Posted by Derek Janssen on 05/29/07 17:03

elrous0@pop.uky.edu wrote:
>>
>>And for random episodes at that, it's not like Rhino started with the first
>>4 episodes and continued from there, but just released collections
>>containing episodes from anywhere in the show's run, causing some
>>continuity issues between eps.
>
> For someone not familiar with the series, these "best of" collections
> were definitely confusing. In one ep, Chris would be living with his
> parents, in the next he would be living with Brian Doyle Murray. But
> at least they did hit some of the best episodes. "Girlfriend 2000"
> still cracks me up. And "The Prettiest Day of My Life" is a classic
> (though again, confusing because Brian Doyle Murray plays a completely
> different character in that one).
>
> The main problem with the Rhino discs was the HORRID video quality.
> They looked little better than VHS releases (they must have ported
> them over without even going back to the master copies).

For anyone who was waiting for the pre-Warner single-disk "Monkees"
disks (way back before the boxsets), that WAS what they were doing. :/
And even that one started with a random and confusing "Best-of".

> It's a shame these never got the treatment they deserved. Get a Life
> was one of the best of Fox's early shows (along with "Married With
> Children," "The Simpsons," and "The Ben Stiller Show"). It's a great
> reminder of a time when Fox was truly bold, before they started
> vacillating between reality sleaze and mainstream network crap.

And before "Simpsons" became their own SNL, that they were too stubborn
and iconic-dependent to cancel for its own good, audience be darned.
(Oh, wait, Fox already *has* its own zombie-reanimated SNL, and they
haven't cancelled "MadTV" yet either.) ;)

Derek Janssen (well, looks like we lost the South Park group, too)
ejanss@comcast.net

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