Rewriting 'Blame Canada'

Snaller writes, "Quoting USAToday, The Internet Movie Database reports that Trey Parker will rewrite the lyrics for "Blame Canada," the Oscar-nominated song from the South Park movie. The co-producer of the telecast is quoted as saying that Parker 'will come up with some funny solutions to his own problems.'" Leave it alone, I say. The original got the Oscar nod, not the one they'll perform at the awards.

Comments

Re:Uhm..who's going to sing?

[Spud Zeppelin]

Perhaps they should get Celine Dion to sing the Sheila part... she did say she was retiring to "be a mom" right? After all, Sheila's younger son, Ike, is Canadian... so why not a Canadian Sheila singing "Blame Canada" during the Oscars? Especially since Celine Dion played such a significant role in the Terence & Philip TV-Movie "Not Without My Anus".



This is my opinion and my opinion only. Incidentally, IANAL.

Voluntary Cencorship

[chandler]

They're going to censor themselves? How stupid - perhaps they should come up with an 'acceptable' version and sabatoge the event to play the uncencored version!

"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."

Re:trousers trousers and also trousers.

[EntropyMechanic]

Actually...

I'll bet you they won't play this song on the radio
I bet you they won't play this new -BEEP-ing song
It's not that it's -HONK- or -HONK HONK- controversial
just that the -KA_CHING-ing words are awfully strong
You can't say -AHOOGA- on the radio,
or -SWOOSH- or -SPROING- or -AACK-
You can't even say, "I'd like to -ZZZIP- you someday"
unless you're a doctor with a very large -BOING-
I'll bet you they won't play this song on the radio
I'll bet you they won't -SCRRRRATCH-ing well programme it
I'll bet you those -KA-CHING-ing old programme directors
will think it's a load of horse -SPLAT-

Pointless comments should always be right

Wow! You really didn't get the song/movie did you?

[Danse]

The song wasn't making fun of Canada at all. It made fun of America.

Uhm..who's going to sing?

[Mark F. Komarinski]

As you'll remember, Mary Kay Bergman (who does the voice) died a few months ago. Who will be singing the song? It won't sound the same if she's not singing it.

Trey will make it more funny...

[Jish]

For anybody who followed the problems Trey Parker had in getting the South Park movie accepted with an R rating from the MPAA... you should know that he will come up with a way to subvert the censors. :)

What he said in interviews about the movie was that each time they came to him and said he couldn't do something he would put in something 100x worse. Eventually he would put in something the censors didn't understand and so they accepted it. I bet he will do something similar with Blame Canada...

Josh

Re:Trey will make it more funny...

[JamesKPolk]

You mean its actually so bad over there that they can dictate what you can't have in movies?!

I assume that by "over there" you're referring to the US. No, there is no true "censorship" in the sense that happens in, say, Singapore or Germany.

The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) gives ratings to movies, to aid parents, movie theaters, and others, in deciding whether to allow children to see the movie. Anything worse than an R rating kills any chance a movie has of making money. So, South Park had to try again, and again, and again, to try to get down to the R rating.

As far as what actually happened with the movie, I have no idea. I've never seen it, etc. etc.

Re:Trey will make it more funny...

[Windigo The Feral (N]

Snaller dun said:

For anybody who followed the problems Trey Parker had in getting the South Park movie accepted with an R rating from the MPAA... I didn't follow it, what was his problems?

Basically, when Trey Parker and company offered the movie to the MPAA ratings board the first time, the ratings board rated it "NC-17" (this is roughly equivalent to an "18" cert in most countries, and is essentially box-office poison in the US--more on that below).

Trey Parker and company were, understandably, more than a bit pissed (seeing as they'd ALREADY gotten a movie rated "NC-17" by the MPAA ratings board--"Orgazmo", a sex comedy--which also pretty much placed them on the MPAA rating board's shitlist to begin with).

So, they went through at each point where the MPAA had made a specific objection, and made those parts even worse...and the next time the movie was presented, it actually got an "R" rating (this would be roughly equivalent to a "15" cert in most countries, only a) it applies to 17 and under and b) is generally enforced more strictly, especially at the time SP:BLaU was released in the US).

What he said in interviews about the movie was that each time they came to him and said he couldn't do something he would put in something 100x worse. Eventually he would put in something the censors didn't understand and so they accepted it. You mean its actually so bad over there that they can dictate what you can't have in movies?!

For all intents and purposes, yes, unfortunately.

Basically, here's the situation in the US: Firstly, the vast majority of films are passed through the MPAA's ratings board (set up after an even more draconian censorship scheme, the infamous Hayes Code [which even banned such things as women in miniskirts, tongue-kisses, ANY profanity worse than "damn" or "hell", and even proscribed regular kisses over a certain length] was finally done away with in 1968 or so), which is a group of six or eight folks picked to represent "most of America" (many are suspected to be housewives; nobody really knows who all is on the MPAA ratings board, as the membership is kept very secretive). Movies aren't required to be rated by law (except in some towns), but the vast majority are (literally the only exceptions are porn movies, independent films, and [mostly] imports).

Also, the vast majority of movie theatres in the US (even the vast majority of art-movie theatres) are owned by three or four major chains (National Amusements, Cinemark, Loew's, and there's probably one or two more I'm forgetting) that, a long time ago, were actually owned by the movie theatres themselves until the Department of Justice ordered the studios to divest themselves of movie chains (this was in the 50's). The number of independent movie theatres in the US probably is less than 5% of all movie theatres in the United States, and is almost exclusively either small-town operations or art-house movie theatres that specialise in import films, cult-classic films, art films, and anime.

The vast majority of movie theatre chains in the United States have standing policies that they will not show NC-17 or unrated films in their theatres. (In addition, some counties and cities--most notably, some towns in Texas--have or formerly had ordinances against NC-17 or unrated films being shown within town limits.) The vast majority of movie theatres in the US are multiplex theatres; the only real outlet for NC-17 and/or unrated films, in most cases, is either through the direct-to-video market (which is basically what has happened with porn in the US) or through art-house movie theatres (which are only usually available in large cities or in places with large collegiate populations--Louisville, Kentucky [which has a metro population approaching a million people] could only support one of the two art-movie theatres in town, leading to the much lamented closing of the Vogue Theatre).

To make matters even worse, the largest video-rental chain in the United States (Blockbuster Video) will not offer NC-17 or unrated movies for rent, and even has a habit of censoring even R-rated movies (one reason I will not rent from Blockbuster, by the way). Most chain stores, most notably Wal-Mart (pretty much the largest store chain in the US) will not sell NC-17 videos. Most cable channels, even pay ones (with the notable exception of Cinemax) will not show NC-17 rated movies, and most "pay-per-view" channels will not show NC-17 movies except on the "adult-only" (read; mostly porn flicks) channels. The vast majority of places like grocery stores (which actually do rent out a lot of videos, at least in the Southeastern US) don't rent out NC-17 videos.

Now, keep in mind with all this--in many parts of the United States (I would go so far as to say the vast majority of the US that is not in large cities), often the only video rental placea available are Blockbuster Video (or maybe Blockbuster and the one or two mom-and-pop video places Blockbuster hasn't successfully run out yet) and grocery chains. In most of the rural and even suburban parts of the United States, often the only large stores that may sell video tapes are Wal-Mart, grocery stores, and possibly if in a larger town an electronics store like H. H. Gregg or Circuit City or Best Buy (none of which sell NC-17 videos, by the way). Most of these areas might not even get cable, but get pay channels through either DSS or "big dish" cable. Many of these areas are 50 miles away or more from the nearest specialised video store that might sell NC-17 rated tapes (usually something like Suncoast Video). A fair number of these folks, especially in the more rural parts of the United States, may even run afoul of local obscenity ordinances that de facto define NC-17 rated movies as obscene (yes, these are illegal according to our Constitution, but until someone gets arrested and files a lawsuit over it, there's not much that can be done). For most Americans, about the only way to get an NC-17 rated movie or video is to a) see it at an art-movie theatre (and hope it's not owned by one of the chains that refuses to show NC-17 rated movies), b) buy the thing at a video-sales store or rent it at somewhere large that has an over-18 section (considering Blockbuster Video is about as agressive at running competitors out as Wal-Mart is, this can be hard, especially in smaller towns), or c) buy it online (especially if you are in a podunk town, or unfortunate enough to live somewhere where NC-17 movies are literally against the law).

To make things worse yet: A fair number of papers and even paper chains actually have policies against advertising NC-17 or unrated films. In some communities, there are actual bans on advertising of NC-17 or unrated films (even for the video market).

Needless to say, because of this, nobody wants their movie rated NC-17 if they can keep from it, because almost nobody will show it and almost nobody will even hear about it or be able to rent it in most places. (What is especially ironic is that the whole "NC-17" rating was set up as an alternative to the "X" rating--the old US "18 cert" equivalent, which had pretty much been co-opted by porn films because literally the only places willing to show X-rated movies were art-movie theatres and porn-houses. Of course, since they never attacked the REAL problem (the fact that the largest theatre chains refused to show any kind of "18-cert"-type film period, not to mention a slew of unconstitutional ordinances banning the showing and/or advertisement of such films and the policies of a LOT of newspapers not to advertise such films in any form or fashion) they ended up with exactly the same problems with the NC-17 cert as they did with the old X cert. :P)

This is basically why Trey Parker had to lobby (and eventually outfox) the MPAA's ratings board. If he hadn't, "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" would have suffered the exact same fate that "Orgazmo" faces ("Orgazmo" is supposedly a screamingly funny movie, but it is next to impossible to find and pretty much never showed anywhere--because it got the NC-17 Mark of Death from the MPAA ratings board). Which would suck. :P

Better Trey rewrite parts of it than...

[lar3ry]

say, have the song performed as an instrumental during the Oscar show...

ABC is owned by Disney, who is known for changing movie lyrics. _Arabian Nights_ in Aladdin comes immediately to mind...

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The Correct URL

[mosch]

The correct URL is http://us.imdb.com/StudioBrief/ 2000/20000222.html#3.

Original uncensored lyrics are available at: http://www.beef-cake.com /interactive/lyrics/blulyrics.html for those of you who want to see what all the fuss is aboot.

What is everybody laughing aboot?

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Re:Anne Murray

[mindstrm]

And isn't how it always is these days? The media senesationalizes whatever they feel like.... without regard to what people actually think.

Re:Destroying artistic creativity

[maxume]

But south park doesn't matter that much, at least not to its creators. They could give a shit, just as long as they get paid. I guess I didn't do a very good job saying that with my first post.

death, doom, destruction

[Capt Dan]

on a somewhat related note, if Trey wins an oscar for blame canada, is that a sign of the Apocalypse?

Don't get me wrong, I love the south park movie. Orgasmo is hilarious as well. Maybe it would jsut be a good dose of reality for the academy? I think i've seen (or heard the names of) two of the movies that were nominated for best picture.

"You want to kiss the sky? Better learn how to kneel." - U2

um. no

[delmoi]

The are from colorado. In fact, they took there ACT's or something in the Colombine highschool Cafiteria. There's a real city called south park in Colorado as well.

[ c h a d o k e r e ]

Geez, they say "fuck" once.

[nyet]

Is it just me, or is there really not much to censor in "Blame Canada" in the first place?

or like Sandler's Ode to My Car

[ToastyKen]

Adam Sandler had this great song called "Ode to My Car" I heard one day on the radio, that roughly went, "Ode to my car, my piece of *honk* car," etc.
By the end of the song, there was as much honking of various types of horns as there was singing. It was great!

I found the CD for it, and it was uncensored! That completely ruined the song. :(

Anyway, I hope Parker & company use this as an opportunity to censor the song while making fun of the censorship.

I still can't believe that the biggest dig at the MPAA is actually going to have a song aired at the Oscars. That just rules. :)

Priority check: censorship.

[Lemmy Caution]

You know, standards about dirty words on broadcast TV really aren't were I'm willing to make a big stand on censorship. The "South Park" message can and will get out, and Stone and Parker are already very rich. There's nothing to prevent a "director's cut" of South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut being released - in fact, it was their desire to make more money that motivated the initial kowtow to the MPAA. I agree with their general messages: that it is hypocritical to wring hands over sex and bathroom humor while sanctioning large-volume depictions of violence, and that the patronizing "someone think of the children!" attitudes of middle America are maudlin and an evasion of responsiblity. As far as modification as compromise goes, that happened already with the original movie!

However, there's a much more serious ongoing form of censorship: corporate censorship by litigation. The McLibel suit is the most classic example of this, but the attacks on fan sites, parodies (like Negativland - U2 case), artists sites (like Etoy), and the vicious attacks against DeCSS are a much bigger threat to speech. Since words, images, and ideas are treated as property, and corporate reputation is more important than critical investigation, free speech only exists for those with massive legal budgets or absolutely nothing to lose.

I know that I'm preaching to the choir here, but I'd like to know if it would be possible to see federal legislation that penalized SLAPP cases(with extreme prejudice!) and even provided a legal warchest (funded by those who were found guilty of SLAPPs) for those who are accused; I'd like to see it in the context of legislation which removed the 'defend it or lose it' trademark restriction, while affirming the 'first come/first serve' sector-agnostic approach to domain names, and expanding 'fair use' of copyrighted images and texts to more increase protection for fan sites and parodies.

The Far Side

[RatBastard]

That reminds me of a story I read in one of the big Far Side compliations by Gary Larson.

One day he got an angy call from The Jane Goodall (sp?) Foundation about a Far Side cartoon showing a female gorilla grooming a male gorilla and she's found a blond hair on his back and she's saying something like:
"Another blond hair? You've been hanging around that Jane Goodal tramp, haven't you?"

Mr. Larson called Jane Goodal to apologize for offending her with the cartoon only to find out that no one at The Foundation had bothered to ask her about it; she thaought it was very funny.

Live Performance, yeah!

[Greyfox]

Remove all the naughty words but secretly replace the last note of the song with "The Brown Noise." That would be a memorable performance.

Re:We all know what will happen..

[Greyfox]

Heh, that particular episode would have made Andy Kaufman proud. It's HIS kind of humor.

Re:"Censorship" (Germany, US, Singapore)

[JamesKPolk]

Germany has selective Censorship.. see Amazon.com's trouble selling Mein Kampf. I find political censorship far worse than a few f-- words.

The people doing the "deeming" of offensiveness, are the networks themselves, not government thugs. It's a big difference, to me.

Of course, I don't mind a few bleeps in south park. I find that overly-spicy language is just silly, and needless. Why not be funny without it?

Re:Uncle Fukkah

[AndyL]

But the song is making fun of America not Canada! It's making a joke about how the latest trend in America and American media is to blame everybody else. The less connected to the actual even the better. Canada was just used as a ridiculous example.

It sort of makes me wonder if you understood the point of the whole movie?

Re:Destroying artistic creativity

[maxume]

This comment is not insightful, and signal 11 does not get their position. They are trying to make money, and they are very up front about it. They don't give a shit about any sort of position that you have read into the movie. Lemmy cation already pointed out that they edited the movie to ensure an R rating from the MPAA, which they did, to make money. Besides, if their success is at all warranted, the new version will be just as effective as the old. They did not get where they are by sucking. I would cite the whole thing with cartmans mom to support the fact that they just go and do what they think is funny. People were pissed about that, and Parker and Stone thought that it was great that they managed to piss people off with their construction paper cartoon.

By the way, they are my favorite kind of celebrity, up for sale and proud of it.

Censorship?

[Delta-9]

Screw censorship -- what would Brian Boitano do?

What a crock

[Erik Fish]

Oh sure, the story SAYS it's ABC's fault but I blame those touchy canadians!

It seems a shame to mess with the song. If I were Trey I'd just make liberal use of the "bleep" -- in fact I'd bleep out every other bleeping word weather it needs to be or not -- just to make a point.

Censorship is obscenity.

Here you go...uncensored lyrics

[NYC]

Blame Canada All four Moms Sheila: Time's have changed Our kids are kids are getting worse They wont obey their parents They just want to fart and curse! Sharon: Should we blame the government? Liane: Or blame society? Dads: Or should we blame the images on TV? Sheila: No, blame Canada Everyone: Blame Canada Sheila: With all their beady little eyes And flappin heads so full of lies Everyone: Blame Canada Blame Canada Sheila: We need to form a full assault Everyone: It's Canadas fault! Sharon: Don't blame me For my son Stan He saw the darn cartoon And now he's off to join the Klan! Liane: And my boy Eric once Had my picture on his shelf But now when I see him he tells me to fuck myself! Sheila: Well, blame Canada Everyone: Blame Canada It seems that everythings gone wrong Since Canada came along Everyone: Blame Canada Blame Canada Some Guy: There not even a real country anyway Ms. McCormick: My son could've been a doctor or a lawyer it's true Instead he burned up like a piggy on a barbecue Everyone: Should we blame the matches? Should we blame the fire? Or the doctors who allowed him to expire? Sheila: Heck no! Everyone: Blame Canada Blame Canada Sheila: With all their hockey hubbabaloo Liane: And that bitch Anne Murray too Everyone: Blame Canada Shame on Canada The smut we must stop The trash we must smash Laughter and fun must all be undone We must blame them and cause a fuss Before someone thinks of blaming uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus
--Ivan, weenie NT4 user: bite me!

Re:Voluntary Cencorship? Sure, we can dig it!

[John Fulmer]

Funny you should say this:

I saw an interview with Issac Hayes (who is 'Chef' on South Park) some time ago, about when he was writing that classic, tender love song, 'The Theme From Shaft'.

At some point, one of the lyrics was:

"You know that Shaft is one bad mother-!@#$%^!#.."

He wrote this down and KNEW that there would be no way to get it past the 60's-era censors or the studio. So, he censored himself and created one of the best musical cliches of all time:

"You know that Shaft is one bad mother-...."

"Shut your mouth!"

"But I'm talking about Shaft!"

"We can dig it..."

Sometimes censorship is good! :)

Re:Destroying artistic creativity

[GregWebb]

It really depends how they do it.

They could release a censored version that's entirely toothless - let's say they change:

Times have changed, our kids are getting worse
They's won't obey their parents, they just want to fart and curse!

to

Times have changed, our kids are getting bad
They's won't do what I ask them, they just want to fight their Dad.

to provide a particularly lame example :)

Now, that would be selling out. Which I'd actually say they did anyway in cutting it to drop the rating, but that's another matter.

But that's not the only way to rewrite.

Many people seem to be assuming they're going to rewrite to the style I've suggested, but there's nothing saying they can't rewrite so you have something that's entirely clean and innocent but taking a pop at censorship. Seeing as the original probably wouldn't get bradcast uncensored anyway...

Alternatively, they take a pop at censorship by self-censoring but excessively. Rely on the likely dirty minds in the audience and censor perfectly clean original lyrics to make people think of something worse.

For example:

Two little boys had two little toys
Each had a wooden horse

once got censored on a comedy show to:

Two little boys had two little (beep)
Each had a wooden (beep)

and, in the minds of the audience, a perfectly tasteful (if rather cheesy) song by Rolf Harris becomes absolutely deplorable.

Anyway, don't complain too loudly until we see what they do.

Greg

Link to uncensored lyrics

[NYC]

http://www.thehellhole.com/lyrics /blamecanada.htm

How is this song going to be performed?
a) original movie footage?
b) new animation
c) live performance

I would love to see a live performance with guest like Les Claypool and other celbrity fans.
--Ivan, weenie NT4 user: bite me!

Re:Link to uncensored lyrics

[Anomalous Canard]

c) live performance

Probably. In the past when songs from Disney animations have been nominated, live singers have performed the song as part of a huge production number. They sometimes do mixtures of live action and animation in Oscar sequences, but not ususally in the song sections.

Sometimes the performer of the nominated song is the original performer and sometimes not.

Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected

Odd mods..

[Doppleganger]

Beats me... I actually expected to be moderated down for mine, since it's skirting the edges of being a flame. Maybe someone read the first part of your post and thought he was in the Netscape release article?

Oh well, that's the problem with moderation... it lets the 'general public' police itself, but it also lets the 'general public' police itself. At least it doesn't have a permanent effect...

The Canadian Race

[DoomHaven]

We Canadians *are* a race; Nietsche's(sp?) race of supermen! Due the harsh living of -40 degree temperatures (during summer, no less!), the constant danger presented from high-velocity low flying hockey pucks, and the only companionship coming from frisky polar bears, Canadians have evolved far beyond anything you Americans hosers will *ever* approach. We are a *higher* life: homo superior canadiana.

But seriously, I am Canadian nationalist, loved the song, think it's great for the crew at South Park to be recognized at this level. I haven't heard any bad Canadian backlash because of the song. All my Canadian friends *love* it, none are insulted by it; in fact, most were saying, "Hey, hoser, South Park's even got a song aboot us, eh?" (this is coming from people in a country that has a national apolelxy everytime Canada is refered to on the American media we watch on our bootleg mini-dishes, hooked to the top of the igloo).

Anne Murray

[Baron Fundi]

The papers here in Canada thought this was oh so terrible, especially since the song referred to Anne Murray as a bitch.

So a reporter called her up to see what she thought. She thought the song was hilarious.

I guess they were upset that SHE wasn't upset...

Re:Destroying artistic creativity

[Plasmic]

shut your fucking mouth, uncle fucker.

Far be it from me to throw meat to the trolls, but this comment should be 'Score: 5, Funny'; It expreses in only 6 words what every other post on this thread attempts to convey to us, the Slashdot readers: censorship sucks.

The Oscars are telling Trey to shut his fucking mouth and he shouldn't. He shouldn't be the uncle fucker that's within all of us. He must leverage his market space in the entertainment industry to further the censorship campaign by embarking on a new journey toward a greater good for the common folk: the uncle fucker.

DON'T SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH, UNCLE FUCKER.

What exactly is being censored here?

[ahassel]

Just a question - what exactly are the Oscar producers afraid will be censored by ABC? If we're talking about the one use of "fuck", IMO changing that one word would not be the end of the world as we know it. Yes, in the realm of South Park, using "fuck" (especially referring to Cartman) makes a lot of sense, but even the regular episodes of SP have to bleep it.

However, if ABC wants them to change anything else in the song, including "bitch", that's not cool. I mean, the Academy knew the song was "demeaning" to Canadians when they nominated it.

On behalf of Slashdot...

[Doppleganger]

I apologize. Slashdot is sorry that it posted something that didn't interest you, personally. If you would please post your personal preferences, Slashdot will be happy to restrict all future articles to only such things that are entirely within your personal definition of "news for nerds", and "stuff that matters".

Err.. what's that you say? I'm not qualified to speak for Slashdot? Odd... but I suppose you're qualified to speak for all the 'nerds' who DO believe this story is "stuff that matters" (including the nerds who run this site), huh?

All sarcasm aside, does one article about censorship of a South Park song among the technical and philosophical stories that have been posted today really qualify Slashdot for the jab of "Southparkdot"?

'Nerds' have notoriously varied preferences (check the Jargon file for a good description), and Slashdot does a fairly good job of catering to the most prevelant of those preferences (aside from Jon Katz, of course :). After all, someone must have been interested in the story to have submitted it.

Re:...and I quote:

[TheTomcat]

You clicked on the article, didn't you? Southpark is(was) subpopculture. Especially among nerds. If you didn't find the article informative, or interesting, why did you click on 'read more'?

Some people have nothing better to do than complain about things.

Destroying artistic creativity

[Signal 11]

Censor it and it dies. The reason South Park is popular is because it pokes fun at the people who want to censor and control modern media. SP is a slap in the face for the so-called "christian coalition", political correctness, and the general stupidity and holy war activism going on down in DC and around the country.

Modify it and you effectively kill it AND compromise your position. Don't do it.

Billy Baldwin says...

[nellardo]

Well, Billy Baldwin is sitting in my office, and he saw this story and says:

Bullshit! We don't have to "blame Canada" for how uptight and politically correct this country has become. Oh no, we need not look nearly that far. All you have to do is check out Standards and Practices and those yahoo executives at ABC. To hell with censorship! Besides, if we didn't have Canada to smack around, we'd have to watch the media turn Rick Rockwell into their next prison bitch. Even if it meant my family's survival, they shouldn't change a damn thing.

You heard it here, /.'ers. And no, this isn't a joke - he really is sitting in my office.

Self-censorship or Comedy Opportunity?

[Megane]

Williams quoted Lili Fini Zanuck who is co-producing the telecast with her husband, Richard, as saying that Parker "will come up with some funny solutions to his own problems

See, the thing is, foul language is not funny in and of itself, only when it has shock value, and that tends to wear out quickly. The comedy comes in making the audience come up with the foul language in their heads on their own.

In fact, that's one problem I had with the movie (the other being I generally don't like musicals)... I like how they bleep out The F-Word on the TV series, and don't bleep out much else, because it makes it more funny when you notice how much else doesn't get bleeped!

Another example: The second Austin Powers movie had the montages where they cut off the last word of a sentence where it would have been profanity, then cut to the start of another sentence with the same or a similar sounding word. Again, it's not the profanity that's funny, it's how it's covered up.

Correct URL

[Krellis]

The correct URL for the story in question would be here. The URL in the story goes to today's news, and this was in yesterday's. And if you really don't feel like clicking on the link:

http://us.imdb.com/StudioBrief/2000/20000222.htm l#3

Enjoy.

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Tim Wilde
Gimme 42 daemons!