Has Channel 4 no respect for The Simpsons? It seems that whenever I've watched episodes lately some skits have been murdered by dreadful editing. The episode with Apu's wedding recently left in Homer as Ganesh having been subdued, but cut the just preceding scene where he was established as faking being Ganesh. I missed the start of "Trash of the Titans" earlier, the double use of W-nkers was edited out as I thought it would be, but they also cut the "luring children to a Gingerbread House" joke and part of how did Homer solve the trash problem (Bart: "Dealing drugs?" Lisa: "Drugs?" Marge: "I'm gonna go with drugs too."). I'm pretty sure other scenes were shortened too, but can't put my finger on exact ones.
Now I'm sure this will come across as needless whinging by an obsessive fan, but what's the bloody point in these actions? Is it so they can bung in another three or four 4Music promos? Or make space for a Big Brother voting promo, complete with 1 minute warning about how to vote correctly via phone/text?
Yes, i've noticed this many times. But when I see it, it seems like censorship, for example, after Homer throws away his gun, in the uneditied version, Marge picks is up and keeps it.... not on channel 4
A lot of the "Treehouse of horror", episodes have been edited too....
There are a number of imports that seem to get dodgy butcherings on their C4 showings - Friends also comes to mind, but is it definitely C4's compliance people doing it, or just some lowest common denominator safe edit that's put out for international syndication?
Tonight's was brilliantly ruined with the bit where Homer pushes to the front of a queue and gives a speech only for the clerk to say "this is the line for sex offenders" which was cut and the next bit where Moe joins the back of the queue and says "oh jeez there's always a line" kept in but pointlessly so.
Automation went funny for C4 anyway with a wrong ECP and lots of black before Hollyoaks started.
There are a number of imports that seem to get dodgy butcherings on their C4 showings - Friends also comes to mind, but is it definitely C4's compliance people doing it, or just some lowest common denominator safe edit that's put out for international syndication?
I suppose that I have to leave that as a possibility, but I can recall fairly confidently having seen Trash of the Titans on C4 a while back where the w word was left in, RTE2 have definitely also shown it with everything intact, I don't know whether or not they would receive a similar or same edition as C4 get in from America.
:-(
A former member
Ch4 has show this uncut at 9pm..
another cut is when Marge bans suger and she get disco stu to sign and then he Snorted the suger like coke, which was also cut,
Funny thing is in the old days (ie about ten years ago) on Sky One they used to edit them alá Channel 4, but when they were shown on the BBC, they were fully uncut despite them promoting well within the slot when younger people are watching. The sex tonic episode was always butchered to death by Sky, but BBC2 always showed it uncut at 6pm with no bother.
Sky also edited the episode where they enforce prohibiton, they oddly cut out the part of the British chippy being blown up and where Homer had a barrel on his head saying "Look at me, I'm the Prime Minister of Ireland!"
I could go on all day about these. Finally C4 showed The City of NY vs Homer Simpson the other week, although I didn't see it all, but when Sky showed it last (on VM that is) that was butchered to death too.
Could they be time and language cuts for international syndication, and Channel 4 just happen to get those copies? Since syndicated copies play on so many channels, they may just make a single copy for all the channels for any timeslot, so no extra work is needed to cut them more. Shows like Family Guy actually bother to make specific syndicated versions of their show because they know that usually syndicated cuts are awfully done.
I assume BBC got different copies of imports because whenever i've watched imports on BBC2 in the past, like Star Trek, Quantum Leap and so on, the commercial break points aren't there. An example being on Star Trek they often gear up to their commercial break points with some dramatic music which then ends with a fade to black before the break comes up. On BBC2 it would just nicely fade to the next bit, even the music.
An example being on Star Trek they often gear up to their commercial break points with some dramatic music which then ends with a fade to black before the break comes up. On BBC2 it would just nicely fade to the next bit, even the music.
Not "nicely" in my opinion. The crossfades between scenes really ruin the dramatic flow, and they're really obvious.
One bit I noticed from yesterday's episode was when Ray Patterson says "You're screwed" - that was left in on Sky One but cut from the C4 airing yesterday - and yet they still left in Mayor Quimby's line of "we are far from screwed".