May 3 2007Live Free or Die Hard: Yippie Kai Yay! Uh..Dude.
"Okay, kid. Things are liable to get pretty intense in there. People are gonna die, heads will get blown off, I'll shout a lot; but whatever you do, don't swear. Swearing makes the baby Jesus cry."
In a victory for, like, Mormons everywhere, it looks like Live Free or Die Hard is going to be cut for a PG-13 rating.
I tried to watch the first Die Hard on basic cable once, but changed the channel when Bruce Willis shouted "Yippie Kai Yay, Mr. Falcon!" Seriously. I'll never understand why it's okay to bleep Jerry Springer but movie cursing has to be dubbed over with retarded gibberish.
"Forget you!" "No, forget you!" "Forget me? Forget your mother! In fact, both of you can go forget yourselves!" "Forget you and the horse you rode in on, pal."
Reader Comments
1. john bender - May 3, 2007 1:56 PM
i never understood why "eat my shorts" is dubbed over with "eat my socks" in the breakfast club on cable. i suppose because shorts are closer to your wang?
2. JT - May 3, 2007 4:37 PM
My favorite is "Son of a Bitch" changed to "Slug in a Ditch" in The Hard Way.
3. djWHEAT - May 3, 2007 4:54 PM
One of my favorite dubbings has to be the Breakfast Club when Judd Nelson tells the story about him and his dad. The 9 Fuck You's have been turned into "SCREW YOU" "DUCK YOU" and the all-time best, "".
4. Pirate - May 3, 2007 5:22 PM
No, no no. The best is in Kill Bill. Instead of "Pussy Wagon" it's "Party Wagon". They even changed the name on the key chain and the truck. And instead of "My name is Buck and I'm here to fuck", they said, "My name is Buck and I'm here to party."
Ridiculousness.
5. Kevin - May 3, 2007 5:56 PM
Doesn't matter. That movie is going to suck anyway since it has the "I'm a Mac!" guy in it.
6. John - May 3, 2007 6:48 PM
Why didn't they just stop at (09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0)
7. The Fried Piper - May 3, 2007 6:50 PM
my favorite is "melon farmer" in die hard 3
8. SB - May 3, 2007 7:15 PM
I have actually heard them dub the line in Die Hard with "Yippie kai yay, yippie yo yay!" I dont think Ive ever laughed as hard.
9. the coors - May 3, 2007 7:54 PM
dont forget smokey and the bandit. "you scum bum!"
10. Reed - May 3, 2007 9:03 PM
My favorite is from Sixteen Candles, where they replaced, "You grabbed my nuts!" with "You kicked me in the gut!" So the edited exchange between Long Duk Dong and Jake Ryan went:
"You beat up my face!"
"You kicked me in the gut!"
"Dat you?"
"Yeah dat me."
"Oh, so solly. I thought you were my new style American girlfriend."
As if Asian guys go around kicking their girlfriends in the stomach.
11. X - May 3, 2007 10:17 PM
There is also "Freak you," and "Funk you," both of which can be heard on cable versions of "Friday."
12. bert borum - May 4, 2007 7:48 AM
hope it's as good as the CBS edit of goodfellas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n-rGnI9XNo
13. e.f.hutton - May 4, 2007 10:22 AM
my all time fave is MUTUAL FUNDER, which samuel jackson says plenty of in jackie brown
14. Praz - May 4, 2007 12:26 PM
Someone called me a buzzard once.
15. Rebecca C. - May 4, 2007 8:11 PM
As if Asian guys go around kicking their girlfriends in the stomach.
And as if saying "nuts" on network television is more inappropriate than a horrendously offensive Asian stereotype. The FCC would let Mel Gibson go on The Today Show in blackface to burn a cross in Times Square before they let anyone say "god damn" over the public airwaves.
16. pat - May 5, 2007 3:07 PM
Die Hard With a Vengeance on FOX:
[helicopter explodes]
JOHN MCCLANE: Yippe Kai-ay, Melon Farmer!
17. apoxy - May 7, 2007 3:21 PM
Don't forget the classic sandwichboard from the edited version of Die Hard: With a Vengeance that Jeremey Irons forces him to wear in an all-black neighborhood: "I hate Everybody"
Whew. Offensive.