Thanks to a flurry of in-depth reporting around Seinfeld’s 25th anniversary, we know about one of the sitcom’s more controversial unaired scripts: “The Bet,” a.k.a. “The Gun.” Both star Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the episode’s would-be director, Tom Cherones, balked at one particularly dark joke that allegedly had Elaine pointing a gun at her head and making a Kennedy assassination joke.

Suffice it to say, the episode never made it to air. But due to a recent article in the New York Post—we now know about a second controversial script that never saw the light of day. That episode was all about race.

The Post’s Kyle Smith unearthed this bit of trivia via author Dennis Bjorklund’s 2013 book, Seinfeld Reference:

NBC censors pretty much let Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David get away with whatever they wanted on Seinfeld. One of the few exceptions was a proposed episode in which George got in trouble for observing, “You know, I have never seen a black person order a salad.” Uh-uh, said NBC. An entire episode on masturbation? Fine by us. But there will no joking about the dietary habits of African-Americans on this show. The script was nixed.

What made the joke so touchy for NBC, when much edgier racial comedy has aired before and since? Many, including critic David Free, have argued that Seinfeld’s all-white cast and largely white writing staff were “poorly positioned to defy America’s ultimate no-no.” The seminal sitcom only occasionally dabbled in racial humor, and proved a lightning rod when it did. In 1998, NBC apologized for an episode that centered on the Puerto Rican Day Parade.

But to this day, Seinfeld writer Larry Charles, who wrote both the gun and the salad episode, argues that no subject should be off the table when it comes to comedy. In reference to the gun episode, he told Screencrush:

If it were on Louie, you wouldn't think twice about it … I think Louie has proven and Curb Your Enthusiasm has proven as well that those subjects are worthy of exploration and comedy. I reject the idea that certain subjects should not be touched upon.

The Post dug up this particular Seinfeld factoid this week as it engaged in a larger conversation about another edgy New York sitcom: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. While the Tina Fey–created Netflix sitcom has won generally positive reviews, some critics have taken aim at its use of racial humor. Speaking to the Huffington Post about the criticism surrounding Kimmy Schmidt, the show’s lead actor Tituss Burgess said:

I just think that is so completely unbelievably ridiculous and I think people are watching it and pulling it apart for all the wrong reasons. . .I just find it hilarious that people are trying to arrest us for doing the opposite of what everyone thinks we’re doing.

Since we don’t have any larger context for the Seinfeld salad joke, we can’t know if it, like the humor in Kimmy Schmidt, ultimately served to highlight the absurdity of racial stereotypes. But, thankfully, there is now another option for humor that NBC deems too edgy for prime time. Thanks to Netflix, Kimmy Schmidt didn’t become an obscure footnote in sitcom history.