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Channel 4 editing The Simpsons

What's up with Channel 4 editing The Simpsons? I don't know if anyone else has noticed but I've noticed various lines being cut from the Simpsons on Channel 4.

Like on tonights show they cut the scene where at the cinema there's a trailer for a movie with the word "boner" in it but it was cut out...even though its the punchline of the joke. Although later they allowed Moe to say to an Escort agency that he wanted to go to "orgasm-ville".
There was also the one with the meteor shower where, when Otto looks up to the sky they only allowed him to say "Wow, I dont need drugs to enjoy this" but cut the end "only to enhance it" Which I always thought was hilarious.

So has any one else noticed this? Whats your opinion on it? They should at least show it later and keep the show intact if its a question of their watershed or something.

Reply 1

username138106

Just cuts made in syndication to fit in more ads. Nearly all American shows do it, and it's not C4's doing.

As above.

its awful. its just not funny.
like this post.

Reply 4

Rhymenocerous

A line was cut tonight where Hibbert said something about sexual release... it was still subtitled though lol

Reply 5

the wolf at the door

11

I noticed today that Homer sat on the suicide machine thing and then Dr Hibbert usually says (well its kinda like this) "he's too fat, it'll merely arouse him." But this is just cut out so it looks like Homer is actually just killing himself with immense pleasure.

Reply 6

Champagne Supernova

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Rhymenocerous

A line was cut tonight where Hibbert said something about sexual release... it was still subtitled though lol

I noticed this.....oh well...

Reply 7

L i b

19

The BBC used to cut the Simpsons a hell of a lot more, with the intention of fitting it into a twenty minute slot without adverts.

Reply 8

Eritrea

Its cause its pre watershed. You cant feature any words/scenes addressing sex, drugs etc before 9pm

Reply 9

alex_hk90

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2 5 +

Just cuts made in syndication to fit in more ads. Nearly all American shows do it, and it's not C4's doing.

If it's not C4 then who is it? Sky1 doesn't have these cuts.

Reply 10

Champagne Supernova

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Eritrea

Its cause its pre watershed. You cant feature any words/scenes addressing sex, drugs etc before 9pm

It had Moe hiring an escort though and talking about orgasm-ville? :confused:

That certainly addresses sex before 9pm...

Reply 11

nearlyheadlessian

15

Some episodes of Scrubs get cut so much for their lunchtime showing on E4 that they aren't aired as they're too short and make no coherent sense.

Reply 12

username138106

alex_hk90

If it's not C4 then who is it? Sky1 doesn't have these cuts.

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/scg.html

Q: Why are syndicated episodes cut?

Episodes are cut to allow more time for commercial advertising. Episodes rarely have censorship cuts -- at least in the United States.

Back-end syndicated episodes are cut by Twentieth Television before they are distributed to the stations. Episodes in international syndication, however, are offered uncut so that the recepients may choose their own editing techniques.

Back-end syndicated episodes are also time-compressed. Episodes are played faster than normal, creating more time for advertising. Twentieth Television time-compresses episodes before they are distributed. This doesn't mean that the stations can't add more time compression or cuts. Usually stations don't; it may violate their contracts by changing the calculated cost of showing the episodes, versus "out of the box" commercial time.

Reply 13

Eritrea

Orgasms a scientfic term, boner would probably be inappropriate for kids who might watching.

Reply 14

hobo06

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2 5 +

Just cuts made in syndication to fit in more ads. Nearly all American shows do it, and it's not C4's doing.

Not entirely true. C4 do do a lot of editing themselves. I read an article about the editing of Scrubs a while back. They show the same episodes at 2 or 3 times in the day, the earlier showings are edited, whereas the later showings (about 12am I think) are not.

Reply 15

alex_hk90

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2 5 +

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/scg.html

Q: Why are syndicated episodes cut?

Episodes are cut to allow more time for commercial advertising. Episodes rarely have censorship cuts -- at least in the United States.

Back-end syndicated episodes are cut by Twentieth Television before they are distributed to the stations. Episodes in international syndication, however, are offered uncut so that the recepients may choose their own editing techniques.

That would suggest that C4 do the cuts, in order to (as you said) allow for more advertising time.

Reply 16

harmonik

9

I forget that C4 shows newer episodes of the simpsons now, and not just repeats of like 1 - 8.

Reply 17

~Vicky~

1

Oh good god! The Simpsons! That London episode was absolutely abysmal!

Look, if you can't get out a roundabout, you're pretty much screwed up in life.

Also, the Queen does NOT go out to buy lightbulbs!

Did not crack one smile throughout the whole episode.

Reply 18

username138106

alex_hk90

That would suggest that C4 do the cuts, in order to (as you said) allow for more advertising time.

Mmmm... good point.

Those bastards!

Reply 19

Norfolkadam

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http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?p=13820539#post13820539

I noticed the same thing.

Channel 4 editing The Simpsons

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