Markup View

Author: CodeMan38

Jul 31st 2010 at 12:12:16 PM

* One time on ''The Late Show With David Letterman'', Dave made a joke about Gatorade tasting like gator urine. The punch line had to be bleeped out because Gatorade was a CBS sponsor. Problem is, the edit was done ''after'' the closed captioning had been added, so deaf folks still got the full joke-- and this very event is why the Late Show is now captioned in real time. (I know I read about this somewhere online, but I can't remember where-- anyone else able to find more details about this?)
* Often coincides with ClumsyCopyrightCensorship. I've seen several situations where a trademark had to be bleeped out in a stand-up routine aired on TV because the trademark owner sponsored the network and didn't like the joke.
* I've also seen this done with phone numbers and [=URLs=] that ''could'' be real-- e.g., a stand-up routine involving a fictional 900 number, in which the "900" part is bleeped out.
* As mentioned in ClumsyCopyrightCensorship, airings of "Pimp My Ride" on non-MTV networks do this to that network's name.
* Same thing for the "F" in "[[{{WWE}} WWF]]" in reruns of older wrestling matches.
* Would SouthPark's "Muhammad" bleep count under this, since it wasn't so much in response to MoralGuardians as it was to one particularly incendiary protester?