Blackboard cutoff gags

Maxxmuscle

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Did you notice that a lot of the Blackboard gags get cut out on FOX
from a lot of our favorite episodes? In Barts freind Falls in Love
they cut out the Blackboard Gag I will not snap bras. I assuming this
one was cut out because Fox didn't want boys doing that to girls.
What do you think of that? :)
 

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There was only one real 'controversial' blackboard gag. When one episode first came out, the gag read 'BUTT.COM IS NOT MY WEBSITE' or something of the same effect. Of course, figuring out that butt.com is probably a porno site, they decided to change it to 'BUTT.BUTT IS NOT MY WEBSITE'.
 

Ryan_

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i'd check if butt.com was a porno site, but being at school i don't want the administrators finding THAT in my history!
 

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PsycheEnFuego said:
There was only one real 'controversial' blackboard gag. When one episode first came out, the gag read 'BUTT.COM IS NOT MY WEBSITE' or something of the same effect. Of course, figuring out that butt.com is probably a porno site, they decided to change it to 'BUTT.BUTT IS NOT MY WEBSITE'.

I thought it was "BUTT@BUTT IS NOT MY E-MAIL".
 

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Maxxmuscle (or Richard, as I still like to call him) HAS been reading the thread. He just misunderstood something said in another thread regarding syndication and now believes all syndication cuts are censorship related.

At least, I think he does.
 

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Wavy Gravy said:
Maxxmuscle (or Richard, as I still like to call him) HAS been reading the thread. He just misunderstood something said in another thread regarding syndication and now believes all syndication cuts are censorship related.

At least, I think he does.

heh-heh..I'll just clarify to Maxxmuscle why syndication cuts are made:

  • To make room for commercials in reruns

What is cut is chosen because it has little effect on the narrarative of the episode.
 

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Hey, another sydication thread....I have to post this for every syndication thread.....

The Syndicators Can
(Sung to the tune of "The Garbageman Can" from 5F09)

Who can cut your jokes out?
Hack them up like so
Rearrange commercial breaks regardless of the flow
The syndicators?
Yes, the syndicators can

The syndicators can, and they do before you ever see the first-run show

Who replaces couch gags?
Thrives on greedy tricks?
Only repeat shows made after 1996? *
The syndicators?
Yes, the syndicators can

The back-end daytime slots
Are home to quite a lot
Of time-compression and re-edits
They split in half the ending credits
And foreigners can just forget it!

Who can?
Who can?
Who can?
Who can?

The syndicators can
'Cause the network says they can
They'll treat your shows ... like ... craaap!!!


[* An alternate to these lines:

Who replaced this couch gag
With one very old?
Who can fade to black before the punchline has been told?]
 

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SOMEDAY! ALL OF US NHC PEOPLE WILL ATTACK THOSE SYNDICATING LOSERS!!!!!! WE WILL RIP OFF THEIR EARS AND KICK THEIR SHINS! WE'LL BREAK THEIR NOSES AND CUT OFF THIER...ok a little far there...BUT WE'LL BURN DOWN THEIR HOUSES!!!!
 

Wavy Gravy

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Who came up with the idea of syndication cuts anyway? I mean, I understand that the network needs dough, but cutting whole scenes out of the episode is kind of unfair, especially for guys like me who have only been watching for 2 1/2 years.

While we're on the subject, I've wondered for a while - is "King of the Hill" cut in syndication too?
 
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