I hate syndication cuts...

"Did I hear someone say...BOX KITES?"

not to mention the special k thing in "joy of sect", or the my shoes are talking in homerpalooza....

Or Milhouse's "Let's go grapefruit, c'moooon, grapefruit" in "Das Bus." Now that they've cut that, it makes no sense when Sherri or Terri helps to turn the whole gang against him-- "Yeah, Milhouse, your stupid grapefruit almost got us killed!"

That wasn't a cut, unless you're in another country. Or unless your local station decided to go nuts and trim episodes itself (it wouldn't surprise me...in Cleveland, they recently compressed and made horrible cuts in various Seinfeld episodes, probably since the "stuff happens during the credits" format clashed with their evil plan...by "horrible" i mean both stupid things cut and badly done).

Katijaikat wrote:

Hey now, I saw my own tape and I have no idea why it was cut; I don't think I screwed it up, because there's no commercial break where I would have paused and missed it. I live in Chicago, where my daily dose of The Simpsons (just hook it directly to my veins!) is provided by WFLD-FOX.

I don't know what to tell you then. I guess your station cut up the tape to save even more time.

Katijaikat wrote:

And...it was the grapefruit juice that made Otto crash the bus to begin with!

Yes! That fruit was integral to the whole gestalt of the 1st act story-arc.

Redundant, isn't that? ;)

When I was in India for business, the ep with Homer going to get the Loch Ness monster was chopped when his skirt blew up.

You hate what now?