Many other little things have been cut, clipped and altered in this DVD set and the other reviewers (on this listing and on the individual season listings) have touched on many of them.
In those few seconds the entire premise of the show is set up. Surely that was part of the charm of the show - the expectation of hearing those words in the opening titles. Not so - they've been completely edited out of the entire series. but you won't hear them on this set of DVDs! I've waited until the release of the final season to see if perhaps they only appeared in that one year. 'Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy?' Some time earlier, Madison's wife had thrown him out, requesting that he never return.
With nowhere else to go, he appeared at the home of his childhood friend, Oscar Madison. But he also knew that someday he would return to her. 'On November 13, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. 'These words were used in the opening credits of every Odd Couple episode.