Any 'banned' episodes in shows you've watched/ are watching ?

[Naruzeldamaster]

Pokemon's Anime has quite a few 'banned' episodes for some reasons, some reasons for banning the episodes are more controversial than others, most infamously is the Porygon episode which not only resulted in that episode being banned, but they have stopped showing that pokemon in the show PERIOD. Another infamous one is an episode that was seen as 'fine' for a good while but got Banned internationally following 9/11 (For obvious reasons)

 

[pmmg]

Well, a lot of things I watched as a kid have banned episodes now. Bugs bunny and Tom and Jerry are so edited now, they are no fun at all.

Star Trek has one where Spock says something positive about Nazi's. Good luck finding that.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

Well, a lot of things I watched as a kid have banned episodes now. Bugs bunny and Tom and Jerry are so edited now, they are no fun at all.

Star Trek has one where Spock says something positive about Nazi's. Good luck finding that.

Last thing I heard about Loony Toons was when they took away Sam's guns, like bro...why not just change him from a cowboy to something else then.
New Tom and Jerry are absolutely way too sanitized, half of the 'old' original tom and Jerry wouldn't fly today, heck, I'd argue more than half. If they want to make a 'less violent' tom and jerry than just make a new show entirely, don't taint classic characters by sanitizing them lol
That star trek one is an interesting one.
Though knowing what I know about Spock, yeah, that checks out a bit.

The stupidest change I've heard about sanitization is there's an episode of Sesame street where Cookie Monster declines cookies....

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

Star Trek has one where Spock says something positive about Nazi's. Good luck finding that.

Though knowing what I know about Spock, yeah, that checks out a bit.

I'm going to defend Spock, not just because he's one of my favourite characters, but also because I relate to him a lot.

First, Leonard Nimoy was Jewish. [Not that there weren't Jewish Nazis, but that's a whole other mindfield I'm staying well away from.]

Second, I've seen that episode, and what Spock says is the oft quoted idea that Nazi Germany was the most efficient form of government, instead of the absolute cluster-f of disorganized, utter chaos whose only purpose was to cause as much pain and suffering as possible, that it actually was.

To be clear, his exact line is "That tiny country, beaten, bankrupt, defeated, rose in a few years to stand only one step away from global domination...perhaps Gill felt that such a state, run benignly, could accomplish its efficiency without sadism." He's not expressing that as his own opinion, nor agreeing with the character who said it.

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

Back to the topic at hand, of my favourite shows, the only episode that was banned is Steven Universe's Reunited, which was banned in multiple [non-North American and UK] countries because
[spoilers for Season 5 of Steven Universe if anyone cares]

Spoiler: SU season 5 Reunited

it's all about Ruby and Sapphire's wedding. The show creator, Rebecca Sugar, fought tooth and nail for their relationship, to the point where she had to make the devastating choice between showing their wedding, or keeping the show going for more seasons. She chose the former, and the show was cancelled shortly thereafter with only a handful of episodes to wrap up the story. [She was very cheeky about the whole thing--since Ruby was frequently turned into a boy for various international dubs, she had Ruby wear a dress and Sapphire wear a tuxedo, and when they fuse back into Garnet, their outfits combine as well.]

As the saying goes, Legend of Korra walked so Steven Universe could run so Owl House and She-Ra could fly. Or something like that.