10 Cases of Pop Culture Sabotage

[@NinjaMatt2201]

It's important to note that Williams was worried about that happening, and tried to prevent it. It was in his contract that Disney is not to use Williams name prominently in advertising to sell the movie. Disney broke contract anyway. I believe Williams successfully sued Disney for it, but by then, the damage was done.

[@ZAV1944]

And he refused to work with Disney for a time, that is why Dan Castellaneta voices the Genie in Return of Jaffar and the Aladdin TV series.

[@NinjaMatt2201]

@@ZAV1944 Oh, yeah. Which was another breach of contract, because the contract specifically stated that Disney weren't allowed to use the Genie character without Robin Williams voicing the character.

[@justinecooper9575]

"Unfortunately, what Gene meant by "Let's shoot it two ways" was that we'd shoot the Kirk/Uhura kiss twice. In the first take, we'd actually kiss on camera and in the second, Nichelle and I would turn our bodies as we embraced, so that my back was to the camera long before our lips would have ever touched. We'd give the illusion of kissing without ever touching lips. Sadly, when push came to shove, the network got their way and the no-contact kiss made it to the airwaves. For that reason, the widely held assumption that Star Trek features the first interracial kiss in the history of television is absolutely untrue." William Shatner - "Star Trek Memories", 1993, page 285.

[@pakde8002]

Tell me you just googled that and haven't memorized WS's biography.

[@justinecooper9575]

@@pakde8002 I have the book in hardback and that quote has stuck in my memory as a piece of Trek trivia since I first read it. The book is interesting if you're a ST:TOS fan. Interestingly enough, I can find no description of the debacle surrounding "the kiss" in "Inside Star Trek : The Real Story" (1996) by Herbert Solow and Robert Justman. Of course, I could have just missed it since I haven't read that book all the way through, but it's indexed so it should be easy to find the pages related to whatever you're looking for. If you know of any sources that contradict Shatner's recollection I'd be interested in reading them.

[@patrickwolf5796]

She was / is black. Dude kissed a Green woman once too. SO What!?!? I'd kiss a woman who was Plaid if she was beautiful and sexy too.

[@johnsuffill6520]

First interracial kiss? That was on British TV in a series called Emergency Ward 10, years before Star Trek.

[@jolan_tru]

I think the first interracial kiss was ona Danish or Swedish TV show? It beat Emergency Ward 10 by about 5 years.

[@exsandgrounder]

Wot, no Mike Oldfield? He was the launch artist for the Virgin Records label and his record, Tubular Bells, was of course a big seller. Executives at the label were very insistent he release a sequel to this album, but in revenge Oldfield deliberately made an album, Amarok, from which it would be impossible to extract a radio-friendly single- and even included morse code that spelled out his opinion of Richard Branson. And, in his final two-fingered act to Virgin, the first album released under a new deal with Warner Records was... Tubular Bells II.

[@MrEnjoivolcom1]

Doing [that] so in frigging _Morse Code_ would've been (and *was* quite obviously) pure-tee *GENIUS* especially to do so on a record, knowing it'd merely lead to *1)* either people asking what it meant, or *2)* researching to find out on their own accord exactly just what [if anything] it meant. 🤔

[@thesmirkingbearstudio]

This makes 3 videos in 1 day . Simon . You and the teams are beasts

[@JamesFromTexas]

It's up to 7 as of 1723 Central time

[@duncancurtis5971]

He's taken over Skynet style.

[@brianarbenz1329]

NBC put Jay Leno on The Tonight Show because GE, the network's owners, were furious at David Letterman's constant ridiculing of GE.

[@b5media241]

Top 10 reasons late night television tanked

[@karenelizabeth1590]

Letterman then went on to do the same jokes about Westinghouse at CBS, and they apparently didn't get their panties in a twist over it

[@GeorgieB1965]

#10: There's also a story floating around that Vince Jr used her on at least one occasion as an enforcer to punish a particular wrestler because that wrestler didn't want to sign a new contract that was being presented to her mere hours before her match, which she ultimately lost (I believe it was a shoot match of sorts)

[@mrmojomajestic8317]

You're talking about Wendy Richter and the "Original Screwjob".

[@RHCole]

The Beastie Boys are running through my head... 🎶Listen up y'all it's a sabotage!🎶

[@Bacopa68]

Cultural appropriation of both AAVE and Inland Southern dialect. But honestly, I am glad some Jewish guys from Brooklyn popularized the grammatically correct 2nd person plural pronoun. Just start saying "y'all". I'm not asking y'all to understand complex contractions like "yal'd've".

[@RAS_Squints]

Wasn't technically the first interracial kiss Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz on I Love Lucy

[@tigerbread78]

Never thought of it like that before, but for a white/black kiss I think it was British Soap opera Emergency Ward 10, might have been others before it, Star Trek was the first American one

[@stephenlitten1789]

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were both Americans of European descent. Hers were mostly Pomgolian and his were mostly Castilian. So, nope.

[@dsxa918]

As a Canada (more familiar with Britain than America but very familiar with America as I've grown up) I'm just about sure youre right.

[@pakde8002]

Yes technically speaking you could say so. However, not many Hispanics were being lynched in America for kissing white women as far as I know.

[@onionbubs386]

It's debatable. Since Latino is an ethnicity and not a race, it's hard to say if Desi would be considered "white" or not. It varies between sources, but more of the Cuban population considers themselves white than those who don't. So unless someone who knows more about Desi Arnaz wants to chime in, I can't say.

[@traildoggy]

First interracial kiss? I'm going with all of those times that Lassie kissed Timmy. Lot's of tongue. That girl was wild.

[@patriciaaturner289]

And here I thought it was Sammy Davis Jr and Carroll O Connor. 😂

[@pakde8002]

That would be inter-species not inter-racial. Also, it would mean lassie was a pedophile. Let's just not go there 😂

[@sydhenderson6753]

@@patriciaaturner289 Wasn't that later than Star Trek? I remember the episode now.

[@joanhoffman3702]

And when you realize that Lassie was played by a male collie, well, what can one say? A fine bromance.

[@slake9727]

@@joanhoffman3702 And they called it Puppy Love

[@notworthitband]

Simon, haven't you mentioned in a video (or multiple) that Star Trek wasn't the first interracial kiss?

[@Oleandra-13]

You act like Simon remembers his past videos lol

[@jolan_tru]

C'mon now, Simon's hosted more videos than you've had hot meals. Cut the guy some slack!

[@pakde8002]

You should be more specific. The first interracial kiss on the stage, films or TV? American entertainment or other? I think it's safe to say it was the first interracial romantic deep and lusty full mouth kiss on camera on an American nationwide prime time television series. 😂 Even as a kiss between a white man and woman it would have been scandalous for the time because it was so hot.

[@onionbubs386]

It wasn't the first televised interracial kiss, it was the first televised kiss between a black person and a white person. Not only was that not Star Trek's first interracial kiss, it wasn't even Shatner's first. Earlier in the series, he kissed an Asian actress. Before Star Trek, Shatner kissed a different Asian woman on a separate show. I can't recall what the show was, but I believe it was some kind of talk show, or maybe game show. Nonetheless, it's still an iconic moment in American history.

[@slashnburn9234]

Not even the first between a black and a white person, just the first on American TV; there had been on television in Europe prior to that.

[@onionbubs386]

@@slashnburn9234 yes, you're right, my apologies, i forgot to include that

[@GregHuffman1987]

Cool to see you giving the dark side of the ring a mention. I binged that series. I no longer watch pro wrestling regularly but i still watch stuff associated with it including listening to Jim Cornette

[@alicia27ish]

Hey everyone 🥰😘💗 kisses from Augusta GA!!

[@andymouse]

Big fat KISS back at ya from the UK 😘💋

[@andreasbergqvist6239]

Hey China, Queen are super gay! Choose Wham instead!

[@pakde8002]

That's hilarious

[@brianjacobs1283]

I want to know if you will do a video about the Donner Pass/ Donner Family in California? I seriously can't believe you haven't covered this yet as fascinating as it is and what happened there! Especially with the blizzard and weather patterns going on in California right now.

[@MrManueleh]

The first interracial kiss I know of was on the Dean Martin show.

[@twocvbloke]

Wow, Ferngully, there's a name I haven't heard of in a LOOOOOONG time, but yeah, disneycorp are twats, not allegedly, nor opinion, it's a fact... :P

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Yeah, look up their lawsuit against Rainbow. Disney tried to sue them out of business for making a more successful magical girl show than the House of Mouse could.

[@UnicornsPoopRainbows]

@@nicholasfarrell5981 Rainbow Bright?!

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

@@UnicornsPoopRainbows Rainbow, the Italian animation studio. Their show Winx Club demolished Disney's W.I.T.C.H., so the House of Mouse sued them with the claim that "magical girls with wings" was a specific enough concept that Winx ripped off their show. Too bad they didn't know that Winx had been pitched (as a pilot) about a year or so before W.I.T.C.H. was a thing, though some elements/characters in Winx were removed or drastically reduced to appease Disney despite Rainbow 100% winning the case.

[@Static-ash]

Great list! Please Simon, talk more about metal.

[@pakde8002]

Please don't

[@jeremycarlos9]

I like Ozzy's music but Sharon's actions were a total overreaction. UP THE IRONS! EDDIE LIVES!

[@trystanjames2687]

Eric Burdon of Rge Animal keck support band The Angels off their tour of the US, because they were more popular with assurances... allegedly.

[@babscabs1987]

That time George Michael convinced the PRC that Queen was gayer than Wham!...

[@davidlucey1311]

I think that William Shatner, forcing the producers to show the cake that had the kiss was a good thing. This is interesting, because we have all heard so many negative things about William Shatner, most of them coming from George Takei.

[@slashnburn9234]

There'd never been an interracial kiss on AMERICAN TV before the Star Trek kiss, however in Europe there had been a few on television prior to that.

[@dadofid1006]

Bravo Mr Shatner & Mrs Nichols, Bravo 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@darreljones8645]

#1 might explain why Ozzy and Sharon divorced.

[@jorgelotr3752]

4:07 according to one of your other videos, there was indeed.

[@reecedrury4145]

I need to go back to the lion King game. I found it fairly easy as a kid which always has confused me when people say it's hard. I was 11ish at the time

[@GregHuffman1987]

Iron maiden vs angry maiden

[@casbot]

I frickin loved the lion king game wtf

[@Arcanua]

Sad you cover an unloved game over the fact Disney has caused far worse cases of SELF sabotage over Atlantis the Lost Empire, Treasure Planet and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. That last one they're trying to erase the existence of so badly these last 10 years and still trying to do now :/

[@gordonwallin2368]

What? Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

[@Lngbrdninjamasta]

I beat the lion king game lol it was the Aladdin game that was sus

[@Oleandra-13]

There was also Prince of Persia... I'm surprised that my OG Gameboy survived any of that. I wanted to yeet it so hard!

[@gaylewinds4808]

I did not know that. Thank you very much. I had read differently a long time ago. I wrote something ignorant and I'm sorry. Thank you again.

[@stephenlitten1789]

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were both Americans of European descent. Hers were mostly Pomgolian and his were mostly Castilian. So, nope.

[@evilfluff6634]

I would love to see Iron Maiden live. Ozzy not so much maybe 30 years ago.

[@lisafish1449]

I've seen Ozzy live in the late 90s. It was bad. He was stiff, and couldn't stop slurring the lyrics. The rest of the bands were awesome, though

[@Touhou20246]

I just hope that this does not make all people think that this makes all women evil and cruel.😓😒😔🥺🤔🤨🧐😅😭

[@ariste01]

The lion king video game wasn't that hard except the maze in the hyena den. If you hit B-A-R-R-Y at the beginning you could skip to any level and make yourself invincible. Aladin for snes was ridiculously easy maybe one was the result of the other?

[@onionbubs386]

Man I couldn't make past be the "i just can't wait to be king" part 😭😭😭 the farthest my brothers got was the wildebeest stampede

[@0fficialdregs]

I think Ozzy and sharon are divorced, so i'm sure IronMaiden would tour with him at some point

[@YvonneWilson312]

I think they are still married, actually.

[@tiki_trash]

Ozzy is retired now.

[@robertfoster2988]

I always liked ferngully better than Aladin

[@chiphausl]

1/137

[@amandajones661]

Don't f*** with Sharon. She has proved over and over that she will defend her family.

[@wylde007]

Sharon is a joke.

[@Kenny-zv4pp]

Duh‽ The first interracial kiss was Jim Brown and Sophia Loren in 100 Rifles! That's the mid 60's. The kkk were in an uproar over it.

[@derekfnord]

100 Rifles was later (it wasn't the mid 60s; it was released in 1969). Also, it's a movie, not a TV show.

[@Kenny-zv4pp]

@@derekfnord OK, it's still the first one of it's kind.

[@ronsimpsonll9739]

Simon!!!

[@stigmaoftherose]

Imagine ruining skits written by women for sexist reasons on SNL. Just preform them normally they will fail on their own for not being funny, just like all of SNL.

[@ronsimpsonll9739]

Quit watching the idiot box. Life will open up like you've never seen...

[@barrymccokiner7559]

Interracial relationships are disgusting

[@pakde8002]

You should do a biographics on Ed Sullivan. How on earth did a man who made Richard Nixon seem charming and handsome ever get to host a variety show?

[@teddyfartypants]

He should do one on Wesley Willis

[@UnicornsPoopRainbows]

Fern Gully is so underrated. It was an absolute favorite of mine as a kid

[@scooby45247]

Batty and Genie were 2 iconic roles for 1 iconic man.. the only man that could bring to life such absurd characters.. RIP Robin, you are sorely missed..

[@jolan_tru]

Star Trek may not have had the first interracial kiss, but was still an early one. For American TV anyway.

[@NinjaMatt2201]

It was the first romantic kiss, Sammy Davis Jr was just a friendly peck on the cheek. Star Trek had the first proper mouth to mouth while embracing kiss.

[@MrFuzzyGreen]

Indeed. UK had a TV interracial kiss before Trek and the Netherlands before that...

[@pakde8002]

Wasn't the theme of that episode something had caused the crew to lose their inhibitions? Seems Spock had a personality crisis as well, or an I just writing an alternative script for the episode? Anyway, if so it means a taboo was still in effect but maybe in the Star Trek universe it wasn't a taboo against an interracial or even aninter-species relationship but possibly against ship protocol? Okay i guess I'm going to have to find that episode and watch it again 😂

[@onionbubs386]

It'd be more accurate to say it was the first black/white kiss on tv. At least on American tv. Idk about other countries

[@Fanney47]

Yeah. I was gonna say that.

[@claywest9528]

Being a complete jerk is one thing, but be a complete jerk and it makes the entertainment industry news, and it lands you on one of Simon's top 10z!!

[@joeconstantini5531]

Ferngully was a great movie.

[@jannetteberends8730]

And John Belushi lost a fan… Not that he cares. 😉 But I’m deeply disappointed.

[@pakde8002]

Yeah he's pretty much beyond caring about anything 😅

[@jontyson5407]

I could start a KZbin channel called "Keep up on Simon Whistler's latest videos", and it would be out of date in about 10 minutes.

[@dsxa918]

Not if you produce Original Content (OC)

[@Mird3047]

Simon check these facts with business blaze I didn’t watch this but I saw the thumb

[@marko-1987]

Shatner is class.

[@ferociousgumby]

None of this is sabotage. Get your vocabulary straight.

[@shanerasmussen5225]

I have to correct you on one point Simon. The kiss between Uhura and Kirk in Plato's Stepchildren was not the first interracial kiss on TV, or on Star Trek. The episode is in season 3, back in season 1 the episode Mirror Mirror had Kirk kiss a Filipino woman playing Lt. Marla McGivers. Then too there were seceral years of Lucille Ball & Desi Arnez kissing on TV, as Lucille was the owner and boss of Desilu (named for her and Arnez) and gave Star Trek the green light to go into production it's not an unimportant point. Finally a full 10 years before Plato's Stepchildren the first interracial kiss on American TV happened on The Ed Sullivan Show, weirdly it also featured William Shatner.

[@Bacopa68]

Uhm, mostly European Hispanics don't count. Where I come from, they are white. Even a ch*l* is white if the woman he wants to marry is a Slavic Catholic. It's different if she's an Anglo Protestant. Mixed race Pacific Islanders are white too. Many mixed people of African descent are white. My mixed-race grandmother was white. My mother was white as hell. And I have no claim on black culture because not even my grandmother had it. I can tell you that none of those other kisses were perceived as interracial. But Kirk and Uhura was. A few stations declined to air the episode, including a station in nearby Beaumont.

[@shanerasmussen5225]

@@Bacopa68 Filipino is Asian, not hispanic, nor white, Desi Arnez was hispanic, but not "mostly white" he was a bit mixed, which makes him an interracial individual like Bruce Lee, again not white. Those facts aside all of these are acknoledged as preceeding examples of on screen interratial relationships, as are several that appeared in UK TV before Plato's Stepchildren. Seriously look it up for yourself, you can find all of these listed in articles on the subject on numerous sites, heck over on Trekculture they did a whole video including Plato's Stepchildren of things people mistakenly believe about star trek, and it has been documented very well at this point.

[@shanerasmussen5225]

@@Bacopa68 So by the way, I'm Lakota, this is my legal racial identity in the US, so are my children, and so will be my grandchildren. My ancestry also includes English, Irish, Norwegian, Cherokee, Spanish, Danish, German, French, & Scottish. I am not treated "like I'm white" in my own home town, I had a gun stuck in my face by a cop because my alternator belt broke in negative 13 F and I was trying to get home before the car died cause my kid was in the car. But hey my own tribe treats me like crap too so we're all human. Just another note, many of the mentioned on screen interracial moments were protested and blocked from airing in some areas as well, and no, especially not back in the 50s and 60s just after hundreds of thousands of asian americans (including later Star Trek actor George Takei) were rounded up by the US government and put in camps just because they were asian, no people did not see asians as white.

[@julianaylor4351]

Ironic that Ed Sullivan sabotaged Buddy Holly, then sucked up to the Beatles, who were fans of Buddy Holly, so much so that Paul McCartney later brought Holly's song catalogue.

[@wile-e-coyote8371]

Simon, you're CANCELLED! 😆

[@0fficialdregs]

10th. that's an important fact many people don't know about and thank you for acknowledging this!

[@julianaylor4351]

I believe William Shatner did what he he did, because as a Canadian, he probably disliked American racial attitudes at that time.

[@ashleychalcroft8959]

The star trek interracial kiss was not the first it was on emergency ward 10

[@GVIL1977]

Star trek didn't have the first interracial kiss

[@InquisMalleus]

There had been two important kisses between White and Black people on TV before the Kirk and Uhura kiss. The first was not scripted, but was aired on TV. The second was between Lt Uhura and Nurse Janice - a White woman and a Black woman - and was scripted. The Kirk/Uhura kiss was the first scripted kiss between a White person and a Black person on the lips. It was the third between White and Black actors, and the second scripted kiss - but it gets all the press anyway.

[@mitchdavis6001]

I went to see that tour with ozzy and maiden. Izzy cried and left the stage at ozzfest and tony belted out a 10 minute solo

[@patrickharriss]

Hey Simon!

[@alicia27ish]

Hey everyone 🥰😘💗 kisses from Augusta GA!!

[@sandybarnes887]

Thanks

[@earthling33]

[@sknkwrksowner]

Jeks' Robin Williams at the 5:47 mark! @jeksone2657