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Even Liz Lemon Can't Get Away With Saying 'Bomb' on an Airplane

March 23, 2011 at 12:39 PM | by | Comments (0)

We discovered something very interesting while on a long-haul flight yesterday. We noticed that while airlines get away with showing violence-packed feature films, or the sexier scenes of other movies, that comedy TV shows also screened while in flight cannot get away with saying the B-word.

That's right; the word "bomb" was bleeped out from a line said by Tina Fey as Liz Lemon, on an old episode of 30 Rock. Did our ears deceive us? Nope—because a moment later on the show, another character says it, but emerging from Julianne Moore's mouth was a big BLEEP and not "bomb."

The exact episode was Season 4, Episode 8 "Secret Santa," when Jack and Liz are deciding what to get the other for Christmas. Jack wishes his weekend with Nancy (Julianne Moore) could last longer, and so Liz gets him the "gift" of calling in a bomb threat to Penn Station that gets Nancy's train back to Boston cancelled.

Now this got us wondering—what other non-cuss words are bleeped from in-flight entertainment? Is there a bleep when someone says "hijack" in an action movie, or how about when terms like this come up in casual conversation in a film? "That dress is the bomb," or "I'll have an Irish Car Bomb," for example. Have you heard a bleeped non-expletive on a flight before? let us know in the comments below

[Photo: our screengrab from Netflix instant watch]

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