I’m watching Night of the Blood Beast, and did Crow really say “Spun shitties”?
Split this off into its own topic so @ivan’s team will see it.
If anyone else has noticed caption issues like this in Blood Beast, please note them here. And don’t forget to vote!
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Clearly an incorrect caption, but I’m definitely naming my new band The Spun Shitties.
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Actually, you know what? I think that is what he said. It’s a variation of “whippin’ shitties” (also new to me, but hey it’s a thing): Urban Dictionary: whip shitties
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I don’t know. The episode aired in 1996, that seems a bit of a stretch.
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It may have slipped by, or falls under the same umbrella as “dickweed” in that yeah it has a bad word in it, but the usage here is not technically referring to that word.
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I always thought he did say the line as it’s captioned, but I also have a terrible case of lyritosys (inability to comprehend song lyrics) that bleeds over into understanding dialog, so I’m not an authority here.
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I haven’t watched it recently to know one way or the other. It could be correct per @Chris_Combs’ definition, but it might be worth a double-check by the team just to be sure.
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I’m 95% sure it’s correct in the caption. I thought, “you whip 'em, not spin 'em! 
” when we watched this one this month.
Definitely a Midwest thing. And my high school friends were doing it in the late 90s, so it’s not a new phrase either.
(And for those not from around here, the phrase means the same as doing donuts like a NASCAR race winner. Personally, I like my tires with tread on them, but 
)
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Shared the caption with a friend, and he says “that’s straight from a Tom Waits lyrics generator.”
Which I think is also correct.
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Try explaining that to my dry cleaner
It was spinning donuts when I was a teen here in Utah.
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Gotta love regionalisms.
Oh, you call them “regionalisms?” That’s not what we say 'round these parts.