Re:Pirating the Pirates
by sillyfluke on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:27PM
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Can someone give me more examples? I didn't realize this was a thing and am kind of facinated.
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Scrubs was another one with pretty obvious music changes, because some were part of the dialogue or a joke that just doesn't make sense after the change.
WKRP in Cincinnati
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKRP_in_Cincinnati#Music_licen...
Interview With the Vampire theatrically ends with the rolling stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” playing over the final scene and end credits. When the movie was on Netflix, that was cut from the soundtrack and replaced with an acoustic cover of the song.
Re:Pirating the Pirates
by ray_kay777 on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:44PM
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Daria is another example - being on MTV they used a lot of popular music from the time which clearly did not cost them much extra at the time of TV broadcast but was replaced with generic music for the DVD release.
Re:Pirating the Pirates
by cosmic_cheese on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:55PM
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Some anime on Netflix is affected. Off the top of my head, the iconic first ending theme for Naoki Urusawa's Monster had its haunting vocals removed leaving only the backing track, and Neon Genesis Evangelion had its similarly iconic ending theme covers of Fly Me to the Moon sung by its voice actresses removed.
Malcom in the middle ran into this, it didn't have DVDs for years.
And I'm pretty sure the ones that got released were based on pirates when they were released.
The episode of The Simpsons where Lisa gets a pony. Homer falls asleep at the wheel to a different lullaby than what was originally broadcast.
The substitute is a subpar filler compared to the original.
Re:Pirating the Pirates
by brokenmachine on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:23AM
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Dawson's Creek had iconic music, but as far as I can tell, the series with the original music is unobtainium. Afaict the pirates can't even get it.