When Rush Hour airs on TV, some scenes are cut and lines with curse words are changed to make it suitable to air on television. Here is a list of the scenes/lines that were changed from its theatrical airing:
Rush Hour[]
- Carter: You thought I was gonna do this out front?!.
- Carter: "Oh, shoot."
- Carter: Man, I've been looking everywhere for this!.
- Carter's line, "The Dominicans can't even get this stuff, man!".
- Clive: I'm gonna splatter his brains all over this parking lot if you don't get back in the car and buy some donuts!.
- William: Who would want the job?.
- William: Everyone's so afraid of their own shadow.
- William: ...we can still blow it up.
- Carter: You damn right!.
- Carter: Hey! HEY!.
- For Carter's line, "I cannot believe this! First, I get a messed up assignment and now I gotta hang out with Mr. Rice-a-Roni."
- Carter: You put your own bag in the back!.
- Carter: Legit? Yeah, right!.
- Stucky: "...like he's starting some kind of war".
- Carter: You full of it, you understand that? You full of it.
- Lee: It makes it easier to find out how full of talk they are.
- Carter: So, I'm the one full of it?.
- Lee: We both full of it.
- Carter: You full of it.
- Carter's line, "Now follow my lead!".
- Carter's line, "I know you didn't just touch my radio."
- Carter's line, "You could get killed out here, man!".
- Carter: What's up, negro?.
- Carter: MC Hammer Daddy, put the gun down.
- Carter: I'mma take all you in right now...
- Luke: Boy damn!.
- Carter: The only reason I haven't busted you...
- Carter: If I have to, I will bust you.
- Luke: Bad dude outta Hong Kong buying up everything.
- Luke: "I don't know his name, he ain't buying from me".
- Lee: What's up?.
- Luke: You had better take your hands off my suit.
- Carter: Get back against the wall! Get your big Happy Meal face against the wall!.
- Carter: Y'all had better clean it up!.
- Security guard: "Go shoot yourself."
- Carter: You take your little sensitive--hey! Get out of the way!.
- Carter when the building blows up: Oh damn!.
- Carter: Think that I broke my stuff.
- Johnson's line, "Oh!".
- Johnson: "I have my own stuff to deal with".
- Clive: I ain't telling you zip.
- Carter: Man, that is some greasy stuff.
- Carter: I don't want that greasy stuff!.
- Carter: He got into some trouble again.
- Carter: Fight me like a man!.
- Carter: What's up now, huh. We kicked y'all!.
- Carter: Why you done dropped the damn badge?!.
- Warren: Gina, Mary, and Joseph!.
- A scene in which Carter speaks with a female worker on the plane is cut out.
- Carter: This is some nice stuff.
- Carter: GET YOUR STUFF AND GET OUT THE DOOR!.
- Carter: Get your old rear out of here.
- Dan Whitney: Hold your positions, now, damn it!.
- Carter: Push the button!.
- Soo-Yung: Push the damn button!.
- Lee: GOSH!!.
- Carter: Oh, lord.
- Carter: OH NO!
- Carter: Next time, be polite to my guts!
Rush Hour 2[]
- Carter: I can't believe I flew 10,000 miles for this!.
- The shot of the man's buttocks is cropped out.
- Lee: I'm sick of your baloney.
- Carter: I think you stepped in rat crap.
- The storeowner's line, "Oh, Jesus" is cut out.
- Lee's line "Oh, shit!" is cut out.
- A different take is used in which Ricky Tan says "Where'd you get that? In a fortune cookie?".
- Carter: I'm gonna go downstairs in the – DAMN!.
- Lee: I can't believe I flew 10,000 miles for this!".
- Don Cheadle: His name is Lee, damn it!.
Rush Hour 3[]
- Carter: Damn!.
- Girl: This is bull!.
- Carter: That doesn't mean they don't blow stuff up.
- Carter, after hitting himself with the weapon: Ow!.
- Some of the French assassin's lines are dubbed over in French.
- Sister Agnes: This time, he called this gentleman a word that means "cat".
- Lee: Just call him an a-hole!.
- Carter when he is getting hit with the book: Damn!.
- Lee when Revi puts on the glove: Oh, no.
- Carter: Lee, it's locked!.
- Carter: AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!.
- Carter: I'm covered in stink!.
- The breasts and buttocks are censored on the showgirls.
- George: I'll drink this stuff all day if I have to!.
- Carter: Holy mother! Lee!.
- Carter: You are mixed up in some weird stuff, lady!.
- Carter: OH!.
- Carter: You didn't do jack!.
- Chris Tucker in a blooper: Oh! You alright?.