Been There

This commercial cracks me up somethin' fierce.

Back to the Future...(now terror-free!)

Okay, this is a strange one. I'm flipping channels and come across Back to the Future, one of my all-time favorites. Erin says "I wonder how many times we're going to see this movie over the course of our lifetime". Agreed. We've seen it a lot and we'll see it again. In fact, it's one of the first movies I watched on TV with my son. He was a few weeks old and slept through most of it.

Anyway, tonight, as I was watching, I noticed a very subtle change in the scene where Marty's writing the letter to Doc Brown that he's hoping Doc will read in the future. In the original film, Marty says:

"Dear Dr. Brown, on the night that I go back in time, you will be shot by terrorists. Please take any precautions that are necessary to prevent this terrible disaster."

In the television version I saw tonight on SciFi, the words "by terrorists" were deleted and replaced by a repetition of the word "please" in an effort to mask it.

I did a quick search online and found that someone had posted the same information on IMDB with an additional note. They even deleted the words from the shot of the letter. I went back to the TV and un-paused it. The scene continues and sure enough, there's the letter with the words digitally removed! The post also details some changes to Doc's death scene and notes the changes were made shortly after 9/11.

Bizarre.

Got up at 5:30am for my first-ever NFL game today in Philly. My buddy Paul is a huge Eagles fan and he introduced me to his world. He took me to the sickest tailgate in the league, Big Ed's Eagle Mobile. You gotta check out the site. It's great. The Eagles couldn't pull it out against the Titans and McNabb's apparently out for the season. I think my southernicity may have jinxed 'em. Now I'm gonna go soak my feet & go to sleep. 

Comic Re(bleep)

We don't have HBO, so I'm watching Comic Relief on TBS. Can we PLEASE get a dump-button operator without lead fingers? I understand trying to bleep the f-word, but when it's done at the expense of the ten words surrounding it, I'm gonna have to say something. I'm missing half the funny here, folks.

This Week's Top Three TV Moments (the two moment edition)

1) How I Met Your Mother's use of the Cheers font at the end of the Swarley episode (watch it on CBS Innertube).

2) Frisky Dingo on Adult Swim. I've seen two episodes now and I'm hooked. Funny. Funny. Funny.

**Only two items this week. Come on, step it up TV folks.