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00:00From iconic last ever performances to deeply uncomfortable sequences that are likely better
00:05left untouched, these are just a few of the TV moments that are no longer officially available
00:10to watch anymore. The always watchable Gareth here though from whatculture.com and here are
00:1510 TV show episodes you can no longer watch. Number 10. Buffalo Gals, Cow and Chicken
00:20Children's cartoons have a funny old habit of unleashing some rather jarring material into
00:25the world from time to time and that was never more evident than during a season 2 episode of
00:29Cartoon Network's Cow and Chicken by the name of Buffalo Gals. Contending a great many insensitive
00:34jokes at the expense of lesbians throughout, the overall presentation of the titular cartoon ladies
00:39on show as dirty and excessively gross inevitably led to the show receiving a decent amount of
00:45backlash upon its initial airing in February 1998. Sure enough this would mark the first and last time
00:50the controversial episode would ever air on TV, with the orthodontic police entry replacing it in
00:55subsequent time slots and on streaming services going forward. When a show comes equipped with
01:00painfully unfunny visuals such as said Buffalo Gals eating carpets and enjoying their favourite
01:04pastime of softball, it's probably for the best that it never sees the light of day ever again.
01:09Number 9. The Beatles' last performance, Top of the Pops
01:12Still sitting in the hearts of many as the greatest band ever to warble a tune, it often feels as though
01:17just about every trailblazing moment of the Beatles' groundbreaking career has been captured and brought to a screen at some
01:23point or another over the years. Yet one specific moment of Beatlemania that still hasn't ever been
01:28re-released in its entirety, actually just so happens to be the iconic band's last ever TV performance as a
01:34unit from way back in 1966. With the BBC unfortunately not keeping tapes around that time, the Top of the
01:40Pops performance of paperback writer from the four rock stars was thought to have been completely lost
01:45forever up until a few years back. Then, on the back of a staggering 11 seconds of personally recorded
01:51footage of the foursome miming along in silence was dug up by a collector in Mexico, a further 92
01:56seconds of them doing their thing was sent to the television archive organisation Kaleidoscope by music
02:02enthusiast David Chandler. You still can't watch the entire performance from start to finish in its
02:06original quality mind, but these fans are simply refusing to let it be.
02:10Number 8. Rude Removal, Dexter's Laboratory
02:13Returning to Cartoon Network's late 90s penchant for producing content that was always destined to piss off
02:18some parents. Dexter's Laboratory's rude removal very nearly made its presence briefly known on the
02:24channel back in 1997. With the planned season 2 segment containing shots of Dexter and sister
02:29Dee Dee's rude clones going on a mad one after the former invents a rude removal machine, the sight of
02:35the two characters swearing like troopers despite said curses being bleeped out was enough to convince
02:40those running the channel to keep it from airing on TV. However, the episode would ultimately find new
02:45life on the animation festival circuit for a time, and this would eventually lead to Adult Swim getting
02:49their paws on the profanity-packed entity later down the line. Then, after being uploaded to their
02:54official site in a censored capacity in January 2013, the episode was made private and taken down
02:59shortly after, though unofficially re-uploaded and entirely uncensored versions of the chaotic ep
03:05may or may not have managed to wiggle onto YouTube in the end.
03:08Number 7. Flying Dupes Tailspin
03:10You've likely spotted a theme by now of those responsible for bringing the next generation
03:15their daily dose of seemingly harmless entertainment in the 90s actually being at the center of some
03:20of the most controversial content being put on television at the time. And it wasn't just those
03:24folks plying their trade under the Cartoon Network banner who let loose some rather unexpectedly
03:29shocking scenes during this period, with Disney's Tailspin series also producing a rather startling
03:34sequence of TV too. Coming during the series' final episode entitled Flying Dupes, Baloo is tasked
03:41with delivering a package for the Thembrian High Marshall, only said item unbeknown to the bear
03:46just so happened to be a bum. No prizes for figuring out why this one ended up on the scrap heap then.
03:50With this sort of terrorist theme being very much present in the content, it came as little
03:54surprise to see the episode banned soon enough, outside of it seemingly being aired by mistake on
03:59Disney at the end of the decade. And despite being released on DVD in 2013, it's also still
04:04unavailable on the likes of iTunes and Disney Plus to this day.
04:08Number 6. Smart and Smarterer, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
04:11Keeping with the House of Mouse now, and to those seemingly sweet little scamps occupying a swanky
04:16room in the Tipton Hotel for a couple of years in the mid-noughties. Only things weren't always as
04:21innocent as they seemed when it pertained to Zack and Cody's suite life in Boston. In fact,
04:25one episode under the title of Smart and Smarterer, yes an apparent riff on that terrible Dumb and
04:30Dumber sequel, was deemed so damn offensive that it actually wound up being pulled from the air
04:34before long. With said showing depicting Zack faking having dyslexia in order to earn some extra time
04:40to finish off his tests, on the back of picking up some bad grades. The way the show frames the
04:45learning disability didn't go down too well with viewers, and it would only be shown on the Disney
04:49channel twice. And though the rest of the show is available on Disney Plus at this current moment,
04:53you will not find Smart and Smarterer on the streaming service. And Disney would likely prefer
04:58you forget this Dylan and Cole Sprouse entry ever saw the light of day in the first place.
05:025. Hot Spells Darkwing Duck
05:05Rounding off the Disney section of this collection of episodes long since stripped away from the
05:09House of Mouse, here's that time Darkwing Duck's Halloween 1992 offering stirred up a
05:14little controversy upon initially tricking and not treating some of its audience. As seen in the
05:19Hot Spells episode, the titular leading light and gosling take a trip to Morgana's old magic school.
05:25Only to bump into a devilish character by the name of Beezlebub, he most definitely rubbed parents up
05:30the wrong way out of the gates. With the character very much playing the role of devil-like being in
05:35the ep and tempting the protagonist to use forbidden spells throughout, the dark religious undertones within
05:40the showing were deemed unsuitable for kids, to the point of pulling the episode off the air.
05:45In more modern times, this Satan's Stuff series entry is still unavailable to purchase from the
05:49likes of iTunes and Google TV or stream on Disney+, despite Beezlebub still very much being present
05:55in the first season's Dead Duck episode that is actually watchable via any of those services.
06:00How strange.
06:014. The Feast of Stephen
06:03Returning to the anything but reliable BBC archives, the British Broadcasting Corporation's
06:09frustrating policy of wiping footage to make way for newer content back in the day ultimately led
06:14to a decent amount of old-school Doctor Who episodes being lost forever. Among these many
06:19discarded tapings was none other than the show's first ever Christmas special, something that would
06:24become a beloved hallmark of the series over the years. Going by the name of The Feast of Stephen,
06:29this Christmas Day 1965 program acted as a comic detour away from the epic tale being told
06:35coming into the episode, with the first Doctor William Hartnell even taking a sonic screwdriver
06:40to the fourth wall in the final scene, and bizarrely telling folks at home, incidentally,
06:44a happy Christmas to all of you at home.
06:46Outside of the odd photograph being preserved of the showing in question though, this surreal
06:50holiday treat appears to have pretty much been erased forever.
06:533. Topless Showgirls
06:55Dance Moms
06:56It's not exactly difficult to see why this one has long since been buried by Lifetime based on the
07:01title of the episode alone. But that still didn't stop the network from running with said
07:05topless Showgirls moniker, and the content in general when the time came to air the dodgy
07:10season 2 episode back in 2012. And unsurprisingly, the sight of 8 to 13 year old girls being taught
07:15a Showgirls routine, whilst wearing body suits that made it look as though they were nude,
07:20on the reality TV show did not go down well with the masses.
07:23On top of changing the episode name to costume drama, and that is one way of putting it, the
07:27show was pulled from future airings of Dance Moms on Lifetime, and ended up not being made
07:31available on various digital or streaming service platforms later down the line.
07:35It's also worth noting that despite eventually backtracking due to the backlash, Lifetime did
07:40actually boast about the episode's impressive ratings of 2.7 million viewers not long after
07:44its initial airing. Though they likely won't be in too much of a rush to talk about the deeply
07:48uncomfortable episode nowadays. 2. UNSTOPPABLE – LAW AND ORDER SVU
07:53After initially being filmed and scheduled for release back on October 12, 2016, Law and
07:58Order SVU's episode by the name of UNSTOPPABLE found itself being regularly delayed and pushed
08:03back until NBC eventually made the call to leave the episode out of the series altogether
08:08in the end. Why was this very much stoppable slice of police procedural never given the chance
08:12to make its presence known on our screens, I hear you ask?
08:15Well, the episode centred around a figure who very much resembled a certain future president
08:19of the United States, Donald Trump, and said character would eventually be accused of rape
08:23during the episode as he attempted to run for president. With Trump himself being accused
08:28of sexual harassment and assault around the time of the elections that would be going down
08:32as the UNSTOPPABLE episode was set to air, this real-life development alongside his surprise
08:36victory resulted in the entry being swiftly brushed under the carpet despite word of a tentative
08:412017 release. Despite all this though, you can actually still find a promo for the scrapped
08:45episode on YouTube, so there's that.
08:471. Episode 847 – Sesame Street
08:51Sending you home now with one last entirely creepy slice of apparently kid-friendly television.
08:56Sesame Street's 1976 attempt to use the Wizard of Oz's terrifying Wicked Witch of the West
09:01as a way of teaching children the value of facing their fears went down about as well as you'd
09:05have imagined. Not long after episode 847, depicting the witch losing her broom and going on a tear
09:11through the street, sweeped into the nightmares of youngsters the world over, PBS were inundated
09:16with mail and calls from parents scolding them for frightening their tykes, some of which now
09:21refuse to switch back on the show out of fear of Margaret Hamilton once again showing up to
09:25spook the life out of them 37 years on from her first Wicked showing. With this level of fuss
09:30being made about the cackling villain's appearance, the banning of the episode became inevitable and
09:35it's still yet to be made officially available on the likes of Hulu or HBO Max, with only those
09:39using the footage for research being permitted to take in the chilling content via the American
09:44Archive of Public Broadcasting in certain locations. Simply put, even nearly four decades
09:49on, Hamilton had not lost an unsettling step. And that's our list! Know of any other TV show
09:54episodes you can no longer watch? Then let us know all about them in the comments section right
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