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The Season 2 DVD comes out right around my birthday (yay!), which is still almost 3 months away (boo!). So I thought a good way to kill some time (and possibly discover some new good shows during the summer) might be to share what other TV shows we've enjoyed so much that we bought them on DVD. I'm assuming that most of us don't have massive budgets for DVD-buying, so anything you're willing to actually buy must be a true favorite worthy of your bucks.
I own:
Looking to get soon:
I am liking this thread.
I own:
I'd love to have:
I have the UK Office season 1 on DVD-but it was a rent and burn.
I also have the US Office season 1 (not burned-the real thing!)
My husband has burned copies of season 4 of Family Guy and season 5 of Gilmore Girls.
We just don't really have much for DVD's, and most of what we do have are ones that we rented and burned.
Denise
My television collection is as follows:
Futurama (Volumes 1 - 4)
Arrested Development (Seasons 1 & 2)
Scrubs (Seasons 1 & 2)
The Office (NBC, Season 1)
Boston Legal (Season 1)
Firefly (The Complete Series)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Volume 8)
It just occured to me, I buy more television DVDs than I do movie DVDs...
I forgot - I also have "Wonderfalls" (the complete series). It used to be on FOX (hard to believe, I know) and met a really untimely demise. Very funny and surreal.
For time poster, long-time lurker... I love this post!!
I own:
"Scrubs" Seasons 1 - 3
"The Office" Season 1
"Coupling" the BBC Version Seasons 1 - 4
"The Dukes of Hazzard" Seasons 1 - 6 - I'm a sucker for cars that can jump!
Looking to get soon:
Is there anything more important than "The Office" Season 2 coming out???
Loaded Teapot, definitely get any of the other seasons of Scrubs. I watch repeats of Scrubs almost as much as I do The Office... which is a lot!!
No judgement please! I have the following:
The Office
Golden Girls S1
Lost
Buffy S1-4
Angel S1
Would love to get:
The Office S2
BBC Version of The Office S1 S2 and The Special
Any Seinfeld
Grey's Anatomy S1 S2
Early seasons of The Cosby Show (have I gone too far?)
Boston Common
Any Roseanne
Scrubs
I have a BIG wish list! I am sure I could come up with more.
Futurama Season One
The Simpsons thru Season Three
The Office First Season (of course)
The Office First Series (BBC)
Kids In The Hall Seasons One and Two
Arrested Development Season One
Mr. Show Seasons One, Two and Three
Conan's Tenth Anniversary Special
The Best of the Chris Rock Show
Space Ghost Coast to Coast Volume III (1997)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (The one with "Angels Revenge", "Cave Dwellers", and "Pod People", as well as "Shorts")
Newsradio Seasons One and Two
And yes, before you ask, I try to leave the house regularly. ;-p
Arrested Development seasons 1 and 2
The Office season 1
The Daily Show Indecision 2004
Late Night with Conan O'Brien 5th and 10th anniversary specials
Soon, I'll also have...
Arrested Development season 3
The Office season 2
Strangers With Candy complete series
Stella season 1/full series
Oh, I also have a few SNL best-ofs. I forgot.
Most notably:
My current favourite TV on DVD:
Arrested Development S1 Veronica Mars S1 Deadwood S1 Grey's Anatomy S1 Gilmore Girls S1 Scrubs S1
On my "to purchase" list:
The Office S1 & S2 Arrested Development S2 Veronica Mars S2 Grey's Anatomy S2 Gilmore Girls S2
I live in New Zealand, so it takes a while longer for DVDs to come out here, or otherwise I have to pay astronomical postage to order through Amazon. The Office S1 is released here at the end of this month and I am super excited for it.
Excellent topic. I have a daily date (and a love hate relationship) with an elliptical trainer and in order to reward myself for getting on the darn thing I pop in a DVD. The system is working (I'm feeling great and I've lost several pounds), so I now cruise ebay looking for interesting DVDs. Currently on my shelf: The Office (US and UK), Band of Brothers (absolutely riveting), Battlestar Gallactica seasons 1 and 2 (I am not a scifi guy and ignored the recommendation of a friend who is for a year or so. I broke down this spring and bought year one on ebay and was immediately hooked. Possibly the best dramatic series currently on TV.) Firefly (I believe it was a shortlived Fox series of 13 episodes. My friend also recommended this one. Essentially it's Butch Cassidy set in outer space. The premise is goofy, but the stories and characters work.)
I own:
Looking to buy:
Arrested Development s1 & 2 (and all of s3 downloaded on my laptop)
Curb Your Enthusiasm s1-4
Family Guy v1 & 2
The Office (UK) The Complete Series
The Office (US) s1 (and all of s2 on iTunes, gotta love iTunes!!! although I'll still of course get the DVD!)
Lost s1
Aqua Teen Hunger Force v1-4
Space Ghost Coast to Coast v1
Scrubs s1-3
TV on DVD is one of the best inventions ever!
(Oh, I also have Viva la Bam s1. I guess that should probably go on the guilty pleasures thread.. .)
On DVD, I have:
The Office Season 1 (of course)
Family Guy Volumes 1-3
The Simpsons Seasons 1-7
Firefly
On my computer, I have:
Every episode of Arrested Development, The Office (UK), American Dad, Band of Brothers, My Name is Earl, Over There, and Scrubs, plus all the episodes of The Office (season 2) and Family Guy not on DVD yet. Also a few episodes of Whose Line and Robot Chicken. I burned many of the shows on my computer to DVDs.
I'm looking to pick up Arrested Development, The Office (UK), Band of Brothers, and Scrubs on DVD in the near future.
I just stumbled across this thread, and . . . well, let me put it this way: In "Office Olympics", Michael says, "I do not understand what you spend your money on, Dwight". Well, it's pretty easy to figure out what I spend my money on: DVDs -- specifically, television shows on DVD. The complete list would be kind of embarassingly long, but here are a few off the top of my head:
All 7 seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer; all five seasons of Angel; and Firefly. Call it "the Joss Whedon Collection".
The first two seasons of The Office, of course.
All 3 seasons of Arrested Development.
More Frasier than is strictly neccessary.
A great deal of Northern Exposure.
All of the Scrubs there is available.
A certain amount of Dead Like Me.
A bunch of The Wire.
The BBC Office.
Roswell. (Ahem.)
Probably a lot of other stuff I'm forgetting.
It's a bit embarassing, really. I think I've seen every episode of Buffy at least three times, and several of them ("Restless", "Band Candy") much, much more than that. Now that I'm married, I don't get quite the same number of opportunities to re-watch my television DVDs, but the writer's life allows me a certain amount of leeway in the daytime, when there's no one around to demand that I talk to her.
Ha! Frasier. We only have one season on DVD so far, and we keep rewatching the one where they go to the ski cabin. Good stuff.
My list:
Yikes.
Also, I still suck at markdown.
Also also, updated. "Yikes" indeed.
This is a swell thread, and a much better way to spend my time than editing.
The Office (UK and US)
My Name Is Earl S1
The Sopranos: all of 'em. I always break these out around exam time, and, since I'm entering my last exam times, I'm sure I'll be watching these soon.
The Wire: them too, but I'm not sure they lend themselves to rewatching, especially since I tend to rewatch tv shows on dvd in bunches.
Freaks and Geeks: excellent stuff.
Undeclared: pretty good stuff.
Deadwood S1
Monty Python: always good for a laugh
Tenacious D
I kind of get my fill of Scrubs on the tv, and I'm still pondering Arrested Development as a purchase.
Actually, I'm not sure if this is a swell thread or a depressing one.
Yeah, I just remembered a few more: Quantam Leap, seasons 1-3, Battlestar Galactica, and series 1 & 2 of A Bit of Fry & Laurie, because I must have a regular dose of Stephen Fry.
My sister-in-law got me the first two seasons of The Simpsons for consecutive Christmases. At this rate I'll have them all roughly three years before I grow old and die. I burned season 1 of The Office from NetFlix but sprang for the real thing on Season 2. I've got S1&2 of Arrested Development, with 3 on the way. I burn those, but only because I can't watch them fast enough without bogging down my Netflix queue.
I have:
Season 1 of The Simpsons
Season 2 of 3rd Rock from the Sun
Season 2 of The Kids in the Hall
Seasons 1 & 2 of The Office (I got 2 for Christmas and just spent part of a Target birthday gift card on 1 today!)
Season 2 of South Park
Season 1 of Malcolm in the Middle
I also married into a VHS of select episodes of Ren and Stimpy which I haven't even watched. It just doesn't call to me.
I end up with season 2s because people who get things like this for me as a gift maintain that season 1 is always about a show finding itself. I'd have gotten the rest of 3rd Rock but it's not the full episodes--it's the cut versions they show in syndication. You can see the little jumps the actors make during the edits. I think that is abominable. I'd buy more Malcolm but I don't think they are making them.
The first season's the best one of 3rd Rock, if you ask me.
"Oh, Bazooka Joe! You fool!"
Between my roommate and I, we have:
* Seasons 1 and 2 of The Office
* Season 1 of Buffy
* Season 4 of Sex and the City
* Season 2 of Aqua Teen Hunger Force
* Seasons 1-2 of Arrested Development
* The entire The Wonder Years series
I would like to get:
* Season 3 of AD
* The rest of Buffy
* Roswell
* Freaks and Geeks
* It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
I don't obsess much over TV, but when I do I go all out, so I have:
Seasons 1 and 2 of The Office
The BBC Office
Beavis and Butthead
and that's it.
I'll play (I am assuming stuff on your iPod counts, too):
Every episode of The Office
Season 1 of the UK The Office
Seasons 10 and 11 of South Park
Seasons 1 and 2 of Weeds
Season 1 of Ugly Betty (Sorry, UB haters...I think she's adorable!)
Season 1 of Heroes
Season 1 of 24
Old school:
VHS tapes of Moonlighting and Northern Exposure
Would like:
Any season of Arrested Development; I keep hearing great things about that show.
Would like:
Any season of Arrested Development; I keep hearing great things about that show.
I can't recommend it enough. I never watched it when it was on, but working my way through the DVDs (sloooooowllyyyyy) is great because it's like having another great show on to watch (except it's on 3 to 5 times a week in my house, whenever I'm on the treadmill basically).
How does Moonlighting hold up? That was my favorite show once upon a time.
How does Moonlighting hold up? That was my favorite show once upon a time.
Interesting.
I have only been obsessed with three TV shows in my Whole Life (I mean, truly obsessed); Moonlighting, Northern Exposure, and now, The Office.
Moonlighting holds up pretty well. Cybil and Bruce made it happen, even if, in their professional life, they hated one another. (And I think they did.)
One of the things I adore about The Office is their commitment to one another. The actors, I mean. Everybody on this show is SO supportive of one another; I think that is amazing. Go Jenna, go John, go Rainn, BJ, Mindy, Steve (of course), Creed, etc. etc. These people rock the house.
All of seinfeld, all of scrubs and all of the office (that are available) and season 1 of Grey's anatomy.