Customer Reviews

Ellen - The Complete Season Five

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I really enjoy this DVD and series, but the episodes are out of order! They do not follow the order in which they were aired on television. This is obvious if you watch them in the order they are on the DVD. Check on IMDb for the correct chronological order and the season will make much more sense!

Ellen DeGeneres' comedy sitcom's fifth and final season is captured in this complete video set, which presents the lesbian bookstore owner and her host of funny quirky friends. All 22 episodes from the fifth season are included, making for an uninterrupted set, plus two special tribute episodes. It's a 'must have' finale for prior DeGeneres fans and a fine introduction for newcomers - who likely will want to purchase and view the other seasons available from A&E.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

There are lots of memorable moments from this last season of Ellen, but my favorite thing on this set is the two part tribute episode that served as the series' finale. It's hilarious and very clever. It takes you back in time to the 1950's as if Ellen's sitcom had started way back then. It follows Ellen's show through the decades, recreating the look and culture through the years. It's a star filled feature, very well written. One segment has various stars like Helen Hunt auditioning to play the role of "Ellen" before DeGeneres got the role. In the 1970's there is even an Ellen Saturday morning cartoon and breakfast cereal. Genius. Stars like Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Aniston, Tim Conway, Christine Lahti, and Jada Pinkett Smith are especially funny.

I love this final season of Ellen. She has come out, and is now trying out relationships. Same dysfunctional Ellen, but with wonderful lesbian jokes! One of my favourite purchases!

I have the whole show now, and re-watched it all recently after buying. It was sad to see the show end, and I also watched it from a different prospective than I did last time. I'm older and wiser now, and watched it from the "what reason did they cancel the show" perspective. Wow. I could probably go on and on but I'll just keep it short with: Network television blows my mind at how conservative and closed-minded they can be. With re-watching it...a lot of her jokes she made on the show make sense to me now, unlike then. I will have to say about the end of the show...I was like, "Really? THAT'S the end?!" But hey, its a little piece of history I'm glad to own.

This is one of my favorite seasons, I have all Ellen DVDs. However, one odd thing about this dvd is that the first volume of the dvd plays pretty much in every dvd player, even in Europe... they're not region code 1, just like all the other Ellen Seasons. But the weirdest thing is that volume 2 and 3 of Season 5 are all of the sudden region code 1 and they don't play on a European DVD Player. Sure I can watch the episodes on a computer but that is kinda annoying and it absolutely doesn't make any sense that in one dvd pack 1 works for Europe and the 2 other ones don't.

Also I would have appreciated if there had been subtitles for people hard of hearing.

So I have to say, I love the Ellen sit-com but the ones that put it on DVD, they kinda screwed up.

In their ignorance, A&E stripped all closed captions from the DVD's all episodes of this series. (Also no subtitles)

I saw Ellen when it was first shown on British TV in the 1990s. Every episode was packed with funny lines, physical comedy and accurate and hilarious observations. Ellen Degeneres is a brilliant comedy actress and an amazing stand up comedian. The supporting cast too are all excellent. If you haven't discovered Ellen yet and you enjoy laughing then buy this series. You will not be dissappointed.

This is a great season to have as it is the last season. It has some of the funniest shows and brings important issues out. These are all presented with Ellen's unique brand of humor. If you have purchased season four this is a must have.

I just adore Ellen DeGeneres. Her show was ground breaking and I am so pleased to finally complete the entire series with season 5.