I was born in 1979 and 80s kids movies were magical. Goonies, Never ending story, short circuit, The Dark Crystal, Karate Kid, Gremlins, Back to the future, Stand by me, Labyrinth and so many more...It truely was ana amazing era
I’m only a few years younger than you, but I love and remember those as well (older siblings took me and my fraternal twin brother to a lot of movies with them).
One of my all-time favorites. John Matuszak is buried only 5 miles from my house and I may or may not have visited his grave on multiple occasions. RIP "Sloth".
The convenience store scene explains the difficulty reading the notes in the skeleton piano scene later. The map edge was burned and I never knew why. I thought it was just aged paper.
I was extremely lucky to have seen the octopus scene on cable way back when I was a kid and it drove me NUTS that it never surfaced on any VHS or DVD release I found after that! It became one of those things that I doubted I ever saw, but I never forgot the imagery of the kids putting the radio in the octopus' beak and it dancing away awkwardly.
That song by Cyndi Lauper instantly takes me back. I played hours of The Goonies on NES back in the day and that song is the main song for the whole game. The memories it brings back far exceed anything from the movie or game and for a moment, being able to be transported back to that time is a true gift that I will always be grateful for.
It took me ages to find the soundtrack with the Cyndi Lauper song; I had to get a Japanese import in the end. This was in the early 1990s, long before the internet! Amazing song.
LoL you mentioned goonies on nes and I was like.. Is it possible I played it? I put it on TH-cam and I was like shit. I didn't even remember that I played it.. It refreshed 30 years old forgotten gameplay.. I did played that!!
fun fact: I own the photo at 1:04, it came along with pencil drawn concept art of the gorillas scene. I believe it was drawn my Greg Winters. For many years there was only a few overhead photos of the cars, but nothing clear about the gorillas till an auction of the artwork and photo came up several years ago. Thanks for documenting this and including the additional gorilla scenes that were discovered last year.
@@tylerdell1878 it was cut for the theatrical but I have a vhs copy from cable from when I was a kid where it was included in the edit. So the kid could’ve watched the same version as me.
@@jimjiminyjaroo300 hahaha same. My brothers and I rented the movie multiple times from our local video store and were discussing it one day with some friends who claimed their copy had the octopus. We of course thought they were pulling our leg until we watched it with them when we stayed at their house one weekend.
Every day I came home from school I watched the VHS of this movie religiously. To this day it's still my favorite movie of all time and still holds to this day with my kids. Thanks for the ride down memory lane!
The giant Pacific octopus which is a real octopus grow to the same size like the giant octopus in the movie clip. Giant Pacific octopus range from Oregon and Washington state to all the way to Alaska.
I was playing poker at Parx Casino and there was a commotion at a table about 20 feet away from mine and one of the players at the table said to another person at another table, "He's Data from The Goonies." And then I said, "Are you serious? Is he really over there?". Then the Asian guy says, "I am." I walk over and ask, "Are you really Jonathan Ke Quan?". He laughs and the table did too because they were amazed I knew his name. It was him.
The Gorilla’s escaped because the Fratelli’s stole their chains from the zoo in order to tie Sloth to the wall in the basement...hence the scene where Mama Fratelli says that ‘he better not have broken those chains cuz I don’t wanna go back to the zoo to steal another pair’. There are a lot of editing mistakes to catch while watching this film too...it’s fun to try to find new ones anytime I watch it.
To be fair, I wouldn't necessarily consider that an editing mistake. Yes it's a reference to stuff that was cut from the film, but the audience can more easily rationalize that she was either speaking figuratively (given Sloth is treated like an animal) or was referring to events that took place before the movie started.
Great analysis! Another deleted scene not mentioned here but which I remember seeing in some TV versions as a little kid showed more of Chunk and Sloth making their way through the tunnels, with Chunk talking to Sloth about various weird people and animals he's met or heard of, and it also shows how Sloth first learned his now- legendary catchphrase "EY, YOU GUYS," as the two of them eventually come across the pit that the Goonies go down in continuing their quest (The one that Data first falls into accidentally but is saved from being hurt by his Pinchers of Power), Chunk figures they went down it and shouts into it "HEY, GUYS!" Presumably, they were too far away by that point to have heard him. The Octopus sort of finds new life via this cool D & D style tabletop role- playing game based on the movie that was made a couple years ago. It has you putting the Goonies in various situations from the movie and after it, and it has figurines from some boss fights you could face in the game, such as the Octopus, the Fratellis of course, and even One- Eyed Willie's ghost!
As a little kid in the 80s, there was a bookstore in my town that sold deeply discounted and discontinued books. My grandpa bought me a picture book of the Goonies story using photos from the movie. The book fully depicted the octopus sequence, which as a fan of the film, was very surreal. So much like the maker of this documentary, it was also for me the first movie of which I became aware of deleted scenes.
I'm cracking up thinking about the gorilla subplot but yea, it doesn't belong in this movie. Reminds also a bit of the end of The Incredible Shrinking Woman.
I have seen this movie hundreds of times since it came out in 1985, and still have the original VHS. We used to watch it, rewind it, then watch it again. I know every single quote of every single character. It’s a blessing in disguise.
Two things... There are other deleted scenes with photos out there. One of the biggest cuts was a scene in the wishing well where Andy takes the Goonie oath and everyone finds out they have leeches on them. Data uses a battery in the water to shock the leeches off. Also, the “slick shoes” scene went on longer where Mikey and Mouth have to crawl out on the log and help Data after he slips. And if you’re in the area of Astoria where the Walsh home is, the convenience store from the deleted scene is right down the hill from the house on the corner of the main road. It’s hard to miss, but then again, most people don’t know a whole scene was filmed there and cut from the film.
Your Lost version series is amazing. I love how you find the evidence within the final cut of what was left of the cutting room floor. Brilliant stuff and as an editor myself, very fun to watch.
I remember pretty much every deleted scene. And yes we had a cable recorded copy. We didn't purchase a lot of VHS tapes back then in the 90s. We'd record a ton of movies. I didn't realize those were cut and added back for cable time.
In Europe we didn't really get alternate versions as far as I know, just cuts. My VHS tape of Cop and a Half recorded from British TV was missing a few scenes of adult dialogue and that scene where Burt Reynolds and the kid share a urinal.
@@ConSepTg I rewatched it just a few weeks ago, I think it holds up really well until the third act and then falls apart. The kid playing Devon Butler was good too, I was genuinely pissed off when I read he got nominated for a Razzie, what a rotten thing to do to a child.
Also, in retrospect, I think the octopus scene is what first sparked my interest in lost media, even if that wasn't a common phrase 25-30 years ago. It was a fun urban legend on the playground in the pre-internet days.
This was my favourite movies as child I can't tell you how many times i've watched it, those rainy Saturday and Sunday's we wasn't allowed outside play Goonies was my saviour. Timeless movie my children loved it too when i showed it to them last year.
The final edit is far superior. It leaves so much more to the imagination too. Everything is perfect, perfect proportions of every ingredient. It’s as bare as is possible, nothing unnecessary or ridiculous beyond suspense of disbelief. No extra laugh that doesn’t matter etc
Heck yeah! Thank you SO much for sharing! I knew NEARLY none of this. The Goonies is my ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIE!!! I'm 44 so yeah, it's a movie of my childhood which has remained my favorite all of these years later!
I always found the line about the octopus at the end of the movie to be weird, but first realised it may have been a deleted scene as the octopus appears in the Goonies video game. (the Data Soft/US Gold home computer version, not the NES one)
I'm don't understand that deleted scene, it was in The Goonies when I saw it as a kid in the theatre, then it wasn't when I saw it again a year later on HBO.
I remember the cable edits for "Legend" being different depending on which channel aired it. The Goonies novelization is so great. And there's a wonderful bit of coincidental foreshadowing when it's mentioned that Mikey has "Hobbit-sized footprints."
I swear I remember seeing an ally scene in the original 89 Batman movie, that wasn't on the home releases when I watched them years later. I could be misremembering, but I don't remember if I seen it on theater or on TV, but I just remember and Ally scene that wasn't on the VHS tapes I rented
"The Goonies" has been my answer to 'what's your favorite movie' for my entire life, and I never knew about the gorillas. Thanks for that tidbit! I appreciate your reverence for the film, I like the cut of your jib.
I actually bought a 3 hr. version of Superman: The Movie (Donner) on eBay about 2 decades ago. It was taped off a special 10 year anniversary broadcast in 1988. All the scenes that were added would eventually end up on DVD and Blu-Ray releases.
I still watch this film multiple times every year. Absolutely love it. I remember when I was in high-school I talked to someone about the octopus scene and they said it wasn't In the film and made me question my entire existence.
I can't believe I'm just finding this video now ! I always make the joke how you know damn well Chunk's parents would definitely not be cool with Sloth coming home to live with them and you're the first person to actually address this in a video about this amazing movie.
My brother and I have vivid memories of the octopus scene. It's right when they enter the cave before they get to the pirate ship. They end up putting the walkman on the octopus which makes him dance. We always wondered why at one point we never saw that scene again.
I remember watching it too! My grandma recorded the movie for my mom and now watching it with my own kids I always feel like something is missing! I knew it was in there!!!
@@devin.painter I feel bad that on another thread I told these people they were dead wrong and none of these scenes had ever appeared in the film. I am 49 and saw the original theatrical version so those scenes had been cut and in addition, you guys watching the censored TV version missed out on some scenes like the Spanish translation scenes between Rosalita and Mouth. But the truth is the original cut is the best because that's what the director intended whereas the version you guys saw is a compromised by censorship with all story pacing destroyed.
I remember the octopus scene--and for the longest time my friends thought I was making it up; it was years before it resurfaced again and I finally was able to show them I wasn't just having one of those mandela-effect moments. I had no idea about the Gorillas, though!
Reminds me a bit of my run-in with a deleted MOVIE I'd seen in the '70s - my friends and family thought for years that I was making it up, until even I was gaslit into thinking I had to have imagined the whole thing: there was a fourth original Star Wars movie that I saw one time on TV in the late 1970s, and never saw or heard from again, where Han Solo and the gang end up visiting Chewie's home planet, where stormtroopers hold Chewie's family hostage, and hi-jinks ensue. It wasn't a good movie. Sometimes my friends and family would insist I must have be talking about "that Ewok movie" - and I'd have to explain "no way - there were TWO Ewok movies, and they came out years later!" Of course, the movie I remembered was the 1978 "Star Wars Holiday Special", which was so bad, Stephen Spielberg made it his life mission to try to destroy every last copy of it, and bury every hint that it ever existed - it never aired again, and only exists today because someone managed to record it on an early VCR, passing copies around at Star Wars conventions. I finally got my validation that I hadn't imagined the whole thing decades later, on the internet, and finally managed to track down a copy a couple years after that. It's pretty easy to find, now, and it's every bit as terrible as - actually, more terrible than - I remembered! :) Anyway, I absolutely sympathize with that terrible "Mandela Effect" feeling you get from years of people insisting you were making up one of those odd deleted movie scene moments!
I think they should have just included the first scene of the gorillas taking the douchebag characters car and left it at that. That's the crux of humour. Including the rest would be just stretching out the joke and lose its effectiveness.
weird have to thank TV version of the movie to see other cut scenes because of some scenes needed to be censored, I totally forgot store scene and octopus scene were in TV version, but not Theatrical version
Richard Donner: so this movie may be running a bit long, we're shooting a lot of stuff and some of it's not working Spielberg: dude I want this to be an epic three-hour treasure hunt movie, and I want gorillas driving sports cars, I must make the longest B-movie ever
I remember seeing Goonies as a teen with my friends. I love where it was filmed in Astoria Oregon, it's truly a beautiful place that I hope to visit one day for it's nostalgia and this movie. Thank you for taking the time to make and share this awesome trivia with us
Yep, I taped it off the Disney Channel, and those scenes were there. I was bummed years later when I bought the DVD, and discovered that those scenes weren't in the theatrical cut. I was like where'd the octopus go?
@@pensacolian211 The DVD has those as deletes scenes, but for some reason, they cut the convenience scene right before the kids sneak away from Brand yet again.
yes - you used to be able to buy a fancut of the film that had those scenes restored - it has since become unavailable - same as the uncut Ace Ventura Pet Detective :( Sad as those scenes cut would have made a better movie I feel, esp in Ace. Same deal as the 4 hour Ulysses Cut of Waterworld, hard to find now. I have the UC of Waterworld, but sadly didnt grab the Goonies or Ace fancuts when they were around :(
@@FigmentForever wow thats great! I got my burnt copy a few years earlier, but very nice to know that fans ( i thought waterworld was an epic movie ) can see the definitive version. Good lookin out thank you :) I never heard of arrow films i will check them out :) :)
Hats Off Entertainment has become a favorite channel since last year, I love hearing info behind comedy classics and the unfortunate blunders that we’ve gotten over the years. Keep up the good work as always. 😊👍🏼
This movie was a part of my childhood and will always be timeless. Since much of the movie is going through caves with traps and such, it doesn't feel dated with the lack of modern things. It's simple, fun concept is just as entertaining today as it was back then when it first came out.
The three missing scenes from the TV cut that still bug me that few people mention are... - Data slips on the log after using his "slick shoes" and Mikey and Mouth go back to help him only for both of them to slip as well - Mouth and Stef have additional dialogue on the plank where Mouth offers to give her his last breath - Mouth reads the Spanish on the boards leading to Willie's cabin before breaking through them If you remember these scenes or know where I could find a copy of the TV cut please let me know. :)
I remember once seeing the scene with mouth reading the Spanish on the board before they broke through it to get up to the deck above them in the ship where they found Willie’s cabin and treasure. You can still see part of the scene as Mikey (I think) is raised up and punches through the wooden boards.
@@db-wo9hi This scene has bothered me for decades. I remember seeing it as a kid and haven't seen it since. I have searched but am not able to find a version where its still included.
Such a classic film. They don’t make em like this these days. It took me a while to connect Josh Brolin with The Goonies when he hit it big around 2008.
I feel fortunate to have been able to walk the hill the the goonies house and grab a photo years ago. I know that for the past few years the new owners have been super pissy about people coming up their pathway. The city of Astoria should just buy the house already .
They used to have a donation box for fans to take pictures and leave money for maintenance and upkeep. The neighbors got all pissy about the money amd so the home owner closed it all off and that was the end of that.
Neighbors I talked to were more upset about the littering, dog shit, parking being taken (even their own driveways), and people showing up at all times of the day / even night.
It's perfectly fine to go visit again. I did a roadtrip recently in October and I walked up and took pictures. There are even signs on the mailbox saying "Yes" and "Okay to walk up." And one sign simply stating "No cars allowed." But you can park below and visit and the donation box was still out front of the house. Just thought I'd update everyone for future traveling.
When I was younger I used to read the movie novelizations prior to seeing the movie so I could have more context of what was happening and get more out of the movie experience. I remember reading The Goonies and feeling the movie was very different when I finally saw it at the theatre. Still, I love the movie and wouldn't change it. A very amazing part of my childhood for sure.
1985 was my favourite year for movies: Clue, Return to Oz, The Goonies, and Back to the Future. I didn’t even realise that Clue and Return to Oz were considered to be cult classics until years later. I borrowed those two movies so often from the video store (Video Ezy for any Aussies reading this) that Mum eventually just bought them for me.
The Goonies will always be one of my top 10 favorites. I Introduced this movie to my 8 year old last year around the Halloween season. She really liked it as much as I did as a kid. I seriously never get tired of watching the Goonies. And I remember watching the Disney channel version of the Goonies with the giant octopus. A great film that is truly timeless for kids of all ages. 😄❤️
For 50 years, Steven Spielberg has been trying to include a scene of random gorillas who go on a joyride into one of his movies, but the sequence just never seemed to fit. In 'Saving Private Ryan' he spent two weeks shooting footage of two gorillas riding around in a beach buggy during the Normandy landings, but just three days before the film's premiere, he reluctantly cut it out.
One day Spielberg will release a huge box set of the director's cut of all his films with gorilla scenes. For the films where we don't actually have gorilla footage, well, George Lucas has a lot of time on his hands nowadays.
Goonies is the best ever. I even went to Goonies land and seen the landmarks :D I was a kid when this came out and i still remember that day, and that the morning after we rented the movie, I woke up early and re-watched it as many times i could until we had to return the VHS 80's forever!!!
Matthew McConaughey mentions in his 2015 commencement speech that his character Wooderson, never should have been there. Today, you watch the movie and it’s been cut out. Great video. Love the goonies! Thank you.
I think I've seen a full cable edit of the Goonies. In elementary school as a last day treat, we watched The Goonies on one of the teacher's crappy websites with schoolboard approved movies. The movie was squished to 4:3 from 16:9, and it had a couple scenes I didn't remember, since I had seen it multiple times before. It contained the first scene where Troy pushes the gang around and the octopus scene, but I think it included the scene where the maid gets mistranslated drug-related instructions, and all the swearing. I remember thinking the octopus looked pretty crappy.
Great job! Thanks for doing this, for my fav movie of all time….I knew most of the info presented but it was still such a joy to watch. Great channel in general, I’m also a big Ernest/Varney fan & the Three Stooges. God bless! 👍☺️🙏🏻
A long time ago, in the early days of the internet, I posted on a chat channel about scenes I remembered in The Goonies and also in Ferris Bueller that I remember from when I first watched them but which I've never seen since. The responses were that I must have imagined them as a kid and I've always subsequently figured they were a fever dream or something. Your video (finally!!!) backs me up. Thank you! Thank you so much!!
Awesome vid. There's way more deleted scenes though: Andy getting sworn in as a Goonie in the wishing well, More of Sloth and Chunk following the rest of the Goonies, extra dialogue between Mouth and Stef on the plank, etc.
Indeed! The scene with Mouth and Stef on the plank is also referenced on the beach in the end. Surprised more people don’t wonder why he thanks her for offering to save his life. One tiny scene of Sloth and Chunk following everyone was also in the Disney Channel version AND the NBC TV airing, which is most likely the same version Disney aired, just cut down to about 95 minutes.
@@derekminer7004 Disney Channel also aired NBC's version of Gremlins, with the scene of the Gremlins being massacred in the kitchen edited to not show their deaths (yep, no Gremlin exploding in the microwave...sorry). They did have the "Gerald in the vault" where after Kate tells her tragic story about her father dying one Christmas Eve, they open the bank vault to find Gerald locked inside. I wish they would have included that scene in the theatrical cut. It gives Judge Reinhold more screen time. There's more scenes with Gerald in the deleted scenes section of the DVD. Too bad it was all cut and now Judge Reinhold's role in the movie is just more or less a cameo.
This is just speculation on my part, but I can't help but wonder if the novelist of the movie tie-in book decided Sloth should be given the name Jason because he closely resembles the character from ''Friday The 13th''.
Watching the Goonies at the cinema, I remember seeing in the end credits a song titled, 'eight arms to hold you' (or something like it) and thinking that there was more to this movie that I would never see
Omg I didn't know about this deleted scenes....so cool.....for me goodies never die... still watching the movie ....was and will be the most amazing movie ....
My dad recorded the goonies off channel 2 or 4 when they use too play movies on saturday night specials,,and the movie had all these cuts,,,so i do remember all these scenes,,thanks for posting and bringing back a fond memory of my childhood,❤
Some other deleted material I've heard of include more background on the Goon Docks and Hillside areas (poor and rich neighborhoods); Stef offering to share her breath with Mouth so they won't drown if they're pushed off the plank (which Mouth thanks her for in the film); Andy taking the Goonies Oath after that scene in the wishing well, and Stef helping solve a puzzle involving a "funny bone".
The truly amazing thing is one of those kids went on to wipe out half the life in the universe with a snap of his fingers, one went on to help destroy the One Ring of Power, and one of them went on to become Corey Feldman. 3/3.
@@Mr.White10-65 They are creative but in different ways. How young people grow up now and how it felt to grow up then are practically different worlds. You dont see kids going outside and going on adventures. The nerds got their revenge long ago, now everyone has gadgets. Let's face it. Us Gen Xers are stuck in a world we no longer recognize. Its our kids world now and we got to let them go do figure things out and support them.
My uncle was BIG on recording tapes in the 90s & he still to this day has the biggest collection of recorded movies & shows I’ve ever seen. 2-3 movies on every vhs tape & catalogued by number, in the thousands (easily) so they’re easy to find. An entire basement filled with movie cabinets and those are numbered also. That octopus version was the only version of goonies I had ever seen until a few years ago I watched it on dvd & to my surprise it wasn’t in there. My gf at the time thought I made the whole scene up 😅😅 thank u for posting this the Goonies will forever be a legendary & nostalgic film 🎉🙌🏼
I grew up with a cable version taped off TV, and I remember mentioning the octopus scene to someone who had no idea what I was talking about. I had no idea it had been cut from the commercial release.
My dad and sister claim to this day that the octopus was in the film when they saw it in theaters. My sister tormented me with it for years until I finally saw the deleted scene. I personally like it and wish it had stayed in.
It's a deleted scene on the DVD and when Disney Channel aired Goonies way back in their premium channel days, it had the octopus scene, the convenience store scene as well as Data showing off his gadgets that all failed.
I knew someone who claimed he saw the Jabba scene from A New Hope in its original form with the stand in actor IN THE THEATERS in 1977!!!! Every source I looked up about this says it's untrue. Another claim I remember hearing is when CBS initially aired A New Hope in 1982, many viewers claim they saw the deleted Biggs scenes. I'm not talking about the scene where they reunite in the hangar right before the Death Star battle that was put back in the Special Edition. I'm talking about the scenes on Tattooine where Biggs meet up with Luke right before he enters Flight Academy. I can't claim whether this is true or not and the claims have been dead for quite some time, but it sure would be interesting to know if they're true or not.
I remember a scene on the pirate ship and have never been able to find confirmation of it anywhere. Mikey was lifted up to go into One-Eyed Willie's chamber and he read out loud to the rest of the Goonies what the writing said on the board before breaking through it and getting lifted into the chamber. I'm almost positive this happened. I have seen the octopus scene on an extended version played in the theaters, but never the convenience store or gorilla scenes. Would love to know I'm not going crazy since the two scenes I learned from here exist.
This! I totally remember Mouth translating what was written before they punched through it. So long ago I have always wondered if it was something I just made up in my head, but good to hear others remembering it too. Would love to see the scene again, if it still exists somewhere.
I have this hypothesis about the opening scene, where the Fratellis are running from the Police. In the DVD version I have, the chase passes by almost every character in the story, and I suspect there are deleted scenes that include the one or two who aren't. And at the end, when they get to the pirate ship, what is the story behind the guy in the rigging. He almost looks like he's in costume, but they never make anything of him in the plot.
I played the Goonies game, I think by Data East, on the Commodore 64 when I was a kid. It included a level featuring the octopus. At the time I figured it was the developers padding the game length with non-canonical obstacles.
Love your vids. You speak well, have a good voice, and honestly make insightful observations, displaying the type of knowledge that only comes from good research. Thanks for the awesome content. It legitimately helps my mental health
Speaking of lost “darker” versions, AND TV edits that feature a lot of cut content…I would love a video on Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. As a kid I grew up with it on VHS, the cover of which advertised “footage not seen in theaters!”. From memory, it was really only the “Dolphin Trainer” scene. But, the actual tv edit, had many more scenes, like the one of a gas station clerk committing suicide after giving Ace directions, that have never been released on any official dvds. More than that, I’ve always wanted to see the cut scenes from the movie that were shot and edited, but ultimately cut, where Ace has a nightmare he is picked apart by birds, (New Line Cinema confirmed this was shot a couple years ago when they posted a still image of Aces face bloody and half eaten) and also the extended scene where Ace kills the two men with the hook at the pier, where he then launches into rehearsing what he’ll tell the cops when they show up. Always wanted to see those again, and for the first time, but it seems no one ever talks about them, and it’s bizarre. I think there are very crude, unofficial edits floating around out there that have some of the scenes put back in, but the quality of the edits are terrible.
Yep, I have seen a few of the deleted scenes from ace Ventura pet detective and they were pretty bizarre as tonally they did not match the rest of the movie Just think that Rick Moranis was originally slated to play Ace Ventura 😳😳 Jim Carey was born to play that role
I always thought the octopus line was odd, but years ago I was watching the movie on cable and I finally saw the octopus scene and the store scene. The store scene, while not paramount to the plot, does explain why the top of the map (seen up close in the organ scene) is burnt while the other three edges aren't.
I saw Goonies in theater the week it opened and I distinctly remember the octopus scene. I also remember it showing on HBO or VHS when it was released for home viewing.
The octopus! What a Mandela Effect kind of moment, except real! I had fully convinced myself that my memories of an octopus in The Goonies was just an amalgam, the result of seeing both The Goonies and Popeye (which has, in a similar cove/cave setting, an octopus) at about the same point. Both were, almost certainly, taped from TV.
@@jasonparker7777 No. A sequel was supposed to be a movie. Look it up. The issue partly stemed from Richard Donners death. Feldmen says there may be an outside chance. To me that means most likely not.
Growing up I had some Goonies trading cards (might still have them), and one of them was of Chunk getting "attacked" by the octopus. It wasn't a scene, it was just him posing for the camera. It always made me wonder though, what "could've been" with the whole octopus part. This YT video is actually the first time I've seen the actual cut footage. So thanks!!!!
I remember there being a cable TV version of Falling Down where they removed key scenes in the movie. I don't know if it was for time or to make it broadcast friendly but it was incredibly destructive to the narrative structure. edit: grammar error
I can’t believe how many people don’t remember the octopus scene. I was legit mad when they removed it later. Even tho it was kinda dumb looking back on it now. But it still bothers me, cause Chunk always talks about it at the end. The store scene was added later in the late 2000 I think. but now it’s so normal I can’t even remember really. The gorillas was thankfully never released LOL
I remember a lot of these scenes from my childhood, and them being included in cable versions makes sense as to why. My mom taped a lot of movies from cable, and my friends and I watched those movies throughout my childhood and teens.
The Goonies is one of the movies that a lot of modern writers, IE Dan Harmon, have retroactively tried to ruin for viewers by pointing out the absolutely nonsense nature of. Yet, I LIKE the fact that things in the Goonies don't always add up to 100% logic. It's supposed to be like you're a kid making an adventure as you go along. Not everything will make sense. I can't stand when people get on a pulpit and just try to tell you're dumb for liking a movie cause it's not perfect.
Agree. The movie was fun. We were kids we weren’t getting intellectual we were imagining ourselves in an awesome adventure too and that’s what made it awesome.
Exactly!! These days people don't see the point of a movie anymore. That's why movies these days generally are crap, from an executional point. They're too focused on having everything 'accurate' and have too much political nonsense put into them. Which especially for kids movies, shouldn't be a focus. Goonies was about a (pretend) adventure. It wasn't about conquering something and claiming it, was about the 'ride'. And kids were kids in movies, not like today where they act and approach things like adults and even be better than adults. When I was a kid, movies like The Goonies made me search for my adventures, fully knowing I was a kid and not an adult. And just enjoyed the prospect of adventure. I actually pity kids today, having the conflict of being kids, yet having to address things like adults (while not being aware what adult life is actually like) and having to think about stuff that's actually for adults to decide. My child years, although I have had to endure bullying and such, was still the best time of my life, especially because of movies like The Goonies which helped me create my kids world of adventure. Because adult life is actually really boring (and so fake, but that's another discussion). The Goonies is a movie that 'll stick on you forever!
I like Jay's (from RLM) take, that you just need to everything to make enough sense so that you dont start to ask questions while you see it or soon after. Like, if you think hard about things (like a human being a batttery to power a machine intelligence), then sure, many movies dont REALLY add up - but who cares. The ai/robots have a plausible enough reason, and the movie is not really about that anyway, so who cares?
@@xBINARYGODx Jay usually has the most balanced takes on movies. I've only disagreed with him every so often and its come down to a personal preference at that. Harmon is part of a pseudo intellectual club that thinks they're dismantling the system by commenting on logic errors. Its obnoxious. I dig Community, but the guy has always been kinda iffy when it comes to writing philosophy.
I can watch this movie over and over again and still feel the same tingling sensation when the, “One-Eyed Willy,” music starts playing in the attic. For me, this movie is the epitome of childhood nostalgia. It’s one of those rare films that makes me feel like a kid when I watch it. I hope it gives new generations of kids that watch it for the first time, that same feeling for years to come.
This is great! My father worked for the studios and we would get to see pre-screening movies where they had focus groups and surveyed the audience after the films. This was one of them, and it had these scenes that weren't in the final edit. I bet there's a bunch of movies out there that got axed because of these foucus groups. One that come to mind was "My Boyfriend's Back". This movie was an amazing teenage zombie movie, years before that genre ever took off. The original prescreen version was an amazing movie with amazing music. The final release version was nothing like that, and totally sucked with the new editing and songs. I always thought to myself "if they would've left the original alone this could've been a classic; like Teen Wolf. 🤷
Yeah, I remember seeing it on cable tv as a kid and saw the gas station scene and the octopus. I use to tell friends about it and they looked puzzle and told me there wasn’t a giant octopus in the movie! Great vid!
One of my favorite childhood movies was 3 Ninjas, I watched it so many times that I practically memorized it. much later as an adult I found out there existed a European cut of the movie that had a TON of extra scenes thrown in. the pacing definitely suffered but it was super cool to see the extra footage, it was like discovering a time capsule.
A somewhat depressing thing to tell the internet, but when my mom passed away a few months ago we actually spread her ashes at Goat Rock, the same beach at the end of this movie. We all grew up in California, and ever since my mom was a child in the 60s, she had been going to this beach. We share so many family memories there, and she requested to be put there.
I've seen the octopus scenes, but none of the other scenes that were featured in this video. Thank you for the information, I really enjoyed your video.
This was THE quintessential movie that defined my childhood in the early eighties. There were many, many more that would play over and over again on our living room tv for neighborhood friends during the awesome summer breaks spent without adult supervision, but The Goonies was the very best. You see, we had HBO! Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Coming to America, Commando… so many great movies entertained me and my little brother and our best friends from our subdivision during those magical summer breaks.
I was born in 1979 and 80s kids movies were magical.
Goonies, Never ending story, short circuit, The Dark Crystal, Karate Kid, Gremlins, Back to the future, Stand by me, Labyrinth and so many more...It truely was ana amazing era
I’m only a few years younger than you, but I love and remember those as well (older siblings took me and my fraternal twin brother to a lot of movies with them).
Don't forget Indiana Jones movies was great
You got that right!
@@RANS87IROCZ The first two were great.
Explorers was one of my favorites too.
One of my all-time favorites. John Matuszak is buried only 5 miles from my house and I may or may not have visited his grave on multiple occasions. RIP "Sloth".
please leave a baby ruth next to his grave for me
@@brodieroomojo I always thought it was baby root 😂
The convenience store scene explains the difficulty reading the notes in the skeleton piano scene later. The map edge was burned and I never knew why. I thought it was just aged paper.
OH EM GEE.... you just blew my mind
Whoa! That scene is really important to the storyline. Good catch on that one 🤯
Yeah they really should have kept that scene in the final movie, bummer that we’re just now finding out a big missing peice of the plot 😢
Yea and I always wondered where the hell Chunk got the Baby Ruth from lol.
@@axe2grind244 I always thought that he just always had candy on him.
I was extremely lucky to have seen the octopus scene on cable way back when I was a kid and it drove me NUTS that it never surfaced on any VHS or DVD release I found after that! It became one of those things that I doubted I ever saw, but I never forgot the imagery of the kids putting the radio in the octopus' beak and it dancing away awkwardly.
Ok thank you. I thought I remembered it too. Vivid memories about that scene.
@@TheMJCMike right? i thought my mind made up the octopus scene...this video helped my sanity a bit lol
I remember the octopus also. I've been called a liar about it in past.
Same here I knew it was real, for a while I started thinking......Mandela Effect
Me too! When I first saw it, I was like, I don’t remember this!
That song by Cyndi Lauper instantly takes me back. I played hours of The Goonies on NES back in the day and that song is the main song for the whole game. The memories it brings back far exceed anything from the movie or game and for a moment, being able to be transported back to that time is a true gift that I will always be grateful for.
LOL - me too! But remember, the NES game was Goonies TWO!
The game was the sequel we never got for the move. Love the Cyndi Lauper song.
It took me ages to find the soundtrack with the Cyndi Lauper song; I had to get a Japanese import in the end. This was in the early 1990s, long before the internet! Amazing song.
Goonies and tecnobowl
@@rlh9373 lets not forget wizard and warriors, probably the best theme song ever created with the limited range of Nintendo audio.
LoL you mentioned goonies on nes and I was like.. Is it possible I played it? I put it on TH-cam and I was like shit. I didn't even remember that I played it.. It refreshed 30 years old forgotten gameplay.. I did played that!!
The deleted octopus scene might explain the track “Eight Arms to Hold You” on the soundtrack 🐙
Data uses a Walkman with the cassette of the song to ward it off as it dances away.
The original name for the movie Help!
didn't relies this scene was cut, since i only watched VHS version once and watched TV version more often, TV version had the octopus scene
@@JoJoJoker As in The Beatles, Help! ? If so, that's really interesting.
That had a music video
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fun fact: I own the photo at 1:04, it came along with pencil drawn concept art of the gorillas scene. I believe it was drawn my Greg Winters. For many years there was only a few overhead photos of the cars, but nothing clear about the gorillas till an auction of the artwork and photo came up several years ago. Thanks for documenting this and including the additional gorilla scenes that were discovered last year.
youll be giving that to me thanks
@Richy J Movies That's no way to speak to a Naval Officer
Can I buy it?
As a collector myself and this being my favorite movie , that’s awesome :)
When Data said to the reporters "the octopus was very scary" we always assumed the kids were just exaggerating everything to sound more exciting.
A kid in my class, a notorious bull shitter, said he saw a version with the octopus in. No one believed him. Turned out he was right.
Well since they cut that part out they were indeed exaggerating
@@tylerdell1878 it was cut for the theatrical but I have a vhs copy from cable from when I was a kid where it was included in the edit. So the kid could’ve watched the same version as me.
I definitely watched the octopus scene on a version I torrented
@@jimjiminyjaroo300 hahaha same. My brothers and I rented the movie multiple times from our local video store and were discussing it one day with some friends who claimed their copy had the octopus. We of course thought they were pulling our leg until we watched it with them when we stayed at their house one weekend.
Every day I came home from school I watched the VHS of this movie religiously. To this day it's still my favorite movie of all time and still holds to this day with my kids. Thanks for the ride down memory lane!
I always considered the octopus line at the end pure child imagination running wild.
Biden voters🤦♂️
Me too - always thought he was exaggerating with excitement!
Same. It was funny back then because i thought data was just talking trash. It’s funny now for…..other reasons and the internet has ruined me.
The giant Pacific octopus which is a real octopus grow to the same size like the giant octopus in the movie clip. Giant Pacific octopus range from Oregon and Washington state to all the way to Alaska.
What a gem of a TH-cam Channel this is.
This is one of those channels that I was one of the first couple hundred subscribers. It's weird seeing them grow so big.
Great content. Podcast too.
I was just thinking the exact same thing.
This channel is an Almost Cult Classic
I was playing poker at Parx Casino and there was a commotion at a table about 20 feet away from mine and one of the players at the table said to another person at another table, "He's Data from The Goonies." And then I said, "Are you serious? Is he really over there?". Then the Asian guy says, "I am." I walk over and ask, "Are you really Jonathan Ke Quan?". He laughs and the table did too because they were amazed I knew his name. It was him.
He comes to the Philadelphia/New Jersey area a lot for autograph shows. Doesn't surprise me he discovered Parx.
He's really good at Taekwondo.
I quote him almost daily. Booby traps, pinchers of power, or slick shoes always find a way of slipping into conversations with me.
Also was Short Round in Temple of Doom. “Hang on lady, we going for a ride!”
You call him doctor Jones, doll!
The Gorilla’s escaped because the Fratelli’s stole their chains from the zoo in order to tie Sloth to the wall in the basement...hence the scene where Mama Fratelli says that ‘he better not have broken those chains cuz I don’t wanna go back to the zoo to steal another pair’.
There are a lot of editing mistakes to catch while watching this film too...it’s fun to try to find new ones anytime I watch it.
"to steal another set' I think was the word, not 'pair'. That comment makes far more sense when you add in this knowledge.
"I knew he couldn't break them chains!"
“Jeeez, sir. Your even hungrier than I am.”
To be fair, I wouldn't necessarily consider that an editing mistake. Yes it's a reference to stuff that was cut from the film, but the audience can more easily rationalize that she was either speaking figuratively (given Sloth is treated like an animal) or was referring to events that took place before the movie started.
Great analysis!
Another deleted scene not mentioned here but which I remember seeing in some TV versions as a little kid showed more of Chunk and Sloth making their way through the tunnels, with Chunk talking to Sloth about various weird people and animals he's met or heard of, and it also shows how Sloth first learned his now- legendary catchphrase "EY, YOU GUYS," as the two of them eventually come across the pit that the Goonies go down in continuing their quest (The one that Data first falls into accidentally but is saved from being hurt by his Pinchers of Power), Chunk figures they went down it and shouts into it "HEY, GUYS!" Presumably, they were too far away by that point to have heard him.
The Octopus sort of finds new life via this cool D & D style tabletop role- playing game based on the movie that was made a couple years ago. It has you putting the Goonies in various situations from the movie and after it, and it has figurines from some boss fights you could face in the game, such as the Octopus, the Fratellis of course, and even One- Eyed Willie's ghost!
As a little kid in the 80s, there was a bookstore in my town that sold deeply discounted and discontinued books. My grandpa bought me a picture book of the Goonies story using photos from the movie. The book fully depicted the octopus sequence, which as a fan of the film, was very surreal. So much like the maker of this documentary, it was also for me the first movie of which I became aware of deleted scenes.
Cutting the gorilla subplot was probably for the best. It seemed kind of stupid.
Yeah the film had enough bizarre things going on, it didn't need two gorillas hijacking vehicles.
Cutting the Octopus made sense, It looked pretty bad...Hell the octopus in Popeye looked better.
I'm cracking up thinking about the gorilla subplot but yea, it doesn't belong in this movie. Reminds also a bit of the end of The Incredible Shrinking Woman.
Right?! That looked so lame. Like a low budget local commercial from the 80’s.
What was Spielberg thinking?!🤣😂
I have seen this movie hundreds of times since it came out in 1985, and still have the original VHS. We used to watch it, rewind it, then watch it again.
I know every single quote of every single character. It’s a blessing in disguise.
Two things...
There are other deleted scenes with photos out there. One of the biggest cuts was a scene in the wishing well where Andy takes the Goonie oath and everyone finds out they have leeches on them. Data uses a battery in the water to shock the leeches off. Also, the “slick shoes” scene went on longer where Mikey and Mouth have to crawl out on the log and help Data after he slips.
And if you’re in the area of Astoria where the Walsh home is, the convenience store from the deleted scene is right down the hill from the house on the corner of the main road. It’s hard to miss, but then again, most people don’t know a whole scene was filmed there and cut from the film.
Yeah why no mention of the battery scene??? It's in the script, and the girls have orgasms from it... no wonder it was cut.
Yes!!! Thank you!! I remember the oath scene and have never been able to find it! I thought I was making it up or going bananas.
I still remember seeing this movie in the theaters as a kid. It's in my all-time top 5.
It’s a fantastic movie and I saw it in the theater as a kid as well . They honestly do not make movies like this anymore
Your Lost version series is amazing. I love how you find the evidence within the final cut of what was left of the cutting room floor. Brilliant stuff and as an editor myself, very fun to watch.
I remember pretty much every deleted scene. And yes we had a cable recorded copy. We didn't purchase a lot of VHS tapes back then in the 90s. We'd record a ton of movies. I didn't realize those were cut and added back for cable time.
When I rewatched it as an adult my thought was "where's the octopus?"
We recorded it from the Disney channel and had the deleted scenes included.
In Europe we didn't really get alternate versions as far as I know, just cuts. My VHS tape of Cop and a Half recorded from British TV was missing a few scenes of adult dialogue and that scene where Burt Reynolds and the kid share a urinal.
@@johnallen3033 it's too bad they didn't cut the other 85 minutes.. Jk, I actually loved that movie but I'm sure it doesn't hold up
@@ConSepTg I rewatched it just a few weeks ago, I think it holds up really well until the third act and then falls apart.
The kid playing Devon Butler was good too, I was genuinely pissed off when I read he got nominated for a Razzie, what a rotten thing to do to a child.
Also, in retrospect, I think the octopus scene is what first sparked my interest in lost media, even if that wasn't a common phrase 25-30 years ago. It was a fun urban legend on the playground in the pre-internet days.
absolutely - we'd always wonder why Data was telling his parents about an octopus after the rescue!@
One of my most loved childhood movies and I'm just learning about the damn octopus being real!
This was my favourite movies as child I can't tell you how many times i've watched it, those rainy Saturday and Sunday's we wasn't allowed outside play Goonies was my saviour.
Timeless movie my children loved it too when i showed it to them last year.
The final edit is far superior. It leaves so much more to the imagination too. Everything is perfect, perfect proportions of every ingredient. It’s as bare as is possible, nothing unnecessary or ridiculous beyond suspense of disbelief. No extra laugh that doesn’t matter etc
Heck yeah! Thank you SO much for sharing! I knew NEARLY none of this. The Goonies is my ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIE!!! I'm 44 so yeah, it's a movie of my childhood which has remained my favorite all of these years later!
I always found the line about the octopus at the end of the movie to be weird, but first realised it may have been a deleted scene as the octopus appears in the Goonies video game. (the Data Soft/US Gold home computer version, not the NES one)
As a kid that octopus line made me think Data was just a little liar and that was a random character trait lol
Guru Larry! Love your channel
@@cripplermaximus me too lol!!!! 😂 😂
I'm don't understand that deleted scene, it was in The Goonies when I saw it as a kid in the theatre, then it wasn't when I saw it again a year later on HBO.
I had the trading cards as a kid and the octopus was actually in there
Absolute classic. I've been watching this movie so many times from the late 80s to now and it still never gets old
I remember the cable edits for "Legend" being different depending on which channel aired it.
The Goonies novelization is so great. And there's a wonderful bit of coincidental foreshadowing when it's mentioned that Mikey has "Hobbit-sized footprints."
I swear I remember seeing an ally scene in the original 89 Batman movie, that wasn't on the home releases when I watched them years later. I could be misremembering, but I don't remember if I seen it on theater or on TV, but I just remember and Ally scene that wasn't on the VHS tapes I rented
Yeah, and sometimes Legend would have the Jerry Goldsmith score.
I've seen the octopus part in the movie. They usually added it in the tv version. Watched it on TBS all the time.
@@MudballDon There's *three* versions on the Blu-ray
I love the journey down the underground river, as well. That was my first exposure to the Monkey's Paw story and it scared the shit out of me!
2:22 best way ever of placing camera, cast and prop!
Just watched this with the cast commentary on the DVD. Love hearing their stories from being on set and to see how they all grew up!
"The Goonies" has been my answer to 'what's your favorite movie' for my entire life, and I never knew about the gorillas. Thanks for that tidbit! I appreciate your reverence for the film, I like the cut of your jib.
I actually bought a 3 hr. version of Superman: The Movie (Donner) on eBay about 2 decades ago. It was taped off a special 10 year anniversary broadcast in 1988. All the scenes that were added would eventually end up on DVD and Blu-Ray releases.
This is out on an official Blu-ray now, it’s also included as an extra if you buy the theatrical cut on iTunes.
@@artanisknarf Correct.
I still watch this film multiple times every year. Absolutely love it. I remember when I was in high-school I talked to someone about the octopus scene and they said it wasn't In the film and made me question my entire existence.
You made it up, weirdo
You and me both buddy.
I can't believe I'm just finding this video now !
I always make the joke how you know damn well Chunk's parents would definitely not be cool with Sloth coming home to live with them and you're the first person to actually address this in a video about this amazing movie.
My brother and I have vivid memories of the octopus scene. It's right when they enter the cave before they get to the pirate ship. They end up putting the walkman on the octopus which makes him dance. We always wondered why at one point we never saw that scene again.
I remember watching it too! My grandma recorded the movie for my mom and now watching it with my own kids I always feel like something is missing! I knew it was in there!!!
@@devin.painter I feel bad that on another thread I told these people they were dead wrong and none of these scenes had ever appeared in the film. I am 49 and saw the original theatrical version so those scenes had been cut and in addition, you guys watching the censored TV version missed out on some scenes like the Spanish translation scenes between Rosalita and Mouth. But the truth is the original cut is the best because that's what the director intended whereas the version you guys saw is a compromised by censorship with all story pacing destroyed.
@@donnswaby369I remember the rosalita scene being translated when I was a kid
I remember the octopus scene--and for the longest time my friends thought I was making it up; it was years before it resurfaced again and I finally was able to show them I wasn't just having one of those mandela-effect moments. I had no idea about the Gorillas, though!
Reminds me a bit of my run-in with a deleted MOVIE I'd seen in the '70s - my friends and family thought for years that I was making it up, until even I was gaslit into thinking I had to have imagined the whole thing: there was a fourth original Star Wars movie that I saw one time on TV in the late 1970s, and never saw or heard from again, where Han Solo and the gang end up visiting Chewie's home planet, where stormtroopers hold Chewie's family hostage, and hi-jinks ensue. It wasn't a good movie. Sometimes my friends and family would insist I must have be talking about "that Ewok movie" - and I'd have to explain "no way - there were TWO Ewok movies, and they came out years later!"
Of course, the movie I remembered was the 1978 "Star Wars Holiday Special", which was so bad, Stephen Spielberg made it his life mission to try to destroy every last copy of it, and bury every hint that it ever existed - it never aired again, and only exists today because someone managed to record it on an early VCR, passing copies around at Star Wars conventions. I finally got my validation that I hadn't imagined the whole thing decades later, on the internet, and finally managed to track down a copy a couple years after that. It's pretty easy to find, now, and it's every bit as terrible as - actually, more terrible than - I remembered! :)
Anyway, I absolutely sympathize with that terrible "Mandela Effect" feeling you get from years of people insisting you were making up one of those odd deleted movie scene moments!
Some cuts are for the best. Sorry to lose the gorilla scenes but it was needed.
I think they should have just included the first scene of the gorillas taking the douchebag characters car and left it at that. That's the crux of humour. Including the rest would be just stretching out the joke and lose its effectiveness.
it could use more gorillas
“Damn it Richard, we need this gorilla subplot, it is the key to ALL OF IT!” - Spielberg undoubtedly
weird have to thank TV version of the movie to see other cut scenes because of some scenes needed to be censored, I totally forgot store scene and octopus scene were in TV version, but not Theatrical version
Richard Donner: so this movie may be running a bit long, we're shooting a lot of stuff and some of it's not working
Spielberg: dude I want this to be an epic three-hour treasure hunt movie, and I want gorillas driving sports cars, I must make the longest B-movie ever
@@simond7225 It's Like Poetry, They Rhyme
LOL
Sounds more like David Lynch than Spielberg.
I remember seeing Goonies as a teen with my friends. I love where it was filmed in Astoria Oregon, it's truly a beautiful place that I hope to visit one day for it's nostalgia and this movie.
Thank you for taking the time to make and share this awesome trivia with us
This really clears things up, I swear for years I had dreamed these cut scenes as the copies I have found never had them.
The grocery store scene and the octopus scene were in the Disney Channel version that always aired during the Halloween season
Yep, I taped it off the Disney Channel, and those scenes were there. I was bummed years later when I bought the DVD, and discovered that those scenes weren't in the theatrical cut. I was like where'd the octopus go?
@@pensacolian211 The DVD has those as deletes scenes, but for some reason, they cut the convenience scene right before the kids sneak away from Brand yet again.
yes - you used to be able to buy a fancut of the film that had those scenes restored - it has since become unavailable - same as the uncut Ace Ventura Pet Detective :( Sad as those scenes cut would have made a better movie I feel, esp in Ace. Same deal as the 4 hour Ulysses Cut of Waterworld, hard to find now. I have the UC of Waterworld, but sadly didnt grab the Goonies or Ace fancuts when they were around :(
@@izzyfernandes6862 the Ulysses cut is on Blu Ray courtesy of Arrow Films. I’ve seen it a couple of times.
@@FigmentForever wow thats great! I got my burnt copy a few years earlier, but very nice to know that fans ( i thought waterworld was an epic movie ) can see the definitive version. Good lookin out thank you :) I never heard of arrow films i will check them out :) :)
Hats Off Entertainment has become a favorite channel since last year, I love hearing info behind comedy classics and the unfortunate blunders that we’ve gotten over the years. Keep up the good work as always. 😊👍🏼
Cheers!
Joe Ramoni is great, really thorough.
This movie was a part of my childhood and will always be timeless. Since much of the movie is going through caves with traps and such, it doesn't feel dated with the lack of modern things. It's simple, fun concept is just as entertaining today as it was back then when it first came out.
Saw it 5 times in the theater
Yes me and my buddies would watch this movie all the time. Recite lines who we would be in the same situation. Classic movie.
Same here. Still love it!
If Goonies were made today they would have kept ALL the scenes, completely destroying the pace and making it a 2/3 hours long movie.
And the kids are still annoying little turds. That's timeless too.
The three missing scenes from the TV cut that still bug me that few people mention are...
- Data slips on the log after using his "slick shoes" and Mikey and Mouth go back to help him only for both of them to slip as well
- Mouth and Stef have additional dialogue on the plank where Mouth offers to give her his last breath
- Mouth reads the Spanish on the boards leading to Willie's cabin before breaking through them
If you remember these scenes or know where I could find a copy of the TV cut please let me know. :)
I remember once seeing the scene with mouth reading the Spanish on the board before they broke through it to get up to the deck above them in the ship where they found Willie’s cabin and treasure. You can still see part of the scene as Mikey (I think) is raised up and punches through the wooden boards.
I remember the slick shoes scene - crazy the random stuff your mind decides to keep.
@@zalcal8256 isnt the shoe scene in all versions of it?
@@JonnyChaos not sure to be honest
@@db-wo9hi This scene has bothered me for decades. I remember seeing it as a kid and haven't seen it since. I have searched but am not able to find a version where its still included.
Goonies, Christmas Vacation and Christmas Story are movies I have to watch a Few Times every Year.
I love how when Lego Dimensions did a Goonies level they had The Octopus be the boss
The Fratellis were packing too much heat.
Respect
Such a classic film. They don’t make em like this these days. It took me a while to connect Josh Brolin with The Goonies when he hit it big around 2008.
Woah, I still hadn't made this connection until I read your comment. Mind blown.
They didn't really make them like that then, either - movies are not special for being typical.
I feel fortunate to have been able to walk the hill the the goonies house and grab a photo years ago. I know that for the past few years the new owners have been super pissy about people coming up their pathway. The city of Astoria should just buy the house already .
They used to have a donation box for fans to take pictures and leave money for maintenance and upkeep. The neighbors got all pissy about the money amd so the home owner closed it all off and that was the end of that.
Neighbors I talked to were more upset about the littering, dog shit, parking being taken (even their own driveways), and people showing up at all times of the day / even night.
I got to visit the house before they blocked it off. I feel very lucky!
Same here in 2012 I think.
It's perfectly fine to go visit again. I did a roadtrip recently in October and I walked up and took pictures. There are even signs on the mailbox saying "Yes" and "Okay to walk up." And one sign simply stating "No cars allowed." But you can park below and visit and the donation box was still out front of the house. Just thought I'd update everyone for future traveling.
When I was younger I used to read the movie novelizations prior to seeing the movie so I could have more context of what was happening and get more out of the movie experience. I remember reading The Goonies and feeling the movie was very different when I finally saw it at the theatre. Still, I love the movie and wouldn't change it. A very amazing part of my childhood for sure.
A movie I ain’t seen seince a kid, and feels like a perfect fit for your channel..
Harry & The Henderson’s.
Please =]
1985 was my favourite year for movies: Clue, Return to Oz, The Goonies, and Back to the Future. I didn’t even realise that Clue and Return to Oz were considered to be cult classics until years later. I borrowed those two movies so often from the video store (Video Ezy for any Aussies reading this) that Mum eventually just bought them for me.
Rocky 4 also
Return to Oz! 😍
Thank goodness, another Return to Oz fan! Everyone I’ve met who remembers it hated it
Yep Aussie here - I remember Video Ezy.
1989 used to be my favorite year, but lately Ive discovered so many movies from 1985 its now on par with 1989, IMO.
The Goonies will always be one of my top 10 favorites. I Introduced this movie to my 8 year old last year around the Halloween season. She really liked it as much as I did as a kid. I seriously never get tired of watching the Goonies. And I remember watching the Disney channel version of the Goonies with the giant octopus. A great film that is truly timeless for kids of all ages. 😄❤️
I remember watching it on VHS shortly after it was released,
I'm 47 soon
And my son
My brothers son
Both have seen it and live it too
For 50 years, Steven Spielberg has been trying to include a scene of random gorillas who go on a joyride into one of his movies, but the sequence just never seemed to fit. In 'Saving Private Ryan' he spent two weeks shooting footage of two gorillas riding around in a beach buggy during the Normandy landings, but just three days before the film's premiere, he reluctantly cut it out.
One day Spielberg will release a huge box set of the director's cut of all his films with gorilla scenes. For the films where we don't actually have gorilla footage, well, George Lucas has a lot of time on his hands nowadays.
And don’t get me started on the deleted gorilla rampage scene in Schindler’s List.
Did you see the gorillas in close encounters? It’s in the landing scene. Blink and you’ll miss it.
I'm pretty sure a Gorilla was driving the truck in Duel
I'm sure the buggy was a Kubelwagen.
Goonies is the best ever. I even went to Goonies land and seen the landmarks :D I was a kid when this came out and i still remember that day, and that the morning after we rented the movie, I woke up early and re-watched it as many times i could until we had to return the VHS
80's forever!!!
Matthew McConaughey mentions in his 2015 commencement speech that his character Wooderson, never should have been there. Today, you watch the movie and it’s been cut out. Great video. Love the goonies! Thank you.
I think I've seen a full cable edit of the Goonies. In elementary school as a last day treat, we watched The Goonies on one of the teacher's crappy websites with schoolboard approved movies. The movie was squished to 4:3 from 16:9, and it had a couple scenes I didn't remember, since I had seen it multiple times before. It contained the first scene where Troy pushes the gang around and the octopus scene, but I think it included the scene where the maid gets mistranslated drug-related instructions, and all the swearing. I remember thinking the octopus looked pretty crappy.
I'm pretty sure Donner told him to shoot the gorilla scene himself sarcastically and Spielberg took it as a challenge
Yea, and Donner totally sabotaged it with that reshoot.
I'm so glad this is the first I'm hearing of gorillas. That was a terrible idea.
But looks hilarious.
i think it was cut for pacing aswell
Great job! Thanks for doing this, for my fav movie of all time….I knew most of the info presented but it was still such a joy to watch. Great channel in general, I’m also a big Ernest/Varney fan & the Three Stooges. God bless! 👍☺️🙏🏻
A long time ago, in the early days of the internet, I posted on a chat channel about scenes I remembered in The Goonies and also in Ferris Bueller that I remember from when I first watched them but which I've never seen since. The responses were that I must have imagined them as a kid and I've always subsequently figured they were a fever dream or something. Your video (finally!!!) backs me up. Thank you! Thank you so much!!
Awesome vid. There's way more deleted scenes though: Andy getting sworn in as a Goonie in the wishing well, More of Sloth and Chunk following the rest of the Goonies, extra dialogue between Mouth and Stef on the plank, etc.
Indeed!
The scene with Mouth and Stef on the plank is also referenced on the beach in the end. Surprised more people don’t wonder why he thanks her for offering to save his life.
One tiny scene of Sloth and Chunk following everyone was also in the Disney Channel version AND the NBC TV airing, which is most likely the same version Disney aired, just cut down to about 95 minutes.
@@derekminer7004 Disney Channel also aired NBC's version of Gremlins, with the scene of the Gremlins being massacred in the kitchen edited to not show their deaths (yep, no Gremlin exploding in the microwave...sorry). They did have the "Gerald in the vault" where after Kate tells her tragic story about her father dying one Christmas Eve, they open the bank vault to find Gerald locked inside. I wish they would have included that scene in the theatrical cut. It gives Judge Reinhold more screen time. There's more scenes with Gerald in the deleted scenes section of the DVD. Too bad it was all cut and now Judge Reinhold's role in the movie is just more or less a cameo.
I definitely remember the extra dialogue between Mouth and Stef on the plank! :)
This is just speculation on my part, but I can't help but wonder if the novelist of the movie tie-in book decided Sloth should be given the name Jason because he closely resembles the character from ''Friday The 13th''.
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His last names Cohen like the kid who played Chunk
Watching the Goonies at the cinema, I remember seeing in the end credits a song titled, 'eight arms to hold you' (or something like it) and thinking that there was more to this movie that I would never see
Omg I didn't know about this deleted scenes....so cool.....for me goodies never die... still watching the movie ....was and will be the most amazing movie ....
My dad recorded the goonies off channel 2 or 4 when they use too play movies on saturday night specials,,and the movie had all these cuts,,,so i do remember all these scenes,,thanks for posting and bringing back a fond memory of my childhood,❤
Some other deleted material I've heard of include more background on the Goon Docks and Hillside areas (poor and rich neighborhoods); Stef offering to share her breath with Mouth so they won't drown if they're pushed off the plank (which Mouth thanks her for in the film); Andy taking the Goonies Oath after that scene in the wishing well, and Stef helping solve a puzzle involving a "funny bone".
The truly amazing thing is one of those kids went on to wipe out half the life in the universe with a snap of his fingers, one went on to help destroy the One Ring of Power, and one of them went on to become Corey Feldman. 3/3.
Ascension millennium.
Nuff said.
Chunk is a lawyer... so that's something
Ke Huy Quan will always be the man as well
I’m 46 who’s Corey Feldman
@@travismiller7596 Just a friend of Cory Haim.
I would love a sequel where Mikey's kids go on a similar adventure or something like that. I bet Sean Astin would be all for it if done right.
That sounds awful, I hope for the sake of this movies legacy that never happens.
@@hyicrotai9801 I thought maybe a prequel on how One Eyed Willy came to be, and how him and the crew met their demise....
Please NO! This younger generation needs to get some creativity and not ruin everything that was already done already.
@@Mr.White10-65 Fair enough, I think sequels of this type can be risky. They can elevate the previous work, or they can cheapen it. Sometimes both.
@@Mr.White10-65 They are creative but in different ways. How young people grow up now and how it felt to grow up then are practically different worlds. You dont see kids going outside and going on adventures. The nerds got their revenge long ago, now everyone has gadgets. Let's face it. Us Gen Xers are stuck in a world we no longer recognize. Its our kids world now and we got to let them go do figure things out and support them.
My uncle was BIG on recording tapes in the 90s & he still to this day has the biggest collection of recorded movies & shows I’ve ever seen. 2-3 movies on every vhs tape & catalogued by number, in the thousands (easily) so they’re easy to find. An entire basement filled with movie cabinets and those are numbered also. That octopus version was the only version of goonies I had ever seen until a few years ago I watched it on dvd & to my surprise it wasn’t in there. My gf at the time thought I made the whole scene up 😅😅 thank u for posting this the Goonies will forever be a legendary & nostalgic film 🎉🙌🏼
I grew up with a cable version taped off TV, and I remember mentioning the octopus scene to someone who had no idea what I was talking about. I had no idea it had been cut from the commercial release.
My dad and sister claim to this day that the octopus was in the film when they saw it in theaters. My sister tormented me with it for years until I finally saw the deleted scene. I personally like it and wish it had stayed in.
I can support your father and sisters claim.
I remember seeing the scene for the first time on cable in the early 90's.
The scene is on a VHS version I own
It's a deleted scene on the DVD and when Disney Channel aired Goonies way back in their premium channel days, it had the octopus scene, the convenience store scene as well as Data showing off his gadgets that all failed.
I knew someone who claimed he saw the Jabba scene from A New Hope in its original form with the stand in actor IN THE THEATERS in 1977!!!! Every source I looked up about this says it's untrue.
Another claim I remember hearing is when CBS initially aired A New Hope in 1982, many viewers claim they saw the deleted Biggs scenes. I'm not talking about the scene where they reunite in the hangar right before the Death Star battle that was put back in the Special Edition. I'm talking about the scenes on Tattooine where Biggs meet up with Luke right before he enters Flight Academy. I can't claim whether this is true or not and the claims have been dead for quite some time, but it sure would be interesting to know if they're true or not.
I remember a scene on the pirate ship and have never been able to find confirmation of it anywhere. Mikey was lifted up to go into One-Eyed Willie's chamber and he read out loud to the rest of the Goonies what the writing said on the board before breaking through it and getting lifted into the chamber. I'm almost positive this happened. I have seen the octopus scene on an extended version played in the theaters, but never the convenience store or gorilla scenes. Would love to know I'm not going crazy since the two scenes I learned from here exist.
I remember this scene as well, except it was Mouth that read the writing (not Mikey) because it was in Spanish.
I remember this. I came here to bring it up. I definitely remember them reading what was on the board before breaking through it.
Yes saw this as well
This! I totally remember Mouth translating what was written before they punched through it. So long ago I have always wondered if it was something I just made up in my head, but good to hear others remembering it too. Would love to see the scene again, if it still exists somewhere.
100% this scene exists
I have this hypothesis about the opening scene, where the Fratellis are running from the Police. In the DVD version I have, the chase passes by almost every character in the story, and I suspect there are deleted scenes that include the one or two who aren't.
And at the end, when they get to the pirate ship, what is the story behind the guy in the rigging. He almost looks like he's in costume, but they never make anything of him in the plot.
I used to tape so many movies off of cable all through the 80's. I have several totes of them. Great video.
My grandmother was born in the Goonies home…in the room that was Josh Brolins. Family home is now blocks away.
I played the Goonies game, I think by Data East, on the Commodore 64 when I was a kid. It included a level featuring the octopus. At the time I figured it was the developers padding the game length with non-canonical obstacles.
@Alaska Music Australia. The C-64 was pretty big here.
I played the Goonies video slot machine in the casino of the Venetian in Las Vegas.
Love your vids. You speak well, have a good voice, and honestly make insightful observations, displaying the type of knowledge that only comes from good research. Thanks for the awesome content. It legitimately helps my mental health
Speaking of lost “darker” versions, AND TV edits that feature a lot of cut content…I would love a video on Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. As a kid I grew up with it on VHS, the cover of which advertised “footage not seen in theaters!”. From memory, it was really only the “Dolphin Trainer” scene.
But, the actual tv edit, had many more scenes, like the one of a gas station clerk committing suicide after giving Ace directions, that have never been released on any official dvds.
More than that, I’ve always wanted to see the cut scenes from the movie that were shot and edited, but ultimately cut, where Ace has a nightmare he is picked apart by birds, (New Line Cinema confirmed this was shot a couple years ago when they posted a still image of Aces face bloody and half eaten) and also the extended scene where Ace kills the two men with the hook at the pier, where he then launches into rehearsing what he’ll tell the cops when they show up.
Always wanted to see those again, and for the first time, but it seems no one ever talks about them, and it’s bizarre.
I think there are very crude, unofficial edits floating around out there that have some of the scenes put back in, but the quality of the edits are terrible.
Yeah, Roc and Vinnie originally lost their heads #naptime
And the scene of Ace returning to the Cannibal Corpse concert, fighting a bunch of goons, and then moshing on stage.
Yep, I have seen a few of the deleted scenes from ace Ventura pet detective and they were pretty bizarre as tonally they did not match the rest of the movie
Just think that Rick Moranis was originally slated to play Ace Ventura 😳😳 Jim Carey was born to play that role
I always thought the octopus line was odd, but years ago I was watching the movie on cable and I finally saw the octopus scene and the store scene. The store scene, while not paramount to the plot, does explain why the top of the map (seen up close in the organ scene) is burnt while the other three edges aren't.
I saw Goonies in theater the week it opened and I distinctly remember the octopus scene. I also remember it showing on HBO or VHS when it was released for home viewing.
It’s crazy to think a film I’ve seen dozens of times has deleted scenes, it really changes how I see the film.
The octopus! What a Mandela Effect kind of moment, except real! I had fully convinced myself that my memories of an octopus in The Goonies was just an amalgam, the result of seeing both The Goonies and Popeye (which has, in a similar cove/cave setting, an octopus) at about the same point. Both were, almost certainly, taped from TV.
Same 110%
@@philcooper9225 me too. I guess we mixed up the Cindy Lauper video with the movie.
There is a good chance you did see it as was included on some TV airings of the film
@@gregoryl.levitre9759 nah I saw it on TV it was part of the TV edit as mentioned in this TH-cam video
@@Laser2120 oh! Cool!
Very cool stuff.
I was really hoping for a sequel, and it almost came to fruition. Unfortunately, it never happened.
The "sequal" was an NES game. Goodies 2 where Mikey has to save a mermaid
@@jasonparker7777
No. A sequel was supposed to be a movie. Look it up.
The issue partly stemed from Richard Donners death.
Feldmen says there may be an outside chance.
To me that means most likely not.
Growing up I had some Goonies trading cards (might still have them), and one of them was of Chunk getting "attacked" by the octopus. It wasn't a scene, it was just him posing for the camera. It always made me wonder though, what "could've been" with the whole octopus part. This YT video is actually the first time I've seen the actual cut footage. So thanks!!!!
I don’t know if it was ever shot but that whole bathroom scene with the water and the lug sounds so familiar
I remember there being a cable TV version of Falling Down where they removed key scenes in the movie. I don't know if it was for time or to make it broadcast friendly but it was incredibly destructive to the narrative structure. edit: grammar error
Great underrated movie!
I can’t believe how many people don’t remember the octopus scene. I was legit mad when they removed it later. Even tho it was kinda dumb looking back on it now. But it still bothers me, cause Chunk always talks about it at the end. The store scene was added later in the late 2000 I think. but now it’s so normal I can’t even remember really. The gorillas was thankfully never released LOL
I still own the Commodore 64 Goonies game.
Syntax error in b, aaaaaarrggh!
I remember a lot of these scenes from my childhood, and them being included in cable versions makes sense as to why. My mom taped a lot of movies from cable, and my friends and I watched those movies throughout my childhood and teens.
Thank you for taking the time to find this out and share with us.
The Goonies is one of the movies that a lot of modern writers, IE Dan Harmon, have retroactively tried to ruin for viewers by pointing out the absolutely nonsense nature of. Yet, I LIKE the fact that things in the Goonies don't always add up to 100% logic. It's supposed to be like you're a kid making an adventure as you go along. Not everything will make sense. I can't stand when people get on a pulpit and just try to tell you're dumb for liking a movie cause it's not perfect.
Anyone who doesn't like the Goonies is suspect in my book.
Agree. The movie was fun. We were kids we weren’t getting intellectual we were imagining ourselves in an awesome adventure too and that’s what made it awesome.
Exactly!! These days people don't see the point of a movie anymore. That's why movies these days generally are crap, from an executional point. They're too focused on having everything 'accurate' and have too much political nonsense put into them. Which especially for kids movies, shouldn't be a focus.
Goonies was about a (pretend) adventure. It wasn't about conquering something and claiming it, was about the 'ride'. And kids were kids in movies, not like today where they act and approach things like adults and even be better than adults. When I was a kid, movies like The Goonies made me search for my adventures, fully knowing I was a kid and not an adult. And just enjoyed the prospect of adventure.
I actually pity kids today, having the conflict of being kids, yet having to address things like adults (while not being aware what adult life is actually like) and having to think about stuff that's actually for adults to decide. My child years, although I have had to endure bullying and such, was still the best time of my life, especially because of movies like The Goonies which helped me create my kids world of adventure. Because adult life is actually really boring (and so fake, but that's another discussion).
The Goonies is a movie that 'll stick on you forever!
I like Jay's (from RLM) take, that you just need to everything to make enough sense so that you dont start to ask questions while you see it or soon after. Like, if you think hard about things (like a human being a batttery to power a machine intelligence), then sure, many movies dont REALLY add up - but who cares. The ai/robots have a plausible enough reason, and the movie is not really about that anyway, so who cares?
@@xBINARYGODx Jay usually has the most balanced takes on movies. I've only disagreed with him every so often and its come down to a personal preference at that.
Harmon is part of a pseudo intellectual club that thinks they're dismantling the system by commenting on logic errors. Its obnoxious. I dig Community, but the guy has always been kinda iffy when it comes to writing philosophy.
I can watch this movie over and over again and still feel the same tingling sensation when the, “One-Eyed Willy,” music starts playing in the attic. For me, this movie is the epitome of childhood nostalgia. It’s one of those rare films that makes me feel like a kid when I watch it. I hope it gives new generations of kids that watch it for the first time, that same feeling for years to come.
This is great!
My father worked for the studios and we would get to see pre-screening movies where they had focus groups and surveyed the audience after the films. This was one of them, and it had these scenes that weren't in the final edit. I bet there's a bunch of movies out there that got axed because of these foucus groups. One that come to mind was "My Boyfriend's Back". This movie was an amazing teenage zombie movie, years before that genre ever took off.
The original prescreen version was an amazing movie with amazing music.
The final release version was nothing like that, and totally sucked with the new editing and songs. I always thought to myself "if they would've left the original alone this could've been a classic; like Teen Wolf. 🤷
Yeah, I remember seeing it on cable tv as a kid and saw the gas station scene and the octopus. I use to tell friends about it and they looked puzzle and told me there wasn’t a giant octopus in the movie! Great vid!
"You're ruining my joke!" Lol always loved that line.
I didn’t know Donner died. Crap. He’s probably the most underrated director ever. I think he successfully did every single genre. He was so good.
He died back at the beginning of July this year.
Underrated? Maybe for you.
@@heypero Just in society in general. He's never listed in anyone's best lists.
He made NORTH...
@@andthentherewasail394 I think you'll find that was Rob Reiner.
One of my favorite childhood movies was 3 Ninjas, I watched it so many times that I practically memorized it. much later as an adult I found out there existed a European cut of the movie that had a TON of extra scenes thrown in. the pacing definitely suffered but it was super cool to see the extra footage, it was like discovering a time capsule.
Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum!!! My dude!
A somewhat depressing thing to tell the internet, but when my mom passed away a few months ago we actually spread her ashes at Goat Rock, the same beach at the end of this movie. We all grew up in California, and ever since my mom was a child in the 60s, she had been going to this beach. We share so many family memories there, and she requested to be put there.
What a beautiful thing to do. Making her request come true for such a special place to her (and your family).
That's gross.
I've seen the octopus scenes, but none of the other scenes that were featured in this video. Thank you for the information, I really enjoyed your video.
This was THE quintessential movie that defined my childhood in the early eighties. There were many, many more that would play over and over again on our living room tv for neighborhood friends during the awesome summer breaks spent without adult supervision, but The Goonies was the very best. You see, we had HBO!
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Coming to America, Commando… so many great movies entertained me and my little brother and our best friends from our subdivision during those magical summer breaks.