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My Sister's Husband's Brother Was An Extra On This Episode!


I never saw the entire episode since I never really got into this show, but, my Sister's Husband's brother was trying to become an actor the time this was being made and I just remember he brought back a VHS cassette tape of this episode and showed us a scene with some military busting into a building and grabbing people and shouting and one guy was slammed against a wall and it was Sister's brother-in-law, (that sounds better than typing 'my Sister's Husband's brother' doesn't it?), who was the guy that slammed another guy against a wall. I haven't seen the full episode on TV or online, so I'm not sure if his scene got cut or what because I noticed he's not mentioned in the 'full crew' here on the IMDB page, but, then, a lot of the time extras aren't given any credit. Anyway, his name is Zebulon Batke and he actually does have an IMDB page for being a game-tester for World of Warcraft. I always thought it was kind of cool knowing someone who'd been on TV, if it actually made it into the rest of the episode or not. ^_^

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That's cool- how did he find the experience?

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can't identify the episode.

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If you don't see the scene in a TV airing, it doesn't mean it's not on the DVD version. I have no idea if you Americans get complete episodes on TV or ones with cut scenes and whether you get the full-width versions or the 4:3 ratio we get but you can lose a lot of information.

Unfortunately, whoever decides what will get cut possibly doesn't watch the whole thing and see the confusion some of their cutting causes.

For example, it was jarring to see Harm 'shoot' someone and there was absolutely no sound from the gun because the part they cut had the sound and the part they showed didn't but at least you got the idea. Probably the sound went with a view of the guy taking the bullets - that sort of scene is often cut down or completely out and all you see is a sanitised version of the dead person, I've noticed.

However, I can live with jarring. What I don't like living with is when something happens and they don't show anything that indicates what happened - in one episode, all of a sudden two men are dragging an obviously dead body away and I'm trying to figure out who got killed and why. That was very confusing.

So that gives you some idea of what you might be up against by trying to find it by watching TV episodes. The video he was given was probably the full version.

If he/you can't remember the episode, is there anything else you could tell us so maybe we can pin it down? ('Cause it's a thrill, ain't it? lol - yep - got a family member who was an extra on a show over here! 😄)

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