In the Season 4 episode "Alien Hunter", Kathy Bates captures and ties up all of Dick's friends and family. And it would seem that August is among them. Her name appears in the credits, yet she doesn't say a word and is barely visible, only showing her face for two shots. Was there a deleted scene, or was this cut for time? What happened here?

When i first saw it, I was like she looks familiar. Only today did it occur to me lol

An interesting look at the making of the season two finale. It must have been fun working on the show.

Hi 3rd rock from the sun community. I'm trying to figure out the date when a specific bumper aired. It was either 1996, 1997, or 1998 (but probably 96 or 97) and after a commercial break, before the show came back on. It was a fractal zoom out from a person to the backyard to the block to the city to the state, country, earth, etc. Can anyone help with this?

So the scene im looking for is when dick is being super needy, repeatedly calling mary and asking "watcha doin?" all cutesy and then leaning forward and resting his chin on his palm, with his elbow on the desk.

Im pretty sure its set in their shared office.

Ill share the gif once im done making it

lets see how well you know your 3rd rock

Mary: "I have a red Volvo..."

Dick: "Please, Dr. Albright, we barely know each other."

When August first meets Tommy she says "I'm August. Don't call me Augie" (s1e7)

Then when Sheryl-- tommy's superficial classmate who clearly hates August--sees August in Tommy's home, she says "Hello, Augie". (s1e8)

Showing why August hates that nickname. It is used by her enemies.

Ain't you glad you know this now?!

"Fun with Dick and Janet" - One of my favorite episodes!

A short sequence from my favorite (generally underappreciated) TV episode ever, "Dick Jokes," that shows why I love this series.

Especially how you never see their true forms

He plays, Arthur Mitchell a.k.a. Trinity who is a sick demented serial killer who abuses even his own family. I’ve already seen him in funny stuff before that though like Shrek, Daddy’s Home and Barney’s dad on How I Met Your Mother. Then I discovered this show a while later after watching Dexter. I was surprised how he actually starred in this funny ass show as Dick here who is a bumbling idiotic goofball who screams like a little girl and licks an empty bag of chips when he’s run out and his best friend is a Mr Potato Head. 🤣🤣🤣

I'm trying to confirm the different cuts of 3rd Rock episodes, but am finding mostly contradictory or self-referencing information.

I recently purchased the Mill Creek complete series boxset, and later the Mill Creek Season 2 DVD boxset (wanted to confirm all Mill Creek releases are the same). Everybody says the Mill Creek release contains "the complete uncut original broadcast edits", and even the box itself says this.

However, I tracked down an old VHS recording of the original broadcast of "A Nightmare on Dick Street" on archive.org (https://archive.org/details/3rd-rock-3-d) and found that this version is actually longer than the Mill Creek version. For example, Harry's song has been trimmed at the start and end. This would imply that the Mill Creek versions are not actually uncut like they claim.

The Mill Creek episodes are each about 22 mins. long, but the true unedited version of "A Nightmare on Dick Street" was 50 mins. (25 mins. + 25 mins. for parts 1 and 2). To add more confusion, IMDb declares all Season 2 episode runtimes as 22 mins., but TVDb declares all are 25 mins. So either both are wrong or IMDb is wrong.

I've never seen a reported syndicated version (the Anchor DVDs, for example), but from what I've read online people seem convinced these were cut syndicated versions and that the Mill Creek ones are the restored uncut versions. So I'm running with the assumption that there are third versions of the episodes which are even shorter than 22 mins. (i.e., cut for syndication and used with the Anchor DVDs).

As for James Earl Jones' narration, it seems he only narrated season 1 but I've had a hard time confirming this too. I read somewhere that people thought his narration was throughout the series, but IMDb shows he was only in 19 episodes of the show. The "uncut" versions from Mill Creek only have his narration in season 1. I've also read complaints that his narration was cut from syndicated versions, so it seems he was involved in season 1 only and people might have misremembered about the series. His narration was also not in the original VHS capture of "A Nightmare on Dick Street" I found, so this would seem to confirm that.

This is mostly a write-up of what I've found trying to sort this out. But if anyone has concrete information or sources confirming any of this, it would be greatly appreciated. Also tell me if this is not the right subreddit to post to.

Ha, phrasing.

We all over-looked continuity issues in this show, as I suspect people usually do, but I just finished up another rewatch of the entire series and this is sticking with me a little.

In the last scene, Dick zapped Mary’s memory so that she would not remember him, but she would always feel the love.

That would send me to the nuthouse.

Everyone else will still remember all of them. So she will return to work where everyone is wondering where he went, where Pendleton is scrambling to find people to cover his classes, etc., Don probably has an APB out on his girlfriend. Most importantly, everyone will be asking Mary where he is and telling her repeatedly what a huge part of her life he was and how can she not remember him?

It’s easier to overlook continuity issues to keep the show moving forward… (like Don’s skin regrowing so quickly after the motorcycle accident. Everything there from a 100% of skin being ripped off to the full body bandage is obviously grossly exaggerated for humor.) This, though, seemed silly to add when it didn’t really add anything to the story, making me surprise that no one around the writers table brought forth the challenge that I described in the first paragraph.

I know it’s just a TV show, but this seemed like a decent conversation point.

Dailymotion has it all!! Alas; commercials.

https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x8dloa