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The complete 90-episode “Justice League” series set, $89.99 in December and $71.89 last month, is (this week only) $44.99 (55% Off!!)

The first season of AMC’s “The Killing,” $44.99 in March and $27,69 last month, has just fallen to an all-time low of $11.99!! (70% Off!!)

The first two seasons of “Mr. Show” (starring Bob “Breaking Bad” Odenkirk, David “Arrested Development” Cross, Mary-Lynn “24” Rajskub, and Sarah “The Sarah Silverman Program” Silverman), $29.99 in 2008 and $14.49 last month, has just fallen to an all-time low of $6.13!! (75% Off!!)

The superb third season of “The OC,” $46.99 in 2008 and $36.93 last week, has just fallen to an all-time low of $8.01!! (84% Off!!) Andy Samberg was watching:

The complete Blu-ray series set for HBO’s crazy great “Rome,” $131.49 in 2010 and $100.99 in March, is for the moment $44.96!! $22.48 per Blu Season!! (68% Off!!)

Season one of NBC’s “Life,” $27.49 in June and $18.99 in March, is now $6.49!! (80% Off!!)

Every episode of NBC’s “Kings,” $53.99 in 2009 and $23.49 in January, is now $12.67!! (79% Off!!)

The complete-series set for “Land of the Lost,” $46.99 in 2010 and $31.99 in November, is for the moment $13.88!! (65% Off!!)

The complete series set for “Babylon 5” spinoff “Crusade” (starring Gary Cole and Daniel Dae Kim), $59.98 in 2011 and $37.49 in March, has plummeted to $13.87!! (77% Off!!)

New This Week

I’ve not seen SNL: The Women, which sells for $10.83, but here’s the Amazon description:

The Women of SNL features a showcase of the incredibly talented women who have created some of the funniest and most memorable characters on Saturday Night Live throughout its rich history. Beginning with a Real Housewives parody, host Andy Cohen invites some of the women of SNL back to studio 8H for a comically charged reunion show with an honest "Housewives-style" tell-all that lets us know what they've been up to since being featured on Saturday Night Live.
Then take a look back at some classic sketches such as Debbie Downer, Mary Katherine Gallagher, The Lawrence Welk Show, Oprah, Bronx Beat, and the Nerds. You'll also enjoy backstage stories and some of your favorite impressions that can only be seen here, including ones from the women who began it all, Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman and Jane Curtin.

The DVD version of Looney Tunes: Platinum Collection Vol. 1 contains everything that’s on the Blu-ray edition released last November, except it’s less than half the price and not in HD.

I recommend manning up and buying the Blu-ray, but there’s no question the DVD edition, with its emphasis on Chuck Jones’ work (“One Froggy Evening,” “The Dover Boys,” all the Marvin Martian, all the Witch Hazel, all the Ralph Williams), still offers a tremendous lot of bang for $20.83:

DISC 1
HARE TONIC
BASEBALL BUGS*
BUCCANEER BUNNY*
THE OLD GREY HARE*
RABBIT HOOD*
8 BALL BUNNY*
RABBIT OF SEVILLE*
WHAT'S OPERA, DOC?*^
THE GREAT PIGGY BANK ROBBERY*
A PEST IN THE HOUSE*
THE SCARLET PUMPERNICKEL*^
DUCK AMUCK*^
ROBIN HOOD DAFFY*^
BABY BOTTLENECK*
KITTY KORNERED*
SCAREDY CAT*
PORKY CHOPS
OLD GLORY*
A TALE OF TWO KITTIES*
TWEETIE PIE*
FAST AND FURRY-OUS*
BEEP, BEEP*
LOVELORN LEGHORN
FOR SCENT-IMENTAL REASONS*
SPEEDY GONZALES*^
+ 6 BEHIND THE TUNES (FEATURETTES)
Wagnerian Wabbit: The Making of What's Opera, Doc?
Twilight in Tunes: The Music of Raymond Scott
Powerhouse in Pictures
Putty Problems and Canary Rows
A Chuck Jones Tutorial: Tricks of the Cartoon Trade
The Charm of Stink: On the Scent of Pepé le Pew
* Includes Commentaries ^ Includes Alternative Audio Tracks

DISC 2
ONE FROGGY EVENING*^
THREE LITTLE BOPS*^
I LOVE TO SINGA*
KATNIP KOLLEGE
THE DOVER BOYS AT PIMENTO UNIVERSITY*
CHOW HOUND*
HAREDEVIL HARE*
THE HASTY HARE
DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24½th CENTURY*
HARE-WAY TO THE STARS^
MAD AS A MARS HARE
DEVIL MAY HARE*
BEDEVILLED RABBIT
DUCKING THE DEVIL^
BILL OF HARE
DR. DEVIL AND MR. HARE
BEWITCHED BUNNY*^
BROOM-STICK BUNNY*^
A WITCH'S TANGLED HARE^
A-HAUNTING WE WILL GO
FEED THE KITTY*^
KISS ME KAT^
FELINE FRAME-UP^
FROM A TO Z-Z-Z-Z*^
BOYHOOD DAZE*^
+5 BEHIND THE TUNES (FEATURETTES)
It Hopped One Night: The Story Behind One Froggy Evening
Wacky Warner One-Shots
Mars Attacks! Life on the Red Planet with My Favorite Martian
Razzma-Taz: Giving the Tasmanian Devil His Due
The Ralph Phillips Story: Living the American Daydream
* Includes Commentaries ^ Includes Alternative Audio Tracks

DISC 3 (ALL SPECIAL FEATURES)
A GREETING FROM CHUCK JONES
CHUCK AMUCK: THE MOVIE
CHUCK JONES: EXTREMES & IN-BETWEENS, A LIFE IN ANIMATION
CHUCK JONES: MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD
THE ANIMATED WORLD OF CHUCK JONES (9 CARTOONS)
Point Rationing of Foods
Hell-Bent for Election
So Much for So Little
Orange Blossoms for Violet
A Hitch in Time
90 Day Wondering
Drafty, Isn't It?
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
The Bear That Wasn't
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! PENCIL TEST
THE DOOR
BONUS CARTOONS (9 CARTOONS)
Fright Before Christmas
Spaced-Out- Bunny
Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2th Century
Another Froggy Evening
Marvin the Martian in the Third Dimension
Superior Duck
From Hare to Eternity
Father of the Bird
Museum Scream

I do so wish, though, that all these sets were segregated by director. How glorious would it be to own all the Frank Tashlin, all the Bob Clampett, all the Tex Avery, all the Robert McKimson, and all the Chuck Jones? And, if you’re not particularly fond of, say, the massive output of the Friz Freleng or Hugh Harman, how great would it be to be able to skip that stuff?

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