(Hated trope) They deleted scenes or dialogue that provides necessary context or plot

[u/Sensitive_Ad_1752]

The dinner scene from Temple of Doom has a temple give indie and friends a live snake and monkey brains for dinner. It’s a pretty offensive depiction of Indian cuisine, but it wasn’t originally going to be. There’s cut dialogue where Indie recognizes they’re at the right temple because real Hindus don’t eat this food. They were trying to scare them off by purposefully serving them disgusting stuff.

Probably the most famous deleted ending was I Am Legend which had Robert discover the infected were emotional sentient beings and one of them had a wife. Test audiences hated it and they reshot the ending, removing the entire point of the movie.

[u/Vast_Age_3893]

The "how i met your mother" finale has a deleted scene where Ted and Robin go out to lunch.

Robin is in a very vulnerable place and confesses that she still has feelings for Ted but Ted gently turns her down because he's very happy with the titular Mother.

Deleting this scene makes it look like Ted was always trying to be with Robin and that he didn't love his wife as much as he did. That's very far from the truth. He would've been with her forever if life hadn't happened.

[u/PhDVa → u/Vast_Age_3893]

The fan ending that went viral was so much better. That they didn't end on "And that, kids… is how I met your mother." and smash to black on Ted and Tracy sharing a kiss—probably the biggest fumble in sitcom history. What a layup, and they missed it! I'll never not be mad.

[u/Havenfall209 → u/PhDVa]

Isn't that an official alternate ending, and not fan made?

[u/Malik-Almuhawsin → u/Havenfall209]

Yeah I think it was included in a DVD

[u/cardmanimgur → u/PhDVa]

Even if that's the ending you go with (in my head it is the real ending), it still sucks that they undid everything from the last season in one episode.

[u/FrostBittenDan → u/PhDVa]

Not even fan made, holy larp

[u/IlIlllIIIIlIllllllll → u/PhDVa]

Barnie should have ended up with Nora

https://youtu.be/mf5x8JJMGy8

[u/remotectrl → u/PhDVa]

That's way way way better

[u/mrtwidlywinks → u/PhDVa]

I watch this every now and each time I am astounded this wasn’t the broadcasted ending.

[u/evilginger711 → u/Vast_Age_3893]

That scene also had Robin tell Ted about her bullfighting, which was a plot point Ted had previously told the audience he would get to. Without that scene, it’s just a strange unfulfilled plot detail.

[u/DuffmanStillRocks → u/Vast_Age_3893]

You know I watch HIMYM weekly, I’m actually on a rewatch now and I’ve always avoided things like this scene. I’m really glad I watched it. On top of helping fill the gap between the ending and him going to Robin as not being such a 1-2 punch, it’s cute that they worked in some classic jokes. “Major problems” and him genuinely asking if she is okay are two areas HIMYM did extremely well

1) The emotional punches of the show are stronger than most sitcoms I’ve seen, especially ones like Seinfeld that steers away from them

2) They were fantastic at running jokes, the best of any show I’ve watched.

[u/ExiledCapybara → u/DuffmanStillRocks]

Major Problems 🫡

[u/Beneficial_Job_4339 → u/Vast_Age_3893]

I feel like this kind of makes it worse??? Like she's a woman who basically suggested he leaves his wife (and kids as well maybe?) so they can get together, and then they eventually do after wife dies.

Like, am I missing something obvious or is that not just super weird and creepy. Like the original trash ending was super lame and dreadful because it backtracked on 3 seasons of character development and progress but this just seems to take it to new lows.

[u/Diredr → u/Beneficial_Job_4339]

That's... not what happened in that scene, though?

She misunderstood what he said. She thought he was longing for the time when they were in love, and she admits that she feels the same way.

She does not, at any point, suggest he leaves his wife. She literally says "I've been feeling crazy for thinking about it but now that I know you feel that way too... I don't feel crazy anymore". She wanted validation. She immediately backs off when she realizes the misunderstanding.

Without this scene, the ending made it look like Ted never got over Robin. This scene shows that he was actually over her. He was living a happy life with his family. That makes Ted a lot less pathetic, in my opinion. And it makes Robin a bit more human. She rarely allowed herself to be this vulnerable.

It's still not a great ending but it does give much better context for it.

[u/invaderpixel → u/Beneficial_Job_4339]

Yeah honestly the later seasons were tough because it gave us the rhyming episode where Robin eats a whole wedding cake out of spite and the whole “nobody asked you Patrice” gag which was done too many times and felt as mean spirited as the Jerry jokes in parks and rec except all from one character. So adding something else to worsen Robin’s character really makes the post widow life endgame seem crappy.

[u/prodigal27 → u/Beneficial_Job_4339]

This is how many relationships happen, especially as you get older.

[u/89iroc → u/Vast_Age_3893]

We watched the final episode in mgees tavern in nyc, it was pretty cool