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Posted by Greg Anderson (Member # 235) on 12-02-2000, 06:22 PM:

In the fine tradition of nude pictures hidden in frames of Disney videos or phallic artwork on the video cover, I wonder if what I saw today qualifies as someone's bright idea of a prank against Disney.

I noticed this on the back of a box of Life Cereal.

And then I looked closer, on the lower left area of the word puzzle, and I saw this...

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 12-02-2000, 07:20 PM:

There is (probably) a 1 in 456976 chance of the word "fart" appearing in any particular combination of 4 "random" letters of a find-a-word puzzle. However rare this seems, keep in mind that in a, say, 20x20 find-a-word puzzle, there will be 1972 (at least) 4-letter combinations (counting all rows and columns both ways and diagonals both ways). Now we're down to 1 in 231.73 such puzzles having that combination. If you take 232 find-a-word puzzles, you're chances of finding "fart" hidden in one or more of them is slightly better than even, provided that the puzzles aren't created using software that prevents certain words from getting in there.

Evans A Criswell
http://home.hiwaay.net/~criswell/theatre/

Posted by Erik Schill (Member # 675) on 12-02-2000, 11:11 PM:

did anyone see in Toy Story 2, when the pig is flipping through the TV and passing through all the different shows, there is ONE!!! frame in there where there is a claymation clown sticking up his middle finger, one of our projectionists noticed it by chance and cut it out, and we still have it in one of our booths

Posted by Greg Anderson (Member # 235) on 12-03-2000, 09:29 AM:

I believe I found the frame in question on the DVD of Toy Story 2

It's from an old, Pixar short film and, taken out of context, I suppose it might suggest a vulgar gesture. Now... are you saying that this frame was different in the theatrical version of Toy Story 2?

(And... do you think the lawyers from Disney will sue me for posting this image on the web? I'm doing it only to defend Disney, after all.)

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 12-04-2000, 10:49 PM:

Oops, now you've done it- Di$ney is going to issue a recall on all existing copies and reissue it with that offending frame removed! Everyone go buy all the DVDs you can and then sell 'em on Ebay as Rare Collector's Items!

Posted by John Lasher (Member # 968) on 08-13-2003, 01:44 PM:

just found this one down at the bottom

That is NOT the clowns middle finger! Count 'em, the clown has FOUR FINGERS! This clown (like most animated characters) does not have a middle finger. Thumb, index, ring, pinkie, that's it.

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 08-13-2003, 01:52 PM:

I actually looked that up on the DVD after posting that, and it turns out it's NOT his middle finger- it just looks like that at first glance.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 08-13-2003, 02:25 PM:

quote:
one of our projectionists noticed it by chance and cut it out, and we still have it in one of our

I can't believe nobody jumped on this earlier.

Anyone who cuts a frame out of a print, for a souvenir, should be fired, and then shot.

(FWIW, the "middle finger" in question looks like part of the clown's face to me.)

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 08-13-2003, 03:12 PM:

I agree. Anyone cutting out frames as souvenirs should be banned from projection. [Mad]

BTW, AFAIK, Erik is no longer working at that Rochester theatre, or in projection anywhere for that matter. But I don't think they shot him. [Wink]

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 08-13-2003, 08:45 PM:

No, that's light playing off the clown's eye socket. He's throwing a ball into the air.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 08-13-2003, 08:47 PM:

Me thinks SOME people have WAY too much time on their hands....

>>> Phil

Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 08-14-2003, 12:29 AM:

Greg,

This has nothing to do with your topic but I just want you to know how good it is to hear from you! I missed you and the others at Perry Sun's defunct DCinemazone forum.

-Claude

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 08-14-2003, 11:22 AM:

Greg Anderson's last posting on Film-Tech was February 24, 2003, but he may still be "lurking" here.