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Fawlty Towers: Comment regarding Manuel's change of nationality in the Spanish version has been moved to Keep It Foreign.

Looney Toons: In "The version shown on the BBC is edited down to 30 minutes with a totally different, very OTT and supposedly "funny" voiceover", what does "OTT" mean?

BT The P: I think it's supposed to be "over-the-top", but it took me a minute of hard thinking to puzzle it out from context. It's bad abbreviating, I'll fix it.

Looney Toons: Ah... if it hadn't been after 1 AM when I was reading that, I might have figured that out for myself. Thanks.

The version of Sex And The City which plays in syndication on the WB is 30 minutes long; the original shows as aired on HBO were an hour long.

Mister Six: What about shows that are edited for syndication in America? The Wire, for example, despite the fact that the first season features a five-minute-long scene in which the only dialogue is variations on the work "fuck".

Duckay: Unless you're referring to something I'm missing, The Wire is Edited for Syndication because each episode is an hour long - a real hour, not an ad-breaks hour. So some stuff is cut to make room for the ads, not to edit for content (since nearly everything would have to be cut to get the "content" down).

reverendsteveii: Also, what about the insanely strange edits to R-rated movies that get shown on television? Two examples off the top of my head: in White Men Can't Jump, Rosie Perez's character tells Woody Harrelson "I don't wanna make love, I wanna fuck!" On basic cable, however, the word "fuck" is replaced by a corny sounding voice saying "Make Love!", thus ruining the entire dialogue. Another, in The Big Lebowski, when Walter says "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!" becomes "This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps." Do we have a trope for poor censorship?