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[–] 120 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lisa it's your birthday, Happy birthday Lisa

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    i just ripped that season from my dvd collection. i should seed it. 🫣

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (34 children)

    Do they not rerun this one anymore?

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  • [–] 117 points 1 year ago (30 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.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Why did you short url a wikipedia link with google?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Apparently Google does that now with the share function automatically

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (6 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

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago* (5 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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (6 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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have FF installed, and set it as my default. (It's what links from Tusky use, at least.) I just happened to use the OS search bar which always (?) uses the Android browser.

    I have UBO installed on FF because it's the only way browsing the web leaves any content visible anymore.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I just happened to use the OS search bar which always (?) uses the Android browser.

    Ah right, I had that issue too.

    To avoid it I use the Lawnchair 3rd party launcher with a 5x5 grid, and placed a Firefox "search the web" Widget on the top row. Admittedly it's not perfect, I encountered a few bugs in Lawnchair before (though not recently), but it still annoyed me less than the default.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Switch to firefox. They're assholes too but at least no google tracking BS and you can install ublock origin

    Edit: just saw the other reply after I posted but let's be honest, you knew what you were getting into with lemmy 😅

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    This is a decades old story.

    The show runners themselves pulled the episode because the thought of Jackson using The Simpsons to get to kids was "icky" to put it lightly.

    Calling it corporate censorship, is just bullshit.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Not even remotely true. Disney pulled the episode in March 2019 after the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland premiered.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Doesn't change the fact it was the production staff of the Simpsons that pulled the episode. Not Disney,

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Correct. We don't need to make stuff up to hate Disney, there's plenty enough to hate already

    Brooks told The Wall Street Journal: "This was a treasured episode. There are a lot of great memories we have wrapped up in that one, and this certainly doesn't allow them to remain. I'm against book-burning of any kind. But this is our book, and we're allowed to take out a chapter."

    Death of the author, Brooks. You don't get to tear a page out of an already published book.

    That said, Disney's decision not to show that episode is a separate one. Both parties suck tbh

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    parties suck tbh

    I hope to fuck you're including the pedophile in that.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 1 year ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    If the episode didn't happen, why do I have the song stuck in my head Bart?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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 🏴‍☠️

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    One of the most well-known episodes. Who is saying this didn't happen?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Leon's even got his own questline in Tapped Out. Weird the episode's banned, but he's still A OK in alt media.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Community advanced DND episode was peak!!!!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    What, did they stop running the episode?

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago (11 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Fwiw, that song has been in my head ever since I saw this thread. Thanks everyone, I hate my life right now. 😉

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    All that disinfo about Micheal Jackson being a pedophile

    In March 2019, following the release of the documentary film Leaving Neverland, which details allegations against Jackson of child sexual assault, "Stark Raving Dad" was pulled from circulation. Jackson was previously tried and acquitted of child sexual abuse charges in 2005 and denied any wrongdoing.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Hmmm that’s old news why pull the episode now? I mean whatever I don’t really care it’s just weird.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They pulled it years ago, this meme is just referencing it

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    A shame, that episode was one of the better ones. What next, Sonic 3 being unavailable because MJ supposedly helped with the music?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Just to add cause I think it's neat, the tracks aren't actually new, but were used in the old PC version and even in the original beta. They're still new to most people, but I think it's interesting that these were technically the originals.

    I agree though, they're not as good.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Even if MJ is a pedophile, there are still more offensive episodes of the simpsons. Such as the pufferfish one.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It's the first Simpsons episode I remember seeing

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Wait, it this a legit debate? This episode actually happened...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    The episode where Homer is at the mental institute is so funny but what made me lose it is when he calls home to try and say he's coming back, only for Bart to answer and Homer to lose his shit and start threatening him..

    pure laughter

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    there was a john jay episode though

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago

    Never forget that after he died they finally admitted to finding his secret CP room.

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