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John Cleese Lobbies BBC to Restore ‘Fawlty Towers’ Episode Pulled From Streaming Over Use of N-Word


https://www.thewrap.com/john-cleese-pressures-bbc-to-restore-fawlty-towers-episode-removed-for-problematic-language-to-streaming/

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I don't remember it having the N word; maybe they had already edited it out. Anyway this kind of censorship is ridiculous, almost as bad as Me Too trying to remove every so-called sexist film/show. Censorship=Fascism.

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It’s pathetic. Anyone who can’t see that the show was poking fun at old school racist characters doesn’t deserve a say in this debate. Kudos to Cleese for standing up to this nonsense.

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The Major was talking about West Indians when he brought up the N word, which he then used the W word instead.

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The cynical part of me says that John Cleese and the head of BBC are in league just so people will order a DVD copy.

How much work is it to just bleep out the word?

Must be alot.

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If you tell someone they shouldn't watch something, they will watch it.

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I'm all for putting a warning to snowflakes before the episode starts, it should be enough to placate them, at least they're warned. But cutting stuff out? NO!

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So can anybody quote the actual line? just so we know what we're talking about?

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Bravo Mr Cleese 👏

Quite right, too.

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