Syndication Cuts
BenC100
getj...@webtv.net (Jake Lennington) writes:
>I have Seasons 1-7 (all syndicated) and was wondering which episodes had
>the most scenes taken out of them.
I think "Bart the Fink" was exceptionally heavily edited, and all others,
except the following (listed in the FAQ; there may be more) have been cut
or compressed in soem way:
7G04 There's No Disgrace Like Home 8F23 Brother, Can You Spare Two
7F05 Dancin' Homer Dimes?
7F07 Bart vs. Thanksgiving 9F01 Homer the Heretic
8F03 Bart the Murderer 9F12 Brother from the Same Planet
8F11 Radio Bart 9F15 Last Exit to Springfield
8F15 Separate Vocations 2F08 Fear of Flying
8F19 Colonel Homer 2F32 'Round Springfield
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Ben...@aol.com
"Oh, it's not a swindle. What you do is, see, you give 'em all your
credit card numbers, and if one of them is lucky, they'll send you a prize."
--Grandpa Simpson
Steve Vizer
Usually, the cuts are very subtle. They're usually just a joke or two. If you
watch the newer one often enough and compare them to the syndicated versions you
can usually spot the changes. It never seems to me like more than 30 seconds
are cut out of any episode. The changes are most apparent on episodes from the
last few seasons.
epe...@pb.net wrote:
> > ben...@aol.com (BenC100) writes:
> > getj...@webtv.net (Jake Lennington) writes:
> >
> > >I have Seasons 1-7 (all syndicated) and was wondering which episodes had
> > >the most scenes taken out of them.
> >
> >>>>>>>
>
> I've compared the first-run broadcasts to the re-runs,
> and usually don't notice any scenes missing except for the
> opening credits. I am guessing that many episodes have been
> sped up, rather than cut. Though I haven't seen any noticable
> signs of this, either.
> The only times I noticed a scene cut from the body of
> an episode was in one of the Halloween episodes, which
> featured a story called "Time and Punishment." In a scene that
> has Homer being chased by dogs, Homer took a bunch of link
> sausages out of his shirt pocket, and said "These sausages
> will give me the extra strength I need to escape!" and ate them.
> The syndicated version retains the dog chase, but cuts out the
> sausage gag.
> Also, there was an episode that pened with a scene of
> the Simpsons watching live-action footage of a George Bush
> State of the Union address, in which Bush said, "I want to see an
> America more like the Waltons than the Simpsons," and Bart
> said, "Hey! We're just like the Waltons; we're praying for an end to
> the Depression, too!" I don't remember which episode it was, but
> that scene was never re-broadcast; perhaps because of its
> topicality.
> If it's any consolation, I once videotaped BOTH the
> prime-time version and the syndicated version of "Krusty Gets
> Kancelled." I meticulously compared the two versions, and did
> not notice ANYTHING missing from the syndicated version at all.
> However, I noticed that the prime-time version ran 23 minutes,
> and the syndicated version ran 21½ minutes. Either the cutting
> was incredibly subtle, or the whole thing was sped up.
> --Eric Perlin
> epe...@pb.net
Balrog
Jake Lennington wrote:
>
> I have Seasons 1-7 (all syndicated) and was wondering which episodes had
> the most scenes taken out of them.
>
>
> Jake L.
Get the episode capsules and read through them , as they have the script
(kind of its pretty complete) and look for stuff in there that you dont
recognise. I know that in Seperate Vocations, I never saw Lisa offered
a ciggarette by the bad chicks until I saw it in the capsules. God knows
how much I have missed
Balrog
Tim155
Go to http://www.snpp.com/sfiles/ for an extensively detailed guide to the
cut out materail in Syndication. 130 out of the 153 episodes have been
evaluated. Here's 3 more episodes not in the guide yet:
==[7F02]============================================ Simpson and Delilah ===
CUTS: 42 seconds GAINED: 42 seconds 19:54 / 20:38
No blackboard, no solo, original couch
~~~~~ ACT I <0:03> (0:03) 6:11 / 6:14
Man: The odds are Dimoxidil can help help me grow as
much or as little hair as I want to,
<0:03> % hey, today I’m gonna do it
Announcer: For your free brocure send five dollars to
Dimoxidil, 485 Hair City, Utah.
~~~~~ ACT II <0:07> (0:07) 5:45 / 5:52
Singer: You are so beautiful, to me,
<0:01> % Yeah
Singer: You are so beautiful, to me
~~
Burns: Fishstcks- what in blazes are you talking about?!
% Homer: Well, sir, they cut the head off the fish, and chop up
% the rest of the sticks. And then put seasoned breadcrumbs
<0:04> % on it...
% Burns: I know what fishticks are! Get to the point!
~~
Karl: Mr. Simpson, don’t sit on that thilthy thing one second
longer, they’ve given you, the key.
<0:02> % Homer: [gasp] they key.
~~~~~ ACT III <0:32> (0:32) 7:58 / 8:30
! The first scene of the act:
%The Simpsons yard is loaded with toys.
%Marge: Homer, between your hair care products and a new wardrobe,
%we’re not saving anything for a rainy day.
%Homer: Rainy day? There's never going to be a rainy day, Marge!-
%there’s not a cloud in the Simpson sky!'' [to Lisa] And what does my
<0:19> % little girl want?
%Lisa: An absence of mood swings and some stability in my life.
%Homer: Uh... How about a pony?
%Lisa: Okay!
~~
Burns: Now, go and make an example of this hoologan.
<0:03> % Smithers: with pleasure sir
~~
Smithers: Dead man comming through.
<0:03> % Burns: Well, well, well. Our dashing young junior executive.
You made a hollow mochary of our morning meeting Simpson. I
should fire you on the spot!- but, I’m not going to
Homer: Uh, why?
%Burns: Simpson, how old do you think I am?
<0:07> % Homer: I dunno. A hundred and two?
%Burns: [sadly] I'm only eighty-one...
==[ 2F17 ]=========================================== Radioactive Man ===
CUTS: 54 seconds GAINED: 82 seconds 19:55 / 21:17
Original short opening
~~~~~ ACT I <0:08> (0:20) 7:29 / 7:09
The hospital erects a sign: "Our extra patients make patient extras".
% Homer flips through the channels quickly, and each person he
flips past
<0:08> % says one syllable in the sentence, "Everyone is talking about
%Radioactive Man, y'all."
At Moe's, Moe shows a Little Rascals poster to
the bar denizens, with a young Morris Szyslak surrounded by the gang.
~~~~~ ACT II <0:46> (0:59) 8:30 / 7:31
Assistant: Ahem, I've got an idea Mr. Simpson. Why don't you get
something to eat from our food truck?
[Homer flies off; a cloud of dust retains his form]
Mist -- Mr. Simpson? [pokes at dust]
% Krusty walks into a trailer.
%
% Krusty: You've got to give me the part of Crispy the Clown!
% Director: I'm sorry: you're wrong for the part.
% Krusty: But look at my range! [holds out photograph]
<27> % [pictures show Krusty laughing, frowning, saluting in a
% sailor cap, and looking through a microscope]
% Assistant: Well, I'm sorry: Crispy the Clown has been cast. But
I will
% hire you for Angry the Crown, Silly Sailor, and Dr. Clownius.
%Krusty: I _won't_ let you down. [the men leave]
% Well, I _might_ let you down in Silly Sailor.
~~
X-ray machine blasts Milhouse's face; his skull becomes visible
% Nelson, Ralph, and Martin watch a man paint black patches on a white
% horse.
% Martin: Uh, Sir, why don't you just use real cows?
<14> % Painter: Cows don't look like cows on film. You gotta use horses.
%Ralph: What do you do if you want something that looks like a horse?
% Painter: Ehh, usually we just tape a bunch of cats together.
~~
The damage left in the wake of the acid wave is total. "Where in the
hell is Milhouse?" asks the director angrily. "That one-shot
cost us a
million dollars!"
% Krusty is more interested in talking to the producer
<0:05> % about the coffee.
~~~~~ ACT III <---> (0:03) 5:15 / 5:18
==[ 3F18 ]======================================= 22 Short Films About
Springfield ===
CUTS: 27 seconds GAINED: 90 seconds 20:09 / 21:39
Original couch
~~~~~ ACT I <0:04> (0:28) 5:48 / 6:32
Chairman: Dr. Nick, this malpractice committee has received a few
complaints against you. [reads from clipboard] Of the 160
gravest charges, the most troubling are performing major
operations with a knife and fork from a seafood restaurant.
Riviera: But I cleaned them with my napkin.
%Chairman: Misuse of the cadavers.
<04> %Riviera: I get here earlier when I drive in the carpool lane.
An orderly barges in, and yells that there's a crazy man with a
scalpel in E/R demanding to see a quack. It's up to Dr. Nick.
~~~~~ ACT II <0:23> (0:41) 8:08 / 8:49
Pedro: Ah, tiempo para relaxar en paz y quieto.
[opens a cabinet full of oranges which wallop his head]
!Ay, naranjas en la cabeza!
[flails about in his home until he finds himself stuck on
a chandelier]
!Ay, una candelabra precariosa!
[the chandelier is pulled free of the ceiling; bringing the
ceiling down with it]
%Emma: [walking down and seeing the disaster] !Ay!
%Mira que cosa tan terrible, yo no puedo entender algo como
%esto, como puedo vivir con un hombre tan irresponsible.
<23> %!No, no, no, no no!
%[walks off, handing Pedro a divorce paper]
%Ay, ?donde esta mi tequila?
%The rest of the house crumbles.
~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:07) 4:56 / 5:16