Editing The Bridge on the River Kwai (section)

==In popular culture==
* In 1962, [[Spike Milligan]] and [[Peter Sellers]], with [[Peter Cook]] and [[Jonathan Miller]], released the [[LP album|LP record]] ''[[Bridge on the River Wye]]'' (Parlophone LP PMC<!-- not a PMCID--> 1190, PCS 3036 (November 1962)). This spoof of the film was based on the script for the 1957 ''[[Goon Show]]'' episode "An African Incident". Shortly before its release, for legal reasons, producer [[George Martin]] edited out the 'K' every time the word 'Kwai' was spoken.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.thegoonshow.net/facts.asp |title= Facts and Trivia |work= The Goon Show Site |access-date= 2014-05-16 |archive-date= 13 August 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220813071442/http://www.thegoonshow.net/facts.asp |url-status= dead }}</ref>
* The comedy team of [[Wayne and Shuster]] performed a sketch titled "Kwai Me a River" on their 27 March 1967 TV show,{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} in which an officer in the British Dental Corps (Wayne) is captured by the Japanese and, despite being comically unintimidated by any abuse the commander of the POW camp (Shuster) inflicts on him, is forced to build a (dental) "bridge on the river Kwai" for the commander and plans to include an explosive in the appliance to detonate in his mouth. The commander survives the explosion, attributed to a toothpaste commercial punchline in 1960s commercials.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tvarchive.ca/database/18984/wayne_and_shuster_show,_the/episode_guide/ |title= Wayne and Shuster Show, The Episode Guide (1954–1990) (series) |publisher= TV archive CA |access-date= 2007-11-03 |archive-date= 27 June 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190627192426/http://www.tvarchive.ca/database/18984/wayne_and_shuster_show,_the/episode_guide/ |url-status= dead }}</ref>
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'', it's one of the many movies that Para-Medic recommends to Snake<ref>{{Citation |last=George Salonikh l Metal Gear Solid |title=MGS3 - All of Paramedic's Movies |date=2018-07-23 |url=https://archive.org/details/youtube-CirepJNbY0g |access-date=2025-03-29}}</ref>
* In season 1, episode 1 of ''[[The Wire]]'', Detective Jimmy McNulty laments, "I feel like that motherfucker at the end of Bridge over the River Kwai, like what the fuck did I do?" <ref>{{cite web |url=https://subslikescript.com/series/The_Wire-306414/season-1/episode-1-The_Target |title=The Wire (2002–2008): Season 1, Episode 1 - The Target - full transcript |access-date=15 March 2023 |archive-date=15 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315034933/https://subslikescript.com/series/The_Wire-306414/season-1/episode-1-The_Target |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2008/03/wire-david-simon-q.html |title=The Wire: David Simon Q & A |date=9 March 2008 |access-date=15 March 2023 |archive-date=15 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315045312/https://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2008/03/wire-david-simon-q.html |url-status=live }}</ref>