“The Surreal Life 2” is a “reality-based” television program in which six cast members from diverse backgrounds share a luxurious house for 12 days. One of the six cast members, Ron Jeremy, is a veteran actor in pornographic movies. In the Pool Party Episode, he gives a pool party for about twenty of his friends in the pornographic movie industry. During the ten-minute sequence depicting this party, the episode displays approximately 20 pixilated views of various female guests’ nude breasts and, in one case, a female guest’s entire nude body. In addition, there are numerous other examples of sexual images and innuendo, including two brief, pixilated scenes in which Mr. Jeremy touches or kisses a female guest’s bare breast; a scene in which Andy Dick, another guest at the party, places his mouth on the top portion of a female cast member’s breast and makes a comic sound, and the female cast member explains that they are just friends; another scene in which Andy Dick kisses a female guest’s pixilated bare breast and spanks her buttocks, stating jestingly that she should go to her room and he’ll join her there shortly; a scene where a female guest appears to sexually proposition a male cast member; and a scene in which another female cast member suggests that the party attendees play a game of “strip truth or dare to get naked,” saying to Ron Jeremy, “[c]ome on porn star, everyone knows about your big [bleep], though I haven’t seen it.”

Or this…

44. On February 11, 2005, the Bureau sent a letter of inquiry to Sherjan Broadcasting Company, Inc., the licensee of Station WJAN-CA, concerning the material described above allegedly broadcast over the station. Sherjan responded by letter dated March 14, 2005. As confirmed by the videotape of the program provided by Sherjan, during the segment in question, the host introduces a female guest by stating, “before we present Juliana I want to tell the gentlemen to be careful because she is dressed in a way that can cause a heart attack.” The female guest then appears in an open-front dress, with her nipples covered, but her breasts otherwise fully exposed. As she makes her entrance, she pirouettes in front of the audience, then shakes her breasts towards the cameras. When she turns to face the host, he briefly stares at her breasts, then mugs for the camera. Sherjan acknowledges that the material in question was aired over Station WJAN-CA at 7:00 p.m. on October 19, 2004, and that the female guest appeared in an open-front dress. However, Sherjan maintains that the complained-of material is not actionably indecent because it is “a comedy routine” and does not shock or titillate.

Now, keep in mind that people actually wrote in to complain about each of these!

The Commission received a complaint concerning a commercial for the Golden Phoenix Hotel and Casino, located in Reno, Nevada, broadcast on February 19, 2005 by Sierra Broadcasting Company (“Sierra”), licensee of Station KRNV(TV), Reno, Nevada. The advertisement features a hotel show entitled “Perfect 10.” It begins with ten women in casino show-style costumes suddenly jumping onto the bed of a fully clothed man who has been reading “Perfect 10” magazine, then features excerpts of singing and dancing from the show mixed with graphics, and ends with a brief view of the man alone on the bed with his partially bare upper torso and face covered by lipstick kisses. The voice-over describes the concept and content of the show and its male star (who is not the man in bed) and identifies the hotel. The complainant describes the bed scenes as “a mostly naked man laying in bed with . . . almost completely naked women exposing their breasts and other body parts [and] acting in a truly obscene and sexual manner.” The complainant alleges that the commercial is obscene and briefly enumerates the criteria for that finding.
Indecency Analysis. …Turning to the first principal factor in our contextual analysis, we find that the material at issue is neither explicit nor graphic. In the first bed scene, the man is shown fully clothed on top of the bed, and the women’s costumes, though sexually suggestive, do not actually display their sexual organs. Likewise, the women put their arms around the man in a manner that is suggestive rather than explicit or graphic. The second bed scene merely shows the man alone from the waist up, with his shirt unbuttoned and lipstick marks on his face, without depicting sexual activity or organs.

Yes, the complainant apparently saw a very different commercial than you or I did.
How about a *seriously* hawkeyed 9-year old?

“The Amazing Race 6” is a CBS Television Network (“CBS”) program in which two-person teams race around the world for a cash prize. The Commission received a complaint regarding the December 21, 2004 broadcast of the program by CBS affiliate Station KYW-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, licensed to CBS Broadcasting, Inc. According to the complaint, “[m]idway through that episode, my nine-year-old daughter asked me what was written on the side of a bus that the contestants were embarking upon. She stated that she thought that was a bad word that she was not supposed to say. Sure enough, the words ‘FU** COPS’ was [sic] visible on the side of the bus near the door where the contestants are getting on the bus.”
Indecency Analysis Looking at the three principal factors that comprise our contextual analysis, we note first that, although the “F-Word” is depicted in the program, the image is not graphic or explicit. The graffiti is small, out of focus, and difficult to read. Unless one is looking directly at or for the words, the average viewer would not even notice the graffiti. Second, while not dispositive, it is relevant that the material is not repeated or dwelled upon. Indeed, the image is displayed only momentarily. Finally, the shot of the graffiti is not shocking, pandering, or titillating because it is barely visible. Indeed, the average viewer would not have noticed the graffiti. Since each of the three factors examined above weighs against a finding of patent offensiveness, we conclude that the material is not patently offensive and therefore not indecent.

And here’s someone who was certainly busy with that pencil…but apparently too busy to write down the date on their complaint.

an undated complaint against Viacom International, Inc., licensee of Station WTOG(TV), St. Petersburg, Florida, for its alleged October 25, 2004 broadcast of the “Girlfriends” program, in which the word “ass” was allegedly aired during the 9:00 to 9:30 p.m. time period.244 The complainant believes that the material was “offensive.”

an undated complaint against Viacom International, Inc., licensee of Station WTOG(TV), St. Petersburg, Florida, for its alleged December 1, 2004 broadcast of the “America’s Next Top Model” program in which the words “ass” and “bitch” were allegedly aired during the 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. time period.247 The complainant believes that the material was “profane.”

an undated complaint against Viacom International, Inc., licensee of Station WTOG(TV), St. Petersburg, Florida, for its alleged December 21, 2004 broadcast of the “Family Matters” program in which the word “hell” was allegedly aired during the 10:30 and 11:00 a.m. time period.248 The complainant believes that the material was both “obscene” and “profane.”

an undated complaint against Viacom International, Inc., licensee of Station WTOG(TV), St. Petersburg, Florida, for its alleged broadcast of the “Cuts” program on February 28, 2005 during which the words “ass” and “damn” were allegedly aired during the 8:30 to 9:00 p.m. time period.249 The complainant believes that the material was “inappropriate.”