Product Details

• Actors: Tony Randall, Jack Klugman, Al Molinaro, Penny Marshall, Elinor Donahue
• Writers: Howard Merrill
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Mono)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: November 18, 2008
• Run Time: 562 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001DHXT52
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,583 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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"No learning" was Seinfeld’s misanthropic mantra. But Jerry and company had nothing on Oscar and Felix. For five years, these two divorced men, the best of friends but the worst of roommates, failed hilariously as they tried to live together without driving each other crazy. Oscar (Jack Klugman) and Felix (Tony Randall, an Emmy winner this season) may each proclaim they are turning over a new leaf in this beloved series’ finale, but Oscar will always be a slob and Felix will always be a neurotic fussbudget. The Odd Couple may not have delivered the ratings in its five season run, but episode after episode, it dependably delivered the laughs, thanks to Klugman and Randall’s pure chemistry and the palpable charge they got from performing in front of a live audience. The Odd Couple pretty much goes out on top with several standout episodes. In the flashback episode, "Our Fathers," Klugman and Randall portray their characters’ fathers in Roaring ‘20s Chicago. Brett Somers, who portrayed Oscar’s dread ex-wife, is missed this season, but there are plenty of familiar faces and star cameos. Paul Williams, Howard Cosell, opera singer Martina Arroyo, Richard Dawson, Bob Hope, and--trivia alert--Rodney Allen Rippy appear as themselves, while Roy Clark, oddly enough, doesn’t portray Roy Clark in "The Roy Clark Show." Pernell Roberts (Bonanza) is a gambler to whom Oscar finds himself in debt in "Strike Up the Band or Else." The great Elisha Cook, Jr. (The Maltese Falcon) is a mob hit man (or is he?) in "Our Fathers." And in "The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly in Vain," that’s Rob Reiner as "Sheld’n," the boyfriend of Oscar’s steadfast secretary Myrna, portrayed to nasal perfection by Reiner’s then-wife, Penny Marshall. As with Seinfeld, The Odd Couple is inextricably bound to New York. " Two on the Aisle" finds theatre buff Felix in his element, unwittingly reviewing plays for sportswriter Oscar (this episode features a better late than never cameo by Odd Couple playwright Neil Simon, as well as theatre critic John Simon). In "The Subway Story," Felix is determined to prove to Oscar that all New Yorkers aren’t rude. Sudden fade ins and outs suggest that some musical performances could not be cleared for this DVD, but at least the Paul Williams and Roy Clark episodes seem to have emerged unscathed. There’s one more Seinfeld connection. In "Strike Up the Band or Else," we may hear the origin of the odd exclamation, "You can stuff your sorrys in a sack, mister," which was a recurring bit in "The Betrayal" from Seinfeld’s own final season. "Felix Remarries" brings The Odd Couple to a satisfying conclusion, and brings down the curtain on one of TV’s great comedy teams. --Donald Liebenson

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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 11/18/2008 Run time: 562 minutes

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Music edits again bring the rating down, November 24, 2008

By	dj206 (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

Sadly, the worst edit of all was removing Oscar's "Singing In the Rain" bit at the end of the scene in "Felix Remarries" Five to ten seconds of this song was too expensive to leave in the show? It completely changes changes.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cheapskates, December 28, 2008

By	Nik Ranieri - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Less 2 stars due solely to the editing of content.
I am in complete agreement with other buyers about the edits and I use the word "complete" literally, unlike Paramount/CBS when they say "The COMPLETE Final Season". In a previous season, an entire gag about trying to get Felix to go to sleep (featuring the song "Dream") was cut. This season, one of my favorite episodes, "Strike up the band or else..." had gags cut involving the song "In Some Secluded Rendezvous"(sung twice in the show by Tony Randall and Pernell Roberts). How expensive can these songs be that you have to butcher these episodes. Charge a little extra with the guarantee that all the episodes are intact and you'll sell just a many if not more.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Annoying Edits, December 1, 2008

By	True Crime Reader "nycfs" (NYC) - See all my reviews

Another song edited out. The episode "Your Mother Wears Army Boots" has Martina Arroyo sing For Once In Your Life to Howard Cosell at the end, with Oscar lip-synching along with her in a very nice moment in the show. The edits are very fustrating. These are supposed to be DVDs of the complete episodes. If there is time and place to show them complete and intact it should be in this format. I'll admit...all throughout the five seasons DVD's I have noticed they added little snippets of scenes I never saw on TV during syndication, but I think Paramount loses credit when they edit out other parts.