Alex Newborn wrote:I plan to sit down soon and make a list of all the changes and deletions.
I realized this task was already mostly done for me on the same SpookCentral page that I keep linking, but it did appear that he left some out, like Dana's "GD it" and the "You can believe Mr. Wick"/"My name is Peck" substitution.
He also claims that "I want you" is an alternate take of "I want you inside me" but it's the same footage, they just edited the audio. Watch her lip sync... she still mouths the entire line, but they slid "I want you" to the final mouth movements and put a small moan in at the beginning to cover the gap.
Here's my revised list of alterations done for the ABC version...
"It's pi$$ing me off" is cut, new camera angle used to cover the edit
"Running your a$$es off" portion of line is cut
Dana's "G**dammit this wasn't here!" is trimmed to just "Dammit this wasn't here!"
"We came, we saw, we kicked its a$$" is replaced by alternate take "What a knockabout of pure fun that was!"
The Dream Ghost portion of the montage is cut
"I'll sue your a$$..." is replaced by alternate take "I'll sue your funny face for wrongful prosecution."
Dana's "Oh $hit!" is replaced by alternate take "Oh No!"
"I want you inside me" is trimmed to just "I want you"
Carriage driver's "What an a$$hole!" is cut
Peck's "wisea$$" is cut
Egon's "Oh $hit!" is cut, new camera angle used to cover the edit
Egon's "Your mother!" audio is deleted
"D!ckless" is replaced by alternate take "Wally Wick"
"I have seen $hit..." is replaced by alternate take "I have seen stuff that will turn you white!"
"You can believe Mr. P*cker" is replaced by alternate take "You can believe Mr. Wick"
"Make 'em hard!" is replaced by alternate take "Ten Hut!"
Winston's "Oh $hit!" audio is deleted
"Mother pus bucket!" is cut
"We get this guy laid" speech is cut
"The superintendent's gonna be pi$$ed" is cut
That's twenty items they decided to alter for being too vulgar or suggestive.
And, for those claiming there are only one or two swear words, we can see that there are actually thirteen that got cut.
Two variations of pi$$, five of a$$, four $hits, and two slang words for male genitalia were deemed unusable by 1989 broadcast television standards. They also wouldn't allow Dana to say GD, though they did allow just the "dammit" portion.
And they DID allow "prehistoric b&tch" so that brings the total to at least fifteen times they swear in the movie.
Plus, I haven't rewatched the whole thing yet, I've just been spot-checking Paul's list from SpookCentral and cueing up the 1999 DVD for comparison. There may be other things we've overlooked.
Alex