What's funny is when sh*t and f**k are censored, the beep is short enough to still completely understand what they said. I also like when Stephen Colbert talks about Fox News, and clearly says "f**ks News" by saying "f**ks" kinda fast, so he is able to get around the censors on that one.
haha I know right. Also the grand irony, (which I believe was another South Park point) the beeps draw more attention to it.
Kid shows even use crap (I remember it a lot in Hey Arnold) and sexy and other minor words but that are edgy for kids.
Theres quite a few kid shows that devoted a lot of their time to 'lets see what we can slip past the censors'.
It would take about 50 fingers to count them all. Ed, Edd, And Eddy, Ren And Stimpy, Animaniacs, Cow And Chicken, Powepuff Girls, Rugrats (Dr. Lipsh*tz....), Rocko's Modern Life, Sam And Max, Spongebob, Courage The Cowardly Dog, and on and on.
Oh yeah. Honestly it's almost all of them, though some certainly did it more than others. I always figured it was part to have something entertaining for adults...or they are a****les and just want to do it
And some of those shows just tried to slip things past the censors but Rocko's Modern Life and Ren & Stimpy were flat out wrong! Nipples of the future and what not. As a kid I love the ridiculousness of them, it wasn't till a bit later I got "chokey chicken" and stuff like that.
Related note: I always thought Spongebob was a little grotesque and cartoonishly wrong, then I heard supposedly a lot of Ren & Stimpy crew went into Spongebob which may explain that. Especially all those random one second close ups with the really detailed face, like they used to do on R&S.
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Posted: July 04 2012 at 12:26
JJLehto wrote:
darkshade wrote:
I've seen 'crap' in newspaper funnies.
What's funny is when sh*t and f**k are censored, the beep is short enough to still completely understand what they said. I also like when Stephen Colbert talks about Fox News, and clearly says "f**ks News" by saying "f**ks" kinda fast, so he is able to get around the censors on that one.
haha I know right. Also the grand irony, (which I believe was another South Park point) the beeps draw more attention to it.
I see no irony in that, grand or otherwise. British heavy metal publication Terrorizer deliberately bleeped out swearwords to emphasise them.
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Posted: July 04 2012 at 12:36
I remember watching Chappelle's Show on DVD when it came out, and none of the curse words were bleeped out, obviously, yet, it wasn't as funny as when the episodes are aired on TV. I still find the show funnier when they show reruns than when someone puts on the DVDs.
What's funny is when sh*t and f**k are censored, the beep is short enough to still completely understand what they said. I also like when Stephen Colbert talks about Fox News, and clearly says "f**ks News" by saying "f**ks" kinda fast, so he is able to get around the censors on that one.
haha I know right. Also the grand irony, (which I believe was another South Park point) the beeps draw more attention to it.
I see no irony in that, grand or otherwise. British heavy metal publication Terrorizer deliberately bleeped out swearwords to emphasise them.
Yeah, it makes sense to those of us with brains...it's just that TV execs don't have brains
I remember watching Chappelle's Show on DVD when it came out, and none of the curse words were bleeped out, obviously, yet, it wasn't as funny as when the episodes are aired on TV. I still find the show funnier when they show reruns than when someone puts on the DVDs.
Yeah, it does play in...because of the emphasis by beeping it does become funnier. Otherwise, you just get used to it.
If people really wanted to stop focusing on swearing, they'd allow all of it on TV!
Besides, whats the f**kin point? The children? Like they don't know it by 12 (and I'm being generous).
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Posted: July 04 2012 at 12:46
everybody's ignoring the fact he got arrested for beating a prostitute has a joke about it with the mugshot scene in the commercial which is just genius.
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Posted: July 04 2012 at 12:51
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^ Well, that's a little off-topic, but OK. This isn't about what US allows on its airwaves, just that the commercial is funny, and the guy gets away with saying "pussy" an daytime American television.
oh I thought it was a thread for us to discuss the decline in quality in American television.
everybody's ignoring the fact he got arrested for beating a prostitute has a joke about it with the mugshot scene in the commercial which is just genius.
Well it wasn't ignored at the time...eventually the internet forgets!
That's what Im saying, I could never hate on the shamwow guy, at the very least for putting his own misfortune as a joke.
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Posted: July 04 2012 at 19:00
JJLehto wrote:
Sheavy wrote:
JJLehto wrote:
Kid shows even use crap (I remember it a lot in Hey Arnold) and sexy and other minor words but that are edgy for kids.
Theres quite a few kid shows that devoted a lot of their time to 'lets see what we can slip past the censors'.
It would take about 50 fingers to count them all. Ed, Edd, And Eddy, Ren And Stimpy, Animaniacs, Cow And Chicken, Powepuff Girls, Rugrats (Dr. Lipsh*tz....), Rocko's Modern Life, Sam And Max, Spongebob, Courage The Cowardly Dog, and on and on.
Oh yeah. Honestly it's almost all of them, though some certainly did it more than others. I always figured it was part to have something entertaining for adults...or they are a****les and just want to do it
And some of those shows just tried to slip things past the censors but Rocko's Modern Life and Ren & Stimpy were flat out wrong! Nipples of the future and what not. As a kid I love the ridiculousness of them, it wasn't till a bit later I got "chokey chicken" and stuff like that.
Related note: I always thought Spongebob was a little grotesque and cartoonishly wrong, then I heard supposedly a lot of Ren & Stimpy crew went into Spongebob which may explain that. Especially all those random one second close ups with the really detailed face, like they used to do on R&S.
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Posted: July 04 2012 at 19:15
The video was good fun , but I don't get where is the "dirty" content is and why people should be ashamed of it. I mean , more than half a century ago country A dropped 2 nuclear bombs on country B and no one was ashamed. Au contraire , most were proud.
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Posted: July 04 2012 at 21:27
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The video was good fun , but I don't get where is the "dirty" content is and why people should be ashamed of it. I mean , more than half a century ago country A dropped 2 nuclear bombs on country B and no one was ashamed. Au contraire , most were proud.
No one has expressed shame. I personally found it funny that the guy was able to get his commercial on daytime TV in America.
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I thought it was a thread for us to discuss the decline in quality in American television. 
