Hot Pains

Hot Pains is a Season 3 episode of the 80's series

This episode was infamous as the banned episode by Cartoon Network, who banned the episode, due to the violent content, It was aired on Adult Swim in 2002

## Plot

### iTunes

If there is an object that you come across while walking down the street, you will be greedy. Besides, no one is around to see. Even in the house, seeing someone leaving a wallet unattended can shake your heart. It will also be a great opportunity for naughty children

### TV Listings and Amazon Prime

Dong and Young go on depression after being hit with a stick

## Synopsis

### Part I

At a stage, Swoople talks to the audience about Violence in TV, as Swoople opens a flashback just two weeks before the Events of the previous episode, Dong and his family are having a nice dinner, but Dong and Young don't like Tuna with Egg, Dong tells his mom that he is supposed to have Noodles, but Ms. Chouel says that the market ran out of Noodles, This makes Dong and Young very angry that they Mess up the entire table, All the food goes everywhere, some of the plates get broken and Dong and Young's parents become furious. After their Mother cains them, Dong and Young ask their Mother for a hug, but she rejects it, thinking that their parents no longer love him. Dong started to Join the Goth club, The Goth club agreed to let Dong join

## Trivia

* The episode was pulled and banned in the United States from US Television in 1994 because Cartoon Network claimed that the scene where Dong and Young try to hang themselves As a result, the episode only aired on ABC1 , on Teletoon in Canada on March 18, 1999, followed by Cartoon Network and Boomerang in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia on April 19, 2005, and later in Latin America and Brazil on May 20, 2006. It did not see the light of day in home media until 2018, when it was released on the complete series DVD. Since then, it has been made available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Prime, HBO Go in Southeast Asia, and Hulu. Interestingly enough, however, the episode wasn't included when the series was put on HBO Max.
* Startoons Founder Jon McClenahan animated the scene where Ms Chouel cains Dong and Young with a stick
* On The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera packaging of this episode, The part where Dong paints Goths rule is removed, In the re-animated part the word "GOTHS RULE" is replaced with a face, This ended up on the Boomerang streaming print, TBS, FOX WNYU and TNT
* The Goth Group never appear again until A Grave Mistake
* After this episode aired, The Catholic Home Missions threatened to sue Hanna-Barbera over the episode's nature, The Catholic Home Missions stated that Hot Pains has scenes where Dong painting his clothes and his house black, which represents Goths
* This episode may be similar to the Big City Greens episode "Big Trouble"
* This episode got universally hated by fans because of Dong's abusive behavior towards everyone. Even Tom Ruegger and Albert Uderzo hated the episode, This episode was removed from the Boomerang app in 2023

## Moral

* Just because you made one mistake doesn't mean you're a bad person.

## Broadcast History

### CBS

* October 15, 1988 10:00am
* May 20, 1989 10:00am

## Gallery

### Promotional

Promo drawn by Art Leonardi to promote the episode