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People complain about how shows aren't realistic... and then when they portray realism people complain about it... And that's why we can't have nice things.

the 13 reasons why censorship is still kind of weird to me. I get why it's done, don't get me wrong, but removing that suicide scene and leaving several far more graphic scenes of sexual assault including a guy getting a broomstick forced into him after being severely beaten is fine?

Diversity Day is, hands down, one of the best episodes. The fact that we have become so sensitive that Comedy Central pulled it down is just laughably stupid.

"The Lost Sister" was like an attempted spin off of Kali's gang, but it didn't work, because they just weren't compelling characters. The worst part about it was that it came right in the middle of an exciting cliffhanger with the characters we actually cared about back in Hawkins.

I’ll never understand why the ‘Diversity Day’ episode of The Office US is considered controversial or to have “aged badly”. The entire point is to satirise ignorance and expose why lazy stereotypes are ridiculous and wrong. And it does so hilariously. If it had been an episode in the UK original you can bet your arse Ricky Gervais would have been a _helluva_ lot more savage.

The Boondocks: Return of the King and the R Kelly episode. Both episodes are as relevant today as they were when they first aired.

Controversial was not the right word for this list. More like “questionable” or “most talked about”.

Poussey's death still hurts.

Carol of O Conner and Sammy Davis Jr. We're good friends in real life and Carol managed to not only get Sammy to be on the show, but get CBS to allow it

You missed 'All In the Family's' episode dealing with the se&ual assault of Edith. It was back in the 70's and the show was always sparking debate and outrage because of the casual and sometimes graphic humour dealing with race, gender, se&uality and crime. As prudish as the censors were back then, the show would never be allowed to air today, in the era of everyone being upset because they were offended for every reason under the sun.

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Married with Children - The Lost Episode evidently this episode was considered too raunchy so it only aired once. Now you can only see the episode in The DVD's.

why do people always forget that TWD is based off a comic. there are definitely some things that were added for the show itself but abrahams death wasn't out of nowhere.

I noticed that comedy central pulled ‘Diversity Day’ The Office out of rotation. The Iron Throne was the worst series finale of an overall well written and produced series. GOT truly messed up

Love how the background music keeps changing with every entry

One thing people forget about Plato’s Stepchildren is that the episode is about disability (specifically the Social Theory of Disability) and guest stars a disabled actor who died just four years after the episode aired. The interracial kiss is really important, but Alexander’s story still rings true today.

The ironic thing about The Offic e episode is that the Michael Scott character was never intentionally offensive; he just had a knack for accidently stepping in it. Sammy Davis Jr. on All in the Family marked the start of Archie Bunker changing as a person. I'm glad that it was a process that happened over the run of the show instead of being like someone flipping a switch and Archie suddenly being different. I didn't actually watch the Ellen episode. There was so much hype before the episode that I knew what the big reveal was going to be days before it happened. Here's a pattern I've noticed: Kill a white male character = some fans will be upset because it's their favorite character, but generally no big deal. Kill a character who belongs to a certain group (women, racial minorities, LGBT) and the writer's/producer get accused of hating all members of that group.

The episode of Family Matters where Eddie gets pulled over by the cops racially pfofiling him Moesha where Frank admitted he was Dorian’s father and not his uncle . Due to an afrair he had with MO’s mom

The season 6 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Seeing Red" involved both the murder of Tara (a lesbian character who was part of the first gay kiss on television) and an attempted sexual assault of Buffy by a former lover. Both were considered huge betrayals by fans, misogynistic acts done to further other characters' arcs. The consequences of the attempted rape were dealt with well into the following season, but Tara's death is often cited as one of the early examples of the "bury your gays" trope.

Casanova Cat (1951) "Tom and Jerry" 🐾

I remember digrassi, we watched it in school for health class. Even being as far back as 1994 it was still about 10 years out of touch as "come on, it's the 80s" always made a few chuckles

I remember the X-File episode "Home" as it was back pre-TIVO or such, so you had to program your VCR to record a show, and I was a big X-Files fan (even did an X-Files fan page as an excuse to learn HTML). But, my VCR, you had to "turn off" for it to work, and I forgot to do it, so I didn't get that episode... a coworker told me how f-d up it was, but it was several years before they reaired it.

Seeing _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_ on here isn’t much of a surprise.

The Walking Dead season 7 premier shouldn't have been much of a shock to anyone. Glenn died exactly as he did in the comics. I was a tad bit surprised at Abraham's death but for people to throw a hissy fit at Glenn's death was just daft.

The office diversity Day episode was supposed to be cringy. There are far too many people who think the way that Michael Scott does and I think it was pointing out how not to act

The suicide scene in "13 Reasons Why" should not have been edited. Showing it as originally filmed highlighted its awfulness which was the point.

Ellen Degeneres coming out as Gay. They wouldn't even air that episode in Alabama.

20. Diversity Day "The Office" (2005-13) 19. Chapter Seven: The Lost Sister "Stranger Things" (2016-) 18. I'll See You In Court "Married... with Children" (1987-97) 17. Sammy's Visit "All in the Family" (1971-79) 16. Honey "Degrassi: The Next Generation" (2001-15) 15. Various "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" (2005-) 14. To Ransom a Man's Soul "Outlander" (2014-) 13. The Animals "Orange is the New Black" (2013-19) 12. Plato's Stepchildren "Star Trek: The Original Series" (1966-69) 11. Return to Camelot Part 1 "Dallas" (1978-91) 10. The Day Will Come When You Won't Be "The Walking Dead" (2010-22) 9. Tape 7, Side A "13 Reasons Why" (2017-20) 8. Lucy Is Enciente "I Love Lucy" (1951-57) 7. Thirteen "The 100" (2014-20) 6. Abyssinia, Henry "M*A*S*H" (1972-83) 5. The Iron Throne "Game of Thrones" (2011-19) 4. Maude's Dilemma "Maude" (1972-78) 3. The Puppy Episode "Ellen" (1994-98) 2. Home "The X-Files" (1993-2002; 2016-18) 1. The Puerto Rican Day "Seinfed" (1989-98)

Personally I think removing the suicide wasn’t the right choice. I think the broom should of been removed that stick with u long after . It over poor Tyler

Not me tearing up at seeing just 10 seconds of the clip from MASH…

I'm surprised you didn't put the episode called "The Bicycle Man" from the show "Diff'rent Strokes". That episode is about a p3d0 messing with kids, and it's very uncomfortable to watch.

Informative video thanks

Genuinely, can someone please explain why Lucille Ball’s character being pregnant was controversial?? I realise it was the 50s and television was a lot more uptight but I am wracking by brains and cannot for the life of me work out why that would be controversial! If her character were unmarried or something I could see why folk might have been bothered back then, but wasn’t she a married woman? I don’t get it! 🤷‍♀️

Idk with degrassi i saw an episode about a main character harming herself and that’s how i learned to do i started doing it. That episode always hits me and i blame it for teaching me to harm myself at the young age of 10

The Gang Turns Black is still available on streaming. The banned episodes are the ones that feature Lethal weapon 5 & 6 and Martina Martinez.

Every single episode of Drawn Together

Shocked yall didnt add the D&D Community episode. Even though the whole thing is ridiculous.

The controversy over "Home" was not overblown. An example: many years ago, my crew and I were sent to prune some trees away from power lines at a dead end road. The grandmother and grandson were clearly having an intimate relationship. I was glad to get out of there! As was my crew. Stuff happens.

I’m getting a bit tired of people holding that The 100 episode over the show’s head. Hell the rest of Thirteen was pretty good as a story.

The DIFF'RENT STROKES........THE PEDO EPISODE pt.1 2 & 3

18:45 that clip you just showed of the creature (?) gave me the chills.

Home is maybe the best episode of The X-Files. It was very serious, very sad, and just brilliant in a low key way.

JTs death was way more traumatizing than Adams death

shocked that there are no glee episodes here🤣

although viewership went down way more after ‘the day will come when you won’t be’, i feel like carl’s death was way more controversial.

That Outlander episode was definitely a rough watch, but I think it was brilliantly done. There's very few SA scenes involving male victims. Just made Black Jack's death even more satisfying when it finally happened and at Jamie's hands.

GREAT LIST

Really appreciate that you didn’t show any spoiler imagery for Home, that’s great for anyone here who wants to brave it for themselves! 😂 Thought I’d mention that the Six Feet Under episode “That’s My Dog” caused such an uproar that it could be on this list. I knew people who couldn’t finish it and HBO received so much hate for it. It’s amazing. I love when creators take risks in artful, moving ways.

The crazy thing about TWD is Glenn getting his head smashed is cannon

So if a character is gay or trans then killing them off is controversial??? Don’t they want to be treated like equals

I can understand why people were up in arms about the OITNB episode; but to be fair, Samira Wiley’s then-girlfriend, now wife-who is white, btw-wrote the episode.

Well, This generation really went soft, most of that stuff would have been considered tamed back in the 2000s, you can´t tie like that the hands of a writer or they will be forced to play safe, also that episode of the office makes fun a cultural issue and censoring it is not going to make it disappear.

Carroll O'Connor was the best. He is what made All in the Family the groundbreaking show that it was.

What about fresh Prince, episode when Prince and his cousin got pull over and put into jail

Lethal Weapon 6 is a classic.

While the ending to GOT wasn't what anyone expected, it's definitely not as awful as described in this video. The problem was the pacing of the last season. If it had a few more episodes leading up to the same ending, fewer people would be upset over it. Also a few things to consider the show runners ran out of source material a few seasons back to base things off of and considering what all those characters have been through during the entirety of the series I'm not sure why everyone thought it'd be all rainbows and sunshine at the end. These people were broken and exhausted once the ash settled.

I’m surprised that Twilight Zone’s The Encounter was listed! It was banned for decades

Where’s the D&D episode of Community?

I wouldn't call S2 E7 of Stranger Things an unnecessary waste of time. I agree it can come across as a weird backdoor pilot, but it has Eleven learn a lesson about just because a person works for someone evil doesn't mean they're evil themselves, with many of them even having families they need to support.

Number 5 legit made me give up on television entirely. It was that bad.

5:35 the Gang turns Black didn't even have blackface it was literal black actors used when they saw each other in the mirror, should still be up too.

It's (The Office) a sit-com for Christ's sake! Too many people have little to no sense of humor, and get easily offended over nothing.

I was a dedicated TWD viewer, but couldn't watch ever again after the Negan scene.

at 3:23 Sammy Davis Jr. magically turns into Mike Evans. Yep, that's controversial!

I guess it was taboo back then or something 13:05 either way it sounds kind of weird

Does it seem like their channel has more ads than other channels. Was making breakfast while I watched and felt like I was stopping a lot to skip ads

I find "Diversity Day" to be hilarious, "Chapter Seven" to just be a fun episode, "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" to be beautiful and delicious, "To Ransom a Man's Soul" to be a perfect reminder of how Outlander doesn't shy away from even some of the best and worst moments in history and in humanity, and "Abyssinia, Henry" to be a sweet but tragic episode that didn't shy away from the horrors of war. I also think "The Iron Throne" was the perfect final episode for Game of Thrones.

I've seen many of these episodes live, but yes Home was so crazy . I remember how we were all weirded out .

Loved that All In The Family episode! Like all kids after Pokémon, Jackie Chan Adventures, Flint The Time Detective, I watched I Love Lucy and All In The Family.

“Various” for always sunny was 😂

Arrow season 4 episode "eleven fifty-nine".

u can't say those episodes of Always Sunny didn't 'work out' just bc they were pulled....still great episodes especially when u know what always sunny is and the jokes it aims to make....jabroni statement watchmojo

Earshot/Graduation Day Part 2: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Both Episodes delayed airing for months due to the Columbine HS Massacre in 1999.

This should just be 20 episodes of Southpark lol

It's sometimes the task of fiction to bring something controversial, uncomfortable, unsettling, or IGNORED into the foreground. The focus is, it's fiction. But of course, truth is stranger than fiction. If drama or comedy shied away from all topics that might be deemed controversial by some, that would make for some boring entertainment. Even back in the late 90s, the controversy over the "Ellen coming out as gay" episode always baffled me -- what's the big deal?! Less than a year later, "Will & Grace" would debut, featuring multiple gay characters in main roles. And then a random memory came to me -- the movie "The Kite Runner" (and the book upon which it is based) features the rape of a young boy... talk about heavy subject matter, and yet that is rarely broached in subjects about controversy in entertainment. So, what's the difference?? Society is, unfortunately, plagued with many inequities and difficult issues. These sometimes need to be depicted in TV and film. The characters in these stories are flawed, just like all of us are. They will do things that meet the disapproval of some. Bringing controversial subject matter to the forefront is almost essential, even if it's uncomfortable to consider or perhaps violent to see. Don't overanalyze these things, and don't turn away from them either.

I saw I'll See You in Court , on TV . 😊

What's with the weird adr? XD

Just because critics simply didn’t _like_ the episode Chapter Seven doesn’t mean that it was controversial.

The final episodes of Final space in season 3 Is the biggest BS there is. And that was already a series full of Despair

We talked about prime time shows but what about kids live action shows? I found out about episode 187 on Sesame Street. It’s one where Margaret Hamilton, who played the wicked witch of the west Guest starred. I watched it. I didn’t think it was scary or anything. But back when it first aired…it was controversial and parents demanded it be pulled…

Others: The Simpsons: The Principal and the Pauper Arthur's Big Hit Family Guy: Life of Brian The Big Bang Theory: The Matrimonial Momentum

Shit that's why they don't have the puerto rican day festival in rochester,ny anymore😂😂😂

I’m surprised that not at least 1 South Park episode didn’t make it.

Isn't the suicide scene still on the DVDs?

If you really feel that Poussey was unfairly killed off, maybe use that anger to avenge the real black citizens who die in similar ways.

3:00 what a _WEIRD_ idea for an episode, wtf were they smoking that day lmfao.

"Nobody is going to root for a cast of characters who stand for discrimination, eugenics, and racism." with 5 out of 8 episodes having zero plot and zero character development -Inhumans review How did MCU went from Homecoming and GOTG2 to Inhumans in 2017?

Netflix's Orange is the new black controversial episode might what it caused Netflix's reputation to be ruined thanks to that infamous episode.

Is that Kai Greene? 2:04

George Lopez (2002-2007) The Manny Lopez Episode and The Ricky episodes are still relatable to any In George's situation

Saying that episode of always Sunny was blackface is f****** crazy

The Walking Dead didn't Die. it came back strong with The Ones Who Live!

Very surprised Advanced Dungeons and Dragons from Community didn't make the list. That one gets talked about a lot.

Instead of rebooting this same list every year, maybe WatchMojo should instead make separate such lists by decade.

I saw the strangest episode of Family Guy . What's Family Guy ? 😊😂❤

I wish they make more controversial movies / TV shows

A bad backdoor pilot was “controversial"?? Lmao

Surprised Wentworth wasn’t here. Some horrible violent rape scenes!

13 reasons why show should have been 1 season not 4 seasons because there are not any more books to the book and the whole scene with Hannah doing what she did at the end of episode 13 they changed that completely from the book