Mature content disclaimer on SciFi (WAR STORIES)
POSTED BY: cwnek
UPDATED: Monday, November 28, 2005 18:41
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Noticed something funny while watching WAR STORIES tonight on SciFi. A hide-the-kids, mature content disclaimer following a commercial break. The warning preceded a brief scene depicting an encounter between Inara and a female client. Later in the episode: torture, gunfights, Mal GETTING HIS EAR CUT OFF, etc. No such disclaimer. I suppose this shouldn't come as a surprise. I remember backlash on the fox.com Firefly message board back when this episode originally aired.
Aside: Hopefully there were new tuners in this evening. the trio of OUT OF GAS, ARIEL, and WAR STORIES is about as good as it gets.
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uhmmm.. I cannot say for certain.. but I suspect the disclaimer was for the whole episode.. not just the first bit.. It was fun to watch with the intros.. but I prefer my dvds with no commericials...
Chindi
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Sadly they probably have to do this just in case. In Canada the Space channel just runs disclaimers after every commercial if there is anything objectionable in the episode (which means pretty much every show has one).
Of course sometimes they run the wrong one...
"The products endorsed are not affiliated with this station. The Space Channel is not responsible for the claim made regarding any product or service shown"
Hugely paraphrased, but your basic infomercial disclaimer.
Too bad it aired at the beginning of Battlestar Galactica 
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Anyone else notice during "Ariel" they censored Jayne's line "Smells like crotch!", leaving out the crotch? Too risque for cable?
MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."
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Wonder what they're going to do tonight with "Trash"? That's a nice long shot of a nakid Mal at the beginning and a little bit more at the end (pun intended).
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Yeah, I supported the re-broadcast by watching them on TV, until they censored "crotch." I don't do censorship, they lost me right then; back to my DVDs.
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Quote:I remember that.
Originally posted by Kellaina:
Of course sometimes they run the wrong one...
"The products endorsed are not affiliated with this station. The Space Channel is not responsible for the claim made regarding any product or service shown"
Hugely paraphrased, but your basic infomercial disclaimer.
Too bad it aired at the beginning of Battlestar Galactica
Too bad; I want my own Cylon.
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Noticed they "fuzzied" out Mal's but?! I seem to remember when Fox aired it, they actually didn't - although I could be misremembering as it's been soooo long and I've seen the DVDs so many times.
You know - tv and movie ratings have long confused me. Violence is ok - but - naked buts ain't? Funny how the human body is more objectionable when it's intact but not covered then when it's got some ripped clothes over a lot of gore and the body's insides are falling out all over the place. Huh?...we live in a mighty strange world.
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"See, this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety. Breaks the heart."
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It seems that naked female butts are okay on tv (remembering that Helen of Troy thing on USA (?) a few years ago) but cute naked Mal(e) butts? Trash was one of the unaired episodes, so we have no idea what Fox would have done to it. I love my dvds 
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Quote:
Originally posted by KT:
Noticed they "fuzzied" out Mal's but?!
I started laughing when I saw that, but that's when I'm happy that I have the DVDs.
I understand the disclaimer, but you have shows on MTV where they air that kind of disclaimer during every commercial break. I guess Sci-Fi decided that not many young ones watch their station and I guess they can't get in trouble if they did show the disclaimer just once.
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