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I thought I had seen all of the unintentional comedy on broadcast tv when it comes to curse words..........until last night.........

FX played The Wolf of Wall Street.

You absolutely cannot show a movie like that on broadcast tv. It set the record for the number of times the word "****" is used in a movie.

Movies like that, Goodfellas and Full Metal Jacket should never be shown on regular television.
 
I know the movie. I hadn't heard of the editing move.

Best one I remember is "mickey fickey" on Do The Right Thing.
 
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Last night, Tyler Skaggs returned to pitch for the Angels after a two-year recovery from TJ surgery. His parents were in the stands after flying in from Santa Monica to KC. They sent the TV guy to interview the mom during the game. He asked her when they arrived and what they did that afternoon. Mom says, "We got in around 2:30 and went to his hotel room. We just sat around and shot the ****." Live TV.
 
Yoooouuuuuu cannot say filth flarn filth flarn filth in front of people!

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"I Have Had It With These Monkey-Fightin’ Snakes On This Monday-To-Friday Plane."
 
I thought I had seen all of the unintentional comedy on broadcast tv when it comes to curse words..........until last night.........

FX played The Wolf of Wall Street.

You absolutely cannot show a movie like that on broadcast tv. It set the record for the number of times the word "****" is used in a movie.

Movies like that, Goodfellas and Full Metal Jacket should never be shown on regular television.

No, cable TV networks should stop stupid censoring like that. Just bleep it... or don't censor at all.
 
No, cable TV networks should stop stupid censoring like that. Just bleep it... or don't censor at all.

As a side note (or potentially a separate thread) ... the two movies that I have seen that changed the most from original to cable are The Bad News Bears and Grease. I know I'm not the only parent who sat down with the kids for some good family baseball fun and soon heard Tanner Boyle talking about the "Jews, spics and ******s." Ditto with Rizzo thinking she was about to be part of a gang-bang.
 
You absolutely cannot show a movie like that on broadcast tv. It set the record for the number of times the word "****" is used in a movie.
Only third.

List of films that most frequently use the word "****" - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
The one that I most recall is Casino, where Joe Pesci's character keeps saying, "I 'fouled' up," instead of, "I ****ed up."
 
As a side note (or potentially a separate thread) ... the two movies that I have seen that changed the most from original to cable are The Bad News Bears and Grease. I know I'm not the only parent who sat down with the kids for some good family baseball fun and soon heard Tanner Boyle talking about the "Jews, spics and ******s." Ditto with Rizzo thinking she was about to be part of a gang-bang.

We run a little TV blurb in our section about something that's on that night. Usually it's a game, but one slow summer night our then-SE teased to the "family friendly comedy The Bad News Bears."
He didn't realize it was on a pay cable channel and thus was the original uncensored version.
He came in the next morning looking shaken and waiting for the phone calls to start pouring in.
 

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