Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Peace Love and Nothing But
Posts: 42,399
Member is Online
|
Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 15, 2023 18:51:58 GMT -5
Every time there's a big tragic news story, stations will tend to pull songs with questionable lyrics for a short time, out of sensitivity towards the subject. The reason that list gets special mention is because of the scope of it and the fact that it was made publicly available. But this is standard practice in most cases. There was a rollercoaster crash over here years ago, and I remember noticing that a certain well-known supermarket radio station that I endured daily pulled “Life Is A Rollercoaster” by Ronan Keating from its playlist, having previously had it on heavy rotation. I found this amusing on several levels. After all that Chinese Spy Balloon stuff a couple months back, I noticed a marked INCREASE in hearing 99 Red Balloons on the radio.
|
|
|
Post by wildojinx on Apr 15, 2023 19:31:14 GMT -5
For the Simpsons “the City of New York vs Homer Simpson” was pulled from syndication for a few years because of 9/11 and is available on DVDs same with the Michael Jackson episode it’s on dvds but won’t be on Disney plus. South Park has the Super Best Friends, Cartoon Wars, and 200th two parters pulled from Streaming even though the are on the dvd sets and the 201st episode is heavily censored there is an uncut version of Kyles end speech on YouTube Speaking of The Simpsons, for years after Hurricane Katrina, when "a Streetcar named Marge" would air on Channel 4 they would cut off the New Orleans song. That must have been a real awkward edit since the New Orleans song goes right into Marge's intro as Blanche.
|
|
|
Post by Zombie Mod on Apr 15, 2023 19:49:48 GMT -5
the game manhunt. it caused an outrage due to it being snuff film the game according to the media and was close to being banned in the uk until the press moved on to another outrage. It probably got banned in Australia but then a lot of games in the 00's got banned in Australia because one of the states' regulators had a huge stick up his ass and could unilaterally ban games by refusing classification. After he was no longer in the position, that nonsense stopped.
Manhunt 2 was rated Adults Only for awhile, which is effectively a soft ban in both the US and Canada. The ESRB is purely industry guideline and not enforced by law, but pretty much every game store, big box store, and online retailer refused to carry AO-rated games. Same thing happened to GTA San Andreas when the "Hot Coffee" thing was discovered. Rockstar put out M-rated versions of both removing the offending content and it was business as usual.
I remember how bad the Australian censorship was in games, had to explain a few times at work for people visiting family in the UK & buying games to play at home in Australia because they didnt have that level of censorship here, left for dead 2 for example the UK version the zombies bodies stay where they dropped when you kill them, the Australian version they disappeared once they hit the ground.
|
|
Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Peace Love and Nothing But
Posts: 42,399
Member is Online
|
Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 15, 2023 20:12:07 GMT -5
Speaking of The Simpsons, for years after Hurricane Katrina, when "a Streetcar named Marge" would air on Channel 4 they would cut off the New Orleans song. That must have been a real awkward edit since the New Orleans song goes right into Marge's intro as Blanche. They got pissed after the original airing too and the Simpsons got pulled from the air for a week or so. That’s why the next chalkboard gag is “I will not defame New Orleans”
|
|
Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Peace Love and Nothing But
Posts: 42,399
Member is Online
|
Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 15, 2023 21:53:39 GMT -5
There's also the "Blame it on Lisa" episode of the Simpsons where Brazil threatened to sue the Simpsons. The legal system is wacky, but not a country can sue a TV show wacky and James L. Brooks offered some sarcastic ass apology, offering to box the president of Brazil and it all kind of went away.
There was also an incident and everyone, please be cool, where they did a Fox News "parody" on the show it was presented as Fox News, but Fox News argued people may believe they were actually watching Fox News and believe it to be real. Fox News threatened to sue and said to never let 20th Century Fox do that again. The Simpsons gambled Rupert Murdoch wasn't going to pay for one division of his company to sue the other and just did it again anyway.
|
|
|
Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Apr 15, 2023 22:09:50 GMT -5
The Clear Channel list of songs that radio stations shouldn’t play after 9/11. While a list did exist as a suggestion, the company never outright said that stations couldn’t play them. Every time there's a big tragic news story, stations will tend to pull songs with questionable lyrics for a short time, out of sensitivity towards the subject. The reason that list gets special mention is because of the scope of it and the fact that it was made publicly available. But this is standard practice in most cases. And how damn ridiculous it was. Pat Benatar songs were on there, "America" by Neil Diamond, freaking "War Pigs", "Smooth Criminal" but only Alien Ant Farm's version, "Tuesday's Gone", "Imagine", and got-dang "Rocket Man" were some of the songs on the list. I get some were on there for being anti-war, but "Ruby Tuesday" was on the list while "Gimme Shelter" wasn't.
|
|
Glitch
Grimlock
Not Going To Die; Childs, we're goin' out to give Blair the test. If he tries to make it back here and we're not with him... burn him.
Watching you.
Posts: 12,787
|
Post by Glitch on Apr 15, 2023 23:08:08 GMT -5
The Japanese film Battle Royale was never banned in America. It was presumed because the only subtitled versions you could find were bootlegs. The truth of the matter is that the film makers couldn't get the type of licensing and distribution deal they wanted. They wanted to get the royal treatment that Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon got, but they only had offers for dvd releases. Of course years later the film did get brought over officially.
|
|
Rave
El Dandy
Perpetually Bored
Posts: 8,373
|
Post by Rave on Apr 16, 2023 0:54:06 GMT -5
Immediately thought of Outlaw Star and the hot springs episode, which finally aired on Toonami in 2018. Not actually banned as much as it was easier not to air it than it was to edit it down. Someone in the UK tried to edit that episode for air, apparently it was a total hackjob and what remained was never aired.
|
|
|
Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Apr 16, 2023 4:03:20 GMT -5
Speaking of The Simpsons, for years after Hurricane Katrina, when "a Streetcar named Marge" would air on Channel 4 they would cut off the New Orleans song. That must have been a real awkward edit since the New Orleans song goes right into Marge's intro as Blanche. All of Channel 4's edits were. They'd show already heavily censored episodes, and next time they aired, something new would be cut. You'd have punchlines without setups, setups that lead nowhere and the already bad post 2000 series were a humour free comedy wasteland.
|
|
agent817
Fry's dog Seymour
Doesn't Know Whose Ring It Is
Posts: 21,872
|
Post by agent817 on Apr 16, 2023 11:17:22 GMT -5
I wonder if this should count. "The Raid II" has some footage found in the international version but were left out of the American release. For details, look here. The funny thing about this is that I had read that the Canadian release has all of this footage. So I ended up ordering the Canadian Blu Ray off of eBay. On the subject of Canadian releases, I will also talk about "Kidnap" from 2017, the film with Halle Berry. Now I remembered seeing it in theaters. However, when it came out on home video, Universal had cut out 13 minutes of footage, according to this video. When I found out about this, I ordered the Canadian release online, which is fully intact.
|
|
|
Post by Alice Syndrome on Apr 16, 2023 21:34:52 GMT -5
Every time there's a big tragic news story, stations will tend to pull songs with questionable lyrics for a short time, out of sensitivity towards the subject. The reason that list gets special mention is because of the scope of it and the fact that it was made publicly available. But this is standard practice in most cases. And how damn ridiculous it was. Pat Benatar songs were on there, "America" by Neil Diamond, freaking "War Pigs", "Smooth Criminal" but only Alien Ant Farm's version, "Tuesday's Gone", "Imagine", and got-dang "Rocket Man" were some of the songs on the list. I get some were on there for being anti-war, but "Ruby Tuesday" was on the list while "Gimme Shelter" wasn't. Literally every Rage Against the Machine song being on there was certainly a choice.
|
|
|
Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Apr 17, 2023 17:46:31 GMT -5
And how damn ridiculous it was. Pat Benatar songs were on there, "America" by Neil Diamond, freaking "War Pigs", "Smooth Criminal" but only Alien Ant Farm's version, "Tuesday's Gone", "Imagine", and got-dang "Rocket Man" were some of the songs on the list. I get some were on there for being anti-war, but "Ruby Tuesday" was on the list while "Gimme Shelter" wasn't. Literally every Rage Against the Machine song being on there was certainly a choice. Also Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles.
|
|
|
Post by WoodStoner1 on May 13, 2023 19:40:37 GMT -5
The Beavis and Butthead episode "Comedians" was not banned, they just edited Beavis juggling the flaming newspapers and replaced the burning comedy club at the end with a riff of Belly's Feed the Tree, but it DID air after the fire controversy. MTV DID briefly ban Stewart's House and Way Down Mexico Way, but they reaired them as part of a special in 1999 (I'm not sure if they're on Paramount + as I dont have that service. I also wonder if they have the original versions of Balloon and Scared Straight with the Michael Jackson and Plasmatics videos respectively). The SNL "Conspiracy Theory Rock" segment was released on the SNL "Best of Saturday TV Funhouse" DVD, which was an official release approved by NBC, so it still was released commercially. Ah yes, the days of TVParty.com insisting that NBC pulled CTR under mysterious circumstances. About the B&B examples...most of the previous episodes weren't pulled but heavily censored (any scenes with fire are cut, lines about it muted or chopped). And supposedly the master tapes are the censored ones. However, the end of Beavis and Butt-head Are Dead does include Beavis and the flaming papers from Comedians in the clip montage McVicker sees before dying. Speaking of the early episodes, does anyone else remembering them changing a video riff (forget which video) so B&B calling people a "puss" becomes "wuss"?
|
|
|
Post by WoodStoner1 on May 13, 2023 19:47:23 GMT -5
The Looney Tunes Censored 11 Only thing they're banned from is being released for Home Release officially. The cartoons frequently show up all over the place, far moreso than a ton of other much better Looney Tunes cartoons. Their notoriety likely made them more popular than they ever otherwise would have been. There's a lot of tame LT cartoons that are far more difficult to obtain correctly. Warner should honestly just update their list anyways. It's more like the Censored 60 nowadays. Which reminds me...Pepe Le Pew has been seen post Space Jam 2 controversy. Ditto Elmer and Sam with guns.
|
|
|
Post by Milkman Norm on May 13, 2023 19:51:46 GMT -5
Roger Meyers Sr's controversial cartoon "Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors" was heavily criticized but never officially banned.
|
|
tirtefaa
Unicron
If you wanna know the truth, you gotta dig up Johnny Booth.
Posts: 3,266
Member is Online
|
Post by tirtefaa on May 13, 2023 19:59:31 GMT -5
Which reminds me...Pepe Le Pew has been seen post Space Jam 2 controversy. Ditto Elmer and Sam with guns. Elmer and Sam are fine either way. Elmer wasn't always a hunter, and Sam was a very adaptable character who appeared in many classic shorts without his guns anyways. Arthur Davis had a mute version of Pepe, which they could honestly use if they absolutely had to.
|
|
Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Peace Love and Nothing But
Posts: 42,399
Member is Online
|
Post by Cranjis McBasketball on May 13, 2023 22:59:48 GMT -5
Roger Meyers Sr's controversial cartoon "Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors" was heavily criticized but never officially banned. It's about three weeks away from being enshrined into the National Film Registry.
|
|
|
Post by floundertime on May 14, 2023 16:10:12 GMT -5
As a child we were told that hoverboards were banned cause of the danger that they posed to kids. But the rumor was there was this back alley place that sold them in Chicago.
Alas hoverboards didn’t exist
|
|
Ben Wyatt
Crow T. Robot
Are You Gonna Go My Way?
I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
Posts: 41,816
|
Post by Ben Wyatt on May 15, 2023 5:53:08 GMT -5
The Clear Channel list of songs that radio stations shouldn’t play after 9/11. While a list did exist as a suggestion, the company never outright said that stations couldn’t play them. Every time there's a big tragic news story, stations will tend to pull songs with questionable lyrics for a short time, out of sensitivity towards the subject. The reason that list gets special mention is because of the scope of it and the fact that it was made publicly available. But this is standard practice in most cases. Kesha's "Die Young' was banned for a short period after Sandy Hook.
|
|
thirteen3
Dennis Stamp
posted with a broken freakin neck keyboard
Posts: 3,955
|
Post by thirteen3 on May 15, 2023 6:39:27 GMT -5
Immediately thought of Outlaw Star and the hot springs episode, which finally aired on Toonami in 2018. Not actually banned as much as it was easier not to air it than it was to edit it down. Someone in the UK tried to edit that episode for air, apparently it was a total hackjob and what remained was never aired. No, when CNX was still a thing that episode aired uncensored. Full naked Aisha and everything. I know because I watched it back in 2003. Also it was after watershed hours, so no need to be so cesnorous. (not a word, but don't care.) Ah, being a young teen boy in the UK with cable was a wonderful thing in the early 2000's. So much softcore porn...
|
|