Sweet. A "new to me" classic ppg episode to watch

>>152667923
Someone should use AI to make a Jack Back cover of the gnome's song, or pay Jack.

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>>152667923
>strobing lights
Even though I've never gotten a seizure from flashing lights of any kind, I'd rather not have to see that, especially if it's intense.

>"Banned" or "censored" media
>It's just the company pulling it out of customer backlash (real or imagined), not from laws or government pressure
Free speech absolutists will be the death of actual free speech soon enough.

Where the FUCK is Jonny Quest and a few others on the supposed list

>>152668285
Whoever runs ToonHive is an illiterate idiot who didn't notice Tubi only said a few shows would be streaming today

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>>152668285
>we will never get a restored release of the original Johnny Quest
feels bad

>>152668311
Is the current blu-ray not restored enough?

>>152667923
why Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup believe evil and villains are necessary?
That was a confusing ending.

>>152667923
This aired in UK all the time, and it's kind of a lame. You didn't miss out.

>>152668065
You can be susceptible to seizures and not know it until something finally sets it off, and once it happens once you're now at risk of it happening again for the rest of your life. It's not worth the risk.

>>152668399
it aired in latin america too

>>152667923
Based

>>152668065

Unless you have an original airing recorded and watch it on a crt nothing will happen to you.
Everything rereleased is edited to reduce the strobing effect to the point of ineffectiveness but also these modern tvs cant reproduce it correctly or sumtin.

>>152668039
it already sounds like jack black you halfwit nijjer

THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE TODAY
THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE

>>152667923
I remember it from the DVD.

>>152668363
This is unironically the first I've heard of it, apparently it came out just a couple years ago and immediately fell off the radar.

>>152667923
>>152668065

Did they pulled a modern anime and dark blurred out the strobing lights?

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>>152668065
To its credit, the one in this PPG episode is FAR more severe then the Pokemon Porygon one, which once again brings to question the legitimacy of the whole ''Massive Seizure Wave caused by Pokemon accross Japan''..................................Did Japan ever admitted that maybe they overreacted?

>>152670603
The first time I read about the Pokemon episode, it was said that it caused a second wave of seizures in Japan because the news reporting on it showed the clip.

>>152670642
most of the seizure report thing is bullshit. there was like one kid in the porygon episode, then american medias tried to get the anime banned for it inventing more and more bullshit to the story because there was no internet to check facts at the time. We still have the epilepsy warning in video games because of this pile of lies 20 years later it's insane

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>>152670686
>I can't verify how many people had seizures so the reports are false
This is an unbelievably retarded way of thinking even for /co/ standards

>>152667923
>banned
>available on the dvd set
explain?

>>152670642
You guys believe that?

>>152667923
Oh I remember watching it when it first aired. It sucked, no one was missing anything while it was gone.

>>152668039
Jack Black didn’t actually play the gnome? Huh. Always assumed he did.

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>>152670810
>those were legit, here's a screencap, ill show em!

No, most of those kids were just brought in by stupid soccermoms out of mass hysteria, i read that only a couple of kids who were already epileptic got into the hospital initially, and they both just got mild non severe cases, but since the mainstream media was, well, the mainstream media, they sensationalized the issue, and due to peopluar thing being looked down by tigermoms in japan, they sent their kids to hospitals to see if they felt sick after watching the series recently, many of em reported to felt fine, but then the media being the media again, run with this >>152670810 on the basis of just being tangentally tied to the issue in question, and then the japanese goverment got involved and a piece of propaganda by a paid ''doctor'' showed misinformation around the scene, and it all went down to shit since then, now because of this, you had to put off with the god awful dark blur effect filter that starting plagued-in all modern anime since the digital area since 1999, and its FUCKING UGLY.

And all for mass histerya. Yes, sometimes a society can be gullable idiots.

>>152670603

The flashing and colored stobing lights in 80s cartoons were way worse than what i saw of that pokemon episode. Nobody stoked out back then from it.

>>152670936

Banned from airing doesnt mean banned from home media releases. I dont know how streaming is covered on this tho.

I'm a little surprised how many people here weren't aware of this episode. Guess it kinda faded into the background once it got released on DVD.

>>152671013
None of this debunks the reports in the slightest, it's just a bunch of wild guesses and your unwanted opinion on digital effects. For the sake of keeping this conversation going, I want you to look up where you read that "only a couple of kids who were already epileptic got into the hospital initially."

>>152671019
>The flashing and colored stobing lights in 80s cartoons were way worse than what i saw of that pokemon episode. Nobody stoked out back then from it.

Exactly, my point is, something about the whole thing just doesnt add up, but the japanese aint helping the issue.

>>152668065
Strobing/flashing lights give me a headache but that's it.
>>152667923
Neat but idk wtf a tubi is. Is it a douche? Sounds like a douche. How did they get an episode of Powerpuff Girls in a douche? Is it like when they got SpongeBob episodes on Gameboy cartridges?
>>152667955
Have you seen Rude Removal? It's a "banned" episode of Dexter's Lab.

>>152671114
reports are meaningless without physical evidence
You need to have a seizure right now

>>152670642
Reality:
>Hundreds of thousands of kids watching the Most Popular Cartoon of All Time
>Around 6 very young kids discover they have extreme photosensitive for the first time, not being old enough to have been exposed to a trigger before
>news runs the story
>hundreds of parents freak out because their kid also watched the show and rush them to the hospital because they say they're a bit tired, despite being hours later
>incident gets reported as "700 kids hospitalized with seizures after Pokemon episode"

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>>152670603
That was entirely Pikachu's fault.

>>152671243
THIS, unironically, basically, THIS! but japan doesnt want to admit they fucked up in the way they didnt tought.

>>152671243
It was around 100 kids who got actual seizures. But there were also 3.5 million kids watching the show (around a quarter of all kids in Japan), so 100 was a minuscule number. And around a quarter of them later turned out to just have extreme epilepsy and kept having issues with seizures for the rest of their lives. (the other 75% just had childhood epilepsy and never had a seizure again)

kinda sucked.

>>152671313
and your sources?

>>152670194
CRTs are essentially completely black between refreshes (there's technically phosphor decay as well but the effect is negligible).
Most modern TVs use sample and hold which moves on to the next frame on the next refresh. I imagine it's possible with a DLP projector or on a modern TV/Monitor with BFI/ULMB though.
I still use an old 1080p Panasonic Plasma so it'd make sense for me to avoid strobing.

>>152671042
so its not actually banned

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>PPG episode with gnomes
>layers of social commentary
>based soundtrack
>Dexters Laboratory episode with gnomes
>feet fetish
Wtf is wrong with genndy?

>>152667923
>I never knew there was a banned episode of the powerpuff girls.
why did they ban it again? did it offend manlets?

>>152667923
All the hype around this is going to die once everyone sees how shitty the quality on Tubi is

>>152667923
why care if the content is only available in the US, it doesnt work outside it and it is impossible to afford a VPN?

>>152671858
Tubi's not exactly niche.

Meh, this episode wasn't banned in Latin America and it's not very good at all (like most later PPG episodes)

i'm excited to rewatch some of my childhood shows that i haven't seen in 20+ years. it will be weird because i probably watched some reruns so many times i had them memorized at one point.

>>152667923
thank you trump very nice

>>152667923
This reminds me of that "banned" Spongebob scene in Just One Bite where Squidward gets lit on fire. That scene was never banned here in Canada so I watched it all the time as a kid. Is it still banned in the US?

>>152671794
Apparently because some metal beams in the background looked like crucifixes and one of the background characters vaguely resembled Jesus. Kinda seems like a reach, I'm guessing there was another reason but that's the officially listed one.

>>152671273
Yeah, but they're sure as hell not going to admit that. Porygon ended up being the scapegoat so the rat could get off scot-free.

>>152672681
Reading the synopsis, I can see how it could be interpreted as a rejection of christianity. Especially by christians with a persecution complex, who possibly already didn’t like cartoons to begin with.

>>152671626

Were you dropped on your head as a child multiple times?
Its banned from broadcast, meaning it cannot be broadcast on tv, so it IS banned.
It is not banned from home media releases if it is included in your dvd or bluray, but it still counts as banned.
Streaming is not broadcast, but to a generation of people that only know of netflix it may seem like it is.

>>152673379
It's Famicom, it's no use.

>>152675084
You suck at identifying anons

>>152673379
>Its banned from broadcast
It's not though. Cartoon Network just choose to not broadcast it. It's not legally banned.

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Everyone is so focused on the seizure thing, is nobody going to discuss how bizarre this episode, like Professor singing about the masses being like cattle, "freedom beef" as he calls it?
Was it supposed to be commentary on the Patriot Act?

>>152667923
Do the people have to be, Freedom Beef?

>>152667923
I remember liking the music in it as a kid but then I went to check it out years later and it's kinda lame

>>152667923
I had no idea there were only 7 states in the union in the PPG universe.

>>152676499
That would make sense.

>>152676499
Savino episodes tend to be on the weirder side, yes.

>>152667923
Was the Gnome based?

>>152676499
It's a "Chris Savino tried way too hard to make a 60s/70s reference" episode

>>152667923

Highly satanic show that prommotes pedophilia

>>152678421
He’s eleven inches tall, lives in a flower, and wears a pointy cap on his head. Of course he’s based.

>>152678857
>Chris Savino
the Loud House guy?

>>152668264
in the 90s leftists started slinging the term 'censorship' around to try and illicit emotional responses from normal people whenever society decided their trash wasn't worth shelf space, in the process shifting the meaning of the word to "freedom of association is bad, actually".

>>152672175
Based LatAm CN

>>152668039
Just fucking make a song you tard. Stop using AI to scratch your ass for you

>>152670936
Even with cable, there's limits to what can broadcast on TV without the feds breathing down your neck, so they likely pulled it from airing to avoid any legal troubles. Home video is a private exchange between producer and consumer, however, so the FCC has no say on what does onto dvds

>>152680297
You can legally air graphic porn on Nickelodeon uncensored at 3PM. The reason they have any sort of censorship is because they don't want to lose sponsors.

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>>152670966
Apparently it was Jess Harnell who seems to be the most LA or Las Vegas guy ever.

>>152671400
Here's a good paper on the subject:
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2001/05/the-pokemon-panic-of-1997/
>but it's not (insert mainstream media outlet of choice)
The paper's sources are cited at the bottom

Don't care, let me know if they ever stream the Buffalo Gals episode of Cow and Chicken. I saw it once on TV and it felt like a fever dream until I looked it up years later online and confirmed that I hadn't imagined it

>>152681191
https://youtu.be/2WPD2NHgVEg

>>152681509
hell yeah dude

>>152681520
it's also on internet archive in case it gets removed from YT

>>152681577
appreciate it

>>152676499
I thought it was a criticism of Communism.

>>152670966
>>152668039
Looking up trivia, apparently Jack Black was originally approached for the role.

>remember watching this episode on youtube back in the day

>>152670281
Weirdly enough the DVD places it in season 6 as the very last episode, making it the finale there

>>152680297
>Home video is a private exchange between producer and consumer, however, so the FCC has no say on what does onto dvds
the original DVD release of the movie actually had a virus on it by mistake, and it would install itself on your computer if you put the disk in.

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>>152676499
We try our best to ignore the Powerpuff Girls seasons after Craig left to go start up his next series

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>>152680371
>You can legally air graphic porn on Nickelodeon uncensored at 3PM
No, you absolutely cannot. I suspect you're basing that on the fact Section 505 of the Telecommunications Act which mandated scrambling was ruled unconstitutional, but that doesn't change the fact that:
>whether the work could be deemed "patently offensive" would depend on context, degree and time of broadcast
and airing hardcore porn (degree) on kid's channel (context) at 3pm (time of broadcast) would absolutely get you reamed by the FCC.
https://www.fcc.gov/media/program-content-regulations