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Seinfeld: The Complete Eighth Season
was the series’ next to last, and the first without creator/showrunner Larry David.
Jerry breaks up with soulmate Jeannie Steinman (Janeane Garofalo). George is charged with running the foundation named in his dead fiancée’s honor. Kramer begins fighting children. Elaine becomes president of J. Peterman. Jerry meets a beautiful girl with “man hands.” George enters the “forbidden city” where the supermodels hang out. Elaine meets “Bizarro” versions of Jerry, George and Kramer. Elaine demonstrates her dancing acumen. George thinks the photomat girl is up to something. Newman accuses Jerry of mail fraud. Jerry discovers his girlfriend’s (A.J. Langer) mentor is dating Bania. Elaine dates a guy obsessed with an Eagles song. George is rejected by a religious cult. Kramer lets Japanese people sleep in his chest of drawers. Jerry’s career-day booking is bumped. Kramer is menaced by neon Kenny Rogers Roasters signage. Jerry and Kramer switch personalities after they switch apartments. George discovers giving up sex makes him a supergenius. Lawyer Jackie Chiles goes after Big Tobacco on Kramer’s behalf. Jerry discovers in his self-storage cubicle bags of mail Newman never delivered. Kramer takes canine meds and begins to turn into a dog and bites Newman. Elaine dates a “bad breaker-upper.” A store posts Jerry’s bounced check. Elaine’s boyfriend discovers he’s bald. George dates a convict. Kramer gets into cockfighting. Kramer is vexed by girlfriend Emily’s (Sarah Silverman) “jimmy legs.” George investigates his parents’ health and wealth. A destitute Jerry has to sleep in his parents’ Cadillac. George thinks of a witty comeback far too late. Kramer regrets his living will when he learns people can recover from comas. George interviews foundation scholarship candidates. Elaine buys stories from Kramer to ghostwrite Peterman’s biography. Jerry dates a girl (Christine Taylor) everyone else dislikes. George avoids a breakup by hiding. Elaine is put in charge of a foundation honoring someone who never existed. Elaine discovers she lives outside a Chinese restaurant’s delivery zone. Jerry’s girlfriend (Kristin Davis) uses a toothbrush that fell into a toilet. Elaine alienates with her disdain for “The English Patient.” Jerry is challenged by an 80-year-old (Lloyd Bridges) to a weightlifting competition. George builds a bed under his desk. Jerry is suspicious of his dentist’s conversion to Judaism. George is suspicious of his girlfriend’s use of the phrase “Yada yada yada.” Jerry frets about his position on his girlfriend’s (Lauren Graham) speed-dial. Newman and Kramer plan rival millennium parties. Kramer launches a reality bus tour. Elaine finds her idea for a muffin-top store stolen. Seat-filler Kramer gets a Tony award. Jerry begins dating a girl (Amanda Peet) with a live-in boyfriend. A three-month Yankees severance package precipitates plans for a “Summer of George.”
Other season-eight guest stars included Bob Odenkirk, Kyle Gass, Ben Stein, Danny Strong, Bruce Davison, Melinda Clarke, Rena Sofer, Debra Messing, Gedde Wantanabe, Alex Trebek, Derek Jeter, Raquel Welch, Molly Shannon, Brenda Strong, John Michael Higgins, Kathryn Joosten, Chelsea Noble, Neil Flynn, Jack Riley and Robert Wagner.
As per tradition, the new set is packed with commentaries, deleted scenes and mini-docs (including one focusing on creator Larry David’s departure).
Rescue Me, brainchild of comedian Denis Leary and writer Peter Tolan (“The Larry Sanders Show”), is easily my favorite of the FX hourlongs, and one that gets better with each season as volatile and libidinous firefighter Tommy Gavin (Leary) continues to embrace his heroic levels of insanity (which seem now far less tragic than they did when the show launched).
Leary and Tolan wrote eight of season three’s 13 episodes. Teddy’s in jail for avenging the death of Tommy’s son. Tommy’s nephew is boning a hot teacher. Mike and his male roommate grow closer. Sean grows closer to Tommy’s crazy sister and turns into a zombie. Tommy’s brother grows closer to Tommy’s ex-wife. Franco enters a battle of wits with his girlfriend’s developmentally challenged brother. Tommy gets to date somebody who looks exactly like Marisa Tomei, as if Callie Thorne and Andrea Roth weren’t enough to make his head explode.
The season comes in both a standard-definition DVD and Blu-ray edition.
To anticipate the question? The series’ fourth season launches next Wednesday on FX.
Mission: Impossible: The Complete Second Season saw Jim Phelps take over the Impossible Missions Force from Daniel Briggs.
This is no small thing. Jim Phelps was the only character to transition into the motion picture franchise. The series’ only standing set was Daniel Briggs’ apartment. Until the series’ only standing set became Phelps’ apartment.
We got to see no one else’s apartment. Not Paris’. Not Casey’s. Not even Dana Lambert’s. We never learned anything about their lives outside the job, unless those lives were somehow germane to the mission.
For the run of the series (and the 1980s sequel series), Briggs and Phelps were the only full-time employees of the Impossible Missions Force; everybody else had day-jobs. Willy Armitage made his living as a circus strongman. Barney Collier ran an electronics company. Rollin Hand made his living as an actor/magician. Cinnamon Carter was an actress/model.
Phelps was the guy who saw the most tapes self-destruct on his way to toppling crimelords and dictators. He would go on to convince William Shatner that he went back in time.
The original “Mission: Impossible” kind of ruled, more popular in its day than “Alias” was at its peak. It launched alongside Desilu’s “Star Trek” back in 1966, but lasted longer – longer, in fact, than any espionage series ever.
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Prisoner, Python & Fawlty Cheap Again!!
For my money, these are the three best series Britain ever produced, and they’ve all just undergone major price reductions:
$53.49 The Prisoner: The Complete Series (17 episodes)
$58.99 Monty Python: The Complete Series 16-Ton Megaset (45 episodes)
$30.49 Fawlty Towers: The Complete Series (12 episodes)
55% Off Second Seasons!!
Remember Taht sale that took 55% off all those Fox first-season sets? That’s gone, but now there’s a new sale for the Sophomores. Titles:
$4.05 The Simple Life 2.x
$12.14 Tru Calling 2.x
$13.49 Hill Street Blues 2.x
$13.49 In Living Color 2.x
$13.49 King of the Hill 2.x
$13.49 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 2.x
$13.49 NYPD Blue 2.x
$13.49 Reba 2.x
$13.49 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 2.x Vol. 1
$13.49 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 2.x Vol. 2
$13.49 The White Shadow 2.x
$17.99 Angel 2.x
$17.99 Arrested Development 2.x
$17.99 The Big Valley 2.x Vol. 1
$17.99 Buffy The Vampire Slayer 2.x
$17.99 Dark Angel 2.x
$17.99 Futurama Vol. 2
$17.99 Lost In Space 2.x Vol. 1
$17.99 Lost In Space 2.x Vol. 2
$17.99 Murder One 2.x
$17.99 Remington Steele 2.x
$17.99 Millennium 2.x
$17.99 The Pretender 2.x
$17.99 Roswell 2.x
$22.49 Family Guy Vol. 2
$22.49 The X-Files 2.x
$26.99 Boston Legal 2.x
$26.99 The Shield 2.x
$31.49 24 2.x
Insano-Cheap 69% OFF O.C., Bitch!!
Three weeks ago Amazon was selling the first season of “The O.C.” for $51.99. Right now DeepDiscountDVD has the first three seasons at $37.17 per season..
Amazon’s prices as I type this:
$22.99 The OC: The Complete First Season
$22.99 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 three weeks ago. I actually don’t recall seeing “OC” that cheap anywhere (and I’ve been looking for it)! Again, I would not expect those prices to last!
The OC reductions are part of a larger TV-On-DVD sale one can find here.
TV-on-DVD Calendar
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The Andy Griffith Show: The Complete Series
Big Train 1.x/2.x
Charlie & Lola Vol. 4
The Closer 2.x
The Closer 1.x/2.x
F-Troop 2.x
Kids in the Hall: Best Of Vol. 2
Rawhide 2.x Vol. 1
Weeds 1.x (Blu-ray)
This Week
The Bill 1.x
Chappelle's Show: Best Of (Uncensored)
CHiPs 1.x
The Cosby Show 3.x
The Cosby Show 4.x
Dante's Cove 2.x
Dark Angel 1.x (Slimset)
Dark Angel 2.x (Slimset)
The Dead Zone 5.x
Doctor Who - Castrovalva
Doctor Who - Logopolis
Doctor Who - Keeper of Traken
Doctor Who: New Beginnings
The Fall Guy 1.x
The Fall Guy 1.x Vol. 1
The Fall Guy 1.x Vol. 2
Flight 29 Down Vol. 1
The Henry Rollins Show 1.x
Henry Rollins: Uncut From NYC
Hex 1.x
Hogan's Heroes 6.x
Kenny The Shark Vol. 1
Kenny The Shark Vol. 2
Mission: Impossible 2.x
The Outer Limits 1.x Vol. 1
Passport To Europe: France & Italy
Prehistoric Park
Rescue Me 3.x
Rescue Me 3.x (BLU-RAY)
Robin Hood 1.x
Seinfeld 8.x
Silverwing 1.x
SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Adventures
Survivorman: The Complete Series
The Sweeney 1.x
The Tonight Show: King of Late Night
The Tonight Show: Stand-Up Comedians
Tutenstein Vol. 1
Tutenstein Vol. 2
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home 1.x
What's New Scooby-Doo? 2.x
Next Week
Blue Murder: Set 1
Deadwood 3.x
Diagnosis Murder 2.x
Doc Martin 1.x
Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries 2.x
Kathy Griffin: My LIfe On The D-List 1.x
Masters of Horror: The Screwfly Solution
Mile High 2.x
Mile High 2.x Vol. 1
Mile High 2.x Vol. 2
Noah's Arc 2.x
The Office 1.x/2.x Value Pack
The Practice Vol. 1
The Rat Patrol 2.x
Red Shoe Diaries 1.x
Trapped in TV Guide 1.x
Waiting For God 2.x
Walker: Texas Ranger 3.x
Welcome Back Kotter 1.x
What's Happening Now! 1.x
June 19
Animaniacs Vol. 3
Animaniacs Vol. 1-3
Batfink: The Complete Series
Daniel Boone 4.x
Lovejoy 1.x
Perry Mason 2.x Vol. 1
Picket Fences 1.x</a>
Pinky and the Brain Vol. 3
Pinky and the Brain Vol. 1-3
The Powerpuff Girls 1.x
Silver Spoons 1.x
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 3.x Vol. 1
June 26
Bozo The Clown Vol. 1
Casper: Best Of Vol. 1
Casper: Best Of Vol. 2
Gomer Pyle USMC 2.x
Hannah Montana Vol. 3
Miami Vice 5.x
Monk 5.x
Monk 5.x/Psych 1.x Combo
My Little Pony: The Pony Puppy
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Vol. 11
The New Adventures of Batman: The Complete Animated Series
The New Adventures of Superman: The Complete Animated Series
The New Statesman: The Complete Series
Psych 1.x
Reno 911! 4.x Uncensored
Spenser: Ceremony
Spenser: Pale Kings & Princes
Super Mario Bros. 3: The Complete Series
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No LOST till Frikking December 11th. Killing me.
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It doesn't hurt my eyes at all.
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which is actually a good thing. I'm going to read it now.
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How many RESCUE ME pictures do we fucking need?
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Can they make a special edition in HD DVD with just Heather Thomas's scenes in it. I'd make the jump to HD DVD just to watch that one!
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and could it possibly be that gay? Also, is Isis hot or what? As a certain Ex-President would say, that depends on what your definition of isis isis. And wouldn't that rescue Me picture of Denis O'Leary on fire have made a great Pink Floyd album cover a quarter of a century ago or so?
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Is a horrible cross between Queer as Folk and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but it's really wretched and awful, just horrible righting...really an excuse for softcore gay porn. I watched the first season and don't miss it.
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I think it's the best price I've seen (at Amazon, I mean).
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Is the first season slim set likely to go half off ever again? How often do these sales happen?
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but, looking at that list of season 8 Seinfeld episodes, i have to ask myself how exactly his departure led to an alleged downturn in quality? those are some classic Seinfeld episodes there. Also, i like the way that Ellen Pompeo is looking out at me from the cover of the season 3 Grey's Anatomy boxset like a sultry minx.
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I'm glad I waited.
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kudos, sir, kudos.
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I am so Netflixxing that.
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FX! You cruel cockteases!
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First of all, let me just say that there's too much coming out at once. I'm already behind on several shows including the last two seasons of Benny Hill, and the last two Looney Tunes sets. Aaarrgghh! As far as the bargains go, I picked up Earth to Moon for 25.00 at Wal-Mart recently, and if you like sci-fi heavy on cheese and mild-sexual innuendo, Buck Rogers the complete series(also at Wal-Mart)has been drastically reduced to $20.00. Don't miss that one, if you even care. It's nice to see more Doctor Who releases coming. I'm nearly 37, and I'll probably be mid-50's to 60's range before all of the story arcs are released. The new beginnings set will be great with the last two Tom Baker ep's, and Peter Davison's first out as the Doctor. Baker was a tough act to follow, but I think Davison more than managed in his own way. August will bring on Robot-T. Baker's first one. Featuring Sarah Jane, Harry,and the Brigadier! Good stuff. Survival-last episode of the original DW. Seems like it was a mix of good and bad. There were a lot of new writers during that time, and some of the results weren't good. That said, Survival wasn't the worst. it was the last appearance of Anthony Ainley as the Master. Two other notes...I can't friggin' wait for ISIS, Muppet Show 2, and the heavily discounted Space 1999. Actually, there's more, but as I said too many things coming out at once. Damned if they don't know how to make us 30-somethings buy pieces of our past. hehe
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No LOST until Dec. 11th? Why so long? You would think that they would release the dvd set sooner so that people could prepare for the 4th season!
Good to see Supernatural coming out in September, it's a great show and it puzzles me why there are no talkbacks for it. I'm about half way through the second season. -
Benny Hill was huge bean fan. to the point where he met Rowan atkinson and ordered his agents to to fly atkinson to america, where hill was huge star. Seemingly Atkinson and hill met more than once. It was through his meetings with benny hill that atkinson was able to set up the bean movie. but hill didnt long enough to see it.Bean was every that Hill wanted to achieve but never could. For the record I hate ben elton and I think He is sexist bastard, and idont find him funny. But sight of benny hill slapping a bald man on the head is pricelessly. Some of hills later work is offensive. but he has at least been acknowledged as a ground breaking innovator.
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A lot of people will be re-wathcing the lost season three dvd over christmas. So when it returns to tv 2008. People will be up to speed.
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A-Fucking-Men to that! I need IASIP on DVD yesterday!
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Where's the update on "This Week With George Stephanopoulos Season 6: The Extended Experience?" The outtakes from the interview w/ Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns were what director Peter Baldwin (Meet Wally Sparks, The Return of the Barracuda) says got him into the industry.
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I never knew that Benny and Rowan met. That's awesome. As for who I like...both of them. Benny was great. He built upon comedy's past, and was an innovator as well. But, later in the 69-89 series he tended to be a re-hashing, one-trick pony. That said, I love him to death. Was probably the first Brit tv I ever saw. I think Rowan, Ben Elton, and Richard Curtis were able to branch out a bit more with their material. The Benny Hill Show, Mr. Bean, Blackadder, and Thin Blue Line are all so different to make comparisons, but both men are beyond compare. Blackadder was probably Rowan's best, but I like it all. Thanks for the Rowan-Benny story. Never knew that.
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amazon has it for 30 bucks. go to target and get it for 18 bucks.
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because bean is perfect balance of Silent comedy and slapstick, with a touch of knockabout humour. Bean works much better on tv. Steak tartar episode and the one with the queen are hilarious. I agree with you about blackadder. someone was talking about dr who's commeration of the first world war. I would like to add that the ending of blackadder goes forth is one of the most heartbreakingly brilliant things I have ever seen. Funny, ominous and that finale scene of madness, where none of them listens to baldrick, whose cunning plan was stay where they were is just devasting. The slowed down theme, the long head rush where they are killed and that poppyfield at the end accompanied by the drumbeat.beautiful beyond words.
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and now I can't do math! Avoid at all costs or you won't be able to chew gum & walk at the same time!!
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... When the undisputedly essential-to-the-whole-production star of your show tragically dies... admit that it's too bad, but the show is finished and cancel the damn thing!
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Bean should have only been on tv. The movie had some moments, but some of it was re-hash. Bean is best in limited doses, not for an entire motion picture. I remember seeing a double feature that day of Bean and Boogie Nights. The funny thing was that Burt Reynolds was in both films. hehe As for great Bean ep's...let's not forget the Christmas special. Particularly, Bean playing with the nativity scene, daleks, tanks, and more. I also enjoyed when he directed the band for a jazzy version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. And, I totally agree about the last episode of Adder Goes Forth. Season 4 and 2 were the best. 3 was also quite good, and even the 1st season delivered for me. One of my favorite sitcoms.
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if Bill Hicks is dead where does Leary get all his ideas from now? Does the ghost of Bill Hicks haunt Leary?
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Just skimming the titles..
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and I've always had a thing for Samantha Brown. Also look at that Scott Bakula-looking douchebag on Degrassi High.
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or the one where the queen turns up for a film gala, is simply one of the funniest I have ever seen. It is comedy in its purest form. And highlights why atkinson is one of the great geniuses of modern british comedy.
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I was worried that I was imagining that show. Thank the gods it's real and I'm not losing it.
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On some of these anyway.
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I never would have known about From the Earth to the Moon was on sale that cheap. I bought it thanks to you.
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is there anything good coming out on DVD this year?
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Supernatural was so much better than Smallville this past season. That show never gets the attention it deserves.
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I grew up on Voyage, with the cool Seaview. The Time Tunnel, with those two knuckleheads "falling" into the past at various points in history. And now Land of the Giants. Always a sucker for "tiny" people flicks, going back to Dr Cyclops and The Incredible Shrinking Man. And wasn't the theme from one Johnny Williams?
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funny shit.
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I mean Charles in Charge
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and an experiment that went wrong and you have LOST!
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still on the air. and what stupid person convinced ahsley jensen to do it. All they have to do is convince Meryl streep do it and that rubbish about it being based on tellynovela will be shredded. They should take this show off the air. now.
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I have it on VHS, but have been eager to buy the DVD ever since this set was released. Now, thanks to Herc, I got it dirt cheap. Can't get it here that cheap, and with the Canadian $ higher than ever, that $26 US is only about $28 CDN. Even with the $5 shipping, it's a great deal.
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not that there is anything wrong with that..
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Heather Thomas on The Fall Guy, Heather Locklear on TJ Hooker
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Where's the next DVD, damn it?
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I've been wondering for awhile now why this site never mentions Supernatural. It has a certain redneck charm, driving across America kicking spiritual ass in a cool car listening to metal? I likey.
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I keep getting "Once and Again" confused with "Now and Again." When is that one coming out on DVD? That show was the Bomb-Diggidy.
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I was too young to care.. all I knew was that she made me want to play with my bobo
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Kudos to you My Pretty Pony sir. Will anyone listen to us? Probably not.
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well.. no comments about it in the article. But it's mentioned on the front page! Has Hercules watched it? I wonder what he thinks of it, it's very good
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Fox Home Entertainment will release a 3-disc first and second season box set for the cult FX series, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Retailing at $39.98, the set will contain all 17 episodes from the series' first two seasons, and will be released on September 4, 2007. It will also contain:
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I'd like to see the battle continue... even though they killed their nemesis and all.
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Yes, Supernatural has been renewed. New episodes should return in September. Right now, The CW is airing reruns on Thursday and Sunday nights.
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It only makes her look cheap.
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(That's $114.99) - it's most likely one of those very limited time offers, but what a steal!
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