10-04-2024, 10:15 PM
I do actually remember looking at a website in the early 00s outlining the BBC and Sky cuts, though even then it hadn't been updated in years, so it was out of date (I think it only went up to season 10 on sky, and obviously even less on the BBC), and didn't aknowledge the stuff Sky had been putting back in over the previous 2 or 3 years. It did highlight just how much more Sky cut than the BBC though. There really were some strange cuts, even just saying "crap", "ass" and "sex" was enough sometimes.
I do remember one bizarre BBC cut, with Richard Nixon's "I'm not dead yet" line in one of the halloween episodes... which seemingly they cut for no reason other than the fact he had died by the time they showed it, as if people wouldn't understand it had been made a few years earlier. I'm pretty sure BBC2 left in both uses of "pissed off" in Trash Of The Titans though... but of course they cut out the W word.
Not as bad as when Family Guy was first shown in the UK though, as both Sky One and Channel 4 put it on around 6PM-ish, obviously cut to ribbons. It didn't do that well and vanished after not very long, was only when BBC2 and 3 picked it up a few years later and put it on post-watershed it really took off here.
I do remember one bizarre BBC cut, with Richard Nixon's "I'm not dead yet" line in one of the halloween episodes... which seemingly they cut for no reason other than the fact he had died by the time they showed it, as if people wouldn't understand it had been made a few years earlier. I'm pretty sure BBC2 left in both uses of "pissed off" in Trash Of The Titans though... but of course they cut out the W word.
Not as bad as when Family Guy was first shown in the UK though, as both Sky One and Channel 4 put it on around 6PM-ish, obviously cut to ribbons. It didn't do that well and vanished after not very long, was only when BBC2 and 3 picked it up a few years later and put it on post-watershed it really took off here.