The Simpsons Archive's Simpsons Syndication Cuts Guide Season Ten (1998-1999) "Syndication... is there anything they can't do?" Version 2.25 - 07 Apr 2001 Last updated 04 Oct 2003 Maintained by Matt Garvey Guide created by Frederic Briere Contributions from Chad Lehman and Tim Reardon [===========================[Season Ten Summary]============================] Story cut episodes: 5F19, AABF02, AABF03, AABF07, AABF09, AABF10, AABF13. Compressed episodes: All episodes were compressed. Changed content: AABF10. Story time cut: 3:03 (3 min 3 sec) Total time gained: 29:45 (29 min 45 sec) Notes: One will notice the lack of cuts in Season 10. Woo hoo! It seems that they've opted more for compression than cuts. By Season 11 we notice that cuts are almost non-existent. Too bad we can't apply this type of syndication to some butchered classics. *Sigh* [-ed] ==[ 5F20 ]============================================ Lard of the Dance === CUTS: 0 seconds GAINED: 77 seconds 20:01 / 21:18 Original short opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:28) 6:24 / 6:52 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:29) 6:47 / 7:16 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:20) 6:50 / 7:10 ==[ 5F21 ]============================== The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace === CUTS: 0 seconds GAINED: 75 seconds 19:39 / 20:54 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:25) 7:01 / 7:26 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:25) 6:58 / 7:23 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:25) 5:40 / 6:05 ==[ 5F22 ]============================================== Bart the Mother === CUTS: 0 seconds GAINED: 81 seconds 20:02 / 21:23 Original short opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:21) 5:45 / 6:06 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:31) 8:15 / 8:46 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:29) 6:02 / 6:31 ==[ AABF01 ]===================================== Treehouse of Horror IX === CUTS: 0 seconds GAINED: 80 seconds 19:50 / 21:10 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:29) 7:43 / 8:12 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:25) 5:05 / 5:30 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:26) 7:02 / 7:28 ==[ 5F19 ]==================================== When You Dish Upon a Star === CUTS: 26 seconds GAINED: 73 seconds 19:18 / 20:31 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <0:26> (0:37) 4:35 / 5:12 Homer: Come on, boy. Let's get me a six-pack. Man: Uh, sir, you can't operate a boat under the influence of alcohol. Homer: Oh, that sounds like a wager to me. % Homer, Marge, Bart and Maggie sit in the boat, and Lisa is on skis, % standing on the bank holding a tow rope. % % Homer: Life jackets? % Bart: Check. % Homer: Tow rope? % Marge: [grabbing it] Secure. % Homer: Skier? % Lisa: [raising hand] Ready. % Homer: Here we go... [Homer takes off fast] <0:24> % Bart: [immediately] She's down. % % The tow rope is skipping across the water. % % Homer: Oh, look at it go! % Marge: [calling] Stay there, honey. We'll come back for you. % % Homer shifts the boat into reverse. The propellor gets nearer, and % nearer. Lisa gets scared. % % Lisa: Whoa! AAAH! [ducks underwater, then resurfaces after the boat % passes] Marge: [driving boat] How's he doing? Bart: I don't know. I think Dad might be a little heavy for parasailing. Homer: [tiptoeing across water] Faster, Marge! Faster! <0:02> % [looking over his shoulder at turtles] The snapping turtles % are massing! The boat approaches the beach, and Homer floats over it. ! Some people will be upset at this Lisa scene being cut; others will ! be ticked at the snapping turtle joke's demise. Myself, I thought ! the shot of Marge sitting in the boat in her life jacket was too ! sexy to cut =) ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:24) 7:55 / 8:19 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:12) 6:48 / 7:00 ==[ AABF02 ]======================================== D'Ohin' in the Wind === CUTS: 51 seconds GAINED: 81 seconds 19:07 / 20:28 Original opening ! The 30 seconds saved by compression should have been enough to ! take the episode below 20 minutes, without the need for cuts. ~~~~~ ACT I <0:04> (0:19) 7:33 / 7:52 Burns: Guh--you dunderheaded stooges are the worst bunch of--! The commercial ends. Marge: Hey! [as family applauds] Homer: Pretty good, huh? <0:04> % Marge: Well, it's... better than that last Barbra Streisand movie. Lisa: I didn't quite get the point of it, Dad... ~~~~~ ACT II <0:47> (0:54) 6:09 / 7:03 % The entire first scene of Act II is cut. Establish house. Homer % stands in the living room, wearing his poncho. % % Homer: Okay. If I'm going to be a real hippie, I have to learn % from the master--Mr. Bob "flower child" Hope. [pops tape in % VCR] % Bob: [walks out on stage; making peace sign] Hey peace man, far % out. Groovy, I'm a hippie. [canned laugher] Ladies and % gentlemen, Miss Jill St. John! [applause] % Jill: [she walks on, and gives him a kiss] Hey, Bob. I just came % to invite you to the love in... % Bob: [purrs; audience laughs] % Jill: I got you a date with a perfect flower child... Phyllis <0:47> % Diller. % % To a drumbeat, she walks on in hippie garb, cigarette holder. % Audience applauds. % % Phyllis: [raspy] Let's get it on... [laughs] % Bob: [the flower in his hair wilts] Now I know how Dean Rusk % feels. [canned laughs] Good night, everybody. % % Homer sits on the floor taking notes. % % Homer: [while writing] Bummer... love in... Dean Rusk... by % George, I've got it! % % Homer sits at the dinner table, and leans his chair back to put his feet up. ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:08) 5:25 / 5:33 ==[ AABF03 ]============================================= Lisa Gets an A === CUTS: 19 seconds GAINED: 74 seconds 19:12 / 20:26 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <0:03> (0:14) 6:23 / 6:37 Marge: Oh, you don't sound so good. We'd better get you some cold medicine. % Homer: No problem, I picked some up at the store. [produces a box of <0:03> % cold tablets on a toothpick] % Marge: [disappointed] Tsk, Oh... ~~~~~ ACT II <0:16> (0:22) 5:55 / 6:17 Homer: Come on boy, dig in. It'll give you a big, strong thorax. Pinchy pulls the sausage links into the wading pool, and Homer with them. Homer: Why you little-- Gah! % Pinchy cowers against the side of the pool. % % Homer: [keeling in the pool] Aw, look at him cower... just like the <0:16> % boy. I can't stay mad at such a helpless little mammal. % [Pinchy perks up, and squirts Homer in the face; he laughs] % Oh, I'm going to get you for that, you little scamp! % [splashes Pinchy] Here, here--take that, Pinchy! [giggles] ! Homer bonds with his lobster; important to the plot, but it gets ! axed. ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:38) 6:54 / 7:32 ! Some heavy duty compression, here. ==[ AABF04 ]========================== Homer Simpson in "Kidney Trouble" === CUTS: 0 seconds GAINED: 75 seconds 19:11 / 20:26 Original opening ! Heavy compression in ACTS II & III ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:05) 7:08 / 7:13 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:21) 4:11 / 4:32 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:49) 7:52 / 8:41 ==[ AABF05 ]========================================= Mayored to the Mob === CUTS: 0 seconds GAINED: 80 seconds 19:08 / 20:28 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:28) 5:51 / 6:19 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:28) 5:33 / 6:01 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:24) 7:44 / 8:08 ==[ AABF06 ]========================================== Viva Ned Flanders === CUTS: 0 seconds GAINED: 74 seconds 19:14 / 20:28 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:19) 5:19 / 5:38 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:31) 8:23 / 8:54 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:24) 5:32 / 5:56 ==[ AABF07 ]================================= Wild Barts Can't Be Broken === CUTS: 30 seconds GAINED: 86 seconds 19:02 / 20:28 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <0:30> (0:51) 5:30 / 6:21 Homer: So who won... the losers? Bart: No, they lost. Homer: Heh, heh, heh. Losers. % Marge: But only by two points. And they didn't resort to stealing % bases like the other team, so it's kind of a moral victory. % Lisa: [reading program] With a little middle relief, they might <0:16> % even make the playoffs. % Homer: [smug] You'll be in your cold, cold grave before THAT ever % happens. % Marge: [annoyed] Homer, would you _please_ stop talking about the % children's graves? Six Months Later--Homer walks into Moe's. ! Sloppy cut... they cut in late, right into the scene music as Homer ! enters Moe's. Very obvious cut. ~~ The Isotopes win the game, Homer dumps a beer on his head, and Barney shakes up a keg--releasing it on Kent Brockman. He then chugs it down. % Moe: [sadly stirring food on habachi; sighs] Heh. nobody touched % my rumaki. % Homer: Woo! Rumaki! [picks it up and dumps it on Moe, who cringes] <0:06> % % Cut to: Homer driving down the street, head out the window, holding % a beer. % % Homer: Yeah! [o.h. shot, weaving from lane to lane; honking horn] Iso-topes! % Woo! % % Pan over to Barney, who chugs two beers. Carl and Lenny punch each % other in the face, in the back seat. <0:08> % % Lenny: I-so [punches] topes! % Carl: Ugh! I-so [punches] TOPES! % Lenny: Rrr! % Carl: [off-screen; over Springfield Elementary sign] Isotopes! % [pull back to show school] [as they drive by the school] You know what I'm sayin'? Barney: Yeah... ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:11) 6:25 / 6:36 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:24) 7:07 / 7:31 ==[ AABF08 ]====================================== Sunday, Cruddy Sunday === CUTS: 0 seconds GAINED: 70 seconds 19:15 / 20:25 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:25) 7:03 / 7:28 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:22) 5:51 / 6:13 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:23) 6:21 / 6:44 ==[ AABF09 ]=========================================== Homer to the Max === CUTS: 7 seconds GAINED: 81 seconds 19:07 / 20:28 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:22) 5:56 / 6:18 ~~~~~ ACT II <0:07> (0:25) 5:05 / 5:30 Producer: The thirteen of us began with a singular vision: Titanic meets Frasier! % Woman: But then we found out that ABC had a similar project in <0:07> % development with Annie Potts and Jeremy Piven. % Homer: Who's Jeremy Piven? % Guy 1: We don't know. Guy 2: But it scared the hell out of us, so we slapped together a cop show instead. ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:34) 8:06 / 8:40 ==[ AABF11 ]============================================= I'm With Cupid === CUTS: 0 seconds GAINED: 79 seconds 19:09 / 20:28 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:24) 6:00 / 6:24 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:23) 5:57 / 6:20 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:32) 7:12 / 7:44 ==[ AABF10 ]================ Marge Simpson in "Screaming Yellow Honkers" === CUTS: 14 seconds GAINED: 76 seconds 19:12 / 20:28 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <0:14> (0:42) 7:51 / 8:33 Gil: Who's voice is that? Is that Fred? [distraught] Oh, you said it was over. No, don't put him on! [friendly] Neh-- hello, Fred! Heh--hi! % Stan tears off a computer print out. % % Stan: Ok, you've got the under coating, clear coating, rust <0:14> % proofing, underguard spray, [Homer looks spaced-out] gravel % guard XJ, Vitaseal, Repelzit-- but, if you wanna protect the % paint, you'd BETTER keep it in this tent. [throws green tent % on table] % Homer: [excited] Will do. Stan: Ok, here's how your lease breaks down. ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:18) 5:57 / 6:15 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:16) 5:24 / 5:40 ! In the original version with short credits, Homer starts reading his ! retraction immediately over the Exec credits, and it all finishes in ! time for the Gracie Films logo (where the gunshots are heard). In ! syndication, there is silence over the Execs, presumably to keep it ! all on one side of the commercial break; after the gunshots, the ! normal theme starts "in progress," and the gunshots are heard again ! at Gracie Films (talk about overkill! ha-ha! ha...). I have no idea ! what satellite viewers saw. [-mg] ==[ AABF12 ]========================================= Make Room for Lisa === CUTS: 0 seconds GAINED: 78 seconds 19:09 / 20:27 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:25) 5:56 / 6:21 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:23) 5:12 / 5:35 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:30) 8:01 / 8:31 ==[ AABF13 ]========================================= Maximum Homerdrive === CUTS: 36 seconds GAINED: 78 seconds 19:11 / 20:29 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:29) 6:49 / 7:18 ~~~~~ ACT II <0:31> (0:44) 5:19 / 6:03 Gil: [pulling his tie] Oh, that's just what I need... another piranha in the tank. % Cut to: Outside Joe's Diner "Now aware of camp value!". Red's truck % is parked outside. Inside, Bart and Homer eat at the bar, as a % waitress approaches with coffee. % % Gwen: [offering coffee] Little more High Test, darlin'? % Homer: Sure thing, [reading nametag] Gwen. % Gwen: [fills his cup] I'll be right back with your pie, hun. % [leaves] % Homer: [fondly] Ah. That's a nice friendly gal. <0:31> % Bart: Yeah. % Homer: Wouldn't it be great to live right here at the truck stop, % watching all the people come and go [watching beautiful woman % pass] ... you could have a different best friend every day. % Bart: I suppose. [continues eating] % Homer: Great. [pointing over shoulder w/thumb] I'll write your % mother and tell her the marriage is off. And then, when the % paperwork is done, [wistful] I'll make Gwen my wife. % Gwen: [returns with pie] Will that be all, sweetie? % Homer: [sexy] For now... Marge finishes installing the doorbell. ~~~~~ ACT III <0:05> (0:05) 7:03 / 7:08 Trucker 1: Nah. Let's just find some other scam. % Trucker 2: Hey. How 'bout bootleggin' Beanie Babies? % Truckers: [randomly] Sounds good to me--oh, I like that. Red's rig arrives in Atlanta "Home of Ted Turner's mood swings" ! Strangely enough, there is no compression in this act; after two ! compressed acts, they stop--a first for the syndicators. It seems ! five seconds saved by compression would have made this last cut ! unnecessary ==[ AABF14 ]===================================== Simpsons Bible Stories === CUTS: 0 seconds GAINED: 76 seconds 19:16 / 20:32 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:28) 5:47 / 6:15 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:26) 5:29 / 5:55 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:22) 8:00 / 8:22 ==[ AABF15 ]============================================ Mom and Pop Art === CUTS: 0 seconds GAINED: 71 seconds 19:08 / 20:19 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:38) 7:48 / 8:26 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:21) 4:43 / 5:04 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:12) 6:37 / 6:49 ==[ AABF16 ]============================== The Old Man and the C Student === CUTS: 0 seconds GAINED: 82 seconds 19:07 / 20:29 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:38) 7:47 / 8:25 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:32) 5:36 / 6:08 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:12) 5:44 / 5:56 ==[ AABF17 ]==================================== Monty Can't Buy Me Love === CUTS: 1 second GAINED: 77 seconds 18:52 / 20:08 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:36) 7:23 / 7:59 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:29) 5:25 / 5:54 ! Previous versions of the guide said the one-second establishing shot ! of the plant at the start of the act was missing, but it's in the ! syndicated version I have - a local glitch for Chad? [-mg] ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:11) 6:04 / 6:15 ! 18:51 is the shortest synd ep. I've seen since I took over. ! (18:52 now, Chad... [-mg]) ==[ AABF18 ]==================================== They Saved Lisa's Brain === CUTS: 0 seconds GAINED: 78 seconds 19:09 / 20:27 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:30) 6:29 / 6:59 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:32) 5:50 / 6:22 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:16) 6:50 / 7:06 ==[ AABF20 ]================================== Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo === CUTS: 0 seconds GAINED: 84 seconds 19:04 / 20:28 Original opening ~~~~~ ACT I <----> (0:32) 6:27 / 6:59 ~~~~~ ACT II <----> (0:33) 5:55 / 6:28 ~~~~~ ACT III <----> (0:19) 6:42 / 7:01 ==[ ---- ]==================================================================