10 Banned TV Shows That Shocked The World

5. It's Political Propaganda...According To Myanmar - The Simpsons

Is there any TV series, animated or not, as brilliantly representative of the American family as The Simpsons?

Though its anarchic spirit has proven controversial over the years - to the extent that President George H. W. Bush even directly called the show out during a 1992 re-election campaign speech - the show's soft, sentimental edges make it hard to imagine many finding it truly objectionable.

The nation of Myanmar (formerly Burma) wasn't quite as charmed with it as the rest of the world, though, deciding that the series' bright yellow character designs and orange-red clothes were a little too similar to the yellow-red colour combination used by rebel groups fighting back against the state's military junta.

This resulted in not only the TV series being pulled, but The Simpsons Movie being denied a release in the region in 2007. Then again, this is the very same nation that once suddenly demanded that all currency be divisible by nine, causing a huge swath of citizens to lose their life savings overnight.