Saturday Night Live took a swing at the recent controversy surrounding a poorly thought out airline edit of Olivia Wilde’s coming-of-age comedy Booksmart. The film got a shout-out in “A…
took a swing at the recent controversy surrounding a poorly thought out airline edit of Olivia Wilde’s coming-of-age comedyThe film got a shout-out in “Airline Pilots,” a skit that starred Mikey Day and the night’s guest host Harry Styles as co-pilots whose raunchy conversation from the cockpit is picked up on the flight intercom. Their efforts to apologize just make things worse, as a conversation about the sexual prowess of the gang in Scooby-Doo actually manages to further devolve.
The reference comes after Delta Air Lines earlier this month said it would stop showing edited versions of theon its in-flight offerings, and was working with its vendor to get editions that restore deleted same-sex love scenes. The issue of the edited versions came up when a fan tweeted the information to Wilde, complaining that a key love scene was deleted. Wilde later saw an edited version on a flight and noted there were many other cuts.
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