Why Disney Had To Cut A Controversial Scene From The Santa Clause

Although John Pasquin’s 1994 Explosion “The Santa Claus” is sold to the public as a delightful holiday comedy to the family, the starting point in his heart has been twisted. The divorced father, Scott Calvin (Tim Allen), takes care of his young son Charlie (Eric Lloyd) on Christmas Eve as the roof rises on the roof. He goes to explore and finds a very real Santa Claus preparing to go down his chimney. Scott screams and startles Santa, causing a cheerful old man to fall from the roof to his death. Santa’s accidental killing is a strange place to start a warming story for kids, Much less Disney’s bigger “Santa Claus” franchise.

Then Scott finds a business card on Santa’s property, asking him to hand over a furry red jacket and pick up the Christmas book from which Santa left. Scott, in turn, returns the truck to the North Pole and is aware Head Elf Bernard (David Krumholtz) The fact that Donning said he officially took Santa’s diaper. (He didn’t read the great result on Santa’s card, it turns out). Over the next year, Scott will slowly begin to mutate into Santa Claus. He gains weight, his hair is gray, and his beard comes amazingly fast. This story has a darker, twisted, Cronenberg version that has gone to us inside a light Disney fantasy, a movie where Scott rebels with his slow body mutations. Of course, “Santa Claus” is not completely terrifying.

In fact, the decision -makers of the “Santa Claus” were finally had to cut a fairly adult joke after its original theater and publication at VHS. At an early stage of the film, there is a scene where Scott’s former wife of Wendy Crewson offers her a phone number. He whip: “1-800-Sank-Me? I know that number.” (Do hee.) Per 1994 Report in Orlando SentinelHowever, the “1-800-spank-me” was a very real phone sex line and was flooded with a cinema with curious children’s instruments.

Of course, Calvin was blatant. The Crewson character was not a professional phone sex operator or any other sex worker. Calvin clicked SITGMA for sex work by projecting them for the past. It would have been fun if Crewson fired back to Calvin that sex work is a job.

According to Sentinel, the 1-800-Sank-me line costs $ 2.50 to $ 4.99 per minute, and at least one curious 10-year-old-to-the–hour pay for their parents about $ 400 for telephone bills by calling it. “Santa Claus” was published in a home video in 1995, and the cases were at its peak in 1996. Disney flooded complaints, and the company quickly takes care of the problem. It offered to buy 1-800-Sank-ME with an explicit purpose to cut off the line. Unfortunately, this aspiration was not successful. If the studio had been smart, it would have bought the line and combined it with Santa’s loud, which would mean that the calls are naughty.

It was revealed in the 1997 Seattle Times article The events continued. To take care of the problem, Disney finally noticed that the scene was just to cut the movie completely. As such, when “Santa Claus” hit DVD in 1999, the mouse house completely removed the Span-me joke, avoiding future headaches. Since then, the children have no longer been a very real phone sex line. Maybe it’s better. Although the Internet allows this scene to be constantly preserved. (Legal actions were not taken.)

However, it is clear that the Spank-Me line was not an intentional advertisement for the screenwriters of Allen and the film’s screenwriters. In fact, the line felt like AD-Lib. It was just a coincidence that there was a real 1-800-spank-Me.

Curious: Yes, it seems that 1-800-Sank-us is very operational. Of course, you have already chosen the number of curiosity, right?