List of scenes cut from The Simpsons shorts
Info supplied by The Simpsons Archive, with titles supplied by the Simpsons World episode guide.
Season 1
- "Good Night" - MG01
No cut scenes given, but 11 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings.
- "Watching TV" - MG02
No cut scenes given, but 5 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings.
- "Jumping Bart" - MG03
No information given.
- "Babysitting Maggie" - MG04
Act One, which consists of Bart and Lisa watching Maggie electrocute herself by sticking a fork into an electrical socket, is cut in syndications airings.
- "The Pacifier" - MG05
18 seconds of the short are cut in syndication. The cut lines and scenes are listed below, and are both in Act One.
- "Bart: How long are you going to keep sucking on that stupid pacifier?
Lisa: What a little baby you are." - ―In act 1.
When Maggie's pacifier is pulled out of her mouth in act one, she proceeds to fall forward and walk off. She then walks down a hall, falls by a mouse hole, and walks off-screen. The scene shifts to her entering her bedroom, where she falls and picks herself up again to open a drawer full of pacifiers.
- "Burping Contest" - MG06
22 seconds of the short are cut in syndication. The scene cut is listed below:
Marge watches Homer disappointedly after he burps, and then Maggie burps, leaving Marge to watch the rest of the family, stunned.
- "Dinnertime" - MG07
10 seconds of the short are cut in syndication. The line cut is listed below:
- "TV: On tonight's news: Bus plunge kills forty-three. Freak roller coaster accident decapitates a family of five. And a sneak preview of today's exciting bikini beachwear. But first this important message."
- ―In act four.
Season 2
- "Football" - MG08
No cut scenes given, but 5 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings.
- "Making Faces" - MG09
22 seconds of the short are cut in syndication. The entire second act is cut in syndication, where, they continue making faces, and Marge returns to tell them to knock it off. When she leaves, Bart and Lisa try to imitate her scowl, though their attempts are beaten by Maggie's imitation ("Look at this!").
- "What Maggie's Thinking" - MG10
14 seconds of the short are cut in syndication. Again, the entire second act is cut in syndication.
- "Lisa: Let's try to communicate with it in its own language."
- ―Act Two.
Bart then leans over and babbles, when Maggie shoves a bottle in his mouth.
- "Gone Fishin'" - MG11
10 seconds of the short are cut in syndication. Two words are cut.
- "Homer: Hmm. I coulda sworn we brought more worms."
- ―In act three.
- "House of Cards" - MG12
Nothing was cut for syndication.
- "Space Patrol" - MG13
No cut scenes given, but 4 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings.
- "The Funeral" - MG14
No cut scenes given, but 12 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings.
- "Bart and Homer's Dinner" - MG15
Nothing was cut for syndication.
- "The Perfect Crime" - MG16
No cut scenes given, but 3 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings.
- "Scary Stories" - MG17
No cut scenes given, but 1 second of the short is cut in syndication airings.
- "Bart's Haircut" - MG18
No cut scenes given, but 2 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings.
- "Grampa and the Kids" - MG19
No cut scenes given, but 3 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings.
- "World War III" - MG20
No cut scenes given, but 2 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings.
- "Skateboarding" - MG21
Nothing was cut, however, it was first timed to be 54 seconds long, but in accuracy, it was 5 seconds longer.
- "The Pagans" - MG22
No cut scenes given, but 4 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings.
- "Closeted" - MG23
No cut scenes given, but 3 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings.
- "The Aquarium" - MG24
Nothing was cut for syndication.
- "Family Portrait" - MG25
Nothing was cut for syndication.
- "Bart's Hiccups" - MG26
No cut scenes given, but 7 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings.
- "The Money Jar" - MG27
No cut scenes given, but 1 seconds of the short is cut in syndication airings.
- "Zoo Story" - MG28
No cut scenes given, but 3 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings.
- "The Art Museum" - MG29
No cut scenes given, but 4 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings.
Season 3
- "Shut Up, Simpsons" - MG30
9 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings. The scene cut is listed below:
When Grampa whacks Homer with a rolled-up newspaper, Maggie squeaks her rabbit, and everyone glares at her, before the screen turns black.
- "Shoplifting" - MG31
No cut scenes given, but 3 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings.
- "Home Hypnotism" - MG32
8 seconds of the short are cut in syndication airings. The quotes cut are listed below:
- "Marge: I don't know, Homer. The kids get kind of rambunctious sometimes, but I think that's normal.
Homer: A little rambunctious? They're bouncin' off the walls!" - ―Act one.
- "Marge: Oh no! They're zombies!
(The kids fall on the floor laughing.)
Homer: Laughing zombies!" - ―Act two
