April 10 2004

Tony Soprano's Thai blowjob surprise

The Thai media censors have no objection to programmes showing mangled corpses or deformed babies but they draw the line at someone puffing on a cigarette. By pixellating the thing out, they respond as if the smoker was waggling his genitalia.

The funniest example of this nonsense was in a Thai-sreened episode of the Sopranos. Tony Soprano is lying in bed, holding a big Cuban cigar beside his left hip. As his mistress leans forward to light it for him, her head disappears into the pixellated area and it looks like she's performing a service of an entirely different nature.

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Concerned Thai parents would have had difficulty in explaining this mix-up to their children because, in Thailand, the act of giving someone a blowjob is also known as smoking.

[Posted to TV/Movies by David]

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Readers' comments

tonychang says:

...and of course Thai kids would have been watching as doubtless this programme will have been aired at 9 a.m. just after "cannibal hollocaust".

April 10, 2004 4:20 PM

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