Better watch out. We hate your freedoms.
Some time ago I recall someone on this board mentioned that the Rolling Stones were performing “Let’s Spend the Night Together” on the Ed Sullivan show, only that they had to alter the line to “let’s spend some time together.” The person who posted this stated that you could see Mr. Jagger glaring resentfully at the producers of the show as he sang the substituted line.
In ninth grade we watched “Romeo and Juliet” (probably the same version someone else mentioned in this thread). Of course they cut out the love/sex scene. God forbid any precious innocent little ninth graders be exposed to scenes of undressed people in a passionate embrace!
In eighth grade band class we were going to perform an instrumental (sans lyrics or words) version of “Amazing Grace”, but before the night of our performance a parent complained that we would be playing “religious music”, so “Amazing Grace” got dropped from the program that night. :rolleyes:
I believe there are a few Joss Whedon fans here.
Spike, the English vampire, got away with several words & gestures that the US network folks didn’t understand–at all.
One of my friends was watching Die Hard on TV a few years ago. He’s still shocked that they dubbed one particular swear as"funster" as in “you mother-FUNSTER!”
Ironically, they censored it to avoid complaints from people like my grandma, who consider that kind of thing to be blasphemous. “‘Praise Jesus’ and ‘Thank you Jesus’ is absolutely taking the Lord’s name in vain. It’s just completely disrespectful.”
On network TV, you can say damn and hell, but it’s still a bit shocking to me to hear shit on TNT.
I guess it’s what you’re used to. About 15-20 years ago, you didn’t dare say ass on TV, and now it’s routine. I do remember watching re-runs of All in the Family and I must say, I was a bit shocked at the jigs and spearchuckers and kikes that Archie spewed. I guess you have to undersand the context…Archie was a racist and was frequently called on it. My father watched it regularly when it was on, and he said the funniest moment was when Sammy Davis Jr laid a big wet sloppy kiss on Archie.
And yet you can’t say them in the comics.
How about John Ashcroft draping Spirit of Justice and Majesty of Law. Talk about telegraphing that you are a repressed chronic masturbator. What an embarrassment for the United States.
Also Disney changing the Pirates fof the Caribbean from chasing after wenches to chasing after food. WTF?
Shit like this really pisses me off.
When did that happen?
Hmm, can’t find a cite for it. I hope this isn’t just some internet rumor but I was under the impression that this happened something like 10 years ago, well before the reconfiguring of the ride to reflect the movie. Perhaps they realized their mistake and changed it back? To be perfectly frank, I haven’t been back to Disneyland since Grad Night.
In any case, I’m talking about the ride. There was a mechanism where a pirate is chasing around a scantily clad wench on a turntable. From what I understand, they gave her a plate of food, implying that he was chasing after the food. I hope I am wrong.
The “chasing food” thing was done quite a few years (mid-1990s) back—I even remember hearing a reference to it on the old “Pinky and the Brain” series.
I must say, they justified the change VERY nicely into the movies, though.
My husband lived in Spain (Barcelona, to be precise) during Franco’s regime. Things were very puritanical indeed. My husband has a 45rpm record of Don McLean’s “American Pie” which he bought in Barcelona in the early '70s. The song is quite normal up to the point where the lyrics say “The three men I admire most, the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, they caught the last train for the coast.” That entire passage is replaced by a long, steady beeeeeeeep tone. Ay, ay, ay. The lyrics were considered blasphemous, so they were zapped by the censors.
The Laytonville CA school district was one of many places heavily dependent economically on the lumber industry that banned Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax from the childrens’ library.
I’ll check with my friends who work for Dismal. They’ll know for sure.
My contribution:
Some time ago it was still possible to sell trading cards at half.com. I tried to list a Dick Tracy set and…you guessed it: they wouldn’t let me list it with the word Dick included. So I called it D. Tracy. :rolleyes:
That’s hilarious! I wonder what they do about Peter O’Toole movies. 
Oh, my God, yes. When I worked for EDS, it was the same. I was supposed to monitor my employees’ desks and screensavers for anything outside the corporate policy (official policy was two framed personal photos were the only “personal items” allowed, but Dilbert comics in particular were frowned upon). Oddly, I found it difficult to see these items… must be an eye problem, I’m sure. 
Another time, we all got called in for a Serious Management Meeting. Everyone related in somber tones that there was a highly inappropriate and sexual email going around, and it had been forwarded by employees in our department. We were to have talkings-to with each employee and give them written warnings (which could lead to firing next time). I’m thinking “Jesus, what idiots for forwarding porn around,” but found it odd that all the employees were female.
It turned out to be an animated GIF of two cartoon caterpillars humping. :rolleyes:
This reminds me of an early three-part Drew Carey episode in which Drew is put on trial for sexual harrassment after placing a cartoon of a caterpillar attempting to have sex with a French fry at the bottom of an employee memo. (The cartoon was drawn by Chris Browne of Hagar the Horrible fame.)
Freakin weird—I was just thinking about that episode, this evening, for the first time in years. (Specifically, Drew’s note in his defense that the French Fry, despite being mounted, was not necessarily female by implication, as men can also be mounted. I thought I recalled that caterpillars were hermaphrodites—though I might have been thinking of snails—and wondered if potatoes, as part of a plant, were also.
I lead a very exciting life.)
At Ski Dubai they use seven-sided snowflakes in their logo/decor, allegedly because six sides=the “Zionist” star of David. God forbid someone figures out how to make proper artificial snow (currenly when you make fake snow it’s just frozen water droplets, no proper flake crystals form) because then they’d have millions of hexagonal symbols to deal with.
And as mentioned in another thread, when they showed Bruce Almighty here, they cut every single scene with Morgan Freeman. Because he was depicting God.
Speaking of the Middle East, we produce catalogs and fliers for “third market” countries (anything that isn’t US, Japan or Europe), and frequently we have to make a second version of the photos (either during the shoot or Photoshopped later) to ensure that all the women in the Middle East versions are wearing long sleeves.