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Southern storms prompt Fox to pull new 'Animation Domination' episodes

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Nate Wesley

Sometimes today's cartoons hit a little too close for comfort. What ever happened to
Fred & Barney go camping or Elroy gets a new dog? Today it has to be Fred & Barney
get a vasectomy or Elroy goes to a strip club. How far can we push the limits, seems
to be the main cartoon goal now.
 
gregg75 said:
Sometimes today's cartoons hit a little too close for comfort. What ever happened to
Fred & Barney go camping or Elroy gets a new dog? Today it has to be Fred & Barney
get a vasectomy or Elroy goes to a strip club. How far can we push the limits, seems
to be the main cartoon goal now.
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Kinda reminds me of the current music scene. We have gone from "Love Me Tender" & "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" to "F*** YOU !!"
 
Nate Wesley said:
Likely due to the fatal tornado storms in the Southeast, Fox will be replacing previously scheduled new episodes of Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show with repeats. All three shows were supposed to feature a special crossover arc involving a hurricane passing through all of their fictional locales.

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainme...storm-episodes-of-family-guy-other-toons.html

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...merican-dad-episodes-sunday-for-repeats/90996
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The only worse thing would've been to also show the Simpsons episode with the hurricane that wiped out the Flanders' house.
 
What's next? Not showing The Wizard Of Oz and Twister due to the fact that both movies feature tornadoes?

This reminds me of the time that The Price Is Right pre-empted a show when Hurricane Katrina hit and they were offering a trip to New Orleans as a prize and they didn't air the episode until a few months later.
 
This just doesn't make sense to me. A hurricane in a cartoon city is going to be upsetting? Of course we do live in the United States of the Offended now. And of course with it being Fox there are those in the political spectrum that would raise holy hell.
 
I remember after the 9/11 attacks. Nearly every TV show cut out any scenes of the World Trade Towers.

When Pres. Reagan was shot back in '81. The TV show, Greatest American Hero, The main character was referred to as Mr. H. Because he name is Mr. Hinkley.
 
Braves2005 said:
What's next? Not showing The Wizard Of Oz and Twister due to the fact that both movies feature tornadoes?

This reminds me of the time that The Price Is Right pre-empted a show when Hurricane Katrina hit and they were offering a trip to New Orleans as a prize and they didn't air the episode until a few months later.
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It could also be out of respect to those who lost their lives.......300+ now. The biggest disaster
since Katrina.
 
Braves2005 said:
What's next? Not showing The Wizard Of Oz and Twister due to the fact that both movies feature tornadoes?
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Kind of ironic that we were talking about "The Wizard of Oz" having aired on Cartoon Network earlier this week. No doubt if CN has any plans to show it again soon, they probably scotched that idea.

1069_KIFR said:
I remember after the 9/11 attacks. Nearly every TV show cut out any scenes of the World Trade Towers.
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One example was "The Sopranos", which included the WTC in the show's opening. From the show's fourth season onward, it was replaced with more industrial scenery.

1069_KIFR said:
When Pres. Reagan was shot back in '81. The TV show, Greatest American Hero, The main character was referred to as Mr. H. Because he name is Mr. Hinkley.
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In some instances he was given a new name entirely -- Mr. Hanley. When things simmered down, he was once again called "Mr. Hinckley".

gregg75 said:
It could also be out of respect to those who lost their lives.......300+ now. The biggest disaster
since Katrina.
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With at least 338 dead, this week's outbreak exceeds the number of people died back in 1974's outbreak, when up to 330 people perished.
 
1069_KIFR said:
I remember after the 9/11 attacks. Nearly every TV show cut out any scenes of the World Trade Towers.
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SPOILER ALERT! (even though the movie in question, Wrong is Right, was released theatrically 29 years ago)
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...I distinctly recall one or two of the premium cable channels (most likely of the Starz/Encore channels group) had scheduled September and October 2001 screenings of Wrong is Right, which has as part of its storyline two nuclear bombs apparently planted atop World Trade Center Tower 2 by an Arab terrorist group. The screenings were cancelled. Ironically, the film ends on a note of America entering a war in the Middle East after the film establishes the terrorist group was not involved in the incident, which mirrors the circumstances of the U.S.-led war on Iraq, which the cable networks obviously could not have seen coming at the time the schedule was changed. I also recall that another film, the 1984 nuclear war-themed TV-movie Countdown to Looking Glass, which included acting appearances by real-life political and media figures (including Newt Gingrich and, still alive in 2001, Eugene McCarthy), was also scheduled but scratched before showing...
 
After the Columbine shootings, Comedy Central pulled the South Park episode ""Tweek vs. Craig", they aired aired it later that Summer. WB did the same thing with the season finale of Buffy.
 
I assume Fox will owe the advertises who purchased time during new episodes a lot of make good time, but they'll have a whole summer for that
 
In 1991, NBC aired a similar deal that involved a hurricane (Hurricane Gil) which hit Florida and included The Golden Girls, Empty Nest and Nurses all together riding out the hurricane especially The Golden Girls when Dorothy found Stan with her sister in bed together and Blanche and Rose holding a telethon for the McKinley Lighthouse with them being the only two there at the TV station besides the camera men and other people. No one raised a fuss back then when they showed those episodes.
 
azumanga said:
Braves2005 said:
What's next? Not showing The Wizard Of Oz and Twister due to the fact that both movies feature tornadoes?
Click to expand...

Kind of ironic that we were talking about "The Wizard of Oz" having aired on Cartoon Network earlier this week. No doubt if CN has any plans to show it again soon, they probably scotched that idea.

1069_KIFR said:
I remember after the 9/11 attacks. Nearly every TV show cut out any scenes of the World Trade Towers.
Click to expand...

One example was "The Sopranos", which included the WTC in the show's opening. From the show's fourth season onward, it was replaced with more industrial scenery.

1069_KIFR said:
When Pres. Reagan was shot back in '81. The TV show, Greatest American Hero, The main character was referred to as Mr. H. Because he name is Mr. Hinkley.
Click to expand...

In some instances he was given a new name entirely -- Mr. Hanley. When things simmered down, he was once again called "Mr. Hinckley".

gregg75 said:
It could also be out of respect to those who lost their lives.......300+ now. The biggest disaster
since Katrina.
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With at least 338 dead, this week's outbreak exceeds the number of people died back in 1974's outbreak, when up to 330 people perished.
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I remember seeing an article in the Sat. Eve. Post in late 1975 about the destruction wrought on Xenia, OH (east of Dayton) by that 1974 outbreak.

ixnay
 
Braves2005 said:
In 1991, NBC aired a similar deal that involved a hurricane (Hurricane Gil) which hit Florida and included The Golden Girls, Empty Nest and Nurses all together riding out the hurricane especially The Golden Girls when Dorothy found Stan with her sister in bed together and Blanche and Rose holding a telethon for the McKinley Lighthouse with them being the only two there at the TV station besides the camera men and other people. No one raised a fuss back then when they showed those episodes.
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That was different. They aired that ONE YEAR before ANDREW hit South Florida.
 
gregg75 said:
Braves2005 said:
What's next? Not showing The Wizard Of Oz and Twister due to the fact that both movies feature tornadoes?

This reminds me of the time that The Price Is Right pre-empted a show when Hurricane Katrina hit and they were offering a trip to New Orleans as a prize and they didn't air the episode until a few months later.
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It could also be out of respect to those who lost their lives.......300+ now. The biggest disaster
since Katrina.
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Timing is important, and context is key. 300 is a significant number. Especially after 47 or however many deaths it was April 16.
No sense in rubbing salt in the wounds for the sake of comedy so soon after the tornadoes.
Not that most people affected would even have power (we still don't in some neighborhoods of our town since the April 16 tornadoes), but still...better to wait. The storylines will hold until then, and probably will work better.
 
Since Friday 4/29, the Canadian TV Guide's website ( http://tvguide.ca/home/ ) has a cover story about the stunt, which was published on the site around the same time Fox pulled the episodes.

As Global holds the rights to all three series, do they still plan to run them anyway, or pull them as well and just show what Fox is showing? Since many Canadian networks, including Global, embrace the Simsub concept very much, I'd say that Global will show what Fox shows on Sunday.
 
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