Great Censorship

The all-time best is Caddy Shack.

My friends were sitting around watching the movie and my wife said something about how I complain about her talking in movies. I replied, "We're not talking, we're quoting the movie as it plays. More importantly, we are quoting the 'Channel 11' version of the movie."

"Hey everybody! Let's take a shower!"

Die Hard 2: "Yippee ki yay, Mr. Falcon."

Smokey & the Bandit:

Sheriff BTJ: "Hold up on that car wise (actual word - white) gentlemen..." (said to the 3-4 white guys that were in the process of stealing/stripping down the car that Sally Field just abandoned on the side of the road)

Sadly the (very stupid) PC version of the line is what's said on most every dvd copy of the movie but if you can find an earlier VHS it's still Gleason in all his small town southern sheriff glory.

I first saw this on broadcast TV in the early 1980s. I was too young to really notice that lines had been altered by the censors, but there is one censored scene I recall: all the fart noises had been deleted from the bean-eating scene. Having never seen the movie before, I couldn't understand what was so funny about these cowboys eating beans, then standing up for a couple of seconds, then sitting down again.

"You may have come on no bicycle, but that does not say that you know everything."

Repo Man. Everyone seemed to be a mother flipper. Why people would flip mothers, I wouldn't know.

But more to the point, when Blazing Saddles was first telecast on Australian television, they broadcast (so we were later told) the 'mid-west' cut that totally left out the build up to the baked beans scene. All we got was some guys eating and then Mr Taggert coming out saying 'I think you've had enough.' Not a single fart was seen nor heard! To say us Aussies were a little pi55ed off would be an understatement.

Fletch

"That's not my wallet"

When I first saw an airing of Blazing Saddles on a commercial TV station, my jaw dropped at the substitutions they made for the "offensive" words in the dialogue. The film actually achieves a new level of hilarity--which almost seems impossible--based on the ridiculous non-sequiturs and absurdities the new words bring to the film.

I've been wanting to make a copy of the censored Blazing Saddles just as evidence of how stupid it is, but the cable stations with commercials don't seem to bother with it much anymore. If anyone notices it due for an upcoming showing, please send me a private message and let me know!



Mustard goes on Hot Dogs. Mayo goes on Burgers. There will be no compromise on this.

I saw the descendents on a plane and they replaced retarded with repugnant so the line became

"Hey I have a friend whose brother is repugnant so don't use it as a derogatory term"