The stupidest censorship I’ve seen like this is Community’s first DnD episode. Chang dresses up as a drow and that is considered “blackface” even though they address it in the episode that he isn’t black but a drow. So goodbye episode on streaming.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Oh, man. A Drow in a long-sleeved Guayabera. That's an insult to my Cuban heritage. Keep it banned. /s
He's one of those weird seldarine drow that hangs out with the humans.
I mean, I guess if you're a drow and see this, you might be offended.
Not because it's drowface, but because it's a human, therefore not drow, and thus is beneath the drow.
They kind of have an extreme isolationist, and borderline racial superiority thing going on.
But they are also praying to a giant spider and kill their own children, so not exactly nice people.
Not offensive, but fucking terrifying!
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Has anyone watched the most recent season of The Rehearsal? Nathan mentions that an episode of his previous show "Nathan for You" was taken off Paramount Plus because it had a segment where he started a fashion line where the profits would go toward holocaust education and remembrance. So even though this was a positive thing, it still brings up the holocaust and is therefore too sensitive subject to air. He then proceeds to paint Paramount Plus as literal Nazis in proceeding episodes to drive his point home. Highly recommend if you haven't seen his new show yet.
That was such an amazing clip, I was absolutely howling.
By the way, have you managed to convince anyone to watch The Rehearsals or Nathan for you? I like both these shows but it's so hard to describe them to someone and make them even consider watching it
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Proof that piracy is the best solution to overcome authoritarianism.
And corporate bullshit
Reminds of the the time that Sony made a pretty advanced root kit to fight piracy. The only people that were not infected were the pirates who wouldn't have bought their CDs.
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This is legitimately the exact example I cite when explaining to people why I pirate. It's not just about about stuff being moved around across an ever increasing amount of services. The ability to pretend entire episodes don't even exist(super best friends and 200/201 have been banned for awhile now, long before this) is why I returned to piracy.
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Why the fuck would they remove Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride?
Also, cancelling Cancelled it peak irony.
This is legitimately one of my favorite television episodes ever. Like, across all shows. It’s perfect in every way and such an amazing time capsule from the 90s.
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I was super confused when I got to the second D&D episode of Community. Turns out, streaming banned the first one because an Asian man wears drowface. He appropriated dark elf culture. Eventually I pirated the episode and was very happy. Good story.
The first D&D episode is so good, and it's unfortunate that you miss what was an excellent story because of overreaching insensitivity.
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So dumb, the episodes exist and can be watched without much hassle. Why even ban them? It's not changing the fact they exist and some of the best episodes.
Because most people people are stupid, emotional animals that couldn't critically think their way out of a paper bag.
It's the answer to SO many questions.
Thanks, I have been meaning to get the full series on Blu-ray. Any idea if the older stuff has the vhs segues of Trey and Matt's skit shows?
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Most of these replies seem to be missing the reason. Paramount is trying to merge and needs FCC approval and the Trump administration has been using the FCC as a cudgel to keep them in line.
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Never watched this show, but isn't the point of the show basically to be saturatingly offensive? Why would you remove a shotgun-scatter subset of episodes?
They were always riding on the edge of being censored by the network. In some cases the network literally censored them right before airing (the Muhammed episodes) and in others they were just restricted after the airing (like the list above)
And Paramount also probably has a slightly different "that's still ok" standard than comedy Central had/has
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It's just a full season of their greatest episodes you're not getting, that's all. Pay up.
Imagine paying for Paramount Plus at all. I just stopped paying for it (card expired) and nothing changed. This was like a year ago, I never fixed the issue. Still watching a bunch of Star Trek. I don't think they run a very tight ship over there at Paramount, lol.
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Just watch them on their website for free https://www.southparkstudios.com/
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When I discovered South Park studios, I legit stopped pirating south park. It was great. Good (enough) quality, access to every episode afaik, and easy to use. Then they switched to Hulu for sps and it went to shit: ads, videos failing to load, ads failing to load in the middle of the video causing it to reset from the beginning, only a few seasons available at any particular time, etc.
Fuck all that shit.
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These are some of the best episodes ever. Boo on them for being censors
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The real surprise is why anyone wastes money on any of those overpriced steaming services. It's not a typo. I'd rather take a minor hit in resolution than pay those crap companies.
I have some good news, you don't have to take a hit to resolution. In fact, piracy probably provides better quality (blu ray rips)
Dont support the service. Plain simple. Well, I know you guys dont, but yea... just my 2 cents nobody asked for :D
fuck streaming services. just pirate it.
I still remember Adult Swim removing the Cowboy Bebop episode where they are flying in the Space Shuttle Columbia.
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What was the controversy in Simpsons Did It? All I remember is the epitomal line.
¥You sucked it out of a garden hose huh?"
I mean at this point, why even allow South Park to be streamed at all? The whole point of the show was deeply offensive tomfoolery and the social commentary.
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Imagine going to thrift stores for 15 minutes after work and ending up with all of these on DVD?
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