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Funny, I don't recall The Benny Hill Show ever being censored! Or maybe it was and I just didn't realize it.

James J. Walters wrote:Funny, I don't recall The Benny Hill Show ever being censored! Or maybe it was and I just didn't realize it.

It's one of those strange British quirks, they can get away with things if it's an innuendo... it's kind of hard to explain.
There's certainly like nothing like 'The Benny Hill Show' on British TV nowadays, it's change a lot in the last 25 years.

Higgy_baby wrote:Even the rock band KISS has to change their logo in Germany because the SS in KISS looks too much like lighting bolts. But editing MPI. That's the worst I've heard yet.

It's not that the SS look like lightning bolts, they're exactly the same design as the Nazi Schutzstaffel. That's a no-no in Germany these days.

I'm really suprised Hogan's heroes is even shown in Germany. Even though it portrays the nazis as inept fools, they do show the nazi flag, and use the expression Heil Hitler, and show the nazi salute, all of which is illegal in Germany. That's a lot of editing.

Styles Bitchley wrote:

Higgy_baby wrote:Even the rock band KISS has to change their logo in Germany because the SS in KISS looks too much like lighting bolts. But editing MPI. That's the worst I've heard yet.

It's not that the SS look like lightning bolts, they're exactly the same design as the Nazi Schutzstaffel. That's a no-no in Germany these days.

Styles, that was precisley what I was trying to infer. In fact the logo is slightly different, but close enough to SS runes to be censored. Ironically, both Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley who own the trademark are Jewish. I doubt they even foresaw the connection that censors would make in Germany.

Higgy_baby wrote:Styles, that was precisely what I was trying to infer.

Gotcha.

Welcome Mr. the Brit!

In Pittsburgh, RTN has changed the time for airing Magnum from 9 P.M. to 8 P.M.