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UCTV has removed Season 1, Episode 5 of “Shenanigans” from this website and from broadcast circulation. We apologize for any frustration or harm this content has caused. We are working towards a more careful screening process, as well as a review of our broadcast policies, that will prevent this situation from occurring again. Please keep in mind that the views expressed on any UCTV program do not reflect the opinions of UCTV, its board of directors, its members, or the University of Connecticut. In the future, please direct all inquiries to productions@uctv.uconn.edu.
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You are a fuckin’ joke. That’s how you are going to make light of a situation such as rape? Everyone involved in this production should be ashamed and I am ashamed to be a part of a community that supports such action. #bullshit
This video is deplorable. Rape is never funny, no matter what.
It’s abhorrent that this fucking trainwreck is allowed to air let alone that each UConn student has to pay money that funds it, at a time when TierII’s receive less and less funding with each passing semester. Whoever allowed this to be aired should be fired.
I can see where everyone is coming from and it makes sense that people are offended. Rape is bad and not to be taken lightly.
BUT as unfunny as rape can be… Well, I still think the skit is pretty funny. Honestly, some of the funniest things are jokes about what make us the most uncomfortable. Whether it be a comedian telling a joke about 9/11 or this video that makes a rape joke. It’s one thing to promote rape, it is another thing entirely to use it as a means to make a joke. Just like a comedian who makes a 9/11 joke isn’t looking to remind people of one of our nations most horrific incidents but rather to just draw some laughs from a controversial topic, I don’t think the people who made the video had the intention of promoting rape in any way shape or form.
As for the bong chilling in the background in the second skit… Well, that’s just
This video is absolutely disgusting. The people in this video should all be ashamed of themselves for portraying such mysogynistic and homophobic characters. An absolute disgrace of UConn television
I hate black people.
JK IT WAS A JOKE JUST TO MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH AT RACISM.
This was an incredibly offensive video. Rape is not a laughing matter. I cannot even believe this was allowed to be aired.
This is disgusting. I cannot believe anyone thought this was okay to make. Rape is never funny and it especially not funny at a college campus such as UConn where rapes happen often and administration/police refuse to do anything about it. It also tells women that if they try and get help (represented by the blue light) they will be called bitches and told they deserve to get raped. Awesome message UCTV!
Not too make light of rape in any way, but it is possible that the portion of the video where the student tells the blue light that ‘shes about to be raped’ was intended to be a reference to the fact that there is a social stigma against men approaching women at night because they are immediately deemed a sexual threat. Albeit, the blue light programs blatantly spoke about rape from inanimate objects, but as for the man who approached her he *only* strangled her.
As a former member of UCTV, I know for a fact that there are rules against content like this from EVER being produced, let alone aired and put on the web…where is the supervision at UCTV?
As someone who was sexually assaulted…this isn’t funny.
After all VAWPP does for the school, you show this…
not cool
I don’t think the problem lies in the content. Dave Chappelle can make jokes about rape, racism, drugs, and gang violence and it’s hilarious. The problem with this video lies in the delivery. You people are horrible actors, yall ain’t funny, and this whole video was just wack all around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSybykvgpMs
This is a commercial aired last spring on UCTV…where is the consistency?? UCTV needs to make decisions on what kind of esteem they want to hold their programming to. This type of program is not suitable for any environment, much less a college campus. And as a funded program, technically, I helped pay for this. It’s time to speak out. Get in touch with UCTV, The Women’s Center, VAWPP and take charge of your campus.
There are an infinite amount of ways to assault someone (emotionally, sexually, racially, physically), and they all shouldn’t be the sources of jokes, but unfortunately they are these days. Every piece of offensive comedy hurts someone.
That being said, everyone needs to relax.
I heard about the uproar over this video so I had to watch. I’m a feminist but also very hard to offend. Plain and simple, it was pretty stupid of you guys to make this video. Just absolutely stupid. Putting aside how offensive it was, it wasn’t funny, and it was in very poor taste. People can joke about rape because they don’t know what it’s like, but would you have written this skit if someone in your family were sexually assaulted? Doubt it. How could you guys not think about the potential backlash? I’m only mildly offended by the content of this video, more embarrassed that I attend the same university as the morally bankrupt and ignorant people who created this video.
Freedom of the press y’all
It’s funny how all the people who are demanding this video be taken down, in other words CENSORING, are the same people who were rallying behind Jasiri X’s right to freedom of speech.
Pick a side, hippies/occupiers/freepressies/feminists/SSDPers.
Just a side note. Apparently this was SO offensive that it took over 2 1/2 months for people to notice? It aired in November. People gave a shit in late January.
I just think some of you are looking for something to be upset about.
The school administration has officially suspended the students involved in the production of this harmful media. Further disciplinary action will be kept between the students and the university.
The University of Connecticut will not stand by such harmful messages being spread around campus. Anyone trying to promote such ideas will be strictly reprimanded.
Considering that more than 8 out of 10 rape incidences are actually crimes of acquaintance rape—not incidences of a creepy man appearing from the bushes late at night—I am really disappointed by the direction of focus that the study body and administration is giving to this video. I argue that by making this video viral and calling it a ‘promotion of “rape culture,”’ you are actually just promoting the myth that rape is a crime committed by a violent stranger, when in fact the assailant in 78% of cases (84% of cases in colleges…) is your neighbor, your classmate, or your date. Also taking into account that only 2% of acquaintance rapes are reported to the police, don’t you think that you should be working on dispelling this myth, instead of promoting it? That way, men and women can understand, recognize, and perceive what actually constitutes as rape, and maybe the victims and survivors of these crimes won’t feel so overpowered by the elements of surprise, shock, and fear.
y’all need to chill out, lets start an uproar against over-sensitive women
RE: over sensitive women:
I am a MAN and I stand for equality and respectful treatment of all PEOPLE. I will never stand for sexism. I will never stand for victim blaming. I will never stand for rape culture.
Is that how you would want someone to treat your sister? Your mother?
I hope that someday you see that rape affects the people you love.
[...] and male rage, is in uproar after student-run (and student-funded) television network UCTV aired a sketch comedy segment that depicted a crying girl using a blue-light phone while fleeing a possible rapist. As she [...]
Doesn’t matter. This one is even TEN TIMES BETTER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5OdQGbVNa4
Regardless of what people think of that controversial rape sketch, the fact remains that this “Shenanigans” comedy team is really just not funny. They’ve got kind of a fratboy predictable one-dimensional sense of humor that only gets mild chuckles if the audience is completely wrecked. They are the “Two and a Half Men” of college sketch comedy, if you will…
[...] and male rage, is in uproar after student-run (and student-funded) television network UCTV aired a sketch comedy segment that depicted a crying girl using a blue-light phone while fleeing a possible rapist. As she [...]
[...] school is in uproar after student-run and student-funded television network UCTV aired a sketch comedy segment that depicted a crying girl using one of those big blue-light phone things while fleeing a possible [...]
HELLO PEOPLE – I’d say each everyone of you who is bitching about this sketch is FULL OF CRAP if you said you’ve never seen family guy; A SHOW WHERE THEY CONSTANTLY MAKE FUN OF RAPE, and have never thought twice. Youtube it, you double standard setting idiots, if you don’t believe me. And then STFU and get off your high horse.The whole effing country thinks rape is funny – Quagmire is one of the most popular characters is the HISTORY of cartoons. I cannot BELIEVE you people.
[...] ran during a comedy program on UCTV called “Shenanigans.“ It was also featured on UCTV’s website like all other [...]
Ok, I don’t see how this video is effecting the ideology of rape in any possibly negative way. Obviously the humor is coming from the “emergency blue light object” and the terrible customer service that we get from automated voice machines/computers that you call when you try to get help. So stfu and stop your bit@hing. The episode is grabbing attention and using crude humor to make people laugh just like Family Guy, South Park, and The Simpsons etc do currently.
And this is not twitter so don’t put #’s thinking your for any of your “#bullshit”
The girl didn’t even get raped in this video?
[...] have been holding protests in regards to the video. The video was taken off of the station and their website. UCTV did release an official apology statement on their website stating, “In accordance with [...]
what happened in this episode ? i didnt get a chance to see it.