Video of The Count from Sesame Street, with all of the counting bleeped out, makes counting sound obscene.
The Count Censored is safe for work, unless it’s not safe for you to ROFLMAO at work.
I just love The Count. I’m a Sesame Street fan from way back. I still like to kick back and put on some Sesame Street Old School and take in some easy lessons brought to me by the letter F and the number two. The Count was cool. He was smart and accessible, he had an accent and dressed funny, and he was going to rock it his way. This video is a classic example of how old Sesame Street used to play to both audiences: the kids, who don’t get the musical references, don’t know who Dracula is, and their parents.
This version of The Count is not for your kids.
Here’s another reason I love The Count: he’s a more badass vampire than what the kids have got today.
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But this video. If this is not the most powerful argument for removing all the stupid fucking bleeps that cover expletives on TV and radio, then what the fuck is? I fucking HATE listening to the radio version of anything. Remember “Closer,” by Nine Inch Nails? No reason to even have a radio version. How can you say, “You let me violate you, you let me desecrate you,” out loud, but when it comes to “the F word,” that’s the part we find too obscene to share with children present? Are we that simple-minded about what is irreverent, or sexual, or shocking? The bleeps just mess up the music or the rhythm of the performance (rap and standup comedy both suffer), bowdlerize classic movies (try watching the broadcast version of “Terminator”) and besides, we all know what’s behind them.
Because I don’t hear nothing but “fuck” when it bleeps, and neither will you.
What do you think of the “radio versions” of popular songs? What’s the worst movie to watch on network TV because of the FCC rules? Do you agree with the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that FCC indecency rules are too vague?
What really gets me are the censoring of mother rather than F#(%3r in the phrase motherF#(%3r. is mother really such a bad word?
Personally I actually get annoyed when I hear a song with obscenities replaced by other words, even if it’s done by the band themselves. My go-to example for this is “Starsuckers, Inc.”, which sounds wrong to me every time I hear it.
I hate the overdubs on network versions of movies. “Pluck you, you fairy godmother,” was an actual overdub in a version of Tango & Cash.
Oddly enough, the radio edit of Closer played locally (and frequently to this day) doesn’t bleep, it just cuts the vocals out for a word, which has always seemed like a better way of doing it unless you’re trying to draw attention to the words being cut. You still mentally fill it in, but it doesn’t damage the flow of the song as badly. As I side note, I’m also pretty sure that the video for Closer is one of, if not the most censored music video of all time (Happiness in Slavery is up there too). Nowadays if they… Read more »
I agree. The bleeping draws more attention to the swearing than it would otherwise warrant.
A little bit off topic, but maybe not, one of the best things I have ever seen on YT is a Cookie Monster/Tom Waits mashup of God’s Away on Business. Hit it.
Going to look for that one for sure.