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The Fall of the Simpsons

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  • #92
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,643 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    The episode where Homer gets a gun wasn't often shown. I can't remember if it was BBC - back when they had it - or Sky that cut it.

    Edit: Wiki has the answer:
    The episode was not initially aired on the United Kingdom satellite channel Sky1 due to scenes of flagrant gun misuse, yet was aired several times on BBC Two in an earlier evening timeslot.


  • #93
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,622 ✭✭✭valoren


    I could understand the complaints with Apu if he was portrayed as the 'Snake' character i.e. a criminal but seeing he is an immigrant, a business owner and a graduate of Springfield Heights Institute of Technology it's hard to see how offensive an actor doing an accent is in an animated comedy show.


  • #94
    Go Harvey Go
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Go Harvey Go


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Justify it to who though? The people who don't watch it anymore?

    I don't look at it as 1 < 21 but rather 1 > 0.

    Theoretically, if you keep making a series with 22 episodes each season and just one of those episodes being good with the other 21 all being poor at best, viewers will get fed up and switch off - and fewer viewers will mean lower profits, and possibly losses later.

    Yet, somehow, The Simpsons *still* brings in enough viewers to keep it profitable.


  • #95
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Go Harvey Go wrote: »
    Theoretically, if you keep making a series with 22 episodes each season and just one of those episodes being good with the other 21 all being poor at best, viewers will get fed up and switch off - and fewer viewers will mean lower profits, and possibly losses later.

    Yet, somehow, The Simpsons *still* brings in enough viewers to keep it profitable.

    Yeah sure, but if you cancel the show you wouldn't have any viewers at all.


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