Hello all,
Whilst returning from a hard day's lab to relax infront of the TV, I put on channel 4 for a bit of Simpsons relief. The episode involved an Irish parade (St. Patricks Day) with all your favourites there. Suddenly, alchohol got the best of them, and a semi-riot broke out.
Then, the camera cut to a building with the Union Jack on it, which then exploded as if a bomb had gone off inside. Then the crowd all cheered in unison.
Now, I'm a fan of 'close to the line' humour, but for some reason I was quite shocked by this. Obviously it was intended to be edgy, but I couldn't help feel it was pretty out of place in a Simpsons episode, poking fun at such past events. I was even more suprised that channel 4 didn't edit that scene out, being at 6pm.
Of course, I realise this makes me entirely hypocritical. I enjoy programmes such as Family Guy which frequently poke fun at the disabled, but I find poking fun at such terrorism maybe one step too far. I'm not going to complain of course. Maybe it made me feel rather defensive of my country!
So, did anyone else see it? Did you find it shocking? Do you think channel four will recieve any complaints?
And so on.
Whilst returning from a hard day's lab to relax infront of the TV, I put on channel 4 for a bit of Simpsons relief. The episode involved an Irish parade (St. Patricks Day) with all your favourites there. Suddenly, alchohol got the best of them, and a semi-riot broke out.
Then, the camera cut to a building with the Union Jack on it, which then exploded as if a bomb had gone off inside. Then the crowd all cheered in unison.
Now, I'm a fan of 'close to the line' humour, but for some reason I was quite shocked by this. Obviously it was intended to be edgy, but I couldn't help feel it was pretty out of place in a Simpsons episode, poking fun at such past events. I was even more suprised that channel 4 didn't edit that scene out, being at 6pm.
Of course, I realise this makes me entirely hypocritical. I enjoy programmes such as Family Guy which frequently poke fun at the disabled, but I find poking fun at such terrorism maybe one step too far. I'm not going to complain of course. Maybe it made me feel rather defensive of my country!
So, did anyone else see it? Did you find it shocking? Do you think channel four will recieve any complaints?
And so on.
and if people were all so easy to get offended there wouldn't be any cartoons tbh. no offense to you but there would be no joking at all on it if people got offended by cartoons, because every week theres always something that you could bring up, but its a cartoon its funny, and its not real so deal with it tbh