According to the SNPP, that’s from the episode “'Round Springfield.”
Keep in mind that most shows get additional edits when they go into syndication, to allow more time for commercials. Usually, it’s just a matter of what they can cut out without screwing up the plot, which means a lot of the throw-away gags get the knife.
Skinner on the Bolivian Tree Lizard: “It’s already wiped out the Dodo, the Cuckoo, and the Ne-Ne, and it has nasty plans for the Booby, the Titmouse, the Woodcock, and the Titpecker.”
This is totally irrelevant, but has the typo “Sompson” been in the post title the whole time? I’ve opened this thread like a dozen times and never noticed it till now.
Yep. Driving me flurking nuts, too.
Thanks Opus1, I never noticed that little typo til now and I opened the thread. Now it is driving me flurking nuts.
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PUBIC!!!
In the episode where Abe Simpson and Bea start to date and she ends up dying…:
Abe is walking around town trying to think of a generous way to spend his inheritance and he wanders into the dilapidated PUBLIC LIBRARY. So dilapidated that the “L” had fallen off the sign, (and now declining droight to the rest of the characters)
…the sign now reads “PUBIC”…
I can’t believe they got that by the censors!
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Hmm, I was just checking out my Season Two DVDs today, and a line from “Bart gets an F” reminded me of this thread. In the fantasy sequence of Bart at the Continental Congress and it starts snowing, we hear one of the Founding Fathers say, “John Hancock’s writing his name in the snow!” This one’s particularly vulgar if you accept a bawdy quibble on “Hancock- Handcock.”
And yeah, I’ve been dying to make a crack about a Sompson quote, but I was taking the high road.
In the episode where Bart is a hall monitor:
Principal Skinner: “Don’t worry, the students will no longer be making fun of your name, Mr. Glasscock.”
Abe: “Lay techs cone dome. Oh! I’d like to live in one of those!”
Cough, cough-- not actually true. Numerous articles have been written about this case. 98% of them agree that the bottle thing was made up the “yellow” media (yellow= Hurst papers and simular muck racking papers prior to libel lawsuits having much effect). In fact, the question of Arbuckle’s commission of ANY crime seems to be a matter of question. But the bottle thing is urban legend, basically.
I am sure a helpful Doper will post up a link for me (hint, hint ).
And let’s not forget mincing gel.
Keep reading, elf6c. You’ll get to it.
Ok here are a few:
http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/scandals/arbuckle.html
Quote:
from David Thomson’s A Biographical Dictionary of Film:
On Labor Day, 1921, in San Francisco, Roscoe Arbuckle, actor Lowell Sherman, and Freddy Fishback gave a party. Hollywood parties of that era were often uninhibited, and the movie colony either deserved or aped its own reputation for wild living. This party drifted on for a couple of days and no one has ever accused it of being good clean fun. But a model, Virginia Rappe, died and, after initial accusations of rape and murder, Arbuckle was charged with manslaughter. The case against him was always thin, but he was a juicy suspect and two juries failed to reach a verdict before the third acquitted him, in March 1922, and went out of its way to remark, We feel that a great injustice has been done to him....Roscoe Arbuckle is entirely innocent and free from all blame.' But you had only to look at Arbuckle to know that, in many ways, he was far from innocent: the combined forces of scandalmongery and puritanism would not be dissuaded. Arbuckle was made a scapegoat, as though after calling a man Fatty’ for years and rejoicing at his humiliation on film the public could only move in on him with trained hostility. The Hearst press led the campaign against him, ensuring that many moviehouses boycotted his films. Will Hays then put pressure on Arbuckle’s immediate employers, Joseph Schenck and Adolph Zukor, and he was barred from acting in movies again.
Thus the fat owl of the silent screen was removed, and this early spasm of rejection showed how fickle the public’s faith in its stars could be. The moral realities of Hollywood life were something the public hardly dreamed of; even so, one hit was enough to furnish it with nightmares that demanded cleansing action. Arbuckle’s own exaggerated ugliness drew upon him all the public’s hypocritical loathing of depravity.
Another link:
http://www.mc.cc.md.us/Departments/hpolscrv/bpark2.htm
And another:
http://www.ralphmag.org/fatty.html
Enjoy!!
Latex Condo, actually (the wrapper has been ripped).
Which is why he could concieve of living in one.
Reviewing the Season One DVD, one of the tatoos on display in the tattoo parlor (the Christmas special) is an illustration of a kneeling naked woman with a man (also presumably naked) standing behind her covering her bare breasts with his hands. Fleeting but definitely there…
Actually, what I meant, elf6c, was that I had already posted such a link and that if you kept reading the thread you’d come to it.
But that’s all right. 
Am I the only one who suspects that, if we had stuck to the OP, that this would have been a very short thread indeed? That is to say, I don’t think that The Simpsons has ever snuck one past the censors. I find it far easier to believe that the jokes were just as obvious to the censors as they are to us, and that they left them in anyways. Remember, this is Fox, and television censorship is almost entirely in-house (that is, a network decides for themselves what to leave in).
That joke only succeeds if the viewer is vaguely aware that Arbuckle had something to do with a particularly gruesome rape and murder. Whether it’s true or not isn’t really he point. In the context of the joke, who cares?
And her bladder was scratched and punctured…so SOMETHING was shoved up there…
Oops. Failed reading comprehension today. :rolleyes: Propogation of urban legends is a peeve of mine.
Adam P at least read the information and links mmmkay?