The ABC network censors. During the first two seasons, when ReBoot was on ABC, BSnP made many strict and often bizarre decrees restricting the show's content. These included:
- Forbidding effective violence of any kind, on a show that the network bought as an action-adventure.
- Completely desexualizing Dot by giving her the famed monobreast. Villains (and characters of dubious morality) were permitted a degree of sexuality; the suggestion is that sex is evil.
- Forbidding Bob to smash through a window, lest the kiddies try to emulate him and injure themselves. (This ruling was in regards to, and was lampooned in, a scene in The Quick and the Fed.)
- Outlawing the word "hockey" - and thus the game itself - because it was supposedly slang for something vulgar.
- Outlawing the word "wuss" on similar grounds.
- Forbidding Dot to kiss Enzo on his birthday, because they claimed it suggested incest.
Bob playing hockey
Oddly enough, they appear to have had no problem with skull and skeleton imagery, which was widely used. They also permitted jokes about BSnP itself, with which the first season was liberally sprinkled. The character Emma See was the system program sensor. She was the physical manifestation of BSnP within the show. There was also a singing group called the Small Town Binomes on the show that sang a song named BSnP, making fun of the organization.
Broadcast Standards and Practices had no control over content outside of the episodes themselves. As a result, the creators were able to include a couple of moderately sexy images of Dot on the trading cards, as well as images of Bob and Enzo with actual, sharp weapons in A Dungeon Deep; a desktop image of Bob playing hockey, available on the official website; and some blatant violence and sexual material in the PlayStation game.
The first episode of the third season, To Mend and Defend, the first without BSnP moderation, quickly made significant changes to the series. This including a much darker and violent story and the change of Dot's body. This is exemplified by the Game Malicious Corpses, with the User wielding a shotgun and chainsaw and the very low neckline of Dots dress.