Nudity on Bob & Magaret?!

Jun 30, 199833 posts by 20 posters
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LEESPAM2

I know this is getting a little off subject, but I just watched the second airing of Bob & Margaret, finding it contained both full and partial nudity. Henry's wife Judy was shown without any censorship nursing her baby, nipples and all. There was even more nudity from the baby's genitals. Maybe it's just me, but, as I, and millions of people were notified, YOU CAN'T SHOW NUDITY ON TV!!! If anyone if this was a mistake in censoring or if it was never intended to be censored, please reply. If nudity IS allowed, how come there's none on South Park and lots on Bob & Margaret? ========================

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JonHLEESPAM2

Cartoon nudity can be showed..just not a sex scene..just like in documentarys you can see guys genitals and womens breasts..ala discovery channel LEESPAM2 wrote in message ...

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Bean11774JonH

*OFF SUBJECT* ...but last night I was watching the discovery channel about this tribe on Moon Mountain (I think, it could have been Toon or Dune...) and the men wore these bamboo type things on their penis' as there clothes. It kind of looked a little painful (and very obscene) but I've never heard anything like it... very interesting indeed. Also a girl was married off and her family was paid 6 pigs and a bunch of other small things.

LEESPAM2 wrote:

Didn't Kenny moon the camera in one episode?

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That's not nudity.
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LEESPAM2 wrote:

I think that a naked ass counts as nudity.

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I noticed something new when I watched it the second time a few minutes ago. In the video store, there was a video in the XXX section with a closeup of a woman with no top on. That's sexually oriented, so why is that allowed? ========================

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XandanLEESPAM2

LEESPAM2 wrote in article ...

Uhm - maybe it's okay for cartoons to depict cartoon 'photographs' in nudity presented sexually (kinda like how Monty Python could have images of topless women on CC - but because Bob and Margaret is a cartoon they can push the picture thing up a notch)?

S. Mills ([email])

DoeBoY2505 wrote in article ...

Sure did - and about 1/4 of the Simpsons episodes have implied nudity and butt shots. Maybe such nudity in cartoons is okay when not conveyed in a sexual manner?

S. Mills ([email])

I think that's the basis of the series anywayt. Don't forget that scene in "Bob's Birthday" which can be seen on Cartoon Network. That being of his "package" nearly showing on camera. Although the big-wigs at CN had to block that out with a maple leaf. That would still be neat to see hah. F**K FCC ANYWAY!!!

Breast feeding and naked babies I think is an exception... and NYPD Blue has partial nudity all the time, some TV movies show various things as well...

And what about all the droopy African ladies on the nature shows? Bean11774 wrote in message ... >Breast feeding and naked babies I think is an exception... and NYPD Blue
RabbitBean11774

Bean11774 wrote:

Not to mention all of those runway fashion programs that show designers who seem to think that women just love wearing see-through tops and open shirts on the street ...

Rabbit

MOWBIELEESPAM2

Is B & M rated? I didn't notice. Last nights show should have been the kick off show. Really funny.

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LEESPAM2MOWBIE

Last nights show recieved a 'TV-14' rating. Ha ha ha! Like full-frontal nudity doesn't earn a 'TV-MA' rating! Ha! ========================

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John BertrandLEESPAM2

This is a British program, they have very different rules regarding nudity on european television than in the US.

Even in the late 60's when Monty Python was being shown on PBS stations here in the US they occasionally would have nudity in the programs that was not censored.

John Bertrand

Yeah but isn't that only during the 2 days of summer you have in Ontario?

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RabbitMOWBIE

MOWBIE wrote:

Not this year! It's been warm enough for even ME to consider it!

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That may be the misconception many may have about Bob & Margaret. Originally, it was based on the short "Bob's Birthday," which was a co-production between the National Film Board of Canada and Britain's TV network "Channel Four." It seems very ironic how a short that is considered British be also Canadian. I think the creators Snowden and FIne currently live in Canada, although they once worked in Britian.

Many countries may define nudity in many ways. Canada's NFB films do have sprinkles of such inuendos in many of their films. The 1978 Academy Award animated short "Special Delivery" may bring this to mind, as a dead mailman had been striped and left laying ona chair untill the wife shows up. The Cartoon Network showings of these NFB films may not be handled the same way as they are treated by our neighbors of the north. Showings of Bob's Birthday had a leaf digitally placed on the naughty parts. Britian and parts of Europe may have the same thought about this too. Maintaining that many of their programs are chuck-fulled of sex, nudity, dialogue, even things that shouldn't be seen on TV. Many of us may remember the defecation scene from Nick Park's "Creature Comforts."

This series is a Canadian-British co-production of both Nelvana (animated in the Philipines) and Channel Four, produced in assoc. with Canwest Global System (network airing the series in Canada). Although Comedy Central (U.S.) was somewhate involved in this too. It's had to say for sure wrether or not they have fully realized the humor and/or content of the show itself. Let's just hope Comedy Central doesn't screw this one up,or even stop running the sereis alltogether.

It would be sweet to see at least somebody naked on South Park. It's hard to say how well nudity can be animated with paper cutouts.

What difference does it make where it's produced. It's being televised on USA Comedy Central with a much less restrictive rating code than SP. Is SP so much more subversive to the children of god's country than B & M?!?!? It makes no sense.

You can't show nudity during sexual acts on TV, but you can show nudity in a natural setting, i.e. breast feeding. Haven't you ever watched the local news cover something like, breast cancer?

LEESPAM2 wrote in article ...

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on PBS there was a movie set back in the 1800's or so... it had a man and women about to have sex with the women naked on the bed breasts exposed. they then began to have sex and still there was nudity. no prior warning message or anything.... JS wrote in message ...

LEESPAM2MiK

That's because PBS is a public station and requires support from viewers. They can show as much nudity as they'd like to. ========================

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Yet, for some strange reason, almost nobody watches it......

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Furthermore.... IFC (Independent Film Channel) is not a premium channel in most markets, and graphic language and nudity are very much allowed. I've seen both. A promo of theirs has the word "fuck" in it.

Once you get to the level of cable television, the sponsors are the only ones who can tell you what you can and can't do. The law would only come into play if obscene or illegal material were being shown.

Of course, judging by the blatantly artificial ways the porno channel cleans up their movies, said laws might intervene a bit earlier than one might think. Ever turn on Spice and see a close-up of a woman's forehead for two minutes?

I wish someone on this newsgroup would do a little research and determine what exactly the laws are. Citing examples gets tiresome.

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Hmm....that brings up the question why Trey and Matt never used it.  I hate to
be judgemental, but does anyone else think they'd be the type to go out of
there way to be offensive?  Maybe no ones told them....
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Hey dumbass.... ITS CABLE!!!!!!!!! You can't say God Damn or Son of a Bitch on TV either but they do on South Park.. Where the hell have you been living the Twilight Zone.

Wait, the Twilight ZOne reruns only show on cable which you OBVIOUSLY don't get.

ITS CABLE dumbass!!!!

Theres nothing to stop someone from saying god damn or son of a bitch on non-cable TV...other than self censorship. It's often said on "live on tape" discussion/news shows as well as scripted dramas.

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Jason PrickettLEESPAM2

Actually, you can show some nudity on TV(Valerie Bertinelli was the first woman to show her breats on TV during the ate 70's in a PBS something or other) I don't think you can show genitala(real that is) unless it was a child(sick world,huh) as they sometimes do in documentaries and the like. It's kinda like the issue of South Park bleeping out certain words even though they are on cable which in not regulated by the FCC(besides the bleeping is funnier anyway)

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Wow, i'm sure glad i live in the UK. Now i know just how over-censored US non-cable tv is, whats the deal with the radio? BBC and ITV uhf-broadcasting channels now have some stuff going down on them (literally, no pun intended originally...:) from 10pm or earlier that would probably have your US stations shut down and out of sponsors within SeCoNdS... and the cable services, well what can i say, even the non-premium channels take it a lot further than that (like regionally-centred [address] tv with it's topless darts on the hour from 9 till midnight, nightly porn movie at midnight and lots of sex scattered in between during the day. And still with all the sport and entertainment stuff spread throughout that, it can get classified as a family channel. and then theres bravo. and then the premium chans..

eddyh

Yeah, wish I lived there too in a free country. :O(