# The Hallmark channel censors the word "butt" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649 "2010-02-27T15:41:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/21 "2011-04-11T06:47:33Z")
I wonder how Hallmark is going to handle it when they get to the episode titled “Sam Falls Off the Motherfucking Wagon”. mmm ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/22 "2011-04-11T09:18:10Z")
I don’t remember what channel, but these lines from _Gangs of New York_, **Amsterdam Vallon:** Would you back an Irish candidate of my chosing… **Boss Tweed:** I don’t think so. **Amsterdam Vallon:** What if we get you all the Irish votes? **Boss Tweed:** Mr. Vallon, that will only happen in the reign of Queen Dick!had “Dick” edited out. Which was mind numbingly stupid given the next set of lines, **Amsterdam Vallon:** Beg your pardon? **Boss Tweed:** That means it will never happen.and silly things like [Websters Dictionary](http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/Queen+Dick?cx=partner-pub-0939450753529744%3Av0qd01-tdlq&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=Queen+Dick&sa=Search#902). :smack: CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![thursday\_next](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@thursday\_next](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thursday_next)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/23 "2011-04-11T15:51:25Z")
Personally, I think there is something wrong with a world where Betty White’s character Rose can’t say “bitch”. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/24 "2011-04-11T15:53:17Z")
I noticed this last night when they bleeped a bunch of dialog from “Frasier.” Really stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/25 "2011-04-12T12:55:38Z")
> [@all\_in\_wonder](#): > > But, thank god that when they come home from school they can watch Little House and hear the N-word used without any problem. Was it actually the “standard” N-word? I recall once many years ago watching an episode of Little House, and there was a bunch of Klansmen (or maybe general racists) and the word they used was something like “nigra”. It struck me and my friends as quite hilarious, for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/26 "2011-04-12T13:03:16Z")
I can imagine it being seen as less bad, but “nigra” is certainly a racial slur. For **all\_in\_wonder** - does the Hallmark Channel edit out other racial slurs? I’m kind of surprised they air anything like that at all, but I’ve never watched the channel. ---
**Author:** ![redtail23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@redtail23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/redtail23)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/27 "2011-04-12T13:20:30Z")
Say what da hoo now? Last I knew, “nigra” was just a regional pronunciation of “negro”, which was at one time a polite word. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/28 "2011-04-12T13:22:24Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I can imagine it being seen as less bad, but “nigra” is certainly a racial slur. For **all\_in\_wonder** - does the Hallmark Channel edit out other racial slurs? I’m kind of surprised they air anything like that at all, but I’ve never watched the channel. Absolutely it’s a racial slur, I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. I was just curious if that’s what was being said in the episode **all\_in\_wonder** saw. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/29 "2011-04-12T17:20:16Z")
I had always assumed this was a regular feature of reairings, as it wasn’t until I was an adult that I remember ever hearing even those mild swears on old shows. For example, I do not remember ever hearing Rose say “bitch,” and I watched Golden Girls a lot (as, for some reason, it was always on before some other show I wanted to watch, and it grew on me.) Also, I believe the female form of Negro is/was Negress. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/30 "2011-04-13T02:13:33Z")
> [@all\_in\_wonder](#): > > It’s not a hurt, it would just be nice to see the shows in their normal run. > AND - the point was not about the words being removed as much as it was about the racial acts of Hallmark to NOT censor other racially motivative words that air during prime-time kid watching time. > Something tells me I’d rather explain to my 5 year old what a butt is (if he happened to even be up at 2 am) rather than explain what the N-Word was while he watched Little House after school. > But again, in the KlanMark world, that’s probably not an issue. And knowing five year-old’s familiarity with the concept of a “butt”, explaining it to them is not an issue either. 😉 I completely agree with you. They used the N-word in Little House? ---
**Author:** ![A\_Forest\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@A\_Forest\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Forest_Lady)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/31 "2011-04-13T02:24:17Z")
I personally have a hard time watching stuff that is edited down. However, a few weeks ago I decided to watch the Scorsese’s movie Taxi Driver on AMC. This was mid-afternoon. I thought it would be edited to pieces. Well, I’m not sure if it was edited at all. I’d seen the film years ago but I can’t be sure if I saw ever single frame. There \*was \*a lot of hard dialogue unedited. I must admit, I was surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/32 "2011-04-13T02:48:29Z")
[PAX TV presents: The Sopranos](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFYN8loUboA) (edited for content) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/33 "2011-04-14T23:19:47Z")
Just how man times did they say nigger on Little House? It certainly wouldn’t be as common as “butt” would be on an 80’s sitcom. And I bet the episode(s) in question had a “racism is bad” message to it that would be undercut by bleeping. ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/34 "2011-04-14T23:31:48Z")
It’s the Hallmark channel, Jake… ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/35 "2011-04-19T01:17:32Z")
I’m watching ‘Cheers’ on Netflix streaming, and I’m surprised to see that they are censoring ‘butt’ here too. But instead of silencing it out, they replace it with ‘whorefucking arse’. Odd. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649/36 "2011-04-20T04:58:38Z")
I think it’s funny that they display your grandmother’s hypersensitivity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hallmark-channel-censors-the-word-butt/530649.md?page=1)