The cable channel Cartoon Community and its adult-geared programming block Grownup Swim are reportedly taking episodes out of their rerun rotations following the latest airplane crashes in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The X account CN Information/Schedules reported on Friday, January 31, that The Superb World of Gumball’s “The Saint,” Braveness The Cowardly Canine’s “Scuba-Scuba Doo,” Household Man’s “Boy (Canine) Meets Lady (Canine)” and “Yug Ylimaf,” Robotic Rooster’s “Completely happy Russian Deathdog Dolloween 2 U” and The Eric Andre Present’s “Hannibal Quits” might be pulled from the schedule for the following two weeks “attributable to depicting, or joking about, airplane crashes.”
ComicBook.com has plot particulars for every episode: As the location studies, “The Saint,” “Yug Ylimaf,” and “Scuba-Scuba Canine” all depict aviation accidents; “Boy (Canine) Meets Lady (Canine)” accommodates a 9/11 joke; “Completely happy Russian Deathdog Dolloween 2 U” contains a reference to the airplane crash in Donnie Darko; and “Hannibal Quits” has a sketch by which Eric André pretends to have been dropped from a airplane.
In 2013, Grownup Swim apologized to viewers in Oklahoma for airing a Household Man episode involving a twister on the identical day {that a} lethal twister struck town of Moore. “Our apologies to Oklahoma for the twister reference in Household Man,” learn a submit on the programming block’s X account. “The episode was scheduled weeks in the past.”
Cartoon Community and Grownup Swim’s reported programming choices come days after the January 29 collision involving a U.S. Military Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airways passenger airplane in Washington D.C. — by which 67 individuals died — and the crash of a medical transport airplane in Philadelphia two days later — by which seven individuals died and a minimum of 19 individuals had been injured. Authorities are investigating each incidents, the causes of which aren’t but recognized.