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User:Phinbart/UK cuts

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This is a list of cuts that have been made to episodes in the UK, and a list of episodes that only air after the 9pm watershed ? m̩==Episodes that air post-watershed==

  • "Weekend at Burnsie's" - Due to heavy drug use, it only airs after the watershed very rarely. Its time slot varies, most common to be 9:30pm. However, RTÉ Two airs this before the 9pm watershed.
  • "Love, Springfieldian Style" - Possibly due to drug references and bad language. This episode hardly airs, even after the watershed. This episode has aired previously at the 6pm slot on Channel 4, with cuts.
  • "Smoke on the Daughter" - This episode is only shown post-watershed on Channel 4, possibly due to themes revolving around smoking.
  • "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?" - Possibly due to sexual references. This episode has aired previously at the 6pm slot on Channel 4, uncut.
  • "American History X-cellent" - Possibly due to violence and drug references. This episode has aired previously at the 6pm slot on Channel 4, uncut.
  • "Whiskey Business" - Possibly due to suicide references.

Episodes that were temporarily banned

  • "A Streetcar Named Marge" - BBC2 once aired the episode, but it was never shown again, possibly because of the offensive song. In 2005, Channel 4 aired the episode right after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Channel 4 apologized and cut the song entirely from the episode. Now, this episode hardly ever airs.
  • "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" - This episode was due to air on BBC2 around the time of the 9/11 attacks, and was therefore pulled from the schedule. BBC2's rights expired before the channel could air the episode. On August 7, 2005, Sky1 finally aired the episode, with cuts to remove most (not all) shots of the Twin Towers.
  • "The Cartridge Family" - This was banned by Sky1 for constant foolishness with guns, and was later released on a VHS compilation, Too Hot For TV, so that British viewers could see it the episode. The episode was broadcast on BBC on October 26, 2001, with Sky finally airing it on September 26, 2005.

Cuts

Cuts are in bold.

Season 3

Saturdays of Thunder

Some of the "McBain" movie Homer was watching at the DVD store was cut out in UK airings on the BBC, which no longer airs the show but did at time of airing. The cuts are as follows:

(A waiter reaches into a turkey and retrieves a gun, he leads the laser-guider onto McBain's chest.)

Skowie: Everything's gonna be...

(Skowie reaches to retrieve a photo from McBain, getting in the way of the laser. The waiter shoots, but Skowie gets in the way of the bullet. The waiter doesn't stop shooting and keeps blasting Skowie, over and over again. We see the carnage from different angles. First from behind; then from above, where a ceiling fan blocks most of the violence; then we see it through a key-hole and finally through a steering wheel from an old boat. We see a close-up of the gun, as it keeps firing. The waiter stops firing, as Skowie grabs one of his many gun wounds, he falls to the floor screaming. The waiter leaps onto a motorbike, hidden behind the counter, and drives away. McBain runs after it, blasting at it. The waiter gets away as McBain returns to his fallen partner, who is lying in a huge puddle of blood.)

Skowie: Damn, damn, damn, damn. McBain, I'm not gonna make it.
McBain: Oh, stop talking crazy.
Skowie: Do one thing for me... get Mendoza.

(Skowie dies as his hand rolls over, photo of his wife and boat still in hand. grabs Skowie's body and listens for a heart beat, he then lets go and looks upwards.)

McBain: (yelling) Mendoza!

Season 4

Krusty Gets Kancelled

Ranier (on his new movie, Help! My Son Is a Nerd!): My son comes back from a fancy school and I am horrified to find he is a nerd!
Kent: Heh heh! I'm laughing already!
Rainier: It's not a comedy.
Kent: Oh.
(Coast Guard boat passes)
Coast Guard: Attention! This is the coast guard. A fifty-foot tidal wave is heading this way. All game shows off the beach.

(Everyone starts screaming as they notice the tidal wave.)

Barry White: Everyone, come up to my square. It's safe and it's sexy.

(Everyone gets into Barry's square, except Charlie) :Rainier Wolfcastle: Hurry up, Charlie, there's not much time. :Charlie: I ain't going nowhere. I have been in this square pert near 30 seasons and I ain't a-leavin' now. (He is hit by the tidal wave) (Cut to living room where Homer and Bart are watching.)

Homer: He's dead now.

(Homer and Bart laugh.)

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Gabbo: That ought to hold the little S.O.Bs
Arthur Crandall Shh!

(Bart laughs)

Cameraman: What?
Bart: Oh, it's too lowbrow
Cameraman: I'm quite lowbrow
'Bart: Some-one painted a botty limerick in the men's room wall.

(cameraman runs off and Bart turns on camera)

Arthur Crandall: Oh I do wish you would stop saying that.
Gabbo: The children of Springfield are all S.O.Bs
Kent Brockman: This language has no place on or off TV. Heh! that oughtta hold the little S.O.Bs What the...?
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Season 5

"Homer Loves Flanders"

Homer: I want everyone to know that this is Flanders! My friend
Lenny: What'd he say?
Carl: I dunno. Somethin' about being gay.





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"The Boy Who Knew Too Much"

Mrs. Krabappel: Now unfortunately, our school clocks have been running fast all semester, so today we all have to stay two extra hours to make up for the time we lost. Hah!

[Cut to a shot of the class. Everyone groans as Bart looks in his desk at a "Lil' Bastard Clock Tampering Kit".]

Originally, Bart does look in his desk at the "Lil' Bastard Clock Tampering Kit", but the "Lil' Bastard" part is blacked out. It is unknown whether this part is left in and the "Lil' Bastard" part is blacked out when the episode airs on Sky1.

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Possibly

Season 6

"Itchy & Scratchy Land"

Bart: So, Mr. Itchy, you think your god's gift of women, do ya?
Lisa: Don't do it, Bart.
(Bart pulls out his swingshot, he then pulls a stink bomb out of his "Lil' Bastard Travelling Kit". He puts the bomb in his swingshot and hurls it at the costumed Itchy.)

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Season 8

"The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"

The group of Japenese Yakuzas are introduced, and it then cuts to an above shot of one of the Yakuzas kicking Fat Tony.

Maude: Perhaps you've heard of the Yakuza... the Poison Fists of the Pacific Rim... the Japanese mafia.

Agnes: They'll kill ya five times before you hit the ground!

(Homer and Marge look confused. The two gangs stand at opposite ends, as they pull out weapons and wait for an attack. One of the Japanese guys throws a ninja star at Legs, Legs hits it aside with his knife. Another Japanese guy leaps at Fat Tony, Tony ducks. An all-out mob war ensues, as the two gangs hit each other and the like. Louie sneaks up behind one of the Japanese guys and starts strangling him with a copper wire. Another Japanese guy is punched in the face. One guy comes at Tony with a knife, Tony blocks him and punches him in the face.)

Fat Tony: Take that!

(Another guy sneaks up behind Tony and tries to choke him. Tony throws him over him, onto the ground.)

Fat Tony: Take this.

(Tony looks around, suddenly he is hit in the face with some nun-chucks.)

Fat Tony: Come here you little squirt.

(As Tony moves away, we now see Homer and Marge at their front door step.)








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Season 10

Treehouse of Horror IX

Apu:You cannot smoke in here. The sign is clearly posted, sir.

(points to tiny 'No Smoking' sign surrounded by Laramie adverts)

Moe: (coughs) Oh God, you smokers disgust me. Hey 'pu, you got a breakfast cereal for people with syphilis?

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Season 12

All from Channel 4:

  • HOMЯ -
    • On the animation convention sign, "F***ed-up" is changed to a second "Twisted".
    • In the "We're in the Money" musical number in Homer's mind, the voices are changed to sound more masculine.

Season 14

"The Bart of War" - as of August 21, 2013 airing.

A headbutting scene is cut.

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Season 19

"Treehouse of Horror XVIII" - as of October 19, 2012 airing.


Kodos: Actually I'm still alive. So technically, it's vivisection.
Homer walks towards Kodos with a pillow.
Homer: No one likes a know-it-all!
Homer puts the pillow over Kodos' mouth,




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Willie kicks his tractor, and it turns into Killy, who has chainsaw blades for hands.
Willie: I said - why won't you work?!
Killy lifts one of his chainsaw hands, and then he decapitates Willie




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Season 20

"Treehouse of Horror XIX" - as of October 22, 2013 airing.

The Grand Pumpkin walks toward Nelson. He looks terrified and pulls a much smaller pumpkin off the table.
Nelson: Touch me and I'll cut your friend!
The Grand Pumpkin: What do I care? That's a yellow pumpkin.
Nelson: *gasp* You're a racist!
The Grand Pumpkin: All pumpkins are racist. The difference is, I admit it!
He picks Nelson up and starts to chew him, then swallows him whole.
Nelson: I'd rather die than hate!

"Deadvertising" segment - as of October 22, 2013 airing.

Edward G. Robinson: Hey, you ripped me off, see?
Chief Wiggum: No I didn't, see?
Edward G. Robinson: You're gonna pay for what you've done, see?
He takes a gun out and shoots Wiggum.
Chief Wiggum: OWW I always thought I'd die of hepatitis... see?


"The Burns and the Bees" - as of October 28, 2013 airing.

A man in a gorilla suit bounces a basketball. He jumps onto a trampoline then gets shot down before putting the ball in the hoop.
Smithers: Uh, sir, were those real bullets?
Mr. Burns: Yes! Was that a real gorilla?
Smithers: No.
Cut to the "gorilla", lying unconscious on the floor with blood under him. More blood trickles out.
Mr. Burns: I see.
The crowd make disgusted noises, then leave the stadium.


All from Channel 4:

  • How the Test Was Won -
    • When Helen Lovejoy slips on Bart's skateboard in Homer's mind, the following is cut, until everyone else apart from Marge and Lindsay Naegle are killed and Marge goes round saying "Oh my God, Oh my God, we're totally liable!'
    • When Mr. Burns says 'Apaches' after a knife has struck him in the head, the scene in which Homer goes outside and tries to stop the blood is cut. Instead, it cuts to the scene wherein Mr. Burns is sat in a wheelchair with his head bandaged up.


"No Loan Again, Naturally" - as of November 1, 2013 airing.

Homer is standing on a stool next to a tree, getting ready to hang himself. Cut to him crying, then putting the noose around his neck. The tree falls on his car.
Homer: D'oh!

Season 21

Chief Wiggum: And, Simpson, you sit down at this picnic table here and grab a bite with me.
Krusty: Teacher's pet.
Chief Wiggum: Hey, find your nose, funny man. (throws Krusty's nose)
Krusty: There was cocaine in there. I won't last an hour. (then runs away crying)




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Season 22

"The Fool Monty" - cut first appeared November 28, 2010 on Sky1.

Cut from 16:21 to 16:26:

Lisa: What did you do with him?
Otto: Found a way to use him as a bong.
[Otto blows through Mr. Burns' nose and lights a candle next to his ear. Otto coughs and smoke comes from Burns' ears.]
Mr. Burns (woozy): Ooooooo-oooh.

A similar cut happened in the same episode, when it aired on Channel 4, as of November 25, 2014:

Lisa: What did you do with him?
Otto: Found a way to use him as a bong.
[Otto blows through Mr. Burns' nose and lights a candle next to his ear. Otto coughs and smoke comes from Burns' ears.]
Mr. Burns (woozy): Ooooooo-oooh.

"Donnie Fatso" - cut first appeared in 20 March 2011 on Sky1. - cut is present in most airings

Cut from 16:28 -

[A crowd is around the area where Fat Tony died. A person carries his body off, while his body's outline is on the floor. A man wheels Fat Tony on a trailer over to Homer, who is sitting in the Ice Cream Van wearing a blanket. Homer nods and a person covers the body with a different blanket. The trailer is wheeled off.]
FBI agent: Homer, I just wanna say that of all the rat-bastards that have been working for us, you were the snitchiest.
Homer: So that's it, you use me to kill a man, and all I get is a handshake and a blanket!

However, in the same episode when it aired on Channel 4 on November 27, 2014, they removed the word "bastard" when the FBI agent has a conversation with Homer.

"Moms I'd Like to Forget" - February 27, 2011 on Sky1. - cut is present in most airings

  • Full version - Bart lights the firework ball and it explodes while Homer is in the garage.
  • Cut version - Bart walks off, having decided not to light the firework ball. Then cuts to exterior of one of The Cool Moms' house.

The same episode - November 28, 2014 on Channel 4

Homer: Stupid Flanders' WiFi.
Moe: Actually, that wasn't the WiFi. It was my Bell's Palsy acting up.

"The Blue and the Gray" - March 25, 2011 on Sky1

  • Full version - A women version of Moe in Europe puts the rope around her neck.
  • Cut version - A women version of Moe in Europe stands on her stool, next to the rope is, before cutting to a different scene.

"The Fight Before Christmas" - April 22, 2011 on Sky1

In Bart's dream, the song is shortened. The scene where drugs fall down onto the models of soldiers is cut.

"Homer the Father" - Cut present after original airdate on Sky1.

Digby Sheridan: I slept with everyone in the cast. Including the dog.

Season 23

"The Food Wife" - from premiere on July 8, 2012 on Sky1.

[The meth lab owner lights the crystal meth in the tube. Homer is about to drink it when the police break in.]

Cutting is rare in the first airing of the episode.

"The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" - from premiere on July 22, 2012 on Sky1.

Director: Take two!

[Krusty and Annie are in bed together. They get under the covers then the credits roll.]

Krusty [voiceover]: Hey, wake up!

"Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" - from premiere on September 2, 2012 on Sky1.

[People in hooded jumpers approach Milhouse and Bart in an alley. Bart runs off-screen. Milhouse and Bart are chased through the alley, and Milhouse ends up with a mouth full of spray paint from a spray can. Fade to black. Fade into a scene, where in the people catch up with Bart and Milhouse.]

"Lisa Goes Gaga" - from premiere on October 21, 2012 on Sky1.

[Lady Gaga is going down what everyone is saying about Lisa on the school forums]
Lady Gaga: Little bastards!
[Lisa flops on her bed.]

Season 24

"Moonshine River" - from premiere on March 24, 2013 on Sky1.

The Couch Gag Contest segment is cut.