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{{quote|One of my favorite parts of a DVD is the part where you get to see all the best scenes in the movie that weren't ''in'' the movie.|'''[[Daffy Duck]]''' in the Deleted Scenes featurette on the ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action|Looney Tunes Back in Action]]'' DVD}}
[[How Did We Miss This One?]] Don't worry, it'll be included as an extra on the
A scene made for a work (in part or completed), but not included in the final release. These are often put back in special editions or included on the DVD release. They are also sometimes included in [[Bowdlerise|heavily-cut]] broadcast TV versions of films to stretch them back to a reasonable length.
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Scenes can be cut for a number of different reasons. Often the scenes are of much lower quality, so they were deleted for good reason. Yet some may contain details that appeal to audiences. Among the reasons include:
* Reducing the overall running time, especially for theaters where a lower running time means an increased number of showings.
* Improving the pacing and story by cutting out the excess fat.
* Getting rid of what turned out to be a bad scene or a poorly executed sequence.
* A change in the productions aim to ensure a different rating. Quite often it is because of the desire to include the PG-13 crowd from an R rating. More rarely it is an angle to make it [[Darker and Edgier]] and appeal to the R crowd.
* A change to make the work [[Executive Meddling|more popular with test audiences]], either the inclusion of a scene to clarify an obscure scene.
* A massive [[Revised Ending|change to the ending]].
* More cynically, some works might be suspected of having "Deleted Scenes" just so they can be included in the [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition]] or adding extra sex and violence for an [[Unrated Edition]].
If the scenes are included into the flow of the work, then its a [[
In some cases an entire sub-plot can be eliminated through these deleted scenes and crafty editing on other scenes. In other cases an apparent [[Plot Hole]] can occur because the necessary information was lost from the deleted scene, although the reverse is also true that the [[Plot Hole]] is formed ''because'' of the scene. In animation 'deleted scenes' are often cut during the storyboard phase. Since no animation would have been completed for those because of the cost of animating it, they just show the storyboards with voiceover.
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Not to be confused with [[Cutscene]].
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* The
▲== [[Plot Hole]] Fixing Deleted Scenes ==
▲* The recent ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' has a slight skewed chronology because of a deleted scene. Without giving anything away, the bad guy did not spend years dicking around. He and his crew were captured and held prisoners by the Klingons during that time.
** Similarly, there's a deleted scene just before the one where young Kirk steals the car: the teenager he passes on the road is his older brother George, and he steals the car and takes it on a joyride because its owner had just kicked George out of the house.
* A deleted scene in ''[[Star Wars]] Episode I: [[The Phantom Menace]]'' reveals why Obi-Wan didn't just use his own lightsaber to destroy the droids chasing him in the swamp. (Evidently, you don't want to drop a lightsaber in swamp water if you can help it.)
** Another deleted scene shows Anakin fighting a young Rodian (Wald? Greedo?) which explains why Qui-Gon was treating his wounds in the next scene.
* A scene cut from the initial airing of ''[[Turtles Forever]]'' had Karai explaining {{spoiler|how she found Ch'rell and the Technodome}}
* The extended version of ''[[Independence Day]]'' features a scene explaining how they managed to upload a virus onto the alien mothership by using a laptop. Apparently, the Earth technology is compatible with the ones Aliens have due to it being reverse-engineered from the Roswell UFO (same as with Megatron from live-action ''Transformers'').
* A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lntcg3epiJo deleted scene from late in season four] of ''[[Oz]]'' shows Chris Keller moving back into Tobias Beecher's cell, thereby explaining why he is suddenly there again in a later episode.
* The movie ''In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale'' had the editors cut out a scene after a duel between the real king's brother (who wanted to be king and shot his brother with an arrow in the middle of a battle) and the commander of the army. After the main character comes in and is proclaimed king, the commander grabs the brother and slits his throat. This leaves viewers questioning "What happened?" as in the theatrical cut the guy never appears again, seemingly vanishing into thin air.
* ''Snake Eyes'': The original plan for the climactic chase scene involved Nic Cage having to go through a flooded tunnel, an event he later claims to have a recurring nightmare about in the epilogue, and actually filmed but replaced in the actual movie with a much less-exciting tunnel-free chase.
* One of the deleted scenes featured on the ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'' DVD shows why the Acme VPs had to press their buzzers whenever they spoke up. One of the VPs makes the mistake of not doing so and [[You Have Failed Me...|is punished by being wrapped up in plastic that will surely suffocate him]].
{{quote|'''Bugs Bunny:''' Folks, keep your executives fresh as the day they were fired with new Execuwrap! Ehehehehehe!
'''Daffy Duck:''' I love this scene. They couldn't have cut one of ''your'' scenes to keep this in? }}
* The ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros]]'' movie had a lost scene storyboarded as part of the sequence introducing the de-evolution chamber. Koopa catches one of his technicians sneezing and has the poor guy turned into primordial ooze as he demands Mario and Luigi tell him where [[MacGuffin|the rock]] is. This scene explains why, when Mario and Luigi push Koopa into the devo-chair immediately following, there's some slimy substance on the ground at that point; it's the remains of the unfortunate technician.
* An early ''[[South Park]]'' episode had Shelly lighting Stan on fire and then putting him out. This was cut because of the recent outcry [[Moral Guardians]] had made claiming (incorrectly) that ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' had encouraged an accident involving fire. This results in a scene where Stan is laying in a pool of water for no reason.
* A deleted scene in ''[[Harry Potter
** A shot in the ''
** A deleted scene from ''Deathly Hallows
* A deleted scene in ''[[Die Hard]] 2'' showed that the Mooks that McClane takes out on the Skywalk at Dulles acquired their disguises by killing two painters and stealing their van and uniforms.
* The 2007 [[Live Action Adaptation]]
* The reason Harry's butler waited until ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man 3]]'' to explain how he knew Norman's death was an accident was because a deleted scene showed that he was a hallucination.
* ''[[Monkeybone]]'' has tons of Deleted Scenes thanks to [[Executive Meddling]]. No major plot points, but a lot of little things are suddenly explained after seeing them.
* In ''[[Legend]]'' there was an extended opening sequence involving the goblins trying and failing to capture the unicorns. When they report back to [[Big Bad|Big D]], Blunder interrupts to brag about his role in the attempt and is punished for speaking out of turn by having his left hand turned into a chicken foot by Darkness, explaining why he has that for the rest of the movie. Without this scene, his chicken-foot hand goes unaddressed
* ''[[The Lion King]]'' had Nala being near Timon and Pumbaa's Oasis for no discernable reason (which resulted in her nearly killing Pumbaa before re-encountering Simba). A deleted scene (and deleted song, called "The Madness of King Scar") revealed that the reason she was there was because Scar had exiled her from the Pridelands due to her refusing Scar's proposal to have her become his queen (with the implication that he attempted to rape her). The scene was retained in the musical, however.
* In ''[[Titanic]]'' the last time you see Lovejoy, he is limping and his face is bleeding. A deleted scene has Cal send Lovejoy after Rose and Jack after he realizes the Heart of the Ocean is with Rose and Jack beats Lovejoy in a fight.
** A smaller version from the same film. When Rose is preparing to jump from the Titanic, she's no longer wearing the necklace she had on at
== TV Screening Additions ==
* The broadcast version of ''[[Ernest P. Worrell|Ernest]] Goes to Jail'' features several scenes not in the VHS or DVD releases, including a final scene before the credits where Ernest finally becomes a bank clerk...only to be magnetized again by an electric shock from his keyboard and chased from his desk by a filing cabinet.
** An earlier additional scene had Ernest (who they believe to be Nash) brought into a room the night before his execution to be entertained by a lady of the night. Naive Ernest, not knowing what's in store for him, is heard off-camera screaming. The scene ends with him being physically dragged out of the room by two guards, completely exhausted.
* In the TV version of ''[[Happy Gilmore]]'', there is a scene where Happy meets the cruel orderly, and, after finding out what he's been doing to the residents (his grandma in particular) beats him up and tosses him out a window where he gets attacked by the other residents of the nursing home. This is more satisfying, as in the released version, he gets away with all he does.
* The [[Disney Channel]] and [[ABC Family]] cuts of the ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' films often restore deleted scenes.
* The initial television broadcast of ''The Lost World: [[Jurassic Park]]'' had several deleted scenes restored. The two major scenes in this cut (a board meeting between InGen executives and a longer introduction to Roland Tembo) are included as deleted scenes on the recent DVD release.
* The initial television broadcast of the ''[[Star Trek: The
* The various ''[[Superman (film)|Superman]]'' films have had additional scenes added. To wit: the theatrical version of the 1978 Superman runs just over two hours, the extended edition runs almost half-an-hour longer, while the TV version runs almost ''three hours'' (with extra scenes like the resolution of the Kryptonian Executioner subplot, Luthor playing the piano multiple times and Lois being revealed as the young girl who saw Clark run past her to catch the train as a young boy).
* ''[[Top Secret]]'' has a few deleted scenes which sometimes appear in television broadcasts.
* The broadcast premiere of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' included a scene cut from the theatrical
** [[Trailers Always Lie|One of the trailers showed a bit of that scene too.]]
* The original (1978) version of ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'' got some additional scenes for its network airing. [[John Carpenter]] shot these during the production of ''Halloween II'' in 1981.
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** ''The Crow: City of Angels'' also featured several deleted scenes that were only released...as a bonus feature on the ''official CD-Rom companion disc''.
* The original ''[[Final Destination]]'' included deleted scenes with the original ending. The scenes have the hero sleep with his love interest, then get killed saving her. The baby she ends up giving birth to is how she considers he "cheated death", creating new life even though he died.
* The official full trailer for the ''[[George of the Jungle]]'' movie includes a scene where the Tooky Tooky bird sits first class in a plane on his way to warn George about Ape's capture. Needless to say, this scene is not in the
* ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'', and more recently ''[[QI]]'', have 'extended' versions of their episodes (usually about ten minutes longer) featuring content cut from the original broadcast.
** Podcasts ''[[The Bugle]]'' and ''[[Psycomedia]]'' both construct entire episodes out of such content, known as 'offal' and 'Frankenpodcasts' respectively.
* The extended editions of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' films had loads of these included. Better yet, there's even ''more'' footage that hasn't been released to date; it's mostly from the ending of the film (every character would have gotten their own epilogue). Those deleted scenes are being saved for further release in the future.
* ''Rent'' contains a prominent example of a
* The [[Rocky Horror Picture Show]] DVD has the song "Superheroes" brought back to its full length - for those who have only seen the old American cut, the Criminologist's cryptic poem is the final stanza.
** For another example that isn't on the DVD (but is on [[YouTube]]), there's the song "Once in a While"
* Similarly, the trailer for the original ''[[The Santa Clause (film series)||Santa Clause]]'' includes a shot of Scott and another character conversing in front of a playroom, with Scott giving his acquaintance a big grin.
* The initial television broadcast of the ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'' movie included deleted scenes never seen before. These included the fleshing out of Peter Preston and more scenes with Saavik, among others.
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' has a few of these.
** ''Attack of the Clones'' had a few interesting deleted scenes. One was a simple lab scene where Obi-Wan analyzes the poison dart he got from the bounty hunter. It was deleted because they realized it didn't move the plot "We didn't know anything going in and we knew nothing going out" and a simple mention of it in a later scene was enough.
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* ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]''. Originally, after {{spoiler|Peggy sold out Stanley to Tyrell he [[Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves|tossed her into a printing press at the newspaper she worked for.]]}}
{{quote|Tyrell: {{spoiler|"You'll be all over Page One!"}}}}
* In ''Here Comes [[Garfield]]'', while on his way to rescue Odie from the pound, Garfield encounters a female cat on a fence post and wonders what she's thinking about. The scene was apparently animated and voices were recorded but for whatever reason it was cut. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgMC6WVVLcU The song accompanying the scene] can be heard on the soundtrack.
* The trailer for ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' includes a very quick scene where Ellie reaches out during the initial Jeep ride from the helicopter to the visitor's center and plucks a leaf from a tree. This scene is not in the final cut of the movie. She just randomly has this leaf in her hand right before we see the first dinosaur, and she comments on it with no explanation how she got it.
* In ''[[Eight Crazy Nights]]'', there was originally going to be a scene where Davey coaches the basketball team against prisoners. It involved a lot of cartoonish antics (including a scene where one of the kids is decapitated but [[Unexplained Recovery|gets better]]), and at the end, they bring their secret weapon: a giant man named Hammer, who is knocked unconscious by a basketball to the face.
* In the theatrical version of ''[[The Muppet Christmas Carol]]'', the song "When Love is Gone" was cut for reasons of pacing, then it was re-added in the VHS release, then cut again on the widescreen DVD (the second DVD release had it, but only in fullscreen).
* The movie version of ''[[Sin City]]'' had a director's cut which added more scenes, making the film even more faithful to its source.
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* ''[[Laura]]'' had a scene cut due to the [[Conspicuous Consumption]] going against the spirit of rationing during [[World War Two]]. To give an idea of how much, the scene included the eponymous Laura wearing several expensive outfits, including a [[Pimped-Out Cape|pear decorated cape]], and [[Pretty in Mink|a mid-length fur skirt]].
* [[Anchorman]] is a very interesting example. There were so many deleted scenes left on the cutting room floor, including an alternate subplot involving a comically inept extremist organization called The Alarm Clock, that they were cobbled together into a straight-to-DVD faux-sequel called ''Wake Up, Ron Burgundy.''
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has had a few: two scenes from "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
* ''[[The Golden Compass]]'' had a good 20 minutes conclusion filmed that got cut in order to serve as the opening of the next movie, which [[Stillborn Franchise|is unlikely ever to be produced]]. This scene was cut very late in the process, because all the promotional stuff, including the trailer, includes it. Because the video game tie in is closer to the film than the book, a lot of the lost footage (from when Lyra is reunited with Lord Asriel to when Lyra and Iorek split up) can be seen in the game.
* In ''[[A Christmas Story]]'', at least three of Ralphie's [[Mr. Imagination|Mister Imagination]] fantasy sequences were deleted to comply with MGM's 90 minute time limit for the movie. Screenplay fragments of these scenes [http://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/index.php/a-christmas-story-movie-facts/deleted-scenes/ are available here.]
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* In ''[[Mystery Men]]'', one of the deleted scenes on the DVD shows an alternate method of destroying Casanova Frankenstein's machine: rather than throw The Bowler's bowling ball into it, they were going to throw one of Dr. Heller's Tornado-in-a-Can into it. The effect for this can still however be seen in the theatrical release; just after they toss the bowling ball in and it does its damage you can see the green swirling smoke coming out of the hole.
* Though most of [[The X-Files]] deleted scenes were cut for time reasons and have little bearing on the plot, there are quite a few deleted scenes ad-libbed by David and Gillian that couldn't be included without taking the "U" out of their [[UST]]. There are at least three deleted kisses, two of which can be seen on Youtube.
** One of the deleted kisses (the infamouse hallway kiss from ''Fight the Future'') seems to have been a joke played on the actors. It was finally released 10 years after the movie came out, presumably in anticipation of the 2008 movie, which naturally caused fans to squee and faint dead away. When interviewed about this deleted scene, Frank Spotnitz said that "Nobody ever called 'cut'" and so the scene proceeded as is. There are definitely other takes of the hallway scene in which David and Gillian are clearly messing around and hamming it up for the camera, however.
* The "Humuhumunukunukuapua'a" number was deleted from the theatrical version of ''[[High School Musical]] 2'', to avoid spilling the beans about Ryan's sexuality, but retained in the DVD release and stage adaptation.
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