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I just want to preface this by saying that this will probably be the only fanedit I do, because I am much more comfortable with helping someone else on a project than taking on my own.
So, this very small edit, is for the 1968 animated TV Show "Wacky Races". The aim was to fix the second episode of the show. Basically, it is the one instance where the villain actually won the race, only to then be disqualified by "judges" for extending the tip of his car to the finish line.
I would not have bothered with this edit, but then I watched the rest of the show, and there is far too much hypocrisy. For example, in episode 9, "Scout Scatter", the winner of that race does a similar thing, he cartoonishly extends his neck over the finish line. But no judges bothered to disqualify him. And other racers in the show have done worse, such as completely destroying another competitors vehicle to get to the finish, yet, no judges are there ruling anything out.
So I wanted to make it a little bit fairer on the villain since the other racers had done far worse to "get ahead" of the race and were left alone. So this cut lets him have his win. After all, he doesn't win at all in any other episode, so might as well let him have the 1.
What was changed:
I simply cut the section of the episode right after the narrator says the villain has won, up to his dog sidekick laughing. No "judges", because they are not around in any other episode, I don't see why they should exist in Episode 2 either.
I then took the footage of the race that the "judges" judged, and made that the initial race win (so it shows the tip of the car extending) that way the ending makes more sense when the dog sidekick kicks the extended tip into the villain's hand.
I did not bother to add my title card to the video, since I wanted it to remain as authentic to the other episodes as possible.
It's not a perfect edit, it's not a detailed or fancy edit, it's just something I HAD to fix because honestly, those judges were BS. If they had "judges" in every episode, all of the racers would practically be disqualified.
Original episode runtime: 11min 50sec.
New episode runtime: 11min 15sec.
The edit is already done and ready to go but I don't see the need to make an iFDB page for something so small. So if you own anything digital/physical in regards to the original show, please send me a PM for a download.
So, this very small edit, is for the 1968 animated TV Show "Wacky Races". The aim was to fix the second episode of the show. Basically, it is the one instance where the villain actually won the race, only to then be disqualified by "judges" for extending the tip of his car to the finish line.
I would not have bothered with this edit, but then I watched the rest of the show, and there is far too much hypocrisy. For example, in episode 9, "Scout Scatter", the winner of that race does a similar thing, he cartoonishly extends his neck over the finish line. But no judges bothered to disqualify him. And other racers in the show have done worse, such as completely destroying another competitors vehicle to get to the finish, yet, no judges are there ruling anything out.
So I wanted to make it a little bit fairer on the villain since the other racers had done far worse to "get ahead" of the race and were left alone. So this cut lets him have his win. After all, he doesn't win at all in any other episode, so might as well let him have the 1.
What was changed:
I simply cut the section of the episode right after the narrator says the villain has won, up to his dog sidekick laughing. No "judges", because they are not around in any other episode, I don't see why they should exist in Episode 2 either.
I then took the footage of the race that the "judges" judged, and made that the initial race win (so it shows the tip of the car extending) that way the ending makes more sense when the dog sidekick kicks the extended tip into the villain's hand.
I did not bother to add my title card to the video, since I wanted it to remain as authentic to the other episodes as possible.
It's not a perfect edit, it's not a detailed or fancy edit, it's just something I HAD to fix because honestly, those judges were BS. If they had "judges" in every episode, all of the racers would practically be disqualified.
Original episode runtime: 11min 50sec.
New episode runtime: 11min 15sec.
The edit is already done and ready to go but I don't see the need to make an iFDB page for something so small. So if you own anything digital/physical in regards to the original show, please send me a PM for a download.
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