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8/25/07 at 3:55pm
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The Scarface TV edit is hilarious, but one of my favorites was 'Do The Right Thing'. When Mookie (Spike Lee) says the word 'motherf**ker', on TV it is 'Mickey Fickey'. I kid you not.
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Earlier this month, "Earth Girls Are Easy", one of my favorite 80s movies, aired on TBS. This was somewhat exciting, considering that TBS rarely plays any movies from before 1990 anymore (as compared to the late 90s and early years of this decade). I don't know why I watched it, though. The movie was filmed was in Scope, so when you watch it on TV, you lose picture information, and in this case, a lot of it.

This leads me into the scene where Candy (Julie Brown) and several of her friends are performing the song "Brand New Girl" to encourage Valerie (Geena Davis) to change her look, thus changing her love life.

Valerie's laying down and having her looks looked over and questioned. In the theatrical version, Candy sings these lyrics:

"You're cute and fresh and wholesome,
But science has a cure.
The natural look is nowhere.
Your hairdresser knows for sure!
You gotta learn the art of teasing.
Change your repetoire.
All you need's a little faith and a see-through push-up bra".

In the theatrical version, they then show Valerie's breasts (unfortunately, they're a body double's and not Geena Davis').

In the TBS version, they cut out the last line entirely and cut to the climax of the song.

Later on, in the scene where Valerie performs "The Ground You Walk On", the entire first verse is edited out. I don't see what there was to edit.

Between the pan-and-scanning and the editing, I switched it off and went downstairs to have breakfast.

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If they could find a way to make it fit, why not show it on TCM? They've aired plenty of movies from the past few decades and most of them have aired unedited. Why not this one?

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8/31/07 at 6:53pm
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I haven't actually seen this, but I have heard reports that TV version's of The Big Lebowski change "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass" to "This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps"..
If that one is true, they're not even trying to replace it with a line that makes sense.

When I first saw Die Hard and Die Hard 2, it was on TV, and they just cut away after Bruce would say "Yippie-ki-Yay". I had no idea there was more to the line until I saw Die Hard With A Vengeance in cinema.
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9/4/07 at 4:45pm
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I might be remembering wrong, but it seems like in the TV version of Back to the Future, Biff referred to Marty as a "son of a butthead".
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One of my all time favorites, from Lethal Weapon:

"I'm miffed, Roger! Now I'm miffed!"

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I haven't actually seen this, but I have heard reports that TV version's of The Big Lebowski change "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass" to "This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps"..

100% true. It's still my fav TV edit. Hilarious all the way through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YHXdnWLvH4

http://www.jumbojoke.com/editing_the...r_tv_1042.html

Listen close, as he's beating the headlights in "and you feed him scrambled eggs.."

BTW, that's the TBS edit they refer to. In another edit, she says "I'll suck your toes for $1000" and so on.

The TV edit of Big Lebowski is CLASSIC, it's as though they knew it was a total blast of the movie, so they made it as ridiculous as possible. Classic classic stuff.
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9/5/07 at 12:09pm
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Re: Favorite television edit of a movie's dialogue?

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My favorite is the network TV version of Scarface! "Where'd you get that scar? Eatin' pineapple?


HAHAHA! That's hilarious. I've never noticed that. Does anyone know if Scarface is airing on TV anytime soon? I want to watch for it now.

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HAHAHA! That's hilarious. I've never noticed that. Does anyone know if Scarface is airing on TV anytime soon? I want to watch for it now.

The DVD has a special feature where they show all the special TV edits done for the network TV airing(s). It's really, really funny. Go buy it.

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9/6/07 at 11:57am
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Don't know if it counts but, TV1 adds animated bras and panties to women and men who are naked. At first it looks like they belong there then as I recall the picture I say hey wasn't she naked in that scene. When you look closer you can see how poorly it's done. The bra and panty shakes for no reason.

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Don't know if it counts but, TV1 adds animated bras and panties to men who are naked.

To each his own...
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9/6/07 at 4:34pm
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100% true. It's still my fav TV edit. Hilarious all the way through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YHXdnWLvH4

http://www.jumbojoke.com/editing_the...r_tv_1042.html

Listen close, as he's beating the headlights in "and you feed him scrambled eggs.."

BTW, that's the TBS edit they refer to. In another edit, she says "I'll suck your toes for $1000" and so on.

The TV edit of Big Lebowski is CLASSIC, it's as though they knew it was a total blast of the movie, so they made it as ridiculous as possible. Classic classic stuff.


Ditto. The edited version is almost as hilarious as the real deal just because of the edited dialogue. What sucks is that entire scenes have been taken out, like when Walter pulls a piece on Smokey.
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Re: Favorite television edit of a movie's dialogue?

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One of my all time favorites, from Lethal Weapon:

"I'm miffed, Roger! Now I'm miffed!"
From the same scene: "I'm gonna get those funsters"
A classic
Who the hell comes up with this stuff ?

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I am currently watching Komodo VS Cobra on the sci-fi channel. Every time someone cusses, a parrot squawks
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100% true. It's still my fav TV edit. Hilarious all the way through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YHXdnWLvH4

http://www.jumbojoke.com/editing_the...r_tv_1042.html
I really want to see the complete version of the movie now. It sounded a lot like John Goodman's voice. It almost makes me imagine the Coens recording that dialogue at the same time as they did the ADR for the film. I can see the Coens doing that - they knew someone would be making a sanitised version, and so they just tried to help make the most ridiculous version they could. I also love the idea of Bunny offering "I'll slurp your Coke for $1000", as though it's reasonable to pay someone a lot of money for the privilege of having them drink your soft drink.

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What sucks is that entire scenes have been taken out, like when Walter pulls a piece on Smokey.
Although that is a weird cut. Wy cut that scene? He doesn't shoot anyone, it's an early scene that clearly established Walter's character, and it is so obviously over-the-top that noone could take it as an appropriate response.
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Re: Favorite television edit of a movie's dialogue?

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It almost makes me imagine the Coens recording that dialogue at the same time as they did the ADR for the film. I can see the Coens doing that - they knew someone would be making a sanitised version, and so they just tried to help make the most ridiculous version they could.
Don't quote me but I do remember hearing that for current movies, they record alternate lines for edited versions when they do ADR.

If I remember correctly, the commentary on The Usual Suspects talks about how they just said ridiculous things as a goof when they recorded the dialogue for the edited versions.
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