Cuts in the CN version of "Space Pilot 3000"...

S01E01 Space Pilot 3000retroJan 13, 2003, 8:44 PM ET4 years later4 posts by 3 posters
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Don Del Grande

Time to put my Picture-In-Picture to good use; I've simultaneously run the Cartoon Network airing of the first episode with Fox's first airing of it, and here's what's missing from the CN version:

First, there was the scene when Fry...no, wait, that was there.

Okay, there was that bit with Fry and Leela where she...no, that was there as well, wasn't it?

In the scene where Bender and Fry were in the suicide booth, they...no, that was intact.

How about when the two police officers...uh, no, that's there too.

Fry and Bender go...wait...no, it's there.

The Professor and...it's there.

Fry...there.

Th...ere.

Wait - I got one! Just before Bender put his arms back on, CN cut out the commercial break. That's as close to a cut in the CN episode as they got. (However, I'm keeping my original Fox recording, if for no other reason than it has the "JFK Jr. Airport" line...)

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Rev. Bleech_Don Del Grande

Was Leela misspelled as "Leila" in the closed captioning in the original FOX airing ?

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Wave SlaveRev. Bleech_

I also noticed the misspelling, which was corrected in the second episode which aired on Monday. I don't know about the original FOX version.

Looking for consistency and accuracy in closed captioning is akin to Diogenes' search for an honest man.

Wave SlaveDon Del Grande

I clocked the total running time of the pilot episode (CN's broadcast) at right about 22:20, so they couldn't have cut much, if anything.