Ferris Bueller's Day Off on Comedy Central

[MarcB]

I can accept the fact that Comedy Central inserted an extra 22 minutes worth of commercials into the movie yesterday so that it aired 4:01PM-6:23PM, after-all it is a Viacom owned network like sister network TVLAND.

What I can't accept is the fact they cut out the last scene of the movie. The scene where the credits are rolling and Mr. Rooney is walking along the sidewalk and then gets picked up by the school bus. Comedy Central had the credits at the bottom of the screen in the final scene in Ferris's bedroom where he's making a promise he'll ever call out sick from school again. They had that as the end of the movie and then started the next movie.

 

[RadioMan203]

It's stuff like that which is why,given a choice, I will never watch a Viacom property. Not having cable makes it even easier!

 

[rnigma1]

I guess they also cut out the bit where Ferris tells the audience "Are you still here? Go home!"

 

[WMC2006]

Ben Stein was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel a week or two ago and did the whole bit, from memory.

Remember the history lesson? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhiCFdWeQfA

And class attendance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7zYyTotwfE

Here's his appearance on Kimmel. The Bueller stuff starts at about 2:25 into the clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldiaWvki0Nw

 

[crainbebo]

Unbelievable! Now we can't watch a movie because the networks take OUT scenes from the movie for GREED (aka commercials). Can't stand that.

Thankfully I have over 350 movies on both VHS and DVD so I don't get to see cut out scenes for commercials. (I do have some home-recorded tapes with TV movies including the original commercials - which are fun to see especially if they are from the 1980s...)

-crainbebo

 

[ansky212]

You'll notice every movie that airs on network TV is prefaced by "This film has been edited for content, and to run in the time allotted".

 

[DiamondJoe]

Or in the case of a Viacom-owned network, the time is allotted so that they can run more spots...

... they cut out the last scene of the movie. The scene where the credits are rolling and Mr. Rooney is walking along the sidewalk and then gets picked up by the school bus...

Maybe they didn't think it was funny?

 

[fybush]

It's 2013. Anyone who cares in even the slightest bit about the integrity of film content has an embarrassment of resources. Want to see Ferris intact? 8 bucks a month gets you Netflix and access to a universe of movies and TV. You can get a used DVD or VHS copy for as little as $1.98 on Amazon, and probably even less at your local thrift shop. For a buck or two, you can get hundreds of movies (but maybe not backlist stuff like Ferris) at your nearest Redbox. If your local public library is anything like mine, there's an ever-growing DVD section where you can borrow it for free. My cable company has hundreds of movies rotating through its free on demand selection, too. Every last one of those options is unedited and commercial-free.

So by the time you get down through the plethora of content options to "basic cable in the middle of the day," you're pretty much looking at "filler between episodes of Tosh.0 and the Daily Show." It's hard for me to get too worked up about whatever mangling gets done to the content at that stage of its life cycle.