Only in America: Drive-in debacle

A California drive-in movie complex sparked outrage by showing Fifty Shades of Grey on a screen next to The SpongeBob Movie.

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A California drive-in movie complex sparked outrage by showing Fifty Shades of Grey on a screen next to The SpongeBob Movie. Deborah Powell said her kids stopped watching the animated feature to gawk at another screen in full view of her car. "There was a woman being slapped, naked, bound up," Parker said. "It was too tempting."

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