LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
DHX Media acknowledges the fandom by having a scene where Derpy speaks and is referred to by name, a few soccer moms flip their shit, and Hasbro has the episode "corrected" and stirs up a big shitstorm over the whole thing.
Then two years later, Nickelodeon gets away with THIS, and nobody says anything?!
What the actual hell?
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2006282 The TMNT ep aired back in February but I missed it the first time around, and caught a repeat today.
The Turtles fight a horribly disfigured clone of April that they nickname "April Derp". April Derp's entire dialogue consists of the word "derp" over and over again, in a much more retarded voice than Derpy's original voice.
2006288 Maybe they were okay with it because it was played up to a ridiculous extent for comedy reasons?
2006301 Well, and also TMNT doesn't have anything approaching the audience MLP does.
But honestly, there was never any reason for Hasbro to puss out on Derpy in the first place. This just...underlines it.
I think it has to do with target audience. MLP is for little girls and as such "must be politically correct"
, Where as TMNT is for little boys and "No one cares because boys are naturally aggressive and mentally not at the same level as girls." 
I am Male but still run into people who think like this
, it seems that if you want to make a show without being PC than the target audience has to be boys but the only way to change this would be the downgrade of more censorship because "We must protect the children from real life."
sorry for the rant but this is not new.
It's how the world goes. A shit load of WHAT THE FUCK?!'s and
24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ffnrV95U1r1vzzeo2_500.jpg 's.
IMHO, Hasbro overreacted and they thought their IP was in trouble. Nickelodeon clearly doesn't give a shit, or thought it was so outlandish that no one would take them seriously.
Was it really soccer moms? I thought it was the average, tremendously defensive brony.
2006288 Just because it sounded retarded does not mean it WAS retarded. Plus, the audience saw that it was an April clone, and thus I guess the censors were okay with it. With Derpy there was no such thing, and some soccer moms got the wrong idea. Funny though how they miss more glaring examples like Patrick Star and Homer Simpsons. Heck, even Peter Griffin is more obviously retarded, There's an episode of Family Guy where he uses that as an excuse to get away with things, and no one complained about that sending a bad message to anyone. Regardless of what someone may have, they are not completely immune from the laws of society.
2006851 Family Guy isn't for children, though.
2007042 Doesn't mean it can just do what it wants.
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Okay, okay. Serious face now.
Nickelodeon have managed to fall on the other side of a _very_ thin line. We have a character who was insulted. They have an evil abomination that was later killed.
The offence? Ours was a childrens show apparently teaching kids that it's okay to insult people when they screw up. Doesn't matter that it _wasn't_, it _looked_ like it was, and there isn't anywhere else in the show to give it the context that makes it not that. Nickelodeon has traded successfully on the properties of 'not a significant character', 'clones aren't real people anyway', 'too ugly to be loved', as well as others that I'm sure I've missed, and so has avoided the wrath of parents.
As to whether it's actually offensive... well, gee, I hope not. Otherwise there were a large number of villains in my childhood cartoons who I should have felt kinder towards.
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To the first: Derpy wasn't "insulted", she was given the name Derpy. And it's STILL her name internally and in the fandom.
To the second: The number of complaints the Hub received about Derpy was infinitesimal. They overreacted.
I can't entirely disagree with the second, but to the first - you miss my point. All the context for that name came from the fandom. Whereas the intonation of the word 'derpy', as it was originally said, with its obvious meaning, and without any outside context, sounds very much like a schoolyard insult.
_And it was never shown otherwise in the show_.
Soccer-moms, with no experience of the fandom, can be forgiven for thinking that was a genuine insult. You could argue that, it being a kids show, you should expect there to be some kid-friendly meaning you're missing - to which I say; Animaniacs. Or better yet, that Flintstones episode where Betty and Wilma swear.
Mistakes happen, things slip past the censor which really shouldn't, and parents get upset because their precious darlings are learning things they don't want them learning for a good long while.
And when it was pointed out that this could look vey much like something unsavoury without the context of the fandom (who aren't the target demographic, mind), Hasbro was left with the choice of recutting the episode to include a new scene which establishes 'Derpy' as her name in an unmistakable fashion (which would take a fair while, and might not help anyway), or redoing the dialogue and changing the offending line.
Now, I know what _I_ would do. And I know what a responsible business exec would do. And Hasbro did it.
COME MY BRONY BRETHREN AND DEAREST PEGASISTERS! LET US GO FORTH AND CHALLENGE THIS NICKELODEON. FOR SO WE ARE THE INTERNET WE SHALL DECIDE OF WHOM USES THE NAME "DERP". I SHALT NOT LIE, THIS WILL BE A TEST OF THINES WILL, BUT FEAR NOT SHOULD WE STAND STRONG THE DAY WILL BE OURS! May Faust the Highest watch over us. FOR DERPY, CHARGE!