Scenes that passed the censors the first time around.....

[mleach]

Not talking about urban legends but things that really did hit the airwaves even if they did end up censored later on.

Examples I can think off....

Three's Company...a scene where John Ritter gets out of bed only to have his..OK we're all adults here..his BALLS fall out in clear view of the camera. Despite the fact that the show aired on ABC-TV and later on various local stations..it wasn't until Nick@Nite when they discovered this and later censored the scene.

Mama's Family...the "April Fools" episode...Ken Berry answers the phone only to get shaving cream on his face..in clear view Ken mouths the words "..oh f*cking sh*t"...as far as I know this scene has yet to be censored however another episode of Mama's Family where Naomi says to Mama at the dinner table..."but college is tough Misses Harper..it makes Bubba very hard"....that has since been censored.

And of course the "bareback" talk between Wilbur Post ( Alan Young ) and Mr. ED on..well Mr. Ed.

Other examples?

 

[cowboybud]

When "Blazing Saddles" first aired on CBS, it allowed all uses of the "N" bomb. Saw it a few months ago on AMC, and those have all been removed.

 

[LowPayDJ]

Personally I think it's retarded that Blazing Saddles is edited like that now. Oh wait, you can't even say retarded now, can you? And what's the big deal with the "N" word anyways. It's not you don't hear ***** every freaking day anyways. Hell, my son and his friends call each other *****. If Cleavon Little didn't have a problem with it, the general population shouldn't have a problem with it either.

 

[bpatrick]

AMC bleeps the N-word when it shows "Escape From
Alcatraz"; it's used a couple of times by black actor
Paul Benjamin as well as by a black inmate who says it
to Clint Eastwood when he's delivering books to the cells.

 

[FRR]

This political correctness is stupid at best, and dangerous at the worst. 2 yrs ago the Post Office issued a stamp with a 30's great blues musician on it and airbrushed the cigarette in his mouth, since they did not want to appear that they were promoting smoking. Idiots. Who makes these silly decisions?

 

[Stanislav]

Idiots. Who makes these silly decisions?
^^^^

You already answered your own question, there... ;D

 

[LKellerIII]

This political correctness is stupid at best, and dangerous at the worst. 2 yrs ago the Post Office issued a stamp with a 30's great blues musician on it and airbrushed the cigarette in his mouth, since they did not want to appear that they were promoting smoking. Idiots. Who makes these silly decisions?

I've complained about political correctness as much as anyone, but I do understand the "N" word thing. The fact that an African American actor can say it, but a white actor cannot reflects what is going on in society: Young African Americans in social settings use the word when addressing one another, but a white person using it in a social setting would be offensive, because it amounts to an epithet when it comes from a non African American.

That may seem illogical, but its the way it is. I think there's greater reticence to use the word in media now because many African American leaders (Bill Cosby and President Obama, among others) are trying to stamp out the use of the word among their own people.

Since it came up in an earlier post, I have a question RE: "balls." Jon Stewart likes to use the word a lot, and Comedy Central always bleeps it. But it's now used commonly on many other shows - on New Adventures of Old Christine last week, her ex-husband had gotten a bad sunburn (down there where the sun don't usually shine) - and said "balls" about a dozen times.

So why would Comedy Central (which lets a lot of offensive words fly by with only a half-bleep at best) censor a word in common use on CBS?

 

[oldiesfan6479]

2 yrs ago the Post Office issued a stamp with a 30's great blues musician on it and airbrushed the
cigarette in his mouth, since they did not want to appear that they were promoting smoking.

Capitol Records did the same thing in 1984 in the 20th annniversary re-release
of I Want To Hold Your Hand by the Beatles where on the 45's picture sleeve
the cigarette in McCartney's hand was airbrushed out.

Yet ten years later in the 30th anniversary re-release, Paul was smoking again.

Compare all three, as well as other Fab Four picture sleeves at:

http://www.rarebeatles.com/sleeves/sleeves.htm

 

[firepoint525]

The "******" verse of "Money For Nothing" is edited out completely whenever the video is shown on VH-1 Classic. When the song is featured on MusicChoice, that verse is left in, but all the "******" references are garbled. And apparently, whenever Mark Knopfler sings it live, he changes it to "queenie."

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Personally I think it's retarded that Blazing Saddles is edited like that now. Oh wait, you can't even say retarded now, can you? And what's the big deal with the "N" word anyways. It's not you don't hear ***** every freaking day anyways. Hell, my son and his friends call each other *****. If Cleavon Little didn't have a problem with it, the general population shouldn't have a problem with it either.

No, it's not a nice word, BUT...The whole point of using it in "Blazing Saddles" was to condemn racism. The black characters in the movie were the heroes who saved Rock Ridge, fercrineoutloud! Also, in the scene where Slim Pickens' character chews his crew out for dancin' around like "a bunch of Kansas City faggots" has the word "faggots" bleeped out now, too.

 

[radiorob2.0]

When "Blazing Saddles" first aired on CBS, it allowed all uses of the "N" bomb. Saw it a few months ago on AMC, and those have all been removed.

I also remember the lion share of dirty words were deleted. In recent airings many of the words are left excluding sh*t.

I don't remember the specific episode of The Brady Bunch but Bobby talked about comparing himself to Wilt Chamberland couldn't happen because he wasn't tall or black. Recent airings on TV Land delete that line. Along those lines, any number beyond "555" are deleted. The Brady's number is deleted as well.

 

[Ultimajock]

When "Blazing Saddles" first aired on CBS, it allowed all uses of the "N" bomb. Saw it a few months ago on AMC, and those have all been removed.

I also remember the lion share of dirty words were deleted. In recent airings many of the words are left excluding sh*t.

I don't remember the specific episode of The Brady Bunch but Bobby talked about comparing himself to Wilt Chamberland couldn't happen because he wasn't tall or black. Recent airings on TV Land delete that line. Along those lines, any number beyond "555" are deleted. The Brady's number is deleted as well.

...then there was the piece of business on The Partridge Family where Brian Forster goes to David Cassidy and asks for advice on how to become a "negro". Is that still in the syndication prints?...

 

[bpatrick]

Personally I think it's retarded that Blazing Saddles is edited like that now. Oh wait, you can't even say retarded now, can you? And what's the big deal with the "N" word anyways. It's not you don't hear ***** every freaking day anyways. Hell, my son and his friends call each other *****. If Cleavon Little didn't have a problem with it, the general population shouldn't have a problem with it either.

No, it's not a nice word, BUT...The whole point of using it in "Blazing Saddles" was to condemn racism. The black characters in the movie were the heroes who saved Rock Ridge, fercrineoutloud! Also, in the scene where Slim Pickens' character chews his crew out for dancin' around like "a bunch of Kansas City faggots" has the word "faggots" bleeped out now, too.

I ran this one past my dad earlier today. He compared it to a family argument;
he and I might be at each other's throats but don't anyone else intervene, since
it's nobody else's concern. Same thing with the N-word; when whites call blacks
that it's considered inappropriate, if not an outright violation of the barriers that
still exist between the two cultures. For my part, I'd like to see the word erased from the language too.

 

[Hal Erickson]

When BLAZING SADDLES was first shown on network TV, Madelyn Kahn's character name "Lily Von Schtupp" was altered to "Von Shhhhh."
But eleven years earlier, Ross Martin's character, Baron Von Shtupp, slipped by with nary a problem for the first network showing of THE GREAT RACE.
I don't know if anyone's brought this one up yet, but when BOYS NIGHT OUT (1962) was first shown on NBC in 1965, there were very few cuts--and this was pretty racy stuff by 1960s standards. A few years later, CBS ran the same film and sliced it to ribbons. One key sequence, the slow pan upward as James Garner and Jim Backus look at the mirror on the ceiling of the apartment bedroom and the musical score reached and ecstatic cresendo, was completely excised by CBS--but ran intact just three or four years earlier on NBC.

 

[mleach]

The "******" verse of "Money For Nothing" is edited out completely whenever the video is shown on VH-1 Classic. When the song is featured on MusicChoice, that verse is left in, but all the "******" references are garbled. And apparently, whenever Mark Knopfler sings it live, he changes it to "queenie."

Can't say if this was the case with Mark Knopfler but back in the late 80's and early 90's many heavy metal acts were into the "homophobia" game like Guns & Roses and their song "One In A Million" and Skid Row being seen on MTV sporting shirts with a can of Raid bug killer that said "..AIDS kills f*gs dead". I myself can remember seeing AC/DC in concert and they were cracking jokes on stage such as calling AIDS teen victim Ryan White "..a little ****** boy". Anyway all of these rock groups found themselves as unlikely "heroes" to a large number of people among the ultra-right wing religious groups, people who they really didn't want to be role models to in the first place. Really..AC/DC and "religious" in the same sentence? At the time I can remember the rumor floating around that The 700 Club actually wanted Guns & Roses to appear on their program ONLY because the band had spoke out against gays and AIDS nevermind the fact that their lead singer Axel Rose I have read in the past ( in Rolling Stone ) was an ATHEIST !! For the record neither the 700 Club or Guns & Roses had ever denied that rumor though I have heard from friends who are into Guns & Roses that Axel has become gay friendly over the years..

 

[visaman]

There is a whole scene from an episode of the Brady Bunch that is currently edited out. Bobby and Cindy are naked (not shown), and Alice is shocked and tries to get them to get dressed, but the kids argue with her. It is on You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuZy1pRKUEY

 

[Braves2005]

There is a whole scene from an episode of the Brady Bunch that is currently edited out. Bobby and Cindy are naked (not shown), and Alice is shocked and tries to get them to get dressed, but the kids argue with her. It is on You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuZy1pRKUEY

I've never seen this part in that episode EVER not when it was on TBS, Nick at Nite, local syndication, etc. so this is new to me. I've seen this episode where Alice quits after the kids get after her for tattling on them and she goes to work at the diner dozens of times and I swear I have never seen that part of the episode.

 

[ercjncpr]

When "Blazing Saddles" first aired on CBS, it allowed all uses of the "N" bomb. Saw it a few months ago on AMC, and those have all been removed.

The Sanford and Son episode invvolving one of Fred's old pals named Big Money Grip who claims that he is the biological father of Lamont. When Grip tells Aunt Esther, she yells back, "WHAT DID YOU SAY N****R???!!!" I recall the initial broadcast was not censored, but then LaWanda Page had to re-record a dub so in all subsequent broadcast re-runs, she says "WHAT DID YOU SAY SUCKER???!!!" I recently found the uncensored version on You Tube.

 

[jfc40ts]

In the cases of the "n word, I think George Carlin hit the nail on the head when he said it all comes down to this, "I can make fun of me but you can't"...

There was one non-racial thing I remember hearing years ago but I was too young to get the drift then. In an episode of "Leave it to Beaver", there was a scene with just Ward and June and she said to him, "Ward, I think you were a little too hard on the Beaver last night". I wonder how many takes that took get it without soneone cracking up...

 

[Markieo]

I don't remember the specific episode of The Brady Bunch but Bobby talked about comparing himself to Wilt Chamberland couldn't happen because he wasn't tall or black. Recent airings on TV Land delete that line.

This is the episode where Bobby's hero is Jesse James. Greg suggested a different hero, like Wilt Chamberlin.
Mike: Yea, there's a great guy for you to follow!
Bobby: Yea, some chance I've got of being 7'2. (edited: and BLACK!)
Carol: Eat your pizza.