Snakes on Plane has now joined the conversation about the worst overdubbed profanity replacement in TV history, as an FX broadcast changed Sam Jackson’s famous line about matriarch-copulating snakes on a matriarch-copulating plane to “monkey-fighting snakes on a monday-to-friday plane.” Is it worse than “finding a stranger in the Alps” in Big Lebowski or “Yippie kai-yay, Mr. Falcon” in Die Hard? Hard to say, but these monkey-fighting snakes you speak of – they intrigue me. Why didn’t you bring this up during pre-production?
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What does the plane become on the weekend?
“Monkey-Fighting Snakes,” wasn’t that a martial arts movie with Bolo Leung and Bruce Li?
^Oddly enough, when “Monkey-Fighting Snakes” was released in the USA, the title was changed to “Mother-F*cking Snakes.”
Juan-The correct translation is “Monkey Spanking Serpents”.
At least they kept the scene. The great helicopter scene with the three brothers in Me Myself and Irene gets cut completely whenever ITV shows it. Motherfuckin’ disgrace.
Little known trivia fact: Isaac Hayes’ original lyrics for “Theme from Shaft” included the line:
“They say this cat Shaft is a bad monkey-fighter
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!”
He doesn’t end up calling somebody an asp-hole in this movie too, does he?
On weekends the plane becomes a Baby Ruth candy bar floating in Bill Murray’s pool.
Asking an overdub editor to fix a Sam Jackson movie is akin to Don Corleone asking the mortician to make Sunny look presentable.
Indiana Jones in the Well of Souls: Why’d it have to be monkey-fighting snakes?
You think that’s a bad edit? The Iranian version of Schindler’s List is 16 seconds.
Kudos, Panda.
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It turns into a Kudos bar… not Baby Ruth.
Oh, and don’t even say it, Burnsy, because I already know what you’re thinking.
If that lady in Connecticut had some monkey fighting snakes her friend might still have a face.
I was thinking about nachos for lunch.
Lince, why did you put the banner pic for this post in the previous post?
If the movie had any monkey fighting snakes i think it might have been able to live up to the hype.
The edit for India is “Mongoose-fighting snakes”.
Luckily, those snakes aren’t used to the monkeys fighting back.
FX, the network that brought us Nip/Tuck (aka Nip/Fuck) and The Shield. This is the best they could do?? Really??
Why not edit in the Wicked Witch of the West with her Flying Monkey Snakes. That would have made more sense.
To Monkey Fighting Snake: Sounds like somebody’s got a case of the Mundays-to-Fridays.
I’m a fan of “I’m tired of all this Mickey-mousing boot squash!” from “The Professional”.
My name is Buck and I like to PARTY.
No no no the line was actually “Monkey fried snakes” because obviously that makes more sense.
Best bad edit I ever heard was the TBS version of ‘Scarface’ — “Dees town is a cheekun, waiting to be plucked!”
On that note, another altered awesomely bad line in Scarface is “How’d you get scar tough guy? Eating pineapples?”