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Posted by jayembee on 11/02/05 20:42
Derek Janssen <djanss@nospam.charter.net> wrote:
> jayembee wrote:
>>
>>> (Although, so far, most of the more annoying examples--Airplane, Tommy,
>>> Ferris--all seem to be from Paramount, who wouldn't know a Special
>>> Edition if it bit them in the patoot anyway...
>>> There, now we have someone to blame, until good ol' "Movie-Ticket"
>>> Universal tries picking up the stunt.)
>>
>> They already did. In fact, one might argue that their NATIONAL LAMPOON'S
>> ANIMAL HOUSE: DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION EDITION started it all.
>
> Specifically, because the first AH "Special Edition" was a serviceably
> weenie 1-disk, that by the time the more respectable fully-loaded
> anniversary 2-disk came out, they couldn't well call it "the
> Specialer-Specialer Edition"--
> And plain ol' "25th Anniversary Edition" gets lost in the shuffle of
> normal disks using the same banner.
But I thought that's what the "Ultimate Edition" moniker was: to use
when they already used "Special Edition".
> Point being, at least AH had a separate-release *excuse* to grab a
> cutesy-nym, but Paramount abused the privilege with their do-overs.
>
> Derek Janssen (I mean, you don't see the Warner "Oz" do-over calling
> itself the "Some People Without Brains Do An Awful Lot of Talking Edition")
No, though I have to admit that I like Warner's titling the forthcoming
mondo-box of the complete FRIENDS series as "The One With All the
Episodes".
-- jayembee
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