Disinformation: Everything You Know Is Wrong: “Japan’s nuclear power plant crisis is no laughing matter in Springfield: Networks in several European countries are reportedly reviewing episodes of ‘The Simpsons’ for any ‘unsuitable’ references to nuclear disaster.
An Austrian network has apparently pulled two eps, 1992’s ‘Marge Gets a Job’ and 2005’s ‘On a Clear Day I Can’t See My Sister,’ which include jokes about radiation poisoning and nuclear meltdowns, respectively.
Al Jean — exec producer of the animated Fox comedy featuring inept family man/nuclear power plant worker Homer Simpson — tells EW that he can appreciate the concern.
‘We have 480 episodes, and if there are a few that they don’t want to air for awhile in light of the terrible thing going on, I completely understand that,’ says Jean, citing the previous example of the 1997 episode ‘Homer Versus the City of New York’ that was pulled after 9/11 because it included key scenes at the…”