Simpsons Censored

User45701

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZcXTdRGTz0

Those of you who obtained the pre-air will have seen this those of you whose cousins sent you something this monday missed a line

Mossy Monk

not the 1st time it has been censored

Sky censor it all the time

YeatsCounty

That final line was uneccessary anyway, anyone would have gotten that reference. The final line felt to me like the writers were trying to hit us over the head with it. 'Do you get it yet? We're being political and controversial!'

PS: Poor episode but still better than last year's Hallowe'en special, although that wasn't difficult. :rolleyes:

Our man in Havana

Does it matter?

User45701

hmmm mabe the point is missed or something but do u notthink its sad ? yes adults and teenagers would have got the reference but because they dont want it infulencing there kids it was cut

YeatsCounty

User45701 wrote:

hmmm mabe the point is missed or something but do u notthink its sad ? yes adults and teenagers would have got the reference but because they dont want it infulencing there kids it was cut

Who's to say that it was cut because of censorship? Perhaps the producers cut it at the last moment because they realised that the line just didn't work. Believe me, I have no great love of FOX but I believe that the explanation is pretty innocent. If FOX really wanted to censor the show, they could have requested that the producers write a new ending to that segment.

lodgepole

I have no sound in work, what's the line?

flogen

that line, which is actually a pretty stupid line anyway, almost seems sellotaped into the end, to the point where I doubt it's validity; anyone who didn't get the already blatently obvious reference to the Iraq invasion would probably be better off going back to Bear in the Big Blue House anyway.
If it is genuine it's simply more proof that the Simpsons have lost it once and for all, even when the series went bad the Halloween episodes were still reliable.

Lodgepole, the line is 'this sure is a lot like Iraq will be'

Oh, and I still remember, some time after Diana Spencer was killed, Sky One cutting Mr. Burns' 'Damn paperazzi' line from the bobo episode. Stupid, stupid censorship.

User45701

ye true its like the classic episode where home needs to go to the toilet but they cut the twin towers episode of the simpsons when homer has 2 run to the top to take a piss and for some reason there is only 1 toilet at the top of each building. "CrapKalish"

Ste.phen

the part that was cut wasn't funny, and was a definite Captain Obvious line.

Rb

YeatsCounty wrote:

That final line was uneccessary anyway, anyone would have gotten that reference. The final line felt to me like the writers were trying to hit us over the head with it. 'Do you get it yet? We're being political and controversial!'

PS: Poor episode but still better than last year's Hallowe'en special, although that wasn't difficult. :rolleyes:

I agree and also don't think the line was cut for censorship, more just that it was a poor line.
If they were going to censor it, I'm sure they'd of taken quite a lot if not all of that segment out, as its quite clear to anyone with half a mind what the thing is referring to.
That said, censorship in general (and especially in the US) has gone way OTT.

lostexpectation

YeatsCounty wrote:

Who's to say that it was cut because of censorship? Perhaps the producers cut it at the last moment because they realised that the line just didn't work. Believe me, I have no great love of FOX but I believe that the explanation is pretty innocent. If FOX really wanted to censor the show, they could have requested that the producers write a new ending to that segment.

nah I thought it was them taking the piss out of themselves by highlighting the way the episode went, it was knowing ham.

its strange that it was left out.

slipss

Mossy Monk wrote:

not the 1st time it has been censored

Sky censor it all the time

Yeah there are good few bits that get cut out of the simpsons on Sky, like in the episode where they bring back prohibition sky cuts out the bit at the Paddys day parade where a Brittish pub or chipper gets blown up. There loads more cuts I've noticed on Sky too.

Basq

Also soon after Princess Diana died..

There was a scene where Barney was waiting in the car and said "there's Princess Diana" and backed up outta shot. Then came back into shot and says "aww.. it was just a pile of rags"

They cut that every time that episode aired until a year or two after her death.

Our man in Havana

slipss wrote:

Yeah there are good few bits that get cut out of the simpsons on Sky, like in the episode where they bring back prohibition sky cuts out the bit at the Paddys day parade where a Brittish pub or chipper gets blown up. There loads more cuts I've noticed on Sky too.

has it ever been shown uncut?

Basq

Yeah.. i definitely saw that uncut.

Mossy Monk

Bond-007 wrote:

has it ever been shown uncut?

yes on RTÉ

Sky get a little over sensitive over things. one reason to not watch anything on there

Sparky

I have noticed bits of the simpsons on sky missing. Although when they aired futurama, there was two mentions of the word bastards in the evil santa episode. It's unlike sky to miss them.

Yakuza

There are several "Lil' Bastard" kits that are cut out on Sky, but I saw on RTE.

Bart looks forlornly at a "Lil' Bastard Clock Tampering Kit" in the one where they are told they all have to stay an extra 2 hours after school because the clocks were running fast all term.

In the one about the Leader ("neh neh neh neh neh neh neh neh neh neh neh neh neh neh neh neh Leader!") , Bart gets brainwashed by a "Lil Bastard Brainwashing kit").

I'm sure there are more, just can't think of any ATM.

BaZmO*

Just watched the clip and thought that it was a totally unnesessary line. If the makers cut it well then fair enough, they obviously realised that it didn't work. However, I don't reckon it was the makers that cut it. It was definitely Sky. I think they were just covering their ásses from the type of people that complain about these types of things. You know the types, the ones that don't get satire and if it's pointed out to them, i.e. the Iraq comment, they wouldn't bothered complaining.

OT.
Recently watched a new episode of the Simpons (The Mafia one) and thought it was brilliant.

monkeyfudge

Squill wrote:

Also soon after Princess Diana died..

There was a scene where Barney was waiting in the car and said "there's Princess Diana" and backed up outta shot. Then came back into shot and says "aww.. it was just a pile of rags"

They cut that every time that episode aired until a year or two after her death.

I remember they even cut the trampoline episode as well. When Homer is racing along in his car to get the free trampoline he drives other cars off the road... they cut all that out after Diana's death.

DaBreno

I hope Im not making this up, but I seem to remember watching the U2 episode on the Internet - the scene where Homer interupts the concert. When Larry mullen and Edge decide to head to Mo's for a pint, Adam Clayton asks if he could come, they tell him no and he calls them ****. Ring any bells?

monkeyfudge

DaBreno wrote:

I hope Im not making this up, but I seem to remember watching the U2 episode on the Internet - the scene where Homer interupts the concert. When Larry mullen and Edge decide to head to Mo's for a pint, Adam Clayton asks if he could come, they tell him no and he calls them ****. Ring any bells?

Yep... and they also cut the scene in the airplane at the end when Mr. Burns calls them **** when he gets hit in the head with a spoon.

Mossy Monk

this thread shows how **** Sky actually are with their censorship

BaZmO* wrote:

It was definitely Sky

no, it was FOX

BaZmO*

Mossy Monk wrote:

no, it was FOX

What? I'm lost.

I thought this thread was about SKY censoring the Simpsons, no?

Either way, my point was about a Network censoring a show be it Sky or Fox.

monkeyfudge

BaZmO* wrote:

What? I'm lost.

I thought this thread was about SKY censoring the Simpsons, no?

Either way, my point was about a Network censoring a show be it Sky or Fox.

The episode in question has only just aired on Fox and has had the Iraq comment cut. I'm sure Sky will cut it too when they show it though... Fox owns Sky so it's all a moot point really.

BaZmO*

monkeyfudge wrote:

Fox owns Sky so it's all a moot point really.

Ed Zachery

lodgepole

monkeyfudge wrote:

The episode in question has only just aired on Fox and has had the Iraq comment cut. I'm sure Sky will cut it too when they show it though... Fox owns Sky so it's all a moot point really.

Fox doesn't own Sky, they are both owned by Rupert Murdoch (actually Murdoch owns about a third of Sky, and is Chairman). Sky have made cuts to the show that Fox haven't. This is the first time i've heard any inkling of Fox doing it.

Seems to me like it was an editorial decision, not a content one. It clearly works better without it. In fact i'm surprised it's gone because it's the kind of obvious bad joke that The Simpsons has been resorting to a lot recently.