flickering pictures

Talk about getting your priorities straight.

From the BBC:

The Simpsons has been dropped from morning TV in Venezuela after being deemed unsuitable for children - and has been replaced by Baywatch.

The popular US cartoon about the yellow dysfunctional family was branded “inappropriate” and pulled by the country’s television authorities.

Caracas TV station Televen has started showing episodes of the beachside show in the same mid-morning slot.

[…] The country’s TV regulator said the saga of Homer Simpson, wife Marge and their three children flouted regulations that prohibit “messages that go against the whole education of boys, girls and adolescents”.

I’m not sure who decided that slow-motion bikini-running is a more wholesome alternative, but whoever it was, he’s to be commended for at least not replacing it with yet more episodes of Olá! Presidente, the Sunday night talk show hosted by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.

Photo from Geek Culture.

• plug this post
  
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • NewsVine
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati