{"id":2009,"date":"2006-09-29T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/09\/disney-censors-one-of-its-movies-again\/"},"modified":"2006-09-29T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T02:45:00","slug":"disney-censors-one-of-its-movies-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/09\/disney-censors-one-of-its-movies-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Disney censors one of its movies &#8212; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">You might have heard a rumour once about something naughty involving a certain bishop in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000F8O35U\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">a certain Disney cartoon<\/a>.  That rumour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/disney\/films\/minister.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">was debunked<\/a> ages ago, but apparently it still makes the rounds and has been known to get Disney into trouble now and then \u2026 so, now, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/jimhillmedia.com\/blogs\/jim_hill\/archive\/2006\/09\/29\/5994.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim Hill<\/a>, for the film\u2019s DVD release this coming Tuesday, Disney has gone the extra mile and removed the apparently-but-not-really naughty something in question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7991\/933\/1600\/littlemermaid-old.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7991\/933\/400\/littlemermaid-old.jpg\" align=\"centre\" width=\"305\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7991\/933\/1600\/littlemermaid-new.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7991\/933\/400\/littlemermaid-new.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The purist in me objects to this, of course, and would rather see this film in its original form, knobby knees and all \u2014 just as I would rather see, say, the original version of the anthology <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00004R99D\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Melody Time<\/a><\/i> (1948), before Pecos Bill\u2019s cigarette was digitally removed.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I grew up watching the 1950s version of <i>The Three Little Pigs<\/i> (1933), which <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three_Little_Pigs_%28film%29#Censorship\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">replaced<\/a> an ethnic stereotype with something more generic and less offensive \u2014 and I think it was good that I grew up with the version that I did.  FWIW, I didn\u2019t even know that the more offensive version existed until Leonard Maltin mentioned it on a DVD that came out five years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7991\/933\/1600\/3littlepigs1a.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7991\/933\/400\/3littlepigs1a.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" width=\"195\" alt=\"\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7991\/933\/1600\/3littlepigs1b.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7991\/933\/400\/3littlepigs1b.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"195\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have heard a rumour once about something naughty involving a certain bishop in a certain Disney cartoon. That rumour was debunked ages ago, but apparently it still makes the rounds and has been known to get Disney into trouble now and then \u2026 so, now, reports Jim Hill, for the film\u2019s DVD release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Disney censors one of its movies -- again<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You might have heard a rumour once about something naughty involving a certain bishop in a certain Disney cartoon. 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