After watching the second disk an hour ago I also noticed these. Also, when Curly loses his wig while pretending to be an Indian in "Whoops I'm An Indian" it seems to go a bit slow. Not sure if this is on purpose or not.
That is weird. I didn't even see that when I watched it a couple of days ago! Part of the audio is clipped there, as well. Instead of, "You like?", it sounds more like Curly says, "__u like?"
In "Movie Maniacs", when Curly tries to flip over the pancake that he's making you can see the hand toss it onto the ceiling. You would think that they would of edited that out. Or maybe they wanted it in there still, to keep it original?
I hope they never start making those kinds of "improvements", as was and is the case for another show that I enjoy called Doctor Who.
Some years ago, the self-proclaimed "Doctor Who Restoration Team" began remastering the programs for the BBC to release on home video. Well, just remastering wasn't enough, since those guys have taken it upon themselves to make decisions about what
should have been seen and what was
not meant to be seen in the original broadcasts! They don't just correct picture problems, they remove and replace low budget special effets/goofs/wires/props using digital trickery, effectively reducing much of the charm and bare-faced cheek of low-budget science fiction! New CGI effects are particularly out of place in the eps shot on b&w videotape in the late 60's.
If the "destruction team" (as I refer to them) got hold of the Stooges, you'd have stuff like the hand throwing the pancake removed, rear-projection effects would be digitally replaced, all those ducks, stuffed owls and dead bees on wires would have to go, too... Hell, they'd probably pitch-correct the audio of the fight sequence at the end of Hot Scots if they decided it just shouldn't be sped up!
I *cough* love ranting *cough*!
-Th
