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'I think I just stepped in some Gunther'

posted 15 years ago by nodoubtaboutbob
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So... my current boyfriend and I loved this movie growing up. And we both shared the same favorite line. It was in the mall scene when Gunther first meets Allison and she introduces him to the bullies; Chad, Luke and Wiley. As we remember the movie from back when it played on Disney Channel, the three were making fun of Gunther's name! One of them made a joke like "oh, i think I just stepped in some GUNTHER!"... a quite hilarious like to us. Now, my boyfriend bought the VHS version of "The Paper Brigade" and it is NOT titled "Gunther and the Paper Brigade". It is produced by Sandstar and it says running time: 90 minutes and on the back of the box it says "edited for family viewing". Yet, the "stepped in some Gunther" line is totally missing. In fact, they do not even make fun of his name. I believe that this is one of the "missing scenes" that people here are talking about. Please, does ANYONE remember this line!? Also, if anyone has a copy of the movie with that scene in it, PLEEEASE notify me, A.S.A.P.!! THANK YOU!!!

Long live The Paper Brigade!!!

-Erica Marie

[–] mb_1020 15 years ago

i totally remember that line. don't know where to find a copy with it in the movie though

[–] theweasel1986 15 years ago

I definitely remember that line. They were at the mall and the bully kid says.." Come on guys, I gotta go Gunther!"

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[–] jsn_hylnd 14 years ago

I was just watching this movie on youtube, reflecting because I hadn't seen the movie in years and you are so rght they totally skipped the part where chad says " I just stepped in some gunther" and I noticed they skipped a couple of other scenes I remember from when I was younger like when the paper brigade are fighting the bullies and gunther punches chad in the nose through a curtain and he starts bleeding and one more scene they cut out is when that one kid who doesn't talk throughout the whole movie finally talks and screams at the end after the showdown with the bullies.

[–] VanHalen1417 13 years ago

I Have a DVD from Sandstar. it's just titled The Paper Brigade, and it runs 90 minutes in length. There is another DVD from Feature films for families titled Gunther and the Paper Brigade. The FF for F is very heavily edited. But the Sandstar DVD isn't the full version either. The only copy of the full version is the original warner brothers vhs version that contains the " i just stepped in some gunther" line. The original vhs runs 105 minutes, which was also the version shown on disney channel in the 90s-early 2000s.

[–] Starduster 12 years ago

THANK YOU!
It appears that I own the "somewhat" edited 90 minute version.
For the life of me I have no idea as to WHY they felt a need to "heavily" edit a movie that was already edited. There is certainly not anythig objectionable in the one that I have and aparently I may not have seen the totally undited version at all.
In any event, THANK YOU again for the info.

[–] LurkingFigure 12 years ago

there are other things missing in my VSH copy as well, like the scene at the end when the girl makes andrew squirm in the lemp when she wants him to tell her where gunther went, and also gunther raising his eyebrows i think at the camera at the end when they end the movie by closing the view with that circle zooming in on gunther and the girl. and also a comment made by Robert Englund about julius caesar that is missing. i think he says, that julius caesar was some general huh son? or sommething like that...anyone else notice these?

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[–] RoadSideAssistance 9 years ago

Yah there's a few edited versions which really suck.

They take out some of the opening intro where they are packing up, the "Gunther" scenes - making fun of his name, part where he spins around after paying the bullies and wads his cash with some rock music, some of the romance scenes I think, part where he punches the bully at the end and says, "I owed ya that", Henry yells this long drawn out insult at the end after the bullies say something like, "You're still losers!" and some of the other fight scenes.

I don't know why they edited all that... it was perfectly acceptable as is. But you have a bunch of over protective douche nozzle parents these days who shelter their kids.