Robocop: TV edited/dubbed scenes...

[NeoGeoNinja]

As a child, the most probably way I was ever going to 'get' to watch certain films was if I recorded them off TV. There was no way my mother was ever going to buy me Robocop, Aliens, Predator etc when I was a kid.

Good for her.... but bad for me

I'd often sneakily record stuff without her knowing, set the VCR late on when all had gone to bed etc, then watch these in my room or whenever I got chance.

But, by far, Robocop had the best and most amusing editing I could remember, even to the point where a couple of my friends still just drop into conversation (on occasion) "...once, I even called him: Airhead!". Harsh words.

Anyway, I'm sure I'm not alone in taking some sort of enjoyment from reliving this stuff, so here's what I fathom to be all the footage from the TV edit of Robocop.

[NSFW: Boobies in locker scene only]

If anyone has access to the Aliens TV edit, I'd love to see that one as well. As I remember, that one had plenty of "Freaking" and "Frigging" in it too...

 

[Fox1]

lol Airhead? That would sound dumb even to my kid mind...

 

[Joneo]

I distinctly remember an edited-for-TV scene from "There's something about Mary" in which a character was referred to as a "froggin' ash-bowl".
I'd like to see that one topped.

 

[Dr Shroom]

This is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps.

 

[Mugicha]

Damn I came in here hoping to see a Robocop tv series thread

I distinctly remember an edited-for-TV scene from "There's something about Mary" in which a character was referred to as a "froggin' ash-bowl".
I'd like to see that one topped.

scarface always did it for me. In the begginng they ask him "how'd you get that scar tony? eating pineapple?" "How am I gonna get a scar like that eating pineapple?"

for those who haven't seen the movie before, pussy was replaced with pineapple for television

 

[NeoCverA]

Why not.

 

[aria]

I liked that Robocop vid because it shows how, even in the 80s, directors were filming alternative shots for TV (e.g. the dressing room) as well has having the actors dub the TV-safe lines. To some extent it also helps when, like Robocop, they had to fight the initial MPAA rating down from an "X" due to violence.

 

[OrochiEddie]

Damn I came in here hoping to see a Robocop tv series thread




scarface always did it for me. In the begginng they ask him "how'd you get that scar tony? eating pineapple?" "How am I gonna get a scar like that eating pineapple?"

for those who haven't seen the movie before, pussy was replaced with pineapple for television

I LOVE Scarface for TV, it is such a disaster of a film. The version I saw was different I think. It said "how'd you get that scar tony? kissing toilets?" Or something to that extent.

I feel bad for the poor mutant though. It has to continue its awful life in TV land.... Perhaps there is room for a spin-off there.

 

[Kiel]

Yippie ki yay mister falcon

 

[Hot Chocolate]

"D batteries! D mickey fickey D!!!!!!!!!"

 

[cdamm]

i was always a fan of the digital bras from the tv edits for 'showgirls'.

 

[Pope Sazae]

I think The Big Lebowski would be a fun one to see edited for tv.

 

[ookitarepanda]

I distinctly remember an edited-for-TV scene from "There's something about Mary" in which a character was referred to as a "froggin' ash-bowl".
I'd like to see that one topped.

"I have HAD it with this monkey-flying snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!"

 

[Xian Xi]

"My name is BUCK and I like to party."

 

[Lemony Vengeance]

You may want to add a NSFW tag to the first post. Viewed the first 30 seconds at work and had to do a quick scroll to hide the boobies,

Otherwise, I found this extremely entertaining. I love it when the dumbest things are unnecessarily dubbed.

 

[aria]

You may want to add a NSFW tag to the first post. Viewed the first 30 seconds at work and had to do a quick scroll to hide the boobies,

Otherwise, I found this extremely entertaining. I love it when the dumbest things are unnecessarily dubbed.

Good call, I added one to the first post.

 

[IDCHAPPY]

The dubbing of Robocop was class, so bad it was good

 

[cdamm]

"My name is BUCK and I like to party."

that is hands down my favorite overdub of all time.

 

[Moon Jump]

"Come quietly or there will be...trouble!!" "Awww...FOR YOU!!!"

They really need to make it a special feature on the next BluRay.

"Look at my face DICK! I'm sick of this BOLOGNA!!!"

 

[OrochiEddie]

"Ladies...leave"

Yea....that has some serious edge.

 

[CrackerMessiah]

From a KTLA 5 Los Angeles airing of Dumb and Dummer, some time back in the late 1990s:

"We once bred a bulldogt with a shih zhu. We called it a bull poop!"

 

[Lagduf]

"LADIES LEAVE."

LOL. Those weren't ladies.

Do they get the actual actors to redub these lines or just some really good impersonators?

 

[Kaioh]

I used to have an edited for TV version of Robocop on tape that had "once I even called him..a lot worse!" LOL

 

[NeoGeoNinja]

"LADIES LEAVE."

LOL. Those weren't ladies.

Do they get the actual actors to redub these lines or just some really good impersonators?

I think it's the actual actors, which is awesome.

If they put the TV edit version as a watchable option via Bluray, I'd definitely watch the hell out of it: "Why me? Why me? Why me?"

 

[StevenK]

"LADIES LEAVE."

LOL. Those weren't ladies.

Do they get the actual actors to redub these lines or just some really good impersonators?

Was thinking the same thing - I reckon it must be the actual actors, if you watch an average dubbed kung fu film the agreed norm for standard dubbing is to use a vegetable.