Usually nobody catches them. Paramount has been editing scenes for years on their old shows and DVD’s. They give you a little disclaimer that takes a magnifying glass to read.
It isn’t about uncut versions. It’s the 1984 memory chute, removing anything that offends the P.C. religion from movies and films. This time they got caught.
At the conclusion of the movie, ET, the agents no longer have handguns, but have walkie-talkies in the revised version of the film.
PC is rampant.
Wasn’t it Orwell who warned of ‘rewrites’ or has that been edited out, also?