It's a sad day for fans of Gargoyles

Originally Posted by Miles

I'm not even gonna buy the Darkwing Duck set coming out next month if it's the crappy edited version. I want the episodes that were banned from toon disney too. ;_;

Well, I got this today, and there's good and bad news.

The good news is that I believe the episodes aren't the Toon Disney cuts. "You Sweat Your Life" on Toon Disney cut out the part where the instructor threatens Herb with a gun, but there it is on the DVD.

The bad news is that the pilot on the disk is the two-part, edited-for-time-as-opposed-to-content version than the full 48-minute "movie" version. If you can find the official VHS release of that episode from a few years back on eBay, however, you have the best of both worlds.

So please, buy with abandon. Don't let the Gargoyles incident repeat itself.

Now then, can anyone confirm if TaleSpin Volume 1 is free of censorship edits? A good way to check is to watch part 1 of the pilot and see if Karnage says, "This is no time for a Chinese fire drill!"

EDIT: Adding just after I remembered to check - the "Double Darkwings" is the remade version, but that was an official change made while the show was still in production, not a post-production PC edit. In case you don't know, in the original version, which aired exactly twice before it was changed, Jumbalaya Jake has his gator Gumbo chomp down on power lines to cause the blackout, but this was apparently perceived as cruel, as shortly thereafter an alternate scene of the two pouring "Granny's Stew" into a phone receiver to achieve the same effect was voiced, animated, and placed in the episode instead. The original version, I suspect, was likely destroyed, so if you got it on tape, hold onto it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.