Is Reno 911 uncensored?

[El Kabong]

I was wondering since mine is in the shipping process. There's a front & back scan that doesn't say, but there's a warning about language on the back & it says "uncensored special features" also. Will the episodes be un-bleeped like Chapelle Show or not?

[flashburn]

I hope not, that is part of the 'style' of the show. Much like the bleeping you would hear on an episode of cops.

[JPRaup]

i hope not, i was wondering the same thing, i think im going to get it for $15.60 at DDD this week with the 20% off coupon

[danganet]

I was wondering this as well. I got to look at a copy today, but all I can confirm is what El Kabong stated.

I plan to pick it up next week nonetheless.

[BasiaMille]

I wonder how uncensored it is, regarding blurring, especially with the mullet-headed streaker, and a topless Officer Weigel (S2 episode).

Not that I have any particular desire to see Kerri Kinney's chest...

...or Ben Garant's* unit. Neither of those. Just to be clear.

Carthago Delinda Est,

CS

*I think that's Garant as the streaker, but... his face is blurred!

[DJLinus]

Not sure about the "naughty bits," but I'd think that they'd keep the face blurring. It's what they do on COPS, so that's part of the joke. Plus, if they unblurred the faces, then you'd recognize the regular cast playing those parts.

And I agree that bleeping the language is part of the joke, since, again, that's what is done on COPS.

Originally posted by BasiaMille

Carthago Delinda Est


I almost closed by Best Man toast with that at the wedding that I was at last weekend. I chickened out at the last minute, though. The groom and I are big Cato the Elder fans. :)

[milo bloom]

Just like South Park, I'd rather see this as originally shown. They're both written and performed knowing they'll be bleeped, so the pacing and structure is built around that. I think if they were uncensored, it wouldn't be nearly as funny.

[BasiaMille]

I say let it be an option you can turn on or off (obviously easier to do with bleeped dialogue than blurred faces/other body parts). That way, everybody wins.

As far as my Carthago... signoff, it came about because currently on the DVDCoverArt Forums, my "ranking" for lack of a better word, is "Mmmm....Hannibal". I have no idea what that means, but I posted there that I hoped it was more in reference to the Carthaginian Warlord than to the Anthony Hopkins character. I felt it was fitting, after that discussion, to end that post (and now, every post I make, in any forum--I think Cato would be proud) with "Carthago Delinda Est," or the more compact "CDE."

When I was best man at my brother's wedding, I closed by quoting Luca Brazi from The Godfather: "May your first child be a masculine child." And you know, he is!

CDE,

CS

P.S. You can see from my user name that I'm a bit of a Classics geek. I'm actually trying to get BasiaMille.com as my domain, but it's currently taken--even though there's been no updates to that site in 2 years! Ugh!

[rfduncan]

Originally posted by El Kabong
there's a warning about language on the back & it says "uncensored special features" also.
I think that means that the special features on the set (e.g. interviews with cast, etc.) are uncensored so they can say "shit" and the like and not get bleeped. I'm sure the episodes will continue to be blurred and bleeped as they were when they aired on CC.

[TomOpus]

Rats... no topless shots of Deputy Clementine Johnson :grunt:

[ThatGuamGuy]

Just like South Park, I'd rather see this as originally shown.

Here's a complication ... in the initial broadcasts, there are two different episodes where Kerri Kenney uses a certain racist N-word ... actually, in the first episode, a few people within the scene use it, but hers is the most "inappropriate" ... and the whole joke of the scene is *how* inappropriate it is (the exact response is, "That would be wildly inappropriate").

Anyway, the initial broadcasts did not censor said N-word, yet I saw a rerun subsequently which *did*. I believe the second one (in front of her mother's grave) was censored as well subsequently, but I'm less than 100% on that ... but I *saw* the first one get censored, and it made the scene much less funny. (Oddly, the censored showing was at like 1 or 2 AM, the uncensored was the regular 10:30 slot.) I assume they got complaints that a white person was using the word ... and it was a joke making fun of the word to boot!

If the discs are censored of those, I'll be a bit annoyed.

Then again, I wasn't gonna buy the set until it popped up for $10 (after rebate) at FYE. At that price, I can't pass it up.

I wouldn't mind the option of entirely uncensored (other than places where it would ruin a joke; ie, I don't think showing that naked people weren't actually naked would be funny), but it wouldn't be an issue for me if they chose to only show them as aired ... provided they show them as *originally* aired, not as modified.

[darkside]

Yeah, the racist words were bleeped later when reshown. I still find it odd since the context used was to show how much of an idiot she was, but people were still offended. Do people that watch Comedy Central not get the fact they need a sense of humor to enjoy the shows? I guess the Chappelle show is the only place the N bomb can be dropped.

I've got no problem with them leaving in the bleeps meant to be there, but the later bleeps should be removed.

[ThatGuamGuy]

I still find it odd since the context used was to show how much of an idiot she was, but people were still offended.

I realized after I posted that, technically, it could have been cops who were offended at being portrayed as racist.

Six of one, half-dozen of the other, it's still silly to be offended by, but I don't want to leap to the conclusions that the people who complained were black. It could even have been white viewers who were offended; as 'The Office' said, "Why should only black people be offended by racism?"

(Man, I'd love to see Comedy Central try to air *that* show...)

Do people that watch Comedy Central not get the fact they need a sense of humor to enjoy the shows?

This made me laugh.