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  • Oh, welcome to watch Mojo.

  • And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 TV shows Bend in other countries.

  • Bazinga, I think quality.

  • He knew the risks.

  • It was his choice for this list.

  • We're looking at TV Siri's band in certain countries while we will be, including shows whose band was later lifted.

  • We won't be including Siri's that had only one or a few of its episodes censored.

  • Were you surprised by any of these band?

  • Siri's?

  • Let us know in the comments.

  • If you like what you're hearing, be sure to check out the full song at the link below Number 10.

  • Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Malaysia Malaysia wasn't the only country to bend this show, but it sure has the most interesting reason we could have picked New Zealand, where later iterations of the show were filmed.

  • Three Island Nation temporarily banned power rangers when parents complained about the show's level of violence, and now Red Ranger, it is time for me to destroy.

  • You must be victorious for my queen.

  • Instead, however, we opted for a band with a less expected reason.

  • Turns out the government of Malaysia had a problem with the show's title or, more specifically, the word Morphin.

  • They felt it was too similar to the name of the drug morphine, greeny, Zack and Jason in your heart.

  • You will always carry the spirit of the Power Rangers, but your destinies light elsewhere.

  • You have been chosen to help the world in a different way.

  • Now, in December 1995 the famously anti drug nation banned the show until producers removed the offending word from its title, which they eventually did.

  • Think greatness.

  • You once word Tommy because it's all over now.

  • Number nine.

  • Andi Mack, Kenya In the late 20 tens, Andi Mack made Disney Channel history by having Cyrus Goodman, a central character, come out as gay Cyrus.

  • Do you like Andy?

  • Mhm.

  • You like Jonah?

  • The big reveal occurred in the show second season, and the ratings went up pretty much across the board.

  • The move also got the Siri's praise from various groups, such as Glad the government of Kenya, though, wasn't singing Disney's praises.

  • Well, that, of course, is Aunt Ruthie's Kugel.

  • That's your classic bagel and lox.

  • That's gefilte fish.

  • Skip that and I'm gay.

  • Instead, they banned the show from airing in the country specifically because of the gay storyline.

  • Is there anything else you want to tell me?

  • According to Kenya Film Classifications Board's chief executive Ezekiel Mutua, quote any attempt to introduce gay programming in Kenya will be met with the full force of the law.

  • Number eight knots landing South Africa.

  • Now this one's a bit different.

  • Yes, this popular prime time soap opera and spin off of Dallas was banned in South Africa.

  • You're kidding.

  • No, but it wasn't due to government censorship.

  • Instead, it was withdrawn.

  • In response to that governments conduct confused, will elaborate.

  • Laurie Maher Television, which produced Knots landing and distributed it worldwide, decided to join in the cultural boycott of apartheid South Africa in the 19 eighties.

  • This boycott saw international music acts refused to play in the country, and the Oscars, not air there, said, I know you like music, but don't you think they could have gotten a better headset?

  • Laurie Maher, for its part, refused to distribute Knots.

  • Landing and other popular shows like Falcon Crest to TV stations in South Africa until apartheid ended.

  • Did knew what he was getting into.

  • He knew the risks.

  • It was his choice Number seven.

  • The Big Bang Theory.

  • China.

  • When a country bands a TV show, it's usually the result of local values or politics, and he solves the equation.

  • Crowd goes wild.

  • Nobel.

  • No.

  • Every once in a while, though, there's seemingly no reason whatsoever to justify the move, at least not one provided by the powers that be the finger, I think, uh, I think in 2014 China's State Administration of Press publication, Radio, film and television decided to ban popular sitcom The Big Bang Theory along with a few other American shows from both television and streaming platforms in the country.

  • They reversed the decision a year later, leading some to speculate that the move was simply to give Chinese made content of financial leg up.

  • You hear that, Professor Proton said.

  • I should call him Arthur.

  • That means we're friends.

  • No, a friend would have would have told me about the elevator today.

  • No official justification has been given beyond unspecified policy reasons.

  • If it wanted to kill you, you'd be dead.

  • Number six.

  • Monty Python's Flying Circus, Malaysia.

  • In some countries, religious humor just doesn't fly, even when it's part of a flying circus.

  • What on earth.

  • Does that mean I don't know?

  • Mr Went with just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble at the mill, that's all.

  • I didn't expect the kind of Spanish Inquisition nobody expects.

  • The Spanish Inquisition Sensors in Malaysia bend the Seminole BBC comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus from the country's airwaves when it premiered in 1969.

  • They objected to the show, repeatedly poking fun at religion as well as its darker comedic elements.

  • Only it does worry some people.

  • I don't know why.

  • Perhaps a little sensitive.

  • So I do take the precaution of asking on these occasions this'll Ban extended to the troops films, including Life of Brian, which is full of religious comedy, and the Holy Grail, which, despite the name actually doesn't focus much on religion.

  • Walk away.

  • Just ignored.

  • In recent years, Malaysia has relaxed a bit, the Python films air no longer on the banned list, and people in the country can order their Siri's online number five Da Ali G show Kazakhstan.

  • It's not hard to guess which Sasha Baron Cohen character Gotta Ali G show band in Kazakhstan in the U.

  • S.

  • And a.

  • If you want to marry a girl, you cannot just go toe her father's else and swap her for 15 gallons of insecticide.

  • It's not the titular allergy or Bruno, but rather Borat Coin's over the top satirical Kazakhstan Eamon.

  • Some in the country, including certain members of the Kazakhstan media, got the humor and the fact that the United States was the rial butt of the joke.

  • Others, however, most definitely did not.

  • I should tell this joke.

  • Probably not.

  • The government even blocked Cohen's website after the character appeared.

  • The ban was lifted by the time the Borat movie was released, but the debate surrounding the character persists.

  • Give me a small baby.

  • Why angry face?

  • Well, what you're saying is very demeaning.

  • Do you know the word demeaning?

  • No.

  • Number four mash South Korea Mash was a huge success around the world, but not in the country where it was set.

  • Call it in the decades following the end of the Korean War, the government of South Korea was very interested in rehabilitating the country's image.

  • A comedy show depicting the country as impoverished and its people is dependent on the American military was clearly not what the government had in mind, so they banned it.

  • Come on, A joke is a joke, but not in post op.

  • Now, come on now, cut it out.

  • When the actual mobile Army Surgical Hospital that the show was based on closed in 1997 cast members from the show were in attendance, proving that the backlash went beyond the government.

  • Local reporters took the opportunity to ask the stars about the show's negative portrayal of Koreans.

  • What difference does it make?

  • I'm not hurting anybody.

  • What what about yourself?

  • Number three.

  • Sex in the City Singapore A show focused on the sex lives of single women living in New York was too steamy for sensors in Singapore, at least originally.

  • And this is a problem.

  • No, it just well, it just It feels odd.

  • The government banned the show when it premiered in the late nineties on HBO in the United States and pretty much everywhere else in the world.

  • Don't you think we're good without it?

  • No, I do not.

  • Then in 2004 they relented and changed the subscription TV program code to allow the show to air in the country with certain scenes removed that is inappropriate and cheeky.

  • Bit of advertising.

  • HBO Asia plugged the delayed release with the tagline.

  • Love is always worth the wait.

  • I have no intention of using that.

  • I'm saving sex for someone I love.

  • Fantastic.

  • Is there a man in the picture?

  • Number two?

  • The Simpsons, Venezuela Mine.

  • Bart Simpson.

  • Who the hell are you?

  • I'm jolly Old ST Nick.

  • Oh, yeah, we'll just see about that way kind of take it for granted that The Simpsons family members aren't supposed to be role models.

  • Rumor.

  • That was a 20 way, but apparently not everyone feels that way, at least according to Venezuela's TV regulator in 2000 and eight, Venezuela Band the long running show for being inappropriate and disseminating messages that go against the whole education of boys, girls and adolescents.

  • It was replaced by the more suitable for Children.

  • Baywatch.

  • Venezuela isn't actually the only country to take aim at the show.

  • It was also banned from prime time television in China to help Chinese animation studios and almost fell to pressure from Pentecostal churches in Russia.

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  • Number one.

  • Modern family, Iran Oh, forget it.

  • I can't do this.

  • Point is you're scared.

  • I think you've learned your lesson.

  • Wow!

  • Iran didn't just ban modern family from airing in the country.

  • They developed their own version of it.

  • Half Sang is an Iranian produced, unauthorized knock off of the popular American sitcom that mirrors the original quite closely.

  • At times it even looks like a shot for shot remake.

  • That is, of course, without the show's gay couple, Mitchell and Cam.

  • What do you mean?

  • You bring it up every chance to do you know what not stop means.

  • Instead, they created a straight couple.

  • This is, of course, due to the Iranian government's harsh views on homosexuality.

  • Half sang also changed Haley's gender because Iranian TV doesn't allow for the friendship between boys and girls.

  • While modern family ran for 11 seasons out of Iran, half saying on Lee ran for one in 2014.

  • 0, I wasn't even trying for that.

  • Nice.

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