Do you remember the Seinfeld episode when Elaine got upset with the writer she was dating because he didn't leave an exclamation at the end of the phone message about her friend just having a baby. The guy was getting his work published at her publishing house and she was the editor and she changed all of his periods in his book to exclamation points.
http://www.newsaskew.com/abc-mallrats/ The best/worst part is that whoever did the VO work sounds nothing like Jason Mewes. That nonsense was enough that Kevin Smith put in the extra work during filming to create his own "network TV safe" J&SBSB.
I was just thinking about this the other day when I saw it on TV. The editing on it is downright hilarious. Some of the things they choose to edit are just weird, and the things they replace them with are just flat-out bizarre. It's worth watching the edited one as a separate experience from the original.
Speaking of Blazing Saddles. Not sure if it the same now, but the the last time I saw this on Comedy Central, they edited out the farts during the campfire scene but left in all the N-words. Go figure.
Most of you are mentioning sound editing... words removed and replaced for some goofy reason while they show someone's head explode. I'm bothered just as much, and often more if the flick's on HBO, for example, by pan and scan. I HATE pan and scan. Almost any good film you can think of is butchered by it. On the big screen two people are talking to each other and you see the facial expressions of the characters as the dialogue goes back and forth. Move it to a typical TV videocast and, after a third of the picture is removed, you see the camera on one actor, then the other, then back again... arrgh!!
Didn't you hear. Angry white males finally got so fed up with the double standard with the N word, that they started an email campaign threatening to boycott Comedy Central if they edited it out.
Mallrats was pretty good, but Clerks on FX was pretty bad too. Dont remember the stuff said but it was just as bad as Mallrats.
