Fake movies/scenes you or your friends claimed they saw...

[James Fabiano]

Now most of us have to have stories on this topic, whether it be from our own childhoods or from internet rumors. What ones can you remember? And this can count for TV too.

Off the top of my head are:

- The "Optimus turns to dust" stories from TF:TM
- "Episode IV" was seen in Star Wars originally...
- ...as was "To be continued..." in Back to the Future.
- Batman saving a little girl was seen in some prints of the 1989 movie
- Girls would go topless on LPWA wrestling on MSG
- The Columbia Pictures Television "sunburst" logo of the 70s had the Coca-Cola byline when Coke bought Columbia out and before they went back to the Torch Lady (I admit, I am one who helped spread this rumor, as I could have sworn I saw it too)
- Tito Santana slammed and pinned Andre the Giant on a super-secret pay per view only my friend could see.
- Michael Myers gets AIDS and explodes in one of the Halloween sequels (OK I KNEW this was bogus, but I couldn't resist...)

One I am surprised didn't run rampant was that Ralphie really did say the F-word in the theatrical release of A Christmas Story. The "fudge" was dubbed over, as was Jean's explanation to cover it up. That would fit right in the stories your friends would tell you.

[shaker]

A very weird one from elementary school. A kid claimed he saw "The Untouchables", and proceeds to recount the entire plot of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" instead. Not sure what in the world was going on there, but it's stuck with me for decades now.

In Terminator 2, there's a scene at the very end where Arnold drags himself out of the molten metal. Also recounted in elementary school, by someone who completely missed the point of the movie.

And one more, which as a kid I remember seeing, but apparently just imagined it. In Sesame Street, I seriously remember a bit where a little green monster that kind of looked like Grover with 2 pairs of eyes would look directly at the camera and say "Hey Kids, c'mon in! It's fun on Sesame Street!" and put his hand right up against the "screen". Then the TV would flicker and cut into another segment that had already started.

[Hit Girl]

My cousin once told me he had seen Home Alone 2 and that it was set in New York


Funnily enough, about two years later, Home Alone 2 came out and it WAS set in New York.

[James Fabiano]

Well Grover/proto-Grover WAS greenish to begin with...

[Push R Truth]

The octopus scene from the Goonies used to be one of these. I remember people saying they saw it in one theater but not at another.

I remember standing in line for the Phantom Menace and two dudes talking about a version of Return of the Jedi they saw where Luke tries to Force Jump his way back out of the Rancor Pit. I've never done the research on this... in fact I haven't thought about that conversation in like a decade.

[James Fabiano]

Dec 12, 2013 11:32:07 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

The octopus scene from the Goonies used to be one of these. I remember people saying they saw it in one theater but not at another.

I remember standing in line for the Phantom Menace and two dudes talking about a version of Return of the Jedi they saw where Luke tries to Force Jump his way back out of the Rancor Pit. I've never done the research on this... in fact I haven't thought about that conversation in like a decade.

Apparently, it is in story books of the movie, a still from the shot, which didn't make it in.

[CM Dazz]

When Big came out, a kid in school kept trying to convince me that Tom Hanks character was jumping on a trampoline in his new apartment, & went flying right out the window.

[chazraps]

I know someone who swears up and down that when his dad saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail in theaters, at the end of the Black Knight fight, the Knight says "How about 2 out of 3?"

[shaker]

Dec 12, 2013 12:45:11 GMT -5 chazraps said:

I know someone who swears up and down that when his dad saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail in theaters, at the end of the Black Knight fight, the Knight says "How about 2 out of 3?"

Wait, this ISN'T in the movie? I literally read it in his voice, like I'd seen it a million times before.

Here's an odd one, I remember the quote "But that's the beauty of it... it doesn't DO anything!" And a lot of people I've talked to remember it, too.

But nobody knows from what, and googling it just leads to more people wondering the same thing.

[I'm Team Bayley and Indi]

one I have heard more then once (spoilers for Se7en below)

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}{Spoiler}that Gwyneth Paltrow's head roles out of the parcel at the end in the version they saw on opening night

[El Pollo Guerrera]

I remember a friend telling me that in original theatrical release of "Star Wars" that the Luke/Leia kiss before swinging over the chasm was a longer, more lingering kiss which may have involved tongues.

I recall an old school friend saying that he saw an original British version of a James Bond film (I don't recall which one) where a guy's head was pried open and you could see the pulsing brain inside.

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

Dec 12, 2013 10:45:56 GMT -5 James Fabiano said:

- Michael Myers gets AIDS and explodes in one of the Halloween sequels (OK I KNEW this was bogus, but I couldn't resist...)

Well it WOULD have been a better death than having his testicles electrocuted by Busta Rhymes.

[Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster]

Some mates have claimed that they have seen the mythical New Zealand alternate ending to Big on VHS.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Not a movie or TV show, but in the same vein all those rumors about Sexuality finishers in the Mortal Kombat series. Not surprisingly as soon as Flash came out people started making their own videos of these.

[A Platypus Rave]

My brother's friend saying he saw episode 1-3 of Star Wars, back in like the 90's

Dec 12, 2013 12:56:19 GMT -5 shaker said:

Dec 12, 2013 12:45:11 GMT -5 chazraps said:

I know someone who swears up and down that when his dad saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail in theaters, at the end of the Black Knight fight, the Knight says "How about 2 out of 3?"

Wait, this ISN'T in the movie? I literally read it in his voice, like I'd seen it a million times before.

He says "alright, we'll call it a draw."

Then when Arthur rides away he calls him a coward... and I'll bite your legs off!

[The Ichi]

My friend would claim that there is a scene in Arachnophobia where spiders come pouring out of a womans face. I haven't seen the movie but I'm pretty sure with the rating it has that it doesn't happen. Either he saw a different movie or was just messing with me since I'm petrified of spiders.

[lemonyellowson]

i told loads of people that i had watched several pornos with Val Venis. (As the lead, not like just with him in the living room.)

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Back in school I remember a few people saying they say the episode of Pee Wee's Playhouse where he just started jerking off. There's many things wrong with that and it's not the jerking off part.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Dec 12, 2013 20:50:47 GMT -5 The Ichi said:

My friend would claim that there is a scene in Arachnophobia where spiders come pouring out of a womans face. I haven't seen the movie but I'm pretty sure with the rating it has that it doesn't happen. Either he saw a different movie or was just messing with me since I'm petrified of spiders.

Possibly "Halloween 3: Season of the Witch"?

[Bad Moon]

I swear to god in the cut of Star Wars that I originally saw, Vader very explicitly dies at the end. No ominous floating around in space, no impotent fist-shaking, his fighter blows up and he's gone.
Needless to say when Vader appeared in Empire Strikes Back it blew my f***ing mind.