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I do mean stuff like removed scenes from international airings, replacing objects like cigarettes or vine with any other objects.

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[-] princessnorah 25 points 2 days ago

The way they censored the gay out of Steven Universe in Russia was just comically stupid. There's a couple, Ruby and Sapphire, with Ruby being a more hot-headed butch type, and Sapphire being a cool-headed femme. So, Russia gives Ruby a goatee:

Even though, mind you, the dub still has a female VA for her. Anyway, last season of the show, Ruby and Sapphire get married. The showrunner didn't want them to be able to censor it as easily, so she put Ruby in a dress and Sapphire in a suit:

So, naturally, they put the goatee on Sapphire this time:

Which kind of just makes it double gay, I think?

[-] Warehouse@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Just regular gay, I think, considering the dub implied that they're both men.

[-] princessnorah 2 points 2 days ago

Well but normally they're lesbians, so, when they're suddenly both men, still with female VAs, it feels like double gay to me 😅

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

The goatee on Sapphire instead has me dying. Never even seen this show but that's amazing.

[-] poplargrove@lemmy.world 92 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The Invincible TV series is quite gory. Blood gets censored to be white in China which makes for some interesting scenes of hands dripping with white stuff. Or this:

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Oh god!!!! That’s way worse!!!!

Cat Bukake!

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[-] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

The Pokito (anime tv programming in Germany) had an awefull verstion of Naruro. Were they would sensor out the weapons.

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 163 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

When Sailor Moon was airing on American TV back in the late 90's, they completely censored out every aspect of romantic relationship between Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus. Turned them into cousins.

It was a shock to me when I bought the subtitled version and they were suddenly lesbians.

[-] AliSaket@mander.xyz 88 points 4 days ago

lol yeah. They didn't edit out all the flirting though or all the embarassed or indignant reactions by the characters around them, which presents those "cousins" in a really interesting light ;)

The US version of Sailor Moon was also censored and edited in different other ways. IIRC:

  • All Tokyo references were changed to New York. So they've changed where the whole thing took place.
  • They changed all Japanese writings (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji)
  • Multiple characters had their gender or sex changed as to avoid homosexual relations.
  • The music was completely changed for some reason
  • They took out many scenes or even whole episodes if they thought, they might vaguely get into conflict with the FCC.
  • They scrapped a whole season, because the Sailor Starlights (I think that was their name?) changed gender in their magical transformation.
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[-] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 41 points 4 days ago

That's so disappointing. To me, Sailor Moon is the OG all inclusive series. (It was my very favorite show ever as a kid and probably still is.) I kinda love how they didn't make a big deal out of it. The star sailors change sex when they transform and it's not even talked about. It just is how it is and nobody wonders about it. Neptune and Uranus having the hots for each other is portrayed as any other romance is and iirc no character ever addresses the "taboo" of it. Even the alien incest is somehow fine (I mean they are aliens and extinct so they do them).

I understand the LGBTQ+'s struggle for representation and acceptance, so probably they do need somewhat of an over accentuated representation on screen to eventually reach full acceptance. But Sailor Moon seems to be what comes "after" this, just normalization without it ever being a question. All the while sparking an interest in astronomy in kids who then know all the names of the dwarf planets in our solar system before they know the multiplication table.

Man I can't wait till my kid reaches Sailor Moon watching age.

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[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

The 20th Anniversary Edition of E.T. not only had superflous CGI E.T. scenes (no doubt inspired by Lucas), but also all guns of the federal agents were changed to walkie talkies.

Spielberg later apologized for the changes and rolled them back.

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[-] fargeol@lemmy.world 113 points 4 days ago

In France, advertising alcohool brands on TV is heavily restricted. It wasn't a problem in the Simpsons since Duff was not a real brand of beer.

When Duff became a real brand, French TV had to blur every Duff logo and beep out every "Duff" pronounced on screen. Some episodes became unwatchable, Duffman became beepman, every beer became blurry...

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 59 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Duffman became beepman, every beer became blurry…

Considering Duffman's signature hip movements and the funky Ohhh yeaaah~ music that always plays whenever he arrives, someone who doesn't know Duff is supposed to be a beer might get a very wrong idea about his job.

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[-] Captain_Baka@feddit.org 162 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

South Park Season 1 Episode 7 (the episode where Cartman wears a Adolf Hitler costume for Halloween) was partially censored in Germany. Cartmans "Sieg Heil" was changed to "Wie Geil" (means "how cool"). I think the censoring there was actually funnier than the original.

[-] SnotFlickerman 65 points 4 days ago

Similarly, the episode titled "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" was supposed to be "An Elephant Fucks A Pig"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Elephant_Makes_Love_to_a_Pig#Production

Parker and Stone intended to call this episode "An Elephant Fucks a Pig", but changed the title under pressure from Comedy Central.

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[-] 2piradians@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I remember when Young Guns aired on a cable channel in the 90s there's a scene at the climax when Billy the Kid actually says "Murphy, you son of a bitch..." and shoots the baddie in the head.

So this cable channel edited it for him to say "Murphy, you sorry old buzzard...". But the headshot was still intact because this is America.

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[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

"Yippie kay yay, MR FALCON." from Die Hard is pretty infamous.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Monkeyfighting snakes on this Monday thru Friday plane is worse.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 76 points 4 days ago

Die Hard 2.

Original line: "Yippee ki-yay, mother fucker."

Censorship line: "Yippee ki-yay, Mr. Falcon."

There is no one named Mr. Falcon in the movie.

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[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 39 points 3 days ago

I have HAD it with these monkey-fightin' snakes, on this Monday-Friday plane!

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[-] Jenpocalypse@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago

I'm old, and I saw the Breakfast Club back in the 80's on like, channel 11. For years I couldn't figure out why Principal Vernon and Carl the Janitor went from hating each other to being friends.

Years later I saw it unedited and realized they cut out the whole scene with the two of them bonding and smoking weed. So much made sense at that point.

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[-] AliSaket@mander.xyz 67 points 4 days ago

The most infamous would be South Park episodes S14E05 and S14E06 named "200" and "201". The central theme of the episodes: Censorship. Something South Park had been subjected to ever since its inception. And this time, they centered around the limits of what is allowed around depictions of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. For context: These episodes aired after controversies around such depictions in media around the world had people killed.

So in an attempt to protect themselves, the network engaged in censorship of the episodes and it is sometimes unclear, what was intentionally in there as a plot point from the creators and what was added by the network. Although some egregious examples are clear, such as the complete bleeping of Kyle's "I've learned something today" monologue at the end. While Stone and Parker inserted clear plot points like characters like Moses of all people asking, whether something was OK to show or say. I'm still uncertain whether the huge censorship bar over the Prophet is a plot point, or censorship or both.

The kicker: Prophet Muhammad had been shown in earlier episodes already, without sparking controversy and in "200" and "201" they even reference those episodes. As expected, they received death threats after the airing of the episodes and later pulled all five episodes with Muhammad depictions from their streaming sites (Super-Best Friends, Cartoon Wars 1+2, 200, 201).

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[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 4 days ago

Disney consored Gravity Falls a lot before the episodes even aired. Alex Hirsch (the creator) had constant trouble for even some minor things.

The funniest bit was, when they had a flyer that literally said "not S&P approved", because S&P (standards and practices) wouldn't approve the flyer saying "bottles will be spun".

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[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago

TV censored version of Kill Bill hands down.

His name is buck, and he's here to party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePB8ZOv--bE

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[-] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 48 points 4 days ago

4Kids dubs of anime removing guns and all mentions of death. I recently watched the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Monsters and there's a scene where I'm pretty sure Bandit Keith was originally threatening Pegasus with a gun. Without the gun, it just looks so ridiculous. And what did 4Kids have against rice balls? Arceus forbid American kids should learn anything about foreign culture, we must pretend these are donuts.

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago

The original U.S. dub of Pokemon was the same re: riceballs. It didn't make sense in the 90s, and it doesn't make sense today. The worst thing that can happen is a kid asks their parents if they can try onigiri.

Oh no! Now we either have to tell our kids "no," or we have to do the research to find somewhere that makes/sells it, or attempt to follow a new recipe ourselves. How will U.S. culture, composed of nationalities from across the globe, ever survive this tremendous upheaval!?

In all seriousness, onigiri is delicious and I wish there were greater demand for it across the U.S. Even in my ethnically-diverse blue state, I only know of one place that makes onigiri, but it's far and a pain in the ass to travel to.

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[-] Linktank@lemmy.today 70 points 4 days ago

It's a movie, but when Sigourney Weaver's character says "Well, fuck that." and it's edited to say "Well, screw that." without changing how her mouth moves at all is about the funniest one I can think of.

(Galaxy Quest is the movie)

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 72 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The version of From Dusk Till Dawn that aired on German TV with age 16+ rating was half an hour shorter and was cut so badly, it hardly even made sense anymore.
It's basically just a couple of dude(tte)s going to a gas station, then walking into a bar and starting to shoot at nothing for no reason.

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[-] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 4 days ago

The VH1 edit of showgirls. Movie was cut shorter... Meaning what actual plot there was was even more chopped up .

And when they couldn't edit out the nudity, they "Ms painted" bikini tops on the actresses.

It's absolutely hilarious to see https://www.reddit.com/r/Corridor/comments/1bs47qn/showgirls_movie_edited_for_tv_vh1_no_joke/

Here is a reddit link

Here's an example

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[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

ISAIP episodes, those episodes pre-2010, with blackface jokes, basically it was showing how ridiculous blackface is to racists, the "execs decided it would be obliterated from most media besides clips on youtube. they are doing it "im a white person offended for black people "type of virtue signalling, not even poc is offended by this.

you know BSG wanted to say fuck instead frack.

also castlevania nocture, when they turned the captain lady intoa frozen shade, you can clearly see they dint want the frozens shades boobs to show in anyway, so its constantly always covered up.

[-] ADTJ@feddit.uk 12 points 3 days ago

It's Sunny Always In Philadelphia?

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[-] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

"frack me harder Mr. Peanutbutter!"

[-] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago

In the 1900s I worked at a physical media store. Someone complained about the Titanic playing overhead having boobies visible in it, and I was tasked with using a VHS splicer to remove the boobies.

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