October 22, 2005

Poochie sez: "Pray five times a day!" With Omar as Homer, and Badr substituted for Bart, The Simpsons is now playing on Arab television ... [and] he has swapped Duff beer for soft drinks.

Al Jean, executive producer of The Simpsons ... said: "If Homer doesn't drink and eat bacon and generally act like a pig, which I guess is also against Islam, then it's not Homer." via my special lady friend Diane

posted by scartol 18 years ago
  • Talk about a propoganda misfire. Here the moral censors had a chance to air a show that mockingly portrayed drunks as useless fools and bar owners as lying lowlife crooks, and gives a generally bad impression of the Western lifestyle, and they completely miss the point. Have to wonder if they don't have bigger problems if they have to seriously worry that Homer would be a bad influence.
  • Uhm, newsflash. Arab Televisions stations, particularly MBC and MBC2, have been airing American television programming for years. The key difference here is that while they usually subtitle their television shows, in this case they dubbed it. While living in Syria, channel flipping provided me with subtitled versions of shows such as: The Simpsons, Futurama, Malcolm in the Middle. Even Bernie Mac! They also had the hour long drama kind of series like Angel, Alias, and Charmed. It shows how quickly ignorant people who have no clue about what the mid-east is like post about what they think the `arab reaction' to western programming is.
  • It shows how quickly ignorant people who have no clue about what the mid-east is like post about what they think the `arab reaction' to western programming is. I just thought it was an amusing news item.
  • and so it was. Thanks!
  • NOTE: Mulligan was killed on the way back to his home planet.
  • Mulligan was from another planet?
  • ...wait, Poochie as in the toy tie-in cartoon from the 80s that I thought nobody remembered but me? You're now responsible for a brain-destroying earworm, regardless. Fie.
  • No Poochie the edgy in-your-face shark-jumper of Itchy & Scratchy fame.
  • Ohhhh, right right. I'd forgotten that thing's name.
  • when are we gonna get to the fireworks factory???