FCC Complaint Lodged Against 'The X Factor' for Flasher

And then the other pants er shoe dropped.

When greasy-looking, silver-jumpsuit-wearing pervert Geo Godley hopped up on stage at an audition which aired in its entirety on the season premiere of the $5 million dollar talent competition "The X Factor," and dropped his pants for the audience, exposing his genitalia to a massive crowd, producers allowed him to continue for an uncomfortably long period of time, flapping around on stage for all the world to see.

Horrified mothers around the country covered their children's eyes, taking to Facebook to air their disgust.

Then the producers decided to air the performance in all its sleazy glory, which had the show's new audience wondering A.) why the guy wasn't arrested and B.) why "The X Factor" producers decided to air the segment. If it was to help drive sky high ratings, that plan failed miserably.

Now the incident has resulted in a complaint to the FCC from a familiar name in the censorship game.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the Parent's Television Council (who very well may have been responsible for the demise of MTV's "Skins") has filed a formal complaint with the FCC about the incident.

“Perhaps the ‘X’ in X Factor stands for the MPAA rating. If Godley performed his act in public, he would have been arrested. But if he performs it in front of a Fox camera, his act is beamed via the public airwaves into every home in the nation,” said PTC president Tim Winter.

“The prolonged, previously videotaped footage of a contestant dancing nude on 'The X Factor' stage represents a conscious decision by the producers — with the approval of the network’s broadcast standards department — to intentionally air this content in front of millions of families during hours when they knew full well that children would be watching. Families were led to believe 'The X Factor' would be family-friendly programming and instead were assaulted by graphic nudity,” said Winter.

This may very well be the only time you hear me say this in my life, but the PTC has a point.

"The X Factor" has been marketed to families, plays during hours children tend to watch, and even actively recruits younger than usual musical contestants to participate on the talent show. So running clips of some guy waving his junk around on the stage is a pretty poor decision that doesn't actually advance the plot of the show.

Unless, of course, this is all a ploy for some extra publicity.

As we reported yesterday, this is not the first time someone has exposed their genitalia to an "X Factor" audience. Strangely, it's happened twice in recent months on the U.K. version of the show.

Earlier this year, a mother of two sang the Cascada dance anthem ‘Everytime We Touch’ at an audition in Cardiff, Wales, only to end up exposing herself to the audience "on accident."

According to a report from that performance (back in July) by UK pub Tellymix, “The poor girl didn’t know how much of herself she was showing to the judges and the audience. Kelly (Rowland) couldn’t stop laughing while Gary (Barlow) hid the sight with a bit of paper."

In yet another incident on the UK version of "The X Factor" the Sun reported that a man exposed himself to "judges Tulisa Contostavlos and Kelly Rowland as the pair took to the stage with fellow judges Gary Barlow and Louis Walsh. Security leapt on the perv, bundled him out of a side door and turfed him out into the street...Thankfully, because the lights weren't on the judges, people couldn't see the expression of horror on their faces. But it wasn't dark enough to stop security from seeing the reprobate and they wrenched him from his seat before he could even do up his flies."

Given the considerable talent of many of the show's contestants, let's hope Simon and crew return to the business of launching a new career for some talented new singer and leave the wang-waving hijinks to the kids on "Jersey Shore" from here on out.