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Summary: For folks new to Mr. Show
Review: As is always the case when a smallish hit enters the big market, there are going to be people who want to take shots at it. Mr. Show, for those of us who have been watching since the beginning, will always be special - it is always going to get 5 stars and it is always going to be called "brilliant" and "smart" because, frankly, it is - especially when compared with everything that surrounded us in the mid-90s television landscape(and even most of everything today).To compare this to other "sketch" shows is futile because it isn't a typical sketch show. The best you can compare it to is The Ben Stiller Show. Both take topical subject matter, grind it through a pop culture blender and out comes something that is unique, twisted, sometimes a little uneven, often hilarious and always, at the very least, curious. (Why isn't The Ben Stiller Show on DVD yet? You'd think he is a big enough star to get that out there.) The Talking Junkie episode is mind-blowingly funny, so for those who get mired in what they view as the rough first season, make sure you at least give that one a chance. It best epitomizes (on these DVDs at least) what Mr. Show is really capable of. HBO and New Line - the live show is a huge success, the DVDs are selling. Keep the DVDs coming and release Run Ronnie Run.
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Summary: Not representative of their better work
Review: I was inspired by an earlier review that trashed Mr. Show. That review was basically correct as it applied to this DVD. I am a rabid Mr. Show fan and I was drooling to get this DVD and not have to watch it on crappy VHS tapes. But I was surprised how much less I liked these episodes than the ones they did later. There is a big difference. The shows I have from season 4 really could be called the best sketch comedy ever. Some of the shows on this disc are real stinkers though. If you are a die hard fan- I recommend this DVD just for the few diamonds in the rough you will find (like the sketch on how the founding fathers choose our flag). If you are not already a fan, wait for the later seasons to come out.
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Summary: A must for Bob and David fans
Review: Being a long time fan of Mr. Show, I couldn't wait for the dvd to come out so I could own it and watch it when there is nothing nearly as good on tv. It's definitely not for everybody, so if you have never seen the HBO program you should probably not buy it. One of the funniest sketches included is the cast turning a stupid joke into a musical. Ever hear the one about the salesman who sleeps in a farmer's barn with three holes in the wall and all the farmer asks is that he not...you remember what he's not supposed to do, right? Now you can see David Cross singing the lead role as salesman, the farmer as Jack Black, and Bod Odenkirk as the misunderstood milking machine. However, Tenacious D did start as a spot on Mr. Show, and I was very disappointed that those were not included on the dvd. I don't understand why not, since they were part of the original show. There must have been some legal and or ego issues involved.
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Summary: Rough compared to later seasons
Review: I never saw the show when it originally aired, but now years later I've decided to see what all the hype was about (the icing on the cake was Dave Foley's raving over the show). Expecting an absolutely brilliant show, I was sorely disappointed. I stuck it out and kept waiting it to get better, rarely and sporadically getting a pay off. I'm not angered at all or anything like that, because I still do not regret spending my money on the few skits that are absolute genius. I mean I can see huge potential (that was to be realized fully in later seasons) in Bob & David during that one sketch about the parents purposely depriving the child and confusing his sexuality so that he could grow up to be a great Southern playwright. There aren't many ingeniously inspired moments like that, but when there are, you really feel that they've hit a bull's eye. I think that Fuzz: The Musical is pure genius and could not be prouder to have American comedy epitomized with that single sketch. The Monty Python-esque surrealism that they try to hit is most often (IN MY OPINION) missed badly, occasionally nailed, but more often than not amateurish and reminiscent of misfired The State sketches. They even joke themselves on the commentary that the first episodes were written while they were high. ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, I downloaded all of season 3 and 4 episodes online and was utterly dumbfounded at its contrasting hilarity. They really perfected the satire that they were shooting for. I think peoples' love for those seasons are making them say things about the first 2 seasons that are just simple untrue. Another positive thing is that I've never seen a better and more likable supporting cast on a comedy show. The acting is really great as are the few reoccurring characters. I suggest you track down season 3 and 4, because you will be floored and then hooked. Now those seasons really have some lightning fast-paced absurd, satirical, and morbid humor. Plus, what a great theme song!!
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Summary: Shake the Crime-Stick!
Review: Please, let them release Seasons 3 and 4. A few of my personal favorite sketches: Shake the Crime-Stick
Shampoo
Billiards Videos
Pit-Pat
Change for a Dollar
The Independent Nation's Olympics
The Joke: The Musical If you have a pulse, this should make you laugh! Period.
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Summary: Unbelievable is right
Review: THIS is "Mr. Show?" The "best sketch comedy show ever," to paraphrase almost every review here? I am dumbfounded that this thing has rabid fans. I only paid $3 for the rental, and I still feel cheated. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross fearlessly take on fresh, novel subjects like Southern politicians who don't like sexual art, or drunken, shirtless fools who get arrested on "Cops." Too bad these DVDs only cover the first two seasons; I just hope Bob and David shared their hilarious takes on mustachioed policemen who love doughnuts and a rhinestone-studded Elvis before the series ended. Ooh, maybe Weird Al Yankovic showed up to delight us all with one of his clever songs, too! This is scattershot, anything goes "comedy," much in the vein of Andy Dick or Jack Black (who actually features in some of these episodes). The "brilliance" of the show lies in how the sketches relate to each other tenuously, usually through the equivalent of a crossfade, and in how seemingly innocuous asides turn up as major plot points later. How cutting-edge. They must have taken Playwriting 101. It's not brain surgery, folks. You write the latter sketch, then find some way to work a single sentence into an earlier one. It's mechanical and not very creative. At its height, "Seinfeld" was doing this WELL, in the service of a standalone plot every week. And that was the most-watched show in America! "Mr. Show" is a lot like "SCTV" was: really not very funny at all in retrospect, with a good twenty duds for every genuine laugh. Bizarre does not automatically equal funny, and "postmodern" should mean more than dropping random references. If you ever go to live improv comedy, you'll have seen every last trick on this show time and time again. It boggles my mind that anyone would compare this show favorably to Monty Python, or even to something as comparably polished as "MadTV." I would quite literally suffer through two mid-'90s "Saturday Night Live" episodes before watching another "Mr. Show." Like "Star Trek" or your average Renaissance Faire, this is a cult favorite that only a fanboy could love.
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Summary: SNL with profanity, w/out commercials, and actualy funny!
Review: Who hasn't seen Saturday Night Live? How many of the sketches are actually funny? Mr. Show is the HBO equivalent to SNL, but it really does make you laugh. It is a good sketch comedy show that was never intended to facilitate commercials, so each skit somehow transforms into the next. In my favorite episode, there is a brilliant path from a sketch about inner voices, to one set in a donut shop, to a History Channel style documentary about megaphone crooners. If that sounds bizarre, you have no idea what else you're in store for. I don't feel good promoting HBO, but with future seasons yet to be released, I want people to buy the first two, to make sure I can get the rest. It sounds greedy, but after you watch the 5+ hours of Mr. Show, you will be ready to write one of these too.
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Summary: 5 stars
Review: me hate! me like moving pictures with more head bonks & fart noises! me hate this show! NO HEAD-BONKS! NO FARTS!! show too much make me thinks about stuff...me no like hard thinking jokes...me scratching head for whole show. head hurt from scratching so much...AND thinking so much too. me rather watch some reruns of "boston common"...hahaha...that anthony clark...now, he's one funny guy!
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Summary: Mr. Show is Boss
Review: Kids in the Hall is SNL compared to Mr. Show. SNL is Mad TV compared to Mr. Show. Mad TV is an excruciatingly annoying fat girl who was in your english class and thought she was so terribly funny so she wouldn't ever shut her corpulent pie-hole and for some reason, would always bug you compared to Mr. Show.
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Summary: Its about time
Review: Season 1 is hysterical. Every fan of comedy should own this set. Even you, Bozo. This dvd includes the introduction of Ronnie Dobbs.
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