# Best (really worst) network TV voice-overs to replace cussing

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**Created:** [July 12, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-really-worst-network-tv-voice-overs-to-replace-cussing/502739 "2009-07-12T05:13:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-really-worst-network-tv-voice-overs-to-replace-cussing/502739/29 "2013-01-18T21:19:32Z")

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> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#):
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> One of the worst I can remember is during _Blazing Saddles_. Gene Wilder is describing his lowest point as a gunfighter when he confronted a ten year old boy holding a gun on him.  
> Wilder says he turned away in disgust and then “…the little bastard shot me in the ass!” On TV, the line is dubbed “…the little brat shot me in the…you know..”
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> It’s the absolute worst dubbing I’ve ever seen. Wilder bellowed the word ‘ass’, so his mouth is onscreen wide open and unmoving while there’s a pause on the sound track and the words ‘you know’ come out in a muffled mumble. The cheapest sync job on a seventies kung fu movie was never so unmatched between words and mouth movement.

The edit for ABC Family goes further. Someone took the first “horses” from “Horses? We can’t afford to lose no horses.” and used it to overdub the “faggots” in “Kansas City faggots!” I didn’t bother to see what else they did after that.

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