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Do they not rerun this one anymore?
Stark Raving Dad - Wikipedia https://share.google/bkT2WOa5qDZKeQICR
Essentially corporate censorship for fear of maybe offending someone.
and people will blame the wokes/DEI/whatever
They do this with sunny, a bunch of sunny episodes are gone because of racial stuff, one including where Dee pretends to be Puerto Rican. As a Latino I found that episode hilarious and im more offended that they removed it.
If they removed the Simpsons Michael Jackson episode, they’ll probably delete the Sunny episodes with P Diddy
Also, Community, which is especially absurd in the case of the episode where Chang dons black facepaint to play... a dark elf. Guess it was thought that any real dark elf viewers could be offended.
Wasn't the joke that Chang was in fact doing blackface, and everyone else scolds him for it? (this doesn't make it good to remove, just changes the context)
That episode was officially restored in the US when the show went to Peacock.
My real annoyance with that is Chang was on screen for maybe a minute or 2 totally time in the paint. Couldn't they just show a different characters face or have up a black screen with the audio or something. I'm sure it's harder than what I'm thinking but it can't be impossible. I just like this episode. I had to find it elsewhere when I was rewatching community.
Why did you short url a wikipedia link with google?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_Raving_Dad
It's not even really shorter.
Apparently Google does that now with the share function automatically
Cheeky cunts, aren't they?
nightmarish
This is a decades old story.
The show runners themselves pulled the episode because the thought of Jackson using The Simpsons to get to kids was "icky" to put it lightly.
Calling it corporate censorship, is just bullshit.
Not even remotely true. Disney pulled the episode in March 2019 after the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland premiered.
Doesn't change the fact it was the production staff of the Simpsons that pulled the episode. Not Disney,
They famously took it off the air years ago because of the Michael Jackson stuff, but I don't know if that has changed.
It has not on the high seas. Also Disney shows the old 4:3 episodes in 16:9, cropping away like 30% of the image. I hate the way corpos rape art and culture.
You can get it to display them in 4:3, if you go to details (alongside the episodes and suggested tabs) and uncheck "Remastered aspect ratio"
literally Disney's primary business model for the last century