You know when a movie or TV show is uncensored and makes sense, and then gets re-released for network TV and is censored and makes no sense? <\/p>\n
My wife is a fan of the movie The Wedding Date<\/i>, and she got really excited when it aired on TV. So we DVR’ed it (off TBS, I think) and watched it… or tried<\/i> to watch it. Throughout the film, she kept exclaiming, “Wait! They cut out that whole bit” while I was exclaiming, “This movie makes no sense.” I think they cut about a half hour out of the movie to make way for commercials. Why? Why not just make the runtime longer to put more commercials in? Or just not show the butchered movie at all? <\/p>\n
Just as bad as censorship-for-time-constraints is censorship-for-prudishness. Hey, I can be as much of a prude as the next person, but when prudishness takes the humor out of TV, that’s just wrong. <\/p>\n
This prudish censorship makes Sex and the City<\/i> unwatchable for SatC fans (I realize non-fans already think it unwatchable—whether it’s censored or not). In one scene, Miranda calls Skipper (while he’s having sex with another woman) to see if he wants to get together, and Skipper likes Miranda better, so he breaks up with the other woman. In the original dialogue, the woman says, “You’re breaking up with me while you’re still inside<\/i> of me?” In the censored version, she says “You’re breaking up with me now<\/i>?” Yeah. Hilarious. <\/p>\n
Another great prudes-take-the-humor-out moment is in the censored version of Return to Me<\/i>. Like Return to Me<\/i> is just so risqué. At one point, Bonnie Hunt’s character is arguing with her husband (James Belushi’s character) and says, “Great. You taught him hell<\/i>. That’s great.” He gets all defensive and suggests that it’s possible their child might have learned the word hell<\/i> from the mother, who replies “I never said hell<\/i>, you son of a bitch.” All the irony is lost in the TV version, of course, in which she says “I never said hell<\/i>.” <\/p>\n
Well, thank God for HBO and Showtime. They may cost a bit more than the regular channels, but they’ll at least keep the laughs in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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