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Remember the days - way, way before having 300 cable channels, iTunes and a DVD library was possible - when the only way to see your favorite movie was to catch it on HBO? (Me too!)

And remember when said favorite movie, after making the pay cable rounds, would be prepped and re-edited for broadcast on network television? Wasn't it a strange combination of fun, extreme disappointment and pure embarrassment to watch your favorite stars' mouths say curses, but their voices say something entirely different? I always felt that hearing The Breakfast Club's John Bender emasculate his principal with the benign statement "Eat my dust" added a level of subversive entertainment to the proceedings that completely demolished the filmmakers' intentions.

With that in mind, I always wondered why no one ever wrote a movie script wherein all characters spoke in a manner that circumvented any sloppy, barely-passable network television editing. Wouldn't it make more sense to have mouths and voices work together, especially if edits are inevitable? Can't a character simply "cheese off" their enemy with a resounding "Forget you!", or maybe a pithy "Airhead!" instead?

Take heed, Hollywood.