I would like to present a hypothesis.
Bob & Margaret is another animated series on Comedy Central. It's NOT funny. It's full of bothersome chattering in a British accent. Tedious, tedious dialogue. Apparently some physical comedy is happening at the same time, but I'm not seeing any of it. I can't see it staying on the air for much longer. It probably won't be on the air for much longer, at least in the United States.
At the end of one episode of Bob & Margaret, you can clearly see many female nipples, including at one point, Margaret's. None of the women are much worth looking at anyway, but it's there.
Also, while I haven't seen this personally, in one episode you can allegedly see Bob's peanus. I've seen a commercial where a Comedy Central logo is placed over where it would be, but I never thought they'd actually reveal it. It's not a sexual situation, it's an anxiety dream, so I guess it's acceptable.
But wait! The penis has always been more elusive than this! I mean, I've watched a lot of Cinemax softcore, and whenever there is nudity...even nudity without sex, the penis is almost never in frame. Because women don't need to see them, and men don't want to even ACKNOWLEDGE them. Yet, as far as female nudity is concerned, it's not uncommon to see bush a-plenty, nor to see a hint of labia among the foliage.
Bob & Margaret has skipped OVER bush and gone directly to the peanus. And lived to tell the tale.
Now let's go back in time to about 1990-ish. In every season of The Simpsons, there is at least one episode where the butt of either Homer or Bart are visible. Bart even dropped his towel once in a Tracy Ullman short in the late 80's, as evidenced by a clip in the 137th episode spectacular. Nobody really seemed to notice. But, when live human buttocks were displayed on NYPD blue, THEY LOST SPONSORS. Some affiliates even refused to air the show. This demonstrates that people will accept more nudity in animation than in live-action television. The extent of how MUCH more they would accept has not yet been determined. However, I would like to point out that I know of no live-action program supported by sponsors that has displayed the buttocks of a ten-year-old boy, and if one ever existed, I suspect it would have been in all the newspapers, and that arrests would have resulted.
Conclusion: Bob & Margaret is not intended to be a funny comedy show, but rather the next logical step in a plan to gradually turn American animation into a viable medium for pornography, as Japanese animation is today.
It's the only way I can reconcile the existence of Bob & Margaret. It's really really not funny.
The funny thing is, these marginally-nude episodes of Bob & Margaret are often shown during daylight hours on weekends, while South Park and its slightly coarse language is NEVER EVER EVER EVER _EVER_ shown before 10pm. Did I mention that the same episode that had the tits also showed the explosive decapitation of a stewardess? OK, so there's violence too. But still, because it's British and they talk about tedious things all British-like instead of yelling at each other all American-like, it's OK to show during the day, while the show with actual humor content is banished to the wee hours of the night.
But I don't have a problem! As long as it means that in ten years I'll be watching cartoon cat-girls sixty-nining on the USA network, I say more power to 'em! Put it on as late as you like, because I know how to program my VCR.