Closed captioning on THE SIMPSONS

This may be common knowledge, but for SIMPSONS fanatics, I mention the following:

If your tv has closed captioning, I recommend turning it on sometime when you watch THE SIMPSONS.

The closed captioning must be done from the last version of the script, and often times, the punchlines to jokes are changed. So there'll be a whole different punchline to some of the jokes with the closed captioning. This happens just about every episode, several times.

Sometimes, the original joke (on the closed captioning) is funnier than what was finally used on the audio. ---- Just as one recent example (not a particularly funny one, but it illustrates what I mean):

There was a recent episode where Homer picks up the phone, and says, "I'm calling [such-and-such]."

Then the operator responded, "Pay your phone bill first!"

But on the closed captioning, it was LISA: "Dad, I'm on the phone!"

I have noticed this myself. There was a good closed captioning joke in the Homer gets Leprosy episode about how he and Bart jumped the fence to bother tourists.

On a related note, Algomeysa, they re-used the "Dad, I'm on the phone" gag in a recent episode: Homer sees something on TV, picks up the phone and says "Get me the Chief of Police". And Lisa whines "Dad, I'm on the phone" [This is a rough approximation from memory]

Anybody know how that joke went exactly?

Algomeysa wrote:

Or, when Homer is driving with the bucket on his head and drives into the ditch he says, "That had nothing to do with the bucket!"

However, the closed captioning reads "Stupid ford!"

The captioning was corrected/re-done when the same clip was shown during Homer's roast.

whats closed captioning?

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"RiCARDO FUNK~420 ~" wrote in message news:ab1j4a$22o$[email]...

where do you live (US)? How old is your TV?

Every set over 19 inches produced in the last 10 years or so has CC built in.

It used to be an option, and before that in the early 80s, you needed a separate device, a closed captioning DECODER. My dad still has his first one that's the size of a VCR.

WHAT it is-- Closed Captioning for the Hearing Impaired. The dialog from a show is transcribed (by hand, usually before the show and added to the final mix), and aired over top of the program. It appears as white letters on a black field. It can be annoying to some people (read: my mom) because it covers some of the scene. Also it can detract your attention away from the action.

But as stated earlier, it can be invaluable for avoiding missing crucial dialog.

I have good hearing, but I always watch The West Wing with CC on. It's so easy to miss something unless you have the volume cranked. ---------

Smell-a-vision is still many years off

Hi

It is apparent that too many of today's children get far too much of their language skills from hearing (TV, movies, radio, etc.) rather than from seeing (reading).

I first identified this issue years ago when I found that my daughter could compose a pretty good story, but only with lots of spelling and punctuation errors. Not all of these errors could be found by a Spell Checker, like the use of the words: to, two, and too.

Several years later, I read somewhere that a partial solution to this issue would be to tell your kids that they can watch television, but make them watch it only with the CLOSED CAPTIONING "on" so that they would have the opportunity to look at the words as well as her them.

I know it you described it as distracting, but it is exactly that distraction (hearing a new word so you look at it in the caption) that might promote some learning from the experience.

Just my $.02!

Otto

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Why is closed captioning 'closed' instead of 'open'? I don't see the meaning of 'closed' in the context..

Rob

It's "closed" because it's encoded. "Open captions" would be part of the actual picture, and you wouldn't need to turn captioning on to see them. Since most people today have CC-enabled sets, open captioning isn't too common anymore.

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Because it requires a decoder (which these days happens to be built into every TV). "Open Captioning" has the captions right on the signal, whether you want to see it or not.

Yours truly, Some bozo

While we are on the subject of CC.

I've noticed something during another movie. Anyone ever watch Saving Private Ryan in CC? I did, I wanted to know what the germans where saying so I'd copy it down and use babel fish to find out what they where saying. But, during the D-day beach scene some of the perceived Germans are not. They are speaking in Czech. The CC's say (Speaking in Czech). I found this interesting. I know the history behind German Conscripts. Im about to get real OT. Pre WWII the Japanese forced Koreans into their military, then in the border skirmishes with the USSR they where captured by the commies. Then the Germans captured these Koreans and conscripted them into their military, then the Americans captured them and freed them. I wish I knew what book this was from...

Al F 729th ACS HAFB, Utah I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.-Abe

On 06 May 2002 05:49:25 GMT, [email] (Al Foley) wrote:

One Czech in the Wehrmacht to the other during D-Day: "I *told* you we should've joined the labour camp instead!"

TTYL

I may not have 100% of the facts on this, but I believe that Hitler diverted most of his elite (German-born) Wehrmact to the Belgian coast because US&GB faked a large-scale attack there. This left the Normandy beaches protected by mostly ad-hoc companies made up of German officers with non-German soldiers; many of whom were Czech, Polish, Dutch, French, etc...

If by "happens to be" you mean "required"...at least on 13 inch or larger TVs.

Kevin

And you would understand the meaning of "open" in that context? If it was called "open captioning" wouldn't you still be such a question?

Kevin

Or you could just get your kids to read books instead of watching TV.

My $.02

Kevin

Why not watch PBS? They're bloodthirsty pursuit is made possible by a grant from the Chub Group

"Three wars back we called saurkraut Liberty Cabbage, and we called Liberty Cabbage Super Slaw! Back then a suitcase was known as a Swedish Luchbox... Anyway; long story short, is a phrase whose origin is complicated and rambling." Abraham Simpson

The episode with The Who. When Homer trys the plunger for the dynamite,

Homer: Oh, nice wiring bart! Bart:It worked on the test corpse

CC Bart: It worked on the test goat