re: Is Friends the worst edited show of all time?

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Depends upon whether you're watching the original cut or watching it in syndication. Two different things.

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Excuse my ignorance, but what's the difference? Do they cut scenes from the original for syndication?

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Do they cut scenes from the original for syndication?

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Lines, shots, and sometimes entire scenes are cut for syndication (in order to sell more commercial time)

The worst I ever saw was when The Hallmark Channel reran the old western Rawhide. 50 minute episodes were chopped down to 40. That's one fifth of the show folks -- butchering worthy of the Kansas City stockyards. Lines would be cut off before finishing. Sometimes fight scenes would "start" already in progress, and "end" before somebody was knocked out.

Also Nick At Nite pioneered the practice of further cutting material in order to show MTV-style promos -- a now-standard practice.

Never really noticed. It was a decent show.

Seinfeld ran circles around this show. So did Cheers and Frasier.

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yes they do. many of the syndicated episodes are edited greatly from original airings

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Yea happens all the time. The worst is with how much they cut out of Scrubs.

it isn't edited badly, that's just nick at nite fitting in commercials...and the shitty local channels. tbs hits it right for the most part. look at the actual dvds. you'll see.