# Alternate Endings of Movies that aren't Big **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 14, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843 "2022-04-14T02:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/21 "2022-04-14T18:21:23Z")
Oops—my apologies. I’ll stop now. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/22 "2022-04-14T18:22:41Z")
Well, now I sound like a junior mod. I was only joking around. Mostly. I was hoping another poor soul came barreling into the thread claiming an alternate ending. Hey, we have cake days. Like Reddit. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/23 "2022-04-14T18:26:24Z")
But it _would_ make a good new topic, true. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/24 "2022-04-14T18:41:38Z")
I don’t know precisely how the Chinese government handles stuff like that - I suspect it varies a lot depending on the film, and at what point in the distribution network the edit is made. State censors don’t usually care much about maintaining story cohesion, and will cheerfully hack out or redub a “problematic” section even if it renders the rest of the film incomprehensible. An example moving in the other direction, when the anime series _Sailor Moon_ was brought to American television, two characters who in the original are in a same-sex relationship were edited and redubbed to be cousins. Come to think of it, there’s probably plenty of similar examples of edits to American films for American television. I can pretty easily imagine _Deathtrap_ being shown on TV in the '80s with the Reeves/Cain kiss removed, and to hell with what it does to the plot. If nothing else, without knowing the original scene, I supposed a viewer could be confused by what’s upsetting all those horses in the campfire scene in _Blazing Saddles_, or why Bruce Willis calls Alan Rickman “Mr. Falcon” at the end of _Die Hard_. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/25 "2022-04-14T18:48:31Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Gee, I bet this topic would make a helluva good thread all its own. Boy howdy. But if this tangential discussion were moved to a separate thread, we would still all remember it as the ending to this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/26 "2022-04-14T18:50:40Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Gee, I bet this topic would make a helluva good thread all its own. Boy howdy. Does anybody remember the alternate ending of [Boy Howdy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Howdy)? ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/27 "2022-04-14T18:56:06Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > The only way to stop that future from happening is for an intrepid band of adventurers to travel back in time and stop the evil OP from starting the thread. Unfortunately, their calculations are wrong and they end up on the set of _Big._ And the head time traveler’s daughter looks like a young Elizabeth Perkins… ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/28 "2022-04-14T18:56:18Z")
Boy Howdy! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yxWNdDLy9fE/hqdefault.jpg "2000 - Humorous Joe Montana & Ronnie Lott Commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxWNdDLy9fE) ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/29 "2022-04-14T18:59:41Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Didn’t they put Mongo in an old time dive suit & helmet and send him to the bottom of the town well or something? Yep. Then Bart lowered a sign that read “Need more air? Deposit 5 cents”. I remember it clearly, because it was the last scene of _Big_. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/30 "2022-04-15T00:33:57Z")
2 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Anyone else remember the alternate ending to “Big”?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864/1044) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/32 "2022-04-14T21:26:02Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > The only way to stop that future from happening is for an intrepid band of adventurers to travel back in time and stop the evil OP from starting the thread. No, that’s the alternate ending to _Terminator_. Arnold Schwarzenegger is sent back in time to kill Penny Marshall. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/33 "2022-04-14T21:28:14Z")
Folks, just wanted to say hi from another timeline. The oddest thing by far that people here have noticed is that we all _know_ that this thread ended with Post #994, where Darren claims the director for the additional ending scene was Stanley Kubrick. We all know it was Cindy Williams, but it was a very clever reference to the “faked moon landing” conspiracy. (Oh, we did land on the moon in this timeline, too. Shame that the IHOP there got demolished by space debris, but no real loss, it was another stupid Bezos idea…) ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/34 "2022-04-14T21:40:07Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I can pretty easily imagine _Deathtrap_ being shown on TV in the '80s with the Reeves/Cain kiss removed I remember no kiss in the film between actors of those names. Is this perhaps some new Mandela effect you’re experiencing here? “Reeves” is to “Reeve” as “Berenstein” is to “Berenstain”? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/35 "2022-04-14T21:43:56Z")
We’re talking about the _Deathtrap_ that starred Keanu Reeves and Dean Cain, right? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/36 "2022-04-14T22:50:52Z")
My high school put on Deathtrap - it’s about two playwrights who work together for no clearly explained reason, right? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/38 "2022-04-15T00:22:56Z")
This is an alternate beginning that I did not expect. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/39 "2022-04-15T00:37:33Z")
Nobody has yet presented any convincing evidence that this thread exists. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/40 "2022-04-15T00:38:34Z")
Now you’ve gone and done it. You’ve created The Multi-Thread of Madness. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/41 "2022-04-15T00:46:16Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Nobody has yet presented any convincing evidence that this thread exists. As the creator of this thread, I assure you, it is real. I have now pulled the “Big” event off in life. I was but a young man when I started it. I am now 43 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843/42 "2022-04-15T00:55:01Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > As the creator of this thread, I assure you, it is real. Are you sure? I cite this in support of the “different movie” hypothesis. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-endings-of-movies-that-arent-big/962843.md?page=3)