Found a VHS of The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy speaks in pig latin through the whole tornado scene

I was digging through a box at a garage sale in Des Moines last summer and found this tape with a hand-written label that just said "OZ PIG". Popped it in when I got home and the tornado scene opens with Dorothy saying "ellhay" instead of "Toto" and it just gets worse from there. Has anyone else stumbled across a weird dub that completely changes a character's voice for no reason?

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nelson.nancy16d ago

OH man, that "OZ PIG" label is killing me. My friend Sarah found something similar at a thrift store up in Minneapolis, a copy of ET where all the aliens spoke in exaggerated Valley girl voices. She said it started during the phone home scene and Elliot suddenly sounded like a surfer dude. She watched the whole thing and it was the most bizarre experience because the plot made no sense with those voices. She tried to find out who made it but the tape just had "VALLEY" written in Sharpie on the side. Now I'm wondering if there's some underground thing where people make these weird dubs for private jokes or something.

phoenix_carter16d ago

Dude that's wild lol, my cousin found a copy of The Wizard of Oz once where all the munchkins had thick British accents and it was this whole thing where Dorothy kept getting confused. We still have it somewhere, the tape just says "BRIT MUNCH" on it. Makes you wonder if there's some secret society of tape weirdos doing this stuff.

the_lee15d agoMost Upvoted

Check the tape's runtime against the official movie length. If it's off by a few minutes, that's a dead giveaway it's a custom edit and not some weird broadcast version. Also look at the label paper itself - garage sale tapes with that kind of odd jacket art are often from regional video pirates who used to dub over movies with their own jokes back in the 80s and 90s. I've seen a dozen of these things pop up at estate sales and they're almost always one-off pranks by some film student or bored projectionist. If you want to track down where it came from, check the tape's leader - there's sometimes a faint marker code or a crappy stamped date from the duplicator.