[Lionel Mandrake]

It Hits the Fan episode of South Park aired June 20th, 2001. Later in 2007, Le Petit Tourette similarly used the word without censor.

During an episode of The Daily Show this year, Matt and Trey discussed that they managed to convince Comedy Central to just "give" them shit, and they agreed. Jon Stewart said that his show has tried that, but CC wasn't okay with it, as the show is replayed in the morning, and apparently they were worried about offending an earlier audience.

I don't know for sure, but I would say that it was around season 13 (March 2009) where "shit" began to occur regularly on the show.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was one of the first shows I noticed to begin using it. It's been airing since August 2005.

Breaking Bad commonly uses the word, and it's been airing since January 2008.

I think Comedy Central's "Secret Stash" block where they would play movies with uncensored audio after a certain hour got the ball rolling. I mean, they still do this, but without the fanfare, which kind of shows the progress.

[sangreal]

The rules on network television and broadcast radio are weird. Context and usage matter. They can say, "I went to a titty bar" but they can't refer to a woman's breasts as "titties." They can call someone a dick but not refer to a penis as a "dick" in a sexual context. Or something like that. The rules seem kinda fuzzy.

Pretty sure the FCC was recently ordered to go and write some actual rules because nobody knows what the fuck they're allowed to say on network tv

[Sean]

it's one censored fuck, not uncensored.

You sure? In episode 9 or 10 last season Jesse said "Get the fuck out of my house and don't come back" or whatever, I could've sworn that was uncensored. I hope I'm not going crazy.

edit: looks like you're right. That's a dumb rule imo, if it's still fully censored/muted like that they should be allowed to say it more than once a season.

[DBT85]

Hell, even GAF is banning people for saying the Seaward now.

Wait what?

[Gospel]

yeah ive noticed that now too i still find it hilarious that you can say ass but not asshole

that's the worst one. and then sometimes they even censor the "hole" part out.
i mean, great job guys.

[EulaCapra]

Shit is the new ass. To me it's less offensive than "bitch" since most of the time "shit" isn't directed at a person rather at a situation.

[Riggs]

The Knights of Standards and Practices.

Was waiting for someone to say that lol.

[CorvoSol]

Mom, I didn't know you had a GAF account!

[Trent Strong]

They say it on Archer all the time. A couple of times an episode at least.

[FyreWulff]

"shit" has been demoted. "bitch" is well on it's way at this point.

"fuck" and "c***" will retain their titles for quite some time.

[Frankenstrat]

I just watched this episode and then saw this thread. Talk about coincidence.

[Desibabu]

It's perfectly acceptable to say shit on Canadian television. Has been that way for as long as I can remember.

[Frankenstrat]

It's perfectly acceptable to say shit on Canadian television. Has been that way for as long as I can remember.

Did they ever censor Trailer Park Boys when it aired? I dunno anything about how/when it was broadcasted

[Desibabu]

Did they ever censor Trailer Park Boys when it aired? I dunno anything about how/when it was broadcasted

They don't censor things on Showcase.

[blainethemono]

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[blainethemono]

I think Breaking Bad is allowed one un-bleeped "fuck" per season. Seems like an arbitrary rule.

i think the first season had like at least one "Fuck" in every episode or something. it was a lot more common anyway, compared to the following seasons

"shit" on cable shows has been common for years though. shows like The Shield and Rescue Me did it throughout their runs, if i'm remembering correctly

The weird thing is, my season 2 blu ray has a censored Fuck in it. I don't understand why, its not censored on any of my other blu rays for any of the other seasons and from what I can tell it's not supposed to be

[coldvein]

i wonder why this changed.. is this progress or what

[DBT85]

Thank god Thrones is on HBO.

[MIMIC]

I rarely hear "shit". I hear "bitch" all the time though.

[replicashooter]

Around about the same time the nightly news started getting an emotive soundtrack score.

[Emerson]

On The Walking Dead they said "nigger" uncensored in the pilot. I certainly have no love for the word but at the same time I was glad they were allowed to say it without censorship.

[Derrick01]

I can't remember anything doing it before South Park. If someone did then surely SP was the one that blew the doors out on it by saying it 100+ times.

[echoshifting]

i wonder why this changed.. is this progress or what

Progress. Advertisers decide what"s okay on these networks in many cases, and for the most part they didn't go anywhere.

[blainethemono]

On The Walking Dead they said "nigger" uncensored in the pilot. I certainly have no love for the word but at the same time I was glad they were allowed to say it without censorship.

They did that a bunch of times on The Shield too

[Thaedolus]

On cable, it really comes down to what sponsors will accept. Cable-only networks can show whatever the hell they want, as long as they don't have companies pulling advertising out of fear of being associated with something unseemly. HBO, Showtime, and all the other premium channels don't have sponsors to answer to, so they up the ante and throw in all the tits and ass too.

I wouldn't be surprised if in another 10 years you'll get to see HBO shows like True Blood uncensored on FX or whatever, after their first run on their premium channel.

[Zoe]

They showed Harvey giving the finger on Suits, but they positioned it so that it was just barely within the screen :lol

Even though they say "shit" on the show, the CC's leave it out, and I think it's taken out during the daytime repeats.

[Htown]

They showed Harvey giving the finger on Suits, but they positioned it so that it was just barely within the screen :lol Even though they say "shit" on the show, the CC's leave it out, and I think it's taken out during the daytime repeats.

If you watch it on late night repeats they say it a lot on that show.

At some point somebody literally went, "Bullshit. Bullshit, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT!"

I was like, whaaaa

[replicashooter]

I wouldn't be surprised if in another 10 years you'll get to see HBO shows like True Blood uncensored on FX or whatever, after their first run on their premium channel.

In 10 years time you will see felching newscasters at four in the afternoon.

[Akihabara]

Someone had to post that. I didn't expect it to be the first answer. GAF never fails.

[Reiko]

Suits has been using it ALOT in their 2nd second.

[Gooster]

The word bitch is used pretty frequently on broadcast TV, and people wonder why kids are cursing all the time.

[blame space]

if u think about if.. their called "curse" words because someone thinks your putting a curse on them.. curses aren't real numbnuts. get with the program FCC.

[ReBurn]

I only watch cable-gold. So I wouldn't know.

[Schweini]

I think Breaking Bad is allowed one un-bleeped "fuck" per season. Seems like an arbitrary rule.

it's one censored fuck, not uncensored.

Sometimes I wish Breaking Bad was owned by HBO. Can you imagine how cooler Heisenberg would be if he said FUCK all the time?

[B.K.]

I was going to say that Anthony Edwards' last episode of ER was the first time I had heard someone say shit on TV uncensored, but I got looking and saw that It Hits the Fan aired before that episode of ER. I thought the ER episode beat it by a year or two.

[ag-my001]

I can't remember anything doing it before South Park. If someone did then surely SP was the one that blew the doors out on it by saying it 100+ times.

That whole South Park episode was in response to the first use on NYPD Blue. They just took the response to the logical satirical extreme.

[JB1981]

'Yippie ki yay...' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soeQ1i-tYAg

Wow GAF never disappoints

[-Pyromaniac-]

Sometimes I wish Breaking Bad was owned by HBO. Can you imagine how cooler Heisenberg would be if he said FUCK all the time?

I'm not sure how important to the plot seeing Skyler and Marie naked 3 times an episode would be though.

Also a funny censor I remember from a long time ago, was "where did you get that scar from? Eating pineapple?" instead of eating pussy. It was in Scarface of course.

[Reiko]

'Yippie ki yay...' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soeQ1i-tYAg

Best EDIT of all time.

Sounded NOTHING like Bruce Willis. lol

[Brian Fellows]

The word bitch is used pretty frequently on broadcast TV, and people wonder why kids are cursing all the time.

Nobody wonders that.

[.la1n]

Best EDIT of all time. Sounded NOTHING like Bruce Willis. lol

saved for future smash bros threads.

[Nils]

I find it weird how freedom of speech is held in such a high regard people will go to lengths to defend the Westboro Baptist Church's ability to spout their hatred at the most insensible moments, yet American tv censorship is so strict. Not trying to stir up any nationalistic shit, but that always felt off to me.

[Cubsfan23]

the fact that a cuss word can become a "regular" word makes this whole thing laughable.

[Dragonzord]

When I watch British sitcoms on Netflix, they say 'shit' all the time.

[blame space]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WOg3MsymVU

[entrement]

I find it weird how freedom of speech is held in such a high regard people will go to lengths to defend the Westboro Baptist Church's ability to spout their hatred at the most insensible moments, yet American tv censorship is so strict. Not trying to stir up any nationalistic shit, but that always felt off to me.

Along with that frontier spirit is also the purantical underpinnings that are still prevalent in our cullture

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Hell, even GAF is banning people for saying the Seaward now.

We've come a long way (up or down, depending on your point of view), certainly. I remember there was a big controversy about the short-lived "Uncle Buck" TV series in 1990 because one of the kids on the show said "you suck" to her brother in the first episode.

[Lionel Mandrake]

Best EDIT of all time. Sounded NOTHING like Bruce Willis. lol

Even better is during the scene in the control tower, they remove all of Willis's dialogue, so he just goes off, sounding like Tommy Wiseau.

[Reiko]

Even better is during the scene in the control tower, they remove all of Willis's dialogue, so he just goes off, sounding like Tommy Wiseau.

lol

Ridiculous

[Htown]

I find it weird how freedom of speech is held in such a high regard people will go to lengths to defend the Westboro Baptist Church's ability to spout their hatred at the most insensible moments, yet American tv censorship is so strict. Not trying to stir up any nationalistic shit, but that always felt off to me.

It's complicated.

I'm not joking, this isn't a HERP DERP AMERICA SO DUMB thing, the interplay between free speech and censorship and cultural norms of "decency" or "obscenity" is a thing that the courts and legislature have had to weigh in on regularly.

Did you know, for example, that the rules for cable TV and broadcast TV are really different? Did you know why that is?