Top 10 Times The Simpsons Got Banned in Different Countries
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- Even as one of the tamer adult cartoons, "The Simpsons" has still run into trouble in different countries. For this list, we’ll be looking at episodes of this long-running animated series that were banned or censored in various countries due to content that was perceived as offensive or inappropriate. Our countdown includes "Little Big Mom" getting banned in Japan, "Stark Raving Dad" getting pulled from circulation, "A Midsummer's Nice Dream" getting banned in the United Kingdom, and more! Do you think any of these episodes should’ve been banned? Let us know in the comments.
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Do you think any of these episodes should’ve been banned? Let us know in the comments.
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I'm Brazilian. The Brazilian episode was never banned or censored. There were some threats to sue Fox, but nothing happened. Guess WatchMojo should also learn more about what happens here in Brazil.
@@luguiaro yep
New Orleans banned the episode: A Streetcar Named Marge
I am brazilian and I am pretty sure that "Blame it on Lisa" is the most rerunned episode of the simpsons here
( Brazilian here too ) I was about to say that ! And I actually like the episode :)
Same here. Come on, we are the Hue Hue Nation. We can't be that easily offended, right? Right?!
Lisa episodes are the worst!
It was a well acclaim episode, unless you're butthurted carioca (rio de janeiro's resident)
@@JoaoMASilva People in the USA just hate Lisa and her episodes, don’t listen to those losers in the United States, they have their own widely debated and deeply divided problems.
Out of all countries that got offended by the wacky antics of the Simpsons, it's Brazil that gotten the most offended, to the point of threatening to take legal action.
When will these idiots learn that this kind of reception only verifies the shown stereotypes as actual facts? The same happened with the Borat film and Kazakhstan.
Homer J. Simpson: “Ah, stupid sexy Flanders!”
Me: LOL
That gets me every time 😆
Ha!
Stark Raving Dad was banned in every country and yet it's only number three.
I thought for sure it would be number one
I am pretty sure Cape Fear was never bannad.
The SS Joke part is just cut out of this episode since the first time the episode aired on free tv.
It´ s the same with the episode in the name of the grandfather when Krusty speaks German they cut it out after before the reruns
Stark raving dad getting pulled from airing was pathetic and cowardly!😤
Specially when the sad documentary the guys involved I’ve already been found out to be liars!
I agree! A weak and cowardly mistake!
As a Brazilian, the episode was offensive but it wasn't that off from reality.
I’m just glad Canadians can take stereotypes with a laugh so the episode Boy Meets Curl wasn’t banned in Canada. The episode is based on the 2010 Winter Olympics and because of this the episode mostly takes place in Vancouver
Stark raving dad, is a damn good episode
I remember watching the mj episode alot as a 9 year old.
What some countries fail to realize is that The Simpsons' portrayals of other countries are not making fun of the countries, but actually making fun of how Americans perceive those countries to be.
The joke is American global ignorance.
And THAT is the big difference several countries that banned The Simpsons failed to take notice.
Oooooh
well,in case of Brazil,i think they were spot on
@@Rapamaru Why else would they be so offended lol.
I'm sure that global ignorance thing applies to other countries that aren't the target in the episode. Like what do France, Japan or Mozambique or wherever think of Brazil? Oh well, it's best to focus on what's happening locally.
Flanders: feels like I’m wearing nothing at all!nothing at all! nothing at all!
Homer: dah! Stupid sexy Flanders🤣
the episode Stark Raving Dad had an untitled sequel episode with Leon returning with a Prince persona this time around and the town of Springfield engaging in the free love stylings of Prince but the episode was unmade due to them being unable to procure Princes voice to voice Leon and the episode was deemed to be too raunchy and too much like Stark Raving Dad to be made.
Not to mention that Prince has already passed away.
Amazing how people can laugh at everyone else, but no jokes about themselves are allowed.
I don't know why the Michael Jackson episode is still banned; he was never convicted. People just decided after watching that "documentary" that he was guilty 😔
R.I.P Michael Jackson
Glad I have it on DVD 📀
Now Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo I can understand why it got controversy
But the MJ one boils my blood a lot. You’d think once the allegations first began, they’d pull the episode off the air, not do it after a dumb documentary was released
Like come on, films with Kevin Spacey don’t get banned, they stay.
Why does it have to be MJ in particular when both these guys were accused of the same thing and they all don’t sound true
It was also 10 years after he died
They showed it in memory when he died
Three things, MJ was proven innocent, Kevin Spacey has never been Black & MJ has never been rumored to have had accusers killed before giving testimony in court. Boils my blood too.
Stark Raving Dad is my favorite episode. 🥺💔
This reminds me of the final episode of Excel Saga being banned in Japan. It was bloody. I like it.
Awesome video
never knew about Little Big Mom being banned in Japan
@MINOLTA Toyota Dude 36 yes the video say this I never knew it got banned in Japan
The Michael Jackson episode is one more reason I'm very sad to see physical media slowly disappear.
I do own the Season 3 box set, and the great thing about that is that nobody will ever come knocking on my door to confiscate my DVDs because snowflakes suddenly decide that no one should ever be able to watch a certain episode again, or because of licensing or content distribution rights going awry or other BS reasons.
This issue has happened for a long time. Look at Song of the South. That's one of the ones that bothers me the most.
Please do similar videos with other cartoons like Family Guy, South Park, and others!
This made me miss the classic Simpson bold writing
Brazil is very sensitive. Years ago during a match on a tour of Brazil Chris Jericho (who was playing a bad guy at the time) took a Brazilian flag threw it on the ground and kicked it.
Brazil threaten to put him in jail and fine him (Police even took his passport when he got backstage) if he didn't apologize publicly. So he did and WWE suspended him for 30 days because the Brazilian government was still going to sue WWE.
From what I heard, India is probably the country with the most sensitivity on how it's portrayed. When Lucasfilm was out scouting locations for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the Indianan government wanted to see the script and make changes that they deemed too inappropriate. When the told the filmmakers they couldn't use the word, "Maharaja", they were like, "Forget this!" and ended up shooting in Sri Lanka instead.
I know you have other narrators for this channel, but when I see a topic like this, I automatically think Rebecca is going to narrate.
9:47 Those bodyguards did nothing
Out of all the possible episodes that could have been banned in Japan...
They should of put all these episodes to show 👍🏽
3:37 The Simpsons are for entertainment. Teaching kids not to use guns is what parents are for, assuming they even need to be told. I see no harm in this episode.
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So about 80% of all male superheroes and about half of female ones? 🤣
In Chile, the channel that broadcasted The Simpsons (Canal 13) was property of a catholic university (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) until 2017. They censored episodes such as 'Pray Anything' (Homer sues the Church and then owns the temple) and 'Three Gays of the Condo' (because of course), along with several scenes such as that in 'The Frying Game' when Reverend Lovejoy confronts a catholic priest.
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Thirty Minutes over Tokyo was probably the best way for me to finish watching the first ten seasons of The Simpsons, because the show was running out of original ideas during the 2000’s to the present day.
Mistake, seasons 11 to 20 are great aswell, I think it's worth watching up until and including season 29
@@leob4403 I think Season 29 is where I just stopped, except I never had the chance to finish the season and only saw the first episode, which is a parody to Game of Thrones.
I’m from Australia and I hated that episode where The Simpsons visited the country just because Bart did a prank call
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I think some countries can be so sensitive. If the Simpsons would make an episode about the Dutch then we would laugh with you.
The 'Die Bart, Die' joke also applies to our language, though admittedly we joke about the Germans whenever we can, after WW2.
The episode was never banned in Germany, so that part was ridiculous anyway. Only the SS guy may be cut, I think.
Stark Raving Dad is not on Disney+
That after 9 pm is called the watershed btw
FYI: The Netherlands airs ALL episodes and uncut,
Stark Raving Dad, is aired here without any issues,
China banning tv shows is nothing new, and Brazil complaining
about the clearly accurate portrayal of the country, is just hilarious :)
Some people can’t stand the truth
No show should be banned, it’s only a cartoon, meant to make light of things
anyone that gets offended by these eps are big babies that need to grow up
I’m from the UK and The Cartridge Family is one of my favourite episodes
I never understood what the backlash either. Its mostly making fun of the US with gun
Obsession.
When it's on channel 4, certain parts are just cut out
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The scene wear Homer attacks the emperor of Japan was really disrespectful and that’s why that episode never aired in Japan
3:37 Marge with white pearl necklace.
Same scene, 6 seconds later. Red pearl necklace.
5:14 Simpsons did it first
6:20 I think they have to banned ..Simpson tide too
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Huh - living in Germany and saw the Episode on Spot 5 many times...sooooo...not that well researched, eh?
Yeah United Kingdom Had to edit simpsons episode all the time
honestly with pulling the mj episode it was dumb to do, personally growing up with this show from the start way back in 89 some of us never really knew it was michael jackson in that episode to begin with... many years later tho and the internet we got more info about episodes in general, im honestly glad i still have my original dvd season 3 set as that episode granted isnt the greatest it doesnt feel good to watch the classic episodes without that episode, sadly tho right around my personal opinion season 10 is where they just wanted to be like south park... some say it was even earlier then that, the homer saying the f word cleaverly back in season 6 is where they say the show went downhill
Simpsons was never as crude or banal as South Park. While South park has some moments where it shines, overall Simpsons is far superior
Im from germany and cape fear isn‘t banned. I think they just cut out the Joke with english and german translation of „die Bart die“ because it makes mi sence in german.
The episode was never banned here
And the joke with "Die Bart, Die" is in the episode - Bob even says "Das ist Deutsch für die Bart."
Mojo’s got a bad factcheck …
I'm from the UK gun episode has airs 100s of times without cuts
Channel 4 always cut bits out. If you watch it on Disney plus or DVD you'd see the difference
Colombia didn't banned any Simpsons episodes except for Stark Raving Dad.
1. It seems The Simpsons depicted Brazil with a certain level of accuracy considering the country went to great lengths to "clean up" for the Olympics.
I wonder if that King of the Hill episode Returning Japanese where Cotton plans on spitting on the Prime Minister ever got banned in that country
#0: The entire series- North Korea
And the Simpsons can portray the Kim family for satirical purposes through any means
It's from two different things: 1. the writers roast every country the Simpsons go to, even the USA. 2. the writers since the turn of the millennium just don't seem to know what they're doing.
Wrong, there are loads of great episodes after 2000
Rio was dangerous for tourists at the time for the most part. So basically they didn't want people to know that and stop coming? Kinda muffed up. I guess it makes less sense these days since its so popular, but that doesn't change that it was true 20 years ago
#3 Thats wrong. On german TV the episode aired hundreds of times. The little scene with the ss guy got cut out.
Wait… I was a child when the Sideshow Bob episode aired in Germany. I saw it in the 90s.
Well... The simpsons have been on air since 1989, so that.. Makes sense
Was you offended?
He's Right ...U Prolly Shouldn't Do What Hommer Do 😄💯
The Simpsons can´t live without being banned in the rest of the world
In my opinion Australia and Brazil are perhaps the countries the Simpsons mock the most
I wish Australia would give their do-nothing PM a swift booting.
I don't think any of them should be banned. The series wouldn't make since and yes I'm aware I have consistency of TV shows
These episodes were great
all Simpson's episodes should not be ban
its a funny show
while most of these episodes have funny moments to laugh at i can agree 100% with this list on why all these episodes were banned in the countries they were trying to portray in this animated sitcom
7:32 Lofi Homer
I'm only watching this because I have Disney Plus and I have nothing else to watch
Michael Jackson is innocent
As a big fan of The Simpsons i have every episode mentioned in this video. 😆
Some people just don’t understand comedy.
I'm not a soccer lover just because I was born in Brazil.
What about "The Greatest Story Ever D'Ohed"? I'm pretty sure that both the Christian community and Israel were very unhappy with how the episode portrayed various sensitive issues
The most an actual Christian should do is say, "I don't care for that," then continue on with their day. It's not up to them to control the world (that's Catholicism). I don't know about Israel, so I can't comment about that.
The cartridge family wasn’t banned it just wasn’t aired at a sensitive time, it was reaired, never banned , I remember watching it in the UK as a child so it wasn’t banned.
Some people believe everything is a joke
Some people believe nothing is a joke
I believe there are lines you don't cross...and a couple of these got very close if not going over
sensitive much? it's a just a cartoon......
Why didn’t you show the SS officer?
I'm surprised Bart Vs Australia isn't on the list
One thing you must know about Australia: we love to make fun of ourselves.
Canada is always getting ridiculed by the Simpsons but I guess they are kinda right since we do appear to able to take a joke.
Abraham Simpson mention it The tree family of The Simpson was always bad like a curse, so isn't strange in every country they visit ends badly for Homer
Trying to keep up with Family Guy Bob's Burgers and Rick & Morty
im carioca (from rio de janeiro) and i found that episode hilarious
The problem that the simpsons got banned from other countries is because of homer and his carelessness if you wanna have a good vacation don't bring homer at all he brings nothing but disaster whenever he goes
Totally amazing video of banned episodes of the Simpsons in other countries,fantastic job watch mojo. Some of those episodes are great very enjoyable to watch of the Simpsons,much better then the new season new episode of the show too.
Well they are not worse or better off than south park.
No one should be immune from satire, because no one forces you to watch it
I don't think I've ever laughed once at this show.
Really?
Interesting
Die Bart, Die makes no sense according to Sideshow Bob as it says: The Bart, The and it's technically, the wrong gender of "the", it's supposed to be Der Bart, Der if it was actually supposed to be German
Offended? Don't watch!! Doh!!
Damn I forgot about the Micheal Jackson episode
Before watching: let's see how overly sensitive the world had become. XD
Then the USA should bann the entire Simpsons show...It is the best show to describe americans. I like it a lot.
Starting from no. 8
Imagine Family Guy did that 😓
they have
The Walt Disney Company should be banned in every single country😡👊🏻
😂
But that IS what Brazil's like.
😂
Top 10 shows that are past their sell by date surely The Simpsons is among them.