O.C Exposure

[Avant Garde]

Mischa's "O.C." Exposure
[SIZE=-1]Thursday November 17 8:17 PM ET[/SIZE]


[FONT=arial,helvetica][SIZE=-1]By Sarah Hall

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Mischa Barton was apparently channeling her inner Janet Jackson during a very revealing scene in last week's episode of The O.C..
During a dimly lit bedroom sequence, Barton, clad in a skimpy pajama top, rises from her bed. In a don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it shot, her breast briefly pops out of her top before she covers it. Television-obsessed Website TVgasm.com was the first to report the nipple-slip after being alerted to it by a sharp-eyed fan.


[/SIZE]"The shot was so dark, it was hard to notice," the site's report reads. "I sent the video to the TVgasm forensics lab for enhancement, and what we got back was a very grainy yet very recognizable boob exposure."


There you have it--official proof.

Though millions of viewers were tuned into the primetime soap at the time of the accidental breast-baring, a Fox spokesperson said the network has not received any complaints.

However, in this time of fierce watchdog groups and an ever-vigilant FCC, the network is not out of the water just yet.

Ever since Jackson's breast-baring incident during her halftime performance at the 2004 Super Bowl led to a record $550,000 fine for CBS, the phrase "boob tube" has lost some of its luster.

After the wardrobe malfunction heard 'round the world, numerous shows, including America's Next Top Model and ER, edited footage to ensure that nothing that could be judged inappropriate made it onto the air.

Apparently, the powers that be over at Fox were looking the wrong way when Barton's breast made its brief appearance on The O.C.

Now in its third season, the glossy teen drama has failed to live up to the ratings it generated in its first and second seasons.

For the week ended Sunday, The O.C. landed in 78th place, with some 5.7 million viewers, per Nielsen Media Research.
No data was available on just how many of those viewers spied Barton's boobie during the episode.

(yahoo news)

 

[fezbatik]

How censored is American television?
In Canada, I see quite a bit of boob on TV:
Fashion Television shows boob
So does Fashion File (both airing during the day and early evening)

CityTV shows quite a bit of boob as early as 10pm some nights...

And European television is even less censored...

So....does the FCC regulate ALL American networks? Or just certain time slots?

Satellite TV probably can't be censored (I'm guessing), but I'm not even sure about that, since your FCC sounds like such a crazy umbrella organization (no offence, but it seems oddly prudish to me personally)...and yet, shows like Wild ON seem to prosper so well.

Anyhow - do Americans ever get to see boobies on TV?

 

[masquerade]

a website had the clip, i dont remember which (i dont watch the show, so i had to see) it was so dark that you could see nothing really.

i think the ppl who watch for this stuff just to report it have a problem..

 

[copper]

i always thought mischa was a complete boob anyway.

 

[Erin]

Anyhow - do Americans ever get to see boobies on TV?

Definitely not... not unless it's HBO or something of the like...

 

[fezbatik]

Issues like that make me realize just how different our cultures are, and I totally appreciate that. So without getting too political - I wish for Americans to be able to see more TV boobies - so that a new culture of appreciation for form and beauty can exist beyond the shock and awe that occurs when mischa Barton has a nip-slip.

 

[LoveMyBoots]

^ Yeah, I'm an American and I think the FCC (the people in charge of what we hear, see, blah, blah, blah from the media) is way too conscious. But I would think parental groups compel them to do so.

i always thought mischa was a complete boob anyway.

 

[*~stix~*]

America's always making a big deal out of nothing...... let it go...... shes barely got boobs anyway.

 

[scblonndie]

If you can handle the sex with your daughter's boyfriend and other ridiculous plotlines along that nature, than you can handle a little boob.

 

[Avant Garde]

If you can handle the sex with your daughter's boyfriend and other ridiculous plotlines along that nature, than you can handle a little boob.

So true

 

[bluebutter]

If you can handle the sex with your daughter's boyfriend and other ridiculous plotlines along that nature, than you can handle a little boob.

exactly! Plus, i don't think too many ppl sit and rewind shows to study them meticulously (which totally reminds me of that devon sawa towel exposure in Now and Then hahaha)

 

[Anastasia]

I would much rather my potential children see a naked breast, in a non-sexual situation, than hear most of the disgusting filth and juvenile innuendo that passes as dialogue on most shows (mainly sitcoms, and PG-13 movies, dramas now, even Smallville, have to have the obligatory pole dancing scene) these days. It's baffling that you can say so many explicit and demeaning things, while showing everything BUT a woman's nipple, but the second that pops out, all hell breaks loose And I don't even have cable. And don't consider myself uptight, or a prude. I just don't know why they have to make sex, which is beautiful, healthy, and fun, into a tawdry, look at how daring and smart we are, we can joke like 13 year old boys!, cess pool.

I still maintain that the absolute least offensive thing about the 2004 Superbowl was Janet's breast (of which you couldn't even see the dreaded nipple). The lyrics and the "dancing" were all obnoxious, embarrassing, and in your face sexual, but everyone goes off in a tizzy because of the breast? The breast?!? Something so common and natural and matter of fact? It is twisted.

Maybe I'll take them seriously the day they start complaining/coming down on men on television who are walking around without shirts. Seriously, why are their nipples okay and women's not? This is what feminism and sexism is all about! Equality. And men are allowed to parade around on tv, in public, little nipples on proud display, and no one says boo, but a woman shows the one part of her chest she shares in common with a man and there's mass hysteria. If they were going to be logical about it, the nipple should be the one part of the breast they could get away with showing, instead of everything around it. Is it that are nipples are generally bigger? Too distracting/noticable? The nipple is often the most sexual part of that area for men and women - so if the reasoning is that our nipples are sexual (because heaven forbid anyone remember their primary purpose) and therefore dirty and must be covered up, why the hell don't men have to cover up theirs?! And what's the reasoning behind a man's bare butt getting into a PG movie, but a woman's automatically garners it a PG-13? It's not because they think we're more special, or something, it's because they think we're dirty, and in America, dirty=money.

Either women get to take off their shirts, just like men, in public and on tv, without causing an uproar in the streets, or tell men to put their damn shirts back on.