The Jumping Ground (season 16)

The sixteenth season of the animated science fiction sitcom The Jumping Ground began airing on Cartoon Network in the United States on September 26, 2012 and ended on April 10, 2013. This was also the first season to be produced by DHX Media, who accquired one of the show's production companies, Cookie Jar Entertainment, in August 2012.

Burma episode "slope" comment
In the season finale "A Bridge Over The River Kok", a scene showing two the main characters looking over their completed bridge over the Kok River, featured a moment in which a native of the area is crossing the bridge as PuffPuff says to Lance about their finished work - "That is a proud moment, but there's a slope on it." Following the broadcast of the second part, complaints of racism arose in regards to the comment, primarily citing that "slope" was a derogatory term for an Asian, leading to The Jumping Ground and Mic Graves, the show's executive producer, apologising for any offence caused by it in late May 2013, while subsequently cutting the scene from future repeats of the episode. In a statement by Graves to the media, the executive producer said:

"When we used the word slope in the recent Jumping Ground episode it was a light-hearted word play joke referencing both the build quality of the bridge and the local Asian man who was crossing it. We were not aware at the time, and it has subsequently been brought to our attention, that the word slope is considered by some to be offensive and although it might not be widely recognised in America, we appreciate that it can be considered offensive to some here and overseas, for example in Australia and the UK. If we had known that at the time we would not have broadcast the word in this context and regret any offence caused."

However, a year later, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), who investigated the complaints of racism in regards to the comment, ruled that both the Cartoon Network and The Jumping Ground had breached broadcasting rules for using offensive language, stating that the use of the term was both offensive and racist, that the explanation of its context for the broadcast could not be justified, and that the broadcaster had missed opportunities during animation and post-production to "check whether the word had the potential to offend viewers".