BTTF and 9/11

Yesterday afternoon, I turned on the TV and realized that my all-time favorite movie, “Back to the Future,” was on TNT, so I watched it until the end. At one point in the movie, Marty McFly is writing Doc Brown a letter to warn him that in the future he’ll be shot and killed. As he writes, he speaks the words aloud: “On the night that I go back in time, you will be shot and killed by terrorists.” But in the TNT version yesterday, he said, “On the night that I go back in time, you will be shot.” The rest of the sentence is cut out. And the phrase is even blanked out when the camera shows his words on the page. I couldn’t believe it. I found a couple of message board threads about it, and apparently that’s not the only 9/11-related cut.

Thank goodness for DVDs.

(By the way, whenever I see the phrase “bttf.com” I automatically think of “buttfuck.”)

3 thoughts on “BTTF and 9/11

  1. Basic cable channels will cut out anything and everything that strikes their fancy, both to suit the prevailing social mores and to squeeze movies into two-hour blocks. I stick to the premium channels (and more often just watch made-for-TV programming).

    Bizarre choice, though; the movie was so popular that everyone must have noticed that cut. And no one would have said anything had it remained in place.

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