muppet family christmas question

[Drtooth]

I have NO idea what you just said. My theory, the greedy video company wanted more time to show their insipid previews. I never fully understood why anyone would cut so much off of a special like that, especially when it's on video.

 

[anathema]

I think the edits were originally done for a TV repeat in order to get more advertising in. Subsequent
US video releases have for some reason used the edited version, whereas the UK releases got the complete
thing. The German home video release (done by the same company as the UK one) also uses the edited version.
Maybe there's some arcane rights issue in some territories?

 

[gymkatarules]

That makes sense.

-Chris

P.S.- I was amusing myself by saying that Pearl Jam's song MFC (from their album Yield) secretly stood for Muppet Family Christmas. Alas.

 

[Jeffrey Gray]

Notice that most of the edited stuff were songs. Those songs could not be cleared for home video, so they edited them all out.