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John Cleese Lobbies BBC to Restore ‘Fawlty Towers’ Episode Pulled From Streaming Over Use of N-Word

posted 5 years ago by [deleted]
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https://www.thewrap.com/john-cleese-pressures-bbc-to-restore-fawlty-towers-episode-removed-for-problematic-language-to-streaming/

[–] Adam60z (3774) 5 years ago

I don't remember it having the N word; maybe they had already edited it out. Anyway this kind of censorship is ridiculous, almost as bad as Me Too trying to remove every so-called sexist film/show. Censorship=Fascism.

[–] rudeboymurray (3281) 5 years ago

It’s pathetic. Anyone who can’t see that the show was poking fun at old school racist characters doesn’t deserve a say in this debate. Kudos to Cleese for standing up to this nonsense.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

The Major was talking about West Indians when he brought up the N word, which he then used the W word instead.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns0uRr6aPQE

[–] Redsfan001 (6174) 5 years ago

The cynical part of me says that John Cleese and the head of BBC are in league just so people will order a DVD copy.

How much work is it to just bleep out the word?

Must be alot.

[–] L1 (1316) 5 years ago

If you tell someone they shouldn't watch something, they will watch it.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I'm all for putting a warning to snowflakes before the episode starts, it should be enough to placate them, at least they're warned. But cutting stuff out? NO!

[–] moviechatterer (15901) 5 years ago

So can anybody quote the actual line? just so we know what we're talking about?

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Bravo Mr Cleese 👏

Quite right, too.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

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