GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND CENSORING "SIMPSONS" NUKE EPISODES

[gregg75]

here's the entire article from tvsquad.com

[EDIT]

http://www.tvsquad.com/2011/03/28/the-simpsons-japan/

COMMENT: I remember seeing the 1997 New York episode right after 9/11 and it was a bit too deja vu. Do they even show it at all these days?


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[azumanga]

From the article:

Should U.S. networks follow suit? Or should the episodes remain as-is?

Personally, let the viewers decide. If there are any outcries from the public against showing nuclear-related episodes, then pull them. But if you feel uncomfortable watching them, change the channel.

Of course, how long before cracking nuke jokes will be in fashion again? "The Simpsons" began as a series in 1990, roughly 4 years after Chernobyl.

 

[imhomerjay]

Re: the WTC eps, it's a station's decision. I've seen it run several times (but with two decades of episodes, it's darned easy to not run the occasional one).

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

So will the censors force Mr. Burns' nuclear power plant to become, say, a cookie factory, like he told nuclear inspectors at the beginning of the Season 5 episode "Homer Goes to College?" As Mr. Burns said in 1993, "There must be some mistake. We, er, we make cookies here: Mr. Burns' Olde-Fashioned Good-Time Extra-Chewy . . ." (then the nuclear inspectors overpower the plant).

http://snpp.com/episodes/1F02.html (episode capsule for the forementioned episode from the Simpsons Archive).

 

[imhomerjay]

No censors are forcing anything. The producers will decide when they want to do more nuclear plant references. Seeing as it's, you know, their show to run, that would seem fair. And given the low number of shows in recent years where the plan was directly involved, it's hardly a radical change.