Okay, in the original release of the film, and up until I recently saw it on cable, Lithgow's line after the car accident, regarding Garp's wife's lover was that his penis was "bitten off in a Buick." The recent cable version I saw deleted the "Buick" part. Certainly, GM could not have pressured them into removing the reference. So, does anyone know if an arrangement was made between the parties, Buick and the studio?
shareI just noticed the same thing and am willing to bet my next paycheck on the proposition they did.
Silly, isn't it?
I mean, as if it would better to have it bitten off in any other make!
Oh my God, I totally noticed the same thing and thought I was crazy. I hadn't seen the movie in 25 years, but i always remembered the word Buick in that line.
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Yes, I saw it many times on cable as a kid, and "bitten off in a Buick" is definitely the original line. They shortened it to "bitten off." I thought that the former was really funny, because, you know, what does it really matter? The remark just adds color. The edited, GM-friendly version robs it of that humor. But why am I surprised? Hell, GM depicted themselves as the "good guys" in Transformers, with other, competing makes (Ford especially) assuming the bad guy roles. Guess everything is product placement these days.
Glad to find I'm NOT crazy. I, too, taped this many years off of HBO or Cinemax; and, in my taped version, Roberta does indeed say "...bitten off in the back seat of a Buick..." ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!
But, in the more recent, sanitized versions, they dumped "Buick". REALLY DUMB!
Saw the movie tonight on cable and came straight to the boards....I KNEW it was Buick, I was waiting for that line! I hate when crap like that happens. The average viewer or first time viewer won't even realize the difference.
End of the world? So what.
So, does anyone know if an arrangement was made between the parties, Buick and the studio?
What a world we live in- sexual mutilation (if it involves males) is staple of humor, but offending an automobile manufacturer is taboo. Maybe then should have made it an Oldsmobile, since they're no longer made?
shareIt was slanderous to say that something like that could happen in a car built by GM. Buick, specifically, runs crash tests on all of their models, with the dummy driver and dummy passenger posed just so, as to ensure that the probability of such incident actually happening in a rear end collision is less than 3%.
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A dope trailer is no place for a kitty.
Crash dummies are not anatomically correct.
shareIn the book Helen insisted Michael Milton buy a car with a bench seat. He bought an old Buick. My guess the original line had to do with that. Not sure why they changed it.
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