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Summary: Can't give it a 5, but Mr. Show is the Best !!!
Review: The only reason I can't give this set a 5 is because it's not as perfect as it could be. Personally, I'd like to see a few chapter stops on each episode. Certainly, they couldn't put a stop between each 'skit' as there are so many in each episode, but a few, with an insert telling me where the stops are so I can at least get close to a particular 'skit' would be nice.Otherwise, everyone with a sense of humor should own this DVD set...
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Summary: Overrated
Review: After reading the reviews of this DVD set, I felt that I must get it. It sounded so great. Unfortunately, it's nowhere near good. Some reviewers say that the comedy is over people's heads. Yeah, no. The skit where someone is asking for change for a dollar is not over my head, it's just stupid. I didn't give this set the lowest rating(1 star) simply because Brian Posehn was cool and the incubator pants(they'll get you chicks) skit was cute. But that's one skit out of many. If you want truly awesome sketch comedy, try Kids in the Hall. They're hilarious, which is more than I can say for Bob and David.
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Summary: Hurry and Release The Next One
Review: This is hilarious stuff. Anyone who hasn't seen this and has a somewhat open and twisted sense of humor should buy this now.
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Summary: If you love comedy you MUST own this DVD
Review: In an age where comic strips and sitcoms aren't even funny anymore its nice to know that real comedy is still being generated. David Cross smells of Bill Hicks, George Carlin and Sam Kennison while Bob Odenkirk gives us the razor sharp, polished wit of an accomplished song and dance man with a fresh and "alternative" style that he created. Mr. Show is that perfect comedic blend of satire, parody and preaching that yearns for the intellectual to wet their pants.
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Summary: Funny Show, Weak Package
Review: Mr. Show is a warped laugh-til-you-cry show that ingeniusly segues one sketch into the other. The downfall is the lack of money spent on the packaging. You can't jump from scene to scene, only episode to episode. The bonus material is just a HBO promo about Mr. Show. Hopefully, the remaining seasons will not only be produced, but produced better.
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Summary: Fan of the show
Review: I do not own the dvd but have seen all the shows I believe.
I don't remember what episode is from which season either. But let me tell you about the show. Trying to describe Mr. Show to friends and family usually ends in tears of frustration. ''Its funny! It really is, I'm just not telling it right!'' That kind of thing. One show goes into another one seamlessly. over the course of the few short years that it was on, the sketches were sicker and sicker, funnier and funnier, smarter and smarter and harder and harder to describe. Try explaining some of the sketches. Like the pre-natal beauty pageant. Or the cloned hitlers who served modern day jewish folks for reparations. Like the bit about two idiots trying to make their own 'make a wish foundation' type deal. Or maybe the sketch about the drunk from the reality tv cop show doing a ballad in a recording studio about being brutalized. Hell, try to explain the sketch where they act out the classic joke about a salesman and a farmer and his daughter-only they do it like a broadway musical. It just doesn't come across well. When you try to explain about why 24 is the highest number and the soap opera take on siamese twins that have been separated. The Star Trek Convention and the medievil fair being told about by civil war re-enactment historians. Good god, nobody gets it until they see it. As for bad taste- it is definetly there. As for being like Monty Python? They get away with more, they are American, and they are funnier. [Though I like Monty Python, these guys are still just plain funnier.]
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Summary: Some people don't get it
Review: But I sure did. Mr. Show is the best sketch comedy series as of yet. Sorry Python fans, I love them too, they were groundbreaking, but Mr. Show is the funniest, darkest, deepest satire I have ever had the pleasure to laugh my ass off at. Nothing is left untrampled and no topic is too subversive for these guys. It will be a shame if the third and fourth season is not released on DVD. If you are a big fan of network comedy, or easily insulted, or think Carrot Top is pure genius, stay away from this. Your best bet would be to stay in the shallow end of the pool.
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Summary: Mr. Show, Love My Mr. Show, Watch It All Day Lo-ong!
Review: I caught this show on HBO a couple of times when it was being produced and I loved it. The only way that I can describe this show is that it is like an American version of Monty Python's Flying Circus. How they came up with some of their strange ideas for stories I do not know. The show is very stream of consciousness, and reminds me of weird dreams that I've had when sleeping at night. This two disc set has a total of 10 half-hour episodes from the first and second season, along with HBO TV spots, and a Best of Mr. Show episode that has skits that aren't from the other episodes. For each of the 10 regular episodes, there is a commentary track from Bob and Dave, where they explain how they came up with skit ideas and which ideas they used from their original stage show. There is also the occasional appearance from Bob and Dave's alter egos that stop by to chat on the commentary track. My all time favorite skit was the one about the Megaphone Crooners. This is really funny, as well as the commentary track where Bob Odenkirk explains how he came up with the idea for this skit. I do hope that they release seasons three and four of this show. Another of my favorite skits that Mr. Show did, but this wasn't on this DVD set was a news anchor team that had been doing the news for decades since radio had been invented, and during their last appearance on TV, they started to die from old age on the set. Those that were still living were too senile to know where they were. Way to go Mr. Show!
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Summary: Still holds up
Review: Not many shows hold up when you see them years later. This is one of the exceptions. Great episodes. High quality. No complaints what-so-ever. MR.SHOW is one of those wry pieces of humor that worked...much like the book THE DISTURBED WRITINGS OF ADAM COCHRAN or the movie THIS IS SPINAL TAP.
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Summary: Give it a shot...
Review: That's really the best advice that I can give regarding this show.... There really is no rhyme or reason to whether or not you'll like Mr. Show. People have compared it to other satire like the Simpsons, Guffman, etc...but I've shown it to people who love those things but surprisingly didn't get into Mr. Show at all. Then I've shown it to people who I'd never think would get into it and they loved it...it's very odd. The satire is delivered in a different way than almost anything I've ever seen. I can tell you this, though...if you DO get into it, it's very difficult to not get completely immersed in it. Even the skits that don't jump out at you as hilarious after one or two viewings, you'll find yourself laughing about them later and not even really knowing why. The skits are totally random and yet completely logical. A lot of people say that the third and fourth seasons are much funnier...I don't know about that. I just think that the satire and humor of the first two is more implicit. The later seasons did manage to keep the same level of quality with more accessibility though. In short, if you typically like unconventional humor, and you find "normality" to be completely humorous ... trust me, it will have a permanent effect on your sense of humor. Advice: The first episode (not the first SEASON, just the first ep.) is VERY subpar. Don't write it off after that though, trust me. You'll probably need to watch at least three or four episodes, maybe more than once, before even trying to formulate an opinion on this.
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