I do know for a fact the episodes won’t be in their original form
A lot of the early episodes after the fire controversy had their original masters altered to remove fire references
It’s also possible Judge himself won’t allow certain moments to be seen again or entire episodes
Some of the new eps have fire references. Why would they remove from the old ones?
Yeah, I don’t think fire is going to be an issue at all, unless there is difficulty actually finding the tapes, or finding an intern/whomever that’s actually familiar with the episodes to transfer the tapes.
Although Mike has, in the past, requested certain episodes taken out of circulation, I think it has more to do with his opinion of their quality rather than content like fire. Paramount has already shown episodes not included in the Mike Judge Collection, so there’s no indication whatsoever that he’s blocking anything.