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Is there any version of the movie the way it was originally released?

posted 8 years ago by Pep_88
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Please tell me something. Is this the REAL uncut version. I have brought this up MANY times on this board. I am a fan of this movie. I saw it many many times as a kid. And unfortunately people think this isn't a very funny movie, because they have only seen the sliced and diced version.

I know there have been many cuts. And I can almost say this was originally an R rated movie, or at least was R for cable in it's uncut state.

I found online (text only) the quote which I know is cut from every version I have seen in the past 20 years. It's the quote Farrah Faucet says to JJ in the bar, about trees. The last line below is missing from any DVD I have ever seen. Below is the mostly unedited version. The "censored" part below looks like it was the version that was dubbed "ball". Which when I originally saw it, I can almost swear she used the f-word. Then it was dubbed for cable. I vividly remember being disappointed as a kid, because as immature as it sounds, I knew when and who said all of the f-words in movies I watched. I had a friend, and we would count f-words in all of our favorite movies. And my parents had cable and didn't care what I watched, and sort of encouraged it. So please tell me, does the full quote appear in the Blu-Ray? If not, I can tell you there are many other jokes that are virtually wiped out.

Beauty:
I'm into people who are into trees.
Know what I like about trees?
You can lie underneath them
in a soft, summer breeze
b****** your brains out for free!

Is the quote like this? With at least the line about "ball your brains out". Or maybe an f-word version if it exists? I know the "ball your brains out" version does. Just Google "Cannonball Run trees quote".

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[–] jdw2691 8 years ago

I saw this in theaters at least 3 times when it was originally released (my dad was a HUGE Burt Reynolds fan) and can assure you that it was not rated R, and Farrah never said the "f" word. Her quote was always "ball your brains out." I also used to have the novelization of this, and it was the same in there.

I do have the blu ray and it is the same version that was released in theaters.

[–] Pep_88 8 years ago

Alright. I must have imagined that she said the f-word. I probably asked my parents what "ball" meant and they used that word. At least they were cool.

And good thing it has that line in it. I had two different DVDs which didn't have that line (among other things that were just not right). And there is a version on Youtube which is probably from the same source.

Good to hear the Blu-Ray is the real version! I was getting worried.

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[–] gunslinger92557 8 years ago

I saw it at the theater and she says "ball your brains out".

I keep thinking Hal Needem says "like *beep* through a goose" but I may be wrong.

[–] MikeHunt1075 8 years ago

I've always heard ball too, tho if you're right, they should switch it back, as that would sound better than the stupid line left in. I never got why music played like it was supposed to be poetic or a lead to a huge joke, and she delivers that cràppy line.