Censorship

The censorship of Futurama is both the suppression of speech which may be considered inconvenient to the viewer as determined by a broadcaster and the bleeping of speech by the show as a joke. A list of episodes that have been censored follows.


 * Motorist #1: Move it, crap for brains! 
 * Motorist #2: Bug off! 
 * Motorist #3: Get home, bastard man! 

Censored by: Pick TV. Video: Suppressed.


 * Fry: It's like when I passed out in college, except no one drew magic marker penises on my forehead. 

Censored by: Sky1 (when shown before 8 PM). Video: Suppressed. :Speech: In the Planet Express laboratory.
 * Robot Leela: I'll kill you, you slut-clops !

Censored by: Pick TV. Video: Not suppressed.


 * ''Amy: Well, I guess it's time to indulge in some end-of-the-world debauchery. Who's up for an orgy?
 * [Everyone obliges excitedly, but begins to have second thoughts.]

Censored by: Channel 4 Video: Suppressed. :Speech: In the Planet Express briefing room.
 * ''Bender: Like The Pimpsons? And Assarama?

Censored by: Channel 4 Video: Not suppressed. :Speech: In the Planet Express briefing room.
 * ''Farnsworth: And finally that world that can't be mentioned in polite company.
 * ''Fry: You mean...
 * [Fry whispers something to Farnsworth and the crew get angry at him for doing so. Farnsworth slaps Fry.]

Censored by: Channel 4 Video: Suppressed. :Speech: In the Planet Express briefing room.
 * [We hear a whip crack. The camera cuts to reveal it was Amy in a dominatrix outfit]
 * ''Amy: So...the orgy's off?

Censored by: Channel 4 Video: Suppressed. :Speech: At the New New York Library.
 * ''Sal: I'll thinks it overs while I engages this $5 hooker.

Censored by: Channel 4 Video: Not suppressed. :Speech: At the New New York Library.
 * ''Sal: Yucks! I don't want's no $3 hooker! I'm going backs to the adults bookstore!

Censored by: Channel 4 Video: Not suppressed. :Speech: At the New New York Library.
 * ''Fry: Adult bookstore? I thought this was the public library.
 * Bender: Nope! Pubic'' library!

Censored by: Channel 4 Video: Suppressed.


 * ''Dr. Zoidberg: What's that loud, boring sound you'll hear when I stop talking?
 * ''Professor Farnsworth: It's an albino humping worm!
 * ''Fry: Why do they call it that?
 * ''Professor Farnsworth: Because it doesn't have any pigment.
 * ''Albino Humping Worm: (humps Planet Express ship)

Censored by: Local Syndication and WGN America Video: Not suppressed.


 * Bender: Aw, i'm gonna call him after the first half of me, Bender [His son burps]'' That's my bastard!

Censored by: ? Video: Not suppressed.

Censored by the show
None of the following are truly censorship, as the bleeps, etc. were deliberately placed in the script by the writers for comic effect. That is, nothing in a finished show was bleeped out at the request of Fox or Comedy Central Broadcast Standards Departments ("network censors").

There are a number of scenes changed in shows in production post-9/11, where milder visuals replaced collapsing buildings, etc. (in A Taste of Freedom) so as to be less upsetting to viewers. Some terrorist-related jokes were also reworked (in Three-Hundred Big Boys and Bend Her) in the interest of good taste. These changes were made by the writers and producers, rather than at the behest of Fox or Comedy Central.