Controversial Cartoons

In this South Park episode, Tom Cruise gathers 200 celebrities who have been mocked by South Park to sue the town and to end them unless they give them the profit Muhammad. The sequel 201 was more controversial...

The sequel to 200, 201 picks up where 200 left with gingers wanting Muhammad to step out the bear costume. It is revealed to be Santa and Kyle and Kenny are keeping the real Muhammad safe. Prior to the airing of the episode, radical Muslim organization Revolution Muslim posted a warning on their website that Parker and Stone risked being murdered for their depiction of Muhammad. Comedy Central modified Parker and Stone's version of the episode, censoring all images and bleeping all references to Muhammad. At the end of the episode, Kyle gives a closing speech about the effectiveness of threats and violence. The speech is completely obscured with a continuous audio bleep.

This 'Bugs Bunny' cartoon has been considered highly controversial due to racial stereotyping. The plot has Bugs Bunny hunted by a slow-witted African American hunter who sounds and looks like Stepin Fetchit. The cartoon is a sad reminder of America's racist history!

In this Simpsons episode, Lisa makes a phone call to an orphan she has been sponsoring Ronaldo. The Simpsons go to Brazil to find him. The episode was controversial in Brazil because it made Brazil seem like a dangerous place reducing tourism, with Homer being kidnapped by ransomers, Bart being devoured by an anaconda and the multi-coloured infested slums. James L. Brooks issued an apology to Rio de Janeiro.

When 'Pokemon' aired, it had kids glued to their screens. In this episode, Ash and his friends find at the local Pokémon Center that there is something wrong with the Poké Ball transmitting device. To find out what is wrong, they must go inside the machine.

Twenty minutes into the episode, there is a scene in which Pikachu stops vaccine missiles with its Thunderbolt attack, resulting in a huge explosion that flashes red and blue lights rapidly. Although there were similar parts in the episode with red and blue flashes, an anime technique called "paka paka" made this scene extremely intense, for these flashes were extremely bright strobe lights, with blinks at a rate of about 12 Hz for approximately six seconds.

At this point, viewers complained of blurred vision, headaches, dizziness and nausea. Some experienced seizures, blindness, convulsions and loss of consciousness. Japan's Fire Defense Agency reported that a total of 685 viewers – 310 boys and 375 girls – were taken to hospitals by ambulances. Although many victims recovered during the ambulance trip, over 150 of them were admitted to hospitals. Two people remained hospitalized for more than two weeks. Some other people had seizures when parts of the scene were rebroadcast during news reports on the seizures. Only a small fraction of the 685 children treated were diagnosed with photosensitive epilepsy. This phenomenon was later called "Pokémon Shock". Following this, Pokemon went off the air for four months and returned to TV on 16th April 1998. Since then the episode has never been rebroadcast, not even outside of Japan

In this episode of Pingu, Pingu and Pinga go to a kid's pub and drink too much, resulting in Pingu accidentally urinating on the floor because the toilet is too high for him. He and his mother find a solution by building steps up. The episode has been deemed inappropriate for young viewers due to the alcoholic references of Pingu going to a pub, the uncensored urination when he and Pinga accidentally urinate on the floor and showing Father and Pinga using the toilets. The episode was banned from most countries due to this.

'Peppa Pig' has been a die-hard favourite of young children. In this episode, the children are sad because their teacher, Madame Gazelle, is leaving Playgroup. They hold a leaving party for her, only to find out that Madame Gazelle was going on holiday. In a scene when preparing the leaving party, Daddy Rabbit says that Madame Gazelle played guitar with the Rocking Gazelles. 2 year old Kiannah Cox started using the f-word misunderstanding the line and her mother claimed that it sounded like Daddy Rabbit said the f*cking Gazelles. She had learned about it from her son Isaac watching the episode with her sister.

NOTE: Not sure how to put videos in notes so I'll leave the video as a link:

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