Buttfucking Is OK, But No Smoking After

Daze has an amusing commentary on the Bowdlerization practices at Fox Movie Channel:

Last night Fox Movie Channel showed Die Hard three times in a row. FMC shows movies letterboxed, commercial-free and mostly uncensored, though its repertoire is very limited. Even half-watching while working online, I noticed something odd about the current state of standards and practices.

FMC left the line “Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker” intact. Ditto the line “Asshole? I’m not the one who just got butt-fucked on national TV”. FMC is down with anal humor, good for them.

Here’s what you can’t say on FMC: “Smoke em if you got em”. That line was overdubbed to “Light em if you got em”.

WTF?!? I loathe tobacco smoke as much as anyone, but censoring old movies to remove smoking references is a terrible, terrible idea. Especially classics like Die Hard.