You've Licked My Navs!

008: Starship Troopers

The title of this post is a good example of what you missed out on last week if you didn't show up for Starship Troopers. The three of us there all watched one scene about five times after hearing a line of dialogue that sounded unexpectedly dirty. Carmen (Denise Richards) tells Zander (Patrick Muldoon) that she replotted a more efficient course for the ship and he seems to tell her something about his testicles. In reality he said something like, "Only two weeks on the ship and you've already licked my navs!" We assume that means navigation, but you can never be positive.

After doing a little digging on the internet, I found a shooting script for the film. It gives that line of dialogue as such:

It appears that the line was actually a last minute improvisation on the set. I really wonder why they would change that. It's pretty obvious "navs" sounds like "nads." I'm also curious if the version that was in theatres, which is slightly different from the video version, had this change. We'll never know, but I'm not complaining since this version is much more hilarious.