The Crazy Rants of Samantha BurnsYou Bet Your A$$
I find it quite odd, and a little amusing, that there is a new game show called You Bet Your Ass, and they openly say the word "ass" on the show.
The reason I find it odd is because despite the show's openness to saying that word, the tv guide just calls it You Bet Your A.
Isn't that word common usage in this day and age? I mean, I don't know a single kid or adult who hasn't used that word these days - in front of their parents or anytime.
And, what makes it so okay for the word to be on a cable tv show, but not okay to be on a cable tv guide?
It's just ass, and everybody has one.
Well, I looked further into this show, which has an online description of the show.
Isn't it just so Canadian that the winning prize is a colossal $500, unless you decide to double down for a huge $1000 windfall.
That's frickin' hilarious.
That sort of win is hardly worth the bus trip out to the show in the first place.
And remember, that's in Canadian dollars, to boot. So, what's that, like a US$300 win after taxes or something?
Woo hoo.
I don't know, even if I won, I'd kind of still feel like a loser, lol.
Comments
Half the time, censorship doesn't know it's arse from its elbow.
I still remember the song "Fairytale Of New York" having the word "faggot" censored at 7.30 in the evening, yet the word "arse" one line later was allowed.
Posted by: Skytower | February 23, 2006 10:16 AM
Canadian Dollars? They should have called it Lose your A$$
Posted by: David | February 23, 2006 06:57 PM
This reminds me of a commercial I saw a few months ago for Aspercreme. The commercial's tagline is, "You Bet Your Sweet Aspercreme," and the men's chorus singing it paused after the first syllable of the word "Aspercreme" just to make sure no one missed the joke. A little juvenile, but okay.
I guess someone complained, though, because last week I saw the commercial again, only the tagline has been changed to "You Bet If It's Aspercreme," which doesn't even make sense.
But that's American television for you. You can show cities blowing up, or piles of bloody corpses, and it's no problem. But if one of those corpses has an exposed nipple, or if someone viewing the pile of corpses says "Goddamn!", everyone has a hissy fit. Go figure.
Posted by: Mediocre Fred | February 24, 2006 12:15 PM
can't remember the movie, but "asshole" was uncesored the other day during a primetime movie on TNT... i was rather surprised.
Posted by: kelly | February 25, 2006 05:32 PM