There are a lot of things you don't notice when you're going through a TV season on DVD at a fast pace (I believe I watched my copy of Season 2 in a matter of 4 or 5 days) but there's definitely something amiss when you go back and watch that DVD knowing that music may be missing. As I mentioned earlier, it's very unusual that there's no music whatsoever in such a dramatic scene, and the most telling sign is that there's a shot where the camera tilts down and hangs on the tape player for a beat and there is no music on the soundtrack whatsoever. As far as I'm concerned, all signs point to missing music. If this does turn out to be missing music, I have to believe that it's a flat-out mistake. It occured to me that the actual performance of "Parsifal" may be a copyrighted work but I really doubt Fox would completely remove it without replacing it with any one of the many public domain performance of it that they would undoubtedly have access to. Wikipedia lists the following noteworthy recordings:
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Hans Knappertsbusch conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra with Wolfgang Windgassen, Ludwig Weber, George London and Martha Modl, 1951 (Teldec, mono)
Hans Knappertsbusch conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra with Jess Thomas, Hans Hotter, George London and Irene Dalis, 1962 (Philips, stereo)
Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with Peter Hofmann, Kurt Moll, Jose van Dam and Dunja Vejzovic, 1981 (Deutsche Grammophon, stereo)
Daniel Barenboim conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with Siegfreid Jerusalem, Jose van Dam, Matthias Holle, Waltraud Meier, 1991 (Teldec, stereo)
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I know practically nothing about classical music but I figure Fox would have at least replaced it with one of these (or even some cheesy public domain version from some no-name group of musicians who recorded it for some stock library) and 99.999% of people wouldn't have noticed the difference, I mean, look how long it took for people to notice that it was gone in the first place.
Don't you ever, EVER compare me to "Family Guy," you hear me Kyle? Compare me to "Family Guy" again and so help me, I will kill you where you stand!
Do you have any idea what it's like? Everywhere I go: "Hey Cartman you must like 'Family Guy,' right?" "Hey, your sense of humor reminds me of 'Family Guy' Cartman!" I AM NOTHING LIKE FAMILY GUY! WHEN I MAKE JOKES THEY ARE INHERENT TO A STORY! DEEP SITUATIONAL AND EMOTIONAL JOKES BASED ON WHAT IS RELEVANT AND HAS A POINT, NOT JUST ONE RANDOM INTERCHANGEABLE JOKE AFTER ANOTHER!
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