There's been a lot of talk about doing wacky things with that episode's rotation, including removing it altogether, not showing it for a month to a year, or something along those lines. Am I missing something here? After all this talk about not letting terrorists affect us and our lifestyles, we try to get it to happen! The episode stands as a monument to the former twin towers, and shows nothing inappropriate, like homer destroying them or whatnot. When we lose something, we have to deal with that loss and eventually return to normality, not hide it and all traces of it under a rug. That's called denial.
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I always thought the reaction suggesting we do this was pretty stupid. I mean, yes, we have seen an act of terrorism that has likely killed thousands. Yes, it involved buildings that were shown in this particular episode. But you don't honor the departed by ignoring that they were ever there in the first place.
Maybe I'm dense, but I don't see how replaying this episode shows any disrespect at all for the dead. Imatation is the greatest form of flattery, and rememberance is the greatest form of honoring the departed.
Out of respect for the dead and their families, I would say.
After a man named John Hinckley Jr. shot President Reagan in 1981, ABC re-edited episodes of "The Greatest American Hero" (sometimes clumsily) to rename the main character Hanley, instead of Hinkley. After the space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986, NBC re-edited an episode of "The Cosby Show" in which a dentist tries to calm a nervous child by calling the dentist's chair a "tooth shuttle," referring to it as a "tooth ship" instead (even though a subsequent line about "liftoff" didn't make sense then).
Even now, Sony Pictures plans to re-do scenes of the New York City skyline already shot for the upcoming "Spiderman" movie, to remove the WTC towers (or use alternate shots not showing them). They've also pulled the teaser trailer, featuring a scene not in the film, in which robbers escaping in a helicopter get snared in a big web strung between the two towers.
I think it would be wise to shelve the episode for at least a couple of years -- definitely until the war is over, perhaps until the construction begins on the new towers. Then it will be time to celebrate.
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I still don't see how a show about any part of NYC would be considered disrespect for the dead and their families. It is like saying that because the buildings were attacked by hijacked UAL and AA flights, we should ban their commercials.
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Ok people, this is ridiculous. To edit the towers out of anything is blaspohemy. It implies that we don't want to think about them, don't want to remember them, they don't exist etc. A shitty event has happened but the worst thing we can do is forget about it, and to erase its image and memory. Get real, comedies are comedies, they were made months and years ago, and are not disrespectful. I don't know about you, but I welcome ANYTHING on TV that makes me laugh right now, even if it is for only 1/2 hour, at least for awhile I can move on with the sadness. "David McGee" wrote in message news:[email]...
Has it been said -- officially, that is -- that this episode has been removed from syndication? Or is all the discussion along these lines speculative?
I'm Canadian not American so my understanding may be flawed, but it seems to me that there's always "certain affiliates" that cancel shows at the slightest whiff of controversy. I'm thoroughly convinced that there's an NBC station in Idaho that hasn't shown anything but reruns of the Honeymooners in twenty years.
Actually our NBC affiliate here in Idaho had to stop the Honeymooners...too much humor linked to domestic abuse...that affiliate has shown nothing but test patterns for years, stoped only to show the same episode of The Osmond Family each weekday at noon.
I don't think the episode should be banned forever, but I do think it should not be aired for a while. The WTC is featured in a scene, but the whole premise of the episode is poking fun at New York and New Yorkers, all of which is fine and true, but in light of what happened on Sept 11 and the aftermath, it seems awfully insensitive to make fun of New York and New Yorkers at this point in time.