Talk:Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert (Lost Primetime 1969 Special)/@comment-5888264-20171011232651

Have we talked about the ORIGINAL version of the "scared straight" Fat Albert episode from the '80s? Well now, anything Fat Albert might be hard to come by for the time being, but seems like anyone who carried the series (TV, streaming, etc.) always used the toned-down version of the episode. It does keep Bill's warning of "strong language," but you can obviously tell certain words were dubbed over or censored ("damn" becomes "darn" and that sort of thing). This is an instance of the edited version becoming canon, for lack of a better term. See also: It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown. Also, the fact that the master tapes of Beavis and Butt-head were permanently cut and now the post-fire incident versions are all you're going to get officially, if at all.

Unless someone pulled Filmation aside before the show aired and told them to tone down the episode, this is a case of finding someone in a suburb of Podunk who taped the first broadcast of it as being our only hope.