History Woolseyism / Film

** Khalil's mom was a caterpillar in the original English version. In the Japanese version, she's a potato bug.

* There are several changes in the Japanese dub of ''WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie'':
** The "Poking or non-poking" joke is replaced by a joke about the vegetarian menu.
** In the "Ding Dong" song, the lyric about Ho-Hos and Ding Dongs is replaced by one about chocolate cake.
** Khalil's mom was a caterpillar in the original English version. In the Japanese version, she's a potato bug.

** In the Latin American Spanish dub, the aforementioned scene where Kronk wakes Izma at her tent replaces her complaining "This better be good!" with "What!? I was dreaming of [[Music/RickyMartin Ricky]]!" The same dub also replaces the "By all accounts" line with "I don't think it's the magic of cinema". "''La magia del cine''", the phrase being referenced in that version, is the slogan for Cinemex, Mexico's biggest movie theatre chain.

** In one scene of the movie, Buzz gives a rousing speech to encourage the toys to rescue Woody. Towards the end of it, an American flag appears behind him while we hear The Star-Spangled Banner play, before transitioning to the exact same image on Al's TV. In international versions of this movie, however, the American flag is replaced with a rotating globe with fireworks, and The Star-Spangled Banner with an original piece by Music/RandyNewman called the One World Anthem.

* In ''Westernanimation/ToyStory3'', Demo Buzz replying to Ken "Yes sir, Well Groomed Man!", in the Brazilian dub, was "Affirmative, plastic metrosexual!". It was [[ThrowItIn improvised by]] Creator/GuilhermeBriggs, leading the dub director to be startled thinking it wouldn't fly with Disney, but it's so funny it was kept.

** In the Swedish version, where these characters were not voiced by the same actor, Mack instead rants about how P. T. Flea (the last Ratzenberger character shown) is leeching off of the hard-working circus bug(gies), even squeezing in a [[IncrediblyLamePun flea-related pun]].

* The French dubs of Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger movies are prone to this. The dub of ''Film/LastActionHero'' has Arnold call himself "Arnold Albertschweitzer" (a reference to famous medical doctor Albert Schweitzer) and great improvements on the original dialog, like when one of the mooks gets taken out by an ice cream cone to the head ("[[Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls Pour qui sonne la glace!]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Celui-la j'ai refroidi!]]" - "[[Creator/ErnestHemingway For whom does the ice cream toll?]] That guy I just froze!") and during the Schwarzenhamlet scene ("Moi, doux? Tu veux rire!" - "Me, fair? You're kidding!")

---> "Prends garde, lion! [[IncrediblyLamePun Ne te trompe pas de voie]]!"[[note]]Means "Be careful, lion! Don't lose your path"; the word for "path" (voie) sounds the same as the word for "vote" (voix). Even funnier when you realize that "Prends garde, lion" sounds like [[FridgeBrilliance "Prends Gare de Lyon"]] (the Gare de Lyon is a famous Parisian train station and "voie" is the French for "platform") [[/note]]
---> "Rebelle et lion font [[IncrediblyLamePun rébellion]]!"[[note]]Wordplay with the French words for "rebel" and "lion" (describing Simba) that when put together form the word for "rebellion" (another pro-democratic pun)[[/note]]

** While the Norwegian version doesn't have the aformentioned characters voiced by the same actor either, Norwegian dubs in general tend to use [[TalkingToHimself the same actors]] [[ActingForTwo and voices a lot]]. Thus, in this version Mack ends up complaining about the limited voice cast in general rather than just one actor being re-used.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'':
** In the Czech version of the first movie, the translators have smuggled in a number of references to popular Czech fairy tales. And the Czech dubbing of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' movies in general have a lot of these.

** The French dub replaced Mongo for the giant gingerbread man with Cake Kong, arguably a funnier name.

** In ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', a ParentalBonus pun involving the "golden eggs" works even better in Spanish, as "huevos" is both the Spanish word for "eggs" and the Spanish slang equivalent of "balls."

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', John Ratzenberger, who's been in every single Pixar film to date, plays Mack. During the end credits, Mack goes to a drive-in featuring car versions of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc.'', and ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''. Mack [[ButHeSoundsHandsome praises the John Ratzenberger characters]] at first, until he realizes...

** The Norwegian version doesn't have the characters voiced by the same actor either, but since Norwegian dubs in general tend to use [[TalkingToHimself the same actors]] [[ActingForTwo and voices a lot]], in this version Mack ends up complaining about the limited voice cast in general rather than just one actor being re-used.
** The Greek dub includes Sulley, who shares a voice actor with Mac, among the characters Mack praises.

* The novel and film ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' was released in Germany as ''Bis(s) zum Morgengrauen'', a forced awful pun that can be translated as "Bite at Dawn" or "Till Dawn", depending on whether you read the (s) or not. In the same vein, ''New Moon'' became ''Bis(s) zur Mittagsstunde'' ("Bite at Noon"/"Till Noon") and ''Eclipse'' was ''Bis(s) zum Abendrot'' ("Bite at Sunset"/"Till Sunset"). This {{narm}}tastic style of naming finally paid off when Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg's ''Film/VampiresSuck'' (itself a pun that can not be recreated in German) could be released as ''Biss zum Abendbrot'' ("A Bite for Supper").

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing II'':

---> '''Esmeralda:''' And maybe Frollo's wrong about both of us.
---> '''Hugo:''' What'd she say?
---> '''Laverne:''' Frollo's nose is long and he wears a truss.
---> '''Hugo:''' (to Victor) Ha! I knew it. Pay up, chump.
---> The German version, however:
---> '''Esmeralda:''' Und Frollo tu uns beiden Unrecht.[[note]]And Frollo does wrong to both of us.[[/note]]
---> '''Hugo:''' Was hat sie gesagt? [[note]]What'd she say?[[/note]]
---> '''Laverne:''' Frollo ist bleich und trägt 'n Corsette! [[note]]Frollo is pale and wears a corset.[[/note]]
---> '''Hugo:''' (to Victor) Hah! Wusst ich's doch! Kohle her! Geizhals.[[note]]Ha! I knew it already. Give it here, miser.[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'':

** At the beginning of the movie, Ralph and Vanellope make a CallBack of the "Duty/Doody" gag from the first movie: Ralph states that he takes his duty as an hero very seriously and Vanellope asks him where he took his "Serious doody". This time, the Italian dub translates Ralph's like as "Sono un vero eroe, non batto mai la fiacca!" ("I'm a true hero, I never rest!" with Vanellope mishearing the latter part as "non faccio mai la cacca" ("I never poop").

** Since ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' was not well known in Germany, Private Pyle's nickname was changed to Private Paula, "Paula" not only sounding similar but being a woman's name.

-->''"Is' wohl der verdammte Weihnachstmann gewesen!"("Guess it must've been the goddamn Santa Claus!")''

* In the Brazilian dub for Film/Uncharted2022, the Scottish mercenary has a thick European Portuguese accent instead, thus adapting the RunningGag of Nate having difficulty in understanding him for the audiences.

* The French dub for the Disney version of ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' change the name of the rooster minstrel Alan-A-Dale (a recurring character in the Myth/RobinHood mythos), by the similarly sounding "Adam de la Halle", a real-life 13th century French minstrel. It doubles with GeniusBonus, as Adam wrote the first known secular musical play called "[[NamesTheSame The Play of Robin and Marion]]".

* Because of the ProductionPosse, ''Film/FierceCreatures'' is known as ''A Lemur Called Rollo'' in Poland.

** Actually, on this very scene, Biff calls George "[=McFlan=]". Flan is a kind of custard ; "crème anglaise" is too.

* Sometimes, {{Woolseyism}}s can move a rather poor movie into SoBadItsGood territory. Case in point: the French dub of ''Braddock: Missing In Action 3'', featuring [[MemeticBadass Chuck Norris]] as the titular character. One memorable line :

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', John Ratzenberger, who's been in every single Pixar film to date, plays Mack. During the end credits, Mack goes to a drive-in featuring car versions of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc.'', and ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''. Mack [[ButHeSoundsHandsome praises the John Ratzenberger characters]] at first, until he realizes...
-->'''Mack''': [[SelfDeprecation Wait a minute here... they're just using the same actor over and over! What kind of a cut-rate production is this?]]

* In the Japanese dub of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', an already dramatic scene in the original version becomes [[UpToEleven even more heart-wrenching]] [[spoiler:when Anakin becomes Darth Vader: Rather than just screaming NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! at that scene, Vader uses a generic scream in a more loud, painful and more dramatic way]].

* The German version of Film/{{Watchmen}} has a moment of brilliance as Rorschach is broken out of prison by Niteowl but stops in the middle of his own liberation to kill a midget criminal who has fled into the restroom. Explaining why he's going there, his explanation in the English original is just "I have to use the men's room." The German version, hilariously, makes this "Ich muss noch was Kleines erledigen," which translates as either an idiom of "I have to go pee" OR - literally - "There's something small I have to take care of / finish off".

* The French dub for the Disney version of ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' change the name of the rooster minstrel Alan-A-Dale (a recurring character in the Robin Hood mythos), by the similarly sounding "Adam de la Halle", a real-life 13th century French minstrel. It doubles with GeniusBonus, as Adam wrote the first known secular musical play called "[[NamesTheSame The Play of Robin and Marion]]".