Spoilers for Wednedsay 15th September 2021 (Series 84, Prelim 57)

[Philip A]

Mike spotted the divisibility by 11 trick in R3: good maths.

[Fiona T]

Watched yesterday and today's online - dunno if it's edited differently to what's broadcast, but some very odd editing -

1) Referring to Mike's greyhounds as if they'd been discussed yesterday when they hadn't been mentioned
2) Twice C2 not asked for their words (R1 for the challenger and a later round for Mike)

[Ryan Lam]

2) Twice C2 not asked for their words (R1 for the challenger and a later round for Mike)

Thought I was the only one that had this problem. I assume for the later round, the only reason I could think of why it was not shown was because Mike had "MORONS". For Round 1, I have no idea what happened...

[Fiona T]

Apparently two potentially offensive words (retard and morons) were removed - presumably a decision made after filming following the upset a couple of weeks back, so no opportunity to get alternatives in the studio.

[Toby McDonald]

NOMORIS in R4

[Philip A]

Max in R4 was MORONISM, which would probably have been expurgated as well.

[Fred Mumford]

Surely nobody considers themself to be a moron, so I don't quite understand who would be offended by the word appearing by chance in a word game.

[Johnny Canuck]

Speaking as a dreaded Politically Correct Leftie™ myself, cutting MORONS and/or MORONISM from the broadcast was going too far IMO. I've never heard the words used as anything other than harmless trash-talk, not in their old clinical meanings of "person with an IQ below such-and-such".

[Peter Thomas]

Speaking as a dreaded Politically Correct Leftie™ myself, cutting MORONS and/or MORONISM from the broadcast was going too far IMO. I've never heard the words used as anything other than harmless trash-talk, not in their old clinical meanings of "person with an IQ below such-and-such".

I agree. They should have been broadcast. Even with their clinical meanings, they're normal, medically descriptive words. They're not just gratuitous insults with no other meaning like POOFTER is.

[Rhys Benjamin]

Only just watching this now.

Do C4 not have a bleep machine any more?

[Philip A]

I’m sure they can still bleep if they wanted to, but cutting just saves a few seconds.

[Ian Fitzpatrick]

2) Twice C2 not asked for their words (R1 for the challenger and a later round for Mike)

Thought I was the only one that had this problem. I assume for the later round, the only reason I could think of why it was not shown was because Mike had "MORONS". For Round 1, I have no idea what happened...

Just catching up and noticed this, I assumed the two words were "farted" and "bosom" which I thought would have been going a bit far.....

[Ryan Lam]

I see. But in any case what Channel 4 did was excessive and I have to agree with what Peter said