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Surprise: TV version of Stakeout is BETTER!

posted 12 years ago by Nobody-27
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I taped Stakeout from TV, many years ago, and watched it ad nauseum so much that I learned most of the lines by heart.
Then I bought DVD and was surprised to find out that many lines were different, and actually better in the TV version!

Here are some examples (TV version in brackets):

Bill tells Chris when Chris is going back to her house to look through her drawers:

- What a "boner" ("bozo" in TV version)

Later:

- I would appreciate it if you stopped acting like a "walking hard-on" (TV version: "... like a teenager")
- "Succinctly put" ("I feel a pimple coming out")

when they are chasing Chris early in the morning, and two cop cars run into each other in an alley. The marked police cruiser backs-up, and hits a motor bike. The guy from the other car comments:

- *beep* (but tv version: "Good shot!")

All in all, I found TV lines to work better - they were a little funnier than the original lines which I thought were just vulgar.

[–] daughterofolaf 12 years ago

I haven't seen the TV version but there are definitely some cases where an edited/TV version of a movie is better than the original--the original Halloween is a prime example of this phenomenon and it is not only a few vulgar words, it's actually scenes that were edited down and were just overall tighter and better.

"It's Minnie Pearl's murder weapon."

[–] Nobody-27 11 years ago

Most artists refuse to be criticized while creating, but years later they look at that same creation and notice that critics were right... somehow I wish there was the TV version available, it would be a lot more enjoyable to watch as it seemed less forced. It seems that they intentionally added male teenage type language to get their attention.

[–] Dan_Garten 10 years ago

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[–] BrettLovesKerri 10 years ago

The OP is on drugs!!! The DVD version is the real version (and how its meant to be). The TV version would've been voice-overs (censors). You don't mess with great one-liners. Some of those lines were funny as ever.....and in no way are they "vulgar". They never said the F word or the C word once in the whole movie.