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Posted by Bill Vermillion on 04/07/07 19:55
In article <wetraprock-961410.11563707042007@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
Walter Traprock <wetraprock@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Yes, improvements have been made in comedies by the network censor:
>
>For example, the "Stupid" nickname for the dog/boy/man in the movie "The
>Jerk" is much funnier than the filthier, more offensive, "Shithead",
>which is all you can find on DVD.
>
>And now for something related: TV versions also sometimes have
>alternate scenes that are better than appear in the regular movie/DVD
>version, like, in the above referenced movie, funnier scenes about
>people not eating in years or sucking on rocks only exist in the TV
>censored version and not in the DVD/theatrical version which only has
>some offensive stuff about balls.
>
>Don't know how this related: in the film National Lampoon Vacation,
>the song Little Boy Sweet is a much better song than the more
>irritating "Let's get excited". If you buy, rent or steal the DVD,
>note on how the first three scenes with the girl in the red car, the
>alternate language tracks are different in the first and third scene
>for the background music: The french, portuguese, etc., has Let's Get
>Excited as background, while in the english version and the
>commentary it is Little Boy Sweet; yet, in the second scene at the
>picnic, the alternate versions have Little Boy Sweet. This may
>have extremely important significance in the theory of music licensing;
>on the other hand, it may not.
>
>Then there is the weird food for the hardcore fan of the excellent
>drug film Cheech And Chong's Next Movie: Comedy Central showed a
>censor cut several years ago that changed all drug references to
>"diamonds", and added a lot of deleted scenes to make it look
>different: It did look different.
And the late lamented [by me at least] Trio network once
showed a G rated version of Debbie Does Dallas. After all
the sex scenes and innuendo were edited out it was about
20 minutes long. It really WAS different.
Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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