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On bans or cut scenes talk, Ireland was still an awfully Catholic country when I was growing up and in the episode 'Bart sells his soul' Milhouse asks what religions could possibly have to gain by lying to people which then smash cuts to Reverend Lovejoy pouring money into a sorting machine as the answer. The sorting machine punchline was absolutely cut when I was a kid which shocked me years later when I watched the episode uncensored since I never realized that was a setup for an edgy joke and thought that Milhouse's comments were meant to taken completely straight-faced. Amazing how much that one little edit could change the meaning of the scene to me, and doubly amazing that Ireland was so God fearing that that joke was considered too risqué to be shown to impressionable children. Even still, I always found what seemed like the message of Homer the Heretic very odd and conservative for the show, especially the way they use Lisa in that episode.
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Something that weirded me out as a non American was future Lisa’s English boyfriend crying when Homer accidentally burned the UK flag. Very few people here have the kind of flag reverence that seems common in the US so that seemed like a bizarre reaction.
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Nov 9, 2018 23:10
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Hell the fact the Simpsons even attend church is kinda outdated. Only like 30% of Americans still regularly attend and they are mostly evangelicals.
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marktheando posted:Something that weirded me out as a non American was future Lisa’s English boyfriend crying when Homer accidentally burned the UK flag. Very few people here have the kind of flag reverence that seems common in the US so that seemed like a bizarre reaction. Didn't they also ban the "Homer gets a gun" episode over here as well? I don't remember seeing it until that season came out on VHS/DVD and they made a big hoo-hah about a never-before-seen episode.
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Nov 9, 2018 23:50
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Sky One skipped it but there was no official ban. BBC didn't give a poo poo and just showed it.
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khwarezm posted:On bans or cut scenes talk, Ireland was still an awfully Catholic country when I was growing up and in the episode 'Bart sells his soul' Milhouse asks what religions could possibly have to gain by lying to people which then smash cuts to Reverend Lovejoy pouring money into a sorting machine as the answer. This is also the same show that did "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", which ended with what I can't read in any other way than a defense of prayer in public school. (i.e. "sure you have kids in cages and students rioting and imprisoning teachers in the faculty lounge, that's just the modern world for ya, but DON'T YOU DARE BROADCAST A PRAYER ON THE PA OR YOUR rear end IS GRASS")
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There were definitely some bits edited out in Australia. The one where Krusty fakes his death, the bit where they auction off his boxes of porno was definitely cut. Also there were a few random eps in season 6 we missed for no apparent reason in its original airing. The clip show, A star is burns and the one with bleeding gums. We got them eventually but might have had their first showing on pay TV.
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Nov 10, 2018 02:49
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What about the Australia episode? Did you get that one?
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Nov 10, 2018 02:56
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It didn't go down too well with some, disparaging the boot being a bootable offence and all. We had to wait over a year between season 4 and 5 but got 5 and 6 back to back during '95 which was nice.
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Nov 10, 2018 03:13
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galagazombie posted:Hell the fact the Simpsons even attend church is kinda outdated. Only like 30% of Americans still regularly attend and they are mostly evangelicals. Springfield is basically small town America so it would fit for them, even in 2018.
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spaceblancmange posted:There were definitely some bits edited out in Australia. The one where Krusty fakes his death, the bit where they auction off his boxes of porno was definitely cut. Also there were a few random eps in season 6 we missed for no apparent reason in its original airing. The clip show, A star is burns and the one with bleeding gums. We got them eventually but might have had their first showing on pay TV. Could just be a syndication cut. Lots of times they'll cut little bits for reruns to squeeze in extra commercials.
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Data Graham posted:This is also the same show that did "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", which ended with what I can't read in any other way than a defense of prayer in public school. Keep in mind that the show was (is?) largely written by areligious Jews and liberals from fancy schools like Harvard. Jokes like that shouldn't be taken straight at all. It was all still very, very irreverent for early 90's American TV.
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brugroffil posted:Could just be a syndication cut. Lots of times they'll cut little bits for reruns to squeeze in extra commercials. Yeah they aren't necessarily censoring, and jokes tend to get cut before plot. Although other countries usually have fewer commercials than the U.S. so 
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brugroffil posted:Could just be a syndication cut. Lots of times they'll cut little bits for reruns to squeeze in extra commercials. They did it all the time in Canada. There was one channel (A-Channel for anyone who lived out West in the 90s) that aired the episodes with no syndication cuts which was passed around the playground fast. I know SNPP would show which scenes were cut from syndication in their episode capsules if anyone wants a reference.
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spaceblancmange posted:There were definitely some bits edited out in Australia. The one where Krusty fakes his death, the bit where they auction off his boxes of porno was definitely cut. Also there were a few random eps in season 6 we missed for no apparent reason in its original airing. The clip show, A star is burns and the one with bleeding gums. We got them eventually but might have had their first showing on pay TV. Isn't Stralya kinda super conservative about porn
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I've skipped every clip episode. Is there anything interesting about them; ie they do something cool with the format? Or are they just clip shows
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brugroffil posted:Could just be a syndication cut. Lots of times they'll cut little bits for reruns to squeeze in extra commercials. This was on first airing, Channel 10 were notorious for butchering the reruns to fit the 6 pm slot too though.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I've skipped every clip episode. Is there anything interesting about them; ie they do something cool with the format? Or are they just clip shows 138th Episode is a clip show and is pretty drat good. Which reminds me because we didn't get the episode Round Springfield the 'Which 2 popular Simpsons characters died?' gag didn't make much sense to us.
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The first clip show doesn't become a clip show until the second act IIRC, so that's 7-8 minutes of original material.
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spaceblancmange posted:138th Episode is a clip show and is pretty drat good. Which reminds me because we didn't get the episode Round Springfield the 'Which 2 popular Simpsons characters died?' gag didn't make much sense to us. Yeah it's barely a clip show too. A lot of it is like they aired DVD extras.
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Nov 10, 2018 06:01
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Milo and POTUS posted:I've skipped every clip episode. Is there anything interesting about them; ie they do something cool with the format? Or are they just clip shows Another Simpsons Clip Show is the worst episode of the first eight seasons. About two minutes of original content? Gump Roast made me give up watching regularly.
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lol there have been over 500 episodes since the 138th Spectacular Also, there is an upcoming episode called 'E My Sports' 
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Milo and POTUS posted:Does anyone else really hate the word raunchy. I prefer raunchy to describe something rather than 'ribald'.
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spaceblancmange posted:Also, there is an upcoming episode called 'E My Sports' It's going to be baaaaad bad bad. Needless to say, I'm looking forward to hating it.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Sky One skipped it but there was no official ban. BBC didn't give a poo poo and just showed it. Makes sense. Most of my Simpsons-viewing while growing up was on Sky One, I sort of petered out when it came on BBC and must've never happened upon it while that episode was showing.
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Nov 10, 2018 12:29
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The 138th episode spectacular is wonderful. Who knows what adventures they will have between now and the time the show becomes unprofitable?
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Nov 10, 2018 12:36
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why wasn't this on the DVD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWgI2YAupCM
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Also here in England every tabloid newspaper had chicks on the front in bikinis throughout the 80s/90s and on page 3 someone would have their jugs out. We're an island of perverts.
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spaceblancmange posted:lol there have been over 500 episodes since the 138th Spectacular Remember the episode where two of the characters entered a tontin in WW2 over some nazi paintings and they had clever gags like a self-aware one where everyone in the unit was a side character's ancestor so they could just use the same characters but still poked fun at themselves for it? But yes, let us do our Newgrounds-level parody take on anything popular 10 months after the fact.
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4 minutes of the most expensive joke-less animation you'll ever see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDbF9GGnfgQ
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I mentioned how the Simpsons wasn't considered at all risque in the UK in 1990, but this is the same era that 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' had to be renamed 'Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles' for TV (the movie name stayed the same), and all depictions of Michelangelo's nunchucks had to be edited out because the head of the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) was a completely insane person named James Ferman. Nunchucks were (are?) illegal in the UK, despite being an incredibly stupid weapon that is more likely to knock you out than whoever you're trying to harm, and Ferman was a huge stickler for arbitrary rules. He's responsible for an enormous amount of media censorship in the UK from the mid 70s to the late 90s - he was the person that blocked The Exorcist from being released on home video (it eventually got released on DVD about three months after he retired). Ferman's particular hatred of nunchucks extended to how he felt he was "unable to tell the difference between a martial arts weapon and a sausage" in a scene in which Michelangelo uses sausage links to fight bad guys. Ferman stated that the sausages looked like real weapons "to any streetwise 8 year old" and ordered the scene to be heavily edited so as to avoid a "dazzling display of swinging sausages indistinguishable from chainsticks". Despite this insanity, Ferman was considered to be extremely liberal by Mary Whitehouse, who is basically the UK's version of Phyllis Schlafly. When Ferman retired, he campaigned to have legislation around hardcore porn severely relaxed, so that he could enjoy his twilight years. He died 3 years after stepping down. Quote-Unquote fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Nov 13, 2018 |
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Don't you guys have a registration system for porn now lol
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The weirdest bit of editing in the Simpsons in the UK is when Barney helps Homer escape work so they can go to the Duff brewery. Barney yells "hey, is that Princess Di?" and pulls his car forward, causing Homer to plummet to the ground, then says "nah, it's just a pile of rags". All of Barney's dialogue got cut after Princess Diana became a guardian angel for Our Maddie or whatever happened, so it looks like he just pulls his car forward for no reason.
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Phlegmish posted:Don't you guys have a registration system for porn now Yeah the Tories have been trying to push an age verification system. I'm not wholly opposed to the idea because, y'know, porn is bad for kids. But it's totally unenforceable. At one point there was a plan to make it so any porn site accessible in the UK had to have a .xxx domain, so that it would be super easy for parents to lock down what their kids can and cannot access. But that got rejected because the reactionary right decided that every make every porn site end with .xxx would make porn easier to access. Because it's so hard to find now, you see.
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:4 minutes of the most expensive joke-less animation you'll ever see 
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:4 minutes of the most expensive joke-less animation you'll ever see wow, i didn't even crack a smile
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YeahTubaMike posted:wow, i didn't even crack a smile I've learned to never watch the videos posted in this thread unless it looks hand drawn.
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This Sunday's episode, Moe gets wise to a prank phone call, so Bart, Milhouse and Nelson one-up the prank by go to Herman's Military Surplus store to get on the Dark Web (which had a Clippy joke) and order Moe a mail-order bride. It actually goes well for Moe and they get along for awhile and then some hijinks ensue and it turns out in the end that she's an American scamming him. The boys somehow have picked up enough Russian to read the Russian marriage certificate she wants Moe to sign that would have given her all his assets.
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OK. Sure. Why not. All of these episodes read like they were made up on the spot by Awesom-O
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Phlegmish posted:OK. Sure. Why not. All of these episodes read like they were made up on the spot by Awesom-O I made a neural net watch 1000 hours of post-Season 9 Simpsons, and by pure coincidence, it's been spitting out plots that are identical to what airs every Sunday.
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