>>108546836If this was done today (hell, it was probably done back then), Hollywood's Minitrue would cut out everything interesting, different from the work's MO, or whatever approximates "controversial" to the average millennial, like milk, or hand gestures as old as man itself..
That said, this should never be done and never have been done by anyone, unless this is the standard for your series and you're giving every Tom, Dick and Sally who calls in full royalties (that's my answer for whether this would happen today, by the way). Even then, just doing it proves you either don't have a writing team or they've all had some type of collective brain hemorrhage that makes them think their pens and keyboards are knives and cake.
