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Plot[edit]

Is it just me, or is the plot section...not really a plot section. Can someone care to edit it to make it better suited? TCL 04:03, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

i just read through it, theres like what, the first paragraph and 1 somewhere in the middle, and thats about it for a plot. the other is stuff we cna makie another section for.--Cody6 02:08, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the article it states that the hills of L.A can be seen when its supposed to be downtown London. There is no downtown London :-)

There is now no plot section. The previous plot section was removed because it was vandalized, someone put in profane nonesense that had nothing to do with the plot of the film. I would have put in a replacement plot summary, but I confess I'm not that good with plot summary writing. Any other volunteer can step in to write a plot summary, provided it's not vandalism like the previous one was. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Song tale (talk • contribs) 04:16, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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No citations[edit]

Apparently, nobody noticed that this article had no citations, so i added that box at the top of the page that notifies the editors. Wills316 (talk) 22:40, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Title Censorship section.[edit]

It is stated that "the title proved controversial in the United Kingdom, where the word shag is used to refer coarsely to sexual intercourse." This wording implies that the word was, and is now, used to mean something else in countries other than the UK. It also implies that the makers of the film were NOT using it with that UK meaning. This latter idea seems unlikely, so I suggest that there should be some explanation of how the word was generally then used, if at all, in the US where the film was made, and of the intentions of the film-makers when choosing the title. Blurryman (talk) 22:01, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In the US, 'shag' means a fairly innocuous dance, the Carolina shag, originated in the 1940s. In 1987 The Tams had a No.21 UK hit with the song 'There Ain't Nothing Like Shaggin' ', which the BBC promptly banned from the airwaves because of the word's sexual meaning in the UK (this quite probably being the reason for the song's popularity). In 1989 the dance received considerable exposure with the film Shag, starring Bridget Fonda and set in 1963. The Wiki article on the film includes the memorable line, 'The girls decide to go to a local club so they can shag.'

Used in the sexual sense, the word is clearly just a piece of British slang that Mike Myers found amusing, with the advantage that it was not considered offensive in the US. It wasn't really that offensive in the UK either: in the early 1990s the Conservative politician and transport minister Steven Norris became widely known in the press as 'Steve "Shagger" Norris' after newshounds discovered that he had had five affairs during his then-current marriage. This was newsworthy because the government was embarked on its ill-fated 'Back to Basics' campaign against declining moral standards. Norris claimed that as the affairs were spread over 25 years they didn't amount to serious shagging at all. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk_politics/2000/london_mayor/726055.stm Austin Powers, of course, on being introduced to a young lady, likes to say, 'Shall we shag now, or shall we shag later?' Khamba Tendal (talk) 14:21, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The first sentence of this section is "There were two variations of the posters; one of them asterisked out the middle of the offending word." There is no mention of an offending word earlier in the article. Might this be remedied? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.196.168.186 (talk) 19:51, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done Sure, why not. --Muhandes (talk) 07:08, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nixon?[edit]

Is the president in this film ever explicitly identified as Nixon? DonIago (talk) 17:34, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Soundtrack[edit]

Does anyone know why the REM cover of "Draggin' the Line" is missing from online streaming versions of the album? All2humanuk (talk) 13:59, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]