I keep forgetting to put this down here... (and was reminded by the Arnold incident yesterday)
If you watch any of the above Chuck Lorre productions, do you know that at the end of the show, in the closing credits, there is always a
long worded panel that goes by too fast to read
However, there is Chuck's website http://chucklorre.com/index.php?p=255c
where he has all of them for all the shows...
In September is one of the classics-
#255 and #255 censored
CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #255
CENSORED
As always, the offending material is available to be read if you know where to look. I think you'll find that the card, while mildly amusing, is nowhere near as entertaining as the raging paranoia of our network censors.
P.S. For selfish reasons I would ask that you wait to read the censored card until after The Big Bang Theory.
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1st Aired: 21 September 2009
CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #255 (CENSORED)
In film and television there exists a rule that all phone numbers spoken in dialogue or seen on the screen begin with the fake prefix 555. The reason for this rule is that somewhere along the line idiots began calling the phone numbers used on TV shows and movies. This resulted in production companies and networks being sued by the unhappy people who were harassed by the prank calls from the aforementioned idiots. All of which means that whether you're trying to enjoy a humble sitcom or a hundred million dollar action movie, every phone number will begin with the hateful, illusion-wrecking prefix, 555. In tonight's episode of Two and a Half Men we tried to get around this dilemma. The phone number Charlie rattles off in the first scene is actually one number short of a real number. Then, later in the scene, he discusses a memory trick which involves replacing numbers with letters in order to remember them. If you check your phone, you'll see the letters we used, OXOFEMPAL, or 696-336-725, is again one number short of being an actual working number, and JKLPUZO is the broadcast acceptable 555-7896. A lot of work, not to mention endless negotiations with our CBS censor, was necessary to come up with these numbers. So, to all the idiots out there, let me just say, 555-382-5968.