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A brand new viral video on YouTube means that Netflix is displaying a a lot shorter model of the primary episode of the primary season of Community.
Throughout the course of the video, you’re taken via numerous minimize scenes from the pilot, which finally brings the runtime down from 24 minutes 28 seconds to 21 minutes 48 seconds (Netflix lists it throughout the app as 22 minutes).
The episode titles are totally different too. On Hulu, the pilot episode known as, nicely, Pilot”, whereas, on Netflix, it’s labeled “Community.”
Scenes adjusted embrace the opening scene the place Dean Craig Pelton is struggling to get his speaker working, whereas the “Netflix version” opens up with an establishing shot and textual content that claims “Greendale Community Colledge – three blocks from your home” earlier than the opening gag involves a detailed.
Other modifications embrace:
- The emblem modified from a leaping letter model to the unfolding paper emblem drawn in pen that we grew accustomed to all through the remainder of the sequence.
- Extended scene of Jeff introducing himself to Britta.
- Jeff’s dialog with the cafeteria woman.
- A shot of Jeff on the lookout for Duncan and reacting with disgust when he sees his automobile.
- Troy asks Jeff whether or not he ought to maintain carrying his letter jacket.
You can see a visible breakdown of the modifications within the full video from Sam McGee beneath:
Andy Heriaud, a screenwriter and somebody who labored on the present, took to the remark part of the viral video to provide some added context surrounding why the episode differs.
In his remark, he states:
“The Netflix model is the minimize made for syndication packages. The model on different platforms and the DVD are in truth the printed model of the pilot because it aired on NBC in 2009.
It’s frequent follow to trim longer episodes to a syndication protected 22 minute runtime in order that purchasers can maximize their advert time. This is similar motive many fundamental cable networks do issues like turbocharged credit or, within the case of NickatNite, straight up reducing out whole scenes arbitrarily.
I introduced this situation to Netflix’s consideration when Community launched on the platform and so they simply replied with a shrug. More precisely they mentioned that they only placed on what the distributor gave them, on this occasion it appears Sony gave them the syndication minimize and Netflix is content material with that.”
Of course, this wasn’t the one vital change Netflix’s model of Community has with the unique. As was nicely coated all through the summer season of 2020, only a few months after Netflix licensed the present, they eliminated the “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” episode that function Blackface.
That removing remains to be controversial and topic to debate, given the context and intention of the trope within the episode.
As it’s possible you’ll know, Community is definitely making a grand triumphant return to our screens within the months and years to come back with the long-awaited Community film within the works at Peacock.
As for Community’s future on Netflix, as we revealed final 12 months, Netflix presently holds the rights till 2024.