I knew the couple who worked on the ads; they said Pillsbury would not allow them to use the Doughboy image in a negative way because it was against his character to be evil.
They also said they got hate mail for the nursing dog one.
Pretty much any ad that somebody might consider a tiny bit offensive is called banned in it's title on youtube. There is no explanation for this phenomena
There are two explanations:
1. People are dumb.
2. Saying something was "banned from TV" gets it more viewings. The reason for this is explained by explanation number one. Also, if they say "Banned" people think that means it has boobies in it.
Kind of reminds me of Banned Book Week. You think you're doing something really subversive by reading a banned book then you find out that:
A. the book was "banned" because a parent sent a note to the teacher saying, "I don't want my child reading Rainy Day Railroad!" and the teacher writes back, "We're reading Milky Way Railroad" and the parent responds with, "That's OK then."
B. one copy was taken off the shelf of the library in Butte county Idaho's only grade school, but it was still available everywhere else in the world.
and i still have a creeping feeling that 50+ years of developing and maintaining the most expensive defense systems on earth might have a bit more of a responsibility for our nation's debt than farm subsidies