The chances of something getting to you that's truly awful that hasn't been flagged by four other people is low. It's unlikely today that a television writer would have characters spit out offensive terms for minorities, people with physical limitations or the like -- and not just because of their own sensitivity toward these words, but also to spare the wrath of advertisers or special interest groups who could publicly mobilize and pressure the network too.
Hence the late airtime and Mature Audiences label for shows like Atlanta on FX, which, to illustrate how tricky the rules can be, is cleared to sparingly use the F-word and the N-word between characters since it's germane to the story but not in music that plays in the background. But that's just language. Sex and nudity is a whole other nut to crack. A court overturned that ruling, but, not to be deterred, broadcast networks have bypassed rules by showing nudity blurred, in shadows, or pixelated, which experts say can be just as titillating as the real thing.
And instances of this have risen a lot. Another PTC study saw an increase of more than 6, percent for full frontal nudity from the television season to the season. Going into , it's hard to imagine a blurred breast or butt being much of a shock whether one agrees with seeing it or not. Naturally, premium cable plays by different rules. But, even there, hardcore, penetrative sex is still off limits on even the randiest of shows.
Some, however, have gotten damn near close -- especially on Starz , the pay cable and streaming power player with a penchant for showing male nudity. Outlander and Vida have no qualms about letting limp dicks flop freely. And though hot, graphic sex scenes are a norm, Starz even blows past what we might've deemed shocking just 10 or 15 years ago on HBO, like talked-about scenes in Power and American Gods where, respectively, 50 Cent whipped out his johnson and, on American Gods, Brian Fuller oversaw the creation of the most intense and graphic man-on-man sex scene in the history of TV.
When asked about rules or notes from the network in terms of what's OK on that network, one writer on American Gods told TV Guide pretty much anything goes before shrugging her shoulders. In the MeToo era, there's so much sensitivity around sexual harassment on set that even the approach to creating sexual content has changed. As it happens, Cheadle spoke with TV Guide weeks before the network canceled SMILF , which became embroiled in controversy after creator and star Frankie Shaw was accused of mishandling sex scenes on set.
But even with an intimacy coordinator on House of Lies , on which the actor used to star, Cheadle said, it was incumbent on everyone on set to make sure participants, especially women, were comfortable with the demands of sex scenes, and their comfortability could change minute to minute. Federal law prohibits obscene, indecent and profane content from being broadcast on the radio or TV.
That may seem clear enough, but determining what obscene, indecent and profane mean can be difficult, depending on who you talk to. In the Supreme Court's landmark case on obscenity and pornography, Justice Potter Stewart famously wrote: "I know it when I see it. In other words, if you "know it when you see it" and find it objectionable, you can tell the FCC and ask us to check into it. Obscene content does not have protection by the First Amendment. For content to be ruled obscene, it must meet a three-pronged test established by the Supreme Court: It must appeal to an average person's prurient interest; depict or describe sexual conduct in a "patently offensive" way; and, taken as a whole, lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
Indecent content portrays sexual or excretory organs or activities in a way that is patently offensive but does not meet the three-prong test for obscenity. Profane content includes "grossly offensive" language that is considered a public nuisance.
Factors in determining how FCC rules apply include the specific nature of the content, the time of day it was broadcast and the context in which the broadcast took place. This means that an American broadcaster can get away with anything as long as the audience doesn't object to it, leading to the long-standing American game of " try it and see if you get away with it.
There's also a dichotomy between the mainstream commercial networks which are bound by the FCC , the "basic cable" networks which can do what they like but are so universal that they follow FCC guidelines voluntarily , and the "premium cable" channels like HBO , who famously don't care about this sort of thing.
So this means that although the Seven Dirty Words are uncommon on "mainstream" American TV, you might see them every now and then, especially as viewer standards change over time:. Carlin's follow-up album Occupation: Foole features a redux of the Seven Dirty Words and augments it with three additional words:. One word you might be looking for which Carlin never cited is "ass", and its derivative "asshole" — both were banned from U.
That one's also improved since then; "ass" can be heard every now and then, and while "asshole" is rare, it made its network debut on NYPD Blue and was heard quite frequently on that show. Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. Comic Books. In Bruce Almighty , Bruce is trying to convince his ex to come back to him, and has the following conversation: Bruce: Would it help if I said I was being a complete ass?
Nearby Child: You said "ass"! Bruce: It's okay if I'm talkin' about a donkey. If I said "hole", as in ass ho — Grace: Okay! In Gulliver's Travels , a paragraph in Part III, Chapter VI describes the "decoding" of letters and papers to "prove" their authors guilty of plotting against the state.
This process consists of replacing one noun with a related one " One of the substitutions is to replace "a Sink" with "a C—-t" — censored thus, or replaced with "court", in most printings, but the intended word is fairly obvious. Discworld gives us the Verbal Tic "——ing", which looks a lot like a censored "fucking" and is treated as such In-Universe , but is also apparently pronounced with dashes.
Terry Pratchett once mentioned that he occasionally would get mail worried that children will start saying "——ing" as if it were a swear word, which goes to prove first that profanity is what you make of it, and second that there's nothing that someone out there won't take offense to. The word's first appearance in Mort says it all, when a couple of muggers realise their putative victim is a wizard: "Well, —— me," he said.
I hate ——ing wizards! Malvolio: By my life, this is my lady's hand[writing]; these be her C 's, her U 's a n d her T 's and thus makes she her great P 's. Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: I mean my head upon your lap. Ophelia: Aye, my lord. Hamlet: Or did you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought, to lie between maid's legs. Live-Action TV. He passes on the list at school to get laughs, but ends up in trouble for it.
To get the story onto network TV, each word is replaced with its number in Carlin's list. The last line of the episode: " Number Threeeeee!
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