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The Mighty Boosh Special Edition DVD (Seasons 1-3)

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The Mighty Boosh is one of the most creative and fun shows ever made. The writing is hilarious and imaginative, the sets and costumes are delightful, and the songs are funny and catchy. It's truly original, and there just isn't anything else like it.

This is a nifty box set and a must have for fans of TMB. It contains all of the episodes from seasons 1-3 and hours of special features with a lot of good behind the scenes/making of stuff, deleted scenes, outtakes, and Sweet-- a short film written by James Pilkington that stars Julian and Noel. This set also includes art work and stickers. STICKERS! Enough said. Love them.

Words cannot describe how creative and "laugh-out-loud" funny these guys and these shows are... I have all three seasons and am WAITING for the "LIVE DVD" to come out in U.S. format.... The Monty Python for a new generation...

I've got all 3 series of The Mighty Boosh and was lucky to have met them in San Diego and in LA recently. Their Live Show is indescribable but the DVD shows don't do the airing of shows currently being shown on Adult Swim (they cut too much out!!). I cannot wait for this special edition set to arrive. Every true Boosh fan should have this in their Boosh Collection! Once the Collection arrives I can loan my Series 1,2 & 3 to turn more friends and family on to the Boosh. Can't wait until they return to the US for a LIVE Tour!! Don't miss getting in on the Boosh Bandwagon. They're sure to be a HUGE hit for years to come in the States. Incredibly funny and entertaining. The Extras, Outtakes and music on the DVDs is EPIC!! Long Live the Boosh!

I downloaded all three seasons from iTunes, after getting addicted to this show on Adult Swim. The iTunes versions have extra scenes which are even more funny and weird.
From the Crack Fox to the brilliant crimping, this is the most genius show out there at the moment. I love the "homemade" aspect to the sets as well - keeps it as real as howlin' Jimmy Jefferson.
This is a MUST HAVE in your collection if you like to laugh.
BOOSH - please come back LIVE to the US !!

-Melvina, Head Wrangler

This is comedy for smart people - highly intelligent silliness, is how I would sum it up. I was first introduced to this show when it showed up in my netflix recommendations. I started with season 3, then watched seasons 1 and 2. By the time I was done, I was ready to watch them all over again, so I decided to go ahead and buy the dvds. Both of those are rare events - I can't remember the last time I liked something so much I wanted to watch it again immediately, and as a rule I don't buy dvds (why should I when they're so easy to rent?). What sets this show apart for me is the range of talent of both Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt. Noel was an art student when he and Julian first started performing together, he designs many of the costumes and the look of the show. Julian is a very versatile musician and composes all of the music, in a wide range of styles. This isn't just normal, everyday comedy - both of them have extremely fertile imaginations that takes them out of the humdrum into the fantastical. In one episode they find an amulet, they push the button and end up on another planet, but when it's time to go home it doesn't work - the batteries have gone dead. They make friends with coconuts, spurn advances from transsexual sea creatures, and become possessed by the spirit in a voodoo jazz LP, to name a few examples. The other thing that I love about it is that in general, it is very good-natured. They don't make fun of people or types, or put people in difficult positions. Noel's character, Vince Noir, does like to tease Howard Moon (Julian Barratt), but he often does it with a smile, you can feel the depth of the bond between the two of them (which is expressed more directly in various episodes - especially The Party, season 3). It is without reserve the best entertainment I have come across in years. I really hope they release the live dvd over here, and maybe even come back for a tour???

Sometimes I wonder what they have in the water in England. First they produced "Monty Python," and now they have "The Mighty Boosh."

And while the basic description sounds like a slightly-out-of-the-ordinary sitcom, the reality is anything but. "The Mighty Boosh: The Special Edition Seasons 1-3" is a sitcom drizzled with acid and punched through with the surreal, where the most mundane activities become freakishly bizarre. Lots of raunchy humor, silly puppets, songs and journeys into other realms -- it's a head-trip, and you'll love every second of it.

It follows the awkward cream-poet Howard Moon (Julian Barratt) and flamboyant wacky Vince Noir (Noel Fielding). In the first season, the two guys work at a zoo called the Zooniverse, then they live together in a flat (with an extraterrestrial mystic and an ape) as they try to break into the music business, and finally Howard is employed at a boutique called the Nabootique (owned by aforementioned mystic) while Vince continues trying to break into music.

Along the way we've got the Hitcher (eels!), breeding yetis, the Spirit of Jazz, a deranged sea hermaphrodite called Old Gregg, black magic and Shaman Juice, Nanageddon, a "Fantastic Voyage" to save Vince from an evil jazz cell, a pair of copycats who mimic everything Vince and Howard do, the Crack Fox, a mad scientist kidnapping animals, drainpipe pants, the sapphire Egg of Mantumbi, and kangaroo boxing. And that's only SOME of it.

"The Mighty Boosh" is your basic average sitcom... on enough acid to fry its colorful little brains and send it flying across the universe on Naboo's magic carpet. This is a universe where the moon regularly says weird and nonsensical things, an extraterrestrial shaman and a talking gorilla live in the next room, and random things happen all the time (why is Howard dressed like Gandalf?) -- and these aren't the weirdest things that go on.

As if the plots weren't surreal enough, Barratt and Fielding swathe the entire series in a sort of whimsical weirdness. Lots of strange dialogue ("Some say he is the devil himself. Others say he is a man pretending to be the devil with green makeup and special lighting"), toilet humor (naturally), bizarre life-forms (Yetis! Wizards! Aliens! Old Gregg and his... oh, I can't say it!), weird outfits for Vine, and a casual acceptance that anything can and will happen.

But the crowning touch is Barrett and Fielding. Howard is rather fuddy-duddy, awkward and considers himself artistic, while Vince is dandyish, arrogant and has the attention span of a gnat -- and both actors are brilliant at bringing these guys to life (as well as various side roles like the moon and a pair of shamans). And Michael Fielding" is utterly brilliant as the weirdly sedate shaman Naboo.

Surreal, trippy and utterly bizarre, "The Mighty Boosh" is one of those wonderfully bizarre shows doesn't even need a laugh track. I have to kiss you passionately on the mouth!

I am loving this Box Set of the Mighty Boosh. These shows are uncut unlike the episodes shown on Adult Swim. I too am waiting for the LIVE Concert on DVD.

I would like to know what problems other customers have had with this set since Amazon pulled all the stock of this set to investigate a problem.

I have not finished watching all of it yet BUT would like to know what to look for so I can return and exchange it for a perfect copy!

Does anyone have a clue to the complaints?

I have seen all three season of The Mighty Boosh. My opinion is that Noel Fielding and Julian Barrett are the most innovative writers in British Comedy this decade. Their series is hilariously funny and addictive. I recommend it highly.

I got hooked on this show after seeing it on adult swim. I just got the box set a day early 10/12/09 and it's even better than what they show on adult swim here in the States. There's plenty of extra footage that I've already noticed and i've only gotten through disc 1 of 7. The first six discs are all three seasons and the 7th is all bonus material. Great Buy!

This is absolutely a must-have for all Boosh fans. And for newcomers, you might as well start here, because you're going to wind up wanting it anyway. Everything you could desire (all three series, all the extras, even a sheet of ridiculously adorable stickers) is here. The only way this set could be better is if the live shows and the documentary "Journey of the Childmen" could have been included. But at seven discs, it's already fit to burst. The special features disc, unique to this set, takes you on an adventure not dissimilar to the show itself: unabashedly childlike, deceptively clever, delightfully absurd, vibrant and hilarious. Navigating through the features becomes almost as much fun as watching the features themselves.

The Mighty Boosh is a whirlwind show that grows stronger with each viewing. It's like a fine wine... wrapped in a crocheted cozy with googly eyes glued onto it.