Bonus: and that likely explains why older shows tend to have self-contained episodes while newer shows tend to be serial.

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    22 hours ago

    A few years ago, I was watching Home Alone 2 on tv with my family and my brother-in-law pointed out that they cut the part where the family wakes up and sees they slept in and are all frantic. Kind of important to the plot because it helps explain why they’re in such a hurry at the airport, they leave Kevin behind. Yet they left in Donald Trump’s useless cameo, which adds nothing to the story. Apparently previous broadcasts cut Trump’s cameo and people complained because sensationalist headlines told them it was political when it was really because of time reasons and his cameo being unimportant to the plot.

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      20 hours ago

      The really crazy part is that if they just increased the time slot, they would have room to stuff in even more commercials. So why cut anything at all?