[mythtv-users] 'Censoring' decoding 'bad' words off of Closed Captioning

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Sat Apr 8 00:06:01 UTC 2006


On Apr 7, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:22:01PM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
>> Of course I believe it. I find the gratuitous "bad" language that
>> some producers seem to think will increase ratings often detracts
>> from a show.
>
> I'm going to interject here.
>
> It's not necessarily gratuitous.  *Real people swear*.  The earliest
> example of a producer realizing this was Glen Larson, on the original
> Cattlecar Overactica, when he observed that there was *no way* you  
> were
> going to have a carrier full of fighter pilots who didn't, and  
> invented
> his own, so he could get away with them on 70's network television.

I would not consider that "gratuitous, but a lot of what's on the air  
is.

>
> And anyone who thinks that no one ever swears... well, that's a  
> load of
> felgercarb.

My favorite Cattlecar-ism was "How close are they ??" asked the  
Captain, "15 Microns" he replied.

I would say that if the enemy was that close it was pretty well all  
over.


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