Apparently CN has a problem with the phrase "Sweet zombie Jesus!" so where the professor says "Jesus" we hear nothing. :/

eh, CN's cool with footage. we've seen more than what Fry and Umbriell try to do on Mission Hill. it's language they have issues with (certain racial slurs like "kraut" and words like "asshole" they don't like either).

Well, the sex scene was ok.

BTW, I think the problem is they're saying Jesus in the exclamation. Which actually has been said on Sealab 2021. CN has had some double standards in the past. But talking about or just referencing Jesus is ok.

"Jesus! He's a robot!" -Stormy Waters (Sealab 2021)

 

Originally posted by shaddupshaddup:
I was stunned they would censor anything in Futurama.  What will be next?  When the crew eagerly awaits a meal from Bender laced with LSD?  When Leela says the best line of any ep:  'Then every religion is wrong!' It was OK on FOX at 7pm but 11pm in Adult Swim they start censoring???  Aaaaghh!!!  It was too good to be true, seeing complete eps.  I guess that rules out seeing any additional hot tub footage from that (otherwise lousy) ep earlier this year with Zoidberg eating a flag.  Is it worth writing Cartoon Network asking them to cut it out (egads, another online petition, those always work, don't they?).
Sorry, had to vent    .

dude. chill out! they censored one word over 25 episodes. i doubt they're going on a censoring rampage now. the hot tub scene isn't going anywhere (if you've watched Inuyasha on Adult Swim we've seen enough naked female flesh there). the relgious lines won't either because the "Cowboy Bebop" episode "Brain Scratch" had religious lines in it by the truckload (the new religion Scratch, questioning God's existance, etc.). But CN's not gonna start chopping out whole scenes and stuff.

if you do have to ask though email AdultSwim@turner.com about it.

Maybe we should send them an e-mail in which we say that we are VERY offended. Because of their censoring.

Hmmmm - No email from me for two reasons. 

First, Cartoon Network is doing us a huge favor by showing and promoting the episodes to begin with.  If any new episodes are ever made, a large part of the thanks will go to CN.  Second, the cutting of one word, though sad, did not hurt the episode or ruin a huge joke.  If every episode had suffered at the hands of a rabid censor, maybe, but this tiny cut was squarely aimed at keeping religious nuts off of their back because a lobster man equated Jesus with an undead minion of Satan.  Bibles have been heavily thumped over smaller things than that.

If it is that critical you hear the word "Jesus", the DVD will be available soon enough.  In the meantime, think of everything in Futurama that other channels would have cut (and I'm sure the Brits could tell us a story or two) and realize it's not that big a deal.

We should be sending CN emails thanking them and letting them know we are watching, not complaining about something this insignificant.  If whole scenes or joke punchlines start to go missing, then we have a problem.  But as far as I'm concerned, if they have to cut the word or two in order to show me five episodes of Futurama a week, so be it.

Jeez...I didn't think it was that bad. Letter-writing worthy bad.

Wow. A couple people are pissed over at alt.tv.futurama .

BTW, this probably means CN will have their finger on the dump button during a certain phrase in "Bender Gets Made" too.

I'm not defending idiocy - I'm just saying that the decisions we percieve to be idiotic are made by qualified (I hope) individuals who make dozens of cuts day by day.

But anyway, it's a really stupid cut to make.

Written text:
Johnson and Mills Fish Sticks
-Now with more sodium
-Sweet Jesus!

They never say "Sweet Jesus", they only show it in a text balloon of one of the characters.

They also self-censored the word "fuck" by bleeping it out.

If anyone sends an e-mail, be polite and start with saying that you really appreciate that they show futurama.

I think this is my 7000th post

CyberKnight: Yes, unfortunately, the U.S. has a very large number of fundamentalist Christians that can control society. You are stereotyping Americans, but it's an accurate stereotype.

I personally think that it's better that CN censor one word than fall under the threat of the fundamentalists (a large group - those who remember, the Southern Baptists boycotted Disney/Capital Cities/ABC for being too "gay-friendly" ) boycotting all of Turner Broadcasting and CN dropping Futurama because of it.

Accept it and be happy that CN is airing Futurama at all. Fox isn't.

Aw, "Sweet Zombie Jesus" was one of the funniest lines in the season!  Weird why Adult Swim would edit it, but they leave words like bastard alone.  O~well who would of thought that CN would have higher censorship than FOX! 

Will they show "A Tale of Two Santas"?

I think the reason for the censor wasn't the word Jesus in and of itself - it was the context.  Sweet Zombie Jesus, while funny, could be construed as offensive to some people, for religous reasons.  I mean, think of the actual image of a Zombie Jesus, it opens up a whole pandora's box of religous "issues" that I think Cartoon Network would rather not have to address.

While I'm kind of disappointed at this censoring, in a way I can understand why they did it, and why other seeminly offensive words were left in.  Just the word Jesus by itself would probably slip through, but since "Zombie Jesus" could be religitorially (not an acual word) offensive, they chose to avoid that issue.

i don´t think that somebody is religious...

 

Originally posted by Nixorbo:
I still don't understand why a cut of a grand total of four syllables thus far is that much of a problem.

Oh, I don't think it's a problem at all.  While I would have much rather they didn't censor it, I can understand where they're coming from, which is what I was trying to convey.

It's definitely not the end of the world 

Yeah, and also it was five syllables!

Sweet Zom Bie Jes Us = 5 Syllables

Ho Ly Zom Bie Jes Us = 6 Syllables

The censorship isn't outrageous. But for "Adult" Swim that clearly says it is intended for mature audience 18 years and older, it is bizzarre.  I found many of the cartoons they show go really ...um'... mature so "Sweet Zombie Jesus" shouldn't of been that hot of an issue. 

I'd think Turner might of been mad at the Atlanta jab.    Seriously one of the censors on CN must be pretty religious or not tolerate poking fun at Jesus.

O~well keep the episodes coming! :-D

 

Originally posted by lfv:
"Jesus" + "Jesus = 4

5?

They only cut out the word "Jesus"? I thought they cut out the whole line in Deep South. (but I missed Bender Gets Made, so even if I'm right, it's more than 5 syllables. Oh well.)

OK, you people want something to complain about Cartoon Network?  Here's one: at least twice now, they've completely spoiled an episode in the preview commercial.  They showed the scene where Fry makes the worms leave in Parasites Lost and they also showed the scene from Bendin' in the Wind where Bender miraculously recovers in the hotel room.  I think there was one more, but I'm not sure.