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Man Show - Season One Volume One

Man Show - Season One Volume One

List Price: $29.98
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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: censored, censored
Review: since they censored all the good juggie stuff, it's not worth the trouble to buy this d.v.d.,

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Good Good
Review: The later episodes are way better than the first season!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: The Man Show, Great show, lousy DVD
Review: This DVD is CENSORED, CENSORED, CENSORED!

Simply put: The only reason anyone would want a DVD of the Man Show is to have it uncensored and with a lot of episodes. Seeing as there are only 10 episodes in this set (and that they are spread over 3 DVDs for some reason) and that they are CENSORED (Yes, no nipplevision for you!), there is absolutely no reason to buy this at ANY price. I loved the show, I'll admit, but I expect no censorship when I buy a DVD. If they release it uncensored (a costly and time consuming process), I'll maybe buy it (I've seen the full thing, just in case you think I have no idea of what I'm talking about.)

Buy this only if you feel like being disappointed

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Disappointed
Review: This is for the most part the same stuff you can see in reruns on Comedy Central. A couple of extra bits with Karl Malone and the Household Advice from Porn Stars, but these do not make the set worth buying. What really disapoints is that the discs are censored. I wish I had read a review before buying.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Great show, bad transfer.
Review: This is one of the few shows that I can be bothered to watch Comedy Central for. If Tim Allen's character Tim Taylor from Home Improvement hosted a variety show instead of Tool Time, it would be something like this. It's a show by men, about men and it makes no apologies for why men are the way they are.

Now the reason I gave this set only 2 stars. The video quality of this set is horrible. There's some strange interlace artifacting that's very noticeable, and extremely distracting, especially when there's any moderate to fast motion. I tried all the various interlacing and deinterlacing settings on my player and TV, and could not get rid of them.

It's not just on one disc either, so that rules out a bad disc. There's a problem with the way these discs were encoded to MPEG2. To me, it looks like it was either the interlaced source was reinterlaced during encoding, or the encoder was just simply not configured properly. I'll be letting the studio know that there's a pretty bad problem with this set.

How THREE discs got pressed without anyone noticing the problem is beyond me. Doesn't anyone watch this stuff to make sure it works before they go to mass duplication with it?

Personally, I'm going to hold off on future seasons of this show until I see that the problem has been solved.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good, but weak
Review: This show is dedicated to men, like most of the people reading this. This dvd I must warn you men is censored. I kid you not. There is some vulgar language that is usually bleeped on even South Park but no nudity. Something that you would expect out of a show like this. In the girls jumping on trampolines there was blurred body parts and I was upset, I hope by the time the second one comes out there will be some more vulgarity. Oh yeah unlike most reviews I actually saw this dvd.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A riotous celebration of all things male
Review: When "The Man Show" first aired on Comedy Central, it attracted the expected wrath of arch-feminists who denounced the show for playing on stereotypes of women, the best example being the scantily-clad Juggy Dance Squad. What it actually does is take every male stereotype in existence -- namely, that men are little more than boozing, belching, flatulating, ogling Neanderthals -- and runs with it. The result is a riotously funny celebration of all things male, hosted by Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel, just two regular guys who like to drink beer and make really bad jokes.

Where else would you see a variety show with recurring segments like "Movies Men Don't Want to See" (a hilarious takeoff on "chick flicks"), "Man-O-Vations" (ridiculous inventions for guys, such as the Carnival Urinal) and "Household Hints from Adult Film Stars" (you figure it out)? Or fake commercials for such outfits as the Rest Assured Disposal Agency, which cleans all the naughty stuff out of your house when you die so your family won't be traumatized?

"The Man Show" is a hysterically funny series quite unlike anything else on TV. May there be girls jumping on trampolines for a long time to come!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It is like Oprah...but for men
Review: When a show panders to women is is called sensitive and thoughful. When a show is geared to men is called sexist and vulgar.

Okay The Man Show is vulgar and sexist. It also happens to be funny and reasonably clever in it's sophmoric humor. Which is far better than most of the programming that is not sports geared for men...well the clever part at least. The first season of The Man Show is solid and if you can just let that egalitarian new age guy out for an evening you should be laughing and getting a few guilty pleasures.

It is too bad Fox went to the big bar in the sky, but his drinking chant lives on.


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