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.
Censored by a broadcaster
Season 2
"I Second that Emotion" (2ACV01)
"A Head in the Polls" (2ACV03)
Speech: In the Planet Express employee lounge.
Bender: That dirty, double-crossing bastard!
Censored by: Pick TV.
Video: Suppressed.
"Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" (2ACV05)
"The Lesser of Two Evils" (2ACV06)
Speech: In the holographic film.
Motorist #1: Move it, crap for brains!
Motorist #2: Bug off!
Motorist #3: Get home, bastard man!
Censored by: Pick TV.
Video: Suppressed.
"A Clone of My Own" (2ACV10)
Speech: In the Planet Express laboratory.
Bender: You bastard!
Censored by: Pick TV.
Video: Suppressed.
Speech: In the Planet Express ship.
Bender: No, we're not, you little bed-wetter.
Censored by: Pick TV.
Video: Suppressed.
Speech: In the Planet Express ship.
Leela: We can't , you bastard!
Censored by: Pick TV.
Video: Suppressed.
"The Deep South" (2ACV12)
Speech: At sea.
Professor Farnsworth: Sweet Zombie Jesus!<---[beep sound]
Censored by: Adult Swim.
Video: Not suppressed.
Speech: At sea.
Professor Farnsworth: Sweet Zombie Jesus! (muted out)
Censored by: TBS.
Video: Suppressed.
"Bender Gets Made" (2ACV13)
Speech: At Elzar's Fine Cuisine.
Professor Farnsworth: Holy Zombie Jesus!<---[beep sound]
Censored by: Adult Swim.
Video: Suppressed.
"Mother's Day" (2ACV14)
"Anthology of Interest I" (2ACV16)
Speech: In the Planet Express laboratory.
Professor Farnsworth: Oh, you've killed me! You've killed me!
Leela: Oh God! What have I done?
Professor Farnsworth: I just told you! You've killed me!
[The anteaters finish him off. All that is left of him is his skeleton and lab coat. An anteater coughs up his glasses onto the skull.]
Censored by: Channel 4
Video: Suppressed.
Speech: In the Planet Express laboratory.
Hermes: What are you hacking off? Is it my torso?
[Leela hacks something off of Hermes]
Hermes: It is! MY PRECIOUS TORSO!!!
Zoidberg: Hermes, quiet! I'm deducing things!
Censored by: Channel 4
Video: Not suppressed.
Speech: In the accusing parlor.
Cubert: This is preposterous! Obviously, the murderer was...
[Leela turns the lights off and Cubert squeaks. The lights come back on. There is now a sword through Cubert. Scruffy gasps]
Censored by: Channel 4
Video: Not suppressed.
Speech: In the accusing parlor.
Scruffy: Scruffy knows who killed them people. In Scruffy's opinion, it were...
[Leela turns the lights off again and stabs Scruffy with the same sword. The lights come back on.]
Censored by: Channel 4
Video: Not suppressed.
Speech: In the accusing parlor.
[Nibbler squeals and points at Leela. The lights go off and Leela stabs Nibbler. The lights come back on.]
Censored by: Channel 4
Video: Not suppressed.
"The Honking" (2ACV18)
Speech: In the abandoned automotive lab.
Bender: Hey, that's my last beer, you bastard.
Censored by: Pick TV.
Video: Suppressed.
Season 3
"Bendless Love" (3ACV06)
Speech: At Curvetti Bros. Bending Plant.
Flexo: You bastard! They treated me like an animal and that's what I became! [Flexo laughs.] Nah, you're alright.
Censored by: Pick TV.
Video: Suppressed.
Speech: In the Planet Express hangar.
Hermes: Haile H. Selassie!
Censored by: Pick TV.
Video: Suppressed.
Season 4
"Leela's Homeworld" (4ACV02)
"The Why of Fry" (4ACV10)
Speech: In the Nibblonian spaceship.
Fry: Those bastards!
Censored by: Pick TV.
Video: Suppressed.
"Obsoletely Fabulous" (4ACV14)
Speech: On the island.
Bender: Take that, Beethoven, you deaf bastard!
Censored by: Pick TV.
Video: Suppressed.
Season 5
"Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 4" (5ACV16)
Speech: In Maxi-Padlock.
Leela: You are one devious bastard.
Bender: That's what it says on my vanity plate.
[Bender bends over and a license plate on his crotch plate reads 1DVSBSTD.]
Censored by: Pick TV.
Video: Suppressed.
Season 6
"Rebirth" (6ACV01)
Speech: In the Planet Express laboratory.
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.
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" (6ACV02)
Speech: In the Planet Express briefing room.
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.
"The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" (6ACV13)
Speech:
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.
Season 7
"The Bots and the Bees" (7ACV01)
Speech: At Robot Arms Apartments.
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
Season 2
"The Lesser of Two Evils" (2ACV06)
Speech: On the TV show Cop Department.
Centipede woman: You get that [beep sound, beep sound] camera out of my house!
Season 4
"Where No Fan Has Gone Before" (4ACV11)
Speech: In the Planet Express ship.
Leela: Go [beep sound] yourself.
Season 5
Bender's Game
Speech: In the Planet Express conference room.
Leela: Zoidberg, I'm gonna put my boot so far up your cloaca, you'll be [shock]!
Speech: In the Planet Express conference room.
Leela: Son of a [shock]!
Speech: In the Planet Express employee lounge.
Leela: I can't believe TiVo suggested that piece of [shock]!
Speech: In the Planet Express employee lounge.
Leela: I don't have any god-[shock], mother-[shock] anger issues.
Into the Wild Green Yonder
Speech: In Mars Vegas.
Leela: You mother-[beep sound, beep sound, beep sound, beep sound]!
Season 6
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" (6ACV02)
Speech: In the V-GINY.
Leela: Holy cra-[beep sound]
Actually, this was censorship by V-GINY, as part of the plot line, not the show's producers or broadcasters. V-GINY's purpose is to find indecency and censor it with planet-destroying black ink (and in this case, also a bleep). In the DVD commentary, David X Cohen mentioned a funny incident with Comedy Central's censor, who wanted to know what was bleeped out, in case their standards permitted such words (looser standards than Fox, being cable rather than broadcast). Rough Draft Studios producer Claudia Katz suggested that the writers should have responded to Comedy Central with something "really nasty"!
"The Silence of the Clamps" (6ACV14)
Speech: In the Planet Express locker room.
Clamps: They're clamps, you [beep sound]! And if I wanna [beep sound]-in' snip with these clamps, I will snip with these [beep sound]-ing clamps!
Speech: In the Planet Express locker room.
Clamps: Fan-[beep sound]-in'-tastic!
Speech: On the Moon.
Zoidberg: John [beep sound]-ing Zoidberg!
Speech: At Family Bros. Pizza.
Zoidberg: You do and I'll [beep sound]-ing gut you like a fish!
Season 7
"A Farewell to Arms" (7ACV02)
Speech: Underground.
Leela: Son of a-[beep sound]!