Now in Theaters ... "JackBUTT Number Two"

16. As a former resident of Orange City, I can firmly say this censoring doesn't surprise me. Taking out the "Gang" in "Gridiron Gang" helps keep those Victorian-era principles Ziploc fresh in Orange City's youth and keeps the children from gangbanging, running drugs, or, worse yet, dancing.

Oh, wait. The hubbabaloo is about JackButt? That's just Orange City being weird.

Posted at 8:51AM on Oct 4th 2006 by rick

17. Thank you Kassie for setting the record straight for all of us! I live just a few blocks from the theater - have lived in Sioux County all but 6 yrs of my life - and altho we may have some quirks - what town doesn't - it's the best place in the world to live!

Posted at 3:10PM on Oct 5th 2006 by mazee

18. Orange City is a very proper, very religious town. (And for those Iowans that say they have never heard of it, dig out your maps). If I remember correctly, the town is even dry (no alcohol) on Sundays.

If any town would do this, it would be Orange City. And I don't mean that as a slam, just as an opinion.

Made me laugh because my kids have ALWAYS referred to Jackass as Jackbutt (because they aren't allowed to say Ass).

Posted at 10:21AM on Oct 13th 2006 by Shannon

19. People...take a deep breath.

There never were any complaints from customers or attempts to censor anything. Anyone who is familiar with the theatre or its ownership understands that never once have we ever and I mean ever bowed to pressure of any kind regarding the films we play or what we put on the marquee. In fact I don’t think we have ever received any kind of contact regarding the films we play outside of the occasionally grumpy customer. Anything to the contrary would be a complete fabrication.

There is absolutely no story here other than a manager who ran out of the changeable letter 'S' and thought he was being creative with the 'butt' lettering. The film opened at the theatre on Sept. 22nd with the correct spelling "Jackass Two" on the marquee and stayed that way until Thursday 9/28. When the letter issue came up with the change of the new movies on the 29th the staff put in the moronic 'butt' spelling.

It wasn’t until a picture was posted on tmz.com and I received our first email message that we were made aware of the issue. Rest assured the marquee reflects the correct spelling of "Jackass" now.

The most amazing thing here is how something so stupid and innocuous has caused so many people to make such ridiculous judgments.

It certainly has been amusing reading all the emails I have received though.

Bill B.

Posted at 6:52PM on Oct 4th 2006 by Bill B.

20. As an employee of the Holland Plaza in Orange City, I can honestly say that this was an intentional mistake. If you will notice how many S's are used in all the other movie names, you see we ran out of S's. Also, School for Scoundrels is missing the last S. This is because we ran out. It was posted as Jackbutt until we were able to borrow several S's from another theater.

Posted at 10:45PM on Oct 5th 2006 by Matt Vander Werff

21. I'm from the OC.....Orange city that is. The real OC. just wait until people catch this OC on Fox

Posted at 11:00PM on Oct 4th 2006 by Josh H

22. I was the one that did that. We ran out of S's and so we put up Jackbutt to be funny. Funny thing is, no one ever complained about the ass in the first place.

Posted at 1:14AM on Oct 5th 2006 by Emma Roetman

23. My goodness – let this be a lesson to all of us. My lesson is not realizing that whatever I ALLOW to be placed on the marquee could have national ramifications. Two employees might have placed the letters but I knew what it said 10 minutes after it was finished and thought it was a good, temporary solution for our dilemma. I was incorrect.

Another more important lesson is how news is researched, submitted and ultimately distributed to us. This photo and “story” was submitted and run without anyone bothering to call the theatre for an explanation. An assumption was made based on what they thought the people of the community were like and without knowing the policies of the theatre. We now have a very seductive “action line”, complete with conflict and the chance to embarrass a lot of people. Anything that contradicts the “action line” is ultimately ignored in order to advance the idea or philosophy the reporter or news service wants you to believe. Those who are predisposed to believe this “action line” will help to spread it further.

Don’t allow yourself to be spoon-fed the news by reporters that would be more than happy to do the thinking for you.

Like a cold, this too shall pass and the “drive-by” media will go on to something more interesting than 4 letters on a marquee in Northwest Iowa.

Yes I am the actual manager of this theatre and very proud of it. The Holland Plaza is an exceptional facility for area moviegoers and I would much rather see national attention given to that and not a typo on the marquee.

Posted at 11:38AM on Oct 5th 2006 by John Ihle

24. To the Manager, All I have to say is you are still a tool! Any one from that area is aware of the "goody goody" persona that North West Iowa has for a reputation. Any ASSumptions that improvising a more risque word with a more cleanier word only because you are "out of letters," would only cause the common person to believe that this was to clean up the title not because of a shortage in letters. Any intelligent manager would of imeadiatly gone to upper management to find solutions for the matter at hand. It isn't all about you, yes you may be "in charge and proud of it" at that location, butt you probably should of consulted other experts in your field before following through with an embarrasing situation. Unfortunatly for your ASSumption you have caused embarassment to those of us from the area and the "goody goody" persona follows us still.

Posted at 12:17PM on Oct 6th 2006 by R E

25. Censorship? Take a second look...

So, it seems my lovely little town of Orange City, Iowa, is making national (and international) news with the movie Jackass 2. Apparently it was even on ET and the Leno show. Wow, Orange City.

At first glance, this would look to be censorship. And, considering this is northwestern Iowa and we are pretty conservative, it would sort of make sense.

Only that's not what happened.

Turns out the theatre ran out of S's for the marquee (We've got Open Season, School for Scoundrels, Little Miss Sunshine, the Illusionist...). The high school student putting up the names realized that he was out of S's, so he decided to put Jackbutt, and the manager didn't care, because there really wasn't anything they could do about running out of S's.

So, think what you will of Orange City - we are overly conservative, but not quite that conservative.

- Paula Pudewell, a student at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa

Posted at 7:06PM on Oct 6th 2006 by Paula Pudewell

26. "Hi, my name is Johnny Knoxville...WELCOME TO JACKBUTT!!"

Posted at 4:00PM on Oct 7th 2006 by Indy

27. Again, I live in OC and um, why didn't you just use the letter "Z"? Does make the movie sound a little "jazzier."

Posted at 7:13AM on Oct 8th 2006 by Susan

28. Ok, this is what ACTUALLY happened...the person who put up the "butt" part didn't have any more "s"' so he thought it would be funny if he put "butt" up. Now there are a whole bunch of legal actions that could take place...

Orange City is a real place..I went to college there, it is a small Dutch community where everything closes on Sunday. It took a couple years for them to even get a movie theatre. Yes this is funny, but don't start knocking a community if you don't know anything about it.

Posted at 11:14PM on Oct 16th 2006 by LeeAnne

29. Yep.....no joke here--this is my hometown......that's pretty typical Orange City for ya....

Posted at 11:28AM on Oct 12th 2006 by Stephanie

30. of course they's never run out of Ss in Pella
the bakeries have thousands of them
folks from Iowa and other fans of Dutch letters will understand

signed, laughing in lake crystal

Posted at 10:30PM on Oct 19th 2006 by Randy L