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Lilo & Stitch: The Dryer Scene
At one point during Lilo and Nani Pelekai's fight after Cobra Bubbles' visit, Nani loses Lilo for a moment, but then hears her sister opening and closing something metal. Knowing exactly where Lilo is, Nani heads to the laundry room, places a towel on the floor, gets on top of the clothes dryer, and then opens and closes the back door. Lilo then comes out of the said dryer thinking the coast is clear, only for Nani to envelope her in the towel, taking the trapped little girl to the living room to confront her about not staying at the hula school.
Due to the dangers of having kids inside dryers, this scene is edited out. As seen in the last part of this video, the United Kingdom forced the scene to be edited for their market so that Lilo hid in an unusual wooden cupboard with a pizza box being used as a door. This edit gained infamy worldwide years later when it was used as the version of the scene on Disney+.
Meanwhile, all TV broadcasts of Lilo & Stitch cut this scene outright (as seen in the second clip in this video using a recording of a Disney Channel broadcast). The film fades out to black before the scene happens, then fades back in after the scene would have happened. (Sometimes a commercial break airs between the fades to better hide the transition.) This edit creates a plot hole for TV viewers as to how Nani caught Lilo in the first place.
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