On a more serious note...

Though TLV Abridged is over, and while it was good fun while it lasted, life must go on. However, I'm not quite ready to end the era just yet. So, on a more serious note, I've gone through the script, which is available on the DVD under its DVD-ROM features, and compared to the scene being described and shot, coming up with discrepancies between what was written and what was released to theaters. Following is a list of discrepancies, curiosities, and other noteworthy things stemming from this comparison, in a scene-by-scene fashion which will span several posts.

Scene 1 - Just a Dream

1. Though this may be just a curiosity rather than anything else, Von is listed in the script as Freda's brother despite carrying her married name of Sackville-Bagg.
2. Frederick is scripted as having his chant interrupted. In the film, he is able to finish the entire thing and get to the part with the beam of light.
3. We do not explicitly hear Frederick order the other members of his clan to "fly", though it would make sense if he had and if they did. It would explain how a large number of them survived. Further, in the final cut, we only see Von diving after the stone. There is no mention made of the fates of the other vampires as the battle with the vampire hunter progresses.
4. In the script, Tony watches the vampire's splash before waking up. This doesn't happen in final cut, and hence we get the impression that Tony believes the vampire is trying to kill him. (Granted, that's a pretty intense moment for the vampires, so it's understandable a nine-year-old sympathizer would get this mixed up in his head, especially with all the messages from society he's getting about vampires being a) nonexistent and b) monsters if they did exist.)
5. Three things post-nightmare: it's a monkey and not a bear, the castle is not in ruins, nor does Tony bother to turn on the light while scurrying from his bedroom. These are all elements from final cut which differ from how the scene was scripted, for various reasons.
6. In the script, Dottie calls Tony by his name rather than just "Hon" as she is wont to do in the movie. Also, Bob bitches about how early he has to be up, and while some of this does translate to final cut and you do get the idea, not all of it makes it off the cutting room floor.
7. I think it should be interesting to state here that Tony's line in the script, after being told that sound is "the wind" is "Or the undead. They're in trouble!" Which fits just nicely with his sympathizer tendencies and status.
8. "Wave hi to Dad and Lord McAshton" and Dottie's near-death experience are in a different order in the script.
9. For a case of It's All There In the Script, we get in this first scene a name for the unnamed farmer, McLaughlin, and his line: "Out of the road you sassenach dummies!" Sassenach is a Gaelic phrase for "English" or "an English person", so can be interpreted the same way as "Yank".
10. In the script Tony has a moment to express how odd it is to call someone "Lord", which is something we in the US don't do, since we don't have "Lords" in the proper sense.
11. For another case of It's All There In the Script, the village they're driving through is called Dindeen, which, while likely fictional, is a neat little clue to the setting, for those who are interested.
12. The script is considerably more violent with the way the bullies handle Tony: he gets punched in the gut and otherwise slapped around, rather than shoved to the ground while his stuff gets dumped out and he is forced to be late.
13. Later on, the script has Tony escorted out of the classroom, where in final cut, he is verbally told, in essence, GTFO.
14. Concerning the golf clubs and "There's no one to play with", this takes somewhat longer to get to in final cut compared to the way the scene was scripted. Tony also expresses more joy and Bob more remorse about not being able to be a proper father. The script also has the scene end on Bob's "Tiger Woods" line rather than with Dottie kissing Tony on the cheek as per final cut.

And a couple of other things I would like to make mention of: The teacher refers to the comet as Attamon in the script, and not "Forsey" or whatever it is he says as he does in the film version. And I have in my notes somewhere that Tony makes a statement which somehow acknowledges that the script in the script. It took me a moment to decipher this statement, but he expresses in essence that by stating that the undead are in trouble, he is going against the script of society and his parents, which dictates that vampires are monsters rather than beings in need of assistance for some collective goal they might have. Essentially, Tony sees through his parents' bullshit (which they impose for different reasons) and is willing to at least passive-aggressively call them on it.

I had a shocking number of bullet points for this scene, and most are quite minor in consideration. There are no great shifts to the meaning of the scene, as both the script and the scene on tape play out to the same ends and convey the same basic facts about the protagonist, his family, and the world they inhabit. However, to the superfan who has time to go through the script, these changes are very noticeable indeed. I don't seem to mind much, though, but I do find a few of them noteworthy as aspects of canon and contributing factors to the characters and world.