I was watching The Goonies on ...
Question: I was watching The Goonies on TV the other night with my roommate, and we saw an unfamiliar part with an octopus near the end. There's a piece of dialogue in the normal release in which the Data character refers to an octopus, but we'd never seen it before. We've asked everyone we know if they've ever seen this different version, and they all say no. We're beginning to think we're crazy or something; can you assure us that we're not?
Answer: Consider yourself assured. The scene in which a giant octopus attacks Martha Plimpton was cut from the theatrical release of The Goonies (1985), which is also the version that's on tape. But the scene has been put back in for TV, presumably to increase the running time; although I haven't seen the PG-rated Goonies since it was new, it seems unlikely to me that many scenes needed to be trimmed and replaced with other footage because of bad language, violence or sexual content. The octopus scene also appears on the DVD, but it's not integrated into the film — it appears as a separate, deleted scene.
