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Tom Goes to the Mayor - The Complete Series

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Tom Goes to the Mayor is pretty much what the plot synopsis says here. Tom goes to the Mayor, and pitches an idea ranging from terrible, to mildly bad, to mediorce. The Mayor takes this idea and makes it worst. Hillarity ensues. It might sound boring, and repetitive on paper, but thanks to the wild, and creepy imaginations of Tim, and Eric, the creators, plus some truly sick writers, the show is great.

It's definitely not a show for everyone, but what TV show is for everyone? If you like surreal humor, and awkward situations that involve a bumbling Mayor, and an incredibly naieve idiot, you'll like this.

A lot of people don't like this show. A lot of people are stupid.

2004...

A year that will live on as one that produced some of the most polarized, non-sequiter Television shows to date. A year, that took the phrase "Mayor's Office!" from a unuttered declaration to a one of the most beloved (and hated) phrases known to Adult Swim viewerrs everywhere.
Tom Goes To The Mayor has got to be one of the most intriguing TV shows I've seen in a long long while, if not because it's so different! It's mix of (occasionally) delightfully tasteless, many times alkward, but always funny humor places the phrase "You either love it, or you hate it) to a new tier. The plot of the whole series is pretty much the same throughout. Tom goes to the mayor, pitches and idea, and all hell breaks loose. But, while this may sound like a theme that would get stale by the third episode, TGTTM manages to keep it fresh with their humerously wacky, wonderfully demented, and just plain "What the hell?" elements.
Many people, for those reasons, hate this show. In a world where Aqua Teen Hunger Force is the farthest many people are willing to go for polarized humor, Tom Goes To The Mayor often takes it just a little too far, boarderlining on Monty Python-esque humor. (In one episode, a Monkey jumps out of an Eclair.) For many, seeing a monkey leap out of a giant eclair is just too much for their conformist brains to handle. Even for us that enjoy the series, it does sometimes make our (mine anyway) brains itch. But it's all in good fun! This DVD collection is the ultimate for any Tom fans out there (mainly because it's the whole TGTTM world in a three disc set). For people who don't like the Tom Goes to the Mayor series, then for god's sake, don't get it! Go find an old theme park to rebuild, just to burn to the ground, or solve the issue of child safety by employing bear traps, but if you hate the series, then don't get these DVDs. More for us fans! ;)

Tom Goes to the Mayor is a hilarious and bizarre cartoon in which every episode finds Tom Peters in some way attempting to work with the Mayor of the lovely town of Jefferton on some poorly conceived plan. The show is often random, bizarre, disgusting and just generally crazy. It's entirely possible you just won't get the show and I certainly wouldn't blame you if you didn't. But fans of other unusual adult cartoon shows (Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab, etc.) will likely fall in love with the inspired absurdity of this show. Virtually every one of the 30 episodes is worth a viewing, and the show is loaded with great guest stars including Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Jeff Goldblum, Sarah Silverman, Gary Busey, Michael Ian Black, Fred Willard, and countless more. The only drawback to the DVD set is that the special features are rather disappointing. There just isn't a whole lot of good content there, and some bits of material are even directly repeated in different portions of bonus materials. Despite this one drawback, however, it's a phenomenal show, all 30 episodes of which are collected in this set. This show isn't for everyone, but if it's for you, you're going to love it.

Even as a hardened surrealist and maven of bizzaro humour, It took me a few viewings to actually get TGTTM... but once I did, I was gotten good. The Aussie Adult Swim channel kept repeating the same 5 episodes, so when the DVD came out I was quick to purchase.

I can't add much to Paul Gaita's appraisal, but this is the most often-watched DVD set I own. TGTTM is groundbreaking stuff... Look at the premise: A born loser makes goofy proposals to an insane bureaucrat, who distorts them to his own end. I know, this happens every day in real life, too. But who would have thought to make a cartoon series about it?

And the unique style of the animation, with its quick cuts between character expressions and movements is hilarious in its own right. (See - Tom: "I've had a very... FRUSTRATING DAY"; and the Mayor: "Vehicular Manslaughter - FIRST DEGREE" for choice examples of this.)

Five thumbs up-

Peter Markmann
Australia

Chances are, if you don't get the humor, they're making fun of you.

Ya blew it, kapeesh?

Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim never seem to disappoint with any of their projects. Especially with the one that put their name out there in the first place. They are comic geniuses and this DVD series just proves that even more.

i cant wait to purchase this and watch it over and over and over

tim and eric are the best people in comedy today

if you get over your "maturity" and desire for witty sex jokes
you will lurve this show as i do.

I have no idea what words to use to make this product perform right out of the box. So, let's see what Daniel Eagan of Niagara Falls, NY had to say in his thoughtful, 5-star critique of Full House Season 1 on DVD entitled "full house on dvd you got it dude bring on season 2":

"full house is still funny today and the episode quality on dvd is better then tv and the commentary is the best what would be great is if full house did a renuion special maybe abc will do it I would like that as well"

I feel that.

Awesomeness! Not sure if its your bag? Go to youtube and watch the clip with Gibbons, the 'man creature' (or anything involving Tom's aptly named wife, Joy) and you will know whether or not you have a sense of humor

Such a quirky ensemble of characters and gimmicks, if you don't think this show is funny than 'rats off to ya'