“The View” edits out moment earthquake alert startles cohosts: 'Make it stop!'

Friday's New York City earthquake saw cohosts call for tequila, but the moment an emergency alert system sounded on Joy Behar's cell phone was cut from Hulu.

The latest noise-making operation mounted by Joy Behar's notoriously interruptive cell phone — itself a permanent View cohost at this point — was silenced during the show's subsequent airings.

After a 4.8-magnitude earthquake rocked New York City on Friday morning, the cohosts reminisced about needing tequila (or, in Sunny Hostin's case, the power of Beyoncé distracting her from feeling a natural disaster), just before the panelists' cell phones went off with a collective emergency alert system warning them about the quake.

"Make it stop!" Behar said as she tossed her phone to Sara Haines, who offered to help the 81-year-old with her latest technological nightmare. "Make this stop, too," Ana Navarro said. "I don't know how to do that."

While Behar lamented, "the phone, everything, the watch," Haines marveled at the contents of her cohost's device. "Geez, how many things do you have open?" Haines asked as she shot Behar a hilarious look.

The show then continued as normal, though the moment (as seen above) was edited out of the segment's YouTube debut as well as the full-episode premiere on Hulu.

Behar's cell phone became a well-known nuisance after going off multiple times during The View's live shows in the recent past. Though it might seem logical for the show to want to remove such an interruption from the episode's runtime, there might be a more practical explanation for the later omission.

According to standards release by the Federal Communications Commission, "the use of simulated or actual [Emergency Alert System] codes or the EAS or WEA Attention Signals (which are composed of two tones transmitted simultaneously), for non-authorized purposes — such as commercial or entertainment purposes — can confuse people or lead to 'alert fatigue,'" which describes an event where the public potentially "becomes desensitized to the alerts, leading people to ignore potentially life-saving warnings and information."

There aren't, however, FCC regulations regarding the other antics of Behar's terroristic phone — including that time Siri interrupted the program's introduction to give Behar directions from the backstage to her seat at the table.

EW has reached out to representatives for the FCC and The View for comment.

The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on ABC.

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