What the…funster?
Heres the top ten butchered for TV screened movies!
GhostbustersThis is an exceptionally violent and subversive movie which had to be tamed for TV!
Zeddmore has now has seen stuff that will turn you white, eh?.
Other offensively funny lines are cut, like the one Stantz makes when seeing Mr Stay-Puff.
Disappointingly some of these changes were made possible because Ivan Reitman shot alternate takes expecting a TV backlash.
But he, everyone can watch it if you remove almost every killing and swear word!
The people who committed this particular crime need to be hunted down by the last of the V8 interceptors.
In Shrek 2 they demanded that the final scene where Fiona headbutts Charming be replaced with a karate chop!
hey…its a synthetic character attacking another pile of pixels!
An entirely moronic modification that deserves a Glasgow kiss.
ScarfaceTony Montana is confronting the crooked cop and shoots him, and dying he issued an entirely justafiable f-word.
But not in the sanitised for TV version of Scarface, he says to Tony….Forget you!
What does that mean?
The challenge of overdubbing was obviously too much for those sadly tasked with doing that.
GoodfellasMafia movies arent really fertile ground for family screening, are they?
But with TV advertising deals any movie can be shoehorned into any timeslot, given the motivation.
Theres a version of this film with no swearing or close-up violence that was put together for American TV.
My personal favourite is the line Go fuck your mother which bizarrely becomes Go feel your mother.
To be renamed Funnyfellas, are you laughing at me????
Amazingly they use an entirely new word to me, froozing instead of the ubiquitous fucking.
It isnt the only change.
Steve Buscemis angry tirade gets mutated into I GAVE SIMPLE, FRUITFUL INSTRUCTIONS!!!
Yes, and Ive a few for those that did this to a classic film.
National Lampoons Animal HouseThis is a funny movie, especially if you caught it originally.
But on TV you might be subjected to any number of strange edits of this film.
), to dialogue changes and scene cuts.
It makes me so annoyed…I want to have a Toga Party!
Ive not actually seen it, but whole chunks are missing and some of the dialog has been overdubbed.
Other notable overdubs…
Ferris Buellers Day Off…
Pardon my French but youre an AARDVARK!'(????)
The Big Lebowski This is what happens, Larry!
This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!
Robocop Youre gonna a bad mothercrusher…
Lethal Weapon We bury the funsters!
The Last Boy Scout I POPPED your wife, and later Im gonna POP her again
