Interesting video I saw on YouTube which definitively shows whether Nibbler’s shadow was in the original airing of the pilot. Skip to 23:50 for the answer.
Interesting video I saw on YouTube which definitively shows whether Nibbler’s shadow was in the original airing of the pilot. Skip to 23:50 for the answer.
The issue was that the only way to know for sure was to watch a recording of the original airing, the episode could have been modified in reruns.
They were released almost 4 years apart. There were plenty of copies available everywhere to reference back when this first happened. I think this is more of the show finding a new audience who now doesn’t have access to those recordings. When this originally happened streaming services weren’t even really a defacto thing like they are today.
Edit: The original episode is over 25 years old. The first season would have been released on DVD 3 years before the Nibbler reveal. But there were also VHS recordings and DivX/XviD copies available online.
Season 1 was released on DVD and VHS in Jan of 2002, season 4 started airing in Feb of 2002.