# "I have had it with these Monkey-Fried snakes on this Monday-Friday Plane!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692 "2009-04-20T02:46:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/21 "2009-04-21T00:47:38Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > “\ Monkey-Fried Snakes\” Band name! ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/22 "2009-04-21T02:45:40Z")
I saw a movie on tv where it was “floozin’” this and “floozin’” that. Real potty-mouths. Occasionally the original is already suitable for tv and is actually funnier (if that’s the intention) than regular cursing. E.g., “Mother pus-bucket!” (Though I don’t know why exactly that’s less offensive than “motherfucker”.) ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/23 "2009-04-21T03:19:55Z")
I really wish I could remember even half of the edits from “Mallrats”. “I hear he takes girls on really cheap dates,” instead of, “I heard he fucks girls in a very uncomfortable place,” is all I remember. One of the worst censor jobs I’ve ever seen. My favorite, though, is from “Nothing to Lose.” Tim Robbin’s character: “You’re so beetleheaded!” Martin Lawrence: “What is beetleheaded?!” Robbins: “It’s a synonym for stupid!” Lawrence: “Well, here’s a synonym for procreation: Forget you!” ---
**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 21, 2009, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/24 "2009-04-21T05:59:14Z")
You can see the monkey-fried clip right [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4t6zNZ-b0A), melon farmers. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/25 "2009-04-21T09:10:02Z")
I think what he actually said was “monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane.” ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/26 "2009-04-21T13:28:37Z")
I can’t remember when or where I heard it, but it was in the John Mellencamp song _Play Guitar_ on some obscure radio station. The line where John sings “…forget all about that macho shit and learn how to play guitar”, someone had dubbed the word “shit” with “stuff” in a flat, low voice that was pretty obviously _not_ Mr. Mellencamp’s. I’ve also heard, maybe on the same station, in the Tom Petty tune _You Don’t Know How It Feels_, where the lyric is “…let me get to the point, lets roll another joint”, the word “joint” replaced with a loud cymbal crash. I guess that was better than trying to replace it with “completely legal cigarette”. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/27 "2009-04-21T13:44:44Z")
I forgot that AMC censors until watching The Usual Suspects when the line “Give me the keys you cocksucker!” which is uttered several times in a police lineup, becomes “Give me the keys you fairy godmother!” which is just what one of those guys would have certainly said. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/28 "2009-04-21T13:50:55Z")
In a CBS broadcast of “Coming to America”, the line “one bad mother fucker” was morphed into “one bad mammer jammer!” Classic. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/29 "2009-04-21T14:08:48Z")
On the TV version of _Scarface_, they replaced the line (which I’m paraphrasing from memory), “This town is like one big pussy waiting to get fucked” with “This town is like one big chicken waiting to get plucked”. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/30 "2009-04-21T14:11:24Z")
I can think of a lot of really bad examples, but two strike me as very weird or ironic. The very point of The People vs Larry Flynt was how censorship is dumb. In one scene, there is a big rally where Larry says that taking a picture of a mutilated body, such as in a war, can win you an award, but taking a picture of a naked body can get you arrested. He asks the audience which is truly more obscene. On the screen behind him are alternating pictures of naked women and war carnage. The TV censor, naturally, blurred out the women but not the war pictures. I’m thinking that they didn’t quite get it. Ghostbusters: "Everything was fine until dickless here shut us down. “Is this true?” “It’s true. This man has no dick.” * * * "Everything was fine until brainless here shut us down. “Is this true?” “It’s true. This man is some sort of rodent, we’re not sure which kind.” 'da fried? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/31 "2009-04-21T14:16:23Z")
Man, I haven’t had mom’s old-fashioned monkey-fried snake in, like, forever. I’d get it from a fast food joint, but they always [forget] you at the drive-through. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/32 "2009-04-21T16:03:30Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Ghostbusters: > > "Everything was fine until dickless here shut us down. > > “Is this true?” > > “It’s true. This man has no dick.” > > * * * > > "Everything was fine until brainless here shut us down. > > “Is this true?” > > “It’s true. This man is some sort of rodent, we’re not sure which kind.” > > 'da fried? Bwah?!? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/33 "2009-04-21T16:30:00Z")
> [@Jettboy](#): > > I’ve also heard, maybe on the same station, in the Tom Petty tune _You Don’t Know How It Feels_, where the lyric is “…let me get to the point, lets roll another joint”, the word “joint” replaced with a loud cymbal crash. I guess that was better than trying to replace it with “completely legal cigarette”. There’s a version of this song in which Tom himself sings “let’s hit another joint” instead of “roll.” Bar-hopping is more radio-safe than pot-smoking, apparently. One of the movie lines I remember most was watching _The Blues Brothers_ on regular TV. “I don’t believe it, it’s that shit-box Dodge again!” “Bastards are ours now!” became “I don’t believe it, it’s that screwball Dodge again!” “Buzzards are ours now!” At least the lip movements kind of matched… But still. ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/34 "2009-04-21T18:33:18Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > I forgot that AMC censors until watching The Usual Suspects when the line “Give me the keys you cocksucker!” which is uttered several times in a police lineup, becomes “Give me the keys you fairy godmother!” which is just what one of those guys would have certainly said. That was the example I was thinking of. I think it added a nice surreal vibe to that whole scene. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/35 "2009-04-21T18:56:35Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I can think of a lot of really bad examples, but two strike me as very weird or ironic. > > The very point of The People vs Larry Flynt was how censorship is dumb. In one scene, there is a big rally where Larry says that taking a picture of a mutilated body, such as in a war, can win you an award, but taking a picture of a naked body can get you arrested. He asks the audience which is truly more obscene. On the screen behind him are alternating pictures of naked women and war carnage. The TV censor, naturally, blurred out the women but not the war pictures. That’s just hilarious 🙂 And from the get go, too, I mean… The People vs Larry Flynt is about the life and tribulations of a porn baron. Nevermind how, but WHY would you try to make a film like that kiddie friendly ?! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/36 "2009-04-21T19:04:55Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Blazing Saddles is full of them. One of my favorite lines is from Jim. > “The Little Bastard shot me in the ass.” > The humor comes from the set up and delivery and doesn’t look funny written out. It was ruined by changing it to: > “The little brat shot me in the you know.” > The funny thing is that the original line could be said on regular TV now but they still go with the old edited version. And in [some edits](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=2242147&highlight=horses#post2242147), “I hired you people to try to get a little track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots.” becomes “I hired you people to try to get a little track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City horses.” “Horses” having been copied from the beginning of this line: “Horses? We can’t afford to lose any horses, you dummy!” ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/37 "2009-04-21T19:17:12Z")
In the Amy Winehouse song, “Fuck Me Pumps” (Or is it really F Me pumps? I don’t even know anymore!?) ([del]-😕 [/del]¬) there is a YOUTUBE version that bleeps the “E” in the line “You did too much E.” This may be the first time in history a single letter has been censored. I should mention however that I actually didn’t notice it was bleeped until I heard an uncensored version of the song because they had used a “musical” sounding bleep. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/38 "2009-04-21T19:23:11Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > Bwah?!? 😕 That was pretty much my reaction. Another one that I thought was hilarious was in Good Will Hunting. A couple of the guys were arguing, and one wanted his sandwich from the other guy. “Give me my burger sandwich!” “You didn’t even pay for your burger sandwich.” “I don’t car! Give me my burger sandwich!” “Fine! Here’s your burger sandwich!” ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/39 "2009-04-21T19:35:51Z")
You know, in Utah there used to be a number of stores that would take your movies and censor them for you to make them something the whole family can enjoy. I think there were rental places too. I have no idea if they still exist. I’d like to make an opposite business. take G and PG films and modify the words to turn them into R rated movies. Or, when the 2 leads lean in for a kiss, replace it with 3 mins of hardcore porn and then cut back to the couple. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692/40 "2009-04-21T19:41:03Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > You know, in Utah there used to be a number of stores that would take your movies and censor them for you to make them something the whole family can enjoy. I think there were rental places too. I have no idea if they still exist. IIRC they did get sued, but I don’t know what the result was. Lately they’ve been showing The Departed on TV a lot, and I never realized how many times they say “fuck” in the movie until I heard the incredibly annoying, high pitched “freak” and “freakin” replacers (that sound nothing like the actual actors’ voice) on TV. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-had-it-with-these-monkey-fried-snakes-on-this-monday-friday-plane/493692.md?page=3)