In "Road To Rhode Island",After Stewie gets through the metal detector by singing Good Ship Lollipop,he says he hopes Osama Bin Laden doesn't know showtunes.Then they cut away to Bin Laden doing a song and dance to distract the security guard while his suitcase passes through the x-ray machine. It was funny then but who would have thought that something like this would ever happen.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
Jeez...so don't expect to see a re-run of that episode, well, ever again.
Similarly, the Simpsons ep "Homer vs. The City of New York" has been pulled permanently from broadcast. Too much action set inside or near the WTC towers, no way to edit without effectively scrapping the whole episode.
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 06:30:04 GMT, [email] (Mark J. Finegold) wrote:
that is stupid. Can't we remember the WTC and laugh at the eps.
Eric
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Yes, really now. Pulling it from syndication for the time-being is perhaps a sensitive action, but forever? And how does this affect future DVDs? If pulled from them, also ridiculous, imo.
Just think, in about 20 years time New York kids will ask their parents what the WTC was!
In article , [email] (Bdsmsg) says:
No, 'cause we'll have WTCII by that time. We *have* to.
-Kenny
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 05:41:00 GMT, [email] (Kenneth Crudup) wrote:
No...Its more like WTCIII. This time its in the shape of a circle. good luck hitting that.
Eric
Fri, Sep 14, 2001, 12:05am (EDT+4), [email] (Bdsmsg)
Kinda reminds me of the days when I asked my parents what was that tower and globe thing doing from the 1938 New York World's Fair (used to be parodied in several cartoons of the period). Kids today would never understand what the hell that is, let alone explaining the WTC to their young 20 years later.
It's just facinating to actually live through a period of American history and telling your chilrdren and grandchildren all about much of what you had to go through while they're taking it easy in their future world.
Domo Arigatoo to Sayonara!
On 14 Sep 2001 00:05:28 GMT, [email] (Bdsmsg) wrote:
There going to rebuild it. Theres no way they wouldn't.
Quick Poll.
Which would have made you madder...If they blew up the WTC or the SOL? Personally it would be the SOL.
Eric
Rebuild something, sure. But to duplicate it again -- that's just asking for trouble, imo. If it were a bridge or some big statue, sure -- rebuild it again and again. Not an office building with tens of thousands of people just asking to be attacked again by the same folks.
Symbolically, architecturally? Statue of Liberty? But there's no way 5000+ people would have died (+ many more 1000s in injuries, many of them absolutely horrible) if they had destroyed the Statue of Liberty. That alone makes me more upset that they destroyed what they did vs. the Statue of Liberty.
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SOL (or WH!), for sure- but seeing the WTC gone very much pisses me off.
-Kenny
It has, but why? Just for being set there??
I think some of the concessions being made to our national "sensitivity" are a bit stupid. These are a fine case in point. What the hell do Family Guy and The Simpsons have to do with international politics? I mean, obviously, they make satirical comments on them. But they're not shaping any policy. They're there to make us laugh. Why can't shows/movies even *depict* the WTC towers? Especially shows that were made before the attack -- we won't be able to keep in mind as we watch it that it was made beforehand? The Simpsons episode wasn't even making any political statement whatsoever. Should we never sshow pictures of the NYC skyline again, so the gap doesn't bother anyone? I don't mean to be disrespectful, my point is just that, neither did The Simpsons creators. The Family Guy scene does seem creepily prophetic, but in my opinion, that doesn't mean it should be censored either. "otherwise known as HippiChk79" wrote in message news:[email]...
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[email] (Mark J. Finegold) wrote in message news:...
Just curious... where did you read this?
Well, if the DVD format survives, there is a chance that we may see it in a box set in a few years.
Oh, what the hell--I'll bite:
What do you mean by that?
Some formats don't make it...ie Laserdisc, minidisc etc. But I think its safe to say that DVD is now big enough to have "made it".
well they could just snip that scene from the episode instead of pulling it off, they do that to southpark episodes all the time
Phil7101 wrote:
If you haven't seen the episode, you must know the episode is pretty much _about_ the Twin Towers. The entire plot revolves around them. Barney (on a bender, of course) has parked Homer's car between the Towers (the writers and animators took some liberties with the layout of the World Trade Center) and Homer has to retrieve it before the City disposes of it themselves (they also took liberties with the generosity of NYC parking violations enforcement!).
Lisa: "Dear motorist, your vehicle is illegally parked in the borough of
Manhattan."
Homer: My vehicle!
Lisa: "If you do not remedy this malparkage within 72 hours, your car
will be thrown into the East River at your expense."Literally a third of the episode takes place at the foot of (and inside) the Towers. One of the funniest sequences in the history of _The Simpsons_ is Homer's quest for food and drink, immediately followed by his need to go to the bathroom, all while having to keep an eye on his car so he doesn't miss the policeman who's coming to unlock the boot on his tire. The sequence includes, aside from the now-legendary "Flushing Meadows" dream sequence, a trip up and down the elevators of both Towers. There are apparently two short WTC scenes cut in syndication; fortunately I have it on tape in all its glory.
(The comprehensive episode capsule is at http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F22.)
It would be a shame to permanently cut this episode out of broadcast. It is one the greatest episodes of the funniest show on television (or at least it was the funniest show at the time). If anything, the episode is a great tribute to New York City.
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I think chaos signal was referring to the Family guy episode with the Osama Bin Laden reference. Which I agree they should do, just cut out that scene. The UK is getting plenty of cuts and it's still watchable, so it'd work OK. I doubt many got the joke first time around anyway.
Kevin
Will this episode still be included on the DVD release of that season?
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http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F22.)
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Why the heck shouldn't it? You all gonna bow down to these fucking terrorists?
-< Moon >-
Just a question, buddy. I would hope that it would be on the DVD too. Kinda ridiculous if it isn't.
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2001, 12:17am (EDT+4), [email] (chaos signal) wrote:
Would still be a loss not to see that scene. Always enjoyed that quarel between the guys in towers 1 and 2, and somebody several floors up shuts them both up.
If it's the obvious scene with Homer using the facilities, that would suck worse!
Domo Arigatoo to Sayonara!
I had no clue who that was...wow that's freaky.