Colo. Town Censors Busty Avenue Q Puppet

Avenue Q puppet Lucy the Slut is too slutty for the fine people of Colorado Springs, according to a local billboard company. The firm decided that a bus stop ad for the risque Broadway show which featured Lucy in a top revealing plenty of puppet cleavage "wasn't appropriate for their market," according to an exec the entertainment company bringing the show to small cities around the country.

An exec at the billboard firm says ads need to pass a simple test. “If I have to explain it to my 4-year-old or my grandmother, we don’t put it up," he told the Colorado Springs Gazette. The city—nicknamed "the Evangelical Vatican" because of its high concentration of church HQs—will now see ads featuring other Avenue Q stars, including Rod, the buttoned-down closeted gay Republican, the Los Angeles Times notes. (More Colorado Springs stories.)