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[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

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 that making that harder for a variety of reasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Essentially corporate censorship for fear of maybe offending someone.

and people will blame the wokes/DEI/whatever

[–] [email protected] 46 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

[–] [email protected] 22 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours 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)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

also dies immediately and has no bearing on the episode.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 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.