My favourite deleted scene remains the one in which Mr Burns, instead of releasing the hounds, instructs Smithers to "release the robotic Richard Simmons!"
The terror soon mounts as 'Richard' launches into an aerobics routine to Shake Your Booty:
As if that weren't evil enough, in a nod to Westworld, he suddenly snaps, forcing Smithers to take matters into his own hands (a nice closet-queen-showdown subtext). He produces a shotgun and blasts the now manically booty-shaking robot in the head, only to discover, to his horror, he's like the Terminator:
The scene ends in spectacularly explosive fashion with the immortal line, "His ass is gonna blow!"
Funnily enough, I only just watched Westworld the other week on TV. A couple of things struck me.
Firstly, Michael Crichton wrote both it and Jurassic Park and, well, they're basically the same story. Simply replace "robot" with "dinosaur" and you pretty much have it. Nice work if you can get away with it.
Secondly, Yul Brynner made a damn sexy robot:
In terms of special effects, Jurassic Park was groundbreaking, sure, but Westworld, which came out in 1973, had some cool pixellated robot-vision.
Here's human prey on horseback!
Creepy robot lab!
It's actually very effective and quite contemporary-looking.
Sadly, like poor Richard, Yul suffers a fiery demise.
As for the original Terminator, I always thought the most exciting thing about evil Arnie was his bare arse.
That, I've yet to capture.
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