Factoid Dump!

 

• SpongeBob SquarePants:
• Reruns of the episodes "Suds", "Fungus Among Us", and "Squid-itis" were temporarily pulled.
• The episode "Kwarantined Krab", in which the Krusty Krab is forced to be on quarantine because of a  virus called Clam Flu, was set to air in 2020, right when a real virus spread rapidly and real quarantines were issued out. As a result, the season 12 DVD set didn't even include this episode at all, leaving its sister segment "Who R Zoo?" by itself. The episode would finally air on April 29, 2022.
• The episode "Hiccup Plague" was set to premiere on January 18, 2021 but was also pulled from its premiere because of its plot being very similar to a conspiracy theory as to the pandemic's origins. Namely, and the episode is about two girls creating a plague of hiccups in a treehouse and letting it leak out. Instead, it's partner episode "Lighthouse Louie" was paired with the episode "My Two Krabses". Despite the initial ban, the episode was on the complete twelfth season DVD set. It also was briefly uploaded to Prime Video on January 19th, but pulled a day later. It would finally see an American TV premiere on April 22, 2022.

• On May 1st, 2011, FOX's Sunday night Animation Domination line-up was supposed to include a three-part crossover special featuring all three Seth MacFarlane cartoons (The Cleveland Show, Family Guy, and American Dad!) meeting each other during a hurricane. Sadly, because the Southern and Midwestern United States was already getting pounded by tornadoes and floods, the episodes were pulled at the last minute and replaced with reruns of their respective shows. The three-part crossover eventually aired on October 2nd, 2011.
• "Turban Cowboy" was removed from streaming on Hulu and the official FOX website (though it did eventually start airing in syndication many months later) after the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013 thanks to a double whammy: it has a terrorist-themed plot and a cutaway gag where Peter drunkenly runs over marathon runners with his car. The fact that someone put up a video claiming that the episode "predicted" the bombings by editing the two clips together (which Seth MacFarlane called "abhorrent") really didn't help matters.
• Three minutes before the death of Robin Williams was announced in August 2014, BBC Three aired the Family Guy episode "Family Guy Viewer Mail #2", which has the story "Fatman and Robin", in which Peter wishes that everything he touched turned to Robin Williams, which leads to Peter attempting to avoid it several times over how annoying Williams' comedy is. Making matters worse, Soon, negative comments flooded the internet about this coincidence, and the BBC banned it from ever airing again on their network. [adult swim] had the episode planned on their schedule on the day Robin Williams died too, but pulled the episode ahead of time and aired another one; the episode wouldn't return to rotation to either network until November 2017.
• Adult Swim pulled reruns of "Boy (Dog) Meets Girl (Dog)" and "Yug Ylimaf" after two deadly plane crashes in Washington D.C. and Philadelphia that killed over seventy people on January 29 and 31, 2025, respectively. The episodes in question included a joke about 9/11 for the former, and the latter featured a scene where a plane crashes into a town.

• On September 10, 2025, Comedy Central pulled reruns of the South Park episode "Got a Nut", which spoofed conservative commentator Charlie Kirk after he was fatally shot earlier that day.
• On May 14th, 2019, the official Twitter for SpongeBob SquarePants posted a tweet quoting The Ugly Barnacle on the same day Tim Conway — who voiced recurring character Barnacle Boy — died of complications from brain surgery. After fans complained, the tweet was removed.
• The Golden Girls:
• The Hallmark Channel's nightly marathons skipped the episode "The Flu" in 2020 and early 2021, presumably because a plot involving three elderly ladies attending a social event despite being seriously ill wasn't as funny during the pandemic.
• Following the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020, the episode "Mixed Blessing", in which Dorothy's son gets engaged to a Black woman, was temporarily pulled from Hulu due to a scene where Rose and Blanche wear mud masks that resemble blackface in front of the fiancée's family.
• The September 13th, 2022 Nintendo Direct was livestreamed worldwide... except for in the United Kingdom, due to Queen Elizabeth II having passed away mere days prior. Instead, the Direct was made available on-demand. This later turned out to be due to the The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sequel's final name being revealed as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which would've come off as tasteless during the royal family's period of mourning.
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• Coop & Cami Ask the World: The episode "Would You Wrather Have a Snow Day?" was pulled before its original airing a few weeks before its airdate because of the pandemic, as several schools were shut down and it involved Cami trying to shut school down with a snow day, along with a subplot of Charlotte trying to keep her perfect attendance despite catching a cold, and goes outside when she shouldn't. The airing of the episode "Would You Wrather Skate Circles Around Your Sister?" took its place. The episode would eventually see a release on Disney+.