Customer Reviews

CORNER GAS: SEASON 4

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The writing and acting are, as always, superb. But my copy of season 4--along with a couple of friends copies--has serious flaws in the recording. The actual DVDs skip despite the fact that they are not scratched. I assume there is some kind of production error.

The series is incredible. They are hilarious and a great way to pass time. However, I am having an awful time with the Dvds. Season 4 skips terribly, and I am on my second disc from the seller. The seller has sent me a second set, and it skips too. I know it is not the sellers fault, but it is really disappointing to get the season and not be able to watch all the episodes. I saw that I am not the only person with a disc that skips.

Season Four of this comedy is just as good as the previous three. I love this show and wished it would have gone on forever.

Corner Gas is a situational comedy show from Canada. We accidently discovered it when it showed up in our TiVo suggestions. After watching several episodes, we found this show to be funny, witty and family friendly. In our time zone, WGN America broadcasts the show on Tuesday, prior to 6 am. So many folks have yet to discover it.

Corner Gas is a local gas station and mini-mart located in the fictional town of Dog River, Saskatchewan.

Attached to the gas station is a diner. Eight main characters relate the issues of their lives in humorous stand-alone episodes.

Corner Gas, a production of CTV, Canada recently completed their sixth season (107 episodes). Due to the show's high popularity in Canada, DVDs of the first four seasons have been produced.

If you have watched every episode of "Everyone loves Raymond" and Seinfeld and are looking for something fresh, check out Corner Gas

I had read about this show on the internet, but since we don't get WGN I was unable to watch. After watching a few clips online I decided to buy a season for my father - we're hooked, I ended up buying the other available seasons. One of the funniest shows around, we end up watching a few episodes on Friday night. This show isn't for everyone, but if you like shows such as Scrubs, Seinfeld, and the like you will enjoy Corner Gas.

Season 4 has some of the best episodes of the entire Corner Gas series. The episodes really deserve a 5 star rating instead of the 2 stars I give this DVD.

The problem is the DVD's skip and quit playing in all but brand new DVD players. I had to return my first copy, all three disks had problems. My second copy will only play completely in one DVD player for me. The other five seasons of Corner Gas all play much much better than season 4 does. It's a shame because I like season 4 a lot. The season 4 DVD really should be re-issued in a better playing format, then it would be worth 5 stars.

Run time is labeled approx. 435 minutes, or 7 hours and 15 minutes. It's all very funny material, the DVDs just don't play very well.

There are 19 episodes in the season:
disk #1
1. Hair Comes the Judge 8.6/10 rating by TV.com
2. Dog River Dave 8.8
3. Two Degrees of Separation 8.5
4. Just Brent and His Shadow 9.0
5. Demolition 9.2
6. Jail House 9.5
7. I Witness 9.6

disk #2
8. Blog River 9.5
9. Outside Joke 9.6
10. One Piano Four Hands 9.5
11. Kid Stuff 9.7
12. Mother's Day 9.2
13. Census Sensibility 9.7
14. The Good Old Table Hockey Game 9.2

disk #3
15. Lacey Borrows 9.6
16. Potatoe Bowl 9.3
17. Seeing Things 9.0
18. Happy Campers 9.6
19. Gopher It 9.7
Special features: Bloopers and
seven "Mobisodes" of the main characters.

The comedy series is great. The format of the discs is weird (canadian, I guess). some players play it, some don't and some skip a lot. Just depends on unit. My high end unit wouldn't play them properly without skipping a lot, but a cheap unit works great on them? The resolution of these is about the same as they were on TV (pretty low). Great Comedy, poor format.

Season 6 marks a real drop off in series quality - poor writing and non-committal acting, with a bitter undertone. You may want to avoid it. But this DVD, season year 4, stands up to the very best of the previous seasons. If you like what you've seen of Corner Gas, you should like these episodes.

But note, there are clearly laws in the production of this season's discs. You should play each one all of the way through as soon as you get them. All of my problems showed up on the last three tracks of the second and third discs.

If you aren't already a fan of this Canadian series you wouldn't be looking for the DVD. It's one of those special shows that hasn't gotten enough attention. I can tell you the quality of the DVD is excellent, good color, good picture quality and good sound. I have watched it a number of times and loaned it out, still working like the first time.

I've loved this show from the first moment of the first show! The characters are easy to care about and you really want to know what is going to happen next.
Granted, this ain't rocket science. But, how funny is rocket science any way. This show is about tickling your funny bone. Now this kind of humor isn't for everyone....you need to be a little off kilter and appreciate sly wit. But if you think you can handle this family friendly show with a rascally wit, then you just may be ready to be full of gas - Corner Gas, that is!