That $800 save from backwards attic vents is such a good feeling, love when a small fix beats a big bill.

That has to be a weird feeling, sitting there expecting the maze scene and getting a hug instead. I have heard of bootleg tapes like that floating around, usually from old rental stores that taped stuff off TV or from private collections. Some of those alt cuts are real too, like workprints that leaked out before the studio locked the final version. There was a guy on a forum years back who found a copy of Blade Runner with the voiceover missing and a different final shot, so tapes like yours do turn up.

I gotta be honest, I don't get the appeal of the broken sub thing. Half the joke dies for me because I actually want to follow the story, and when the subs say stuff like "the moon loves the boy" mid battle it just yanks me right out of it. I had a bootleg set of Ranma years back with subs that drifted about four seconds behind the mouths, and after two episodes I was more annoyed than amused. There's a difference between a silly line here and there and a whole track that makes zero sense, and most of those flea market discs lean hard into the second one. So I'll take a clean rip with subs someone actually cared about over a funny mess any day. If you want the comedy, just watch a bad dub with the sound on, at least then the weirdness is part of the performance.