Never forget that after he died they finally admitted to finding his secret CP room.
Wait, it this a legit debate? This episode actually happened...
It's the first Simpsons episode I remember seeing
Community advanced DND episode was peak!!!!
What, did they stop running the episode?
Yes, in 2019
Why?
All that disinfo about Micheal Jackson being a pedophile
In March 2019, following the release of the documentary film Leaving Neverland, which details allegations against Jackson of child sexual assault, "Stark Raving Dad" was pulled from circulation. Jackson was previously tried and acquitted of child sexual abuse charges in 2005 and denied any wrongdoing.
Hmmm that’s old news why pull the episode now? I mean whatever I don’t really care it’s just weird.
They pulled it years ago, this meme is just referencing it
Fwiw, that song has been in my head ever since I saw this thread. Thanks everyone, I hate my life right now. 😉
Easy fix
Baaaaaay Beeeeeee Shark-dadundadadada
Baby Shark-dadundadadada...
You monster.
Lisa it's your birthday, Happy birthday Lisa
Lisa, you’re teeth are big and green
Lisa, you smell like gasoline
If the episode didn't happen, why do I have the song stuck in my head Bart?
i just ripped that season from my dvd collection. i should seed it. 🫣
Here... You dropped this: 👑
It’s literally one of the best episodes of that season (although many of s3 were great!). I get why but wtf. Glad I have a copy 🏴☠️
My newest and favorite argument in favor of piracy. Disney doesn't get to throw my hard drive in the memory hole
Do they not rerun this one anymore?
The episode was also omitted from the streaming service Disney+.[51] The Slate journalist Isaac Butler criticized the removal as "an offense against art and the medium of television, and part of a growing trend of corporations using their consolidated power and the death of physical media to do damage control by destroying works by troublesome artists".
Stark Raving Dad - Wikipedia https://share.google/bkT2WOa5qDZKeQICR
Essentially corporate censorship for fear of maybe offending someone.
One excerpt I enjoyed reading.
Michael Jackson guest-starred as Leon Kompowsky, but went uncredited (credited as John Jay Smith) for contractual reasons; his role was not confirmed until later. Jackson was a fan of the show and called its creator, Matt Groening, offering to do a guest spot. Jackson pitched several story ideas and wrote the song "Happy Birthday Lisa" for the episode. Leon's singing voice was performed by a Jackson soundalike, Kipp Lennon, due to Jackson's contractual obligations with his record company.[3] The episode references Jackson's career, with Kompowsky singing portions of the songs "Billie Jean" and "Ben".
Side note, why does this link above go through Google? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_Raving_Dad
Side note, why does this link above go through Google?
Android browser share button doesn't copy the URL as shown. It prefixes the title to the clipboard content to help hide (behind "too long text") that it secretly, unprompted, uses the share.google link shortener / tracking service.
I got bit by it within the last week. Fuck that feature.
I think it used to have a way to actually copy the URL, but most mobile browsers are making that harder for a variety of reasons.
Essentially corporate censorship for fear of maybe offending someone.
and people will blame the wokes/DEI/whatever
They do this with sunny, a bunch of sunny episodes are gone because of racial stuff, one including where Dee pretends to be Puerto Rican. As a Latino I found that episode hilarious and im more offended that they removed it.
If they removed the Simpsons Michael Jackson episode, they’ll probably delete the Sunny episodes with P Diddy
Also, Community, which is especially absurd in the case of the episode where Chang dons black facepaint to play... a dark elf. Guess it was thought that any real dark elf viewers could be offended.
Wasn't the joke that Chang was in fact doing blackface, and everyone else scolds him for it? (this doesn't make it good to remove, just changes the context)
also dies immediately and has no bearing on the episode.
My real annoyance with that is Chang was on screen for maybe a minute or 2 totally time in the paint. Couldn't they just show a different characters face or have up a black screen with the audio or something. I'm sure it's harder than what I'm thinking but it can't be impossible. I just like this episode. I had to find it elsewhere when I was rewatching community.
That episode was officially restored in the US when the show went to Peacock.
Why did you short url a wikipedia link with google?
Apparently Google does that now with the share function automatically
I guess we need to get that guy off Google shit then
Cheeky cunts, aren't they?
nightmarish
It's not even really shorter.
They famously took it off the air years ago because of the Michael Jackson stuff, but I don't know if that has changed.
It has not on the high seas. Also Disney shows the old 4:3 episodes in 16:9, cropping away like 30% of the image. I hate the way corpos rape art and culture.
You can get it to display them in 4:3, if you go to details (alongside the episodes and suggested tabs) and uncheck "Remastered aspect ratio"
I hate the way corpos rape art and culture.
literally Disney's primary business model for the last century
Leon's even got his own questline in Tapped Out. Weird the episode's banned, but he's still A OK in alt media.
A shame, that episode was one of the better ones. What next, Sonic 3 being unavailable because MJ supposedly helped with the music?
I just think they're neat!
