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Channel 4 has destroyed The Simpsons
rossm2008
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Earlier today they showed the episode where Santa's Little Helper had to learn to behave or they would get rid of him. Two memorable-ish scenes were totally ruined.
1. When Marge shows Lisa how to sew, she burns her finger with a lighter. This was edited out yet the sound of the lighter being lit was left in.
2. PULL THE BLOODY CHAIN, BOY!!!! was edited to PULL THE BL-CHAIN BOY!!!
Disgraceful. :mad:
1. When Marge shows Lisa how to sew, she burns her finger with a lighter. This was edited out yet the sound of the lighter being lit was left in.
2. PULL THE BLOODY CHAIN, BOY!!!! was edited to PULL THE BL-CHAIN BOY!!!
Disgraceful. :mad:
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Homer Simpson: [Pushes in front of a queue] I wanna register to run for sanitation commissioner. And tell the fat cats upstairs things are gonna change in this town.
Clerk: Okay, but this is where you register as a sex offender.
Moe: [Arriving at the back of the queue] Oh, jeez, there's always a line.
Channel 4 always edit out the line about the sex offender!! Which makes Moe coming in and saying "There's always a line" completely moronic and meaningless.
Nice one channel 4 for ruining the greatest series ever!!
But to do that to the Simpsons... is, as the OP says, rape.
Bloody? BLOODY? How the hell can that be considered too extreme for kiddies in modern Britain?
:D
A darts player said the word in an interview the other night and the presenter apologied and asked him to watch his language. It was then bleeped on the repeat.
I would just take the p and start talking about nose bleeds and bloody noses
Credit to the beeb though. Twice in live broadcasts over the last few days (Christine Bleakley on The One Show and a female Australian sprinter) the word bloody has been uttered and it wasn't apologiesed for which is a refreshing change.
Things of a sexual nature/swearing/free speech are brutally repressed by a minority of big mouths (helped by the cowards in charge) while acts of violence are becoming routine and go uncensored.
On FIVE yesterday (saturday) in the afternoon was the film "The Adventures of Huck Finn" which features a man nearly hanged near the end, quite shocking really.
I remember reading of "moral censorship" on US television in the past and feeling sorry for them all, but it has clearly arrived to these shores.
It's twisted morally as well, often making no sense.
Does anyone know the rationale behind C4's scheduling of The Simpsons late on Friday nights? The episodes chosen aren't especially controversial - I'd understand if "Weekend At Burnsie's" was put out that late, but I don't think that's appeared in the slot yet.
(*Related points: The 'shite' line has, as far as I know, only ever been included once in a Sky One screening, which went out at 8.30pm. Reportedly, said Bad Word has even been removed from repeat showings in the US.)
And in "C-E-D'oh!" the opium line and Mr Burns describing Smithers enjoying life in a Turkish prison was cut.
You may realise that these badly cut programmes are all american... why?? Because its the US companies who cut it. They send two version, one post-watershed... and one aweful cut up and shredded pre-watershed!
I was in a shop once and 'Never Be Lonely' by The Feeling was playing and 'bloody' was censored in that :eek:
Interesting that the Simpsons was cut to pieces but The Poseidon Adventure afterwards got to keep its language but then again, if it had already been cut before Channel 4 got it I guess it isn't the channel's fault.
Some of the stupidest editing was certainly done by Sky One after the death of Diana, in the episode "Rosebud", where Monty Burns' exclamation "Damn you, Paparazzo!" saw the word 'paparazzo' blanked out. The episode was left this way for a good couple of years, before it was reinstated.
1. Where Principal Mazur threatens Max with the electric chair.
2. Where Goofy opens a can of soup with his teeth.
I am fed up of this censorship now. I do however wish they would censor Ofcom .
Sky in the only channel that treats the program with some respect.
Shame the new ones are so bad.
I've seen that scene shown many times. maybe it had been cut in the past, but Channel 4 have certainly shown it, and I'm sure Sky One did as well.
I Noticed this earlier ive been a fan of the simpsons for years and i noticed it straight away
Shame on you Channel 4 :mad:
Maybe Channel 4 are doing their own edits, which, like every other show they hack, is very inconsistent and at some points just plain lazy.
BASH!
BOOM!
SMASH!
Christ.