Today the Mad Men blog over at AMC posted a “deleted scene” from The Wheel. Yay. Great. Awesome scene.
According to Wikipedia:
Deleted scene is a commonly-used term in the entertainment industry, especially the film and television industry, which usually refers specifically to scenes removed from or replaced by another scene in the final “cut”, or version, of a film (including television serials). It is occasionally, but rarely, referred to as a “cut scene”, but due to the usage of “cut scene” in reference to video games, the preference seems to be to call it “deleted” instead. A related term is “extended scene”, which refers to scenes (such as fight scenes or montages) which were shortened for the final version of the film. Often extended scenes will be included in collections of deleted scenes, or also referred to as deleted scenes themselves
So to be clear, this scene did air in the premiere airing of The Wheel. I remember it well. AMC simply edited it out for every subsequent viewing. And other things. There are lines missing from that episode as well. Every single episode that we are currently watching (unless you’re getting them through iTunes or you are watching from the very first run, but only the 10pm run and not the 11pm “encore” presentation) is already butchered.
I wrote about this when I first discovered it. It tangles my yo-yo string more than any of their other (numerous) sins.
Anyway, whatever. Watch it. (For some reason I was unable to post the video itself.) It’s brilliant, of course, and kinda gross, ’cause Pete’s being all dirty in his little boy pajamas, and extra weasley in his ‘get me the Clearasil account’ ways.
But let’s not pretend AMC doesn’t suck for taking the scene away from us to begin with.
April 11, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Wow, I thought I was going crazy. I *knew* I’d seen that before.
April 11, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Nope AG, not crazy. And hi, welcome :- )
April 11, 2008 at 8:48 pm
That totally pisses me off. I was watching ER at 10 on Thursdays, and that night there was another thing on at 10, so I Tivoed the 11pm showing figuring it would be identical to the 10pm—I mean, who wouldn’t figure that? And I never saw that scene before tonight.
It makes me FUME.
April 14, 2008 at 5:21 am
Ok, thanks for clearing things up. We had a discussion about it on my Vincent Kartheiser Livejournal the past days, wondering what’s going on, because some of us had seen the scene and some don’t… But if it was aired in different versions it explains it at least. Not that I appreciate it.
April 14, 2008 at 5:27 am
You’re welcome; we do what we can, around here.
And actually, your comments (yours and Austin’s) illustrate the other slice of the AMC sin… by calling it a deleted scene they are confusing the fuck out of people!
April 14, 2008 at 6:55 am
I agree, but I must say that I find the fact, that the episodes obviously were cut down worse than the confusion. I almost deleted the episodes I’ve got from TV due to space problems on my mac because the DVDs will be out soon. I never checked if the eps they air now are still complete.
April 14, 2008 at 8:48 am
Merl, I couldn’t agree more. It’s probably time for me to do a recap of AMC’s sins, but you can check our AMC category for many posts of what idiots they’ve been. How disrespectful of their fine product and of their viewers.
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