An episode of “The Simpsons” that criticizes Chinese Communist Party (CCP) censorship appears to have been removed from Disney’s newly launched streaming channel in Hong Kong.
Disney+, which rolled out in Hong Kong this month, features all episodes of the show apart from season 16, episode 12, which was first broadcast in 2005 and makes reference to the CCP’s 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
The omitted episode sees the Simpson family visit Beijing and the embalmed body of former leader Mao Zedong, whom Homer Simpson calls “a little angel that killed 50 million people.”
Fans of the show quickly noticed that Disney+ skips from episode 11 to 13, missing out the episode titled “Goo Goo Gai Pan,” which features a joke placard inside Tiananmen Square stating “on this site, in 1989, nothing happened.”
The Hong Kong Office of the Communications Authority declined to comment on the matter, and Disney hasn’t yet responded to The Epoch Times' request for comment.
Another three people received suspended sentences for the same charge of having participated in the unauthorized assembly in the city’s Victoria Park on June 4, 2020.
Hong Kong’s candlelight vigil has been organized annually since 1990 by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. It is renowned for being the only large-scale public gathering on Chinese soil to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre, and it’s traditionally the largest vigil of its kind in the world.