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What are some movies that are rendered virtually unwatchable in their edited-for-TV counterparts?

One that immediately comes to mind is the ITV edit of RoboCop. Aside from some "curious" choices of dialog being dubbed over (crumbag instead of scumbag, redubbing asshole with airhead, "bitches leave" being redubbed with "ladies leave", etc.), a bunch of scenes are badly butchered by editing, no longer making sense or are outright made comical (that CGI bra has got to be awfully hot with the body armor on and the robber now acts surprised when he gets busted for robbing a liquor store with a shotgun in hand, and don't even get me started on the atrocious editing of the ED 209 malfunctioning and Emil death scenes):