My sister has some pretty funny comments about a recent TV showing of "The Goonies". It's a great flick. One of those that I can't wait to show my FutureKids(TM). Comedy, adventure, excitement, blaa blaa blaa. It's good stuff. Anyway.

Funny thing is...we had watched it a bunch of times as kids from this cruddy tape that we had. It didn't have commercials or anything (or even breaks in the tape stream where commercials had been paused out) and I assume Mom had taped it off cable during one of our short stints of actually having cable back then. Anyway...there's a scene at the end where the kids have just escaped the cave and the police and their families have arrived to pick them up. They're all telling the stories about their adventures and the cops are going 'yeah, right, ok, whatever' and all that. And Chunk (I think) says something like 'and then there was the octopus!' and since there was NO octopus in our showing of the movie we had always just figured it was BS, since that was definitely in line with the character throughout the whole movie.

Of course, if it was Data who said that I'm probably sounding pretty stupid here.

Cut to the end of the story. YEARS later, and I mean YEARS, independent of each other my sister and I stumbled upon an actual airing of the ENTIRE movie. And there actually IS a damn octupus scene in the movie along with some other stuff they cut out for time and all that. How funny is that.