My two faves: "airhole" replacing "asshole" in Purple Rain, and "mickeyfickey" for "motherfucker" in Do The Right Thing.

I think it's because WTBS was originally a local UHF station.

See what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?

Okay, that made me laugh.

MISTER FALCON

I can't stand watching movies on commercial TV anymore because of this shit.

At least if they are going to edit the flipping language, they could just cut the f----g language out like they do on Comedy Central.

Or do like they do on HBO and just fucking say it.

wait. does that movie have steven weber in it? the dude from wings? i'm just asking, because

TBS is how Time-Warner feeds movies to those who were too broke, remote, or apathetic to see them in the theater or buy the DVD. Time-Warner also owns HBO, where they'll fucking say it, because that's a different audience. TBS is still broadcast over the air in Atlanta, so it's subject to FCC rules on that kind of thing, but even if it weren't (and it may not be for long), TW will still bleep movies for consumption in the heartland because that's the market that particular spigot is feeding.

In other words, if you want the cuss words, see it in the theater, buy the DVD, or get HBO. :)

Yup--swearing is for people with money.

(I think it's kinda interesting, the many ways that people might see a major movie over the course of their lives, or the transition from NYC and LA theaters to heartland full-price ones to dollar theaters to video stores to airlines to pay-cable to basic cable to, finally, when a local UHF station pads it out to three hours with commercials and shows it on Saturday afternoon. Or maybe 'finally' is the dollar bin at the big-box department store, or the MST3k/Elvira/whatnot treatment. The journey's always a little bit different, but mostly the same, probably.)

Oh, I had so much fun hearing squeaky clean Will Smith drop the f-bomb several times on Jonathan Ross last night.

wait. does that movie have steven weber in it? the dude from wings? i'm just asking, because

Nope. He was in the TV mini-series remake of The Shining, though.

The 'kiss my finger' thing actually made me laugh for a split second... The character was angrily pointing at helicopters that were flying overhead at the time.

Try turning the closed captioning on. It depends on the film, but a lot of times, the original motherfucking dialogue is preserved as an artifact in the cocksucking captions.