If the episode didn't happen, why do I have the song stuck in my head Bart?
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2025
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It’s literally one of the best episodes of that season (although many of s3 were great!). I get why but wtf. Glad I have a copy 🏴☠️
i just ripped that season from my dvd collection. i should seed it. 🫣
Here... You dropped this: 👑
Leon's even got his own questline in Tapped Out. Weird the episode's banned, but he's still A OK in alt media.
Do they not rerun this one anymore?
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".
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Essentially corporate censorship for fear of maybe offending someone.
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)
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.
That episode was officially restored in the US when the show went to Peacock.
Why did you short url a wikipedia link with google?
It's not even really shorter.
Apparently Google does that now with the share function automatically
Cheeky cunts, aren't they?
nightmarish
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"
I hate the way corpos rape art and culture.
literally Disney's primary business model for the last century
A shame, that episode was one of the better ones. What next, Sonic 3 being unavailable because MJ supposedly helped with the music?
No, they just wrote new tracks for the most recent re-release, Sonic Origins. Not because Jackson is controversial or anything, but because there was some kind of copyright issue.
Personally I never liked Carnival Night Zone, but the rest of the tracks were a downgrade.
I bet it’s probably more the race bits in the episode than MJ himself.
“the big white guy who thinks he’s the little black guy who thinks he’s the white guy” line
One of the most well-known episodes. Who is saying this didn't happen?
Nobody is actually claiming it doesn't exist. It just isn't available for streaming because everyone involved doesn't want to stream it.