Censorship
When Homer is watching Do Shut Up, he says about the main characters "If they're not having a go with a bird, they're having a row with a wanker!" On Sky One, the last word in this line is redubbed with "bird", since the word "wanker" is considered obscene in the United Kingdom and is often censored in programs airing before the watershed. This is the second Simpsons episode using the word "wanker", after season nine's "Trash of the Titans". Both utterances of the word were censored in the United Kingdom.
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Famous quotes containing the word censorship:
“... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or books containing lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.”
—Robin Morgan (b. 1941)
“The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books—with one hand.”
—Robin Morgan (b. 1941)