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[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Do they not rerun this one anymore?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 108 points 1 day ago (5 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.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

One excerpt I enjoyed reading.

Michael Jackson guest-starred as Leon Kompowsky, but went uncredited (credited as John Jay Smith) for contractual reasons; his role was not confirmed until later. Jackson was a fan of the show and called its creator, Matt Groening, offering to do a guest spot. Jackson pitched several story ideas and wrote the song "Happy Birthday Lisa" for the episode. Leon's singing voice was performed by a Jackson soundalike, Kipp Lennon, due to Jackson's contractual obligations with his record company.[3] The episode references Jackson's career, with Kompowsky singing portions of the songs "Billie Jean" and "Ben".

Side note, why does this link above go through Google? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_Raving_Dad

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Side note, why does this link above go through Google?

Android browser share button doesn't copy the URL as shown. It prefixes the title to the clipboard content to help hide (behind "too long text") that it secretly, unprompted, uses the share.google link shortener / tracking service.

I got bit by it within the last week. Fuck that feature.

I think it used to have a way to actually copy the URL, but most mobile browsers are making that harder for a variety of reasons.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago

I recommend Firefox for Android, share works normally, and you can install extensions. I have one for ad blocking and one to keep YouTube running even when I minimize the browser or lock the screen.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day 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 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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)

[–] no_username@lemm.ee 5 points 20 hours ago

also dies immediately and has no bearing on the episode.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day 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 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 48 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why did you short url a wikipedia link with google?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Apparently Google does that now with the share function automatically

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

I guess we need to get that guy off Google shit then

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Cheeky cunts, aren't they?

[–] match@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

nightmarish

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

It's not even really shorter.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago

Essentially corporate censorship for fear of maybe offending someone.

and people will blame the wokes/DEI/whatever

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They famously took it off the air years ago because of the Michael Jackson stuff, but I don't know if that has changed.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I hate the way corpos rape art and culture.

literally Disney's primary business model for the last century

[–] MakkaPakka@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago

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"