Originally published at: Real emails from the Disney TV Standards and Practices department | Boing Boing
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Heh, “crud-dang” would have been objected to in my childhood household, but not for “crud”, it would be for the same reason they (S&P) rejected “jeez”; you might be saying the euphemism “dang”, but god knows what word was in your heart.
I guess I should have realized that somebody who could create a show as funny as Gravity Falls could also make me LOL at a collection of boring-ass notes. The final line is exquisite.
ftfy
To be a standards and practices person at any network is to have a paranoid and encyclopaedic knowledge of any little term that might possibly offend a busybody old church lady in Peoria but to still have a scene like this slip right past him.
Gracchus, thanks for this link. I’ve submitted the complaint.
Gosh I miss Gravity Falls.
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