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    Ben Saunders
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    I think I’ve mentioned on here before how “spaz”/”spastic” is offensive in the UK, but isn’t in the US. Over there they call irritable bowel syndrome “spastic colon” (which makes sense), and there was that Kanye West/Paul McCartney song where Ye’s verse featured the line “hold me back, I’m about to spaz.”
    But anyway I tuned into the Olympics at one point and the presenters were apologising profusely to camera for one of the American athletes using “THAT word”, and I scoured Twitter to find out what word they used, expecting the N word, but it turns out they said that they “spazzed out” during the event, which would be absolutely fine to say on CNN or something, but the BBC had to apologise for it.

    #238047
    cwickham
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    <quote>I REMEMBER THIS it was incredibly cack-handed.</quote>

    I remembered that so well I devoted an entire paragraph to it in this article I wrote: http://cwickham.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-simpsons-on-bbc-ludicrously.html

    #238048
    Seb Patrick
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    Re the spaz thing, Weird Al Yankovic had the word “spastic” in his Blurred Lines parody (“Word Crimes”) but after it was pointed out to him how offensive it is here, he’s stopped using it in live performances.

    Brian Michael Bendis used to use “spaz” loads in Ultimate Spider-Man, too. It was a while before I discovered that it’s just not offensive over there in the same way.

    Same goes for “retard”/”retarded”, although they are starting to cotton on to that a bit more now.

    #238049
    clem
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    I remember being quite shocked by the lad in Bedknobs and Broomsticks saying “Not bloody likely!”

    As a kid there were a few films I didn’t realise our taped-off-the-telly versions of had been bowdlerised. Probably all three BTTFs, and Spaceballs “[Fuck!] Even in the future nothing works!”

    #238051
    clem
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    Channel 5 used to put See No Evil, Hear No Evil on at teatime. There’s so much you’d have to cut out of it to make a version suitable for broadcast pre-watershed, I used to wonder why anybody had bothered.

    #238052
    Bargain Bin Holly
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    McSpazatron is said twice in the Spongebob Squarepants Movie (Maybe three times, can’t remember)

    #238053
    Dave
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    As a kid I happily watched edited pre-watershed versions of See No Evil, Hear No Evil (and loads of other Richard Pryor movies) as well as the likes of Coming To America, Beverly Hills Cop and so on. I never noticed the edits. Watching them back as an adult they must have been cut to ribbons.

    #238054
    bloodteller
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    >Same goes for “retard”/”retarded”, although they are starting to cotton on to that a bit more now.

    When I was younger, I saw the (Tim Burton) Charlie And The Chocolate Factory movie and remember being quite shocked when one of the children says “retard”. Even if it’s not as offensive in the US, it surprised me they got away with that in a kid’s movie

    Mind you, they did that West End musical version of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory a while ago where Augustus gets decapitated and Veruca gets torn limb from limb by squirrels, so I guess Roald Dahl stuff can just get away with anything

    #238055
    Warbodog
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    Shoddiest editing I’ve seen was at the cinema in Singapore, they just cut sentences off half-way when it looks like there’s going to be a rude word and it jumps a few seconds. Their regional BBC also censors anything suggesting scandalous same-sex relationships in shows like Doctor Who, so episodes are about 50% as long.

    #238056
    Ben Saunders
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    I’d love to watch a cut of Deep Breath with all the implied gayeity removed. Considering one of the most important scenes is resolved with an interspecies lesbian kiss.

    And what do you know, I looked it up on Google and it was indeed edited out of Asian broadcasts. And received a number of complaints to Ofcom. Fuck off.

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