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Friends - The Complete Third Season

Friends - The Complete Third Season

List Price: $39.92
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I love this season!
Review: This season is awesome, but if you liked the third season dvd, I got news that the Friends complete fourth season DVD will be released on July 15, 2003.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: FUN season - medium DVD extras
Review: Probably my favorite overall season of Friends - Phoebs finds her brother and her mom, Chandler jokes about dating Monica, Ross blows it with Rachel, who in turn "balds" a potential girlfriend, Joey hits on a woman who he thinks lives in "Neverland" while the friends play football.

We get to tour Joey and Chandler's apartment in the "extras" section of the DVD ... but, other than that, pretty slim on the extras. Maybe the team that makes the DVD's is wondering how they're gonna fill the other 7 DVD seasons with stuff.

In short - yeah, you gotta get this to complete the growing collection, just watch for the cut scenes (or bits of scenes) and listen to the editorial comments over the shows you've already memorized and you'll have a great time hanging wiht your Friends. "The Dutch Girl picked me, I rule all, Holland loves Chandler, Thank you Amsterdam - Goodnight!"

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hilarious!!
Review: This season, by far, is the best! If you are a true Friends fan, you will enjoy this season most of all. Just about every episode will have you in stitches, except of course Ross & Rachel's break-up, which was also an excellent episode! Hope you enjoy as much as i do!

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: 6 Stars If Possible
Review: No Television show can even compare to Friends. It is the essence of comic. This is one of their best seasons.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE MENUS ON THESE DVDs
Review: I have read numerous reviews of these FRIENDS DVD sets and over and over I read reviews stating that the reviewer can only get a few seconds of the show to play. My guess is that these are the classmates I had in elementary school that flunked the reading comrehension test -- you know, where the teacher passed out "quizzes" where at the top of the page it stated, "there is no quiz today. Write your name on the line below and rest your head on your desk. Congratulations! You can follow directions! You scored 100%" And then we silently giggled at the kids who furiously were trying to finish the test by answering the questions.

May I suggest that the production company increase the font on the menus of future FRIENDS DVDs where it clearly states that by selecting/highlighting the cup of joe icon which is to the left of every episode title, the viewer will get a preview of each episode. To watch the entire episode, they must highlight the TITLE of the episode and hit enter. So you don't need to remember special tricks on how to "get around" the "bugs". In these days of passwords for our hundreds of web accounts, the less one needs to memorize, the better!

All in all, this is one of my least favorite seasons. There were a couple of seasons where the writing was not as good -- the characters were not as funny and in some cases they were just annoying or not as likeable! Fortunately, the writers realized this and in the last couple of years the show has been better than ever.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: the best season
Review: i wont write what episodes are on this set, the other reviewers covered that already, ill just give my opinion.

any friends fan will tell you, that the first three seasons were the best ones, with each of them being close to a perfect comedy.
this set contains many great moments in friends, from monica buying a race car bed by mistake, to the one where joey and chandler get a chick and a duck to others.

the best episode would to the one with the tiny tshirt.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: My freinds are always there
Review: The first season hooked viewers, the second kept the viewers watching and the third one they had fun with. The third season has so many excellent episodes I could never pick a favorite one. During the season Ross and Rachel are together and for the first 2 years viewers had been waiting for this but our freinds would never stay together. Meanwhile the rest of the gang has problems that a hilariously written into the episodes.

Bottomline: Friends on DVD is so comforting knowing that if you ever need a freind or someone to cheer you up, just pop in the DVD, get some ben and jerry's cookie dough ice cream (or your prefered flavor) and watch!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: I believe this is where it started going stale.
Review: Like most sitcoms, they become played out within a few seasons and little is left to cover. If you don't believe that perhaps you haven't seen the following episodes of this very series "Friends."

But I believe this is the series' final group of decent episodes. So if you're a Friends fan, I suggest you grab this one and skip the forthcoming ones. The remaining seasons will kill any love you have for the show. I'm almost ready to reach into the television and rip Joey's head off at the conclusion of this season. Just when you wonder how anybody could be that stupid, in walks Pheobe.

So save yourself the aggrvation and stop at this one.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Luv the Friends!
Review: The friends are the greatest! That is all there is to it!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Show -- Not So Great DVD
Review: I adore "Friends", and Season Three is one of my favorites. This DVD would be five stars if not for the production quality of the DVD itself.

First, the honestly bad stuff -- two of the disks had major problems. When you try to access the shows from the "whole episode" button on the episode list, the DVD plays the teaser, "preview" scene instead. It's only on a few episodes and can be worked around (the whole episode is there, you just can't get there from the menu), but it's annoying.

Several episodes had problems with pixellation or skipping, and the beginning of the first episode (where the cast comes into Central Perk and finds the show's writers in their seats) is unwatchable, and will dump you back to the DVD menu if not fast-forwarded through. I examined the disks carefully, and couldn't find any dust or scratches that would explain this... it had *just* arrived in the mail and had never been out of its case before.

This is just a nitpick, but... for me, these disks would be much more enjoyable to view if you could skip *scenes* -- especially the fountain-dancing credit sequence, which can get old after many episodes at once -- with the "chapter" button. As it is, pressing the chapter button takes you to the next episode.

Like other reviews have commented, the "Special Features" on these DVD's are a little disappointing... especially if, like me, you're spoiled rotten by the wealth of cool inside information usually contained in DVD features. Every feature is almost entirely clip montages of scenes already on the disk. Season Three contains an "exploration" of Joey and Chandler's apartment... (A still picture with bits that light up, just like the ones of Central Perk and Monica and Rachel's on Seasons One and Two) with some tiny commentary from the crew.

The commentary from the producers on three episodes (The One With The Football, The One With The Morning After, The One Where No One's Ready) is the only real addition, but doesn't really provide much insight. It's more like:

Marta: Oh, Jennifer is great in this scene.
David: Oooh, isn't she?
Marta: Who wrote this episode?
David: I don't remember.
Marta: Well, it's funny.
David: Yeah, it is.
Marta: Oh, it's raining! I love when we make it rain!
David: It's so cool that we can do that.

Occasionally, they'll talk about something interesting (how they built the set for "The One With The Football", why characters had to be wearing certain costumes for technical reasons, or what was going on in real life that inspired a subplot) but mostly, it's just them chatting to each other.

These DVD's are worth it just to be able to watch this amazing show whenever you like, but as DVD's, they're a bit of a letdown.


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