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20 Insane Rules Films & TV Shows Weren't Allowed To Break

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Studios drew the line at these ideas, forcing filmmakers to scrap bold endings and shocking moments that would have changed everything.

00:00 Intro
00:14 James Bond: Blofeld’s Legal Hideout Rule
01:11 Wheel of Fortune: Height Rule Explained
02:06 Deadpool: Fourth Wall Breaking Exclusivity Rule
04:37 Jersey Shore: Duck Phone Rule Enforced
05:33 Godzilla: No Eating and Immortality Rules
07:20 Knives Out: iPhone Villain Rule Ban
08:13 Hannibal: Prequel Rights Limited Storytelling
08:58 Spider-Man: Bing Product Placement Mandate
10:27 Charlies Angels: No Guns Rule
11:06 Spider-Man 1994: Strict Cartoon Censorship Rules
12:06 Hays Code: Blanket Trick Avoids Nudity
13:33 Jimi Hendrix Biopic: No Music Rights Rule
14:33 The Walking Dead: Forbidden F Word Rule
15:27 King of Kings: Moral Conduct Clause
16:57 Dogme 95 Festen: Strict Filmmaking Rules
18:20 I Love Lucy: Pregnancy Euphemism Rule
19:14 Nosferatu: No Eyebrow Design Rule
20:41 Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: UK Censorship
21:42 Terrifier 3: Child Killing Ban Rule

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20 Comments

@DaveDeVault 5 months ago

I am starting to think all of the hosts of WhatCulture have died in a bus crash and only the editors survived.

@der1cho 5 months ago

At the WhatCulture office:

"In the future, we need to record these lists over several sittings and in different conditions. Maybe one in an actual recording studio, the rest can either be in another room with bad acoustics, bathroom or maybe whilst on the bus. What do you think?"

everyone starts cheering and clapping

@JayLew91 5 months ago

The iPhone rule feels so stupid considering the goal of the company is to be ubiquitous. iPhones are so common that much of the design can be considered "generic"

@cdnnorsedogdad5119 5 months ago

The best scene in "I Love Lucy" was when without the permission of the Studio, Ricky walks into the Bedroom set with a screwdriver. Then removes the screws holding both single beds 6 feet apart and pushed both beds, including the one Lucy was in, to the "center" of the set and gets into the bed with his wife
This is the first time a couple has slept in the same bed in a TV show.
The next time the bed was shown is has a top sheet and blankets that ran across the whole bed. Ending the "Are they sleeping together?" question

@rmhartman 5 months ago

Can't be SHORTER ?
You would think that it would be "can't be taller" ?

@WardNightstone 5 months ago

The\n Rule I think that's funniest with the Spider-Man 90s. Cartoon was he wasn't allowed to throw punches, so he would often take villains out by ripping down nearby brick walls on top of them, which is way worse.

@BYERE 5 months ago

In terms of Godzilla not eating people... I thought it was always a case that he subsisted on radiation alone, as the logistics of a creature that huge eating the amount of physical food it would need to survive each day is bafflingly high. That being the case, he literally doesn't NEED to hunt or eat people.

I can see why they would want that rule though... partially to keep the above reason consistant in the canon, and partially because half the time he's seen as a savior, and they wouldn't want him to be seen as a hero one moment and then a man-eating killing machine in the next... It would taint the times where he's a good guy.

@Mad-Bassist 4 months ago

Interesting... I remember Johnny Carson saying on his Tonight Show, "Thirty years ago, you couldn't say the word 'pregnant' on TV."

I wonder if that's related!

@TheItalianScarecrow 5 months ago

I remember hearing about the clause that only Deadpool could break the fourth wall and I thought that was in general. Until I watch She-Hulk which kicked down the fourth wall.

@tomhalouva9977 5 months ago

These mashups are crazy, one video is voiceover only and has good audio, whilst Ewen appears on screen and recorded in an echo chamber, something basic audio editing software could help reduce. The quality is spiralling...

@CashelOconnelly 5 months ago

All films have strange rules to the outside world but are perfectly normal in the industry

@Partisan1 5 months ago

I haven't watched every episode but I don't think walking dead ever used the word "zombie", they've used a plethora of other terms but not the Z word.

@The_Keh27 5 months ago

I have to concentrate and focus NOT to move my eyebrows They move naturally as a part of my facial expressions

@franck3279 5 months ago

What? You mean the bing search engine wasn't made up for the movie?

@tonybarnes2920 5 months ago

No 4th wall breaks holds, as long as Deadpool and She Hulk are never together, since she's the other character in the comics and MCU who does 4th wall breaks.

@jacobstaten2366 1 month ago

Avoiding putting guns in 'Charlie's Angels' isn't some kind of moral high ground. It's either an attempt to make it more of a challenge for the characters or a reason to lose respect for Drew Barrymore.

@TimTE01 5 months ago

There’s an unlicensed Film called ‘Beyond the Doors’ that tells the tale of the CIA taking out Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison.

No licensed music.
At all.