Shame on Catchy Comedy for Editing the Classic Sock & a Sock-Shoe & a Shoe Sequence!

[Jack1000]

Guys,

I don't know if Catchy Comedy is doing its own edits. But if you watch the episode "Gloria Sings the Blues", the classic "Sock and a Sock and a Shoe and a Shoe" sequence is EDITED! One of the funniest scenes in TV history! Who are the idiots that make these decisions?

I know some time has to come out to allow for more ad revenue, but to edit THAT scene??? OMG! That is criminal!

Jack

[Alan Brady's Hair]

It's absurd. They have some dullard do it, who is mostly scared of cutting some tiny plot point that no one cares about, so he or she goes after long set piece.

[biffbronson]

Wow. The most memorable scene of the ep, and overall for fans. My memory is fading though, I still need it on DVD.

For anyone unfamiliar, I recall it goes that Mike Stivic is putting on a sock & a shoe on one of his bare feet, before repeating on the other foot. Archie sees that and argues it should be sock - sock, shoe - shoe. There's discussion on what happens if there's a fire and Mike has to leave the house with one foot bare. He points out that he can hop on the other (shoed) foot, keeping from getting 2 wet socks.

[24/7 reruns]

Here's the clip.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=prRtcQz8Uqk&feature=share

And here's Rob Reiner expanding how it came about.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=B7xd2yg2osY&feature=share

Really too bad that it was cut out. I wonder if MeTV did the same thing.

[TVFactFan]

I think Catchy comedy has the local syndicated edits which was always awful.

[i29u]

I remember those edited versions. One edited version WTBS used to show- In the first season show with Mike's friend Roger. Roger's showing pictures of London, England; he picks up the first photo and remarks, "The first one's the cornball of all time... the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace," and then a moment later, he gets out another picture, and says, "Here's the old stand-by, Big Ben," but in the WTBS version, he says, "The first one's the cornball of all time... Big Ben," The CBS and DVD versions didn't have the edit (but I think some or all of the 1991-92 CBS versions were missing the endings).

I hate when the cut out some of the funniest parts of shows and movies. In the Andy Griffith Show where Barney buys a motorcycle, the very funny part at the end where Andy thinks Barney bought an army tank is always cut out by TV Land. In a first season I Dream Of Jeannie episode, Nick At Nite cut out the scene where Jeannie (pretending to be a nurse) is grabbed by a lecherous hospital patient (Nick At Nite edited out all of Maureen McCormick's scene in the same episode, as well). LOGO (and presumably Antenna TV, too) cut out the part of the scene in the It's A Living fire at the hotel episode where Sonny sings, "Come on baby, light my fire," presumably because someone wanted more in music royalties than someone else was willing to pay.

They can also ruin shows by cutting scenes that are essential to the plot. I've seen shows where they made reference to things that happened in scenes that were cut out- which leaves viewers confused. When FamilyNet (now a cowboy-oriented channel) showed the IDOJ episode where Mrs. Bellows' appearance is changed by Jeannie's face cream, they originally ran it apparently uncut; however, in at least one later airing, they cut out the entire transformation scene at the beginning!

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Originally Posted by i29u

I remember those edited versions. One edited version WTBS used to show- In the first season show with Mike's friend Roger. Roger's showing pictures of London, England; he picks up the first photo and remarks, "The first one's the cornball of all time... the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace," and then a moment later, he gets out another picture, and says, "Here's the old stand-by, Big Ben," but in the WTBS version, he says, "The first one's the cornball of all time... Big Ben," The CBS and DVD versions didn't have the edit (but I think some or all of the 1991-92 CBS versions were missing the ndings).

I hate when the cut out some of the funniest parts of shows and movies. In the Andy Griffith Show where Barney buys a motorcycle, the very funny part at the end where Andy thinks Barney bought an army tank is always cut out by TV Land. In a first season I Dream Of Jeannie episode, Nick At Nite cut out the scene where Jeannie (pretending to be a nurse) is grabbed by a lecherous hospital patient (Nick At Nite edited out all of Maureen McCormick's scene in the same episode, as well). LOGO (and presumably Antenna TV, too) cut out the part of the scene in the It's A Living fire at the hotel episode where Sonny sings, "Come on baby, light my fire," presumably because someone wanted more in music royalties than someone else was willing to pay.

They can also ruin shows by cutting scenes that are essential to the plot. I've seen shows where they made reference to things that happened in scenes that were cut out- which leaves viewers confused. When FamilyNet (now a cowboy-oriented channel) showed the IDOJ episode where Mrs. Bellows' appearance is changed by Jeannie's face cream, they originally ran it apparently uncut; however, in at least one later airing, they cut out the entire transformation scene at the beginning!

Luckily most of these shows are run unedited on different streaming services, and of course on DVDs as well.

[BestTVever]

I was a kid when this aired and it was so clever and funny my parents were talking about it with family days later. It was brilliant and Carol saw it and made it work.
It shows you the power of money. Who cares about great scenes, they need to edit as much out to cram in as many commercials as possible.
The Golden Girls gets the worst edits because the scripts were so cleverly written that the edited out parts are key to understanding the plot. Without knowing what was edited out, so much of the script does not make sense. I suspect this is why this part was edited out. It was a joke but removing the joke did not have impact on the plot of this script.