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== Card Games ==

* Game designer James Ernest developed a game in which players are [[Diabolical Mastermind]]s competing to construct the most stylish act of [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]. It was originally released under the title ''Before I Kill You, Mister Bond.'' Following a cease and desist order from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over the use of [[wikipedia:James Bond (ornithologist)|Bond's name]], the current edition is titled ''James Ernest's Totally Renamed Spy Game''.

** The [http://paizo.com/store/games/cardBoardGames/other/r/v5748btpy741t official product description] even includes the line, "We’d tell you what it was once called, but we’d rather not get another letter."

** The [https://web.archive.org/web/20101209152831/http://paizo.com/store/games/cardBoardGames/other/r/v5748btpy741t official product description] even includes the line, "We’d tell you what it was once called, but we’d rather not get another letter."

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** Same deal with ''Captain N''.

** A particularly egregious example involves an episode of ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' with Milli Vanilli as guest stars. Their, erm, "[[wikipedia:Milli Vanilli#Media backlash|performance]]" in the episode is dubbed over... with an instrumental piece. The original version of the episode has never been seen since its original airdate, so its obviously not on DVD either.

* After MTV announced that ''[[Daria]]'' would come to DVD in 2010, fans expected that most, if not all, of the licensed music would be replaced, since previous releases of the movies had all the music altered (though not as clumsily as was done for other examples on this page.) MTV supposedly respects the show and repeatedly assured the fans that they were going to great lengths to avoid clumsiness. However, after the official release, fans reported that some replacements have proven clumsy anyway, particularly the eight listed [http://www.outpost-daria.com/daria_the_complete_series_dvd.html here].

* After MTV announced that ''[[Daria]]'' would come to DVD in 2010, fans expected that most, if not all, of the licensed music would be replaced, since previous releases of the movies had all the music altered (though not as clumsily as was done for other examples on this page.) MTV supposedly respects the show and repeatedly assured the fans that they were going to great lengths to avoid clumsiness. However, after the official release, fans reported that some replacements have proven clumsy anyway, particularly the eight listed [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511060942/http://www.outpost-daria.com/daria_the_complete_series_dvd.html here].

** Among those instances, the one that would seem the clumsiest to new and casual fans probably involves a scene from the episode where Daria, Jane, and Trent drive to a concert together. As the characters get stuck in traffic, they perform some [[Homage Shot]]s to the [[REM]] music video "Everybody Hurts." Trent even [[Lampshade Hanging|comments that their current situation reminds him of "that REM video."]] Unfortunately, that comment won't make any sense in the current print of the episode, since "Everybody Hurts" has been replaced with a completely different song.

* ''[[Duckman]]'' received a few music edits on the DVD sets, including removing a sequence when "Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In" played in the episode "Not So Easy Riders". Luckily, none of the [[Frank Zappa]] tunes were affected by this practice.