You betcha.
I was in my local Wal-Mart yesterday and I noticed that they’re selling Chappelle’s Show UNCENSORED DVD’s. Seasons one and two!
Wal-Mart’s description of the material:
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Is Wal-Mart backsliding on not selling products which conflict with their “family values” position?
I guess none of those groups with “family” in the title has seen it yet.
Dave Chappelle’s act is much cleaner than a lot of comics in terms of using lewd sexual material.
Either that or they realized that Season 1 was the best selling TV show DVD of all time and Season 2 is probalby going to beat that record and they’ve decided that money trumps family values.
Wal-Mart won’t sell CDs with explicit lyrical content, but they have no problem selling R-rated movies with explicit material. I bought my two-disc Fight Club DVD at Wal-Mart, and it wasn’t altered in any way, and I’ve even purchased several R-rated movies with all the profanity, violence, and sex from their $5.50 DVD bin. It’s a double-standard between the music and movies, for sure, but at least they aren’t trying to pass off “clean” re-edits of familiar DVDs to the public.
That’s interesting. Just knowing that they didn’t sell anything that Ned Flanders wouldn’t buy, we went to Target to pick up *Team America: World Police * this weekend.
Although I prefer Target anyway, I had no idea I could have gotten it at Walmart along with our groceries.
But Walmart lost our money due to the fact that they have that reputation to not sell explicit material.
I meant to add to this:
, but I think they’ll be okay without it. 
WM has always sold VHS/DVDs like the Sopranos or any of a multitude of R-rated movies for as long as I can remember. I am suprised that anyone thought differently.
Doesn’t Walmart require IDs to purchase R-rated movies? I seem to recall being carded when buying a DVD.
I believe Wal-Mart’s position is that they will stock only a censored version of a particular work if that work is available in both censored and non-censored versions.
Since 99% of movies are only released in their original cut, this is not an issue Wal-Mart has to deal with very often. The question here is if Chappelle’s Show is available in a censored version or not. A quick Amazon.com search seems to indicate that the uncensored version is the only one out there. Therefore, it’s the one Wal-Mart will sell.
Still, I’m sure Chappelle Uncensored is making the Baby Sam Walton cry.
R-rated is one thing. Unrated is another.
I couldn’t find “Bad(der) Santa” at Walmart and then remembered that they don’t sell explicit material. It wasn’t that we couldn’t find it because it was sold out–they didn’t sell it at all.
I’m shocked, shocked! to find this sort of thing going on in my economic system!
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
Our WM does have Bad(der) Santa, but doesn’t carry the totally uncensored Team America. We’ve also had A Clockwork Orange and Last Tango In Paris.
We also have (or have had) all the Jay & Silent Bob films, extended versions.
I used to like ButterFinger candy bars 'til I saw that movie.