Simpsons censored on C4

SoupyNorman

Watching the Simpsons earlier on C4. Twas the episode where Homer and Marge get all randy and do it in public places.

Anyway, Homer is chatting to Lenny and Carl and Carl says;

"Yeah Homer; I'd always imagined Marge would be a dynamo in the sack"

'would be a dynamo in the sack' > Left out.

*Marge drives into shot where Lenny pipes up;

"good evening mam, I hope this evening finds you well"

to which marge replies;

"ah put a sock in it you couple of perverts"

'you couple of perverts' > Left out.



Its all well and good that you find TV stations conducting self-censorship, but this from Channel4...the original anti-establishment TV station now censoring cartoons.


For shame.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Well the watershed is 9pm AFAIK so they have to be careful.

Still I don't see why content like that need be censored, it's not exactly in your face and explicit.

Armin_Tamzarian

I noticed before that sometimes the 'Beer Baron' episode has the following scene cut when it is aired.

During the St. Patricks day parade, Kent Brockman says something like
"Drunkeness, violence destruction of property. Are these the things we think of when we think of the Irish?".
Next it shows some blokes running away from an obviously british pub named 'John Bulls' just before a bomb goes off and blows it up.

EdgarAllenPoo

Don't C4 show episodes of the Simpsons at 4pm sometimes? Maybe that's why it was censored. Sky show them (whenever they need to fill time presumeably) uncensored all the time as far as I'm aware.

I don't think I've ever seen a censored episode of the Simpsons. I would think in this day and age the stuff you'd see in most kids cartoons might be more offensive. Maybe that's just me.

seamus

RTE & BBC

Sky & Channel 4 chop big chunks out of most episodes and censor it.

On RTE and BBC you can still see new gems in old episodes.

slipss

To be honest channel 4 /E4 are by farthe worst station on telly for censoring programmes in the day time, total sell outs. Ever watch an episode of freinds on E4, cut to ribbons, silly things aswell like censoring out the words bitch, sex and whore, hardly hardcore stuff thats going to warp the little kiddies minds, and they don't even censor it well, half the lines/scenes make absalutely no sense after they get through with them.

Dudess

In the one where they're watching the English sitcom Do Shut Up, Homer uses the word "****" when explaining the show's premise to Bart - "If they're not having a go with the birds, they're having a row with the ****!" One of the funniest moments in the episode and bloody Sky had to edit it out (badly) :rolleyes:

Pigman II

Ever since I started getting tapes from my cousins I've realised that many simpsons episodes (not just the one or two per decade as I had previously believe) are censored. Unless you're watching an ep post-watershed you can never be sure you're watching the real thing intact.

Mossy Monk

Are the dvd's in this country censored in any way?

seamus

Dudess wrote: »

In the one where they're watching the English sitcom Do Shut Up, Homer uses the word "****" when explaining the show's premise to Bart - "If they're not having a go with the birds, they're having a row with the ****!" One of the funniest moments in the episode and bloody Sky had to edit it out (badly) :rolleyes:

The one with U2 is far funnier than the Sky-edited version. There's a sequence at the end where Mr Burns calls U2 ****.

Miguel_Sanchez

RTE show the uncensored versions as far as I know.

I saw the aforementioned U2 epsiode with all the '****' kept in on anyways on our beloved national broadcaster.

Superfluous

The New York one is always censored on tv now, as far as I remember. Saw it maybe a year back on network two and they still cut out the part where a man says "they stick all the jerks in tower 2".

Dodge

GDM wrote: »

Sky show them (whenever they need to fill time presumeably) uncensored all the time as far as I'm aware.

As mentioned Sky censor numerous episodes. They even banned the "The Catridge Family" episode.

In the US, a lot of syndicated TV shows are cut to shreads as local stations look to fill more ad time. Sometimes these episodes are the episodes Irish/British stations but on the 3rd/4th round of rights

christo82

seamus wrote: »

RTE & BBC

Sky & Channel 4 chop big chunks out of most episodes and censor it.

On RTE and BBC you can still see new gems in old episodes.

BBC usually take out the racist slang out of old Only Fools And Horses episodes whereas RTE leave them in eg "bought it off the Paki down the street"

mental07

Superfluous wrote: »

The New York one is always censored on tv now, as far as I remember. Saw it maybe a year back on network two and they still cut out the part where a man says "they stick all the jerks in tower 2".

And it's one of the best episodes, imho.

Sky also censor that episode where Homer fancies his co-worker Mindy; in the scene where they're in the hotel room, Homer says "we're gonna have sex" and it's cut out.

Green Giant

Censorship, like political correctness in general, has overstepped the mark. During That 70's Show on Paramount Comedy, the word 'ass' gets the chop


sadness of the highest order

Mr Moon

I'm afraid it's the world we live in nowadays, stupid as it may seem!!

When Diana died they used to cut out the part in the episode where Mr Burns wants his teddy Bobo back, he's in the sandtrap with Maggie and puts Maggies pacifier in his mouth and a paparazzi takes a pic and Mr Burns says damn you paparazo!!

You can see all the full unedited versions of the episodes on the dvd's!

BaZmO*

seamus wrote: »

RTE & BBC

Sky & Channel 4 chop big chunks out of most episodes and censor it.

On RTE and BBC you can still see new gems in old episodes.

Ah c'mon, BBC are notorious for censoring shows and films. As for RTE, well I'm sure they would if they knew how to. You just know that RTE get the tapes and just press play, no point in wasting time watching them before hand. Which is a good thing.

They always leave the bap scene in Titanic.

odyssey06

Is this really censorship? Do you, for example, think that the fact that C4 or RTE or TV3 don't show pornography or 18s rated movies at 4 o'clock in the afternoon mean that censorship is occuring?

I think we need a new word for cases like this... where the actual content itself isn't banned, but is edited because of where or when it is being shown.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

It is censorship by definition.

The word censorship makes no provision for the reasons behind a 'censorship'

odyssey06

In that case I think the word is straining under a heavy load as it would then describe these three situations:
(1) Channel 4 not showing an 18s film in the middle of the day. I think most people, especially those with children, would say that is a good thing.
(2) Channel 4 editing some mild 'adult' dialogue from a comedy show broadcast before 9pm. Most people here are objecting to the judgment made by C4 that the dialogue should be cut, but if instead the word had been m****r f****r than I think they'd agree???
(3) A Russian newspaper publishes an editorial critical of Vladimir Putin and all copies of the newspaper are seized and the newspaper's offices are shut down by the police.

In the latter case, freedom of speech and human rights have clearly been violated, for example. Can anyone say that about cases 1 and 2?

BaZmO*

Ahh, ya can't beat a good aul debate on semantics!

odyssey06

BaZmO* wrote: »

Ahh, ya can't beat a good aul debate on semantics!

Oh, God no, we can't be getting into that!
It's just one of those things that I hear and something about it doesn't sound right and I can't quite put my finger on it

Thomas_S_Hunterson

odyssey06 wrote: »

In the latter case, freedom of speech and human rights have clearly been violated, for example. Can anyone say that about cases 1 and 2?

Well the simplest solution is to use an adjective with each instance of the word 'censorship' to distinguish between what you deem to be different types of censorship.

For instance one could speak of political censorship.

Cokehead Mother

The most annoying example I can think of pre-watershed censorship is E4 never showing a particular episode of friends because of like 4 seconds of extremely soft core porn visible on the television in the apartment. So one episode Emily is leaving for London for good and the next thing she's in New York and it's like wtf. And then there's the whole policy of "Bitch is fine all day, son of a bitch NEVER BEFORE 9pm".

Overheal

You people have little to gripe about to be fair. Try watching a movie in the USA. Braveheart for example:

Stephen: [Stephen starts laughing and walks over to the cooking pot] Him? That can't be William Wallace. I'm *prettier* than this man.
[he eats a spoonful of the stew in the pot, then turns his eyes heavenward]
Stephen: [with his mouth full] All right, Father, I'll ask him.
[he looks at William]
Stephen: If I risk my neck for you, will I get a chance to kill Englishmen?
Hamish: Is your father a ghost, or do you converse with the Almighty?
Stephen: In order to find his equal, an Irishman is *forced* to talk to God.
[he looks up again]
Stephen: Yes, Father!
[he looks back at Hamish]
Stephen: The Almighty says, "Don't change the subject, just answer the ****in' question."
Hamish: Mind your tongue.
Campbell: Insane Irish.
Stephen: [Stephen draws a dagger and holds it to Campbell's throat, prompting everyone else to draw their weapons and point them at Stephen] Smart enough to get a dagger past your guards, old man.
William Wallace: That's my friend, Irishman. And the answer to your question is "yes." You fight for me, you get to kill the English.
Stephen: [Stephen looks at William, then grins] Excellent!

The Irish snide remark is removed and the line now reads in a very bad dub over: 'dont change the subject just answer the bleeding question'. Stephen's brilliant Irish character is replaced with some cheap nasty voice of someone in the editing room.

Then you have the 40yr old virgin:

Cal: Listen, when I was growing pot, I realized that the more seeds I planted, the more pot I could ultimately smoke.
Andy Stitzer: I think I've got all the advice I can handle right now.
Cal: Don't get bitter.
Andy Stitzer: I'm not getting bitter. I almost lost a nipple, okay?
Cal: That was Jay's idea, and I wasn't going to say anything, but waxing your chest is the gayest thing you could possibly do. Look at me: looks are not important. *Really* look at me. I am ugly as [MUTED] by traditional standards, but, I get with women. Aren't you curious as to how that's possible?
Andy Stitzer: I am not ugly as [MUTED].
Cal: I didn't say you were ugly as [MUTED].
Andy Stitzer: Well, you implied it.
Cal: Okay, okay, it doesn't matter if you're ugly as [MUTED], or you're ugly as [MUTED]. It's about *talking* to women, and I know how to do that because I observe, because I am a novelist.
Andy Stitzer: What? You never told me that before.
Cal: That's because I'm not an arrogant [MUTED], Andy.

and lest we forget: You're just putting the [MUTED] on a pedestal.

phasers

E4 censors Scrubs at 6PM as well so none of the jokes make any sense