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May 08, 2001 Holy Censors!

(Chose your own G-rated expletive)
, those TSS editors can be such prudes! To them it seems that mere mention of an illegal drug equals profanity. On Wednesday's show, Kate (current Extended Play host and former TSS host) was showing Leo "The Sims" game with the house party expansion pack. She had the game set for techno music, and the people in the game looked as though they were at a rave. Depending on whether you saw the live show or a repeat, Leo either said "Where's the ecstasy?" or "Where's the ________?" In the edited version it looked pretty lame when Kate responds to his comment, because the viewer has no idea what he said.

The censors did the same thing to Patrick a few weeks ago when Patrick was interviewing a guest from Wild Tangent, an online Java-based game site. The guest described how the first level of the game would be free, but then you would have to pay to get the other levels. Patrick observed, "It's like online gaming crack; the first taste is always free." Later on the repeat, "crack" was edited out. The over-eager censors on TSS should keep in mind that this makes the host look lame, because the missing word is not bleeped, just replaced with dead air. Also, if they are really so desperate to protect kids from corruptive influences, they should also edit out such evil phrases as "spam", "spyware" and "Windows ME".

Posted by Christy on May 08, 2001 10:30 PM

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