| NEWS 7: Channel 4 cuts from The Simpsons, 2005-06 There haven't been many, but Channel 4 have censored bits from the Simpsons since they started showing it in November 2004. Here they thar be: ---------------------------- SEASON 5: Bart Gets Famous THE ONE WHERE Bart didn't do it. DEFINITE CUTS BY CHANNEL 4 Bart hears Krusty angrily demanding a Danish pastry, so goes off to find one for him. Kent Brockman is preparing his newscast for that evening: BROCKMAN (reading his notes to himself) Tragic news tonight... 120 dead in a tidal wave in Kuala Lala ... (struggling) ...pure. Kuala Lum -- per... (crosses it out) France! Bart runs up to Kent's desk and steals the danish on it: BART Yoink! Brockman looks up, surprised. He notices his danish is missing, and he gasps. Minutes later, the news programme begins. Brockman sits at his news desk: BROCKMAN Yeah. I know I'm on. But I don't care. I don't read the news until I get my danish. Go ahead, try to find a replacement. There are running footsteps... Chespirito (Bumblebee Man) runs over and shoves him aside: BUMBLEBEE- MAN A powerful tidal wave in Kuala Lumpur has killed 120 people. (Jumps up and shouts) Ay, chihuahua! Whoa, whoa, whoa! (Falls backwards off chair) The 'tidal wave' news, and it being in an Asian country (Malaysia), and its resemblance to the December 2004 natural disaster in the Indian Ocean, were the obvious reasons for this cut; but things like this happen all the time, although obviously the 2004 tsunami was one of the worst. I would argue that these scenes didn't make light of natural disasters... they were just making fun of Kent Brockman. ---------------------------- SEASON 5: The Last Temptation of Homer THE ONE WHERE Homer becomes attracted to Mindy, a beautiful co-worker at the nuclear plant. When the two of them are sent to the Capital City energy convention together, he fears he might betray Marge. DEFINITE CUTS BY CHANNEL 4 At the convention, Homer and Mindy are the Springfield representatives at the nuclear-energy stand: MAN 1 Thanks for poisoning the planet, bastard! MINDY Get bent! MAN 2 No more Chernobyl! HOMER Go to hell! However, when C4 showed a clip from this episode in 'Another Simpsons Clip Show' (from season 6), they kept "bastard" in. ---------------------------- [Source for lines - The Simpsons Archive] |