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The Count Censored (ORIGINAL)

mrmagoo312 · 6.2M views · 2007-08-31 · 2:08

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Overview

A mashup of a Sesame Street Count clip with a Lemon Demon song, where the swear words are censored in absurd ways. It is a short comedy piece about censorship.

On Hacker News

Brought up in censorship threads as a joke and as a canonical example of censorship that changes the meaning of the original.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2016–2023

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Satire & parodyStand-up & sketch comedy
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censorshipsesame streetlemon demonmashupprofanity

What people said

professorplumb · 2023-02 · Criticism

I've always considered this video the canonical example of intentionally misleading censorship: [VIDEO]

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joshmarlow · 2016-09 · Joke / meme

> Edit: This just made me realize you can bump G rated content up to PG-13 just by adding beeps and blurs I can't believe I'm posting this on Hackernews but it actually is relevant - [VIDEO]

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sofaofthedamned · 2016-08 · Joke / meme

I love a good swear as much of any of you mangy pissflaps, but here's a gold example of how implied rudeness can be funny too. [VIDEO]

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