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Look at content hosted at Big Tech without most of the nonsense:
Imagine paying for Paramount Plus at all. I just stopped paying for it (card expired) and nothing changed. This was like a year ago, I never fixed the issue. Still watching a bunch of Star Trek. I don't think they run a very tight ship over there at Paramount, lol.
Why the fuck would they remove Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride?
Also, cancelling Cancelled it peak irony.
I still remember Adult Swim removing the Cowboy Bebop episode where they are flying in the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Ahoy, Mateys!
I think most of those episodes aren't available on Comedy Central's site either (can't access the USA version, it keeps redirecting me to the Brazilian, all of them still seem available)
The real surprise is why anyone wastes money on any of those overpriced steaming services. It's not a typo. I'd rather take a minor hit in resolution than pay those crap companies.
I have some good news, you don't have to take a hit to resolution. In fact, piracy probably provides better quality (blu ray rips)
Proof that piracy is the best solution to overcome authoritarianism.
The stupidest censorship I’ve seen like this is Community’s first DnD episode. Chang dresses up as a drow and that is considered “blackface” even though they address it in the episode that he isn’t black but a drow. So goodbye episode on streaming.
Oh, man. A Drow in a long-sleeved Guayabera. That's an insult to my Cuban heritage. Keep it banned. /s
He's one of those weird seldarine drow that hangs out with the humans.
That recent episode of The Reversal is coming to mind...
So dumb, the episodes exist and can be watched without much hassle. Why even ban them? It's not changing the fact they exist and some of the best episodes.
Because most people people are stupid, emotional animals that couldn't critically think their way out of a paper bag.
It's the answer to SO many questions.
Thanks, I have been meaning to get the full series on Blu-ray. Any idea if the older stuff has the vhs segues of Trey and Matt's skit shows?
I just checked and ufortunately, the older seasons don't seem to have much special features.
Do you suppose older DVDs have them?