US.
From King Homer in "Treehouse of Horror III" (in probably one of the rare times that Mr. Burns seems like he knows that Smithers could be a homosexual):

Smithers: I think women and seamen don't mix.

Mr. Burns: We know what you think.

On the season 12 episode "HOMR" (the episode in which Homer discovers that the reason why he's dumb is because of a crayon he had lodged in his head as a kid), Homer, in his attempt to come up with a flat tax proposal, came up with an airtight theory that proves that God doesn't exist (though Homer has actually seen God before on the season four episode where Homer decides not to go to church anymore after realizing that he had a better Sunday staying at home). Cue Flanders burning every copy of this proof, despite the fact that Homer can be seen putting copies of the theory on everyone's car in the neighborhood.
- That same episode had this exchange between Lisa and Marge (which could be taken as an innuendo):

Lisa: Well, maybe if Mom didn't make such dry waffles. There, I said it.

Marge: Well, maybe if you'd eat some meat you'd have a natural lubricant.

An episode featured Homer working as an ice-cream man and Marge using the used sticks to make wood figurines. A later scene in the bedroom says that Homer has "never been happier giving Marge wood".
In the Barnacle Bay episode, Marge named the carousel seahorse she used to ride on (that now has swastikas carved in its eyes) as a kid "Mr Funny-Good-Feeling". Uh... yeah.
During the episode where Mrs Krabappel gets fired for hitting Bart (the season 22 finale, "The Ned-liest Catch"), at the part where Bart tries to break her out of a rubber room (a waiting room for teachers who are about to be fired), she says, "I'm a teacher in a bathroom with a student. That's why most of these people are here in the first place."
In "Much Apu About Nothing", Apu reveals that he came to America to attend Springfield Heights Institute of Technology.
During Maggie's dream in "The Fight Before Christmas", all of the normal characters are muppet versions of themselves, except for guest-star Katy Perry, who in the dream is Moe's girlfriend and also a live action human being. As you may expect, this makes her much taller than Moe. After the credits have rolled, Moe is shown repeatedly jumping up so he can be near her face long enough to give her a kiss, and repeatedly failing. Finally he says that he'll just kiss her bellybutton...and his aim's a little bit low.

Katy: Oh, uh, that's not my bellybutton. But I didn't say stop!

- Which would certainly explain why Britain's Sky One runs the episode after the watershed.
Season nine's "Bart Star" had a flashback in which Lenny wore a shirt with "Bull shirt" written on it. Seriously.
- Shirts like that were common in The Seventies
The season 16 episode, "Fat Man and Little Boy" has Bart selling T-shirts with sarcastic slogans on them as a means to cope with the fact that he lost his final baby tooth and isn't going to be a child anymore. One of the shirts he sells reads "Pobody's Sherfect, Nithead".
- Speaking of racy shirt slogans, the season seven episode "Two Bad Neighbors" ^[6] had a shirt Homer once wore that reads, "Ayatollah Assahola." The only reason the writers and animators got away with that was that one of the two "S"'s was always obscured. This was also the same case in "Hurricane Neddy" from season eight during the scene where one of Flanders' kids wears a "Butthole Surfers" T-shirt (the last part of "butthole" was obscured by a T-shirt wrinkle).
  - Well, Butthole Surfers IS a band.
It's surprising much of "Natural Born Kissers" even got on the air (The writers on the DVD commentary even said that this episode had a lot of censorship issues -- most centered on the nudity). The worst was probably the farmer threatening whoever was in the barn with some "serious ass-forking" (It should be noted that on the DVD commentary, Matt Groening went on record to say that he didn't particularly like this joke, but everyone else did). If I remember correctly, the only way they got that one through was because he was holding a pitchfork.
The Jerry Rude scene from "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" contains some of the raciest lines in the history of the show. These lines stand out, in particular.

Rude: Question two: How long is your wiener, seriously?

Burns: Great heavens! What kind of radiola show is this?

Rude: How about this -- when was your first gay experience?

Burns: Oh, well, when I was six, my father took me on a picnic. That was a gay old time! Oh-ho, I ate my share of wieners that day.

Rude: Oh, that sounds lovely. [coughs "queer"]

In an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon in "Homer the Father", the vacuum that Itchy uses says "suck" on one switch and "blow" on the other.

↑ despite the fact that when The Simpsons first became a 30-minute animated sitcom, a lot of Moral Guardians protested against Bart's subversive behavior and condemned the show as trash because, at the time, cartoons were still seen as children's fare and The Simpsons was getting away with a lot of adult-oriented content
↑ Season three episode in which Selma marries Sideshow Bob, and Bart is convinced that Bob is going to kill her
↑ The episode where Lisa enters a "Why I Love America" essay contest -- and inadvertently takes down a corrupt senator when she rewrites her essay to rat him out and defame America
↑ (saying someone's "cuffs and collars" don't match is the same as saying the "carpet doesn't match the curtains" -- it means the hair on someone's head doesn't match his or her pubic hair, often due to a dye job)
↑ For those who don't get it, its the equivalent of a woman faking an orgasm
↑ the one where George H.W. Bush moves next door to The Simpsons

[1] spite the fact that when The Simpsons first became a 30-minute animated sitcom, a lot of Moral Guardians protested against Bart's subversive behavior and condemned the show as trash because, at the time, cartoons were still seen as children's fare and The Simpsons was getting away with a lot of adult-oriented content

[2] Season three episode in which Selma marries Sideshow Bob, and Bart is convinced that Bob is going to kill her

[3] The episode where Lisa enters a "Why I Love America" essay contest -- and inadvertently takes down a corrupt senator when she rewrites her essay to rat him out and defame America

[4] (saying someone's "cuffs and collars" don't match is the same as saying the "carpet doesn't match the curtains" -- it means the hair on someone's head doesn't match his or her pubic hair, often due to a dye job)

[5] For those who don't get it, its the equivalent of a woman faking an orgasm

[6] the one where George H.W. Bush moves next door to The Simpsons

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-* In one episode of the Simpsons, the creators got away with one of the dirtiest jokes to ever go under the radar of the censors. A sign says "Sneed's Seed and Feed - Formerly Chuck's".
-* The writers were surprised they were able to use the name "Flaming Moe". Their best guess is that the censors didn't get [[Camp Gay|the reference.]] Moe stole the Flaming Moe from Homer, who naturally called it the "Flaming Homer" for what is essentially the exact same joke
+You might be wondering why a show like ''[[The Simpsons]]'' would have a [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] page, seeing as how it's not ''supposed'' to be for kids in the first place <ref>despite the fact that when ''[[The Simpsons]]'' first became a 30-minute animated sitcom, a lot of [[Moral Guardians]] protested against Bart's subversive behavior and condemned the show as trash because, at the time, cartoons were still seen as children's fare and ''[[The Simpsons]]'' was getting away with a lot of adult-oriented content</ref>.
+Thing is, it's still subtle enough about its dirtiest, most subversive moments that some consider it still acceptable enough at least for older kids, since even kids who realize that it's a dirty show probably don't realize just ''how'' dirty it is.
+{{examples|Examples:}}
+* Bart intoning brand name condoms for a magic spell ("Trojan, Ramses, Magnum, Shiek!") to get the town's zombies back to their graves ("Treehouse of Horror III"; the "Dial Z For Zombie" story).
+* Krusty wondering if he should tell the joke about "the twelve inch pianist"(pianist sounds like penis) during Selma's wedding video ("Black Widower" <ref> Season three episode in which Selma marries Sideshow Bob, and Bart is convinced that Bob is going to kill her</ref>).
+* Disco (or rather, Discus) Stu hitting on Bart during the ''Odyssey'' segment of "Tales from the Public Domain."
+* Marge whispering to Homer what the Washington Monument resembles on the season 3 episode "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" <ref>The episode where Lisa enters a "Why I Love America" essay contest -- and inadvertently takes down a corrupt senator when she rewrites her essay to rat him out and defame America</ref>. ("Oh, grow up, Marge!")
+* On the season eight episode, "Homer's Phobia," John tells Marge that Helen Lovejoy's "cuffs and collar don't match" <ref>(saying someone's "cuffs and collars" don't match is the same as saying the "carpet doesn't match the curtains" -- it means the hair on someone's head doesn't match his or her pubic hair, often due to a dye job)</ref>. On the commentary, the writers are '''''still''''' amazed that the censors let that slide past (despite that "Homer's Phobia" was almost banned for its content -- at the time, doing an episode about homosexuality and homophobia was either not done or written as a [[Very Special Episode|very special dramatic episode]]. It was saved from being banned thanks to a change in management, but the censors still asked the writers to remove or tone down some lines for being too homophobic).
+* In the episode "Brother From the Same Planet", Homer and Bart are having an argument. Homer asks Bart if he remembers how he used to have fun pushing him on the swing, which Bart denies, and says he was "faking it". Homer calls him a liar, and Bart then enthusiastically starts to say "Higher, Dad, Higher! Whee!" to prove his point <ref>For those who don't get it, its the equivalent of a woman faking an orgasm</ref>.
+* "Whacking Day", anyone? It's that episode where the town celebrates a [[Fictional Holiday]] that involves whacking snakes with bats. Think about it for a minute.
+{{quote| (Homer pulls the cover off a bat that is positioned near his crotch), <br />
+'''Homer:''' "Do you want me to whack fast or slow?"<br />
+'''Marge:''' "Slow, then fast." }}
+* In one episode a sign reads "Sneed's Feed and Seed" and in smaller letters "formerly Chuck's." (Imagine if they had to keep that rhyming scheme with the same letters)
+* In one episode Ned Flanders was shown a tape of himself as a little kid. While bullying the other children, Young Ned first declares himself [[Dick Tracy]], saying "take that prune-face" followed by "Now, I'm Prune-face, Take that Dick Tracy! Now I'm Prune-Tracy,[[Curse Cut Short|Take That Di-"]]
+* In a recent episode ("Flaming Moe"; not to be confused with the season three episode where Homer invents a fiery cocktail and Moe lies and says he invented it so his bar can have more business), Smithers and Moe open a gay bar, and at one point Mr. Burns comes in to see what Smithers has done. A [[Manly Gay]] hollers at them, saying "Hey, Smithers, I didn't know you were a geezer-pleaser! Having a [[Shock Site|lemon party]]?"
+** Burns's reply: "Ohoho! A good old-fashioned lemon party! I call first squeeze!"
+*** Lemon Party was also referenced one season later in "Politically Inept with Homer Simpson," when Homer mistakes the Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence for the shock site ("What is this, a bicentennial Lemon Party?").
+**** That's similar to when Mr. Burns appeared on the [[Howard Stern]]-esque radio show, "Jerry Rude and the Bathroom Bunch," and he misinterpreted his "first gay experience" as a "happy" experience rather than a time he had sex with a man (as Mr. Burns is so stuck in his antiquated ways that he doesn't know "gay" doesn't mean "happy" anymore). It doesn't help that the "gay" experience was a picnic and that "[he] ate [his] share of weiners that day."
+* On the DVD commentary, the writers were surprised they got away with "Flaming Moe's" (the season three episode in which Homer creates that alcoholic cocktail out of Krusty Brand kids' cough syrup), though "moe" (meaning "homo," not "mo-ay") wasn't that common of a slang term back in the 1990s (or now, for that matter).
+* The 451st episode ("Once Upon a Time in Springfield") had Anne Hathaway as Princess Penelope to bring in more female viewers for Krustys show. It turns out she's had a crush on Krusty since she was little, then makes out with him. The act ends when [[Something Else Also Rises|Krusty's trick boutonniere squirts]].
+* From the Treehouse of Horror episode with the dolphins: "Don't forget - we invented computers, leg warmers, bendy straws, peel-and-eat shrimp, ''[[Bread Eggs Milk Squick|the glory hole,]]'' AND the pudding cup!"
+* Kent's "super swear", "God's least favorite word" in the 400th episode, ''You Kent Always Say What You Want.
+** And later on in the episode, Homer tells Lisa something ''really bad'' about Fox that can't be said on this show.
+* In "Postcards From the Wedge", Bart had to have an anal thermometer. Lisa advised him to "Close (His) eyes and [[Think Unsexy Thoughts|think of Milhouse]]."
+* In "The President Wore Pearls", after dropping off Lisa at her new school, Otto muses "I guess this story has a [[Double Entendre|happy ending]] after all. [[A Date With Rosie Palms|Just like my last massage]]."
+* Roger Myers' reply to Marge's concerns over the violence in Itchy 'n Scratchy.
+{{quote| '''Myers:''' "In reply to your specific concerns about the cartoon, it's been shown that no one crackpot can change the world on their own, so let me conclude by saying..."<br />
+'''Marge:''' "...and the horse I rode in on?!?!?" [[hottip:*:[[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fuck<!-- 20you20and%20the%20horse%20you%20rode%20in%20on See here]] [[DontExplainTheJoke if you want the joke explained]].]] --> }}
+* From "Treehouse of Horror VI":
+{{quote| '''Homer:''' (Reading a notice) "[[A Date With Rosie Palms|Do not touch Willie]]. Good advice!"}}
+** They probably got away with it since "willie" is much more commonly said in England than the US.
+* From King Homer in "Treehouse of Horror III" (in probably one of the rare times that Mr. Burns seems like he knows that Smithers could be a homosexual):
+{{quote| '''Smithers:''' I think women and seamen don't mix.<br />
+'''Mr. Burns:''' We know what you think. }}
+* On the season 12 episode "HOMR" (the episode in which Homer discovers that the reason why he's dumb is because of a crayon he had lodged in his head as a kid), Homer, in his attempt to come up with a flat tax proposal, came up with an airtight theory that proves that God doesn't exist (though [[Negative Continuity|Homer has actually seen God before on the season four episode where Homer decides not to go to church anymore after realizing that he had a better Sunday staying at home]]). Cue Flanders burning every copy of this proof, despite the fact that Homer can be seen putting copies of the theory on everyone's car in the neighborhood.
+** That same episode had this exchange between Lisa and Marge (which could be taken as an innuendo):
+{{quote| '''Lisa''': Well, maybe if Mom didn't make such dry waffles. There, I said it.<br />
+'''Marge''': Well, maybe if you'd eat some meat you'd have a natural lubricant. }}
+* An episode featured Homer working as an ice-cream man and Marge using the used sticks to make wood figurines. A later scene in the bedroom says that Homer has "never been happier giving Marge wood".
+* In the Barnacle Bay episode, Marge named the carousel seahorse she used to ride on (that now has swastikas carved in its eyes) as a kid "Mr Funny-Good-Feeling". Uh... yeah.
+* During the episode where Mrs Krabappel gets fired for hitting Bart (the season 22 finale, "The Ned-liest Catch"), at the part where Bart tries to break her out of a rubber room (a waiting room for teachers who are about to be fired), she says, "I'm a teacher in a bathroom with a student. That's why most of these people are here in the first place."
+* In "Much Apu About Nothing", Apu reveals that he came to America to attend '''S'''pringfield '''H'''eights '''I'''nstitute of '''T'''echnology.
+* During Maggie's dream in "The Fight Before Christmas", all of the normal characters are [[Muppets|muppet versions of themselves]], except for guest-star [[Katy Perry]], who in the dream is Moe's girlfriend and also a live action human being. As you may expect, this makes her much taller than Moe. After the credits have rolled, Moe is shown repeatedly jumping up so he can be near her face long enough to give her a kiss, and repeatedly failing. Finally he says that he'll just kiss her bellybutton...and his aim's a little bit low.
+{{quote| '''Katy:''' Oh, uh, that's not my bellybutton. But I didn't say stop!}}
+** Which would certainly explain why Britain's [[Sky One]] runs the episode ''after'' the watershed.
+* Season nine's ''"Bart Star"'' had a flashback in which Lenny wore a shirt with "Bull shi'''r'''t" written on it. [http://tomlowell.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/bullshirt.jpg Seriously.]
+** Shirts like that were common in [[The Seventies]]
+* The season 16 episode, "Fat Man and Little Boy" has Bart selling T-shirts with sarcastic slogans on them as a means to cope with the fact that he lost his final baby tooth and isn't going to be a child anymore. One of the shirts he sells reads "Pobody's Sherfect, Nithead".
+** Speaking of racy shirt slogans, the season seven episode "Two Bad Neighbors" <ref>the one where George H.W. Bush moves next door to The Simpsons</ref> had a shirt Homer once wore that reads, "Ayatollah Assahola." The only reason the writers and animators got away with ''that'' was that one of the two "S"'s was always obscured. This was also the same case in "Hurricane Neddy" from season eight during the scene where one of Flanders' kids wears a "Butthole Surfers" T-shirt (the last part of "butthole" was obscured by a T-shirt wrinkle).
+*** Well, [[Butthole Surfers]] IS a band.
+* It's surprising much of "Natural Born Kissers" even got on the air ([[Word of God|The writers on the DVD commentary even said that this episode had a lot of censorship issues -- most centered on the nudity]]). The worst was probably the farmer threatening whoever was in the barn with some "serious ass-forking" ([[Word of God|It should be noted that on the DVD commentary, Matt Groening went on record to say that he didn't particularly like this joke, but everyone else did]]). If I remember correctly, the only way they got that one through was because he was holding a pitchfork.
+* The Jerry Rude scene from "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" contains some of the raciest lines in the history of the show. These lines stand out, in particular.
+{{quote| Rude: Question two: How long is your wiener, seriously?<br />
+Burns: Great heavens! What kind of radiola show is this?<br />
+Rude: How about this -- when was your first gay experience?<br />
+Burns: [[Have a Gay Old Time|Oh, well, when I was six, my father took me on a picnic. That was a gay old time! Oh-ho, I ate my share of wieners that day.]]<br />
+Rude: Oh, that sounds lovely. [coughs "queer"] }}
+* In an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon in "Homer the Father", the vacuum that Itchy uses says "suck" on one switch and "blow" on the other.
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