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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 91 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

The episode was also omitted from the streaming service Disney+.[51] The Slate journalist Isaac Butler criticized the removal as "an offense against art and the medium of television, and part of a growing trend of corporations using their consolidated power and the death of physical media to do damage control by destroying works by troublesome artists".

Stark Raving Dad - Wikipedia https://share.google/bkT2WOa5qDZKeQICR

Essentially corporate censorship for fear of maybe offending someone.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Essentially corporate censorship for fear of maybe offending someone.

and people will blame the wokes/DEI/whatever

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 40 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 1 points 4 hours ago

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)

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 9 points 18 hours ago

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.

[–] obsoleteacct@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago

That episode was officially restored in the US when the show went to Peacock.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 41 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Why did you short url a wikipedia link with google?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 20 hours ago

It's not even really shorter.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Apparently Google does that now with the share function automatically

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Cheeky cunts, aren't they?

[–] match@pawb.social 4 points 16 hours ago

nightmarish