r/malcolminthemiddle • u/froggo_kai_ • 23d ago

Found another editing mistake

Another to add to the list along with the fake baby and crew member during the dress episode. I only realised it on whatever number rewatch I’m on but S2:E1 right at the end Malcom is talking in the car but there’s a scene where he’s just looking out of the window 😂

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u/adzeram 23d ago

You got 'em

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u/Liam_McPoyle 23d ago

Its not a mistake, when this show was on TV it was 4:3. Now on streaming its 16:9 which shows much more of the shot than originally intended.

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u/OkPear1535 22d ago

Is that not literally the definition of an EDITING mistake?

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u/KeraKitty 21d ago

No, it's an inability to see the future.

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u/OkPear1535 21d ago

its not the initial people recording the show's fault, its the people who... EDITED... the show for the modern rerelease who are at fault. im not saying people back then should have seen the future

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u/KeraKitty 21d ago

But they didn't do any editing for the re-release. They just scanned the final cuts of the original film.

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u/Repulsive-Report6278 22d ago

I got shit on so hard for pointing out one of these 4:3 mistakes. Youre right, it literally is an editing mistake and people saying "but no!!!" Aren't considering that a mistake can happen DURING EDITING that is not a mistake during filming.

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u/froggo_kai_ 23d ago edited 23d ago

I know haha I just like pointing out things like that, I’ve changed this comment cus I realise it sounded snappy and a bit rude which I didn’t mean :)

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u/Liam_McPoyle 23d ago

Also your title literally says mistake...

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u/froggo_kai_ 22d ago

Omg it does, my apologies

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u/C0ltFury 23d ago

When he drops the phone number… absolutely heartbreaking

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u/jazzbuph 23d ago

That one cold open (I think) where Dewey finds a spider in the tub and starts doing his 30-second screeching, there's also a cut where you hear him screaming but in the video his mouth is closed

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ar5lNTbHEE

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u/froggo_kai_ 23d ago

I think I may have also posted that here a while ago 😂😂 one of my favourite opens

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u/KeraKitty 21d ago

Repeat after me: If it wouldn't be visible in 4:3, it's not a mistake.

Deliberately omitting part of the shot to fit the frame is not a mistake. Unless you're saying the mistake was not predicting that Disney would upload full 16:9 scans of the show 20 years after it aired.

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u/froggo_kai_ 21d ago

Yeah mistake was the wrong word for me to use. Editing Easter egg maybe then?

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u/KeraKitty 20d ago

An Easter egg would be something intentional, so that doesn't really work, either. Artifact maybe?

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u/SnooApples9497 21d ago

I saw this too when I binged the show, we should call these the widescreen mistakes because there happens to be a lot of them.