D’oh! German broadcaster pulls ‘nuclear’ Simpsons episodes

Agence France'Presse & Newscore, by Staff Posted By: Photoonist- Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:15:44 GMT Berlin ' The German broadcaster of "The Simpsons" said Monday it has decided not to show any episodes of the US cartoon series showing nuclear disasters in light of Japan's atomic emergency. "We are checking all the episodes and we won't show any suspect ones, but we won't cut any scenes," Stella Rodger, a spokeswoman for the private broadcaster Pro7, said. "We haven't postponed any yet," she added. (Snip) Previous episodes have shown nuclear waste dumped in a children's playground, plutonium used as a paperweight, cracked cooling towers, luminous rats and three'eyed mutant fish, as well as near'meltdowns.

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