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The Addams Family - The Complete Series

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The Addams Family - Volume One
If The Munsters was a traditional family sitcom as reimagined by Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, The Addams Family is a macabre twist on Father Knows Best. The Munster and Addams clans made their TV debuts in 1964 and lasted two seasons before the networks buried them. The Addamses are now gloriously resurrected in this three-disc set that digs up the series' first 22 episodes (oddly, 12 shy of the complete first season). Inspired by Charles Addams's New Yorker cartoons, The Addams Family is fiendishly funny, with a dead-on cast that indelibly embodies Addams's characters. John Astin brings a demented glee to eccentric, frighteningly wealthy Gomez Addams. Carolyn Jones is bewitching as his pre-goth wife, Morticia, whom the Beatles might have had in mind when they sang, "Baby's in Black." Jackie Coogan is the electrifying Uncle Fester, with Ted Cassidy (who famously took a kick in the groin from Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) is the monstrous butler Lurch, whose "You rang?" entered the pop culture lexicon.

The Munsters was family friendly. The Addams Family is more sophisticated and wickedly funny. As Gomez notes at one point, "There's a touch of madness" in the Addams household, where "every day is Halloween." Bear rugs growl, a disembodied hand, Thing, delivers the mail, and a torture rack is good for what ails you. The children, Wednesday (Lisa Loring) and older brother Pugsley (Ken Weatherwax), enjoy such hobbies as playing autopsy or exploding model trains. Gomez and Morticia were one of television's most passionate couples, with Gomez being driven to arm-kissing ecstasy whenever Morticia spoke French. The last episode included in this collection, "Amnesia in the Addams Family," is a classic in which Gomez is rendered "normal" following a conk on the head. The look of disgust on Morticia and Lurch's face when he asks for a glass of milk is priceless. The "altogether ooky" extras include three episode commentaries, a featurette on Charles Addams, reminiscences from cast members Astin, Loring, and Weatherwax, a segment on the creation of the classic snap-snap theme song ("They're creepy and they're kooky...."), and the inevitable theme song sing-along. The Addams Family at last on DVD? As Gomez might exclaim: "Capital!" --Donald Liebenson

The Addams Family - Volume Two
Based on the original Goth cartoons by Charles "Chas" Addams that ran for decades in the New Yorker magazine, The Addams Family television sitcom portrayed a monster family whose moribund physical appearances were counteracted by each family member's exuberance for passion and adventure. This Volume Two DVD contains twenty-one episodes, including the last of season one and the whole of season two, plus commentaries, and a featurette about the cinematic impact The Addams Family had on American television culture. Premiering the same year as The Munsters, this short-lived series was one of the first two shows to take issue with the Leave It To Beaver aesthetic that dominated television throughout the 50s, in which perfect families narrowly defined normality in the American home. Instead, it starred a family feared by neighbors, who within the boundaries of their haunted Victorian mansion invented their own thriving, not to mention fun, culture. The Addams Family proved that outsiders could be extremely gracious, educated, and interesting, even if eccentricities rendered their looks a threat.

These episodes include the original cast: Gomez (John Astin) and Morticia (Carolyn Jones), Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan), the two children Wednesday and Pugley, butler Lurch, hairy Cousin Itt, and the enigmatic hand, Thing, who plays castanets for the married couples' cha cha parties, and looks up things in phone books. Macabre humor in each episode reverses average, expected logic. Flower arranging, for Morticia, involves de-budding and stripping roses of all but the thorns. In "Morticia, The Sculptress," Gomez bribes a local art dealer to buy Morticia's hideous art at the Addams Family's own expense, revealing Gomez to be a strange but loving husband. In most episodes, such as "Lurch, The Teenage Idol" and "Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor," The Addams' aim to help their loved ones succeed, in these cases Lurch, as a harpsichord-playing pop star, and Itt, on a career search for an unintelligible, hair-covered little person. The Addams Family house interior still looks exquisite forty years later, full of taxidermied animals, antique furniture, carnivorous plants, and medieval charm. One watches this show not only for its sets and costumes, but also for its refreshingly wide take on what successful families can look like. --Trinie Dalton

The Addams Family - Volume Three
Product description: The Addams Family is not your typical family: they take delight in most of the things that "normal" people would be terrified of. Relive the misadventures of America's favorite frightfully funny family.

Arrested Development - The Complete Series (Seasons 1, 2, 3)

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Season One: Winner of the Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy its first year out, Arrested Development is the kind of sitcom that gives you hope for television. A mockumentary-style exploration of the beleaguered Bluth family, it's one of those idiosyncratic shows that doesn't rely on a laugh track or a studio audience; it's shot more like a TV drama, albeit with an omniscient narrator (executive producer Ron Howard) overseeing the proceedings. Holding the Bluths together just barely is son Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman), the only normal guy in a family that's chock full of nuts. Hardworking and sensible, Michael's certain he's going to be given control of his family's Enron-style corporation upon the retirement of his father (Jeffrey Tambor). The fact that he's passed over instead for his mother (Jessica Walter) is only a blip when compared to his father's immediate arrest for dubious accounting practices, and the resulting freeze on the family's previously limitless wealth.

Bereft of money, and even less family love, the Bluths have to band together in their moment of need--not easy when everyone's looking out for number 1. In addition to his scabrous parents, Michael has to contend with his lothario older brother (Will Arnett), his basically useless younger brother (Tony Hale), his greedy twin sister (Portia DeRossi), and her sexually ambiguous husband (David Cross). Michael's only comrade in sanity is his son George Michael (Michael Cera), but then again, the teenage boy harbors a secret crush on his cousin (Alia Shawkat). A peerless ensemble led by the brilliant Bateman (who ever knew he could be this good?), all the actors are pitch-perfect in their roles, delivering the dryly funny, sometimes absurdist dialogue with the speed and flair of classic farce. The unusual tone of Arrested Development takes a bit of getting used to--it's far different from anything you'll see on TV, even HBO--but once you buy in to the Bluths' innumerable dysfunctions, you'll be laughing your head off for hours.--Mark Englehart

Season Two: The axe of cancellation dangled perilously over Arrested Development during its second season, but the award-winning comedy fought against fate to deliver a hilarious if scattershot 18 episodes (reduced from the original show order of 22), and stayed alive for the beginning of a third season. Most likely, the creators and actors knew the clock was ticking down, so they didn't hesitate to throw their all into these manic, hilarious episodes, which have only the thinnest of plot arcs but an electrifying energy that makes them hard to resist. Some of the story antics were more of the same: good son Michael (Jason Bateman) tries to keep his company afloat, but is often foiled by older brother Gob (Will Arnett); the precarious marriage of Lindsay (Portia de Rossi) and Tobias (David Cross) undergoes a trial separation; and young George-Michael (Michael Cera) fights his attraction to his cousin Maeby (Alia Shawkat). Other show developments, though, were new and stunningly, uproariously bizarre: Buster (Tony Hale) joins the army, but later finds his hand bitten off by a seal (yes, a real seal), and Oscar (Jeffrey Tambor), the hippie brother of jailed George Sr. (also Tambor), rekindles an affair with sister-in-law Lucille (Jessica Walter), which may have resulted in Buster's conception years ago.

Jokes flew fast and furious, as did guest stars--Ben Stiller, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Christine Taylor, Thomas Jane, Ed Begley Jr., Ione Skye, and Zach Braff among them--making it hard to keep straight who was doing what and why. No matter, as each of the episodes was in and of itself was a perfect gem of comedy, strung together by sharp writing and fantastic performances. In addition to the regular cast, both Liza Minnelli, reprising her role as "Lucille Two," and Martin Short, as an, um, eccentric family friend, deserve special mention, with the episode both appeared in, "Ready, Aim, Marry Me," a frenetic exercise in slapstick farce. Typical examples of the show's offbeat humor were found in "Afternoon Delight," in which various members of the Bluth family discover the true meaning of the '70s ballad, "Meet the Veals," wherein the Bluths encounter the conservative parents of George Michael's girlfriend, and "Motherboy XXX," surrounding an unsettling mother-son traditional dance. The entire cast cohered perfectly through this season, and their give and take provided a perfect balance among the actors, all of whom were even better than the previous year. However, it's Bateman who should be singled out as the show's anchor, mixing dry sarcasm with impeccable comic timing. Despite plummeting ratings, Arrested Development didn't just keep its head above water, it swam with grace and hilarity. --Mark Englehart

Season Three: Arrested Development--one of the greatest comedies in the history of television--went out in a blaze of glory. The truncated final season packed more biting humor per minute than ever before. In only 13 episodes, dozens of intertwining storylines spun in all directions: In addition to the overarching story about the fractious infighting of the Bluth family and the family's housing development company being investigated for treason in Iraq (a plot arc that comes to a dazzlingly surreal conclusion), the put-upon "good son" Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman, Teen Wolf Too) pursues romance with a lovely British woman (Charlize Theron, Monster) who turns out to be woefully inappropriate; swaggering magician Gob (Will Arnett, Monster-In-Law) flees from his newly-discovered teenage son while still pandering for the affection of his self-absorbed father (Jeffrey Tambor, The Larry Sanders Show); flighty Lindsay (Portia de Rossi, Ally McBeal) and her sexually blurry husband Tobias (David Cross, Mr. Show) both get the hots for the family's new lawyer, Bob Loblaw (Scott Baio, Charles in Charge); and much, much more. It's difficult to describe what makes Arrested Development so brilliant. The ensemble is uniformly superb (Jessica Walter, as the family's boozing, scheming matriarch, is particularly devastating this season) and the surprising guest stars (including Andy Richter, James Lipton, Justine Bateman, and many others) are perfectly cast; the characters' abominable behavior defies conventional television notions of "likability", yet they only grow more endearing the more you watch; the humor embraces wild slapstick and sharp satire, often within a single scene; and the nimble documentary style allows for sly glancing references to jokes and scenes from long-past episodes, rewarding devoted fans. But the key is that, no matter how screwball Arrested Development becomes, the show offers a rich, textured, and wonderfully coherent world in which these characters feel genuine, a world completely unlike the flat, plastic simulacrum offered by the average sitcom. Arrested Development was true to itself to the end. Its followers will cherish it forever. --Bret Fetzer

Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection

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Get ready to laugh out loud with the most popular comedy duo of all time in Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection! Now, for the first time ever, all 28 films produced during the height of their popularity at Universal Pictures are available in one collection. Featuring their most popular movies such as Buck Privates, Who Done It? and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, this collection is filled with some of the most hilarious routines of all-time including “Who’s on First?” Loaded with hours of bonus features and an exclusive collectible book, this is the ultimate tribute to two of the funniest, and most enduring, comedians of all time!

Titles Include -
One Night in the Tropics (1940)
Buck Privates (1941)
In the Navy (1941)
Hold That Ghost (1941)
Keep 'Em Flying (1941)
Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
Pardon My Sarong (1942)
Who Done It? (1942)
It Ain't Hay (1943)
Hit the Ice (1943)
In Society (1944)
Here Come the Co-Eds (1945)
The Naughty Nineties (1945)
Little Giant (1946)
The Time of Their Lives (1946)
Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Mexican Hayride (1948)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
Lost in Alaska (1952)
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

Bonus Features -

The World of Abbott and Costello: This compilation includes classic routines from 18 of Bud and Lou's most popular films.

Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld: The popular comic hosts a tribute to Bud and Lou in this insightful retrospective.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters: A behind-the-scenes look at the duo's popular series of films as they meet up with Frankenstein, Dracula and The Wolf Man.

6 Feature Commentaries by Noted Film Historians

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Abbott & Costello: The Universal Story - 44-page book detailing the legacy of Bud and Lou plus an overview of their films at Universal including rare photos, trivia and exclusive introductions from their families.

ALF - Season One

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It's Alf--what more can you say? 5 out of 5 stars.
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Alf is delightful for all ages. My son was hooked on Alf from the age of 3, and my husband and I were also hooked. This is absolute good clean fun for all ages, especially if you're a science fiction buff (well, okay, that's a stretch). But it is fun for all ages. The science fiction thing is iffy.

Just as funny 5 out of 5 stars.
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Alf was hugely popular when it was first launched, and despite the by now dated technology, it is still entertaining - much due to the funny cast. You will have to adjust to the blunt obvious form of jokes, and never question why an alien speeks fluently english etc. etc. etc.

Highly recommended for a time off the everyday stress, and the kids love it.

Kids love it... 3 out of 5 stars.
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The kids love it...

Keep the volume down. Dad's voice drives me up a wall...

Best Comedy of the 80s 5 out of 5 stars.
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I loved this show at 12 years old when I would rush home from basketball practice to catch it at 8:00pm on Monday nights. I recently watched it again, and I am still completed entertained by it. Of course, ALF adds most of the humor, but the uptight father, Willy, and his dorky personality are quite hilarious also.

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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/05/2008

Arrested Development - Season One

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Putting the "Fun" in Dysfunction 5 out of 5 stars.
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Pity Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman). His father is in the slammer, his mother is a manipulative witch, his twin sister is perpetually espousing fashionable social causes, and his brothers either have mother issues or womanizing ones. "Arrested Development" is unique as a sitcom. It's done in mockumentary form,like a Christopher Guest film (even Guest regular Jane Lynch makes an appearance) Ron Howard provides the tongue-in-cheek narration. There are faux TV clips,a fake '70s stoner hit "Big Yellow Joint" along with fake yearbook photos. It's a staggering work of genius.

"Arrested Development" has great lines like "We're brothers. We kinda like each other", and the magician Gob's (Will Arnett) insistence on championing the Banana Grabber character,as well as Michael's son George Michael (Michael Cera) being called "Opie." It's chock full of irony. In the pilot episode, flamboyant gays campaigning for marriage disrupt the Bluths' yacht party. Lindsay Funke (Portia DiRossi) views the proceedings in arrogant disgust. Considering the recent ruling on gay marriage and Portia's engagement to talk show diva Ellen DeGeneres,it's ironic indeed. There are plenty of guest stars like Henry Winkler as a slimy lawyer,Liza Minnelli as Buster's older girlfriend, and Carl Weathers of Action Jackson fame as himself.

As for Jason Bateman,yes,I'm the child of the '80s. I watched "Family Ties" and "Silver Spoons"... but I don't remember him (Michael J. Fox was the It Boy of the '80s)It's nice to see him come into his own as an actor,and hot,to boot!

"Arrested Development" puts the fun in family dysfunction!

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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 08/05/2008

ALF - Season Two

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just like old times....almost 4 out of 5 stars.
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I bought all four seasons of ALF on DVD and was very happy when I got them in the post. But I would have to agree with the other reviews out there....it really is a big shame that the producers have decided to cut down the episodes which they put on the DVDs, and this applies to all seasons. It is still very funny, and brings back old memories, however real ALF fans will notice the difference and will be sad to find the (sometimes) funnies bits of the episodes completely missing.
too bad

ALF season two 3 out of 5 stars.
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If you are an ALF fan you'll like this DVD. A little pricy though

Great DVD 5 out of 5 stars.
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Purchased this for my sons age 10 and 12. They love it and can't believe that it was actually good from that long ago. haha!

Alf on DVD 5 out of 5 stars.
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I am so glad to see Alf out on DVD. I received my purchase quickly and it was new and wrapped as promised. Good service and some programs I have wanted for some time. Yay!

great 4 out of 5 stars.
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The video was great it brought back old memorys,when I use to watch in the eightys.

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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/05/2008 Run time: 550 minutes

All in the Family - The Complete First Season

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A Christmas gift for my father 4 out of 5 stars.
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I remember watching "All in the Family" back in the 1970's when I was just a youngster (grammar school age). My dad would laugh hysterically, which would then make me laugh. I am glad they had laugh tracks back then, because at 7 years old I didn't "get it" but still knew when I SHOULD laugh.

I wasn't sure what to get my dad this year for Christmas and then I saw this DVD. It was such a huge hit (the gift) that my dad and my mom have watched it at least three times already and it's only January.

I would recommend it to anyone who loved the show back in the day. You can count on me buying the following seasons for my dad in the future. (Oh, I hope he doesn't read this review or it will ruin the surprise)

Bring this show back 5 out of 5 stars.
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All in the family is a great show - a show like this could never be made today and that is beyond sad. "Political Correctness" has killed comedy. But it doesn't stop there; the writing is great and shows, comedy shows, are not written like this anymore.

The writing is far above the level for shows like "Friends" and "Yes Dear". If you've not seen the show, you've missed out. Although it was on in the 1970s, you will see that the storyline is still relevant today - recession, gas prices, racism - heck even Ralph Nader is a topic of conversation.

Find the time and watch it

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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/20/2005 Run time: 286 minutes Rating: Nr

The Andy Griffith Show - The Complete First Season

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The Greatest Television Comedy Ever Produced 5 out of 5 stars.
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Many mainstream television critics assert that "Seinfeld" is the best comedy program ever produced. While "Seinfeld" had its funny moments, it featured a cast of some of the most unlikeable and least redeemable characters in television history. Celebrating a program about four utter narcissists who look upon other people as mere objects to be used and discarded is more than passing strange, no matter how popular it was (and still is).

No, the greatest television comedy ever produced is "The Andy Griffith Show." Even though it is set in a rural, Southern small town in the early 1960's, the writing is so good that it is essentially timeless. In addition, rather than laughing at the characters, one laughs and even empathizes with them. We recognize our own failures, foibles and follies in the cavalcade of characters -- Sheriff Andy Taylor, Aunt Bea, Floyd Lawson, Gomer Pyle, and all of the rest. Even the egocentric blowhard Barney Fife earns our grudging love, because -- deep down -- he is a basically decent and good human being.

There is a reason why "The Andy Griffith Show" remains so enormously popular long after its original exhibition, and other comedies before and since have been forgotten. The producers of the program respected the audience and put together a quality product that appealed to the better angels of our nature. Even when "Seinfeld" has become painfully outdated and unfunny, new audiences will appreciate and enjoy "The Andy Griffith Show."

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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/15/2007 Rating: Nr

Angel - Seasons 1-5 30-Disc DVD Set

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Angel (Spoilers, early) 4 out of 5 stars.
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All in all, good stuff, and pretty much what I have come to expect out of the mean, mean, very mean, Fred-killing, Joss Whedon.

I very much appreciated the respect that Angel pays its audience. The show doesn't feel the need to explain everything to viewers that might jump into the story midstream. It treats the audience as adults. Either they take the time to view the series, or they accept that they are entering into a story in the middle. I was glad to see them abandon the encapsulated episodes of the first season, and move on to larger story arcs.

Angel doesn't exactly hit on all of the comedy cylinders, in the way that the Buffy or Firefly stuff does. The situational and character humor (Mandy, etc.) are right there, but the one-liners feel a little bit forced on occasion. It is more focused on the dramatic arcs; so this isn't too large of a drawback. Anyway there often is not a lot to laugh about in Angel.


Angel: Boreanaz turns in a really solid performance through out the show. Angel was a well defined character coming from Buffy. I was glad to see that they were able move on from simply brooding over Buffy. Brooding over himself provides plenty of fertile ground.

Doyle: Was fun while he lasted. Joss doesn't mind breaking conventions. One of the things that I love about Joss Whedon-verse is that he seldom strings the viewers along in a 90210-esque unrequited love farce. Sure, as soon as you get together one of you will probably drop dead, lose your soul, be consumed from the inside by an ancient demon, etc., but at least he doesn't leave the viewers screaming JAHOYFT, for very long. This way of treating the audience as adults is exemplified (as is one of my myriad reasons for utterly loving Fred) when Gunn breaks up with Fred, in The House Always Wins. Fred doesn't flounder. She isn't hurt, or self doubting, or angry. She immediately goes to her friends and tells them that Gunn is in terrible danger. Yeah, my girl is smart and empathetic.

The visions, together with Caritas, also provide great mechanisms for the exposition of flobotnam. It saves so much screen time just to be able to plant these things, and in the case of Caritas, provides great laughs.

Cordellia: Cordy has a wonderful arc from Buffy to You're Welcome. She really does become a higher power, the All Mother, serene, grounded, strong, and wise. Who'd've thunk.

Wesley: Wesley is wonderful throughout. Great dark turns, while staying true to his heart, his conscience, and his friends. Alexis (and the script) takes a character that started as nothing more than a comic foil, builds him into a truly heroic character. Again Joss doesn't fall into clichéd unrequited love. Wesley will always love Fred, (and who wouldn't?) but he doesn't keep it a secret, nor does he hold it against Gunn that he also loves her, or that she doesn't return his love.

Gunn: Gunn is a tricky one for me to sum up. In the beginning I liked Gunn quite a bit. His persona as an independent white-hat was compelling, and his initial position as one of Angel's Avengers was a great fit. I was glad to have someone to identify with while loving Fred, but it is during their relationship that his role starts to weaken. I can't quite put my finger on what weakens. It is something about him getting caught up in thinking of himself as "just the muscle," but that isn't quite it. Gunn was always more than just the muscle. So, his falling so easily into this trap is part of it. That said, I like the Brain Upgrade story line, I just don't see the muscle motivation as being enough. His performance suffers somewhat, but becomes strong again, by the end and his final deal with Wolfram & Hart.

Kate: It is too bad that Kate's story sort of fell apart. I would have liked to have seen this story fleshed out more, or at lease given a better send off.

Loren: A wonderful addition to the cast, Loren is comedy gold. Any time they need to lighten the atmosphere, they can just have someone sing. Loren also adds to the dramatic story lines by contrasting the Champions with his own cowardly, if good hearted motivations.

"And stop calling me pastries."

Spike: Spike is always great. I was very pleased to see him join the show. His contrast with Angel (old world vs. new world, emotionally sequestered vs. heart on the sleeve of his leather coat) creates great comic tension.

Harmony: Mercedes takes the shallowest of characters and gets us to care about her, a trend that began on Buffy, but continues to deepen throughout Angel, mirroring Cordy's path but toward evil instead of good, and in a shallower and shallower, if innocuous manner.

Wolf, Ram, & Hart: They got me. Very cool villains. Yeah, it took a lot to accept that our heroes were willing to dive into the belly of the beast, but it made for a compelling ride. The reveals that they were among the most ancient of evils, and that they existed in Pilea as well gave them great character.

Lindsey: Lindsey is a great villain. He is smart and his motivations are plausibly his own, rather than a monolithic representation of Wolfram & Hart. Strangeloveian demon hand, tattoos, and triple crosses, coupled with the possibility of redemption make for an excellent villain.

Lila: Lila pales somewhat beside Lindsey. She performs a necessary function, and does it well, but I would have liked to see her ride that middle ground of pretending to be willing to seek redemption while holding up a façade (that is in fact real) of evil, and dancing close to the fire of caring for Wesley.

Eve: I couldn't stand Eve as, I am sure, the audience is not supposed to be able to. Well done.

Conner: Well, Conner was fine as a baby. And he was fine as normal kid. Let's just leave it at that. (Holts was good plot line, though)

Andrew: It was wonderful to see Andrew again, and the character that he grew into, not entirely leaving his old self behind, but having come so far as to be a new person.

And lastly, but certainly not leastly, Fred: What can I say about Fred? Whatever I say it couldn't possibly be enough. I was simply head over heels in love with Fred before she even left the cave. I've been looking for a girl like Fred for my whole life. It isn't just Amy Acker. Amy is beautiful and all, but Fred is so much more than beautiful; sweet, and kind, and self reliant, ingenious, even tempered, and cute when she is annoyed, forthright, clever, witty, driven to learn, and then there is her lyrical vibrant voice. Does anyone know where I can find Fred? I'm sure she must be looking for me too. If you see her, please have her drop me a line. I am missing her terribly.

And okay, really lastly Ilyria: A tip of the hat these wonderful producers for giving us Ilyeria and softening the blow of Fred. I was so prepared to despise Ilyria, but being Joss Whedon's emotional marionette, he was once again able to twist my heartstrings into caring about her. It was beautiful to watch her learn to be human, and fall from grace. (Can you say "fall from grace" about a creature that graceful?)

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ALF - Season Three

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Alf-alicious!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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One of the few past tv shows that are worth having in your personal collection. Alf is a character that can make you laugh out loud on your worst day.

My kids just loved these episodes! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Alf is his usual hilarious self in these episodes. I loved the show when it was on TV and I am glad that I can share it with my children.

Alf 5 out of 5 stars.
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I laughed just as hard now as I did twenty-some years ago at that outrageous character.

Editorial Review:

The adventures of the Tanner family continue into season three with the newest addition to the clan continuously getting into trouble. ALF--which stands for Alien Life Form--hails from the now-defunct planet Melmac and has been adopted by the Tanners despite the fact that they must constantly work to hide his existence from friends and prying neighbors. In this collection of episodes ALF hosts THE TONIGHT SHOW hides from the Alien Task Force and becomes convinced that he has discovered Elvis's whereabouts.System Requirements:Running Time 600 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 031398192497 Manufacturer No: 19267