No kissing for you!

I have written before about how strange some of the decisions about what gets censored and what doesn't on TV here can be. That post was about the profanity that does and doesn't get broadcast, but the other big thing that gets cut from many channels is not just sex, but kissing. Tonight I saw the funniest example of this yet.

We bought a VHS tape of Chicken Run when we were still in the US and the kids watched it so much that we all pretty much have the movie memorized. We left the tape at home, so I haven't seen it in a couple of years. Tonight I came across it on MBC3 and decided to watch it.

If you haven't seen it, the movie is an Ardman (the same people who make Wallace and Grommet) movie, so everything is done with claymation. There is a scene near the end where the main male chicken character pulls the main female chicken character onto the plane and there is what seems like an obvious build up to a kiss. Instead, she hits him (for leaving), and then she kisses him, though it is shown from behind, so all you see is the back of a claymation chicken head.

Well, in the MBC3 version, he pulls her onto the plane and boom, in a really awkward jump, then we are on to the next scene. I really do try to be open minded and understanding of different cultures, but I can't really see the threat from showing the back of a cartoon chicken head that is being kissed by another cartoon chicken. It did give me a good laugh though.