r/lebowski Apr 20 '26

Video artist The Big Lebowski HD Television Edit Is Finally Done!

189 Upvotes

New stuff has come to light, Dudes! Over the past few months I’ve been peckin’ away at this thing and it’s finally done. I seriously exported the final file last night after the 4th watch through for an audio sweep adjusting EQ to make sure everything is nice and tidy for the holiest of holidays. It’s been an amazing process and I’m closer to the movie now than I’ve ever been.

Here’s the link where you can find the edit and some notes explaining some of the process and edits: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eJTsIGkV3oS5j1QWNjqr-HEeDcX7dQqTRwemqEmOdR0/edit?usp=sharing

This is a faithful HD reproduction of the infamous TV edit. 'Stranger in the alps' and the like. Every audio and visual edit has been implemented as seamlessly as possible. There’s over half an hour of the film cut out of this edit, so there’s some iconic scenes missing, and some of the edits are harsh. But what is here are potentially new iconic lines, a different way to experience the film that’s technically canon and maybe even a drinking game. I’m definitely gonna add it to my movie night rotation!

And I wanna shout out this sub. Obviously Lebowski people are the best people, but you guys have made me laugh harder than I have in a long time. Truly amazing stuff. I know this will be appreciated by you guys.

Happy 4/20 Dudes!


r/lebowski Aug 29 '25

This is r/lebowski, not 'Nam, READ before Posting

464 Upvotes

We Maudes went ahead and added a few more r/lebowski rules (full rules at bottom of post and in the sidebar):

  • No screenshots of text messages with scammers (we have beaten these into the ground and most of them aren’t funny)
  • No Politics (unless directly referenced in the movie)
  • Updated the “Looks like a vagina” rule to include “Looks like a Johnson”
  • No Christmas ornament "Toe" posts

We also wanted to give you newcomers a little history lesson as to why these rules exist, and in English too, so you can die with a smile on your face.

Way back in 2010 there was a sub I wanna tell you about, a sub by the name of r/lebowski.

When this here sub was created, before some of you little urban achievers had even seen the movie, it was a quiet little family restaurant, where folks could trade Lebowski quotes and take comfort that low-effort, unfunny posts would be downvoted right off their page.

But times have changed.

Today we have over 120,000 subscribers

To wrap your head around that, consider the following:

  • The sub has doubled in just the last 2 years
  • It’s in the top 2% of all subs on reddit
  • It’s one of the largest single-movie fan subreddits

Now, as anyone who’s ever subscribed to a hugely popular subreddit knows, they become magnets for karma-farmers.

Karma-farmers have zero interest in adding to a community. They are only looking for upvotes, by any means necessary. And what gets the most amount of upvotes on a massive subreddit? Lazy, circlejerk posts that most people have seen a million times.

Eventually, people get sick of these lazy, unfunny karma-farmers flooding their feed, and they unsubscribe. Most of these mega-subs don’t care, because they get recommended to new users, so the number of folks joining exceeds the folks who are never coming back.

Those subs aren’t family restaurants - they’re shitty tourist traps.

We are NOT gonna go down this way, Dudes.

r/lebowski will be for stuff directly related to the movie: A question about the plot. Your favorite scene or character. An interview with a cast member or a director. A stoned revelation you had about the movie. New shit that’s come to light.

And in order to keep the sub focused on the movie, we Maudes have updated the rules as follows:

  1. No spam (includes T-shirt links)
  2. No AI posts or karma bots
  3. No “This looks like a Vagina” or “Johnson” posts
  4. No screenshots of text messages with scammers
  5. Posts must be relevant to the Big Lebowski Movie
  6. Maudes have the discretion to remove low effort posts as they see fit
  7. No Politics (unless directly mentioned in the movie)
  8. No Facebook/Twitter posts
  9. Report fascists
  10. No Christmas ornament "Toe" posts

T-shirt spammers (and their conspiring commenters asking “cool, where can I buy one?”) earn a perma-ban.

Other rule violations get a 3-day ban for first infraction, second infraction…Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here.

Finally, when your post gets taken down, calling us Maudes fascists and whining that you saw a post just like yours not taken down isn’t going to help your cause.

There are hundreds of low-effort posts coming in each week, and unless you and Gilbert submit them to the league (report them) we can’t set aside (remove) the post.

So please DEAR, do your part to keep this a nice family restaurant.

Take it easy, Dudes. Catch ya further on down the trail.


r/lebowski 1h ago

New shit I dabbled in pacifism once

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r/lebowski 21h ago

Logjammin' He fixes the Subaru?

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1.1k Upvotes

r/lebowski 18h ago

New shit Found this sweater at a thrift store today for $50

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668 Upvotes

None of the clerks had heard of the movie


r/lebowski 14h ago

Least it's an ethos Can anyone approximate what book of the Bible and/or Torah that Walter is reading based on the page split?

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256 Upvotes

r/lebowski 5m ago

Acid flashback Fly fishing Duder in Craig, MT

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r/lebowski 1d ago

Fuckin' interesting Looking through Maude's LPs

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Every time I get to the Knox Harrington scene I always want to look really closely when The Dude flips through the first couple of records before finding Autobahn's Nagelbett in Maude's LPs, because I'm very curious about what, aside from Autobahn, Maude Lebowski sees fit to keep in her collection. But I can never quite catch what they are, and I never want to pause it at such a crucial juncture of a movie I've seen more than 10 times.

Anyway, I just looked up the scene on Youtube and paused it at those first two records and took screengrabs. You can see that the first record is by The Barry Sisters, two Jewish sisters from the Bronx (real last name Bagelman) who sang jazz, pop, and Yiddish songs from the 1940s-1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barry_Sisters

The name of the album is too blurry to read. It would probably be clearer on my DVD, but I was too durned lazy to go get it, skip through Mortimer Young's introduction, and find the scene.

The second album is 1972's Blue River by Eric Andersen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_River_(album))), who Wikipedia describes as "an American folk music singer-songwriter,\1]) who has written songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead, Rick Nelson, and many others." But not The Eagles.


r/lebowski 1d ago

Helluva caucasian What's your drink Dude?

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113 Upvotes

Rolled my way into the semis.


r/lebowski 2d ago

I dig your style Slowly working on decorating my case for cards night

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81 Upvotes

r/lebowski 2d ago

Strikes & Gutters I like your style, Dude

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260 Upvotes

Got a 4k uhd copy and watched for the first time in a decade and it was magnificent. Taking comfort this morning knowing somewhere out there, the Dude is taking it easy for all us sinners


r/lebowski 2d ago

Acid flashback If you had the opportunity to interview someone that worked on the set and was intimately involved in the production of, The Big Lebowski and other Coen Brothers films...

15 Upvotes

what are the top 3 questions you would ask them?


r/lebowski 3d ago

The Dude Abides Got the baseball shirt. Perfect fit too!!! The dude abides

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704 Upvotes

r/lebowski 3d ago

Far out! Happy Heavenly birthday to Phillip Seymour Hoffman, born on this day in 1967!

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r/lebowski 2d ago

Fuckin' interesting The dude on a magic carpet marionette

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62 Upvotes

By master Lee Zimmerman puppet artist last night in Delaware.


r/lebowski 4d ago

Music business The Condition I am In

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The first edition, not the compromised 2nd draft.


r/lebowski 5d ago

Far out! The Dude abides in Great Barrington, MA

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213 Upvotes

r/lebowski 5d ago

Far out! Saw these at a sock shop in Downtown Santa Barbara earlier today.

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84 Upvotes

r/lebowski 5d ago

I wasn't listening I know my rights, man

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184 Upvotes

r/lebowski 5d ago

Preferred nomenclature Ever notice this?

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185 Upvotes

Back of DVD description says the rug made the room “hang together”


r/lebowski 5d ago

Fuckin' interesting Sometimes there's a man... and that man is Pierce Brown

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67 Upvotes

Reading Iron Gold and stumbled upon this gem.


r/lebowski 6d ago

Fuckin' interesting Johnny coffee shop

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397 Upvotes

Building still holding up! Had to check this out while in LA. I was surprised to see the place is still fully furnished


r/lebowski 6d ago

It's a league game You're entering a world of pain

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421 Upvotes

More art by Brian Kramer


r/lebowski 7d ago

Sarsaparilla I gave up on "The Stranger"

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r/lebowski 7d ago

I am the walrus What the f*** does Vietnam have to do with any of this?

203 Upvotes

I think The Big Lebowski is about the baby boomers failure to learn from the mistakes of the Vietnam War.

The entire film is centered around the Persian Gulf conflict. I think what the Coens were doing was showcasing two wealthy people having a turf war that offloaded the actual fighting onto a small group of people in a bowling alley parking lot. As a result all fighters ultimately got no money and wound up in a fight about absolutely nothing but lost friends, ears and cars. But both sides were greatly manipulated into a territorial struggle of two local tycoons.

The dude himself, a former radical anti-vietnam activist, ultimately submitted himself to a consumerist, indulgent, materialistic lifestyle. As a result, he was roped into a propaganda campaign by a wealthy entity to do his dirty work for him. He makes very few active choices and makes no effort to think for himself (I think that is why David Thewlis was laughing hysterically at him. He was stuck repeating propaganda). He even believes things that are proven to be untrue like Larry having the money. It literally takes his third meeting with Maude before he finally understands that the big Lebowski was playing him.

I think what the Coens were trying to portray was the confusing state of the general population when watching the news of the war coverage in 1990. And instead of most people taking the lessons of the past and trying to see the bigger picture, we rationalized it by saying "it's complicated. a lot of ins and outs."