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* ''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.

* When EWTN aired ''Series/TheDonutMan'', it was edited for time. For example, both ''Camp Harmony'' and ''After School'' lost their final songs, and the latter also lost the scene where Loafer is shown "half-baked".

* When EWTN aired ''The Donut Man'', it was edited for time. For example, both ''Camp Harmony'' and ''After School'' lost their final songs, and the latter also lost the scene where Loafer is shown "half-baked".

* Occasionally, Creator/AdultSwim will air slightly edited versions of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' in order to fit it in earlier timeslots. The edits include extra bleeping of strong language/sexual slang, and further obscuring some of out some of the stronger sexual & scatological content.

* 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). This was also how the series was first shown on Cartoonito in the United States when the American version of the block in September 2021, with five of its standard segments airing together to make a 75-minute broadcast of the series. However, on November 2, 2021, the block started airing the show in its original format so that it can run on the clock.

** UK airings of "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS12E7TheKrustyBucketSquidsOnABus The Krusty Bucket]]" cut out the scene where Plankton tries to flush Mr. Krabs down the toilet for fears that children may try to imitate it.

** UK airings of "[[SpongeBobSquarePantsS12E7TheKrustyBucketSquidsOnABus The Krusty Bucket]]" cut out the scene where Plankton tries to flush Mr. Krabs down the toilet for fears that children may try to imitate it.

** Later prints of the ''You Wish!'' version of "Shanghaied" cover up the phone number used for voting on the original airing with [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/spongebob/images/7/70/Yikes_Matey.PNG a disclaimer reading "Yikes matey! Original 800 number as aired has been retired to Davy Jones' locker!"]] and cuts out Patchy reading the number. This is because Nickelodeon let the number go after the original version of the special aired, and probably didn't like the idea of younger fans of the show seeing the original version of the episode and calling the number only to end up hearing something inappropriate (a lot of retired 1-800 numbers have ended up being used for things like adult entertainment lines once the original owners let go of them), hence why they covered up the number on screen and excised Patchy mentioning it.

* The first airings of Season 1 episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' in Italy removed the singing scenes from "Ripped Pants" and other episodes. They were kept in DVD releases and in later reruns.

** UKTV, the larger network of channels responsible for Dave, receives a lot of criticism for cutting documentary programmes to fit normal schedules while leaving comedy intact. (And even comedies have sometimes lost the punchlines to gags because of abrupt commercial breaks.)

** With the revival of {{Creator/Toonami}}, they've relaxed a little on cutting the openings and endings, especially for their more popular shows (they actually apologized when ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' was run with a shortened opening once after major backlash), but it still persists, with the aformentioned ''Attack on Titan'' still airing with a shortened ending, episodes one and six airing with the truncated opening during the second run, ''{{Manga/Bleach}}'' airing with no opening at all, and ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' having its opening cut down to ''five seconds''. The current practice for most shows is to show the full opening during the premiere episode and then an edited one for the remaining ones.
* For a while in the UK, the CITV block had episodes of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' awkwardly split into two parts.

* ''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, 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]].

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* When TBS aired ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' on December 4, 2020, the last ten minutes were omitted in order to make time for an E-Sports tournament.

* Depending on where you live, airings of ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' might cut a certain flashback scene [[spoiler:where the gang ditches Scrappy due to his obnoxiousness]] because it involves a character getting peed on; this was the case when the movie was shown on television in Jamaica. Unfortunately, that scene being cut resulted in the removal of a critical plot point, which meant that a later major reveal came out of nowhere for some viewers and thus made no sense.

* When episodes of ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' were released on DVD, many of the songs that played during action sequences were replaced by others due to licensing issues. Meanwhile, the third season's ''Club Mario'' continuity - which was ''reviled'' - has never seen any home media release, excluding the episode "The Unzappables", due to its live action segment, "George Washington Slept Here", having the same licensing issues.

* Creator/{{Noggin}} airings of ''Series/EureekasCastle'' shortened the show to half its' length, likely due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers rights issues with the shorts used in the show]]. This is also the version used by Creator/ParamountPlus.

** The most jarring of opening/ending shortenings would be ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}''; its ending is a major MemeticMutation, to the point that many people found out about the series through that ending. The opening meanwhile, is important due to the fact that it lists the main characters, and while it lists important characters like [[HeadlessHorseman Celty]], [[WorldsStrongestMan Shizuo]], [[BigBad Izaya]], [[HuskyRusskie Simon]] and [[MadScientist Shinra]], the Raira Trio ([[NiceGuy Mikado]], [[CasanovaWannabe Kida]] and [[TheHeart Anri]]) are sadly left out.

* ''Series/TopGear'', as an hour-long [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] show with no room for advert breaks, has to be edited for the repeats on Dave. The cuts tend to be rather abrupt. Some of the music also goes missing due to copyright issues when the show airs on BBC America.

** Due to the overwhelming popularity of ''Series/TopGear'', however, BBC America has taken to cutting the hour-long, no commercials show into an 80-minute long block with added commercials in order to show the entire episode on first-run. Repeats, however, are still cut back to an hour with commercials.

** '''The 60-Minute Rerun''': This is the version of ''SNL'' that aired on the cable channels Creator/ComedyCentral and E! Entertainment. It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a rerun of an ''SNL'' episode cut down to roughly an hour (minus commercial breaks). This version includes [[note]](what most fans consider to be)[[/note]] the best and funniest sketches from a given episode, but excludes the sketches that weren't as good and the second song by the musical guest is cut for time. Originally, Comedy Central aired ''Saturday Night Live'' episodes from the 1970s to the 1980s (barring the Jean Doumanian episodes, except for the Creator/BillMurray[=/=]Delbert [=McClinton=] episode, and the last episode of season six, which had no host, but included guest appearances by Creator/ChevyChase, Creator/RobinWilliams, and Christopher Reeve, with a musical performance by Jr. Walker and the All-Stars), but after a while, those got phased out for the episodes from the mid-to-late 1980s to the 1990s (seasons 12 to 25), then those got phased out for episodes from the 1990s to the early 2000s (seasons 21 to 27). After Comedy Central picked up ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' in place of ''SNL'', E! aired the 1990s to the early 2000s episodes, but also added episodes from seasons 28, 29, and 30. NBC is now airing one-hour cuts of their ''SNL'' episodes at 10:00pm Saturday nights (provided a sports telecast doesn't run over) starting with episodes from season 38 (2012-2013 season). In the 2014-15 in honor of the show's 40th season, one episode per week from each season will air with an hour-cut version in this timeslot.

* ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' first aired in syndication on local TV stations, under the title, "The Best of ''Series/{{MADtv}}''". Only the first two seasons aired. The show then got picked up by Creator/SpikeTV (back when it was TNN -- The Nashville Network, a channel dedicated to everything that most people would consider "redneck" or "trailer trash") and aired the first two seasons, followed by seasons 3-5. The local station and TNN cuts of ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' were 30 minutes long (''Series/{{MADtv}}'' runs their show for an hour while ''SNL'' runs for 90 minutes [an hour and a half], and, much like the reruns from ''Saturday Night Live'', the ones for ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' only had the best material from a given episode while leaving the weaker, less funny stuff on the cutting room floor). The TNN reruns were off before anyone noticed (that was when Viacom had "refocused" the network and eventually turned it into Spike TV) and eventually the show found its way to Comedy Central after E! acquired the rights to air ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' (''Series/{{MADtv}}'''s long-standing rival). Creator/ComedyCentral aired seasons 1-7 of ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' in their full, hour-long version [with some bleeping and/or muting for obscene language], and as the years went by, seasons 8, 9, 10, and 11 were added as well (seasons 12 and 13 were only shown on Comedy Central's Canadian sister channel, Comedy Network, and the final season [season 14] has yet to be aired on either channel). In 2008, Comedy Central phased out the first seven seasons of ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' in favor of the episodes from seasons 8-11, and those episodes have been running until 2010, when ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' was dropped from the syndication schedule in favor of reruns of reruns of canceled Comedy Central original programming, exports of canceled animated comedies (i.e. ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodeFamily'', and ''WesternAnimation/SitDownShutUp''), more movies, and more stand-up specials.
** ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' even parodied the practice to hell and back, with a PAX[[note]]PAX was a channel featuring religious and family friendly programming, hence the joke. As of the late 2000s, PAX is now Creator/IonTelevision and very rarely edits programs.[[/note]] version of an episode of ''Series/TheSopranos'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgBD94cs0T8 that removed all the swearing, sex, and violence, bringing its 40+ minute run time to just under three minutes]]. Once upon a time, it was merely a commentary on how the frank, HBO-style depictions of sex, violence, and foul language would be edited on any channel that wasn't a premium cable channel. Now, the idea of an edited for syndication ''Sopranos'' is a reality, only it's syndicated on A&E and a bit more well-done than what ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' showed.

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* The AB Group's French edit of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' often cut more and more footage every time the episodes were reran, with scenes rather jarringly fading to black. On some occasions, these versions were then distributed to other countries instead of the original prints -- an example is episode 149, which cuts the big {{Cliffhanger}}-moment at the end and fades to black in the middle of Piccolo's fight with Android 17.

* In 1989, ''Film/AMuppetFamilyChristmas'' was re-edited, removing a few scenes for time (including a scene where Fozzie's mom hangs his stocking), adding new fade-ins, putting some of the audio over shots of a fireplace and Christmas tree, and removing some of the background music. This version has been used for all subsequent rebroadcasts and video releases (which remove more scenes due to music rights).

* The original DVD release of Creator/HamishAndAndy’s Gap Year USA started with them admitting that “all the ads had been editied out” for it. By “ads”, they meant deleting all the celebrity interviews (which, among other things, included a performance by Music/{{Coldplay}} that was an obvious deletion), all the “Coming Up”/“Next Episode” breaks were deleted (causing abrupt fade-in and outs), and many segment introductions were (poorly) shortened.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' has the phone segment at the end of each episode where the producer will have a discussion with any number of viewers on all of the improbable aspects of the episode, where he would justify its usage for education. These are cut when the show is aired on commercial television in the US, though interestingly they went through the trouble of adding fades for {{Commercial Break Cliffhanger}}s while the show was still on PBS, where they look rather out of place. TLC and Discovery Kids also showed the phone segments, as ''Ready Set Learn!'', the block it re-ran on, was commercial-free.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'' has the "For Real" segments at the end of every episode, where a real-world application is given to the math topic in the episode proper. Like Magic School Bus, some episodes even had commercial break fade-outs, leading some to believe it wasn't originally produced for PBS.

** The same is mostly true for other [[WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon Disney Afternoon]] shows that were edited in reruns (such as ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' and ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''). There are many lost commercial break fade-in/outs, but the only actually censored episodes are "[[WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers Dirty Rotten Diapers]]" and "[[WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck Double Darkwings]]".

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'': During television broadcasts of the movie on certain channels, a part of Gru's EstablishingCharacterMoment where he pops a kid's balloon was cut. They also shorten the scene where the girls play a carnival game to the part where Agnes hits the spaceship.

** '''The Comedy Network Rerun'''[[note]]The Comedy Network is essentially Comedy Central in Canada (meaning whatever Comedy Central airs, Comedy Network airs). The only difference is Canada has much looser standards about profanity[[/note]]: This edited version of ''SNL'' is similar to the NBC rerun (airs for 90 minutes with little or no edits), only Comedy Network airs all of [[OldShame the season six episodes produced by Jean Doumanian]] in addition to airing the good (or SoOkayItsAverage) episodes from both Lorne Michaels eras (fall 1975-spring 1980 and fall 1985-present) and Dick Ebersol's era (spring 1981-spring 1985).

** The 1977 syndicated package series ''Fred Flintstone & Friends'' featured episodes from ''Pebbles & Bamm Bamm, The Flintstone Comedy Hour, Yogi's Gang, Jeannie, Goober & the Ghost Chasers'' and ''Partridge Family: 2200 A.D.'' (renamed here as ''The Partridge Family in Outer Space''). In Atlanta GA, the station airing the program (then independent WANX) omitted ''Jeannie'' and ''Goober'' as the station was owned by Pat Robertson's CBN outfit and those shows violated their broadcast standards. They were replaced with elements from ''Magilla Gorilla'' and ''Peter Potamus.'' Silimarly, the ''Fun World of Hanna-Barbera'' package aired on that station and they omitted ''The Funky Phantom.'' To accomodate the rest of the package, the station ran the ''Jackson Five'' cartoon Mondays and Fridays, ''The Perils of Penelope Pitstop'' Tuesdays, ''Wacky Races'' and ''The Amazing Chan & the Chan Clan'' on alternate Wednesdays, and ''Dastardly & Muttley'' Thursdays.

** The 1977 syndicated package series ''Fred Flintstone & Friends'' featured episodes from ''Pebbles & Bamm Bamm, The Flintstone Comedy Hour, Jeannie, Goober & the Ghost Chasers'' and ''Partridge Family: 2200 A.D.'' (renamed here as ''The Partridge Family in Outer Space''). In Atlanta GA, the station airing the program (then independent WANX) omitted ''Jeannie'' and ''Goober'' as the station was owned by Pat Robertson's CBN outfit and those shows violated their broadcast standards. They were replaced with elements from ''Magilla Gorilla'' and ''Peter Potamus.'' Silimarly, the ''Fun World of Hanna-Barbera'' package aired on that station and they omitted ''The Funky Phantom.'' To accomodate the rest of the package, the station ran the ''Jackson Five'' cartoon Mondays and Fridays, ''The Perils of Penelope Pitstop'' Tuesdays, ''Wacky Races'' and ''The Amazing Chan & the Chan Clan'' on alternate Wednesdays, and ''Dastardly & Muttley'' Thursdays.

** The 1977 syndicated package series ''Fred Flintstone & Friends'' featured episodes from ''Pebbles & Bamm Bamm, The Flintstone Comedy Hour, Jeannie, Goober & the Ghost Chasers'' and ''Partridge Family: 2200 A.D.'' (renamed here as ''The Partridge Family in Outer Space''). In Atlanta GA, the station airing the program (then independent WANX) omitted ''Jeannie'' and ''Goober'' as the station was owned by Pat Robertson's CBN outfit and those shows violated their broadcast standards. They were replaced with elements from ''Magilla Gorilla'' and ''Peter Potamus.'' Silimarly, the ''Fun World of Hanna-Barbera'' package aired on that station and they omitted ''The Funky Phantom.'' To accomodate the rest of the package, the station ran the ''Jackson Five'' cartoon'' Mondays and Fridays, ''The Perils of Penelope Pitstop'' Tuesdays, ''Wacky Races'' and ''The Amazing Chan & the Chan Clan'' on alternate Wednesdays, and ''Dastardly & Muttley'' Thursdays.

** The 1977 syndicated package series ''Fred Flintstone & Friends'' featured episodes from ''Pebbles & Bamm Bamm, The Flintstone Comedy Hour, Jeannie, Goober & the Ghost Chasers'' and ''Partridge Family: 2200 A.D.'' (renamed here as ''The Partridge Family in Outer Space''). In Atlanta GA, the station airing the program omitted ''Jeannie'' and ''Goober'' as the station was owned by Pat Robertson's CBN outfit and those shows violated their broadcast standards. They were replaced with elements from ''Magilla Gorilla'' and ''Peter Potamus.''