@@hectorlopez1069 Well, yes. We all are literally. I mean he's an amazing natural actor and comedian. Never knew him but I miss what he could produce in my emotions over an electronic screen. Amazing.
Not just a bag, but a “nice bag of Oreo cookies” god bless him! I loved this guy and this movie many many years later I still watch during Thanksgiving. Thank you John Candy!
Never understood why this was left out of the movie. It makes way more sense in context later on when Neal is pissed at Del in the motel room for telling his "boring stories" on the plane.
I agree. I'm not sure how true this is, but rumour has it there was a 'lot' of extra stuff left on the cutting room floor. If only they'd have compiled it into a special edition or something. I love John Candy's stuff, we always watch it especially at Christmas.
QuadTubeChannel Yeah, I'd love the see the entire movie spliced together someday. Apparently the uncut movie was around 4 hours long, and even had them overshooting Chicago. When I was a kid I especially loved the road trip scenes too.
hahahahah why the fuck did they leave this scene out? this was hilarious! glad they did, now like 20 years later i jsut got a fresh laugh at the age of neal page lmao
You wanna hurt me??? Go right ahead if it makes you feel better. I'm an easy target. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you. But, I'm the real article. What you see is what you get!!!
There's another scene earlier in the film when then arrive at the Braidwood Inn. Dell says to Gus, the night clerk " Gus I'd like you to meet an old friend of mine, Neal Page" and Gus says, "pleased to meet you Nick." It' so typical of old men when they are loosing their hearing to say Nick instead of Neal or whatever. Men don't want to admit that they are declining in their old age because it's a sign of weakness. Women, on the other hand, crave the attention they get from doctors as they age. The get the attention they miss when they were young and attractive. Just look at the waiting room in any doctor's office. It's filled with elderly women.
normally deleted scenes aren't worth watching, but I had to laugh really hard on this one. Saw the film at least 30 times and now I see a new funny scene...this is pretty strange and cool.
Why did they delete this off the DVD only to include it as an extra later on the special edition one? I love this scene! It's totally unlike any deleted scenes in any other movies! I remember watching this movie years ago on TV and it was in that!
Hahahaa, this was actually rather funneh !! I truly wish there would be somebody left somewhere who could still do movies like this ! (maybe it´s me!! ..who knows :)
One of the funniest scenes in the film and it gets chopped out of every TV version and was just re-inserted into the DVD release as a "deleted scene". I wrote Paramount a few years ago voicing my displeasure and they actually sent me back a letter explaining that they didn't have clearance from the actor in the scene to use it anymore. Wonder what that was about?
+John Boutet Probably the actor playing the old man. Or at least his estate. His name is Bill Erwin and he died a few years ago, so maybe his family won't agree to recent licensing/royalty terms. And I agree, this is one of my favorite scenes and I was wondering why it wasn't in the movie and then I figured out it was a broadcast scene to make up the running time.
John Boutet Maybe he thought his compensation was too small and refused to accept the terms of the royalty amount they offered. Either way, he's the only one who could be responsible and he must have had a reason. A poor one, but...still.
John Boutet I think the scene was taken out of the movie by Hughes, but put in the broadcast version for years. If it was in the broadcast, then Erwin would need to get royalties for each showing. If he changed his mind later on--or his family did--then they'd have to take the scene out of the broadcast. But from what I can gather, it's never been in the theatrical version or any home video version ever.
Apparently John Hughes cut out so much footage and scenes that were filmed (originally the first cut of the film was 4 hours). In a DVD extra for PT & A, they reference a deleted scene where Steve Martin and John Candy get into an argument after they were pulled over by the cop (after they left the motel in the burnt out car) because they overshot the turnoff to Chicago by 100 miles. Just type in 'The Story of PT & A' on RU-vid and it should be available. Unfortunately it's rumoured most of the deleted footage has rotted away in a vault in the Paramount Vault but John Hughes' family supposedly also has the full cut. It's probably never going to released but I can always dream that one day, it will be.
Love this scene. I use to love flying as a kid with my parents. The meals were pretty small but everything was so different that it was pretty awesome. Even if the guy next to you was smoking. hahahaha
Yah some of the meals weren't bad... there was some stuff that was a little wrong, but I always ate it when I was a kid. But I just don't find it worth paying for these days if flying within the Country and airports are SUPER overpriced... best to eat something beforehand and pack some hearty snacks.... For international flights you generally always get an actual meal and they're okay.... fly Emirates though and it's really good... their coach is like first class on American planes.. you get full silverware/glasses, drinks, etc.
+newalm Also probably depends on the airline, too. I fly to Minneapolis a couple times a year on Delta and despite a 3 hour flight, they never offer more than a small pack of cookies and a soda.
+newalm I know with flying to Orlando in 2010 and 2012 via Virgin Atlantic, the food isn't bad, but they could have put a better idea to what it was. Basically - Flying out - Lunch - sausage, bacon, beans and hash brown, bun with butter, cup of tea/coffee and a soft drink. halfway through the flight - sweets/candy, ice cream bars or marshmallows near to landing (about an hour and a half) - sandwiches, crisps and either a cookie or a brownie Flying home (from Orlando to Manchester UK) Evening meal - either it's usually something like chicken curry with rice, or beef stew with vegetables, bun with butter, cup of tea/coffee and a Gu dessert pot morning breakfast - cup of tea/coffee and either a egg bagel or bacon bagel...which is very gross.
Recognize the old man from "Seinfeld" episode where the gang all do volunteer work with the elderly? And the cab driver later on is the guy who played Kramer in the pilot for the "Jerry" TV show who stole a box of raisins after his audition.
If you look on the right the woman in the middle of the third row looked totally shocked and appalled by the airline stewardess' behavior, I find her reaction to be priceless.
newalm There were several releases of the VHS. The original that was released after the movie was taken out of theaters had the scene included. Later releases had it removed. All I can say is what Paramount told me, they didn't have the rights to the old man actor used in the scene for some strange reason.
There is in fact a 3 hour version of the film, but (in an interview several years ago) John Hughes stated that the scenes are out of order and it would take years to assemble. He also said that most of it has deteriorated by now. It's all locked away in the Universal vault. Have no idea WHY Universal wouldn't want to release it. I guess to avoid any chances of tarnishing this great film.
+MartyMartin87 IIRC, he was in the first *Home Alone* tome, in the airplane line leaving Paris for Dallas; the lady playing his wife was, IIRC, Billie Bird.
Love the scene when the lady sitting in front of Steve Martin starts to flip and drape her long hair over her seat and her hair lands on Steve Martin’s Food
This scene reminds me of when my son and I go to Subway for lunch and order three cookies that we share equally - one full cookie each and then we split the third. Let me tell you, “the splitting of the third cookie” is a solemn event and subject to numerous interpretations of fairness! One of the women who works there resolves the issue by simply giving us four cookies even though we only order three......😂
John Candy could deliver any kind of lines in style. He had commitment as actor to in for it and handle in the greatest of ways with ease comfortable and relaxed
Watch for the Elvis Home Alone extra in the background. Long hair and full beard. He is also in the "A f--king car" airport scene with his hair short and beard trimmed to just a mustache. The reason being he probably never thought the airport scene would make it into the final cut. It is NOT Elvis Presley but clearly he is in quite a few movies to mess with our minds. For instance Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael, dancing to My Way of all songs. In Home Alone when Kevin's mother says, "If I have to sell my soul to the devil himself I will get home to my son", he stares right at the camera. Normally if an extra looks at the camera they cut and refilm it. But in that case they actually kept shifting the focus of the camera to show the extra above all else in the scene. Why? He also made it to the theatrical trailer, and yet nobody involved in the casting for any of these films has his name. Why? How? Elvis Presley died in 1977 so why all this nonsense? Weird world.
***** It is not Julio Macat the cinematographer of Home Alone and all the rest like some people are thinking lately. Although some people think that it is him. But he never looked like this.
***** But how I wish I knew who he was. And I do wish that it is not Elvis. Because if this extra by any chance did turn out to be Elvis - then that could very well mean Elvis is an asshole and he hates my guts. Because Jon does. He denies it but I know he hates me enough to make bullying videos and web-pages about me, my friends and even my family members. So if this extra is indeed Jon Cotner, or the guy you see in his pictures, only younger, then this extra hates me. And if this extra is by some chance Elvis, then that means Jon is Elvis and so my childhood hero hates me.
***** With that said. I do not believe that the above scenario is the case. I do say, however, that this extra must be a relative of Elvis in some way. Although he also looks a bit like a Lovett. The Lovett family is the family of Harry Lee Lovett aka Johnny Harra (this was his stage name). He is dead now, but has two brothers, Forrest (who looks like Jon Cotner), and Clyde.
***** Now Harra has a son named Kenny Lovett - he is a vigilante that chases police around all of Texas to tape police brutality. You can find him on RU-vid. He looks exactly like this Home Alone extra. It's the "Lovett-look" - which is why the Lovetts all seem to resemble the Presleys. The DNA is strong in both families. But Kenny is a younger guy. The extra is certainly not his dad Harra, but could be an uncle. Forrest is too short (the extra is about 6'2). But there is still Clyde - there are no pictures of him really anywhere.
Mention of the sliced finger at about 1:40... reminds me of 8th Grade history class. My teacher, as we were taking up the early 1900s and the then-newly-created federal agencies, such as Food and Drug, mentioned the FDA allows up to 2% impurities in food. Then, he told of one time he and some friends went to a football game, and ordered hot dogs. One of them bit into the hot dog, and saw a human finger inside the sausage link. That guy got sick right there, and others near them also lost their lunch when they saw and heard it. I know... not a very appetizing thought. Anyway, Happy Tanksgiving, and hope your meals today are much better than what's being aired here.
He's also in the other John Hughes movie "Home Alone" when Kate McCallister is trying to trade for a couple's plane tickets and the man's wife wants to and he doesn't.
+Jacob Storey I never travelled on foreign airlines; I've always imagined British Airways, Alitalia, Virgin, and Japan Air Lines(to name just these few) to have better food selection/preparation. Please correct me if I assume wrong. Thanks.
add37j Sounds like something a schoolteacher I had mentioned to me once about someone's finger being found in a friend's hot dog at a football(not soccer) game...
+SuperPat88 You are from the States I guess? Well Airlines that fly from my hometown that are UK companies are usually budget flights so you have to pay on board for a sandwich etc, they are usually overpriced and just make you more hungry than before you ate it. They also hand out misleading menus that seem to promise really delicious looking subs and import beers, but the small print underneath the pictures will say stuff like 'only on flights from Madrid' etc. It's shite.
Jacob Storey Yes, I am from the USA. The only time I recall paying for on-the-plane snacks was when there was PEOPLExpress back in the mid-1980s; I would fly those planes with my folks often in trips between Buffalo and Newark(their main hub). Besides that, you didn't get to make reservations in advance; it was first-come, first-board. One would pay for the trip while in the jet, and pay for the food/drink while in the jet as well. I recall they had sausage, crackers, the neufchatel cheese, and maybe a cookie. Non-alcoholic drinks(except coffee/tea/milk) were Coca-Cola products.
