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Disney constantly edits old TV shows. Episodes of the Simpsons are slowly being sanitized of "bad" things, for example.
Really? I know they dropped S03E01 because they didn't like Michael Jackson. The last time I checked, Disney+ still had a scene where Dr. Hibbert explained the "evil gene" that's shared by both Walt Disney and Hitler.
Most recent old ep I saw that I remember, there was a chloroform store with bottles of chloroform, up close, they each had a scribbled "chloroform" label on them, but they edited and lazily scribbled out the word on the bottles with a slightly different color at that, except for one angle when Homer's holding a bottle and they didn't scribble out the edge. Not the best example, just can't recall others. Scenes are completely cut, edited, removed.
Other shows have similar, there was an American Dad ep from the early seasons on replay now, news headline in the intro credits said a pro-union joke and they just whiteboxed over the headline.
Not that it's a new concept for them, apparently the original The Santa Clause movie had a 1-800-SPANK-ME joke I recall hearing as a young, that they edited out on the second VHS run of the movie and all subsequent runs.
they probably have problems with family guy now, since most parodies of seth mcfarlane is criticizing disney.
also waffling around with giving ORVILLE another season, since the show contradicts the GOP in everyway, and it gets conservative panties in a wad.
No need to single out Lindsey Graham, I'm sure it upsets all the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" snowflakes.
I watched the Orville and thought it was awesome, I was about to recommend it to my parents then I remembered ... That it totally goes against supply side Jesus.
i think pallacki had issues with the series being so inconsistent thats why she left the show, the seasons were too far and few between.