Those poor nerds, they just can't get no respect. Though recently released as a pretty nice single-disc "Double Feature" by Fox, Revenge Of The Nerds seems to have fallen under the editor's knife and received a bit of a nip and tuck for its big DVD debut. Though rather minor, and not really affecting the plot, theme or character development, the cuts are nonetheless notable.

The total runtime of these snippets runs but a few seconds, and you can find them at around the 27:11 mark on the DVD. The scene in question is when our beleaguered hero Lewis goes looking for a suitable nerd residence, and sees a rental sign. In the uncut version, we see the sign and a phone number, a shot which is rather noticeably truncated from the DVD. Then, in a segment retained in both the cut and the uncut versions, being the nerd he is, Lewis plucks the sign and takes it back to the gym ("I found a house!") But then the following shot of all the nerds heading back to the house when sign in hand has been cut on the DVD ("Isn't it fantastic?!")

Interestingly, both the DVD and the 1993 reissue VHS edition contain this altered version, but not the previous laserdisc and early VHS editions. While these cuts might seem arbitrary, the leading theory is that since the sign featured a very prominently displayed phone number (which is now a big no-no to show onscreen), Fox may have snipped these shots to eliminate the number and thus the sign. Though the cuts are a bit distracting (especially if you are looking for them), perhaps it is better than those annoying "digitized washouts" a la MTV?

In any case, Fox has yet to return our calls regarding these cuts, and no formal recall or reason for the snipping has been issued. Stay tuned...