Paying fines for indecency is so … indecent. So Fox isn't paying the $91,000 fee the FCC threw at its affiliate stations for a 2003 episode of Married by America (remember that?) where whip cream got licked off strippers. It's not that Fox can't afford the cash; it's the principle of the matter. Whip cream and strippers were essential to the storyline!
The FCC didn't see it that way.
"We reject Fox's claim," FCC analysts wrote after reviewing videotape. "Even with Fox's editing, the episode includes scenes in which partygoers lick whipped cream from strippers' bodies in a sexually suggestive manner. Another scene features a man on all fours in his underwear as two female strippers playfully spank him. Although the episode electronically obscures any nudity, the sexual nature of the scenes is inescapable, as the strippers attempt to lure partygoers into sexually compromising situations." [Variety]

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