There’s no question. They’re insane.

Yes. It's literally streaming on Peacock right now

As is the case with virtually all "banned" media that people who cry about "cancel culture" bitch about, if you scratch the surface of their claims even a tiny bit they fall completely apart.

They should have seen Married With Children.

@@jawbone78 but you people literally banned this episode for a "black face", that is a FACT, and nobody is crying LMAO

@@Daniel-kp9fb Again, as the first comment states, that is not what happened. Streaming services did a bunch of things like this in a misguided attempt to seem as if they were doing something during the summer protests of 2020. No one asked them to do this.

“Darker themes” ? You work at Netflix or Hulu ?

@@tempsitch5632 No :) I mean what Neil was contemplating.

@@greendale634 ahh yes, another banned word in the USA... are you allowed to say anything anymore?

Not if someone feels bad

While I do not think that this episode's use of black face warrants removing it from streaming platform, Chang's makeup is undoubtedly remenicent of black face in the way it was portrayed in Minstrel Shows waaay back in the late 19th century. Chang's makeup ofc only consists of the overexaggerated black skin, while missing some of the other "markers of blackness" these freaks used back then (overemphasized big lips for example), but it still is eerily similar. Black face is, of course, severly racist, but I do believe that there are some accaptable uses of it - In Tropic Thunder for example, one character is in black face to make a point about racist Hollywood executives casting a white guy as a black character to enhance the "star power" of the in universe movie they are shooting. For me, it comes down to intention: Is the joke on black people (in which case it is in my opinion most likely racist and unacceptable), or is the joke targeted at something or someone else. The Chang example I think falls into the latter, because it is about Chang's ignorance in regards to the perceivable issue with his cosplay and not to racially attack black people in general.

@@ramuki9427 black face was only the fact. Using context clues of his neck exposed top chest and hands you can surmise that he painted his body for the role. That’s cosplaying not black face

@@Awhmanitsdanttv That is not entirely true, there are examples of black face covering more than just the face. Makeup that completely covers even the necks of the performers has been documented in photographs. I fell like the agrument about whether or not this constitutes black face is futile to begin with. The criticism has evidently been made by ppl before that perceived it as such, which is why streaming services decided to take it down. Hell, even the characters themselves comment on how similar it looks to black face (both Jeff and Shirley outright point out the "walking hate crime"). The joke only works because common sense immediatley makes the connection, even if Chang in his ignorance did not intend it to be black face. My point is that while we should be critical of black face, this episode is probably one acceptable example of how you can get away with it.

@@ramuki9427 Is blackface not, in itself, the concept of someone other than black pretending to be a black person by painting their face black? If so, there was no attempt by Chang to pass himself off as a black person, and thus was just painting his body a darker color. Unless a dark elf was offended by this cosplay, I really dont think it has anything in common with what people consider to be blackface.

@@TheBloobster Yeah, I agree with that sentiment at the very least, but the point remains that Harmon (or the writers) very deliberately played with the concept of black face when they wrote this joke. I think censoring this episode by removing it entirely was unjustified, but at the same time I can see why people might get offended by this joke, even if the intend was never to reproduce actual black face.

Changface

awwwww are you going to cry?

looks like the director wanted everyone to hate pierce

@@kungfubrandon6886 that was Chevy’s doing. They wanted him to be the goofball, grandfatherly type, and his own personality leaking into the character drove the change into what he had become. This is one of his harsher episodes where he is full-on antagonist to everyone, but there are plenty more where he’s almost as bad.

@@ZacCostilla seems like he let his dislike for chase caused him to make chase mean spirited

@@kungfubrandon6886 that flies in the face of the comments made by nearly everyone who was on set with him during that time, that has spoken out in the subject.

Australia's age ratings for videogames now include an R 18+ rating, though.

Australia is pretty much Nazi Germany at this point as it comes to censorship and basic human freedoms

@@RobertJW ……though, it’s still the stupidest thing in the world. One of the most modern societies with the stupidest anything is sad. Also needs to get ahold of it’s beer export laws.

Hulu and Netflix took it down, did they put it back up again?

​@@otter011it's streaming on peacock right now