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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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[–] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 1 points 11 hours ago

The Pokito (anime tv programming in Germany) had an awefull verstion of Naruro. Were they would sensor out the weapons.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 21 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 1 day 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.

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[–] 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 1 day ago

Monkeyfighting snakes on this Monday thru Friday plane is worse.

[–] poplargrove@lemmy.world 94 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 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ours@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

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

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

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

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

[–] 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) (12 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.

[–] AliSaket@mander.xyz 89 points 2 days ago (2 children)

lol yeah. They didn't edit out all the flirting though or all the embarassed or indignant reactions by the characters around them, which presents those "cousins" in a really interesting light ;)

The US version of Sailor Moon was also censored and edited in different other ways. IIRC:

  • All Tokyo references were changed to New York. So they've changed where the whole thing took place.
  • They changed all Japanese writings (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji)
  • Multiple characters had their gender or sex changed as to avoid homosexual relations.
  • The music was completely changed for some reason
  • They took out many scenes or even whole episodes if they thought, they might vaguely get into conflict with the FCC.
  • They scrapped a whole season, because the Sailor Starlights (I think that was their name?) changed gender in their magical transformation.
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[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 115 points 2 days ago (8 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...

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 60 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

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.

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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.

[–] 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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[–] 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.

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[–] Captain_Baka@feddit.org 165 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

South Park Season 1 Episode 7 (the episode where Cartman wears a Adolf Hitler costume for Halloween) was partially censored in Germany. Cartmans "Sieg Heil" was changed to "Wie Geil" (means "how cool"). I think the censoring there was actually funnier than the original.

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 23 hours ago

Oh! I see it now, thanks.

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

"frack me harder Mr. Peanutbutter!"

[–] 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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[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (8 children)

All those Monday to Friday snakes on this Monday to Friday plane.

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[–] AliSaket@mander.xyz 69 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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).

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (5 children)

TV censored version of Kill Bill hands down.

His name is buck, and he's here to party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePB8ZOv--bE

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