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Dirty Work

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Dirty Work The Rewatchables

Research covers an NBC advertising ban, competing accounts of the firing, and material removed for the PG-13 cut.

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  • NBC reportedly banned advertising for the movie, though the sourcing is openly questioned.
  • A later interview complicated the familiar account that one network executive alone caused the comedian's firing.
  • A deleted sequence involved donuts photographed around the leads’ genitals.
  • In the jail scene, an explicit phrase visible on the speaker's lips is dubbed over.
  • The dead-prostitute and Saigon material makes the family rating itself seem inconsistent.