# Dear edited for tv movies: **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2005, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774 "2005-12-22T07:48:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/1 "2005-12-22T07:48:39Z")
I understand there are certain words to can’t be said on tv so you have to edit them out. -But FCOL! Just dub them out with silince as opposed to dubing over them with corny words such as “Scum bum” or “what the frog?” Really, please just stop. [Petty complaint, but it had to be said] ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/2 "2005-12-22T07:51:14Z")
what the frog? LOL I like that! What are some other ones? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/3 "2005-12-22T08:07:32Z")
> [@Good Egg](#): > > what the frog? LOL I like that! What are some other ones? Heh, you know I was trying like hell to remember some more but I couldn’t. It would make for an intresting thread though. So if anybody knows of some they’d like to share please do. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/4 "2005-12-22T08:11:00Z")
“Airhead” for “asshole” makes the baby jeebus cry. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/5 "2005-12-22T08:33:18Z")
There’s “son of a biscuit!” or “hot dog! (god damn)” or my favorite for fuck you? “Forget you!”. Just doesn’t have the drama. ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/6 "2005-12-22T09:33:37Z")
didn’t RepoMan use the word “melonfarmer” all the time? Or was that another movie? ---
**Author:** ![Whifton\_Polekitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/97f17d/32.png) [@Whifton\_Polekitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whifton_Polekitty)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/7 "2005-12-22T12:18:55Z")
“Flip you, melon farmer!” was decidedly from Repo Man. I noticed this when my father recorded over my tape of such and I had to get a new dub off of {shudder} network TV… I just dated myself, didn’t I? Oh well, now I have it on DVD in clerar, unedited pureness. “Too late. You already are…” {the words I hear but may not neccicsrily be spoken by HR drones when I get new jobs} ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/8 "2005-12-22T12:55:15Z")
_High Plains Drifter_ had a pretty good edit. In the original line, one of the townspeople comments that their sherrif is “about as much use as tits on a boar.” (Meaning that the sherrif is useless.) This got edited to “about as much use as boots on a boar.” I thought that was a pretty clever dub. Unfortunately, the guy who said “boots” didn’t sound much like the guy in the movie, but still. ---
**Author:** ![Squee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/9 "2005-12-22T13:01:09Z")
In Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing… they used “mickey fickey”. I still catch myself saying it when I’m around the nephew. = ) ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/10 "2005-12-22T13:07:31Z")
Freak you, man. _FREAK YOU!_ ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/11 "2005-12-22T13:09:09Z")
[Johnny Dangerously]You farging iceholes![/JD] ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/12 "2005-12-22T13:41:02Z")
In Sylvester Stallone’s “Nighthawks,” there’s a scene in which Billy Dee Williams is negotiating with a terrorist (Rutger Hauer) who’s holding a bunch of hostages. Stallone is listening in. The dialogue SHOULD go something like this: Williams: “I’ll trade myself for one of the hostages.” Hauer. “Not you. I… want… that BASTARD!” Williams: “What bastard?” Stallone (to himself): “Me.” - On TV, the word they substitute for “bastard” is “Buzzard.” But what makes it hilarious is, the guy who says “buzzzard” sounds like the voice in that old Parkay margarine commercial. You know, where people open the Parkay lid and hear a little squeaky voice saying “butter”? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/13 "2005-12-22T15:31:53Z")
The bleeping/editing of cusswords I’m just about used to, but the chopped-up editing for commercials still gets me yelling at the tv - “What the hell?! It’s the middle of the scene, you corkstackers!” Although watching some movies in their tv edit can be entertaining just because there is no way some movies should ever be played on anything but uncensored cable (“Pulp Fiction” comes to mind - I think the tv version is 20 minutes long. 😃 ) ---
**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:** [December 22, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/14 "2005-12-22T15:38:17Z")
I’ve posted before about this. When I flew from Japan to China, my airline movie was “Sideways”. Fuck became “Push” Asshole became…“Ashcroft” ---
**Author:** ![Wartime\_Consigliori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@Wartime\_Consigliori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wartime_Consigliori)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/15 "2005-12-22T15:39:43Z")
[Blues Brothers] Well then, I guess you’re really up _the creek_. [/Blues Brothers] God, that one’s annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/16 "2005-12-22T15:43:43Z")
Yippie-ki-yay, my friend from Die Hard ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/17 "2005-12-22T15:46:22Z")
Golly! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/18 "2005-12-22T15:55:10Z")
“Gimme my burger sandwich!” “Fine, here’s your burger sandwich!” “Get your burger hands off my burger sandwich, you mother burger!” –Good Will Hunting ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/19 "2005-12-22T16:03:52Z")
[Johnny Dangerously] You fargin’ bastiches! You corksucking iceholes! [/Johnny Dangerously] ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774/20 "2005-12-22T16:09:53Z")
Sorry, but you haven’t lived until you’ve seen the edited for TV version of the movie of the play by Mr. David “I I raised cussin’ to an art form” Mamet": “Glengarry Glen Ross”. “Kiss my act, buddy! Just KISS MY ACT!!” \. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-edited-for-tv-movies/336774.md?page=2)