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TVVT
Tommorow, The Simpsons is not on C4, being replaced by a 1-hour Hollyoaks.
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Caly123
TVVT posted:
Tommorow, The Simpsons is not on C4, being replaced by a 1-hour Hollyoaks.

Luckily, its back on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with back-to-back episodes due to Channel 4 limiting Hollyoaks episodes because of the coronavirus.
JA
james-2001
The Joy of Sect is on Channel 4 now.


Do we need a running commenraty of which episodes are showing? 🤷‍♀️
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Caly123
The Joy of Sect is on Channel 4 now.


Do we need a running commenraty of which episodes are showing? 🤷‍♀️

No, I only mentioned it because we're talking about the show and since it was on Channel 4 just now.
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james-2001
Sometimes I actually preferred the cut version to the original, like an episode where, originally, Mr Burns is hit on the head by a flying spoon, says "Ow!" followed by looking at someone and saying a offensive word beginning with W. In the cut version he says "Ow!", looks at them, only to then say "Ow!" again in exactly the same way (the same voice clip covering the offensive word) which I found absolutely hilarious. Hard to explain in writing!


I have a recording of that episode from Sky One in 1999 and it doesn't even do that, it just quickly fades out after he's been hit with the spoon.

Indeed as someone said, Channel 4 did show that episode uncut once, which I think was the first time they showed that episode. Then as I said earlier in this thread it was shown badly cut when it was on T4 a few months later, with T4's "coming up" sting actually showing one of the bits they cut out- the "this is where you register as a sex offender" line. Which means they cut straight from Homer saying he wanted to run for sanitation commissioner to Moe walking in and saying "there's always a line"- a joke which made no sense without the cut line. I think that was the point Channel 4 started taking the scissors to the show badly.
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AxG
simpsoncrazy.com is a handy website, detailing UK cuts from episodes. (although not every one)
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james-2001
AxG posted:
simpsoncrazy.com is a handy website, detailing UK cuts from episodes. (although not every one)


There used to be a really good site called "Snipsons" which detailed all the BBC and Channel 4 cuts, but it stopped being updated circa 2001, obviously long before Channel 4 was running it.
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Caly123
AxG posted:
simpsoncrazy.com is a handy website, detailing UK cuts from episodes. (although not every one)


There used to be a really good site called "Snipsons" which detailed all the BBC and Channel 4 cuts, but it stopped being updated circa 2001, obviously long before Channel 4 was running it.

Is the site still up or has been sold to a public domain?
BH
BillyH Founding member
AxG posted:
simpsoncrazy.com is a handy website, detailing UK cuts from episodes. (although not every one)


Sadly it's been about a decade since this was last updated. I remember contributing to either this or the Snipsons website years ago - as mentioned on there, Sky began "uncutting" some older episodes early in the year 2000, mostly those with the words "ass" and "crap" which by then were deemed suitable for pre-watershed viewing, along with several violent moments in Treehouse of Horror and Itchy & Scratchy episodes. There's posts by a 13 year old me(!) on the uk.media.tv.simpsons newsgroup noting that, as late as February 2002, a few were still edited but had been restored by June of that year. Not sure if it was a deliberate decision to remove the cuts or whether Sky simply got new copies of the episodes around this time, as the older seasons would swap between Sky and BBC2 every so often.

Words such as "*******" and "wanker" remained cut along with most edits from about the late 1990s onwards, although these were significantly reduced in edits compared to the early-mid 1990s episodes.
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Xilla
If anyone wants to see what Sky cut from Family Guy. Here's a site that covered just that back in the day:

https://web.archive.org/web/20030713200702/http://www.xbollox.com/family/
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james-2001
The first episode mentioned cut down to 18 minutes... ouch.
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UKnews
Has anyone checked the episodes mentioned on Disney+ to see if they’re uncut? There seems to be conflicting information. Very much hoping they’re intact.

(I’m waiting for the 4:3 versions to appear before watching)

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