Why was Disney had to cut a controversial scene from the Santa item

Although it is sold to the masses as a pleasant holiday for the family, John Pasquin 1994 “Santa Clause” has a twisted hypothesis in her heart. My absolute father Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) takes care of his little son Charlie (Eric Lloyd) on Christmas Eve when, on the roof, there is a sore. He goes to investigate and finds that the real Santa Claus is preparing to go to his smoker. Scott screams and Santa screams, causing the old man to fall from the surface to his death. Unintended killing Santa Claus is a strange place to start an intimate myth for children, Much less than the Disney “Santa” item.

Scott then finds a work card between Santa’s property, motivating him not to not coat Furawi Red and pick up disturbing Christmas as Santa stopped. Scott, in turn, restores the arctis and is informed Bernard’s dwarf (David Chromholz) This, on visiting the aforementioned coat, was officially taken on the Santa Claus cloak. (The print did not read the fine on the Santa card, it turns out). Over the next year, Scott slowly begins to shift to Santa. He gains weight, his hair becomes gray, and his beard comes amazingly. There is a darker, twisted and chronic version of this story that falls within the lightweight Disney imagination in front of us, a film in which Scott revolves from its slow physical mutations. Of course, “Santa’s condition” does not have Temereity to be completely terrifying.

In fact, the “Santa Item” makers had to cut a severe joke from their movie after its initial theatrical operation and its release on VHS. There is an early scene from the movie as the former Scott wife, which is played by Wendy Crewson, gave him a phone number. Hit, “1-800-Spank-ME? I know this number.” (T.) for each 1994 report in Orlando CentinilHowever, “1-800-Spank-ME” was a very real sexual line for the phone, and it was immersed by phone calls from curious children after watching the movie.

Calvin, of course, was running Flippant. Crewson was not a professional in the field of sex by phone or any other type of sexual workers. Calvin took advantage of SitGMAS about sexual work, as it was dropped on his ex -wife. It would have been fun if Crosson returned to Calvin This sexual work is the work.

The 1-800-Spank-ME line, according to Sentinel, costs between $ 2.50 and $ 4.99 per minute, and at least one of the ages of 10-year-old is not subject to supervision-their parents is about $ 400 in phone bills by calling him. “The Santa Clause” was released on the home video in 1995, when accidents arrived in 1996. Disney was overwhelmed by complaints, of course, and the company was quick to pay attention to the problem. The purchase of 1-800-Spank-ME was offered with the explicit purpose of separating the line. Unfortunately, this effort was not successful. If the studio was smart, he would have bought the line and tied it with the voice of Santa, which means that those who call it naughty.

It was revealed in an article in the 1997 Seattle Times The incidents were continuing. In order to take care of the problem, Disney finally realized that the scene should have been completely cut off. As such, when “The Santa Clause” achieved a DVD tablet in 1999, The Mouse House removed the entire Spank-ME joke, and avoids any headache in the future. In the years since then, children are no longer familiar with a very real sexual line. It may be for the better. Nevertheless, thanks to the Internet, this scene has been preserved forever. (No legal action has been taken.)

Obviously, though, the Spank-ME line was not a deliberate advertisement of Allen’s sex line and the script book in the movie. In fact, the line felt as if it were a declaration. It was just a coincidence that there is a real process 1-800-Spank-ME.

For curiosity: Yes, it seems that 1-800-Spank-ME is still running. Of course, I already asked the number out of curiosity, right?