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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / Entertainment => Topic started by: asian1 on November 03, 2005, 12:58:47 PM
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Will they show the english version of "The Shamsoons" on US TV Stations?
What other US/European TV shows will be modified for Arabic TV?
From Post-Gazette:
When an Arab satellite TV network, MBC, decided to introduce "The Simpsons" to the Middle East, they knew the family would have to make some fundamental lifestyle changes.
"Omar Shamshoon," as he is called on the show, looks like the same Homer Simpson, but he has given up beer and bacon, which are both against Islam, and he no longer hangs out at "seedy bars with bums and lowlifes." In Arabia, Homer's beer is soda, and his hot dogs are barbequed Egyptian beef sausages. And the donut-shaped snacks he gobbles are the traditional Arab cookies called kahk.
An Arabized "Simpsons" -- called "Al Shamshoon" -- made its debut in the Arab world earlier this month, in time for Ramadan, a time of high TV viewership. It uses the original "Simpsons" animation, but the voices are dubbed into Arabic and the scripts have been adapted to make the show more accessible, and acceptable, to Arab audiences.
The family remains, as the producers describe them, "dysfunctional." They still live in Springfield, and "Omar" is still lazy and works at the local nuclear power plant. Bart (now called "Badr") is constantly cheeky to his parents and teachers and is always in trouble. Providing the characters' voices are several popular Egyptian actors, including Mohamed Heneidy, considered the Robert De Niro of the Middle East.
MBC hopes "Al Shamshoon" will be the first of many adaptations for the growing Arab TV audience.
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It's amusing they feel the need to be so PC about it :lol:
Arabs amd muslims are well aware that people eat pork, drink beer and hang around in bars. Considering they haven't relocated the setting it seems a bit OTT to me. Speaking as a muslim myself, I'd just be embarrased that someone tried so hard not to hurt my sensibilities with a cartoon depicting someone elses way of life :-D
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sounds like something has been lost in translation. :roll:
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cecilia wrote:
sounds like something has been lost in translation. :roll:
Like the humour, for example?
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the most important part!
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Karlos wrote:
It's amusing they feel the need to be so PC about it :lol:
I find it very amusing, since the Simpsons is intended to be offensive... I wonder if Omar has an annoying devout Muslim neighbour?
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Nadim Felaheenders?
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Karlos wrote:
Nadim Felaheenders?
/me desparately tries to think of Okliedokiedoo in arabic
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Maybe he'd greet Omar with
"Assalaamuawaamu Alaikumilidaikum!"
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There is a parody / spoof of The Simpsons from India.
If "Al Shamshoon" is succesful, will they create "The Singhsoons" or african version of "The Simpsons"?
http://www.badmash.org/singhson.php