- 20th-century television and VHS editions often made the following cuts, to excise the more risque and politically incorrect gags:
- Professor Bimbo's flashing neon sign is edited to eliminate a mildly obscene hand gesture.
- When the modestly dressed Betty enters the fortune telling studio, Bimbo and Koko shine a light on her to turn her skirt transparent, and she starts to dance like Little Egypt. The cut to this part also resulted in the loss of the "walk this way" gag.
- The crystal ball's "memory" of Betty as a nude infant is left out.
- When Betty washes up on the island, a hand-shaped wave grabs her ass and she tells it to "keep your hands to you". Then when she is putting her clothes out to dry, a turtle runs off with her dress. Left in her bra and girdle, she fashions a hula-girl bikini from palm fronds, and starts singing Irving Berlin's "All By Myself". The cut version jumps from her landing on shore fully clothed, to the first line of her song, making her costume change inexplicable.
- When the ghosts first appear, the cut omits the last one, a "Jewish moneylender" caricature.
- A colorized version first appeared on television in 1972. It made many of the cuts listed elsewhere on this page.
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