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DT: In Steve Gerber's story "There's No Place Like Springfield - Part 2," a scene with a little synthoid girl holding a gun was included in the original airing of the episode, however, the scene never appeared again in repeat airings. Do you know if the scene was cut due angry letters and phone calls from parents or did Hasbro freak out?BD: I don’t know. There were various anti-violence groups at that time who complained about the silliest things (one guy considered Donald Duck shaking his fist at his nephews to be as violent as us sinking a battleship!), so Hasbro may have trimmed it based on either real or imagined complaints.
Ohhh I guess I can see where you're coming from on the Megan/Molly thing. Yeah, that does seem like the sort of non-issue people would freak out about, esp. given the Jetta thing you mentioned - I think especially at the time, cartoon-makers were very conscious of anything that could be construed as racist, etc - trying not to get themselves into hot water.I honestly don't see anything imitable in "Hurry" either, but thing is that standards and practices can make some weird calls. Some of the edits + S&P notes I've seen are just bonkers - like - this is more modern, but there's an ep of Regular Show where the guys are throwing pizza pouches at each other (long story - but nothing offensive - just silly cartoon humour)... but international airings edited it so one of them was holding a plate. ?????? And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to bizarre edits on THAT show. Point is, censors can see issues where literally no one else would. And if it was censored due to a complaint, then that's a whole other thing... it could be that someone whinged about this, but not the Jem stuff you mentioned. idk. I do know that censors are ridiculously inconsistent. I feel like it HAS to be a case of someone, somewhere, taking offense to something totally mundane in the scene, cause nothing else really makes sense :/edit: LaW ninja'd me - the Jem drug ep I don't think they'd hold to the same standards, there was a lot of anti-drug stuff in the 80s. since it's a "moral" sort of ep they might have viewed it differently.