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I’m sure everyone remembers the debacle from when the original DVD release used syndication cuts and edited out all of the scenes that involved licensed songs, but (some) later releases rectified those things so thats not what this post is about. In the original February 1987 airing of season one’s hour-long clip show “Try To Remember”, our favorite Melmacian gets amnesia after geting electricuted while trying to use an eggbeater to turn a bathtub into a “whirling hottub” and the episode originally ended with a half-serious “there’s nothing funny about electrical appliances in the bathtub, it’s very dangerous” PSA. Some watchdogs must have complained about it because the summer rerun had various bits of the episode reshot/re-edited/redubbed so that he now loses his memory from slipping and hitting his head. This censored version was the one used for all syndication and cable reruns, home media/streaming releases, and international airings.
I think I might have almost everything I need to restore the original version to something that could arguably be considered to be the next best thing to an official release, but there is just one thing I’m not completely satisfied with: There are two uploads of the original airing on YouTube, one has perfect audio quality but is missing most of the episode’s cold open https://youtu.be/-wuezFO85Qs?si=28NCMckk-meihC57 while the other has the full cold open but has audio that is lower quality that is perfectly usable but would be the only thing keeping me from being completely satisfied with the results if I can’t get it to sound the same as the rest of the episode if I only knew how or could get someone to do it for me since the only software I have is audacity and might not be able to get it perfect even if someone gave me the gist of how to do it https://youtu.be/FzwwCTN5sEg?si=_nY3krpBbMaXr7Y5 Anyone want to help out with this?
