Man South Park used to be one of my favourite shows but I considered it dead when it moved to paramount+ my country didn’t even have access to paramount for like a year, now nobody cares
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Never watched this show, but isn't the point of the show basically to be saturatingly offensive? Why would you remove a shotgun-scatter subset of episodes?
They were always riding on the edge of being censored by the network. In some cases the network literally censored them right before airing (the Muhammed episodes) and in others they were just restricted after the airing (like the list above)
And Paramount also probably has a slightly different "that's still ok" standard than comedy Central had/has
In this case Paramount is consistent with southpark.cc.com, so apparently the stupid is contagious.
https://southpark.cc.com/episodes/4rcpa5/south-park-big-gay-al-s-gay-boat-ride-season-1-ep-4
What's wrong with big gay al?
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.
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.
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.
"Oh look, it's the Oppressors! Christians and Republicans and Nazis! Oh my!"
Omg they must've felt so good when they got that domain name back when URLs mattered
Has anyone watched the most recent season of The Rehearsal? Nathan mentions that an episode of his previous show "Nathan for You" was taken off Paramount Plus because it had a segment where he started a fashion line where the profits would go toward holocaust education and remembrance. So even though this was a positive thing, it still brings up the holocaust and is therefore too sensitive subject to air. He then proceeds to paint Paramount Plus as literal Nazis in proceeding episodes to drive his point home. Highly recommend if you haven't seen his new show yet.
That was such an amazing clip, I was absolutely howling.
By the way, have you managed to convince anyone to watch The Rehearsals or Nathan for you? I like both these shows but it's so hard to describe them to someone and make them even consider watching it
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I was super confused when I got to the second D&D episode of Community. Turns out, streaming banned the first one because an Asian man wears drowface. He appropriated dark elf culture. Eventually I pirated the episode and was very happy. Good story.
That one pissed me off because the whole joke was him being blissfully unaware of the potential racial connotations of his dark black face makeup and everyone being like "Woah what the fuck man." Like the joke wasn't "Haha look at this caricature of black people" it was "Haha look at this dumbass doing something racist by mistake."
The first D&D episode is so good, and it's unfortunate that you miss what was an excellent story because of overreaching insensitivity.
It's the best and most heartfelt episode of the series. I feel bad for the actor that played fat Neil.They even address the blackface in the episode. I don't know who are the mental midgets who make these decisions. Also, the cut episode of Bob and David is also idiotic.
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Proof that piracy is the best solution to overcome authoritarianism.
Broooo two days before the day after tomorrow is fucking golden though.
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Why the fuck would they remove Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride?
Also, cancelling Cancelled it peak irony.
Because it celebrates inclusion.
Kinda amazing that they would pull Big Gay Al, when that episode was lauded for presenting a gay guy as basically a normal, reasonable guy. One of the healthiest adults on the show.
But they don’t pull the “being trans is like wanting to be black to be better at basketball, or turning yourself into a dolphin”?
There’s something so fucked about the removal of that particular episode. South Park can be straight up homophobic at points, why would you take down one of the more positive episodes?
It's even blocked on southpark.cc.com! WTF
That makes zero sense.
Like that episode won a GLAAD award. Why would you remove something that was pretty historic in portraying gay people as normal and healthy?
I can’t really think of anything wrong with that episode, even by non South Park standards. This is really gross.
This is legitimately one of my favorite television episodes ever. Like, across all shows. It’s perfect in every way and such an amazing time capsule from the 90s.
So dumb, the episodes exist and can be watched without much hassle. Why even ban them? It's not changing the fact they exist and some of the best episodes.
Because most people people are stupid, emotional animals that couldn't critically think their way out of a paper bag.
It's the answer to SO many questions.
Anyone know where I can download the entire series for my server?
Edit: thank y'all I'll take a look when I get home!
fmhy.net
Qbit torrent has direct downloads these days.
I just downloaded the entire 130gb mega folder from 1337 lol
probably not gonna watch past the first few seasons but it gets my seed ratio up in the long term I'm not complaining
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