You are all being fined for 14 mentions of the word penis,
make that 15 mentions...

I do live in another country indeed, but apparently we're so backwards here that Newsradio is not available on DVD. So I (pre)ordered them from the USA via Amazon.

On the Season 3 discs, the Per Penis part is not there (and I have a vague recollection of seeing that when it aired here on tv), but the scene with Bill and Dave talking at Bill's desk starts at around 18:00 and ends at 18:40 with Bill mouthing the word Penis while the camera cuts away to Matthew and Jimmy in the break room. There is a camera switch at the part where that part belonged.

On the Season 1&2 discs, it's exactly the same.

Gazizza!

I can't believe I'm posting just to rebuke the whole Buttifuco "penis" fiasco. My mother's taken, and refuses to give me back my Season 1 & 2 DVD set, but my Season 3 set has all of the 'penis' comments intact, and the scene with Dave fining Bill IS in there.

I obtained this through a friend who bought it for me at "Best Buy", but I'll likely be purchasing a companion DVD set for my mother... and likely a Season 1&2 to replace my own..

Well, Bob I'm going to have to rewatch this episode on our 3rd season set... but I wanted to let you know that you are not a freak. My bf and I have NewsRadio on every night. My bf snores like you wouldn't believe, so I need some "white noise", every night we push play on the dvd player and NewsRadio starts up. It's on all night until the timer turns it off. We rotate discs now and then (since I tend to only hear maybe the first episode before i'm out cutting Z's myself.) It's the best thing to watch before going to sleep.. no abrasive laugh track (seems like they dont have much of one), not flashy lights and scene changes, not much yelling ('cept when Bill gives up smoking/Dave gives up coffee and they yell at Matthew, omg i cry with laughter when i see that--or when Jimmy James goes on his Advertising rant...) ... it's such a great show.

Actually Erik, my point is that BOTH versions of the episode I have, both the second and third seasons, is the edited version of this episode.

I can't believe you people are having this much of a hard time with the article.

Bob said that the same episode is on the Season 2 set and the Season 3 set. The episode on 2 is fine, the episode on 3 is edited. He wonders why they bothered putting the edited episode on the 3rd set if it is unedited on the second one.

We all know your set of season 2 has it un-edited, his was as well. As is mine.

Bob - to answer your question...I guess because it was technically part of season 3 they included it, and they included it the way it aired for season 3.

I am in the US. I have both sets. I have not watched the season 3 set yet. But the scenes you described are present uncut on my Season 1/2 set. Pre-Ordered from Amazon. Recieved it a week before the street date for the set was. Perhaps some copies went out with the uneditied episode?

Which set are you talking about, seasons 1 and 2 or season 3?

The scene I'm talking about is at the very end, where Dave confronts Bill about his on-air editorials. The scene is there, but has been edited. In the old version, Bill asks Dave if his fine amount is "total," and Dave says "per penis." This dialogue is cut from the version I have (both sets, actually - the ep is on both sets).

Another line cut is Bill's final "penis!" when Dave walks away. You can see Hartman mouth the word, but the sound is cut out.

If I'm wrong, let me know. And let me know what set you have and what country you're in.

I can back up jort on this one. I just watched this last night on my season 1 set and all of the penises were there. No edits, cuts or sound removals.

I doubt that jort, unless you live in another country and there's a foreign set? This editing of the episode is pretty famous in Newsradio fandom.