Customer Reviews

Men Behaving Badly - The Complete Series

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I've been waiting for this comedy to be released on DVD for quite some time. Several years ago, I heard of it's impending release, only to find out it was the British Men Behaving Badly show. I was disappointed, to say the least. I was 16 when this show was on, but remember watching it every week. I also enjoyed Drew Carey and a Fred Savage-led show called "Working".

This show was basically the bachelor roommate that technically had been done several times before with varying degrees of results. The comedy was crude (especially for that period), but funny. One bit I remember, was when Jamie (Schneider's character), not finding any coffee filters, uses his underwear to make him morning coffee. Stupid, yes. Funny, definitely. Ron Eldard, played his buddy Kevin and Justine Bateman played Sarah.

The reason the show only gets 4 stars: Probably due to either lack of faith, lack of money, or lack of ratings (due to going up against The Cosby Show), Bateman and Eldard took off leaving Schneider carrying the comedic load with some less funny characters. The show was yanked off the air early in its second season. The good news with this DVD release, is the addition of 7!! never-before-seen episodes from season 2. Now I'm not sure if that's good or bad due to the quality of acting, but still a joy nonetheless. I will be purchasing this one and will laugh my [...] off. Cheers!

This show was one of the funniest shows ever!! I have a VHS tape of a few episodes and I'm very happy to see a DVD coming out. I've been checking around for a few years to see if I could get my hands on something like this!!!
It was a shame that the cast could not get along. The first season was so funny. The second season bombed, I stopped watching after the first couple episodes. This DVD is definitely worth it!!!!

I totally love this show and was mad as h---! when it was taken off.Why do studios put shows up against high rated shows on other networks is beyond me.Especially when they are starting out. Rob has some of the best comedic ablility in the business.It surely showed in this show and in all the movies he's done. I hope he looks for another venue someday in tv, but am glad he is entertaining us in the movies.Thank so much for bring this show to DVD, I will definitely buy it. RB

I used to watch this show when it was on the air and I loved it. I thought Rob Schneider and Ron Eldard did a great job and I was really sad when it got cancelled. It used to be my favorite show. I am so excited that it now on DVD and I'm really looking forward to watching it all over again.

This show is not for everyone and you really need to appreciate this type of comedy to get into it. I still remember some of the great lines from this show and wondered if it would ever be available. I just got the DVDs and since my husband has never seen it, I'm looking foward to introducing it to him.

I remember loving this show years ago and mourned that it ended so suddenly. The writing was witty, sharp and had us men pegged down.

Watching these episodes now makes me wonder if it were shown again following or during the lineup of TWO AND A HALF MEN and BIG BANG THEORY if it wouldn't be a hit? There hasn't been a funnier scene in a comedy than watching Jamie making coffee in the first episode.

These DVD's came quickly are in perfect condition. Very pleased

Couldnt believe finding this series after watching it at least 12 years ago on ZBC in zimbabwe. watched the complete series i bought on amazon and was so impressed i still remembered the funny bits... well they are epic!!!! didnt realise that on the 4th disk was new actors, but still excellent.... definately a great buy!

my husband loved this show when it was on the air. He has looked a couple of times to buy it. I was tickled that I found it and now I am saving it for Christmas....now I just have to hope he does not see it somewhere and pick it up on his own:)

I love BBC shows, the BBC version of coupling is my all time favorite sitcom, nothing else ever made me laugh so much my stomach hurt and my eyes watered. But that being said, I never cared for the BBC version of Men Behaving Badly. I did like the US version though, despite not liking Rob Schneider at all in anything else. I liked back then seeing Justine Bateman in something with more depth than Mallory on Family Ties (though she did a great job playing the ditz).

Some of the parts of the show are the normal lame, contrived, idiotic junk that seems to plague most sitcoms in the US, but some are pure genius. The characters play well together and play off one another well, straight man changing characters as they share the zingers...

Even though it's just a sitcom, the characters get fleshed out pretty well, at least as well as you can with a show cancelled as early as this one was.

DVD isn't as impressive though, I have some issues with audio sync if I do my media center 30 second jump, and it happens on any PC I play it on, pc or mac, whereas the other shows I have DVD's of don't do that slightly out of sync lip movement for a bit after doing a fast forward or 30 second jump. So I don't bother skipping the intro song anymore because it's too annoying for the first 30 to 60 seconds it takes to sync up again.

If you liked the show, good thing to grab, and if you never saw it it's worth renting at least. Not quite on par for me with 2 Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place, which had far better witty lines, but definitely laughs in every episode.

I was a fan of the first season with Ron Eldard and Justine Bateman. Like most of the reviewers here, I enjoyed their chemistry and I thought a number of the episodes were very funny (I used to watch them over and over on my VHS tapes until I lost them). I also am glad to see it on DVD. I discovered this show midway into the first season, and I missed the earlier (the ones with Julia Campbell) episodes. I don't recall seeing these in syndication (don't know if this show even made it to syndication, so it is a real treat to see the first Season 1 episodes. I also agree with a lot of the reviewers in that this show lost a lot of momentum with the departure of Ron Eldard and Justine Batemen. I didn't really take to the replacements, and the show lost a lot of its humor (which for me was created by the interactions of Eldard, Schneider, and Bateman, as much as from the writing).

Even though I lost interest early into the Season 2 run, I did watch all of the Season 2 episodes this time around, and most of them were entertaining, just not as funny as the earlier Season 1 episodes. If you watch the last unaired episode, Carpe Dino, you will see a very young Drake Bell (Drake & Josh).

Either way, if you enjoyed this show during the mid-90's, this DVD set will bring back these episodes, and you will also get to see the 7 unaired ones.

I watched these on TV 10 years ago and couldn't wait for the DVD. I laughed my behind off on every episode in the first season. The second season with the departure of "Kevin" and "Sarah" is not as good but still funny and worth watching.