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I was quite surprised to see the New Orleans song intact earlier. They started showing Series 4 last Friday and this is the first time in a while it’s been shown on Channel 4, in the first episode, Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes? (which is technically Series 3, but don’t get me started on that!), there were no edits at all its broadcast, this episode has always been cut previously in some form, usually removing the references to Bart’s desire to own a gun and subsequent NRA membership. Even then the BBC usually edited this episode historically. 

Maybe, just maybe Channel 4’s edits may not be as conservative going forwards…?

Hopefully so, but I doubt that will happen. In Kamp Krusty last night, they removed a still image of a cockfight (which wasn’t even violent), something that surely doesn’t need cutting. It would be interesting if some other episodes do have edits restored, such as the pornography store lines in Mr Plow (cut by Channel 4, but always shown by Sky and the BBC).

Yep, and a edit which I think was added recently in Kamp Krusty was the removal of Bart slapping Edna's rear in his dream at the start of the episode. 

I think Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes? has been uncut for a quite a while now since every C4 airing I've watched in recent years of it has all of the NRA stuff intact.

I also wonder with the restoration of the New Orleans song, which was cut due to C4's infamously bad timing in 2005, does this raise the question of episodes like the New York one to also be left alone? I'm also pretty sure references to attacks were uncut on later episodes such as Bart Mangled Banner and Rednecks and Broomsticks.