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What are some of the craziest censorship instances on TV shows you have seen? (lemmy.ml)

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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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[–] [email protected] 164 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Similarly, the episode titled "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" was supposed to be "An Elephant Fucks A Pig"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Elephant_Makes_Love_to_a_Pig#Production

Parker and Stone intended to call this episode "An Elephant Fucks a Pig", but changed the title under pressure from Comedy Central.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

Good. I would hate to think the elephant and the pig didn't love each other before fucking.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I always thought the "wie geil" was international for the joke to work. So that others think it's harmless... but I haven't seen it since years.