"Sea Bride"
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Cut Scenes: The first version of the script, dated March 9th 1990 and setting the leap in at June 4th 1954, belies the comedy roots of this episode by containing very few plot points that actually differ, but a great many lines that were tweaked for transmission, clearly the result of the actors being free to work more broadly with the material in rehearsals. Larger changes include: - Weathers being the middleweight champion at Harvard in 1939 (1919 in transmission, ageing him twenty years in the process)
- The removal of a handful of unimportant lines for Alfonso, Vincent's father, (relegating him to a cost-saving non-speaking role) - Concern from Weathers about Farlington Nautical being overshadowed by air travel. A short scene of Sam and Al before the dance is missing. Sam's bluff to escape Vinnie with the Captain is also all about air travel and sprinkler systems (and the entire following discussion is cut short in transmission - in the script the Captain assures Sam he will wire the detective, followed by some back and forth between Sam and Al - which is replaced in transmission by Al complaining about the trash and Jennifer chasing Sam down). This last piece also contains the rather dubious piece of dialogue about Jenny: "She's a bright kid. Let's see, if she's twelve now and it's 1954, by the time she's thirty... that would be 1972. Sam responds "stop it, Al", to which Al retorts "I said I'd wait for her." There are then some changes to the arguments where Vincent leaves Sam to die and Al makes predictions about the state of pollution in 1990 (2000 in the aired version). Weathers is more honorable, as he objects to the wedding before Catherine does (in the transmitted version, only she objects, and he then backs her up). The episode wraps with much more focus on Vinnie getting arrested for attempted murder. As an aside, particularly amusing is the stage direction that Catherine "kisses the shit out of" Sam when he leaps in. |
