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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Feb 21, 2021 12:36:31 GMT
13 Controversial TV Episodes:
01. COMMUNITY (Season 2) "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" - Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) appears wearing blackface. This episode has been removed from streaming services, such as Netflix, in several countries recently.
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Post by brimfin on Feb 21, 2021 21:55:25 GMT
13 Controversial TV Episodes:
01. COMMUNITY (Season 2) "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" - Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) appears wearing blackface. This episode has been removed from streaming services, such as Netflix, in several countries recently.
02. CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? "Hail to the Chief" (Season 2) - Toody and Muldoon are chosen to escort the President, but Muldoon is so nervous about doing everything perfectly he eventually takes something that makes him too relaxed and giddy. Eventually, the President is assigned other cops to guard him and the secret service guards Toody and Muldoon instead. The President at the time - 1962 - was President Kennedy and the episode concluded with footage of the real President Kennedy in a motorcade. A year later, he was assassinated while in a motorcade. As a result, the episode no longer seemed funny and was kept out of the rotation of reruns for years afterward.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Feb 22, 2021 15:37:16 GMT
13 Controversial TV Episodes:
01. COMMUNITY (Season 2) "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" - Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) appears wearing blackface. This episode has been removed from streaming services, such as Netflix, in several countries recently.
02. CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? "Hail to the Chief" (Season 2) - Toody and Muldoon are chosen to escort the President, but Muldoon is so nervous about doing everything perfectly he eventually takes something that makes him too relaxed and giddy. Eventually, the President is assigned other cops to guard him and the secret service guards Toody and Muldoon instead. The President at the time - 1962 - was President Kennedy and the episode concluded with footage of the real President Kennedy in a motorcade. A year later, he was assassinated while in a motorcade. As a result, the episode no longer seemed funny and was kept out of the rotation of reruns for years afterward.
03. DALLAS "Return To Camelot" (Season 10) Patrick Duffy had a change of heart and returned to the series after his character, Bobby Ewing, had been killed off during the finale of season 8. He appeared in the shower in the season 9 cliffhanger, and this episode picks up from there in season 10. Fans were weirded out that they even dared do such a thing and bummed that they wasted their time watching season 9.
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Post by brimfin on Feb 23, 2021 1:10:56 GMT
13 Controversial TV Episodes:
01. COMMUNITY (Season 2) "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" - Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) appears wearing blackface. This episode has been removed from streaming services, such as Netflix, in several countries recently.
02. CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? "Hail to the Chief" (Season 2) - Toody and Muldoon are chosen to escort the President, but Muldoon is so nervous about doing everything perfectly he eventually takes something that makes him too relaxed and giddy. Eventually, the President is assigned other cops to guard him and the secret service guards Toody and Muldoon instead. The President at the time - 1962 - was President Kennedy and the episode concluded with footage of the real President Kennedy in a motorcade. A year later, he was assassinated while in a motorcade. As a result, the episode no longer seemed funny and was kept out of the rotation of reruns for years afterward.
03. DALLAS "Return To Camelot" (Season 10) Patrick Duffy had a change of heart and returned to the series after his character, Bobby Ewing, had been killed off during the finale of season 8. He appeared in the shower in the season 9 cliffhanger, and this episode picks up from there in season 10. Fans were weirded out that they even dared do such a thing and bummed that they wasted their time watching season 9.
04. HAWAII FIVE-O (1968) "Bored, She Hung Herself" (Season 2) The story concerned a hippie and his girl friend, and their practice of temporarily choking themselves with a noose to get high. When the girl is found choked with the noose later on, it is thought to be an accident - but later it is proved that she was killed, then hung with the noose to make it look like an accident. Though the choking practice was never shown on camera, someone at home tried it a few days later and accidentally killed himself. As a result, producer Leonard Freeman made a legally binding agreement that the show never be aired again. Now, even after 50 years, it was never repeated, has never been shown in syndication, and when every season of the show was released on DVD - it was the only episode not to be released.
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Post by Catman on Feb 23, 2021 13:50:41 GMT
13 Controversial TV Episodes:
01. COMMUNITY (Season 2) "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" - Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) appears wearing blackface. This episode has been removed from streaming services, such as Netflix, in several countries recently.
02. CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? "Hail to the Chief" (Season 2) - Toody and Muldoon are chosen to escort the President, but Muldoon is so nervous about doing everything perfectly he eventually takes something that makes him too relaxed and giddy. Eventually, the President is assigned other cops to guard him and the secret service guards Toody and Muldoon instead. The President at the time - 1962 - was President Kennedy and the episode concluded with footage of the real President Kennedy in a motorcade. A year later, he was assassinated while in a motorcade. As a result, the episode no longer seemed funny and was kept out of the rotation of reruns for years afterward.
03. DALLAS "Return To Camelot" (Season 10) Patrick Duffy had a change of heart and returned to the series after his character, Bobby Ewing, had been killed off during the finale of season 8. He appeared in the shower in the season 9 cliffhanger, and this episode picks up from there in season 10. Fans were weirded out that they even dared do such a thing and bummed that they wasted their time watching season 9.
04. HAWAII FIVE-O (1968) "Bored, She Hung Herself" (Season 2) The story concerned a hippie and his girl friend, and their practice of temporarily choking themselves with a noose to get high. When the girl is found choked with the noose later on, it is thought to be an accident - but later it is proved that she was killed, then hung with the noose to make it look like an accident. Though the choking practice was never shown on camera, someone at home tried it a few days later and accidentally killed himself. As a result, producer Leonard Freeman made a legally binding agreement that the show never be aired again. Now, even after 50 years, it was never repeated, has never been shown in syndication, and when every season of the show was released on DVD - it was the only episode not to be released.
05. Dexter's Laboratory (Season 2) "Rude Removal" - Dexter creates a "rudeness removal system" to make DeeDee and himself more polite but creates extremely rude clones of both siblings. The episode never aired because the rude clones swore a lot, and even though the swearing was bleeped, the censors would not allow it on the air. The episode has only been shown at animation festivals and is available for viewing on YouTube.
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Post by brandomarlon2003 on Feb 23, 2021 14:20:38 GMT
13 Controversial TV Episodes:
01. COMMUNITY (Season 2) "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" - Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) appears wearing blackface. This episode has been removed from streaming services, such as Netflix, in several countries recently.
02. CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? "Hail to the Chief" (Season 2) - Toody and Muldoon are chosen to escort the President, but Muldoon is so nervous about doing everything perfectly he eventually takes something that makes him too relaxed and giddy. Eventually, the President is assigned other cops to guard him and the secret service guards Toody and Muldoon instead. The President at the time - 1962 - was President Kennedy and the episode concluded with footage of the real President Kennedy in a motorcade. A year later, he was assassinated while in a motorcade. As a result, the episode no longer seemed funny and was kept out of the rotation of reruns for years afterward.
03. DALLAS "Return To Camelot" (Season 10) Patrick Duffy had a change of heart and returned to the series after his character, Bobby Ewing, had been killed off during the finale of season 8. He appeared in the shower in the season 9 cliffhanger, and this episode picks up from there in season 10. Fans were weirded out that they even dared do such a thing and bummed that they wasted their time watching season 9.
04. HAWAII FIVE-O (1968) "Bored, She Hung Herself" (Season 2) The story concerned a hippie and his girl friend, and their practice of temporarily choking themselves with a noose to get high. When the girl is found choked with the noose later on, it is thought to be an accident - but later it is proved that she was killed, then hung with the noose to make it look like an accident. Though the choking practice was never shown on camera, someone at home tried it a few days later and accidentally killed himself. As a result, producer Leonard Freeman made a legally binding agreement that the show never be aired again. Now, even after 50 years, it was never repeated, has never been shown in syndication, and when every season of the show was released on DVD - it was the only episode not to be released.
05. Dexter's Laboratory (Season 2) "Rude Removal" - Dexter creates a "rudeness removal system" to make DeeDee and himself more polite but creates extremely rude clones of both siblings. The episode never aired because the rude clones swore a lot, and even though the swearing was bleeped, the censors would not allow it on the air. The episode has only been shown at animation festivals and is available for viewing on YouTube.
06. Seinfeld "The Puerto Rican Day" (1998) - Caught in massive traffic caused by the annual Puerto Rican Day parade, Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer have to deal with the crowds and events going on around their car. The first major snafu the show involves Kramer accidentally setting a Puerto Rican flag on fire and then proceeding to stamp it out. Secondly, after a mob damages Jerry's car, Kramer exclaims, "It's like this every day in Puerto Rico!" Claiming that the ethnic characters were portrayed as dated stereotypes, and that the flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was used in a disrespectful way, leaders from the community spoke out against the show. As a dominant ethnic group in New York City, Puerto Ricans staged protests at NBC headquarters, 30 Rockefeller Center, and the network eventually offered an apology for the episode.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Feb 25, 2021 17:17:12 GMT
13 Controversial TV Episodes:
01. COMMUNITY (Season 2) "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) appears wearing blackface. This episode has been removed from streaming services, such as Netflix, in several countries recently.
02. CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? "Hail to the Chief" (Season 2) - Toody and Muldoon are chosen to escort the President, but Muldoon is so nervous about doing everything perfectly he eventually takes something that makes him too relaxed and giddy. Eventually, the President is assigned other cops to guard him and the secret service guards Toody and Muldoon instead. The President at the time - 1962 - was President Kennedy and the episode concluded with footage of the real President Kennedy in a motorcade. A year later, he was assassinated while in a motorcade. As a result, the episode no longer seemed funny and was kept out of the rotation of reruns for years afterward.
03. DALLAS "Return To Camelot" (Season 10) Patrick Duffy had a change of heart and returned to the series after his character, Bobby Ewing, had been killed off during the finale of season 8. He appeared in the shower in the season 9 cliffhanger, and this episode picks up from there in season 10. Fans were weirded out that they even dared do such a thing and bummed that they wasted their time watching season 9.
04. HAWAII FIVE-O (1968) "Bored, She Hung Herself" (Season 2) The story concerned a hippie and his girl friend, and their practice of temporarily choking themselves with a noose to get high. When the girl is found choked with the noose later on, it is thought to be an accident - but later it is proved that she was killed, then hung with the noose to make it look like an accident. Though the choking practice was never shown on camera, someone at home tried it a few days later and accidentally killed himself. As a result, producer Leonard Freeman made a legally binding agreement that the show never be aired again. Now, even after 50 years, it was never repeated, has never been shown in syndication, and when every season of the show was released on DVD - it was the only episode not to be released.
05. DEXTER'S LABORATORY (Season 2) "Rude Removal" - Dexter creates a "rudeness removal system" to make DeeDee and himself more polite but creates extremely rude clones of both siblings. The episode never aired because the rude clones swore a lot, and even though the swearing was bleeped, the censors would not allow it on the air. The episode has only been shown at animation festivals and is available for viewing on YouTube.
06. SEINFELD "The Puerto Rican Day" (1998) - Caught in massive traffic caused by the annual Puerto Rican Day parade, Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer have to deal with the crowds and events going on around their car. The first major snafu the show involves Kramer accidentally setting a Puerto Rican flag on fire and then proceeding to stamp it out. Secondly, after a mob damages Jerry's car, Kramer exclaims, "It's like this every day in Puerto Rico!" Claiming that the ethnic characters were portrayed as dated stereotypes, and that the flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was used in a disrespectful way, leaders from the community spoke out against the show. As a dominant ethnic group in New York City, Puerto Ricans staged protests at NBC headquarters, 30 Rockefeller Center, and the network eventually offered an apology for the episode.
07. SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (Season 18) "Tim Robbins/Sinéad O'Connor" Musical guest Sinéad O'Connor caused a huge international stir when she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II and shouted, "Fight the real enemy!"
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Post by brimfin on Feb 26, 2021 2:11:48 GMT
13 Controversial TV Episodes:
01. COMMUNITY (Season 2) "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) appears wearing blackface. This episode has been removed from streaming services, such as Netflix, in several countries recently.
02. CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? "Hail to the Chief" (Season 2) - Toody and Muldoon are chosen to escort the President, but Muldoon is so nervous about doing everything perfectly he eventually takes something that makes him too relaxed and giddy. Eventually, the President is assigned other cops to guard him and the secret service guards Toody and Muldoon instead. The President at the time - 1962 - was President Kennedy and the episode concluded with footage of the real President Kennedy in a motorcade. A year later, he was assassinated while in a motorcade. As a result, the episode no longer seemed funny and was kept out of the rotation of reruns for years afterward.
03. DALLAS "Return To Camelot" (Season 10) Patrick Duffy had a change of heart and returned to the series after his character, Bobby Ewing, had been killed off during the finale of season 8. He appeared in the shower in the season 9 cliffhanger, and this episode picks up from there in season 10. Fans were weirded out that they even dared do such a thing and bummed that they wasted their time watching season 9.
04. HAWAII FIVE-O (1968) "Bored, She Hung Herself" (Season 2) The story concerned a hippie and his girl friend, and their practice of temporarily choking themselves with a noose to get high. When the girl is found choked with the noose later on, it is thought to be an accident - but later it is proved that she was killed, then hung with the noose to make it look like an accident. Though the choking practice was never shown on camera, someone at home tried it a few days later and accidentally killed himself. As a result, producer Leonard Freeman made a legally binding agreement that the show never be aired again. Now, even after 50 years, it was never repeated, has never been shown in syndication, and when every season of the show was released on DVD - it was the only episode not to be released.
05. DEXTER'S LABORATORY (Season 2) "Rude Removal" - Dexter creates a "rudeness removal system" to make DeeDee and himself more polite but creates extremely rude clones of both siblings. The episode never aired because the rude clones swore a lot, and even though the swearing was bleeped, the censors would not allow it on the air. The episode has only been shown at animation festivals and is available for viewing on YouTube.
06. SEINFELD "The Puerto Rican Day" (1998) - Caught in massive traffic caused by the annual Puerto Rican Day parade, Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer have to deal with the crowds and events going on around their car. The first major snafu the show involves Kramer accidentally setting a Puerto Rican flag on fire and then proceeding to stamp it out. Secondly, after a mob damages Jerry's car, Kramer exclaims, "It's like this every day in Puerto Rico!" Claiming that the ethnic characters were portrayed as dated stereotypes, and that the flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was used in a disrespectful way, leaders from the community spoke out against the show. As a dominant ethnic group in New York City, Puerto Ricans staged protests at NBC headquarters, 30 Rockefeller Center, and the network eventually offered an apology for the episode.
07. SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (Season 18) "Tim Robbins/Sinéad O'Connor" Musical guest Sinéad O'Connor caused a huge international stir when she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II and shouted, "Fight the real enemy!"
08. NURSES (Season 1-2021) "Achilles Heel" Just a few days ago, NBC aired this episode of a Canadian series. One scene featured Orthodox Jews refusing to accept modern medicine. When a nurse suggests a bone graft from a cadaver for the Jewish patient, his Jewish father replies, "A dead goyim leg from an Arab, a woman, God forbid an Arab woman?" Several Jewish people rightly protested these ignorant racist stereotypes. NBC was finally pressured into removing the episode from its On Demand service and promising to never air it again.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Feb 26, 2021 12:24:28 GMT
13 Controversial TV Episodes:
01. COMMUNITY (Season 2) "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) appears wearing blackface. This episode has been removed from streaming services, such as Netflix, in several countries recently.
02. CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? "Hail to the Chief" (Season 2) - Toody and Muldoon are chosen to escort the President, but Muldoon is so nervous about doing everything perfectly he eventually takes something that makes him too relaxed and giddy. Eventually, the President is assigned other cops to guard him and the secret service guards Toody and Muldoon instead. The President at the time - 1962 - was President Kennedy and the episode concluded with footage of the real President Kennedy in a motorcade. A year later, he was assassinated while in a motorcade. As a result, the episode no longer seemed funny and was kept out of the rotation of reruns for years afterward.
03. DALLAS "Return To Camelot" (Season 10) Patrick Duffy had a change of heart and returned to the series after his character, Bobby Ewing, had been killed off during the finale of season 8. He appeared in the shower in the season 9 cliffhanger, and this episode picks up from there in season 10. Fans were weirded out that they even dared do such a thing and bummed that they wasted their time watching season 9.
04. HAWAII FIVE-O (1968) "Bored, She Hung Herself" (Season 2) The story concerned a hippie and his girl friend, and their practice of temporarily choking themselves with a noose to get high. When the girl is found choked with the noose later on, it is thought to be an accident - but later it is proved that she was killed, then hung with the noose to make it look like an accident. Though the choking practice was never shown on camera, someone at home tried it a few days later and accidentally killed himself. As a result, producer Leonard Freeman made a legally binding agreement that the show never be aired again. Now, even after 50 years, it was never repeated, has never been shown in syndication, and when every season of the show was released on DVD - it was the only episode not to be released.
05. DEXTER'S LABORATORY (Season 2) "Rude Removal" - Dexter creates a "rudeness removal system" to make DeeDee and himself more polite but creates extremely rude clones of both siblings. The episode never aired because the rude clones swore a lot, and even though the swearing was bleeped, the censors would not allow it on the air. The episode has only been shown at animation festivals and is available for viewing on YouTube.
06. SEINFELD "The Puerto Rican Day" (1998) - Caught in massive traffic caused by the annual Puerto Rican Day parade, Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer have to deal with the crowds and events going on around their car. The first major snafu the show involves Kramer accidentally setting a Puerto Rican flag on fire and then proceeding to stamp it out. Secondly, after a mob damages Jerry's car, Kramer exclaims, "It's like this every day in Puerto Rico!" Claiming that the ethnic characters were portrayed as dated stereotypes, and that the flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was used in a disrespectful way, leaders from the community spoke out against the show. As a dominant ethnic group in New York City, Puerto Ricans staged protests at NBC headquarters, 30 Rockefeller Center, and the network eventually offered an apology for the episode.
07. SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (Season 18) "Tim Robbins/Sinéad O'Connor" Musical guest Sinéad O'Connor caused a huge international stir when she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II and shouted, "Fight the real enemy!"
08. NURSES (Season 1-2021) "Achilles Heel" Just a few days ago, NBC aired this episode of a Canadian series. One scene featured Orthodox Jews refusing to accept modern medicine. When a nurse suggests a bone graft from a cadaver for the Jewish patient, his Jewish father replies, "A dead goyim leg from an Arab, a woman, God forbid an Arab woman?" Several Jewish people rightly protested these ignorant racist stereotypes. NBC was finally pressured into removing the episode from its On Demand service and promising to never air it again.
09. 13 REASONS WHY (Season 1) "Tape 7, Side A" Graphic depiction of Hannah's suicide, the sequence was later removed in July 2019 due to pressure from the public and medical experts.
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Post by brimfin on Mar 1, 2021 0:24:21 GMT
13 Controversial TV Episodes:
01. COMMUNITY (Season 2) "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) appears wearing blackface. This episode has been removed from streaming services, such as Netflix, in several countries recently.
02. CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? "Hail to the Chief" (Season 2) - Toody and Muldoon are chosen to escort the President, but Muldoon is so nervous about doing everything perfectly he eventually takes something that makes him too relaxed and giddy. Eventually, the President is assigned other cops to guard him and the secret service guards Toody and Muldoon instead. The President at the time - 1962 - was President Kennedy and the episode concluded with footage of the real President Kennedy in a motorcade. A year later, he was assassinated while in a motorcade. As a result, the episode no longer seemed funny and was kept out of the rotation of reruns for years afterward.
03. DALLAS "Return To Camelot" (Season 10) Patrick Duffy had a change of heart and returned to the series after his character, Bobby Ewing, had been killed off during the finale of season 8. He appeared in the shower in the season 9 cliffhanger, and this episode picks up from there in season 10. Fans were weirded out that they even dared do such a thing and bummed that they wasted their time watching season 9.
04. HAWAII FIVE-O (1968) "Bored, She Hung Herself" (Season 2) The story concerned a hippie and his girl friend, and their practice of temporarily choking themselves with a noose to get high. When the girl is found choked with the noose later on, it is thought to be an accident - but later it is proved that she was killed, then hung with the noose to make it look like an accident. Though the choking practice was never shown on camera, someone at home tried it a few days later and accidentally killed himself. As a result, producer Leonard Freeman made a legally binding agreement that the show never be aired again. Now, even after 50 years, it was never repeated, has never been shown in syndication, and when every season of the show was released on DVD - it was the only episode not to be released.
05. DEXTER'S LABORATORY (Season 2) "Rude Removal" - Dexter creates a "rudeness removal system" to make DeeDee and himself more polite but creates extremely rude clones of both siblings. The episode never aired because the rude clones swore a lot, and even though the swearing was bleeped, the censors would not allow it on the air. The episode has only been shown at animation festivals and is available for viewing on YouTube.
06. SEINFELD "The Puerto Rican Day" (1998) - Caught in massive traffic caused by the annual Puerto Rican Day parade, Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer have to deal with the crowds and events going on around their car. The first major snafu the show involves Kramer accidentally setting a Puerto Rican flag on fire and then proceeding to stamp it out. Secondly, after a mob damages Jerry's car, Kramer exclaims, "It's like this every day in Puerto Rico!" Claiming that the ethnic characters were portrayed as dated stereotypes, and that the flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was used in a disrespectful way, leaders from the community spoke out against the show. As a dominant ethnic group in New York City, Puerto Ricans staged protests at NBC headquarters, 30 Rockefeller Center, and the network eventually offered an apology for the episode.
07. SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (Season 18) "Tim Robbins/Sinéad O'Connor" Musical guest Sinéad O'Connor caused a huge international stir when she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II and shouted, "Fight the real enemy!"
08. NURSES (Season 1-2021) "Achilles Heel" Just a few days ago, NBC aired this episode of a Canadian series. One scene featured Orthodox Jews refusing to accept modern medicine. When a nurse suggests a bone graft from a cadaver for the Jewish patient, his Jewish father replies, "A dead goyim leg from an Arab, a woman, God forbid an Arab woman?" Several Jewish people rightly protested these ignorant racist stereotypes. NBC was finally pressured into removing the episode from its On Demand service and promising to never air it again.
09. 13 REASONS WHY (Season 1) "Tape 7, Side A" Graphic depiction of Hannah's suicide, the sequence was later removed in July 2019 due to pressure from the public and medical experts.
10. THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (Season 1) "The Evil Three" Superman was considered a family-friendly show back in the 50's, so this episode where Jimmy Olsen and Perry White stay in a rundown hotel with a sinister trio - two crazy men and a wheelchair-bound old woman bothered some. There was a skeleton found in the basement that turned out to be someone the two men chained there and left to die after he refused to tell them where he'd hidden some money. When the old lady overhears too much in one scene, she is shoved down the staircase in her wheelchair. The footage of the skeleton in the basement was cut for network viewing and syndication, along with the shot of the lady being shoved down the stairs. (You just see the man lunge toward her and hear a crash afterward.) The scenes may have been restored for the DVDs though.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 1, 2021 19:19:42 GMT
13 Controversial TV Episodes:
01. COMMUNITY (Season 2) "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) appears wearing blackface. This episode has been removed from streaming services, such as Netflix, in several countries recently.
02. CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? "Hail to the Chief" (Season 2) - Toody and Muldoon are chosen to escort the President, but Muldoon is so nervous about doing everything perfectly he eventually takes something that makes him too relaxed and giddy. Eventually, the President is assigned other cops to guard him and the secret service guards Toody and Muldoon instead. The President at the time - 1962 - was President Kennedy and the episode concluded with footage of the real President Kennedy in a motorcade. A year later, he was assassinated while in a motorcade. As a result, the episode no longer seemed funny and was kept out of the rotation of reruns for years afterward.
03. DALLAS "Return To Camelot" (Season 10) Patrick Duffy had a change of heart and returned to the series after his character, Bobby Ewing, had been killed off during the finale of season 8. He appeared in the shower in the season 9 cliffhanger, and this episode picks up from there in season 10. Fans were weirded out that they even dared do such a thing and bummed that they wasted their time watching season 9.
04. HAWAII FIVE-O (1968) "Bored, She Hung Herself" (Season 2) The story concerned a hippie and his girl friend, and their practice of temporarily choking themselves with a noose to get high. When the girl is found choked with the noose later on, it is thought to be an accident - but later it is proved that she was killed, then hung with the noose to make it look like an accident. Though the choking practice was never shown on camera, someone at home tried it a few days later and accidentally killed himself. As a result, producer Leonard Freeman made a legally binding agreement that the show never be aired again. Now, even after 50 years, it was never repeated, has never been shown in syndication, and when every season of the show was released on DVD - it was the only episode not to be released.
05. DEXTER'S LABORATORY (Season 2) "Rude Removal" - Dexter creates a "rudeness removal system" to make DeeDee and himself more polite but creates extremely rude clones of both siblings. The episode never aired because the rude clones swore a lot, and even though the swearing was bleeped, the censors would not allow it on the air. The episode has only been shown at animation festivals and is available for viewing on YouTube.
06. SEINFELD "The Puerto Rican Day" (1998) - Caught in massive traffic caused by the annual Puerto Rican Day parade, Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer have to deal with the crowds and events going on around their car. The first major snafu the show involves Kramer accidentally setting a Puerto Rican flag on fire and then proceeding to stamp it out. Secondly, after a mob damages Jerry's car, Kramer exclaims, "It's like this every day in Puerto Rico!" Claiming that the ethnic characters were portrayed as dated stereotypes, and that the flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was used in a disrespectful way, leaders from the community spoke out against the show. As a dominant ethnic group in New York City, Puerto Ricans staged protests at NBC headquarters, 30 Rockefeller Center, and the network eventually offered an apology for the episode.
07. SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (Season 18) "Tim Robbins/Sinéad O'Connor" Musical guest Sinéad O'Connor caused a huge international stir when she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II and shouted, "Fight the real enemy!"
08. NURSES (Season 1-2021) "Achilles Heel" Just a few days ago, NBC aired this episode of a Canadian series. One scene featured Orthodox Jews refusing to accept modern medicine. When a nurse suggests a bone graft from a cadaver for the Jewish patient, his Jewish father replies, "A dead goyim leg from an Arab, a woman, God forbid an Arab woman?" Several Jewish people rightly protested these ignorant racist stereotypes. NBC was finally pressured into removing the episode from its On Demand service and promising to never air it again.
09. 13 REASONS WHY (Season 1) "Tape 7, Side A" Graphic depiction of Hannah's suicide, the sequence was later removed in July 2019 due to pressure from the public and medical experts.
10. THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (Season 1) "The Evil Three" Superman was considered a family-friendly show back in the 50's, so this episode where Jimmy Olsen and Perry White stay in a rundown hotel with a sinister trio - two crazy men and a wheelchair-bound old woman bothered some. There was a skeleton found in the basement that turned out to be someone the two men chained there and left to die after he refused to tell them where he'd hidden some money. When the old lady overhears too much in one scene, she is shoved down the staircase in her wheelchair. The footage of the skeleton in the basement was cut for network viewing and syndication, along with the shot of the lady being shoved down the stairs. (You just see the man lunge toward her and hear a crash afterward.) The scenes may have been restored for the DVDs though.
11. DIFF'RENT STROKES (Season 5) "The Bicycle Man" Arnold and Dudley become friends with the man who runs the bicycle shop. Only he has ulterior motives. Mega-controversial subject matter for a sitcom even now, so you can only imagine how awkwardly it was received in 1983.
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Post by brimfin on Mar 8, 2021 1:43:05 GMT
13 Controversial TV Episodes:
01. COMMUNITY (Season 2) "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) appears wearing blackface. This episode has been removed from streaming services, such as Netflix, in several countries recently.
02. CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? "Hail to the Chief" (Season 2) - Toody and Muldoon are chosen to escort the President, but Muldoon is so nervous about doing everything perfectly he eventually takes something that makes him too relaxed and giddy. Eventually, the President is assigned other cops to guard him and the secret service guards Toody and Muldoon instead. The President at the time - 1962 - was President Kennedy and the episode concluded with footage of the real President Kennedy in a motorcade. A year later, he was assassinated while in a motorcade. As a result, the episode no longer seemed funny and was kept out of the rotation of reruns for years afterward.
03. DALLAS "Return To Camelot" (Season 10) Patrick Duffy had a change of heart and returned to the series after his character, Bobby Ewing, had been killed off during the finale of season 8. He appeared in the shower in the season 9 cliffhanger, and this episode picks up from there in season 10. Fans were weirded out that they even dared do such a thing and bummed that they wasted their time watching season 9.
04. HAWAII FIVE-O (1968) "Bored, She Hung Herself" (Season 2) The story concerned a hippie and his girl friend, and their practice of temporarily choking themselves with a noose to get high. When the girl is found choked with the noose later on, it is thought to be an accident - but later it is proved that she was killed, then hung with the noose to make it look like an accident. Though the choking practice was never shown on camera, someone at home tried it a few days later and accidentally killed himself. As a result, producer Leonard Freeman made a legally binding agreement that the show never be aired again. Now, even after 50 years, it was never repeated, has never been shown in syndication, and when every season of the show was released on DVD - it was the only episode not to be released.
05. DEXTER'S LABORATORY (Season 2) "Rude Removal" - Dexter creates a "rudeness removal system" to make DeeDee and himself more polite but creates extremely rude clones of both siblings. The episode never aired because the rude clones swore a lot, and even though the swearing was bleeped, the censors would not allow it on the air. The episode has only been shown at animation festivals and is available for viewing on YouTube.
06. SEINFELD "The Puerto Rican Day" (1998) - Caught in massive traffic caused by the annual Puerto Rican Day parade, Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer have to deal with the crowds and events going on around their car. The first major snafu the show involves Kramer accidentally setting a Puerto Rican flag on fire and then proceeding to stamp it out. Secondly, after a mob damages Jerry's car, Kramer exclaims, "It's like this every day in Puerto Rico!" Claiming that the ethnic characters were portrayed as dated stereotypes, and that the flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was used in a disrespectful way, leaders from the community spoke out against the show. As a dominant ethnic group in New York City, Puerto Ricans staged protests at NBC headquarters, 30 Rockefeller Center, and the network eventually offered an apology for the episode.
07. SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (Season 18) "Tim Robbins/Sinéad O'Connor" Musical guest Sinéad O'Connor caused a huge international stir when she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II and shouted, "Fight the real enemy!"
08. NURSES (Season 1-2021) "Achilles Heel" Just a few days ago, NBC aired this episode of a Canadian series. One scene featured Orthodox Jews refusing to accept modern medicine. When a nurse suggests a bone graft from a cadaver for the Jewish patient, his Jewish father replies, "A dead goyim leg from an Arab, a woman, God forbid an Arab woman?" Several Jewish people rightly protested these ignorant racist stereotypes. NBC was finally pressured into removing the episode from its On Demand service and promising to never air it again.
09. 13 REASONS WHY (Season 1) "Tape 7, Side A" Graphic depiction of Hannah's suicide, the sequence was later removed in July 2019 due to pressure from the public and medical experts.
10. THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (Season 1) "The Evil Three" Superman was considered a family-friendly show back in the 50's, so this episode where Jimmy Olsen and Perry White stay in a rundown hotel with a sinister trio - two crazy men and a wheelchair-bound old woman bothered some. There was a skeleton found in the basement that turned out to be someone the two men chained there and left to die after he refused to tell them where he'd hidden some money. When the old lady overhears too much in one scene, she is shoved down the staircase in her wheelchair. The footage of the skeleton in the basement was cut for network viewing and syndication, along with the shot of the lady being shoved down the stairs. (You just see the man lunge toward her and hear a crash afterward.) The scenes may have been restored for the DVDs though.
11. DIFF'RENT STROKES (Season 5) "The Bicycle Man" Arnold and Dudley become friends with the man who runs the bicycle shop. Only he has ulterior motives. Mega-controversial subject matter for a sitcom even now, so you can only imagine how awkwardly it was received in 1983.
12. THE X-FILES (Season 4) "Home" A freshly-buried newborn baby's body leads Mulder and Scully to a small town with a sheriff names Andy Taylor and a deputy named Barney. But the story is anything but family-friendly dealing with a quadruple amputee mother and her inbred mentally-challenged sons, who in one memorable scene drive an old car to the sheriff's house to the tune of "Wonderful, Wonderful" and break into his house and beat him to death with baseball bats. I remember describing this plot to a pen pal of mine and continually adding phrases like "I am not making this up." The writers had not written a script for the show in the prior year and wanted to return with the darkest, sickest story they could think of. They succeeded. The episode wasn't rerun for years until one Halloween that came on a Friday. It was the first episode of the series to receive a "TV-MA" rating and is often kept out of standard rerun cycles of the show.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 8, 2021 15:04:55 GMT
13 Controversial TV Episodes:
01. COMMUNITY (Season 2) "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) appears wearing blackface. This episode has been removed from streaming services, such as Netflix, in several countries recently.
02. CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? "Hail to the Chief" (Season 2) - Toody and Muldoon are chosen to escort the President, but Muldoon is so nervous about doing everything perfectly he eventually takes something that makes him too relaxed and giddy. Eventually, the President is assigned other cops to guard him and the secret service guards Toody and Muldoon instead. The President at the time - 1962 - was President Kennedy and the episode concluded with footage of the real President Kennedy in a motorcade. A year later, he was assassinated while in a motorcade. As a result, the episode no longer seemed funny and was kept out of the rotation of reruns for years afterward.
03. DALLAS "Return To Camelot" (Season 10) Patrick Duffy had a change of heart and returned to the series after his character, Bobby Ewing, had been killed off during the finale of season 8. He appeared in the shower in the season 9 cliffhanger, and this episode picks up from there in season 10. Fans were weirded out that they even dared do such a thing and bummed that they wasted their time watching season 9.
04. HAWAII FIVE-O (1968) "Bored, She Hung Herself" (Season 2) The story concerned a hippie and his girl friend, and their practice of temporarily choking themselves with a noose to get high. When the girl is found choked with the noose later on, it is thought to be an accident - but later it is proved that she was killed, then hung with the noose to make it look like an accident. Though the choking practice was never shown on camera, someone at home tried it a few days later and accidentally killed himself. As a result, producer Leonard Freeman made a legally binding agreement that the show never be aired again. Now, even after 50 years, it was never repeated, has never been shown in syndication, and when every season of the show was released on DVD - it was the only episode not to be released.
05. DEXTER'S LABORATORY (Season 2) "Rude Removal" - Dexter creates a "rudeness removal system" to make DeeDee and himself more polite but creates extremely rude clones of both siblings. The episode never aired because the rude clones swore a lot, and even though the swearing was bleeped, the censors would not allow it on the air. The episode has only been shown at animation festivals and is available for viewing on YouTube.
06. SEINFELD "The Puerto Rican Day" (1998) - Caught in massive traffic caused by the annual Puerto Rican Day parade, Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer have to deal with the crowds and events going on around their car. The first major snafu the show involves Kramer accidentally setting a Puerto Rican flag on fire and then proceeding to stamp it out. Secondly, after a mob damages Jerry's car, Kramer exclaims, "It's like this every day in Puerto Rico!" Claiming that the ethnic characters were portrayed as dated stereotypes, and that the flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was used in a disrespectful way, leaders from the community spoke out against the show. As a dominant ethnic group in New York City, Puerto Ricans staged protests at NBC headquarters, 30 Rockefeller Center, and the network eventually offered an apology for the episode.
07. SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (Season 18) "Tim Robbins/Sinéad O'Connor" Musical guest Sinéad O'Connor caused a huge international stir when she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II and shouted, "Fight the real enemy!"
08. NURSES (Season 1-2021) "Achilles Heel" Just a few days ago, NBC aired this episode of a Canadian series. One scene featured Orthodox Jews refusing to accept modern medicine. When a nurse suggests a bone graft from a cadaver for the Jewish patient, his Jewish father replies, "A dead goyim leg from an Arab, a woman, God forbid an Arab woman?" Several Jewish people rightly protested these ignorant racist stereotypes. NBC was finally pressured into removing the episode from its On Demand service and promising to never air it again.
09. 13 REASONS WHY (Season 1) "Tape 7, Side A" Graphic depiction of Hannah's suicide, the sequence was later removed in July 2019 due to pressure from the public and medical experts.
10. THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (Season 1) "The Evil Three" Superman was considered a family-friendly show back in the 50's, so this episode where Jimmy Olsen and Perry White stay in a rundown hotel with a sinister trio - two crazy men and a wheelchair-bound old woman bothered some. There was a skeleton found in the basement that turned out to be someone the two men chained there and left to die after he refused to tell them where he'd hidden some money. When the old lady overhears too much in one scene, she is shoved down the staircase in her wheelchair. The footage of the skeleton in the basement was cut for network viewing and syndication, along with the shot of the lady being shoved down the stairs. (You just see the man lunge toward her and hear a crash afterward.) The scenes may have been restored for the DVDs though.
11. DIFF'RENT STROKES (Season 5) "The Bicycle Man" Arnold and Dudley become friends with the man who runs the bicycle shop. Only he has ulterior motives. Mega-controversial subject matter for a sitcom even now, so you can only imagine how awkwardly it was received in 1983.
12. THE X-FILES (Season 4) "Home" A freshly-buried newborn baby's body leads Mulder and Scully to a small town with a sheriff names Andy Taylor and a deputy named Barney. But the story is anything but family-friendly dealing with a quadruple amputee mother and her inbred mentally-challenged sons, who in one memorable scene drive an old car to the sheriff's house to the tune of "Wonderful, Wonderful" and break into his house and beat him to death with baseball bats. I remember describing this plot to a pen pal of mine and continually adding phrases like "I am not making this up." The writers had not written a script for the show in the prior year and wanted to return with the darkest, sickest story they could think of. They succeeded. The episode wasn't rerun for years until one Halloween that came on a Friday. It was the first episode of the series to receive a "TV-MA" rating and is often kept out of standard rerun cycles of the show.
13. THIRTYSOMETHING (Season 3) "Strangers" This episode showed Russell (David Marshall Grant) and Peter (Peter Frechette) in bed after sex, causing a number of advertisers to pull their commericals from the episode. The ABC network chose not to repeat the episode. The fact that the scene contained no revealing nudity, no kiss, or even any physical contact at all between between Grant and Frechette, just the fact that the two men were implied to have just had sex was enough to prompt the loss of about US $1.5 million worth of advertising revenue when many of the show's advertisers withdrew their commercials. It wasn't seen again until the series was released on DVD.
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Post by brandomarlon2003 on Mar 8, 2021 16:04:25 GMT
13 TV episodes that were the first of several episodes directed by one of the show's cast members.
01. SMALLVILLE (Season 8) "Power" - Directed by Allison Mack.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 8, 2021 16:43:27 GMT
13 TV episodes that were the first of several episodes directed by one of the show's cast members.
01. SMALLVILLE (Season 8) "Power" - Directed by Allison Mack 02. GREY'S ANATOMY (Season 7) "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)" - Directed by Kevin McKidd
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Post by Catman on Mar 8, 2021 17:34:16 GMT
13 TV episodes that were the first of several episodes directed by one of the show's cast members.
01. SMALLVILLE (Season 8) "Power" - Directed by Allison Mack 02. GREY'S ANATOMY (Season 7) "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)" - Directed by Kevin McKidd 03. Star Trek: Voyager (Season 6) "Riddles" - Directed by Roxann Dawson
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Post by brimfin on Mar 8, 2021 23:18:01 GMT
13 TV episodes that were the first of several episodes directed by one of the show's cast members.
01. SMALLVILLE (Season 8) "Power" - Directed by Allison Mack 02. GREY'S ANATOMY (Season 7) "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)" - Directed by Kevin McKidd 03. Star Trek: Voyager (Season 6) "Riddles" - Directed by Roxann Dawson 04. Criminal Minds (Season 5) - "Mosley Lane" - Directed by Matthew Gray Gubler
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Post by Catman on Mar 9, 2021 0:16:58 GMT
13 TV episodes that were the first of several episodes directed by one of the show's cast members.
01. SMALLVILLE (Season 8) "Power" - Directed by Allison Mack 02. GREY'S ANATOMY (Season 7) "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)" - Directed by Kevin McKidd 03. Star Trek: Voyager (Season 6) "Riddles" - Directed by Roxann Dawson 04. Criminal Minds (Season 5) - "Mosley Lane" - Directed by Matthew Gray Gubler 05. Star Trek: The Next Generation (Season 3) "The Offspring" - Directed by Jonathan Frakes
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Post by sandgrownun on Mar 9, 2021 0:52:17 GMT
13 TV episodes that were the first of several episodes directed by one of the show's cast members.
01. SMALLVILLE (Season 8) "Power" - Directed by Allison Mack 02. GREY'S ANATOMY (Season 7) "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)" - Directed by Kevin McKidd 03. Star Trek: Voyager (Season 6) "Riddles" - Directed by Roxann Dawson 04. Criminal Minds (Season 5) - "Mosley Lane" - Directed by Matthew Gray Gubler 05. Star Trek: The Next Generation (Season 3) "The Offspring" - Directed by Jonathan Frakes 06. M*A*S*H (Season 2) "Mail Call" - Directed by Alan Alda
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Post by brandomarlon2003 on Mar 9, 2021 14:40:05 GMT
13 TV episodes that were the first of several episodes directed by one of the show's cast members.
01. SMALLVILLE (Season 8) "Power" - Directed by Allison Mack 02. GREY'S ANATOMY (Season 7) "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)" - Directed by Kevin McKidd 03. Star Trek: Voyager (Season 6) "Riddles" - Directed by Roxann Dawson 04. Criminal Minds (Season 5) - "Mosley Lane" - Directed by Matthew Gray Gubler 05. Star Trek: The Next Generation (Season 3) "The Offspring" - Directed by Jonathan Frakes 06. M*A*S*H (Season 2) "Mail Call" - Directed by Alan Alda 07. BONANZA (Season 9) "To Die in Darkness" - Directed by Michael Landon
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