how sad is it when you start buying DVD sets of TV series to keep forever and ever and possibly watch for that same period?

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i have only seinfeld, peep show and hitchikers guide on DVD, but i fear i could buy a lot lot more. this is what sad lonely people do isnt it? stock up on TV series anthologies.

― rock, Friday, 6 May 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i have been watching the sopranos on loop for two years.

― N_RQ, Friday, 6 May 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Hom-hom-hom-Homicide! (to the tune of Bowie's "Golden Years")

― Huk-L, Friday, 6 May 2005 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i am a sad lonely person then as i love peepshow!

rock maybe we should meet up and laugh our asses off together while watching some and then we wouldnt be lonely or sad!

family guy is great too, as is futurama.

we should arrange some sort of fapp style stay-in, everyone bring booze, and a programme of choice.

god i need a night out (or in)

― md2020 (pixie), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I hardly ever buy film DVDs but have a yen for TV boxes for some reason. I don't see why TV DVDs are sadder than movie ones. The episodic format really appeals. It's odd because I hardly watch actual TV.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

md2020 you sound like my type of person. maybe we can watch the TV from outside the window so will therefore be 'out' yet 'in'.

― rock, Friday, 6 May 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Episode binging is my favorite hangover activity. After one particularly grueling night me and my girlfriend watched 12 episodes of Angel.

― adam (adam), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

rock: man that sounds good you live in the uk?

― md2020 (pixie), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i do, im in london. watching TV somewhere. if only outside a currys or dixons.

― rock, Friday, 6 May 2005 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

TV box sets are great - you can gorge yourself on hours of Buffy without waiting a week between episodes. Or stick on some Futurama while you're waiting for dinner to cook, which you can't really do with a feature film.

xpost TWELVE episodes? Were you seeing square-headed Boreanaz in your peripheral vision for days afterwards?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

well im in hertforshire im sure it would be do-able do you reckon if we asked really nicely that we could go to a dixons or curries and ask them to put on dvds for us and watch while outside the store - or even inside, that way we are out of the house but still in- too elaborate a plan? oh would they have a problem with drinking and eating on the premises?

liz you oughta come along and freaky-

― md2020 (pixie), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a little too emotionally involved. xpost

― adam (adam), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

TV box sets are great - you can gorge yourself on hours of Buffy without waiting a week between episodes. Or stick on some Futurama while you're waiting for dinner to cook, which you can't really do with a feature film.

Quite. Excellent time killers.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i watch the office all the time. and freaks and geeks.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I like having TV box sets around to watch whenever I want, especially if the episodes are short and I can watch them when I'm eating (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, and Adult Swim have been great for this).

Also all the bouncy college girls that I know (not very many, admittedly) watch The O.C. on dvd all the time, and surely they can't be sad and lonely?

(nb I am not condoning watching The O.C.)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you spotted the flaw there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

To go along with what Jordan said about short and sweet, I watched 8 episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast back-to-back the other night. I also know several people who have Dawson's Creek box sets, which scares me a little.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, my girlfriend and I have a recent tradition of watching Kids in the Hall on dvd while making big breakfasts on Saturday mornings, which is the exactly opposite of sad & lonely.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I want KITH on Dvd so badly! I keep dropping major hints to the boyfriend but I don't think he's caught on.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

adult swim? so youve got aquateen hungerforce and sealab? ohhhh they are good

― md2020 (pixie), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Revenge of the KITH

― Huk-L, Friday, 6 May 2005 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah! I don't have Harvey Birdman or Space Ghost though, I need to get on that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Huk don't ever change.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I am your father!
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― Huk-L, Friday, 6 May 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

KitH need to come out with season 3, goddammnit.

uh, xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone else find taking out and putting in DVDs just too tiresome to bother with much?

― $V£N! (blueski), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG thanks guys for cheering up my afternoon, the world needs people like you!

― md2020 (pixie), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone else find taking out and putting in DVDs just too tiresome to bother with much?

*tries to determine if this is some obscure joke based on having to flip vinyl sides over after 20 minutes*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

We also have entire torrented seasons of Daria, Venture Bros. and Bullshit that we are slowly working our way through. I haven't seen Daria since it was first on, and I actually said out loud OMG Tom really is Spencer Chow!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, steve m, yes i do. mainly cos my dvd player is slow and tedious and doesnt have a tray, you have to insert the disc in a slot. which seems to take longer, oddly.

― blahbarian, Friday, 6 May 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone else find taking out and putting in DVDs just too tiresome to bother with much?
That's exactly what I was thinking when I got a review box of the Man Show Season 3 in the mail yesterday (which I found a good home for).

― Huk-L, Friday, 6 May 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i love that you can buy 'lovejoy' on dvd. i'm not sure what it says about modern britain, but i like it.

― N_RQ, Friday, 6 May 2005 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah thats why you should have some sort of old people reachy hand grabber thingee, no movement from the sofa shall hereby commence.....untill you need the bathroom, or food.

the ultimate lazy-boy chair must be invented all in one fridge, microwave, dvd changer and commode....

― md2020 (pixie), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

We watch KITH the most these days, but also sometimes Father Ted, Freaks & Geeks, or the Office. It's great because they're all funny, so you can enjoy them again and again (and make your guests watch them too). Plus, I love checking out dvds of HBO shows because I don't have HBO but also because you don't have to wait a whole week to find out what happens next (see: The Wire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 24).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

tv shows on dvd are something that sad and lonely people do, but they are also the most awesome thing in the history of civilization.

― carly (carly), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

24 isn't on HBO.

― Huk-L, Friday, 6 May 2005 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone else find taking out and putting in DVDs just too tiresome to bother with much?

It's the tedious intros/anti piracy/dolby stuff that you can't skip that annoys me.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

ADVENTURES OF PETE AND PETE IS COMING OUT

others I own:

freaks and geeks
strangers with candy
upright citizens brigade
twilight zone
eerie indiana
curb your enthusiasm
the office
SCTV
X files

― Garfield is fucking DEAD man, DAD., Friday, 6 May 2005 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Get A Life on dvid?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know, but Cabin Boy is!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Get a Life is on DVD. Some of it, at least.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

TV shows on DVD can lead you into a endless bingeing and remorse cycle.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

...with sexy results!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

24 isn't on HBO.
Whatevs, Huk. Wasn't it on there originally?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, sure. If that makes you feel better. On the special HBO that also has the Simpsons and the Simple Life.

― Huk-L, Friday, 6 May 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

No. FOXXX.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't understand. The whole point of these wonderful online DVD rental services was so that no one would ever have to spend upwards of $100 on TV series boxsets ever again.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 6 May 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

That reminds me...Columbo Season One should be in the mail to me right now!

― Huk-L, Friday, 6 May 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Eh, I'd rather just buy them and have them to watch any time than worry about putting things in the mail. Most of them are $30 - $50 these days, anyway.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i had a hard time resisting sealab2021 season 2 in target last weekend. with the exception of strangers with candy and the sopranos i never watch a dvd more than once so buying them seems a big ol waste of money to me. that said, id really like my husband to see kath and kim but netflix here in the US doesnt have it and i dont know how australian dvds fare on us dvd players if i were to buy it.

― katharine (katharine), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I want the Degrassi Junior High DVD sets.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

TV Box Sets keep their value quite well on eBay so i find it easy to buy 'em, watch 'em and sell 'em without it costing a penny.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I have the first two seasons of Coupling in my household and those Horatio Hornblower episodes with Ioan Gruffudd. I can't remember what else. I want Press Gang but I don't have a region-free DVD player.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has a grenade, that pineapple's not just a toy! (Eastern Mantr, Friday, 6 May 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

My most prized possessions, until I sold them:

My So-Called Life
Dawson's Creak, seasons 1-3
Buffy, seasons 1-3
Freaks and Geeks

Now I Tivo Gilmore Girls, Buffy and DC (currently catching up on a few shows I missed bc they were so just awfully bad just before the series went off the air, and rent from Netflix other stuff I want to see: Arrested Development; Curb Your Enthusiasm (for mom). Once I've watched the complete DVD set I don't really go back and revisit episodes, but there is just something so satisfying about buying the TV sets--not sure why. Though now that we have Tivo, though it is kind of a pain of fast-forwarding through commerial, it seems less of a pain than actually chaging the format and inserting the DVD, unless you just put the DVD in your computer, that doesn't take too much effort.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 6 May 2005 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I want the Degrassi Junior High DVD sets.

OMG they are great. Junior High season 2 comes out this month, as does Next Generation season 2.

― broken down (noisemeltdown), Friday, 6 May 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

id like those when are they gunna do james at 15!??!
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― charleston charge (chaki), Friday, 6 May 2005 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, can you even imagine trying to release those now, though? People would have self-righteous fits.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 May 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Remember when the older Little House on the Prairie daughter took her clothes off inside the sleeping bag? Me too.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 7 May 2005 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

They need to make it easier to find Deadwood and Carnivale boxsets in Australia, 'cos I'd buy them, instead of the torrenting.

I'll be all over the new Doctor Who boxset at Christmastime.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Saturday, 7 May 2005 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

There are original Degrassi DVD sets? OMG! MUST HAVE.

Hell yeah I am a tv box set addict, as Im sure everyone knows by now anyway. Futurama gets so many airings in this house it isnt sane. Just got S1 and S2 Family Guy, which I didnt use to like, but have been mucho getting into (though it has its weak moments, which I never found Futurama did). Got seasons 1-5 of Simpsons, more for completion than anything (its on tv like 15 times a week so it really isnt needed).

Completed my Bab5 sets a while ago and watched the lot from start to end over a few months (for I think the 3rd time?) recently... the problem with b5 though is it isnt a show you can just pick out an episode to casually watch - it is too serialised for that, which sadly means it wont get the repeated viewings that its overall cost would make worthwhile (I spent a FORTUNE on those ones arg).

Also regularly watch the Goodies, the Young Ones, Blackadder and Black Books.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 7 May 2005 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Must find Harvey Birdman too.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 7 May 2005 06:19 (twenty-one years ago)

When oh when are Sealab and Aqua Teen going to be released in the UK? I don't have a multi-region DVD!

I buy a lot of TV DVDs, mainly because I don't hae the time, amount of channels or memory to tune in to my favourite shows, but also because you can watch these again and again whereas with movies you'll watch them no more than 3 or 4 times.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 7 May 2005 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah precisely, thats why I get them too :)

I gave up hoping shit would get region 4 release here (the whole regioning system is a joke), and though most of my dvds are r4, I have a regionless dvd and an NTSC capable tv so its all good.

Most dvd players here are easily region-disabled because of the region 4 joke.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 7 May 2005 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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