While watching the last few shows of the fandamonium of the BB yesterday and was watching the Jessie James episode, and how Carol and Mike were upset when the NETWORK cut the violent scenes out of the movie when they were trying to convince Bobby that Jessie James was a bad guy.
But in that episode the part where Bobby and the family were discussing heroes Bobby say something like Fat chance I got of being 6’7" AND BLACK. They cut the part where he says “And Black.”
What are some other examples of censoring things while making an anti censor point?
For years Farenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury’s anticensorship classic) was printed with the expletives deleted. He was pissed when he found out and put out a new edition with every damn and hell back in place.
I saw a Brady Bunch episode where one of the characters gave someone their non-555-starting home phone number. The first and last digits of the number were cut, most likely so no one would make random phone calls.