 The television broadcast version of The Thing sometimes has an unknown person  narrate the beginning of the film.  He introduces all of the characters as  they appear and gives a brief blurb about their goals/reasons for being  there.  At the end of the film, the narrator returns once more to deliver a  haunting speech, and then a shot of the Huskie running away from the burning  base is shown.  This version often appears on TNT or TBS.  This version also  has so much of the gore edited out that originally deleted scenes are used as  time fillers to extend existing scenes.