The Hollywood Reporter specifies on which episodes are being pulled from airing:
Austria’s ORF has already pulled two episodes set to broadcast: Episode 66, Marge Gets a Job, which features scientists Marie Curie and Pierre Curie dying of radiation poisoning; and Episode 346, On a Clear Day I Can’t See My Sister, in which characters joke about a nuclear meltdown. Tagesspeigel says ORF has held back eight Simpsons episodes until the end of April, when it will review its Springfield disaster policy.
Here in the US, FOX has handed out a list of episodes that contain jokes that could be objectionable and allowing whether or not to air them but no decision has been made yet. New episodes won’t be affected by this at all. [Hollywood Reporter via Mediate]
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Normandy
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 9:31 AMwow more censorship, just what we need, are we in china yet?
some rube
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 9:36 AMProof read your articles. Australia is not part of Europe.
Newtown Mack
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 11:40 AMWhat’s worse, is that the same mistake from the US story is published on the Aussie version of the site. Guys, if you need someone to read and correct the feed before you publish it I’m available.
matt
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 12:52 AMlol
“you know your are redneck, I mean, U.S. journalists, when you mistake Austria for Australia”
also, in the simpsons, nuclear emergencies are caused by homer’s delightful stupidity.
in Japan, there nuclear emergency was cause by a very big, and very well documented APOCALYPSE!!
Paul
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 9:37 AMSweet Australia is in Europe now.
Sean
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 10:00 AMIts a CARTOON people!!!
Pauly Seven
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 10:57 AMThat American journalists still can’t tell the difference between Australia and Austria is no real surprise.
If it isn’t inside the continental United States of Awesome, then it is all ‘foreign’.
Keith Drain
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 11:18 AMA little over sensitive aren’t we? Geez we need to hard the F*** up.
Ed
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 11:26 AMI can see why they did it. Sure it might be a little heavy handed, maybe a warning before the episode started. Motorstorm Apocolyps isn’t being released in Australia and New Zealand because of possible conflicts. Sure that was more to do with advertising than anything else, you can’t release a game you can’t advertise.
I think blowing up about it, declaring Australia is descending into an opressive communist regime is perhapse a little far fetched.
Ed
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 11:27 AMAlso who/what is the ORF? I googled it but couldn’t find anything.
Scott Fitzgerald
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 12:44 PMHere you go Ed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORF_(broadcaster)
Aaron
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 1:06 PMBloody hell, TV execs are the most spineless organism in existence.
I saw Billy Connolly on stage a few nights ago and he made a joke about the Newcastle Earthquakes, a damn funny joke I might add, and said that when something that awful happens, you have to find something to laugh about because what else can you do.
But hey, lets throw sheets over everything that might offend some tiny portion of the community (that gets offended by everything anyway) to the depreciation of everyone elses enjoyment.
matt
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 12:57 AMyeah… exactly who is this going to offend!?
ALL of the Japanese… who moved overseas to Austria… who lost someone in the earthquake disaster? how many of them are there really…
no wait! scratch that! whats it got to do with the earthquake!? as far as I can tell it will only offend a Japanese Native, living in Austria, who lost someone back home… due to the nuclear emergency??? I wasn’t aware anyone had even DIED as a result of that yet???
how about canceling any televised surfing competitions because they show big waves??
Anonymouse
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 5:13 PMWon’t somebody PLEASE think of the children?
Tom Reddock
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 10:59 PMNucular, it’s pronounced Nucular
adam smolkowicz
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 11:14 AMCome on they cant be that serious