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Comedy Central's TV Funhouse

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Apparently some people are unaware that there used to be a spinoff show for the TV Funhouse franchise which is why some have been disappointed that certain material has been left off. This DVD release has all the episodes and material that was shown on the original series show on Comedy Central, but anything that was on Saturday Night Live is not on the DVD because it was never on the circa-2001 cable show. The picture quality and sound are top notch and look better than when they appeared on TV at the beginning of the last decade.

I first saw TV Funhouse when it aired on comedy central. I'm a big comedy fan and I have to admit I have a pretty open minded outlook. This is truly one of the funniest shows ever aired in the history of television. If you like Triumph the Insult Comic type humor then you will love this. I personally feel that if you have never sampled this hilarious series then you have never really experienced the comedy genre. Many of you will find parts of it offensive, some parts will just not make you laugh, but I can guarantee you will find something in this show that makes you laugh uncontrollably. And don't expect your typical vanilla snl bs either.

- test subject monkey: "i have eight watches, none of them are fake!"
- terrorist bunny: "they will not help you this time, my friend!"

best-line-ever!

Just watched the first disc and was VERY disappointed that "The Harlem Globetrotters First Christmas" cartoon was left off the Christmas show. The TV Funhouse Christmas show is my favorite Christmas show of all time, but the DVD set is missing this excellent blasphemous cartoon. I thought I would finally be able to lose the DVD I burned of the Christmas show off cable, but now it looks like I'd better keep it commercials and all. It's a pity they would do this and expect people not to notice. For this reason alone I subtract two stars.

Finally on DVD!! Way ahead of it's time: smart, subversive, and imaginative. Hopefully this DVD sells billions of copies and Comedy Central will have to get on their collective hands and knees and beg Robert Smigel to write 5 more seasons. Bring this show back!!!

YESSS!! Ive been waiting years for this to come out! like everyone else ive got a vhs tape that i taped off of one of those midnight marathons of TV Funhouse they used to run but its getting very worn out. ive nearly stopped watching it so that it would last a little longer but i can rest assured now. Horray for Mexicans Day!

I enjoyed TV funhoiuse when it was on Comedy central, now here it is again. this type of humor is not for everybody, you have understand the "back stories" to get most of it, however those of us that grew up in the fifties and sixties will find TV fun house to be a hoot

I was just randomly searching for this show, not expecting it to be planned for DVD release, but how happy I am to see that it is. This show was some of the most disturbingly hilarious comedy I've ever seen. I'll never forget the bit where Triumph is humping the poodle in the park and can't free himself ("it's not funny. I was f@#?ing this dog and got stuuuuck.") I haven't even seen the episodes since I saw them on Comedy Central (I think this show came out in 2000?). Robert Smigel is behind this show, so you know you're in for some highly original and smart comedy. Apparently, it features a commentary from Smigel as well which makes the bonus features worth it.
Can't wait!!!

I have been waiting for this series to be released on DVD for eight years, since I bought my first DVD player, and finally, it has arrived. I simply cannot understand why it took so long, based on its presumably enormous cult following (basically, everyone that's ever seen it has been waiting for its DVD release as impatiently as I have), but let's not dwell on that any longer.

"TV funhouse" matches even "The Simpsons" (when I mention "The Simpsons," I mean the show that existed before season nine; it became a different series at that point (see: witless and aimed at the politically/socially unaware)) in pure knee-slapping, literally burst-out-loud-laughing hilarity, and it simply MUST be owned on DVD by anyone who enjoys, well, hilarious stuff! Stemming from SNL, one of the unfunniest shows on television for at least the last fifteen years, I was simply *shocked* to realize how amazingly funny it actually is; I stayed up on multiple occasions to watch the marathons, as did millions of others (despite the low "ratings"), and I have seen each episode at least ten times as a result. With each additional viewing, its brilliance becomes ever more apparent, and I will simply never be tired of it.

Why, might you ask? "TV Funhouse" is mostly a satirical commentary/parody of children's programming (Sesame Street, Mr. Rodgers, etc.) that takes the false image of perfect happiness and harmony and twists it into harsh reality (the implied psychosis of the host, animal mistreatment, etc.), and despite the reality of the images it presents, it's all absolutely hilarious, as previously mentioned. The program also mocks cartoons of the 60's/70's (Wonderman, Fetal Scooby Doo...absolutely priceless...), as well as other 50's-era "programming" (mnemonics, etc. ...hilarious).

I, for one, feel that a petition should be created to get this show back on the air ASAP! I will never understand, despite its squarely adult audience, why it never got the critical support it deserved, and why it was cancelled in its infancy as a result (especially as "The Simpsons" remains on the air, at least ten years ahead of the most recent time it could be deemed "funny" ("painful" is now the term I hear applied most frequently)).

In any event, should you be one of the poor, unfortunate souls that has never experienced Comedy Central's "TV Funhouse" (and for God's sake, I am NOT referring to the garbage of the same name on SNL that this ingenious creation "originated" from...), you simply MUST purchase this set now. Honestly, I don't know how anyone couldn't enjoy it, on one level or another (well, I suppose that animal rights' advocates might have some issues with it, but...). Buy it now!

I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but once again I'm grateful to Amazon for making it so easy to get stuff that would otherwise be impossible to find in stores. I think.