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

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    16 days ago

    Dragon Ball has a scene in one of the earlier episodes where Goku gets desperate and confused when he finds out Bulma doesn’t have balls. In Brazil, the panty removing scene was cut, but him screaming and waking up Bulma was kept, with the chatter being fully nonsensical “I was hungry and looking for food!”

    I also remember seeing that a country, I think Thailand?, censors even male pectorals, so a lot of DBZ fights had big blurs over the characters.

    • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
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      16 days ago

      This and the Bulma flashing Roshi scene is partially censored in almost every recut afaik. even on some DVD sets.

    • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I like DB/DBZ and some anime, but holy shit is anime fucking cringe. Even modern anime. It always throws off the mood. Like you’ll have some serious anime with real serious themes, and all of a sudden the main character will like grab some girl’s boobs and make a goofy sound (or some other variation of cringe fan service) and you’re just like “wut?”

      • cley_faye@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        why downvotes? You guys like cringe fanservice?

        You think something you dislike makes it cringe. Perhaps other people do not think that way, and just believe that some people like stuff, and other people like other stuff, without feeling attacked in their feelings.

          • cley_faye@lemmy.world
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            16 days ago

            Then you missed the point that what you think does not have to be universal when it comes to reading material or movies.

      • iSeth@lemmy.ml
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        16 days ago

        Plenty of anime exist without perverse humor.

        Attack on Titan, Death Note, Jujutsu Kaisen and Psychopass to name a few.

        • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          16 days ago

          You just named 4 anime which aren’t only relatively devoid of perverse humor, they’re also not meant to be humorous.

          I don’t know of anybody picking up Attack on Titan, excited to laugh.

          • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            16 days ago

            Friend, you gotta not care about downvotes. If you bring attention to it, you’ll get folks downvoting you just for that. And if you comment a second time, like you did here, you’re going to get downvoted all to hell in the second one. Since it’s obvious that you care, and folks on the internet love to irritate each other over nothing.

            Future reference- just don’t look at your comments again after you make them, unless you’ve come back because someone replied to you. No need to obsess over things you’ve said anyway. The internet will hate some, love some, and it won’t always make a lick of sense. Put it behind you and don’t concern yourself with it.

            • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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              16 days ago

              Thanks for mansplaining how to use Lemmy. Seriously though, it’s not that i care about downvotes, but rather I would prefer someone offer an actual counter-point vs simply downvoting. If something I say is wrong or bad then i want to know why. If what the other people say are reasonable then i may adjust my viewpoint.

              Also sometimes I want to edit my comment to clarify something. If i feel that i misrepresented what I was trying to say (i.e. that most anime, not ALL anime have fanservice) then why wouldn’t I want to edit the post? Otherwise I’m purposely letting people misunderstanding one of the things I said. That doesn’t make much sense to do.

              • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                16 days ago

                ‘Mansplaining’ requires the explaining person to be a man.

                You’re entitled to having an opinion. You’re allowed to share that opinion. You aren’t entitled to people stopping to tell you why they think you’re wrong. Nobody owes you the time to stop and explain things to you.

                And receiving downvotes doesn’t necessarily mean someone thinks you’re wrong. It could just be that you’re being needlessly antagonistic. An example of this, is how I’m removing my sympathy upvotes to your previous comments. You obviously didn’t need my sympathy.

                • guy@piefed.socialEnglish
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                  16 days ago

                  Isn’t mansplaining more of a general term these days? I hear both men and women mansplain regularly

  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Simpsons itself has had multiple scenes cut out of episodes that are now really hard to find, in the worst cases it can be the entire end of an episode. The one that really sticks out is a scene where a celebrity ges jumped by cletus and a bunch of other rednecks and brutally shot to death with a lot of gore, the episode later got censored to end when cletus points a shotgun at him and eventually cut out the scene entierly making the episode rather abrupt.

  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I read some years ago that in the Arabian version of Simpsons, Homer drinks lemonade instead of beer.

    • Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Moe is such a talented lemonade merchant he has to stay open till the early hours to sate the townsfolk’s addiction to his citrus crack.

    • gwilikers@lemmy.ml
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      16 days ago

      That’s kinda sweet but also completely steam rolls a very big part of Homer’s character.

  • superkret@feddit.org
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    17 days ago

    The version of From Dusk Till Dawn that aired on German TV and had an 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 walking into a bar and starting to shoot at nothing for no reason.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      16 days ago

      Ugh, that version is so bad. You see a character build this awesome vampire killing machine in a montage. And a minute later you see them throw it away without ever having used it.

      Also for some inane reason the only way to get an uncensored Planet Terror with the helicopter chopping up zombies is by renting it. Good luck finding a video rental place nowadays.

    • rabber@lemmy.caEnglish
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      17 days ago

      I could look this up but what is with germany and blood censorship?

      • Asetru@feddit.org
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        17 days ago

        It’s just different values. I could ask the same about the US and nudity. In German media, blood and violence is fine, but it’s considered a topic that you need to be able to handle, so you need to have a certain age, depending on how gruesome that is.

        Tbh, I’m European and therefore biased, but the way the united states have no problem with people harming other in media but being offended by something like “bodies” or “sex” does seem a little weird. Like, if my kids normalised harming others I’d be much more concerned than if they normalised making love.

        • froh42@lemmy.world
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          17 days ago

          Watching TV:

          Here in the EU it is offensive/inappropriate to kill people.

          There in the US it is offensive/inappropriate to make people.

          So the difference is whether to make love or to make war. Personally I’d rather be a bononbo than a chimpanzee.

        • LazyGit@feddit.orgEnglish
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          17 days ago

          Little story to that point: In 2000 I flew NWA from Europe to the states. That time they still showed the movie on a big screen in the front of the cabin. The movie that day was Gladiator.

          The airline did not censor gore and violence even though children were also flying.

          But of course there was no nudity to speak of in that movie at all.

          • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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            17 days ago

            There is nudity in the original, when emperor rapes his sister(?) and I believe there’s other scenes as well. They usually showed the made for TV edit so that’s probably why you didn’t see.

            Their solution for kids was to not give us headphones lol.

        • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.comEnglish
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          16 days ago

          Some of us here think it’s backwards as well. The thing is that it’s a hard cycle to break. Because nudity is so taboo here and pretty universally related to sex rather than art or nature it ends up with any place it show up being taken as scandalous ‘uh oh, they showed the naughty bits’.

          Nudes in art are viewed as high-brow, guns and violent sport as more low-brow, but we"re also a place who make icons of the blue collar ‘Joe Sixpack’ sort and for a large part treat intellectualism is snobby elitist shit.

          Maybe one day we’ll unga bunga our way out of the caves, but nobody knows when.

    • Bunbury@feddit.nlEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Omg! Is THAT what they did? I remember when that movie came on tv and Ioved the road trip bit in the beginning and then it suddenly all stopped making sense all at once. I never watched it again because I didn’t realize that wasn’t just what the movie is. Mind blown. Thank you.

      • superkret@feddit.org
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        16 days ago

        Yes. They cut out a lot of dialog, and most of the transition to vampires and the final fight.

  • Linktank@lemmy.today
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    17 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)

      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        16 days ago

        Some of those cut scenes are present on the DVD release. There’s one where Weaver’s character does a bit of a strip tease to disteact some aliens (the modification to her outfit is still in the movie, it just changes randomly between scenes) and another where Shalhoub’s character is explicitely confirmed to be high off his ass the entire movie.

        • Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca
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          16 days ago

          It is indeed. The audio is smooth in the movie so you don’t notice unless you’re watching her mouth.

          • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            16 days ago

            Does the fediverse have a place for watch parties? Because a bunch of us are for sure watching Galaxy Quest today.

            • Odo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              16 days ago

              [email protected] has links to #Monsterdon, a weekly watch party over on Mastodon. Galaxy Quest might be a bit too well made for their usual brand of movie, though.

              • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                16 days ago

                Oh, thanks very much for the link! Always looking for cool new places on the fediverse!

                Also, nice to finally meet you, Odo. You were an excellent part of my favorite Star Trek.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    16 days ago

    In Germany for some inane reason the only way to get an uncensored Planet Terror with the helicopter chopping up zombies (and several other scenes, like Tarantino’s balls rotting off) is by renting it. Good luck finding a video rental place nowadays.

    You don’t get it by buying the “uncensored” version. I was lucky that my first time watching the movie was as a rental.

  • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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    15 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.

  • WxFisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    There’s are two (that I’m aware of) versions of Deadpool that are shown on US TV. One is pretty normal, cut up mostly for time but with all the curseing and violence you’d expect, the other though has hilarious dubs over a good bit of the swearing (which is in theory easier when the main character is in a full face mask I guess?). The one that sticks out in memory is Deadpool’s line “Suck a cock” is dubbed as “ha ha ha”.

    • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Removing the hard R rating from the character deadpool makes you realize what an irritating and childish character he is. I remember seeing him pop up in a G rated spider man show and it’s cringier than a deadpool cosplayer

    • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      I’m not sure if this is what you’re referring to, but Once Upon a Deadpool is Deadpool 1 but he’s telling it as a bedtime story, so it’s a bit cut up and removes all the swearing.

      I haven’t watched it all the way through, but it is still funny at the start at least

  • AliSaket@mander.xyzEnglish
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    16 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).

  • steeznson@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    There is a famous US tv edit of Snakes On A Plane where Samuel L Jackson shouts at a pivitol moment, “I’ve had it with these monkey eating snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!”

    • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Monkey fighting snakes, if my memory serves correctly.

      The best version of that movie is the censored version lol

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      on this Monday to Friday plane!

      If I were stuck on a plane (let alone one with monkey-eating snakes) for 5 days straight, I’d reach a breaking point, too.

  • Fargeol@lemmy.world
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    16 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…

    • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Clearly needs more state regulations. People can’t be trusted to know what they want to watch and see with their eyes

      • Sinaf@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        Yes, alcoholism isn’t real and if it were we shouldn’t make it easier for people who try to quit.

        • Saffire@sh.itjust.works
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          16 days ago

          Nobody said that. Also shouldn’t it be up to the recovering alcoholic to not watch tv shows that often depict heavy drinking if that bothers them? Nobody is forcing alcoholics to watch The Simpsons.

          • Miaou@jlai.lu
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            16 days ago

            Nobody forced anyone to make a real beer brand called Duff. Liberal BS takes like yours are just so shortsighted. Might as well let kids buy cigs, their choice after all, isn’t?

          • Sinaf@lemmy.world
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            16 days ago

            As I understand it the ban in France seems to specifically target real brands. So you can still show people drinking but you’re not allowed to show the logo of e.g. Heineken.

            Is this a good regulation? I don’t know, but it might not be as arbitrary as the other comment suggested.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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      16 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.

    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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      16 days ago

      The Welsh rugby team were at one point sponsored by a Cardiff brewery called “Brains” and when they played over in Paris the sponsors name was rendered as “Brawn”.

      Also the cigarette brand “Benson and Hedges” were branded “Buzzing Hornets” when their F1 team were racing in countries that had already banned tobacco sponsorship.