People who have seen Adult Swim know that they show pretty "edgy" cartoons for adults like "Squidbillies" and "morel orel". Do You think the network would ever put "fritz the cat"? There are cartoons on adult swim that go way more beyond the line than "fritz the cat", such as "robot chicken" and "aqua teen hunger force".
so do you think it would ever air on adult swim?
They probably could, but they'd have to censor some parts no doubt.
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Yes, some of the sexual images would most likely be censored but the situations and language is not particularly more mature than what you would find on adult swim. Honestly, the crap on adult swim is significantly more harmful to the youth than the enlightening experience of watching fritz. Adult swim may as well be hemlock compared to Fritz.
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American TV is too soft, they can't even say *beep* on calble TV, Fritz The Cat used to be on Channel 5 all the time in the 80s uncut.
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Actually, they can swear and show nudity on American cable. Hence the Sopranos.
sharedude, but that's HBO.
you have to purchase/order that.
You have to purchase and order cable as well.
The reason cable generally doesn't show adult or explicit content isn't because they legally can't. Cable isn't regulated the same way as over the air television. Cable generally avoids such material because the public would complain.
All cable channels censor themselves (or rather, are censored by their respective parent corporations.) The FCC can only fine network channels for showing adult content because the U.S. government owns the air waves, which are used to broadcast network television. The FCC doesn't regulate the content shown on cable and satellite TV, so, legally, they can show pretty much anything but choose not to because they fear that parents will cancel their subscriptions if there's a risk that their children could see hardcore porn on the Food Network in the middle of the day.
I know that comedy central sometimes shows uncensored content after midnight, however I doubt that cartoon network would should something like Fritz, even at night, considering the fact that during the day it's still a kids' channel.
Huh. I never really thought about it, but yeah, I could see it on Adult Swim. It would probably have to be censored a bit, though.
shareSure, it's mostly tame by today's standards.
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To the above poster: there's a big difference between basic cable channels and "premium" or subscribed cable channels.
Premium channels like HBO don't have to follow the same guidelines as basic cable because they realize they don't have as wide an audience and also have more independent funding. Sponsors are usually the ones big on censoring, as they want everyone to see the ads, hence censorship. HBO has little to no ads, hence less censorship.
As for Adult Swim, they are far from what they promise. Adult Swim has softened over the years from having a bumper before each show that said "no viewer under 21" to "no viewer under 18" to "no viewer under 14" to a little blurb that says some content may be questionable.
Adult Swim has gone way soft and strayed from it's mission statement, and are hardly the edgy and unconventional block of adult programming they claim to be. Stuff like Fritz the Cat is more along the lines of what should be shown on Adult Swim, but I've seen South Park episodes that are "edgier" in content than Adult Swim, and that's on at 10:00PM!
They would never in a million years show Fritz the Cat, and none of the sex, nudity, or swearing could be seen nor heard. They'd have to edit out entire portions of it just so it could make it to the air, and then it would be no fun.
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Actually, basic cable doesn't have to, but they choose to for the most part.
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Broadcast networks are required to monitor their programming for "indecent" content from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. (although the meaning of "indecent" is hard to define), after which the networks can show anything that isn't "obscene" (i.e., between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., they are allowed to say the "f word" without putting it in context).
Cable, on the other hand, can show whatever they want, whenever they want. Most channels follow the lead of the networks (or, in many instances, go beyond that, censoring artistic nudity and moderate profanities that you can usually get away with on primetime networks), but premium cable channels (like HBO and Showtime) generally show everything uncensored. Regular cable channels such as Independent Film Channel, Fox Movie Channel, and Turner Classic Movies always show their stuff uncensored. I would not be surprised if Fritz the Cat gets aired on TCM (since it is a classic); the only reason it probably hasn't aired is because TCM doesn't air many animated films. IFC might also air it, but, again, they don't air a lot of cartoons (nor does Fox Movies, although they do air them a little more than the others; I've seen Bakshi's "Wizards" on there sometimes).
In my perfect world, it would be shown uncut. The block is called Adult Swim, and despite the fact that kids as young as 8 watch it, that's what it is. Plus, kids see and hear the same things in school; if adults would just talk to their children instead of letting the TV babysit them, it would probably be fine.
But it isn't a perfect world, and we have censors like these in America. I find it quite ironic that the 'land of the free' has more censors than the UK or Australia.
I'm straying from my point. Basically, they probably could air Fritz the Cat, but parts would be censored.