I just caught this movie on broadcast Antenna TV as a Saturday afternoon movie (there was dialog that was censored), including the Betty White example you list, and a pretty long scene with B Fonda. There was no 'gore' shown either.
Antenna TV did manage to leave in some subtle off-color dialog of Fonda's though, because they left in her comments about getting heads thrown at her, and how she couldn't take more of that... *smirk* She also went into how she ended up at that lake because her boss was having an affair with another woman in their workplace, and her, at the same time, so she got sent to the lake in an attempt to let things settle down. (Presumably the boss picked the other woman, and sent Fonda's character to "look at a tooth".)
My guess for Betty's foul mouth is that the typical TV dialog for 'seniors' runs that way. The only real difference there is the degree of subtlety in the dialog. In the example you gave, there is no attempt to make it subtle, (movie). The pattern is that people are old enough not to be subtle about what they mean, or some time in the past, they just got tired of being polite.
BTW, have you never seen her in HOT IN CLEVELAND? The dialog on that show gets pretty 'colorful' from time to time.
(But not as much as "2 BROKE GIRLS", which I do not know how it gets on broadcast TV, at all! Another example the old guy playing Raymond's father on EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND. He generally gets several 'zingers' out each show.
In more than one way, the movie "hung a lantern on it" with Fonda's line about 'we should be going to bed', then had her back that comment up several times to seemingly emphasize it more. She then said something like, "go to sleep", then "in separate tents", "to get some rest"... Then the writers changed up their tempo at the end of the movie when the 'Fish And Game warden' was leaving. There was some back-and-forth about whether Fonda was going back to the museum, whether she was going to stay, whether she was even going to ride back from the lake in the warden's truck.
Fonda sure seemed to have landed in the lake a lot during the movie though, and no matter when the filming was done (if it was actually done in Maine, where the movie was set), that water had to be COLD.
-- canoe got flipped out of the water,
-- got knocked out of a moving boat,
-- got knocked off the helicopter and into the lake,
-- ran into the lake trying to escape from the crocodile,
any more?
She never used foul language in the air broadcast show on Antenna TV, but they did some obvious voice-over on at least one of her scenes though, so it was not only Betty White with 'objectionable language'.
Another scene that may have been modified (or not) was the sheriff's Deputy (Meredith Salenger) line when she was trying to keep the bearded 'crocodile hunter' from going into the lake (toward the end of the movie) when her final argument was "I'll have sex with you!" (P.S. the guy continued putting on his scuba gear and went into the lake... of course *we* all knew that was not going to go smoothly.)
You wrote "a real shocker for their fans..."
Well, if you have done previous acting work and want to change your image, what else can you do? There is also a "TV" vs. "silver screen" vs. "stage" type of actor typecasting though, as well as "sweet" or "bad" images...
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