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  • i like this one much better then the edited one besides thay have done a lot worse to there " friends"

  • this aired in Australia recently without any edits

  • @thelogoarchive Yep, the international broadcasts have the original cut.

  • @Keeper1st I already taped the re-airing of this episode (I'm gonna get it converted to DVD).

    ;)

  • Well right before the bulk logan thing changed, dan said he gave up.

  • Why didn't the censors just consider banning this episode instead of making pointless edits to scenes that aren't even that terrible?! Sometines, I just wonder why censorship even exists (for entertainment, at least).

  • The are a bit violent for their usual routine...what was this writers problem with this guy?

  • I think the makeover & electrocution part really WAS too much. But the rest of edits are pointless - they failed to make Warners look any less mean in this episode. The only right way to do it would be to rewrite the script. Because personally, I was kinda disturbed even by the censored version, and I didn't know it was censored.

    Because... sure, Warners teach ppl lessons, but this anchorman never really hurt anyone that much. And the ending... I personally think it's just creepy.

  • What's wrong with Sam Donaldson man, he's crazy.

  • They should have left the lines "I'll call you anything I want. I'm the anchor," and "We protest you calling yourself an anchor" in the US broadcast. The dialogue didn't make much sense without those quotes. 

  • Hi, I'm Troy McClure (AKA: Ghost Phil Hartman)! You may remember me from such animated guest appearances as: The coward lawyer, Lionel Hutz from The Simpsons. The already-beaten up, bankrupted monorail guy, Lyle Lanley. Also from The Simpsons. And LA's best anchorman, who would soon be manipulated and tortured by those stupid, crazy, mind-blowing, children: The Warners, and their sidekick, Slappy the Squirel; known as: Slam Fondlesome from Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs!!!!!!!!

  • "You think he dosn't like us?'

    "If he dosn't like us now, wait till he gets a load of this!"

  • I think why the Slappy Squirlle scene got cut is because, (as to quote her in the episode "A Christmas Plotts) she was sick of having those "dumb cameos". And at about 1:47, OMG! He said Homer Simpson's "D'oh!". LOL!

  • DON'T MESS WITH AN ANCHORMANNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!

  • 1:43 - 1:49

    That part's hilarious! Right in the belt of Homer Simpson!

  • Can you please email me this video file?

    This owns the episode that replaced it!

  • @InvaderWakkoReborn I don't know if I actually saved this video file after uploading it. I have the audio track on my PC, and the video on VHS tape.

  • @Keeper1st You have the original on VHS?

    idk if i understood correctly, but if so, there is a way to put VHS videos on a computer

    i'm not sure how though lol

  • @InvaderWakkoReborn I don't have an analog capture device. I have now a device to copy VHS to DVD, and I can capture DVD on the computer. I just haven't done any VHS-to-DVD copying yet...

  • they censor this, but not those randy beamon's pal cartoons? THIS IS ABSURD!!

  • I wonder if in America Warner's Animation got too much heat for parodying ABC news. Its clearly Sam Donaldson who they are spoofing. I noticed the name of the anchorman is different as well. It sounds like his name is Slam Fondlesome here. In the American version his name is Dan Anchorman. Hysterical.

  • This part of the episode would not make sense, as Wakko is deadly afraid of clowns and yet, he doesn't react when they make the anchorman one. It would be still good if they included this scene though.

  • is it intact in the DVD?

  • @InvaderWakko No.

  • How did you get access to this kind if stuff? Did Tom Ruegger give it to you?

  • @lbrown21494 No, my friend Federica Giulietti ("shangelina" on YouTube) sent it to me. The episode aired intact in Italy, and the intact English version airs on English channels in Europe, so the audio she recorded from that was mated with the Italian video she also had sent me. They don't quite run at the same speed, hence the cuts you can hear in the audio to keep it in sync.

  • Thank you thank you thank you!

  • I definitely remember the original broadcast, with the dialogue about him being cheap lol. It was hysterical.

  • hope they haven't lost the film reel to all this audio, it's precious

  • LOL.

  • They should have at least kept the Slappy bit in since that was Slappy being cruel, not the Warner Sibs, and being cruel isn't new for her. After all she did dynamite an overly affectionate nanny and scared away a huge crowd by playing the accordion - not that I really have anything against accordions, but the crowd certainly did! XD

  • I remember the eletricuted clown from a comercial on Fox. So that's where it came from.

  • Yep, because of that promo, we always knew that something had been cut from this episode (for we recognized his suit and the background, thus knew it was this episode).

  • Sam.. 'Fondle'son?

    XD Win... DO'H

  • hey, that version has been transmited yesterday in mexico, i saw it and i think they are evil O_o

  • AHAHAHAH! They should have kept the pie scene.

  • i think it's good that the electricty thing got cut out. That was borderline evil. The big fat dope thing was kinda dumb, i'm glad that was changed. I'm a little on the fence about the "Hot towel, hot wax" part. I think they should have kept yakko hitting him with the pie. And i think they should have kept slappy's cameo.

  • they play that canada :)

  • Wow, that was really funny. Too bad it got cut off from the english.

  • D'OH

  • AHAHAHA! Fondle.

    DOH!

  • Wow. I never would have noticed the William Buckley reference as a child, though I think I *did* know who Sam Donaldson was.

  • There are a lot of references that kids wouldn't get, from the Jackie Gleason variety show to Mary Tyler Moore to That Girl to Beany & Cecil... All fans of Animaniacs should read the "Cultural References Guide to Animaniacs" ("CRGA" for short).

  • I wish they could have kept some of these scenes

  • You know, the whole point of comedy is that it's offensive to SOMEONE.

    There's such a thing as being too PC.

  • How hard is it for the guy to give a tip?

  • Woah, that's funny since it's Phil Hartman's voice; didn't notice that at first.

  • i remember the slappy paet that part wasent censored in new york

  • Why was this censored? Other than the name Slam Fondlesome, I don't see anything wrong here.

  • Using "big fat dope" as an insult is a big no-no on a program viewed by children. It A) encourages calling someone stupid, and B) encourages making fun of fat people, or at the very least puts a negative connotation on being fat. There would have been all sorts of uproar had they used that in the U.S. Why the pie bit through the electrocution was cut is anybody's guess. Maybe the censors thought the electrocution was gratuitous. Going straight from "pre-adults" to "I hate you!" is a weird cut.

  • I believe the pie to the face scene was cut to save time. After all it is a ten minute short.

  • It's funny that with all the stuff Animaniacs got away with, "big fat dope" got taken out.

    I love this show.

  • Why this scene was deleted?

  • Because Vertically Enhanced Post-Children have a bad habbit of loosing perspective when taking Vertically Challenged Pre-Adults. I would almost say they become Emotionally Diverse.

  • @UnanimousDelivers Say, how about Vertically Maturing Pre-Adults/Post-Children? :)

  • LOL. i still dont see why this episode had to get censored.

    This is a parody on Sam Donaldson. I keep seein' someone mention Bill O Reilly, but its not. This cartoon was made before that even happened.

    But i can see how this could be used in reference to Bill O Reilly. I remember.... cuz if anyone esle here can remember what it was about, the "Bill O Reilly Scandal" bit. You should read about that and um....ahem...possibly LISTEN to it too...

    I still love the animaniacs....

  • If they think these were vicious, then what about that candy store one?

  • You know that Dan Fondlesome inside joke would've eluded me when I was a kid...

  • As nice as this all is, it doesn't really bother me that they cut these scenes. It's true: it DOES make the Warners look, like, well, butts. I prefer to think of them as simply zany, but cruelty is another thing. It's just too complicated. The line is extremely blurry. It's not like it's all that different.

  • Yeah, I understand the censorship too. Indeed the Warners usually are playful -- not deliberately vicious. The "big fat dope" routine is just network policy of not allowing a character to call another one specifically stupid (they even forced Mo-Ron to be renamed Bo-Ron in subsequent appearances in Freakazoid). They didn't want parents to complain that the show was teaching kids to call people names (as if they would have to be taught that).

  • Wait...are these scenes included on the DVD?

  • No.

  • Oh my god, that sucks D:

  • These are really pointless edits. hell, they've been far more vicious in other episodes.

  • I think Wakko's line was actually better as "Yeah, you're probably very generous... we hope."

  • LOL+ what's worse is that Yakko is point to his youknowwhat.

  • I don't get it. Yesterday I watched this episode in the Dutch version, and none of this scenes were cut out of it.

  • That's true for everywhere except the U.S.

  • Huh, who knew, but you know, it doesn't bother me that it was apparently cut. It looks to me like it might have been cut to fit with the perceived views of the target audience, and varied country to country because of that. Of course, although I know I watched it, I don't remember the original airing.

  • wat was wrong with this epsode?

  • As stated before (and in the description), the Warners were perhaps too vicious (e.g., "If he doesn't like us now, wait'll he gets a load of this" was changed to a more playful "I dunno; maybe he wants us to direct"), and were calling him outright stupid instead of focusing on the fact that they did not receive a tip (e.g., "big fat dope" changed to "incredibly cheap").

  • too vicouse my ass this is very apropiate man i cant believe im saying this but america does suck (at censorship)

  • Censors are useless morons who should all find another job.

  • It's not even Americans, or moms. It's network executives and censors, who are way way way too anal when it comes to kids' TV. My parents would have had no problem letting me watch this, and most parents wouldn't either, I bet.

    Network execs are obsessed with not offending anybody, yet most of the stuff they take offense to probably wouldn't offend anybody.

    "Slam Fondlesome" is one thing...the violence thing is another. Leave it to middle-aged liberal women to get in a snit about violence.

  • Oh, and that last comment was a dig at people like Peggy Charren of ACT - I know that Margaret Loesch of Fox was rather lenient and open-minded...

  • Is this intact on the DVD? Or was it censored there too?

    Also, ironic that a short about the media was censored!

  • No; the DVD has the U.S. broadcast version.

  • That really sucks. I see nothing wrong with this version (aside from the obvious thing with his name).

  • what's wrong with his name? Is it because it sounds like Sam Donaldson?

  • No... you do know what the word "fondle" means, right? I shall leave it at that.

  • Oh, didn't notice that...

  • What fondle means?

  • -_- Look it up in a dictionary.

  • Nothing came up.

  • Try a physical dictionary.

  • With the emphasis on "physical", if ya know what I mean...!

    (Or just read earlier comments to this video, where it's already defined.)

  • look it up on wikipedia ^_^

  • I found this:

    transitive verb1obsolete : pamper2: to handle tenderly, lovingly, or lingeringly : caressintransitive verb: to show affection or desire by caressing

  • That's correct. What it doesn't tell you is that the connotation is usually that the person doing it shouldn't be doing it to the other person (such as for reasons of age).

  • I don't get why they censored this so heavily. I mean, I get the "slam fondlesome" bit, but everything else looks like typical animaniacs. Most of the time they ARE cruel for no reason at all and live to frustrate adults everywhere.

  • That's the voice of Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz as Dan Anchorman.

  • I know I hate insulting my own country, but I agree!!! America do suck in censorship. I love America, but come on!!!! These were probably the funniest scenes in the episode.

  • america sucks when it comes to censorship.

  • That's cold what they did to that man!!! R.I.P. Phil Hartman.

  • It was a play on Sam Donaldson the name.

  • Then, this scene was deleted because of the Warners acted like bullies with the anchroman, or what?

  • Bill O Reilley...

  • Frickin soccer moms have to ruin everything dont they, alot of that stuff looked like it was straight out of the old looneytunes

  • I had one, but the current drivers had broken the video capture capability. Still, this is much better than the screenshot slideshow version I originally made back in about 1996. I keep meaning to get a new video capture device, for things like this and video of fan gatherings from back in the day, video of voice actor appearances, etc.

  • Now what was uncut? seemed pretty legit to me

  • is this scene available on DVD as a bonus feature?

  • Nope. That's why I posted it.

  • *hug*

  • Of course we all knew what Slappy said regardless I still like the one they showed here.

  • ...i now offically hate americain cencorship!

  • seriously! the "bad" scenes from who's line are awesome!

  • I actually saw this aired in the US uncut

  • SLLLLLAPYYYYYY!!!.....now thats comedy

  • the name slam fondllesome sends the wrong message to kids but makes teenagers laugh their asses off hahaha

  • how i dont get it??

  • slam, if im right, is slang for anal sex and fondlesome...well its what you do to ladies that makes them sue you for sexual harrassment

  • k thanks!

  • actually, I don't think slam is an expression for anal sex, or at least i've never heard of it in that way, but I've heard it in the sentence "slammin' on your wang"....so >_>;;

    I think apart from the dodgy name, none of it was particularly offensive! o_O Just looked like any other Waner Bros. cartoon would.

  • sure its offensive. "slam fondlesome"...well the last part is imo

  • now THAT'S comedy

  • LOL they might have edited it because of the dope too. Sounds a little too much like Homer's D'OH!

  • I thought that's what they were going for. Even when homer does it it's definately lost some juice.

  • yea i remember the electrution part and everything...i think what happened is they aired it once but probably got complaints so changed it....hey i dunno lol

  • The electrocution you remember because it was in a Fox Kids promo. Those of us who were online at the time noticed that the animation must have come from this episode, but nobody had it on their tapes from the original broadcast. Thus we knew something was missing.

    Much of what you see here WAS in the original broadcast, but with different dialog. The only entirely cut scenes were the "makeover" bit and the electrocution (plus Slappy's cameo, of course).

  • They actually did broadcast this once....how do i know?? I watched it myself on tv :P

  • ...when you were four years old? The episode was broadcast, which surely you do remember, but not all of these parts.

  • i dont see what was so worng that thay had to delete them...

  • me acuero de esa escena, aca en argentina no la cortaron

  • enserio? yo ni idea, era re chica

    como era el nombre traducido del presentador entonces?

  • UFF NI IDEA... me acuerdo de la escena pero era muy chico cuando la vi...

  • Translation of whozy

    Neither UFFF NOR IDEAAA ... I remember the scene but I was much a boy when I saw her.

  • translation of CocoMielita

    enserio? neither I nor idea, she was re a girl

    how was the name translated of the presenter then?

  • lmao Slam Fondlesome as in Slamming *wink wink* and fondling ;D

  • Uhhh, well, I think "Slam" in this case was simply the slang term for a vicious joke about someone.

  • Now that's what I call too shocking for television (@ 1:35- 1:39). I still wish they left this uncut.

  • That electrocution animation was used in a Fox promo for Animaniacs. It's how we always knew there were parts of this episode missing, because we could tell it was a clownified version of the anchorman from this episode.

  • I don't understand why some promos such as trailers or tv spots have scenes missing from movies or tv shows that are not shown in the final cut. That's unfair if they don't have it as a deleted extra. I hope the deleted scenes shown here will be included as a DVD or Blu-Ray extra someday.

  • The DVDs came out more than a year ago. These deleted scenes are not on them.

  • I figured they weren't going to be on the DVDs.

  • hehehehehehhhehehehhe....Slam Fondlesome.....

  • uhhh...wats rong w/ these deleted scenes? srsly, i dont get it O.o lol

    u see worst on Cartoon Network these days...lol i srsly c nothin rong w/ these vids XD

  • parents are just getting freakishly over protective these days.

  • lol ya big time XD i mean, dont ppl watch movies?? heres wat happens...

    parents tell kids no, kid says ok

    kid get older, parents say no, they say y not? parents say b/c i told u kid says ok

    kid is teenager parents say no, kid fuses, rebels, and does it anyway and screws somethin up parents r like OMG i told u not to do it! kid says its their fualt

    partially true b/c parents indirectly caused event to happen, and also kids fault b/c they were stupid....lol @least i c it that way XD

  • So, what happens if the parents are idiots?

  • then....well, the parents would be idiots b/c they cant see they r driving their kids toward that attitude/situation they dont want them to be ^_^

  • I agree with you ElfenLiedPhsycoFan ... I have a friend who is in trouble all the time and his mothers raised him in church and banned a lot of things like Pokemon Cards... Isn't that stupid?  I was raised to watched/do what I liked as long as it wasn't against the law and to be myself... I'm a better good child :p

  • lol ya im a Baptist Christian and my parents raised me tellin me wats right and wrong =] i disagree w/ a few things, but im mostly a

    'no-trouble kid' lol i do stupidthings sometiomes just nothin too serious ^_^ lol

  • kno wat i mean? lol i forget titls of mvoies for examles but ya =P

  • Personally, I don't find this offensive or can I see why they cut it. It's a cartoon, and Tom & Jerry has comic 'violence' anyway for goodness sake. Things will end up to sanitized and safe if people get worried about the smallest thing.

  • well, you can see why the name Slam Fondlesome is a little inappropriate, can't you? still....i think it's a funny name...hehehehe

  • Can't be any worse than the Chokey Chicken in Rocko's Modern Life. Yet ANOTHER show I loved from the early 90', and I greatly miss it.

    Cartoons today are crap

  • BOO FUCKING HOO. This should have been on the air.

  • Kinda glad they deleted these.

    Too many male chars tortured as it is..and the makeover, 'unno-it is overly harsh..disturbs me even.

    Other than that though, I've loved the Animaniacs all my life and stil do.

  • i think the make over part was deleted because it was violent... i mean, hot towel with burning sound, and then hot wax with burning sound... ouch that's painful to think about

    The tension line joke was good though :/

  • Fondlesome, hahahahaha!

  • How was the last line that Yakko said "Wait'll he gets a load of this!" inappropiate.

  • Because it made him seem vicious rather than playful. "Maybe he's wants us to direct" is funnier, more playful, and doesn't come across as explicitly mean.

  • I dont know why they cut slappy's part. People get blown up on animaniacs all the time. The rest I understand...

    Hehehehehe...fondle...

  • It was only offensive, because most of the people that Slappy blows up are animals, and not humans. That's probably the reason.

  • It's not slappy I'm talking about. I've seen alot have episodes where the warners blew up people with cannons, TNT, all that good stuff.

  • hehehe... fondle...

  • Nice TV you can remove it from the wall with your hands!lol

  • Somebody was pissed at news anchors!

  • Were these scenes restored on DVD?

  • No. Otherwise I would not have posted them.

  • Oh, ok. I still don't get why they changed the "Big, Fat Dope" line. I found that more hilarious. They could've at least changed the name instead of the whole dialouge.

  • I think it's similar to how the Freakazoid character Mo-Ron was changed to Bo-Ron the second time around. They were really sensitive about calling someone outright stupid. So they made the scene be about them not getting a tip rather then just being mean.

  • I rember this- they showed the cut scenes in the UK version. Basically, the commentator in the wrestling match screams about how the news anchor guy is getting beaten up by "bulk logan" (get it?).

  • That bit was in the U.S. broadcast too; the part with Slappy blowing him up was not.

  • Slam Fondlesome is the anchorman's name, in the censored version it was changed to Dan Anchorman

  • Perhaps it's just me, but I didn't find anything offensive about this...

  • the name Slam "FONDLESOME" and the last line yakko says

  • i have a question :

    what's the meaning of slam fondlesome ??

    why is it bad??? but still!! i wish they didnt put on these censors!!!!

  • It was censored because it contains the word "fondle".

  • wat does fondle mean??

  • Er, to touch in a loving way... Often associated with older men and young girls...

  • lol fondle.

  • damn the american censors!

  • I think I remember that "now that's comedy", but, I'm not really sure about it

  • I BARELY remember this from the cobwebs of my mind... I remember the hot towel scene, but that's it. :( DO WANT

  • I have a vague memory of seeing this on Television. I believe in South Africa (Seeing as we usually got the US shows after the UK) the scene was left intact. I remember the "Big Fat Dope" routine as I could not speak English very well and was confused as to what a "dope" was. I remember Slappy blowing up a guy with a bomb, but that's just classic Slappy so it could've been from ANY episode. 8)

  • I have this on vhs somewhere, with that deleted scene in it. Frankly I was around 12 at the time and to me it was just another acme bomb gag, nothing more. I didn't know he was made as a spoof of a real ankor that was killed.

  • Yeah, in the UK and throughout Europe, the scene was left intact. And no, the real anchorman, Sam Donaldson, was not killed -- the actor who plays this parody was. But that was several years later, so had nothing to do with the censorship in the U.S. broadcast.

  • I didn't think the bomb and the electrocution were that bad but maybe it's good that they're out, just out of respect for Phil Hartman.