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"Miss Deep South"
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Cut Scenes: The original title for this episode was Miss Dixie, with the name of the main pageant changed to this throughout. Many other pageant names were also switched (with Miss Deep South being one of them). Sam has a voiceover recalling watching Miss America as a kid and helping his sister "tie a towel around her neck, put a cereal bowl on her head and dream of the day she'd become a beauty queen". This is followed up soon after by some mental criticism of the "step and glide" manoeuvre. A little later, Peggy has to make more effort outside the elevator to convince Sam to attend the pre-pageant interview. And later still, Clint forces Connie to sign a waiver before he takes her photos. At the end of that scene, much of Clint's chatter during the photography itself is missing, added later. Just before Cuanto La Gusta, onscreen a contestant delivers an unimpressive dance - in the script it was some bad (and dangerous) knife juggling. Sam's attempts to support Connie after she's kicked out of the pageant, and his confrontation with Myers, are both written quite differently but ultimately get the same points across. Myers' monologue about her experience with Clint is entirely missing. When Clint reveals he has the photos, he pushes Connie a lot more directly than in the finished episode where she says she'd do "anything", and he seems to take the opportunity she's unintentionally presented. Throughout the whole script, much more is made of the "bitch" Vicky - and Sam's reactions to her - without actual giving her much more material. Bakula doesn't play this angle as much in performance. |
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| Syndication Edit: [Peg Myers is giving her introductory orientation speech to the entrants. Her speech is partially audible throughout in the background.] Al: Yeah. Like jockey shorts. Sam: That's very funny, Al. -- begin cut --> Sam: I'm a beauty queen. Al: Hey, did I ever tell you about the time I had a fling with a beauty queen? Sam: No, and I don't want to know. Al: I was in flight school, and she was Miss Tail Gunner nineteen fifty-five. I'm telling you, she had a major-league set of gun turrets. [Sam looks stern.] That was a compliment. Sam: On what planet? Al: Watch out. You're going to ruin your chances of being voted Miss Congeniality. <-- end cut --- Sam: Just tell me what I'm doing here. -- begin cut --> Al: Well, we're not sure. Uh, Ziggy's still running the program. <-- end cut --- Al: Your name is Darlene Monte and you earned your way into the Miss Deep South pageant by, oh, becoming Miss Sugar Belle.
Syndication Edit: [Sam and Connie have entered their hotel room and turned on the TV set. _Leave It to Beaver_ is mostly audible in the background.] Sam: Connie, you said that winning the pageant would be like a dream come true. Wally: Well, they make you learn etiquette. Beaver: What's that? Sam: What kind of a dream? -- begin cut --> Wally: [V.O.] Sort of how to eat right, have manners [unintelligible]. Connie: That kind. [Points at the TV set.] Beaver: I didn't know they picked on you that much when you were in high school. Wally: Yeah, they're real strict about that kind of stuff. [Drinks from the milk bottle.] Sam: [Laughs] You want to be the Beaver? Connie: No. <-- end cut --- Connie: I want to be on television. Or the movies.
Syndication Edit: At the very beginning of the second act, the NBC version has about .8 second more in the exterior establishing shot of the hotel. Just after Al warns Sam that Connie's gone off with Clint to trade sex for the film, the NBC version has about an extra 1 second of Clint nibbling the back of Connie's neck before Al shows up.
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