Here. I read two papers - one ran the strip “as is”, the other had the final panel like this:
AH… THERE’S
THE SHOT
So maybe the second one had been available all along?
Well, that’s just wrong.
“Money shot” started as a film-making term of art with no “wrong” connotations at all. It may have entered common parlance in reference to porn, but is now often used in a broader sense. I hear it more in reference to mainstream films than porn these days.
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/17/money_shot_intro.html
It’s the shot that gives me total satisfaction, one that I’m more than happy to pay to see, and which makes me want to return to the cinema again and again. … I think of each as ‘the money shot’, although strictly speaking, this isn’t what the term means. Originally mainstream filmmakers’ slang for the image that cost the most money to produce, the phrase was subsequently appropriated by the pornography industry for the male ejaculatory climax, ‘come shot’, or ‘cum shot’, because porno producers paid their male performers extra for it. It’s the shot the punters pay to see.
http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/27/the-mars-phoenix-money-shot/
NASA just finished a briefing on the Phoenix Mars Lander, and released what I consider the money shot of the mission so far.
Tommy Chong-
“Margaret Its just a porno flick fer christ’s sake. Oh jeez, that looks like your grandmother eating icecream”. :eek:
“That oughta clear up her complexion.”