• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Nothing is wrong with Big Gay Al.

    Most likely there is some misunderstood joke in the episode that is getting the whole episode pulled. The football game announcers have a banter about one saying unacceptable things and it is probably one of those, but instead of censoring the one thing they just pulled the entire episode.

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      22 hours ago

      I did some googling, apparently its a holocaust joke that most networks are scared will attract litigation.

      Most of the other banned episodes are due to jokes about real life child death or acts of terrorism that the studios are concerned will either attract litigation or copycat killers.

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        21 hours ago

        Censoring the one joke instead of banning the entire episode including the overall positive message about acceptance would be a far better approach than this bullshit.

        Clearly they don’t understand that the show is mocking the character who says the holocaust joke, but at least they wouldn’t be dragging down everything else that is good with their overreaction.