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* Creator/{{GSN}}'s airings of classic game shows usually have ticket fee plugs removed and prize plugs [[CreditsPushback crunched to small size]] to accommodate promos for upcoming shows. Many shows are also time-compressed, which would normally not be an issue — but they tend to do it really poorly, resulting in parts of the show sounding like the Micro Machines man. Their replays of classic black-and-white shows (Bill Cullen's version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' among others) usually have ticket plugs and sweepstakes mailing information excised, as well as having shows with cigarettes as sponsors for those particular shows excluded from replays.

** BET and TVOne's versions of ''Series/InLivingColor'' mute out all misogynistic slurs (use of the words "bitch" and "ho").

* Many of the scenes of Creator/EllenHamiltonLatzen in the ''Series/FamilyTies'' episode, ''[[Recap/FamilyTiesS6E17MiracleInColumbus Miracle in Columbus]]'' is cut in the syndicated version - and she's the main guest star of the episode!

** The Japanese broadcasting of the first two seasons (which are all Japan got) had a longer intro and closing credits, plus a short segment hosted by Creator/SuzukoMimori before the end credits, meaning that episodes had to have [[BadExportForYou entire scenes and sequences cut out]] in order to fit these new additions.

* When ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' aired on CITV in the United Kingdom, several scenes were removed, not because they were inappropriate, but it was so that it would fit in a 20-minute slot.

* Happened every time channel 9 in Australia re-released episodes of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' especially at earlier time slots - prime episode was "Out Of Their Minds" with every fake swear word and scene cut out, losing about 20 minutes.

** ''Betterman'' was part of a larger anime block, Anime Unleashed, whose shows were trimmed to as short as 14 minutes per episode to make room for commercials. This resulted in the block's shows feeling like {{Random Events Plot}}s due to so much material being cut out, most of which were emotional scenes or connecting plot points. The aforementioned ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' was on this block too--after making some tough decisions that will cause some people to die, Rossiu returns to his room, sits on his bed, and starts to cry for them, but Tech TV edited out everything after he goes to his room, making him appear much less sympathetic.

* ''The Future Is Wild'' actually had at least ''two'' different edited versions made. It originally aired as a 13-episode series, was significantly edited into a two-hour special when aired on US TV (each time period lost one habitat, among other things). Then a longer version was created later, restoring some (but not all) of the removed content

* When episodes from ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' cartoon show started appearing in the syndicated ''Smurfs Adventures'' show, there were not only cuts from the shorter episodes to make two of them fit within a 30-minute showing time, but there were also episodes where the audio was noticeably sped up, resulting in the Smurfs and even Gargamel sounding more helium-ish. Some of the season set volumes of ''The Smurfs'' that were released in Australia and the United Kingdom even featured the episodes that were edited for syndication instead of their original unedited versions.

* A now-defunct British satellite channel that made heavy cuts to archive programming was ironically called Granada ''Plus'' (italics the editor's).

This is especially prevalent in {{anime}} exported to America and other western countries for broadcast, though it's lessened over time. See CutAndPasteTranslation.

* ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' has a "Speckle Story" between each segment and "Clifford's Big Idea for Today" at the end of the episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/CuriousGeorge'' has segments in between each story in which children do activities related to the episode that was just broadcast.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' has "A Word From Us Kids" between each segment. In seasons 11 and 12, this was replaced by [[WesternAnimation/PostcardsFromBuster "Postcards from You!"]]. Some episodes contain an additional segment after the second story, like "A Word From Marc Brown" and "Which Arthur Character Are You?".

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'''s run on [[Creator/TeenNick The N]] suffered from this, removing any and all scenes of cursing, sex references, or darkly humorous content -- and episodes that couldn't be cut without turning the episode into a lopped, cropped, and chopped mess were simply left unaired (i.e., "My Night At Daria's", where everyone thinks Daria and Tom slept together after they both fell asleep while studying in Daria's room). One episode, "The F Word", was even renamed "Fail". The three worst parts were that the cursing was cut on a random basis (One character might say "damn" in one scene and then cut in the next scene or even later in the same scene), some cuts ended up causing plot holes. and that The N would air ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'', which has a content level higher than ''Daria'' (''Daria'' is TV-PG with ''Degrassi'' at TV-14) uncut. Reasons are unknown, but it's speculated that it only happened to ''Daria'' because [[AnimationAgeGhetto it's a cartoon and networks don't treat animated shows as fairly as live-action shows]]--at least in America.

* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'': A few episodes had [[http://notblogx.blogspot.com/2012/04/wizard-x-men-turn-thirty-august-1993.html retakes]] and were rebroadcast with different and corrected scenes. "Night of the Sentinels Pt. I" had three versions: 10/31/92, 1/9/93, and 4/3/93. "Night of the Sentinels Pt. II" had three versions: 11/7/92, 1/9/93, and 4/10/93. Both episodes aired as a one-hour special on 1/9/93. "Enter Magneto" had two versions: 11/27/92 and 1/16/93. "Slave Island" had two versions, the first on 2/13/93 did not have the cliffhanger ending with the X-Mansion wrecked.

** Sadly, [[Creator/FXNetworks FX, FXX]], and Creator/{{Freeform}} (who got the rights to air the show from Adult Swim and [=TBS=] in September 2021) all use the butchered free-to-air syndicaton prints, meaning that the uncut versions of the episodes can now only be found on the show's [=DVD=] releases.

* Italian airings of ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' for years kept everything as it is, but since 2017 they started removing the songs that are usually played between each episode, repacking every 10 minute short as a standalone episode with opening and closing themes in order to cram more advertising in between (again, this is another way to circumnavigate the law forbidding commercial breaks during cartoons)
** When ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' returned to Creator/CartoonNetwork as part of the American version of the Creator/{{Cartoonito}} block in September 2021, the show's 2-minute music videos were cut, so that five of the show's standard 8-minute segments can air together within an hour-long block. This was eventually averted, however, as on November 2, 2021, the block started airing the show in its original format so that it can run on the clock.

* Two different versions of ''Series/MythBusters'' appeared in the United Kingdom. On the Discovery Channel, the show is practically identical to the U.S. original except with an Anglicized voiceover (being more metric friendly, and replacing American terms with British terms where appropriate). The version shown on the BBC is edited down to 30 minutes with a totally different, very over-the-top, more humorous voiceover.

* The original ''[[Series/TheMuppetShow Muppet Show]]'' had one skit per episode cut out for American broadcast; the DVD releases that have the trivia subtitles point this out ("This was the UK Spot for this episode"). Also, the pilot of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' was most certainly not aired in America under the title "Sex & Violence".

** And then, there's the [=DVD=]s themselves, which contain a few episodes so badly cut down due to licensing issues, it may well be a self-imposed {{Macekre}}. Fortunately, seasons 2 and 3 came to DVD uncut.
** It cut both ways; while ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' was made in Britain with British money by a British TV station, it was always primarily aimed at the USA; domestic success was an optional bonus.

* ''WesternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'' has the "What About You?" segments between each story, which has Sagwa and Fu-Fu talking about the different cultures from both China and around the world. In additional, a number of networks, such as [=TVOntario=] in Canada, only aired one short from each episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'' has the "What About You?" segments between each story, which has Sagwa and Fu-Fu talking about the different cultures from both China and around the world.

* ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'' has live-action segments where children discuss the theme of the episode, such as showing kids how to make a birthday cake, how toilets at school work, and how baby animals are fed at zoos. Netflix prints of the show omit these segments. Oddly enough, unlike most PBS intersitals, these segments did show up on international Disney Junior feeds.

* When the first season of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' was released on DVD, it contained the syndicated version of many episodes. This was not received well by fans, whose uproar caused [[ExecutiveMeddling those in charge]] to provide the original uncut episodes in subsequent box sets.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow ''’s airings on channels owned by Creator/ViacomCBS (specifically Creator/ComedyCentral, {{Creator/BET}}, and {{Creator/VH1}}) usually shorten the intro down to 14 seconds, with the theme song cutting straight to the final line (“This is The Cleveland Show!”) after the verse “Right back in my hometown, with my new family”. Much like the ''[[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs1993 Animainacs]]'' example above, the final word in the aforementioned verse is also slightly pitched up to make the fact that the theme has been shortened seem less obvious. The full theme song still occasionally plays on those networks, but only if a movie shown right before it runs short and the network airing the show needs something to fill up the empty gap in its scheduling.

* Two different versions of ''Series/MythBusters'' appeared in the United Kingdom. On the Discovery Channel, the show is practically identical to the U.S. original except with an Anglicized voiceover (being more metric friendly, and replacing American terms with British terms where appropriate). The version shown on the BBC is edited down to 30 minutes with a totally different, very over-the-top -- and supposedly "funny" -- voiceover.

* When ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' returned to Creator/CartoonNetwork as part of the American version of the Creator/{{Cartoonito}} block in September 2021, the show's 2-minute music videos were cut, so that five of the show's standard 8-minute segments can air together within an hour-long block. This was eventually averted, however, as on November 2, 2021, the block started airing the show in its original format so that it can run on the clock.

* The free-TV syndicated version of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is rated TV-14. You might ask, "How do you tone down a series like ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' to TV-14 levels?" Simple: extensive bleeping of curse words, trimming scenes for offensive dialogue that can't be bleeped, and in scenes vital to the plot, replacing them with black screens with humorous short descriptions of the offensive scene (e.g., "Red Hot Catholic Love"'s RunningGag of people defecating from their mouths). Furthermore, due to Parker and Stone having final say over the "censored" cuts of their episodes, certain episodes (such as "It Hits the Fan") were withheld from the syndication package. Ironically though, certain other episodes with questionable content have been heavily featured in syndication, including: "Jared Has Aides" (formerly banned from Comedy Central for mocking AIDS, as well as Butters getting [[DomesticAbuse physically abused]] by his parents for making a crank call) and the seldom-broadcasted "Death" (formerly banned by Comedy Central for the subplot about Stan's grandfather badgering Stan to assist him with suicide, as well as the gang talking about huffing gasoline, smoking crack, and watching porn).

* Since reruns of ''Series/{{Gladiators}}'' debuted on the MGM-owned American diginet Charge!, they've been edited for time. Extraneous music (including "Another One Bites the Dust", "We Are Family", and "The Boys are Back in Town") is edited out, more commercial breaks are put in, and the closing credits are dramatically shortened. Surprisingly, the London Weekend Television for ITV credit has been left in.

* ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'' airings on Creator/{{G4}} repackage several episodes together into hour-long time slots, so some scenes are cut short and any copyrighted video game music (which makes up most of the background music in the series) is replaced with a more generic track. It also elongates the censor bleeps to obscure the curse words better.better, and replaces some footage with stock footage[[note]]for example, a stock image taken inside a [=GameStop=] in "Pre-Orders" was replaced with stock footage of someone at a laptop, likely because the former had photos of real people in it[[/note]].