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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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 hours 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 2 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tenkard@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Damn I just thought it was a random south park episode

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Monkeyfighting snakes on this Monday thru Friday plane is worse.

I like in Repo Man how every "fuck you!" becomes "flip you!"

[–] poplargrove@lemmy.world 93 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (13 children)

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 1 day ago

Oh god!!!! That’s way worse!!!!

Cat Bukake!

[–] Enzy@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ours@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Furry cum. Bravo China, you've fixed it!

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

it's ok, because now everyone is having a good time!

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[–] ButtonMcLemming@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In the Teen Titans Go! episode "Uncle Jokes", Robin says "Ground cow" in Asian airings instead of "Ground beef" during the cow with no legs joke, thus making it unfunny.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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 1 day ago (1 children)

It's Sunny Always In Philadelphia?

[–] ours@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep.

They did the Lethal Weapon 5 thing which was hilarious.

[–] hydriplex@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ours@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Oh! I see it now, thanks.

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

"frack me harder Mr. Peanutbutter!"

[–] 2piradians@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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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[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 162 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (14 children)

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.

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[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 40 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 115 points 2 days ago (13 children)

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...

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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 80 points 2 days ago (15 children)

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.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 points 1 day ago

Yippi ki yey melon farmer

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[–] Jenpocalypse@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

The Malaysian version of Matrix cut out the kissing scene at the end.

MASH on Channel 10 (Australia) used to be so heavily censored they would splice two episodes into one.

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