While regulators can simply excise offending episodes before streaming in China, perhaps the greater threat is self-censorship by Hollywood studios eyeing Chinese viewers' tastes and censors' sensitivities.
In a three-year period the FCC scrutinized 28 offending shows including an episode of the Fox cartoon The Simpsons in which Mr. Burns and Smithers enter a strip club.
In typical sitcom fashion, the girls spend the entire episode offending and insulting Sophie.
A Scientologist, he quit the show in 2006, saying that he had been offended by an episode that ridiculed Tom Cruise and other prominent Scientologists.
" 'Sex and the City' episode offends movement.' " It seems that a Conservative Jewish leader objected to a recent "Sex" scene in which the character Charlotte York is in a restaurant with her boyfriend, named Harry Goldenblatt.
Offended by the episode's content, she urged advertisers to boycott the show, several of whom did or pledged to more carefully screen the episodes for which they provided advertising.
Both women and the LGBT community were profoundly offended by the episode, despite actor Naya Rivera's incredible performance as Santana and the heartbreaking scene with her grandmother, played by the riveting Ivonne Coll.
On the issue of whether competitive curlers would be offended by the episode, LaZebnik said "When you hear The Simpsons is going to do their take on your sport, you naturally get a little alarmed, But we ended up being respectful I would say, even, surprisingly respectful.
In the episode, after offending the Olympic committee during their visit to Springfield Elementary, the school's students are committed to 20 hours of community service.
Ultimately, Basterds proved less likely to offend than an average episode of 'Allo 'Allo!
