wow.  Remember that ad that I loved?  The one with the bums?  Well.. looks like not everyone loves it!
Apparently, they ran the ad around the building where a church was housed, and this did not make those god-fearing people happy!  ( apparently, they do NOT have happy bums).

THE BUMS' RUSH

TUSH COMES TO SHOVE AS NUDE AD HITS THE END

By DAREH GREGORIAN and KATHIANNE BONIELLO

 

CRACK DOWN: A bidet maker censored its ad after the Times Square Church objected to the cheeky original (above in a rendering) in a story broken by The Post July 8.

July 31, 2007 — Bye-bye, blasphemous bare-butts billboard!

A church has won its battle against a bidet company's racy billboard - and a sanitized version of the cheeky "happy bottoms" ad was put up on the Times Square building that houses the church over the weekend.

The original ad was to have featured an array of bare bottoms with smiley faces painted over them - the idea being that the bottoms were happy from having used the Washlet, a bidet/toilet seat that uses water and warm air to clean its customers.

The Times Square Church, located at 51st Street and Broadway, sued to keep the billboard from being installed.

"You walk into a church building [and] you have naked bodies before your eyes - how are you going to close your eyes and seek God?" the church's pastor, Neil Rhodes, had argued.

A judge signed an order temporarily blocking the ad earlier this month, and the suit ended in a settlement announced yesterday after Washlet-maker Toto apparently saw the light and agreed to have the rear ends covered up.

The new version has a white bar going across the bottoms, "in effect 'clothing' them by removing any hint of their anatomical features," the company said in a statement. The ad now reads: "This is our bottom line," and, "Clean is happy. No ifs, ands, or . . ."

A lawyer for the church declined to comment on the deal, which does not prevent either Toto or its advertising company from suing the church.

In its statement, however, the company sounded as if it would be turning the other cheek.

"Our thought-provoking 'Clean is Happy' billboard is not intended to offend," said spokeswoman Lenora Campos, adding that the uncensored version of the ad will continue to appear online and on billboards in L.A.

The interdenominational church operates a day-care center and Bible school and has more than 1,000 children attending services each week, court records say.

dareh.gregorian@nypost.com