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Deleted scenes are akin to mythical beasts for hardcore fans of a TV show. In the past, you’d have to buy a series on DVD to check out what scenes were filmed but ultimately pulled before it went to air. However, there’s a type of deleted scene that is even rarer — ones that made it to broadcast but were pulled after the fact.
Sometimes, audiences react badly to a certain scene right away and network execs waste no time in pulling it from subsequent airings. Other times, changing societal attitudes render a scene that was once considered okay unacceptable and it gets cut from the episode it originally appeared in for reruns and on streaming services. There are also examples of scenes being removed for innocuous reasons, like there being something in the shot that wasn’t supposed to be there.
Execs would like us to forget that these scenes even exist, but the fact is, they do, and they were all aired at one stage or another. The following TV moments are so bad and/or offensive that they’re now difficult to find, but we’ve got all the details below.
Squid Game included a real phone number
The hit Netflix series “Squid Game” is somewhat controversial by nature: Not only is it violent, but it’s also an anti-capitalist show that highlights the extreme inequalities that exist in modern society via a competition in which desperate people compete in a series of deadly games for the chance to become a millionaire. However, one untold truth of “Squid Game” is that the first season of the show wreaked havoc on one person’s life due to the inclusion of a very real phone number.
The first episode of “Squid Game” sees Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) receive a card containing a phone number he can call if he wishes to compete in the games. There are only eight digits, but even plugging those in will direct to someone as a local call. After the show premiered on Netflix, one person was inundated with thousands of calls daily. “Since the airing of ‘Squid Game,’ I have been receiving text messages and calls 24 hours a day that make it difficult for me to live my daily life,” the phone number holder told Money Today, adding, “I get calls out of curiosity day and night without any sense of time, to the point where my phone battery would run out in half a day.”
This person wasn’t the only one to suffer from the inclusion of these digits in the first “Squid Game” episode: Someone else also received frequent calls since their phone number was only one digit off. “The stress from incessant prank calls is driving me crazy,” they said (via The Korea Times). It was surely a nightmare come to life, especially not knowing at first that a new show was behind it all. Fortunately, Netflix edited the episode so that viewers watching it now can’t see any numbers.
The Big Bang Theory cut a trip to the sperm bank
“The Big Bang Theory” was a cultural juggernaut for over a decade, but it got off on some rocky footing. There’s the now-infamous unaired pilot that’s very different from what viewers eventually saw, in which the female lead is Katie (Amanda Walsh) rather than Penny (Kaley Cuoco). Even the pilot that made it to air still needed some tweaking, as evidenced from the sperm bank scene that was pulled for being too inappropriate.
The very first scene of the pilot involves Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons) going to a high IQ sperm bank to make some money. For a show where most of the jokes amount to “Look at how nerdy these nerds are,” it’s a pretty risqué way to kick things off. It also feels out of character for Sheldon, who later in the series would struggle with the ins and outs of sexual behavior.
The sperm bank scene was later cut from syndication, although it’s back in the episode if you watch it on Max. While the scene does raise some questions, it’s ultimately necessary, as there’s a callback in Season 12. Sperm donation comes back into play in “The Donation Oscillation” when Zack (Brian Thomas Smith) and Marissa (Lindsey Kraft) ask Leonard if he would be their sperm donor.
The Mandalorian’s Jeans Guy was digitally removed
The “Star Wars” franchise has the mystical Force, lightsabers that can slice a body in two, and space whales that can create tunnels through hyperspace. But, apparently, a guy wearing jeans is just a step too far. In “The Mandalorian” Chapter 12, “The Siege,” Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) gets into a shootout with some Stormtroopers. Fortunately, he has Cara Dune (Gina Carano) and Greef Karga (the late, great Carl Weathers) for back-up. If you were to look closely at the bottom right-hand corner during this scene, you’d see a person standing behind the doorway wearing a green shirt, watch, and blue jeans.
It’s an absolutely hilarious thing for editing to miss, and fans had a blast making fun of it. A meme was even born designating the person “Admiral Jeff Blue-Jeans,” complete with a mock-up of his very own action figure. Of course, there’s no deeper meaning to this, as this was clearly a member of the crew who thought they were out of frame, but the internet remembers all despite Disney’s best efforts. Jeans Guy was digitally removed from “The Siege” shortly after it first aired, and while he may be gone, he’ll never be forgotten.