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Posted by Stewart Anderson (Member # 1809) on 06-11-2004, 09:56 PM:
 
How do you spell sale???


and


 

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Posted by Bill Carter (Member # 156) on 06-11-2004, 10:09 PM:
 
I know how you feel... one of my staff left out the "h" in "Christ".
 

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Posted by Chris Liczbinski (Member # 1957) on 06-12-2004, 03:08 AM:
 
One of our employees spelled Shrek 2 "Shreck 2" took her awhile to figure it out too. Last one I can think of be fore that was "barbershop" being spelled "Babershop" this too took the person awhile to figure out the correct spelling.
What's the story behind the second photo?
 

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Posted by Mike Pennell (Member # 1692) on 06-12-2004, 03:18 AM:
 
Chris it looks like the guy pissed himself
 

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Posted by Anslem Rayburn (Member # 1267) on 06-12-2004, 06:01 AM:
 
Best marquee "mistake" I ever saw was when one of our ushers put up "Monster Balls" instead of "Monsters Ball". He had already put the ladder and tiles away, and had to drag everything back out, so it might have been an honest mistake...
 

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Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 06-12-2004, 11:18 AM:
 
Come see monster balls on our biggest screen! You wont believe your eyes!

Recently there was the whole Shreck 2 misspelling on some sold out signs in our box office. Delving into the past there was the time a manager tried to thread a movie tail first.
 

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Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 06-12-2004, 11:54 AM:
 

quote: Mike Pennell

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Chris it looks like the guy pissed himself

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HHHHHHHOT!



=TMP=
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 06-12-2004, 12:26 PM:
 
We had a marquee kid once who put up

FRESH HORES

(instead of "horses")

In a semi-related note, a competing theatre near us on their recording, says Harry Potter and the Prisoner of "Azikban."

P.S. I've been to the theatre pictured on top of this thread...that marquee is way cool at night!
 

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Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 06-12-2004, 02:36 PM:
 
Thomas -- you dirty piss freak.


 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 06-12-2004, 06:29 PM:
 
From way, way back...
I came in one day and noticed we had times up for a movie called "Almost An Angle"

Last summer...
Our electronic marquis said we were playing "Swimming Poo"
 

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Posted by Rob Butler (Member # 2274) on 06-12-2004, 07:11 PM:
 
I forget where I was at the time when I was driving by a theater that either had someone playing a joke with the marquee, or someone swung by at night and vandalised it, either way it was advertising for "Harry Pothead"
 

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Posted by William Leland III (Member # 1400) on 06-12-2004, 08:30 PM:
 
i always wanted to put "Make it a Blockbuster night" on our marquee sign.
 

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Posted by Rob Butler (Member # 2274) on 06-12-2004, 08:40 PM:
 
When you run a print that's on Kodak stock, would it be wrong to put "it's a Kodak moment" on the sign?
 

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Posted by Stewart Anderson (Member # 1809) on 06-12-2004, 09:38 PM:
 
In the second photo he simply spilled sprite in the worst possible place.
 

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Posted by Don Furr (Member # 1469) on 06-12-2004, 10:03 PM:
 
Way back in the 90's I had an employee (at a twin) put up on a single line...."Snow White Guilty As Sin"......
Made the paper the next day!!
 

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Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 06-12-2004, 10:08 PM:
 
Our Electronic Marquees cut letters off and we have had a few funny ones recently...

Harry Pott
Runaway Ju
Texas Chai
 

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Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 06-14-2004, 02:57 AM:
 
Today I came down stairs on my way to lunch and a couple candy attendants were appearantly talking about "tea baggin'"...Quite frightening, I'd say.
 

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Posted by Alan Plester (Member # 852) on 06-20-2004, 03:57 AM:
 
Not sure if I`v posted this b4 but some students in Oxford changed the tiles of Star Wars round......ARS WARTS
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 06-20-2004, 09:06 AM:
 
Hoo-boy. Well, at least he didn't spell it sell.
 

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Posted by Robert John Jeromson (Member # 2559) on 07-22-2004, 08:03 PM:
 
In an old complex I used to work in we had LED text signs above the door of each cinema that only had 15 spaces of text visible at any one time, so the film title had to be abbreviated so that we could also fit in the classification at the end of the title, if the text was longer than 15 spaces the sign would scroll (we used to use it for advertising quite a bit). Anyway, we were showing an Australian film called Occational Coarse Language, which was abrreviated to Coarse Lang. M for the sign, which had too many spaces so the sign would scroll leaving "arse lang. M" over the door.
 

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Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 07-23-2004, 10:03 AM:
 
I spilled Sprite there, I'd want to take a hose and wet down the entire pair of pants so it wouldn't look like I pissed myself.
 

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Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 07-23-2004, 11:30 AM:
 
I hate those stupid "digital" airport-style marquees that cut off the titles. How the hell do they get theaters to install these? "Digital is better, see?"

When I was at ShowEast, I went to the silly little booth that had all of the different kinds of "digital" marquees. Even on their demo display, it was cutting off letters. I asked the rep how this was better than mylars, and the quick and cheerful answer was that I would never have to buy mylars again! Well, being the creative smartass that I am, I took all of the titles they had up on the board (20 or so) and "charged" them $0.25 for every letter missing that made the display look "ghetto" -- the cost added up to that of a couple mylars. And I'd still have to buy the display instead of just a box with a flourescent light.

The rep saw I wasn't interested and didn't want to talk anymore.

=TMP=
 

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Posted by Christian Volpi (Member # 2370) on 07-23-2004, 09:56 PM:
 
I showed up for work one day after it stormed all night and noticed that the wind blew a few letters off of the marquee. One of the movies that we had at the time was Spice World. The E fell off and it became...

-SPIC WORLD-
 

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Posted by Robb Johnston (Member # 239) on 07-24-2004, 01:28 PM:
 
I have 3 marquee stories, All from theatres that Mark has (does?) worked at.

On the outside, reading across the titles it read "Freddy Got Fingered One Night at McCools"

Inside the same theatre reading down the one column of 4 titles it read:
Josie and The
Pussycats
Blow
Pokemon

At another building, they would split titles between the sign at the front of the hall and over the door. When a film strring Dolly Parton was in house 6 and another starring Wesley Snipes was in house 7, the hall sign read:

Straight
White Men
 

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Posted by Robert L. Fischer (Member # 2424) on 07-26-2004, 02:12 AM:
 
We've often had fun coming up with porno titles for the movies we have. My favorite is one that I created last summer -- Womb Raider: Robbing the Cradle of Life.
 

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Posted by Andrew Jefferson (Member # 2565) on 07-28-2004, 11:34 AM:
 
One day we had a new guy putting up the letters up out front and he forgot to put the ratings in between the movies... it ended up looking like this:

ONE PERFECT DAY UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO
 

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Posted by Eric Hooper (Member # 1730) on 07-28-2004, 11:56 AM:
 
Actual twin theatre marquee here in SF.

The Power Puff Girls
Like Mike

Training Day
From Hell

Moulin Rouge
Swordfish
 

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Posted by Steven Jantzen (Member # 2575) on 07-28-2004, 10:47 PM:
 
alls i got to say is:

lmfao.
 

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Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 07-29-2004, 01:52 AM:
 
the best one is My Dog Skip Screwed Erin Brokovich
 

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Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 07-29-2004, 03:45 AM:
 
You have it a little backwards, Darryl.



Here's another one, it's all about the left side



Another one I remember seeing at the Century Greenback back in 1995 on the big marquee:

SEVEN
CLUELESS
SHOWGIRLS

-Aaron
 

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Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 07-29-2004, 10:45 AM:
 
Yeah from the marquee you posted but not from the marquee I saw it on. Wish I had a camera with me at the time.
 

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Posted by Chris Brown (Member # 2800) on 11-08-2004, 02:32 AM:
 
Damn you guys have me tearing up from laughter!
 

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Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 11-08-2004, 11:04 PM:
 
Not too funny but the one I remember for us was...How Stella Got Her Groove On was rated R so of course since it's a long title our marque read:

How Stella Got Groover

Our marque was quite low to the ground by the main highway so it was always a joy to get to work and notice someone had spelled out something like "Fu(K YOU" or some other 'oh so funny' phrase from out letters.
 

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Posted by Sam Johnson II (Member # 2157) on 11-08-2004, 11:53 PM:
 
Mildly amusing...we don't have a marquee, but the owners of the theater I work at has another theater that has a marquee, and they had put something like "Ray" "Saw" "Ladder 49".
 

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Posted by David Yauch (Member # 2754) on 11-15-2004, 03:33 AM:
 
A few weeks ago we were printing tickets for "Women, though art loose"

We were thinking about making our box cashiers put a d on the end of every ticket but we decided just to ignore it and hope customers did the same.
 

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Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 10-26-2005, 01:04 AM:
 
So I'm a new assistant manager at my theater. First weekend closing.
So I'm sitting in the office talking with the manager that opened that day, and I hear the ticket printer start printing ticket after ticket. I'm like, what the heck.
So I go out there and the cashier has a string of tickets in her hand.
I'm like, what is going on?
She wanted to see how many the program would allow to be sold and HAD to hit the enter button but claims it started all by itself.
So I had exactly 28 tickets to the 6:50 In Her Shoes.
Naturally no one came for the rest of the night.
And to make matters worse the voids didn't even show up on the film report so now fox is going to be like. Hey, we're $207 short.

We won't even get into how badly I closed either!
What a great weekend!
 

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Posted by Amanda Jones (Member # 3326) on 10-26-2005, 02:05 AM:
 
Summer of 1999 here is what our two marquee persons did on purpose when doing marquee one night

IRON GIANT
DICK

Hmmm I almost had one of my employees fall for the old technicolor gag. I had her convinced we were out and needed some to run the projector so I needed her to call the AMC down the street because all the Kerasotes were out of technicolor. She made it all the way to the phone to call when she asked our complex if we were really out. Complex told her no and laughed and told her it was just a joke.

We also like to play a joke on our new hires. Their first night working we like to come up to them and tell them that the ushers need help cleaning theater #17. They grab their broom and butlers and start heading down the 9-16 hallway and a few minutes later they are coming back to us asking us where theater 17 is.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 10-26-2005, 02:31 AM:
 
This isn't staff related but -- we just got a tentative bookings sheet from our booker and on Dec. 21 we have penciled in:

FUN WITH DICK

I suppose some marquees around the country with space issues will sport a similar title.
 

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Posted by Kelly Skaggs (Member # 1780) on 10-26-2005, 04:38 PM:
 
When we had Showgirls I had them put the title under our Now Hiring, we made the Cincinnati Fax news, with that one.
 

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Posted by Brandon Willis (Member # 2345) on 10-28-2005, 12:10 PM:
 
Back when I was still a floor staffer, my theatre had gotten booked with My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I was putting it up on the marquee and had gotten "Big Fat Greek" up when a customer stopped me and remarked that he was Greek and this offended him, and he'd be speaking to the manager. Needless to say, the managers never heard from him.
 

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Posted by Jason M Miller (Member # 2597) on 10-28-2005, 01:31 PM:
 
When I first started we had "FREE KIDS SHOWS" painted on the windows, well I had to clean it off, so that day all I was able to get off was Shows, so now we had "FREE KIDS" painted on our window, and for some reason no one cleaned it off for almost a week
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 10-28-2005, 01:52 PM:
 

quote: Brandon Willis

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he was Greek and this offended him

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Was he also big and fat?
 

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Posted by Louis Bornwasser (Member # 3063) on 10-28-2005, 03:29 PM:
 
On marquee of small drive in in eastern Kentucky

ABSENCE OF ALICE starring (girl lead)....she wasn't even there and STARRED in a film? (Absence of Malice) Louis
 

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Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 10-29-2005, 01:02 AM:
 
Went down to the cinema with my 9 year old to a near sold out session.
1 customer asked what the front row was like to which my son replied "IMAX"
 

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Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 10-29-2005, 01:31 PM:
 
I remember back in the day when an usher brought up to me how cool it would be to watch porn on the big screen in 5.1 digital sound...
 

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Posted by Robert Burtcher (Member # 3227) on 10-31-2005, 03:18 AM:
 
This week, we got booked with 12 movies (for a 10 screen theatre)...

We're showing Doom In Her Shoes, apparently. =D
 

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Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 11-01-2005, 08:18 PM:
 
We have the LED signs above our auditorium doors.

Recently we ran a bollywood movie called "No Entry " (so our LED signs for that auditorium said "No Entry")

We had a few customers come up and ask questions like "Why are people not allowed in there?"

 

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Posted by Robert Burtcher (Member # 3227) on 09-11-2006, 08:56 AM:
 
Bumppity.

Our theatre once again got stuck with 12 prints for 10 screens (and 10 spots on the marquee). I ran out of ratings tags, so I grouped titles by their ratings and put them on the same lines with as much space between the titles as possible. However, this didn't stop the chuckles, and we got mentioned in the local weekly entertainment paper!

http://www.okgazette.com/news/templates/cfn.asp?articleid=802&zoneid=9

quote: Oklahoma Gazette, "Chicken Fried News"

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‘Invincible Worms’!

Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Editorial Team

CFN is always amused at the conundrum facing local multiplexes when they are forced to cram more movie titles onto their marquees than for which they have space. Their simple solution: Two titles to one line.

Sometimes the results are unintentionally hilarious (who can forget Brixton Square Cinema’s classic “Focker Sideways”?). But Penn Square actually might drum up more than usual business with their current showing — according to the sign facing Northwest Expressway — of the summer blockbuster “Invincible Worms.”

Now, CFN has little interest in seeing either the Mark Wahlberg football feel-gooder “Invincible” or the snuff film that is “How to Eat Fried Worms.” But our curiosity would be totally off-the-charts insane for catching a flick that actually was about unconquerable slimy things that can neither be smashed, sautéed or otherwise sullied. You just know it would star Samuel L. Jackson.

Bonus points to whichever Penn Square employee gets to put up those blocky black letters for not marrying Jackson’s latest to a certain Oliver Stone film to get “Snakes on a WTC.”

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the snuff film that is “How to Eat Fried Worms.”

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They should seriously reconsider their descriptors.
 

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Posted by Bob Plummer (Member # 3874) on 10-01-2006, 06:39 AM:
 
I had a staff member wander over to the managers kiosk (our equivelant of a water cooler) and I looked at her and said "Are you on the doorstand?" And she said "yep!" And then I said, "No, you're standing here..." She glared, I grinned, and she then went back to her post.

Yeah, I'm a mean supervisor.

My favorite truncated name was our tickets when we had Bringing Down the House. The ticket line ran out of space and it said "Bringing Down the Ho"
 

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Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 10-01-2006, 01:20 PM:
 
Bob, I feel your pain.
I've got this kid that "follows the energy" away from her post.
My projectionist and I turned around half way to the booth because I noticed someone was following me, turns out it's my concession attendant. One door and 12 yards away from the counter!
Supervisor or not though you came off a little harsh there.
Unfortunately it's not legal to tie people to their posts...However I wonder about roping them off...
 

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Posted by Charles Greenlee (Member # 3856) on 10-02-2006, 11:41 AM:
 
Buy each of the a collar, make it part of the uniform, and try invisible fencing.
 

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Posted by Edwin Sheldon (Member # 4001) on 10-03-2006, 04:32 AM:
 
I left my jacket in the back room of the concession stand for five minutes while the concessions employees were bored. I should know better.


 

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Posted by Martin Brooks (Member # 1269) on 10-03-2006, 09:46 PM:
 

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Way back in the 90's I had an employee (at a twin) put up on a single line...."Snow White Guilty As Sin"......
Made the paper the next day!!

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