Edited For TV
Something that pisses me off is when they edit movies for TV and change what they say. A few examples that come to mind:
- From Home Alone, Buzz telling Kevin "I wouldn't let you sleep in my room if you were growing on my [butt]"
- From Happy Gilmore, when he's fighting Bob Barker: "The Price is Wrong, [BOB]!"
- From Can't Hardly Wait, after the confrontation between Mike Dexter and Aman-duh, some random girl at the party shouts "[Freak]!"
- From Austin Powers, at the card table: "My name is Number 2, and this is my associate, Alotta [Cleavage]"
- From Austin Powers, when Dr. Evil is informed that his ozone layer plan won't work: "[Shoot]"
Ok, I understand that there are censorship regulations and the TV people are just covering their [butts] from FCC violations or whatever. And it's better than cutting out the whole thing. But man, sometimes censorship is just stupid. I hate how people have to be so uptight about everything, that they have to mess up a quality moment in a quality movie (such as the ones I listed above). I'm sure there are plenty of other examples I'm missing too.
You know, the whole thing is a lot like taking a perfect piece of art, and then drawing over certain parts with a crayon. Or, imagine someone putting pants on one of Michaelangelo's nude sculptures. It's just not right. (yes, I'm comparing Can't Hardly Wait to the work of Michaelangelo)
They say it's to protect the children. Yeah right, like kids don't hear words like [Bob] and [freak] every day at school anyways. I know I did. Hey, I bet a lot of them hear much worse at home from their own parents. And that's who is supposed to be "protecting the children" to begin with, the parents. If you don't want your kids to be hearing those words, don't let them watch those movies. Chances are, they are gonna hear them somewhere or another, so I figure once I have kids, the best I can do is give them a friendly beatdown any time they use words like that.
Either way, all I'm saying is, just because certain parents don't take responsibility for raising their own kids, I shouldn't have to suffer by seeing my favorite movies on TV being messed up by cheesy editing.
