For the most part controversial episodes are some of the best but these tv shows pushed
the envelope a little bit too far and ended up getting
the episode pulled from the air welcome to 5 controversial TV episodes pulled from the air
THE X-FILES - Season 4 Episode 2 - HOME Although the x files has had some disturbing
episodes in the past, this episode caused some controversy and was eventually pulled
from the air. This episode was called home, during it FBI
agents Mulder and Scully are called in to a small rural community in which it seems
like evolution is at a stand still, they are called to investigate a severely
deformed baby body that was found. During their investigation they come across a family
of inbreds who live in unimaginable isolation, they also find out
that they are a family of incest including incest of sons and mothers and other family
members. They also find out that the family is murderous
and there is a scene where they bury one of their children alive.
it originally got good reviews but was then pulled from the air, it was pulled due to
violence, Deformities and incest. It was also the only episode of The X-Files
banned from repetition on Fox. The fans didn't stand for this and a year
after it was released it was showed again as it ranked at the number 1 spot during a
x files marathon. Many fans considered it the best x files episode of all time
Seinfeld - Season 9 Episode 20 - The Puerto Rican Day
During this episode, main characters Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer are on there way
home from a nets game when they run into heavy traffic,
The traffic is being caused by a Puerto Rican Day Parade. They become aware that they are
not getting home anytime soon so get out the car and
see what the parade is all about, during it Kramer sets fire to a puerto rican flag then
gets confronted by an angry mob of puerto ricans, during a riot
scene he says Its like this every day in Puerto Rico,
the main controversies of the episode where Flag burning and negative portrayal of Puerto
Ricans, Many viewers where upset to how puerto ricans
where being portrayed and complained to the network also The National Puerto Rican Coalition
didn't think it was appropriate that the flag was burned.
This lead to NBC apologizing for the episode and then they took it off the air and it was
not included in syndication packages across America.
however by 2002 some networks began to show the episode again, but most networks still
do not show the episode.
South Park - Season 14 episodes 5&6 - 200 & 201
Now south park has always been controversial but
Where to start with this one, it has controversy from tom cruise to the prophet muhammed to
gingers and a whole bunch of celebrities. The basic summary of this is, the south park
kids see tom cruise working in a fudge factory they then call tom cruise a fudge packer
tom cruise then attempts to sue the entire town of south park.
South park citizens then become fearful and manage to cut a deal with tom cruise, Tom
claims that if they are able to bring the prophet muhammed to south park then he wont
sue. The controversy sparked as the prophet muhammed
is not allowed to be shown in print. To begin with it was believed that the prophet
muhammed was inside a teddy bear suit but in the end it turned out it was santa claus
once the actual muhammed was revealed he was shown as a censored bar as comedy central
does not allow pictures of the prophet muhammed to be broadcast.
also in episode 201 the word muhammed was censored, kyle's annual speech at the end
of every episode was also censored but the uncensored version can be seen on YouTube.
Although it was censored, the reveal of muhammed caused an uproar within radical muslim organisations,
the creators of south park, trey parker and matt stone received death
threats. 18 days after the airing a car bomb was found
near the viacom studio which is a partner of comedy central its believed that it was
linked to the threats. other religious figures where made fun of
such as a segment that showed Buddha snorting cocaine this lead to sri lanka banning the
episodes from being shown in the country.
the episode was pulled from air and has not been seen since the 2010 release, it is also
not available on streaming sites such as netflix, it was released on dvd but only
in a select amount of regions it was not released in, dvd region code 4 and dvd region code 2
Megan Wants a Millionaire Megan Wants a Millionaire was an American
reality television show on VH1 in which former Rock of Love contestant Megan Hauserman has
seventeen wealthy single men compete for her love, The idea of the show is that megan wants
to be a trophy wife so 17 men with a net worth of
over a million compete for her love. Only 3 episodes where aired before its cancellation
it got cancelled because of quite a disturbing reason, Broadcast of the program was suspended
by VH1 on August 19, 2009, after it was announced that a contestant called Ryan Jenkins was
being sought by police for questioning in connection to the murder of his wife,
jasmine. Jasmines body was discovered on August 15th,
2009, she had been strangled and stuffed into a suitcase. Her remains had been mutilated
to prevent recognition she was eventually identified by the serial
numbers on her breast implants. Her husband, Ryan Jenkins was the only suspect
and was formally charged with the murder but just 8 days after her body was found and 4
days after the broadcast was suspended Ryan Jenkins was found dead in a
hotel room from an apparent suicide, the day after his death VH1 officially announced that
the show was being cancelled. They also removed the shows section from the
vh1 website and removed it from on demand services.
The incident also lead to a season of another vh1 reality series called I Love Money to
never be broadcast, season 3 of i love money was never broadcast as Ryan Jenkins was
also a contestant on it and won the show so in response to the incident they never broadcast
the entire season.
The Jenny Jones Show - Same Sex Secret Crushes The Jenny Jones Show was an American daytime
talk show hosted by jenny jones. One episode called Same Sex Secret Crushes
caused some controversy for a really disturbing reason,
For this episode it was focused on a man called Scott Amedure who had a crush on a man at
his work place called Jonathan Schmitz. Scott was gay but Jonathan wasnt,
They made jonathan stay backstage while scott and a fellow female co-worker was on stage,
scott explained to jenny how he had a crush on jonathan and
would explain the fantasy's he had about him, Jonathan is then told to come to the stage,
he is first tricked into thinking that it is the female co-worker that has a crush on
him but then it is revealed that it is scott that has the crush on him, scott then
goes on to explain to jonathon all the fantasy's he had about him, johnathon then covers his
face and awkwardly laughs and you can tell he is embarrassed.
three days after the airing, Scott posted a flirtatious note to Jonathons house, this
enraged johnathon, he went a took money out of his bank account then went and purchased
a shotgun he then went to scott's house and shot him twice in the chest killing him.
During the investigation it was found out that johnathon suffers with mental issue and
alcoholism, he is currently serving a 50 year prison sentence.
Scott's family tried to sue the talk show as they didnt do a proper background check
into johnathon and also tried to trick him into thinking it was the female co-worker
that had a crush on him as they gave him no prior knowledge that it was a man.
They sue'd for 25 million but the lawsuit was over turned.
due to the disturbing murder the episode was never broadcast
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