User:CmdrDan/Projects/Succession/Sh*t Show ior Shit Show

Confusion re: Title of Season 1, Episode 2

There's some confusion about the title of this episode.

Is it:

Sh*t Show at the F**k Factory

or

Shit Show at the Fuck Factory

I am a fan of this show and recently re-watched this episode. I re-watched via HBO Max and was surprised when I noticed the title: it was redacted, not with blobs obscuring text, but with *'s in the ("dirty bits") of title. I found this strange as there's no shortage literal fucks on this show. In fact, Logan Roy so frequently tells people to "fuck off" in the show that, in real life, fans ask, no--they beg--Brian Cox to tell them to "fuck off." ^[1]

Definitive Answer: Go to the Source, go to HBO.com

I went to the source. I went to HBO the company that produces the program. There the title is:

Sh*t Show at the F**k Factory

Now we have a definitive answer:

Sh*t Show at the F**k Factory

That is the title created by the writers and producers of the show.

Survey of the confusion

I find it interesting there are so many sources that have changed the title, perhaps they think they are uncensoring Tony Roche or Jesse_Armstrong. I can see how this might be also be confused with dis-information, but that is not the case.

Whatever, other sources may think, there is nothing to uncensor here. Therefore, wikipedia is not censoring anything "revealing" characters "under" the *'s. The title is the one with the *'s.

Vulture

Vulture is so confused they list it both ways:

Sh*t Show at the F**k Factory appears once, while
Shit Show at the Fuck Factory appears twice

NB: the first link above, is to the live Vulture page, while the links in the two bullets are to the archived version of 22 July 2022.

Google

Searching google for "Sh*t Show at the F**k Factory" google yields:

"About 389,000,000 results"
and also says:
No results found for "Sh*t Show at the F**k Factory". [emphasis added]

In contrast, searching for "Shit Show at the Fuck Factory" yields:

"About 12,900 results."

Bing

Searching Bing for "Sh*t Show at the F**k Factory" yields

"About 569,000,000 results"

While searching Bing for "Shit Show at the Fuck Factory" yields

"About 125,000,000 results"

Eight sites with the correct title

I'll end this with these eight diverse pages that all list the episode with the correct title--the same title listed as on HBO's site:

Gotta fix this blacklisted site:

# https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/76331-succession/season/1/episode/2/cast

https://www.wattpad.com/amp/1181532308

^ Cohan, William (2023-02-21). "Brian Cox Shows the Kids How It's Done". Town & Country. Archived from the original on 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-13.

[T&C-202303-BrianCox-1] Cohan, William (2023-02-21). "Brian Cox Shows the Kids How It's Done". Town & Country. Archived from the original on 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-13.

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