Weird censorship

[Queen Michael]

Sometimes when Channel 4 edits some of the more sexually explicit jokes out of Friends, they keep the laugh track for said joke. It's really wierd as it has the "audience" laughing at nothing.

Isn't that par for the course in Friends?

Okay, to be honest I find Friends hilarious, but that joke had to be told.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

I've had it had it with you people complaining about monkey farming censorship!

 

[tomtom94]

censorship WITHIN porn, a little redundant dontcha think?

wait, what?

I know it definitely happens in Japanese-released hentai due to a ban on exposed genitalia in film. Apart from being one of the reasons tentacle rape is so popular over there, it also means that some hentai gets the interesting bits pixellated.

It also can happen with other kinds of porn, certainly here in the UK where broadcasting R18 material - even on pay-per-view channels - can get you a fine, because that stuff can only legally be sold in specialised shops. I'm not kidding.

(Before you ask, I know about this only because of Private Eye)

 

[Roganwilson]

On some channels in America, vomiting is censored. But not peeing or even pooing. It's ridiculous.

 

[Outcast107]

Not sure if this was said..but Spongebob

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu_50_K5JkI&feature=related

 

[infinity_turtles]

It just seems kind of... off message? Especially since the previous version they had up wasn't censored.

 

[MetalDooley]

I'd go with the song Gay Bar, I think the censored version has next to no lyrics. Sadly I couldn't find the horrible version where the word 'gay' got censored (i think it caused a problem as people didn't like the idea of that being censored).

Heres a partly censored one:

They bleeped out the words "nuclear war"...weird

Watching Die Hard one night on tv.All the language was dubbed over so John McClane's infamous catchphrase "yippee kai ay ************" became "yippee kai ay kemosabe"

Kinda stupid for 2 reasons
1.All the violence was left intact
2.It was on about 11pm at night so well after the 9pm watershed

 

[manythings]

The Simpsons occasionally come up on TV in Hong Kong. There was one episode that was supposed to have mention of the Dalai Lama and they removed every single mention of him but left everything else intact. It was weird.
Also, when The Simpsons Movie was showing on TV here, Chief Wiggum was suppose to say a certain line right after the sinkhole swallowed up the entire Simpsons house ("Well, they're China's problem now."). For some reason, they replaced the word "China" with "Japan".

That's because china has no problems... you'd best remember that you capitalist pig-dog.

 

[manythings]

On the whole I find it laughable. OK so censorship can have it's place but it's so overzealous sometimes. There's been a bit of a kerfuffle here about Winston Churchill photos in school textbooks being doctored to remove his cigar. It seems that the stereotypical American-parent-isms are coming to the UK!

I know a picture of a fat, crazy, racist bastard smoking makes me hanker for a puff.

 

[manythings]

They bleeped out the words "nuclear war"...weird

Watching Die Hard one night on tv.All the language was dubbed over so John McClane's infamous catchphrase "yippee kai ay ************" became "yippee kai ay kemosabe"

Kinda stupid for 2 reasons
1.All the violence was left intact
2.It was on about 11pm at night so well after the 9pm watershed

Christ that was dubbed way back in the day. I was like seven and that was going on even though I KNEW he was saying ************. When someone mouths the words ************ it's clear they are saying ************.

 

[manythings]

Not sure if this was said..but Spongebob

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu_50_K5JkI&feature=related

Going by that, how did Tom&Jerry ever reach TV?

Cause Tom and Jerry were awesome. All the old style cartoons were great. I think it was in the late 70's-early 80's that "experts" on child psychology started their campaigns to remove any sort of reality from cartoons to protect children from understanding that bad things happen in the universe.

 

[manythings]

American version of Yakuza 3 removing the hostess clubs, but then leaving the datable girls in there for you to encounter at fast food restaurants where they ask you to take them on a date out of the blue. So they basically went from a controlled environment where all they really had to do was talk to you to outright prostitution.

I guess prostitution is more in keeping with a game about organised crime...

 

[Phlakes]

a foul smelling soupy puddle of chunks of halfdigested food mixed in with bile, or the action of puking and spewing out such contents, splashing it on the floor.

Of course I happened to be eating while reading this.

Anyway, I never understood why they allow people saying "ass" but not "asshole".

 

[Joe Deadman]

Saw a censored version of the Simpson episode where Homer joins the NRA on Channel 4 a while back.

I can sort of understand why they removed the part where Bart is spoken to by two prostitutes, however they also cut the part where Marge retrieves the gun from the trashcan at the end and just went sraight to her walking out of the door (with the music that starts when she picks up the gun still playing no less).

It was quite abrupt and if you hadn't seen the episode before it would probably have been confusing as hell.

 

[Wardnath]

I know that censorship affects pretty much every episode of The Simpsons aired on Australian TV now. I remember some episodes played years ago, and when they play them now they're totally different. It's odd when you know there's a punchline coming, and you're about to laugh even though you already know the joke and... it doesn't come. They edit out the jokes because someone says something even remotely related to a swear word.

A comedy show without the comedy.

Fantastic.

That is absolute .

Ehhh. I don't watch TV back here anymore so I wouldn't know.

 

[Dags90]

I actually saw a man's bum on cable TV once, it was from some boring Romantic Comedy. It was cable TV at night, but I was still pretty surprised that got through the editing process. Meanwhile South Park has cleaned up the language because all the excessive bleeping got annoying.

 

[Nimbus]

4kids are fucking stupid

Oh god. It's almost impressive how much effort they put into making "their" products worse.

 

[SomeBoredGuy]

A very rare case of awesome censorship: in the American versions of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novels the word 'fuck' was replaced by 'Belgium'. This goes extremely well with the rest of the book and most people don't notice this wasn't the intention of the author.

So wait... they replaced the award for most gratuitous use of the word "fuck" in a serious screenplay with the award for most gratuitous use of the word "Belgium" in a serious screenplay? That sounds strangely awesome.

 

[WindKnight]

The western version of the MMORPG Rappelz made me laugh for how they 'censored' a few of the female costumes, by making any outfit where the female characters upper legs were exposed, and she wasn't wearing a skirt, cover all of the upper legs. This was done on an outfit, where they made no alteration to the fact that the characters left breast was exposed, with just a strap covering the nipple.

 

[RanD00M]

Japan being the most famous case of this (if not the only).

Well I've seen Korean and Vietnamese porn that was censored.

OT:Well,I dunno. Censorship of lyrics within music videos seems kinda silly to me.