Last but not least: yellow blasphemers
The Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) doesn't find *The Simpsons* funny. This is now costing one TV station (relatively) dearly.
The TV channel CNBC-E has been fined the equivalent of 28,000 francs for alleged blasphemy in the animated series "The Simpsons". In the Halloween special episode of the 22nd season, God was portrayed as a coffee-serving subject of the devil, which the broadcasting authority believes offends religious feelings. According to Spiegel.de, RTÜK also justified the punishment by stating that the series "makes fun of God, incites young people to violence by portraying murders as a divine command and incites them to drink alcohol on New Year's Eve". One of the series characters abuses the religion of the other to incite him to murder. "In one scene, the Bible is publicly burned and God and Satan are depicted in human form," added the supervisory authority.
It's fascinating how much you can read into the series. You could also simply say: it's funny, used to be very funny, then became a little less funny at one point and then caught up again in the more recent seasons. That doesn't mean you have to drink alcohol on New Year's Eve. (hae)
