How esteemed is Judd Apatow right now? Apparently enough that he can manage to get blow job jokes — visual and verbal ones — on national television. The new trailer for Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which Apatow produced, premiered this week on Access Hollywood, and has the most obvious fellatio gestures I’ve ever seen permitted on anytime NBC, let alone pre-primetime NBC. Did nobody at NBC/Universal (which is also distributing the movie) notice? Or did they think the old ladies who watch Access Hollywood wouldn’t notice? Well, the execs didn’t really have to worry, because if you actually look at the version of the trailer shown on the air, it ends before the blow job jokes. Regardless, people who watch the show may have decided to go to the Access Hollywood website and watch the trailer again. This time wondering what’s so funny about a newly acquired necklace.

So, did nobody at the MPAA notice or get the jokes? This trailer may not be put on television in its entirety, but it’s certainly going to be playing to theater audiences comprised of all ages. I guess in relation to the general content of Apatow’s movies, as well as his R-rated viral videos and red-band trailers, this ad is considered pretty tame.

The sad thing is that the whole movie looks rather tame in comparison to Apatow’s other movies. So, hopefully we will be getting some more raunchy viral marketing for the thing in the next five months (it hits theaters May 30). I’m not worried about the movie being entertaining, though. Anyone who has seen Apatow’s TV series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared should know that Forgetting Sarah Marshall star (and writer) Jason Segel is the new Judge Reinhold. I know a lot of people who don’t like Segel in those series, and I know a lot of people who don’t like Reinhold’s Vice Versa, but I’m surely not alone in my appreciation of both. Yeah, Segel already beat the crazy ex-boyfriend thing to death on Undeclared, but I’m willing to see where he goes with it this time around.

Even if nobody else likes fake Judge Reinhold, there’s plenty else here that’s appealing. You’ve got Kristen Bell in a bikini. You’ve got Bill Hader (some people like him, right?). You’ve got Apatow regulars Jonah Hill, Carla Gallo (why always such small parts, Carla? you were so good in Spanking the Monkey) and most importanly Paul Rudd. Then you’ve got a guy falling from extreme heights, which is always hi-larious (otherwise they wouldn’t use the stunt in every single movie, duh).