Topic: Television and Commercials
I want to start with a very specific event that has happened twice now. While watching MadTV on ComedyCentral, they start the show and announce that George Carlin (a favorite comedian of mine) will appear on the "Reading Caboose", a skit about conspiracies, or books about them. This particular skit is about the "Moon Landing", and it shows a clip of Carlin poppin' out of a window saying something along the lines of "The biggest lie/coverup/conspiracy to the american people".
The first time me and my brother saw this, we waited the entire show to see this particular skit, but it never aired. Even the television "info" description lists carlin as a guest appearance, but his skit never airs. This has happened twice now, the most recent only a week ago. Either they can edit what we watch on the flip of a switch (especially with digital services, which is actually becoming the norm BY LAW), or they just simply removed it from the "master" copy. I've tried looking for an internet download but have not succeeded yet, not even a TRANSCRIPT of the show can be found. Interesting...
And for commercials, I've been seeing a lot more unusual stuff being slipped in. A "truth" anti-smoking commercial which had people following other people on the street with arrow signs "labelling" them with various mental conditions, appearently ones the tobacco industry looks for when targeting new smokers or whatever. But in this commercial, they have a 2-3 second shot of a guy with none of the other "truth" people around him, but he looks like an alien, with a faceless shapeshifting kind of appearence, featureless but also colored with a blueish hint in his skin. He definitely is not human, and he is walking throuh a crowd almost as if avoiding the "truth", with an almost disturbing emotion across his face.
My friend has seen a detailed penis being roasted over a fire like a "weenie" in a Scott Trade commercial with two kids in the woods, he called me about it and I have yet to see the commercial again to analyze, even though it was playing regularly at the time.
Almost every commercial is dubbed with either another voice completely or has been adjusted in some way, because the lips never match the audio, and sometimes the people don't match the voices.