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“Dude! The flashback did not take that long!”
I am – Hercules!!
I am not a big fan of the soaps! Never could be bothered with “Dallas” or “Dynasty.” Bored to tears by “Desperate Housewives.” Ditto “90210.” “Melrose Place” corralled into its cast some of the most beautiful women ever birthed, but the words – the words coming out of the hot girls’ mouths were so stale and clichéd and idiotic I could not stand to watch more than five minutes at a time.
But “The OC” I loved. It was and is, as the kids used to say, funny as fuck. Loved it from day one, when Luke slugged Ryan Atwood and called him “bitch,” never stopped loving it through four relentlessly disparaged seasons. For me, there was never an episode devoid of entertainment value. And some episodes sent me into bawling fits, so strongly did I come to identify with these characters and their romantic travails. Series mastermind Josh Schwartz is one talented dude. (Note please that both his pilots – “Gossip Girl” at The CW and “Chuck” at NBC – just went to series for next fall.)
Chief among “The OC’s” thespianic virtues we hail Adam Brody as indie-loving comic-book ubernerd Seth Cohen. Seth was always way more “Freaks & Geeks” than “One Tree Hill,” and Brody can get laughs out of the phone book. And I came to love Summer Roberts, the haughty object of his affection, just as aggressively.
And yes, I came to love the grown-ups: Seth’s parents, the big-hearted Sandy and Kirsten Cohen, and scheming neighbors Jimmy and Julie Cooper. And I came to love a litany of characters who paraded in an out of Cohens’ lives. Summer and Fightin’ Ryan first and foremost, but also Anna Stern, Luke Ward, Theresa Diaz, Hayley Nichol, lesbianic Alex Kelly, Lindsay Gardner, Princess Sparkle and Captain Oats.
I even liked Kevin Volchok, Caleb Nichol and Oliver Trask. Mostly because his name is almost Boliver Trask. You heard me!
The club where all the underage kids hung out was called The Bait Shop!!
This show also gave us Chrismukkah, which kicks Festivus hinder.
Season four
not only traded the show’s weakest element, Marissa Cooper, for the sassy Taylor (Autumn Reeser), it threw in the 15-year-old minicoop, bikini-loving Caitlin Cooper (Willa Holland), Luke’s fro-happy little brothers and Che (Chris Pratt), who enjoyed a little naked guitar strumming and thought he was maybe gay for Seth’s inner otter. There was also cage boxing and an alternative universe and an earthquake and a horny old cowboy billionaire named “Bullet.” At one point we got to see aging pretty-boy Peter Gallagher put the beatdown on Kevin Sorbo, Faux Hercules Himself. The hilarious and moving series finale seemed to end in Northern California with a male midwife and his wedding-planner boyfriend, but really ended by telescoping far into Seth, Summer and Ryan’s futures.
Wallow in the new set’s many unaired scenes and featurettes.
I have not seen the Roots: 30th Anniversary Edition, nor have I seen “Roots” since it aired on ABC 30 years ago. I just wanted to throw a little love in the direction of John Amos, 67 now and one of America’s most underappreciated actors, who plays the older Kunta Kinte in the series.
Amos did plenty of sraight dramatic stuff besides “Roots” - he played a biker in “Sweet Sweetback’s Badassssss Song,” a military musclehead in “Die Hard 2,” and the D.C. mayor in “The District,” but he’s in my hall of fame for his comic timing - hilarious as Gordy the weatherman on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and as the dad on “Good Times” and as Admiral Fitzwallace on “West Wing.”
And check out who else was in that first, Brando-free “Roots” cast. I guess we all remember that future “Trek” icon LaVar Burton played Young Kunta, but others rattling around in there included poet Maya Angelou (!), Bond villain Ji-Tu Cumbuka, O.J. Simpson (!), Ian McShane (!), Todd Bridges (!), Richard “Shaft” Roundtree (!), “The Brady Bunch’s” Mike Reed, “The Straight Story’s” Richard Farnsworth, “Alien” icon Yaphet Kotto, “Blade Runner” icon Brion James, “Galactica” icon Lorne Greene, “Mission Impossible’s” Lynda Day George, “The Addams Family’s” Carolyn Jones, “The Munsters’” Yvonne DeCarlo, future Klingon John Schuck, future “Twilight Zone” casualty Vic Morrow, “Welcome Back Kotter’s” Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, Ed Asner, Lou Gossett, Sandy Duncan (!),Scatman Crothers, Lloyd Bridges, Chuck Connors, Burl Ives and George Hamilton.
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Last week Amazon was selling the first season of “The O.C.” for $51.99. Right now DeepDiscountDVD has first season for $52.93 and the second and third seasons for $48.29.
Amazon’s prices as I type this:
$21.99 The OC: The Complete First Season
$21.99 The OC: The Complete Second Season
$22.99 The OC: The Complete Third Season
I don’t recall Amazon ever discounting those extra-crammed supersized (27 episode) first season adventures of Seth Cohen to below $50 before, let along to less than $22. I actually don’t recall seeing “OC” that cheap anywhere (and I’ve been looking for it)! Do not expect those prices to last!
Greatest American Hero for $10/Season??
Roseanne for $11/Season??
Profit: The Complete Series for $13.50??
THE AMAZON 2-FER SALE IS BACK!!
Buy one, get a cheaper one free. Titles include:
Astro Boy
Carry On
The Commish
Crime Story
Doogie Howser
Greatest American Hero
Grounded For Life
Hercules
Highlander
Hunter
Profit
Renegade
Roseanne
Silk Stalkings
Sledge Hammer!
3rd Rock From The Sun
Thomas The Tank Engine
Three’s Company
Titus
Tripping The Rift
21 Jump Street
Xena
For some reason there are a few cool movie box sets spotlighting foreigners like Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness, Paul Verhoeven, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog in there too …
$13.49 FOR HILL STREET 1.X!!
$17.99 FOR MURDER ONE 1.X!!
$22.49 FOR BOSTON LEGAL 1.X!!
55% Off Fox First-Season Sets!!
Grab them now. History tells us these prices won’t be this low a few days from now.
$4.49 The Simple Life 1.x
$13.49 Hill Street Blues 1.x
$13.49 In Living Color 1.x
$13.49 King of the Hill 1.x
$13.49 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 1.x
$13.49 NYPD Blue 1.x
$13.49 Reba 1.x
$13.49 Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea 1.x Vol. 1
$13.49 Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea 1.x Vol. 2
$17.99 Angel 1.x
$17.99 Arrested Development 1.x
$17.99 The Big Valley 1.x
$17.99 Buffy The Vampire Slayer 1.x
$17.99 Dark Angel 1.x
$17.99 Futurama 1.x
$17.99 Millennium 1.x
$17.99 Murder One 1.x
$17.99 The Pretender 1.x
$17.99 Remington Steele 1.x
$17.99 Roswell 1.x
$22.49 Boston Legal 1.x
$22.49 Family Guy 1.x/2.x
$22.49 X-Files 1.x
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$26.99 The Shield 1.x
$26.99 Tru Calling 1.x
$26.99 24 1.x
$35.99 Lost in Space 1.x
And look! A non-season-one mistake!
$13.49 The Bob Newhart Show 2.x
Speaking of O.J., I continue to highly recommend that “Murder One” season-one set for $17.99. One of the best seasons of anything ever, and the same hunk of O.J.-inspired Daniel Benzali greatness was going for $27.99 last week and $53.98 a year ago!!
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May 22, 2007 4:36:51 AM CDT
Am I the only one who has to think of Dave Chapelle...
by derlanghaarige
...when he sees the Roots-DVDs? :)
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hell yeah!!
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..anybody else jack-off to Isis?..Anybody?..Anyone?..
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..Space:1999..Sure I'd jack-off to that..that Barbara Bain looks hot!! Not to mention Martin Landaus huge rod (uncircumcised)
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..i beat off to Roots too!! That Kizzy looked hot!! John Amos'(adult Kunta) quivering giant nostrils were also a big turn on..
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it isn't really. I just wanted to say that.
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Sir, damn you. I had $70 to last me the rest of the week, and now I just spend $60 of it on the O.C. Damn you sir, damn you to hell.
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geeze, I mean, it just sucks!
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know, it's just listed under september 4th. I was expecting some sort of blurb or picture of the set myself.
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That bitch was sexy.
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I needs me some Howard Cosell announcing over Cheryl Ladd in a swimsuit DVD goodness!
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They need to make a new version of that show. I'd love to see the battle of the network T&A with today's stars!
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....Mmmmaaaaannnnnn! Awrark Rawrkawrawrk Rawwwkk!
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Man, that one scared the crap outta me as a kid. It featured this creature that would pull people into it's "mouth" and then roast them alive, then spitting out the ashen remains. Naturally I'll have to watch it on DVD.
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I kid. I have the series on VHS but may upgrade to this new set as it's DVD and 30th anniversary.See, the so-called Reality TV is nothing new: Networks were doing it decades ago with Battle of the Network Stars, Circus of the Stars, and such. Although, instead of a 2-hour special, today we are subjected to multiple episodes of stuff like Dancing with the D-List Stars.
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on the Battle of the Network Stars. She was the reason i went through puberty.
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actor who plays him looks retarded.
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We better get one this week.
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It'll be posted under the heading of MAJOR LOST SPOILERS INSIDE and the article will just say that Lost is a 2 hour episode this week.
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Please don't tell me this is the same people who brought us ARK ][ and JASON OF STAR COMMAND on DVD. SHAZAM! must not be too far away! Oye!
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Dynagirl was WAY hotter than Isis!
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Sure, the second season sucks, but it's a far better price than Amazon is offering.
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We got wonder woman in Ireland, and the bionic Woman, six million dollar man and the man from atlantis and gemini man. So Isis is a show I know nothing about. Looks crap!
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SEXY! Ahh the 70's, when babes were actually fine and not ugly (being passed off as fine because some sexually conflicted egg-head from Madison Ave. is paid to convince the masses otherwise).
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are you refering to a show called, ugly betty. that show is such a load horse shit. and what the hell is ashley jensen doing. fuck up her career, me thinks!
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Oh wow! I thought I was the only one that sat and watched it the night it first aired in TV as a six year old and was scared witless by that monster! I have never watched that episode since then. I would dearly love to but its never a good idea to revist some things. I'll leave it as a TV landmark in my life. My first real TV scare. I had trouble sleeping for days afterwards.
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#### is going to be a two hour episode for the season finale? Where did you hear that? Certainly not at the website that dare not speak ####'s name.
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when they f*ck up in major ways, but it's really nice of them to provide nice clear good resolution large format .jpgs of DVD box set cover art so I can... uh, I don't down, download then and sh*t, take them to my tattoo artist or something? Wallpaper art for cellphones? Yeah, this is a lot better than a talk back about the season finale of a show that was really popular two years ago, hosted by a guy who decided Desperate Housewives bores him to tears three months before it ever aired, and confidently predicted it would be canceled after eight episodes.
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Considering BadMrWonka hasn't weighed in yet. Careful now...
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won't stock any shelves until the fall, then?
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Do you have to make your plays for the attention of Mr Wonka in every thread? Just send him a dozen red roses already and assume the position, we don't need to read the foreplay...
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Same here! I had a hard time sleeping after that for some reason. The idea of a creature that would grab you, pull you into it's mouth and then burn you to a crisp just scared the living pee outta us kids, good to hear we weren't alone :) Never saw anything that violent on Star Trek, that's for sure.
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I NEVER thought I'd post here, ALWAYS thought I would just lurk, but I registered just to say:
If there's no effin' Lost talkback tomorrow for me to read at work Thursday morning, I will completely give up on this site. -
WTF are there links to pre-order shows that aren't even released? Make a DVD Vault for NEW releases, not FUTURE releases. We know TV shows are getting released in the future, that doesn't do anybody any good. What a waste of a post. Ditto for this one.
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Why is it so difficult to get a decent boxset for some of us region 1-ers?
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fo reals
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I know you guys won't put up a Lost talkback over what happened last week. But, how about putting up a placeholder post and locking it's talkback until the minute the finale ends for the eastcoasters?That way, every other thread on the site won't get flooded with people bitching about there not being one.
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sorry couldn't resist....
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a Lost Talkback. keep your goddamn spoilers, ive been up for two days marathoning the entire series and smoking dope, i need someone to talk to, my girlfriend left, possibly for good, she said something about Heros having a bigger cock...
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remember when this site was a DIY masterpiece -
and LOST
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May 23, 2007 7:57:35 AM CDT
You said if i killed my father, youd create a talkback
by theultrahumanite
So why don't you start at the begining
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...after the east cost broadcast ends, let's all go gangbang the "Wizard Kring Lindelhof Joint Interview" thread, At least that will confine the riot to one locations, and being a Lindelhof thread it will make more sense than just posting to every thead on the site. yes, Herc, Mori and AICN handled this in less than exemplary fashion, but they may have their reasons involving restraining orders and gag orders. Or leather bondage masks and ball gags. Even if they have been backed into a corner they can't back down from and save face, I certainly hope there will be a talkback for the third season finale of a show this site has vigorously supported for three years now. But if, for whatever reason, they decide not to, let's behave with some modicum of intelligence and not try to burn down the internet over it, okay?
While i'm calling for civilized behavior, IF there is a L#st talkback tonight, let's hope it doesn;t lead with a huge black box spankdown talking down to the talkbackers as if we were all petulant brats over the misbehavior of a few spoiler-posters who were goaded and teased into it by a questionable non-"Scoopage" article in the first place. that said, and now that I've annoyed both sides, let me add that while posting that last "missing L#st talkback' was a dubious concept, they did make one good point with it: if all goes well tonights episode should have some key revelations and surprises that will be more enjoyable to simply watch and observe as they unfold, without advance spoilerage. See you tonight after the show. or, if this whole site goes off line when the rioting ensues, next Fall. Peace Out, Napoleon. -
The episode is so fucking ball-erific that Herc doesn't want to spoil it in the LEAST. Not one fucking bit.
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Michael and Walt suck, they cut and ran from that plot thread a long time ago, they need to just flesh out what this whole (pitch perfect) season has been setting up.
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That must have been during the golden age when they didn't cancel shows after two episodes. And where the hell is Sammo Hung's Martial Law series? Why haven't they put that gem on DVD yet?
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That's what I'd like to see again.
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