Deleted scenes for better/worse.

These aren't deleted scenes per se but the remaster of Last of Us 2 included some lost levels that got scrapped from the final game, they're interesting but I can understand why the Sewer and Boar Hunt levels got cut as they don't really add a lot to the game, the Jackson Party on the other hand I think absolutely should've been included, the devs main argument for not putting it in the game was because the Jackson Party cutscene didn't happen until near the end of the game and by that point they felt like an extended section of light-hearted mini-games would've been too much of a distraction from the main plot. However I think they made a mistake in putting the Jackson party sequence so late in the game to begin with(especially given how prominently it was featured in the trailers)I think it should've been closer to the start of the game, that way an entire sequence with fun mini-games and interacting with people at the party wouldn't have help like it slowed down the pacing so much.

There's actually an uncut version of The Office being released now on Peacock called Superfan that has all of the deleted scenes re-integrated back into the episodes, some do add some laughs but others you can see why they got cut, same with the deleted scenes from 30 Rock.

Cat in the Hat has a funny extended scene of The Cat pretending to be a rug only to get stepped on repeatedly(and even gets a cigarette burned on him)I think that absolutely should've been in the film, and there's an extended sequence of him using his device to "measure" the kids personalities that should've kept as one line later on in the film makes no sense due to it's removal, on the other hand the numerous versions of a deleted scene of Thing 1 and Thing 2 stalling the kids mom from getting home while amusing didn't really impact the plot overall so I can see why they eventually decided to abandon them.

For me the biggest example is the alternate ending of How I Met Your Mother, it's so far superior to the terrible ending we got on TV that it boggles my mind how it wasn't chosen instead.

Yeah. The scene where the cat does a doctor checkup on the two kids also explains what he meant towards the end where he told sally “But you’re still smoking way too many cigars.” 

I actually added all of those deleted scenes (except the 3 different versions of things 1 and 2 orchestrating a flood, since I didn’t know when they were supposed to take place) back into the movie as a fan edit, including the tv exclusive scenes, which came out to 92 minutes. 

Also, I somehow thought the scene where the cat jumped around outside their house and stretched his arm to close the door was in the movie, but it just turned out to be a deleted scene. It was just the Mandela effect at play.

There are TV exclusive scenes too? Cool, what are they?

Been elaborated on in another thread, but I WISH we had gotten some version of The Golden Compass movie that wasn't bland as dishwater (TLDR; a LOT changed in the development of the movie, including multiple deleted scenes). Yes, I do know the HBO series did a much better job at adaptation, but I am simply curious as to what the original movie could have looked and felt like.

I LOVE the concepts of Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, not so much the execution. I know a lot changed too in that movie's direction and left the original director ashamed of the final product. The movie as a whole was so botched, that I would love to have seen his original vision in full.

What sucks about that deleted scene is the fact it wasn’t included when they released those 75 minutes of deleted/extended scenes. We also still don’t have the state trooper scene, the extended ending, or the subplot of Susan believing neal was cheating on her. (The last one sounds awful tbh). 

I wonder if these scenes are either still lost, or if they’re just being saved for the 40th anniversary or something.

Wow that sounds interesting, any chance you could send me a link to those scenes?