# TV Binge Watch (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 16, 2026, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759 "2026-01-16T22:01:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/141 "2026-01-30T17:05:32Z")
**Scripted shows that accurately reflect reality** 1. _The Bear_ - accurate portrayal of a working kitchen. 2. _The Sopranos_ - reportedly watched by real made men for its portrayal of mob life. 3. _Roseanne -_ spot-on depiction of the realities of the Lower Middle Class in the Midwest 4. _Switched at Birth_ – could use a few tweaks, and still a soap opera, but head & shoulders above any other depiction of Deaf people ever, and the captioned ASL gets 4 stars. 5. _Mom_ - Looks at alcoholism recovering from it, and how it can continue down through the generations. A family member who knows about this gives his endorsement and says the meetings the main characters go to are accurate as depicted. 6. _Generation Kill_ - Fairly accurate portrayal of a US Marine unit during the Iraq War. 7. _Northwood_ - Canadian teen drama from the early 90s that fairly accurately showed what could happen in situations like driving under the influence, being date raped, shoplifting, and so on. 8. _The Pitt_ - No scripted show can truly capture what it’s like to work an ER shift, but I’ve seen multiple reviews from ER docs/nurses that this comes pretty close (or, at least, isn’t laughably wrong) 9. _Hill Street Blues_ - With a few nitpicks, a pretty accurate cop show, from all I’ve heard ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/142 "2026-01-31T06:40:09Z")
**Scripted shows that accurately reflect reality** 1. _The Bear_ - accurate portrayal of a working kitchen. 2. _The Sopranos_ - reportedly watched by real made men for its portrayal of mob life. 3. _Roseanne -_ spot-on depiction of the realities of the Lower Middle Class in the Midwest 4. _Switched at Birth_ – could use a few tweaks, and still a soap opera, but head & shoulders above any other depiction of Deaf people ever, and the captioned ASL gets 4 stars. 5. _Mom_ - Looks at alcoholism recovering from it, and how it can continue down through the generations. A family member who knows about this gives his endorsement and says the meetings the main characters go to are accurate as depicted. 6. _Generation Kill_ - Fairly accurate portrayal of a US Marine unit during the Iraq War. 7. _Northwood_ - Canadian teen drama from the early 90s that fairly accurately showed what could happen in situations like driving under the influence, being date raped, shoplifting, and so on. 8. _The Pitt_ - No scripted show can truly capture what it’s like to work an ER shift, but I’ve seen multiple reviews from ER docs/nurses that this comes pretty close (or, at least, isn’t laughably wrong) 9. _Hill Street Blues_ - With a few nitpicks, a pretty accurate cop show, from all I’ve heard 10. _Mad Men_ - a meticulous recreation of life over the course of a decade (1960 -1970), as seen through the eyes of those who work in advertising, and their families. pass ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/143 "2026-01-31T08:43:34Z")
**Disease of the Week movies** the 80s were full of them, and there were some in the late 70s and early 90s. 1. _First, You Cry_, Breast Cancer, 1978 Not the first “DotW” movie, but it had major stars, and really got the trend rolling. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/144 "2026-01-31T15:42:31Z")
**Disease of the Week movies** the 80s were full of them, and there were some in the late 70s and early 90s. 1. _First, You Cry_, Breast Cancer, 1978 Not the first “DotW” movie, but it had major stars, and really got the trend rolling 2. _Brian’s Song_, embryonal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of testicular cancer, 1971 Thirty years after its original airing, a remake starring Mekhi Phifer as Gale Sayers and Sean Maher as Brian Piccolo.was aired on ABC’s _The Wonderful World of Disney_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/145 "2026-01-31T16:04:49Z")
> [@Bicycle\_Bill](#): > > _Brian’s Song_, embryonal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of testicular cancer, 1971 This is usually cited as the ORIGINAL disease-of-the-week movie. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/146 "2026-01-31T16:49:36Z")
**Disease of the Week movies** the 80s were full of them, and there were some in the late 70s and early 90s. 1. _First, You Cry_, Breast Cancer, 1978 Not the first “DotW” movie, but it had major stars, and really got the trend rolling 2. _Brian’s Song_, embryonal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of testicular cancer, 1971 3. _Quarantined_, about a cholera outbreak, a 1970 ABC Movie of the Week ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/147 "2026-02-01T05:14:22Z")
**Disease of the Week movies** the 80s were full of them, and there were some in the late 70s and early 90s. 1. _First, You Cry_, Breast Cancer, 1978 Not the first “DotW” movie, but it had major stars, and really got the trend rolling 2. _Brian’s Song_, embryonal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of testicular cancer, 1971 3. _Quarantined_, about a cholera outbreak, a 1970 ABC Movie of the Week 4. _An Early Frost_ one of the first movies about AIDS 1985 ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/148 "2026-02-01T20:01:56Z")
**Disease of the Week movies** the 80s were full of them, and there were some in the late 70s and early 90s. 1. _First, You Cry_, Breast Cancer, 1978 Not the first “DotW” movie, but it had major stars, and really got the trend rolling 2. _Brian’s Song_, embryonal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of testicular cancer, 1971 3. _Quarantined_, about a cholera outbreak, a 1970 ABC Movie of the Week 4. _An Early Frost_ one of the first movies about AIDS 1985 5. _The Boy in The Plastic Bubble,_ an earnest film about a lad with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), and it became the source of jokes, parodies and spoofs. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/149 "2026-02-02T17:15:38Z")
**Disease of the Week movies** the 80s were full of them, and there were some in the late 70s and early 90s. 1. _First, You Cry_, Breast Cancer, 1978 Not the first “DotW” movie, but it had major stars, and really got the trend rolling 2. _Brian’s Song_, embryonal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of testicular cancer, 1971 3. _Quarantined_, about a cholera outbreak, a 1970 ABC Movie of the Week 4. _An Early Frost_ one of the first movies about AIDS 1985 5. _The Boy in The Plastic Bubble,_ an earnest film about a lad with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), and it became the source of jokes, parodies and spoofs. 6. _Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic_, a 1975 TV movie with Linda Blair and Mark Hamill, where alcoholism is the disease. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/150 "2026-02-02T17:22:39Z")
**Disease of the Week movies** the 80s were full of them, and there were some in the late 70s and early 90s. 1. _First, You Cry_, Breast Cancer, 1978 Not the first “DotW” movie, but it had major stars, and really got the trend rolling 2. _Brian’s Song_, embryonal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of testicular cancer, 1971 3. _Quarantined_, about a cholera outbreak, a 1970 ABC Movie of the Week 4. _An Early Frost_ one of the first movies about AIDS 1985 5. _The Boy in The Plastic Bubble,_ an earnest film about a lad with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), and it became the source of jokes, parodies and spoofs. 6. _Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic_, a 1975 TV movie with Linda Blair and Mark Hamill, where alcoholism is the disease. 7. _In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan_, brain damage, 1977. Based on a true story about a legal battle to have a comatose patient removed from artificial respiration, after which she lived 9 more years, starring Brian Keith and Piper Laurie. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/151 "2026-02-02T22:30:25Z")
**Disease of the Week movies** the 80s were full of them, and there were some in the late 70s and early 90s. 1. _First, You Cry_, Breast Cancer, 1978 Not the first “DotW” movie, but it had major stars, and really got the trend rolling 2. _Brian’s Song_, embryonal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of testicular cancer, 1971 3. _Quarantined_, about a cholera outbreak, a 1970 ABC Movie of the Week 4. _An Early Frost_ one of the first movies about AIDS 1985 5. _The Boy in The Plastic Bubble,_ an earnest film about a lad with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), and it became the source of jokes, parodies and spoofs. 6. _Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic_, a 1975 TV movie with Linda Blair and Mark Hamill, where alcoholism is the disease. 7. _In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan_, brain damage, 1977. Based on a true story about a legal battle to have a comatose patient removed from artificial respiration, after which she lived 9 more years, starring Brian Keith and Piper Laurie. 8. _Quarantined_, cholera outbreak, 1970. A family of doctors battle against a cholera epidepmic. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/152 "2026-02-02T23:22:28Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > 1. _Quarantined_, cholera outbreak, 1970. A family of doctors battle against a cholera epidepmic. See #3 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/153 "2026-02-02T23:32:40Z")
No problem; I’ve got a number 8: **Disease of the Week movies** the 80s were full of them, and there were some in the late 70s and early 90s. 1. _First, You Cry_, Breast Cancer, 1978 Not the first “DotW” movie, but it had major stars, and really got the trend rolling 2. _Brian’s Song_, embryonal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of testicular cancer, 1971 3. _Quarantined_, about a cholera outbreak, a 1970 ABC Movie of the Week 4. _An Early Frost_ one of the first movies about AIDS 1985 5. _The Boy in The Plastic Bubble,_ an earnest film about a lad with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), and it became the source of jokes, parodies and spoofs. 6. _Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic_, a 1975 TV movie with Linda Blair and Mark Hamill, where alcoholism is the disease. 7. _In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan_, brain damage, 1977. Based on a true story about a legal battle to have a comatose patient removed from artificial respiration, after which she lived 9 more years, starring Brian Keith and Piper Laurie. 8. _She Lives!_; Hodgkin’s Disease, 1973. You’ll never hear Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle” again, without thinking of this one. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/154 "2026-02-04T16:54:01Z")
**Disease of the Week movies** the 80s were full of them, and there were some in the late 70s and early 90s. 1. _First, You Cry_, Breast Cancer, 1978 Not the first “DotW” movie, but it had major stars, and really got the trend rolling 2. _Brian’s Song_, embryonal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of testicular cancer, 1971 3. _Quarantined_, about a cholera outbreak, a 1970 ABC Movie of the Week 4. _An Early Frost_ one of the first movies about AIDS 1985 5. _The Boy in The Plastic Bubble,_ an earnest film about a lad with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), and it became the source of jokes, parodies and spoofs. 6. _Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic_, a 1975 TV movie with Linda Blair and Mark Hamill, where alcoholism is the disease. 7. _In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan_, brain damage, 1977. Based on a true story about a legal battle to have a comatose patient removed from artificial respiration, after which she lived 9 more years, starring Brian Keith and Piper Laurie. 8. _She Lives!_; Hodgkin’s Disease, 1973. You’ll never hear Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle” again, without thinking of this one. 9. _Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole_, 1972. A recently widowed research doctor joins a Chicago clinic to try to escape her grief, where she befriends a young girl dying of leukemia. ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/155 "2026-02-04T20:50:36Z")
**Disease of the Week movies** the 80s were full of them, and there were some in the late 70s and early 90s. 1. _First, You Cry_, Breast Cancer, 1978 Not the first “DotW” movie, but it had major stars, and really got the trend rolling 2. _Brian’s Song_, embryonal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of testicular cancer, 1971 3. _Quarantined_, about a cholera outbreak, a 1970 ABC Movie of the Week 4. _An Early Frost_ one of the first movies about AIDS 1985 5. _The Boy in The Plastic Bubble,_ an earnest film about a lad with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), and it became the source of jokes, parodies and spoofs. 6. _Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic_, a 1975 TV movie with Linda Blair and Mark Hamill, where alcoholism is the disease. 7. _In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan_, brain damage, 1977. Based on a true story about a legal battle to have a comatose patient removed from artificial respiration, after which she lived 9 more years, starring Brian Keith and Piper Laurie. 8. _She Lives!_; Hodgkin’s Disease, 1973. You’ll never hear Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle” again, without thinking of this one. 9. _Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole_, 1972. A recently widowed research doctor joins a Chicago clinic to try to escape her grief, where she befriends a young girl dying of leukemia. 10. _Why, Charlie Brown, Why?_, 1990. In this _Peanuts_ special, the gang’s new classmate Janice comes down with leukemia. Linus – who evidently feels puppy love toward Janice, is very distressed about it. Janice, while patently suffering, seems to be trying to remain stoic, providing explanation in simple terms of what she is going through. **Cleaned up for TV (theatrical films shown on TV also apply)** 1. [In this live appearance,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ScWtP2IxU&list=RDO_ScWtP2IxU&start_radio=1) Tom Waits sings “The Piano Has Been Drinking.” The line “Jukebox’s been busted for sev’ral weeks” is substituted for “The jukebox has to take a leak.” ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/156 "2026-02-04T21:51:06Z")
**Cleaned up for TV (theatrical films shown on TV also apply)** 1. [In this live appearance,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ScWtP2IxU&list=RDO_ScWtP2IxU&start_radio=1) Tom Waits sings “The Piano Has Been Drinking.” The line “Jukebox’s been busted for sev’ral weeks” is substituted for “The jukebox has to take a leak.” 2. [Blue Brothers](https://youtu.be/guycCsgLIzw?si=gs-rNldxjf9UaxdJ&t=26), the broadcast version has the swearing edited out, including Jake telling the Penguin that she’s “I guess you’re really up shit creek” was changed to “I guess you’re really up the creek.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/157 "2026-02-05T04:57:50Z")
**Cleaned up for TV (theatrical films shown on TV also apply)** 1. [In this live appearance,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ScWtP2IxU&list=RDO_ScWtP2IxU&start_radio=1) Tom Waits sings “The Piano Has Been Drinking.” The line “Jukebox’s been busted for sev’ral weeks” is substituted for “The jukebox has to take a leak.” 2. [_The Blue Brothers_](https://youtu.be/guycCsgLIzw?si=gs-rNldxjf9UaxdJ&t=26), the broadcast version has the swearing edited out, including Jake telling the Penguin that she’s “I guess you’re really up shit creek” was changed to “I guess you’re really up the creek.” 3. _The Big Lebowski_: in some broadcasts, Walter’s enraged question “You see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass?” became “You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?” ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/158 "2026-02-05T06:21:48Z")
**Cleaned up for TV (theatrical films shown on TV also apply)** 1. [In this live appearance,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ScWtP2IxU&list=RDO_ScWtP2IxU&start_radio=1) Tom Waits sings “The Piano Has Been Drinking.” The line “Jukebox’s been busted for sev’ral weeks” is substituted for “The jukebox has to take a leak.” 2. [_The Blue Brothers_](https://youtu.be/guycCsgLIzw?si=gs-rNldxjf9UaxdJ&t=26), the broadcast version has the swearing edited out, including Jake telling the Penguin that she’s “I guess you’re really up shit creek” was changed to “I guess you’re really up the creek.” 3. _The Big Lebowski_: in some broadcasts, Walter’s enraged question “You see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass?” became “You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?” 4. _The Jerk_: Navin Johnson’s dog, Shithead, has a name change to “Stupid” for television releases. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/159 "2026-02-05T06:36:08Z")
**Cleaned up for TV (theatrical films shown on TV also apply)** 1. [In this live appearance,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ScWtP2IxU&list=RDO_ScWtP2IxU&start_radio=1) Tom Waits sings “The Piano Has Been Drinking.” The line “Jukebox’s been busted for sev’ral weeks” is substituted for “The jukebox has to take a leak.” 2. [_The Blue Brothers_](https://youtu.be/guycCsgLIzw?si=gs-rNldxjf9UaxdJ&t=26), the broadcast version has the swearing edited out, including Jake telling the Penguin that she’s “I guess you’re really up shit creek” was changed to “I guess you’re really up the creek.” 3. _The Big Lebowski_: in some broadcasts, Walter’s enraged question “You see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass?” became “You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?” 4. _The Jerk_: Navin Johnson’s dog, Shithead, has a name change to “Stupid” for television releases. 5. _Repo Man:_ “I call bullshit on that” overdubbed with “I call no way on that.” ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759/160 "2026-02-05T10:21:32Z")
> [@](#): > > **Cleaned up for TV (theatrical films shown on TV also apply)** 1. [In this live appearance,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ScWtP2IxU&list=RDO_ScWtP2IxU&start_radio=1) Tom Waits sings “The Piano Has Been Drinking.” The line “Jukebox’s been busted for sev’ral weeks” is substituted for “The jukebox has to take a leak.” 2. [_The Blue Brothers_](https://youtu.be/guycCsgLIzw?si=gs-rNldxjf9UaxdJ&t=26), the broadcast version has the swearing edited out, including Jake telling the Penguin that she’s “I guess you’re really up shit creek” was changed to “I guess you’re really up the creek.” 3. _The Big Lebowski_: in some broadcasts, Walter’s enraged question “You see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass?” became “You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?” 4. _The Jerk_: Navin Johnson’s dog, Shithead, has a name change to “Stupid” for television releases. 5. _Repo Man:_ “I call bullshit on that” overdubbed with “I call no way on that.” 6. The word “hell” silenced out of the TV version of _Eddie and the Cruisers_. Unfortunate, because the fictional band had a frequently-referenced album titled “A Season in ------” Sometimes the ------ was preceded by a aspiration as they cut off the “H,” so you got, more of less, "A Season in H-----\* with the H vivisected, making it even more obvious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-3/1026759.md?page=9)