Comedy Central censors Futurama's jab at Apple

[thekaine]

If you're like us, you're besides yourself with joy about the return Futurama. Life just wasn't the same without the adventures of Philip J. Fry and his obnoxious friend Bender on our TVs every week.

Last night's episode took aim at discarded technology being dumped in third-world countries, Twitter, and our favorite company Apple. It was brilliant satire and it's refreshing to have that voice on TV again.

But, when we cruised on over to Comedy Central this morning to watch clips of last night's show, we noticed something odd. The clip entitled "Fry and Leela's Humiliation" was exactly as seen on television last night until the final few seconds. During the broadcast, as the zombies entered the Mom store there is voiceover from the Mom character that is met with cheers from the crowd. She says, "Introducing the all new eyePhone 2.0."

In the online clip from the show, the dialogue is missing. Instead the zombies just began cheering, money in hand for no apparent reason.

Source

Videos at the link. Sad thing is, even IRL, they stood in line cheering, money in hand for no apparent reason.


ZGeek - We put the "M" in stupid - Comedy Central censors Futurama's jab at Apple

 

[dreamache]

The comedycentral.com "edited" video link won't play for me at maclife, nor can I find it at comedy central's site.

 

[kingfish]

doesn't work

 

[kblessinggr]

Why Did Comedy Central Remove EyePhone Reference from Futurama Online Clip? | Mac|Life

Clips are embeded

Honestly, my guess is trademark issues rather than censorship, especially since 'eye' and 'i' are indistinguishable spoken.

 

[transistor]

apple is the new muhammad

 

[TheCrabb]

Make 1 August "everybody draw eyePhone day"!

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

How odd, since Apple has always been known for being so open and inclusive.

 

[kblessinggr]

How odd, since Apple has always been known for being so open and inclusive.

Trademarks, just like how you can't have any namebrands or indistinguishable 'sounds' of a trademark in a cartoon, show, movie etc without paying for the rights to use it. Apple was probably too rich when someone pointed out that Mom saying "eyePhone" sounds too closely like "iPhone" when spoken.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

Trademarks, just like how you can't have any namebrands or indistinguishable 'sounds' of a trademark in a cartoon, show, movie etc without paying for the rights to use it. Apple was probably too rich when someone pointed out that Mom saying "eyePhone" sounds too closely like "iPhone" when spoken.

It's a parody cartoon - as usual Apple takes itself too fucking seriously and comes out looking like dbags.