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strange edits made to the movie on U.S tv channel ovation


This movie came the the ovation network saturday at like 1:30 in the am so I stayed up to watch it. For some reason they edited out the bit where Graham Chapman is running away from those topless chicks yet for other bits such as the one where John Cleese has sex with his wife in front of that sex ed class they just blurred the topless nudity out. And in the case of even the "Christmas in heaven" song at the end of the film you can see some of those chicks from that aforementioned graham chapman bit but with nudity blurred out, but strangely they didnt blur out any nudity from those topless dancers Dancing with graham chapman while he sings that song. I just found the choice of content edits odd, especially since it didn't say the movie was edited for content or time.

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That is strange. I'm watching it now on Netflix because it's being taken off the streaming service on 8/1. The Everyday is Christmas part has the women wearing those joke shop fake breasts so maybe they didn't think it was all that bad.
I was watching Bad Santa on Comedy Channel this weekend and they took out a lot of dialog that made no sense to take out. But that's TV for you.

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TV edits never seem to make sense.

I watched the Alan Arkin/James Caan movie 'Freebie and the Bean' (1974) ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071521/?ref_=nv_sr_1 ) in my first year at Uni and just loved the movie.

I watch it on TV a few years later and they had no clue how to edit it for TV - they removed all the police violence bits out but left bits in that referred to the cut scense. The moral of thre story is never watch movies on TV.....

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