Everything Must Go, the low-key but masterful Will Ferrell comedy/drama (based on a Carver short story), hits DVD and Blu-ray today, and as with most recent releases, the disc includes a small selection of deleted scenes. More often than not, there isn’t a hell of a lot of value added by that particular bonus feature; we tend to see a lot of throwaway transition scenes, unnecessary exposition, or scenes so poorly written, directed, and/or played that the filmmakers were clearly wise to chop them. But on occasion, for reasons of pacing or time constraints, scenes are lost that are perfectly good in and of themselves — they merely don’t fit into the final version of the picture. That’s the case with Everything Must Go, which includes several charming little scenes that could easily have made the final cut.

So we decided to take a look at some of our favorite deleted scenes on DVD. A word of warning: as this is a phenomenon that only dates back to the age of the laserdisc, there is a decidedly modern bent to our rundown. While many classics were famously chopped by their studios or directors (Greed, The Magnificent Ambersons, and Sunset Blvd. leap to mind), no one saw any reason to keep those scenes around, and they’re (presumably) lost to the ages. (Maybe we’ll return to this topic at a later date.) At any rate, click through to see nine truly great deleted scenes — and one that may very well be the worst deleted scene of all time.

Boogie Nights

Paul Thomas Anderson’s original cut of his epic ‘70s-porn masterpiece Boogie Nights ran a full three hours long; he ultimately chose to trim it down to a more manageable two-and-a-half-hour running time. But having taken in that half hour of deleted scenes on the film’s DVD, we’ve gotta say something you can’t say about most movies: shoulda been longer. There’s some genuinely great stuff in there: an inventive improvised coked-up dialogue scene (shot from under a glass coffee table), more of the bad “Brock Landers” movie-within-the-movie footage, more of Dirk and Reed in the studio, and (for fans of that kind of thing) more of Heather Graham naked. But the best of the bunch is this sequence from the darker, scarier second half of the film, long past the fall of our hero, in which he is called to rescue an old friend (and co-star) from her abusive husband. The sequence is harrowing, the photography is thrilling, and the music choice—one of our very favorite Fleetwood Mac songs, “Tusk” — couldn’t be more perfect.