How Long Until Everything is on DVD?Follow

Wandering the aisles of the local Best Buy today, picking up a copy of the latest Futurama collection, I noticed something: there's a crapload of old television on DVD these days. In fact the TV-DVD collection was threatening to outnumber the actual films on DVD. So I'm eyeballing what they've got and I see all the cult classics you'd expect: V, Dukes of Hazzard, Xena, etc. And I see the Flintstones. First season of the Flintstones for $55 or so. Ok, I admit that the Flintstones was probably quite influential in the world of animation and I know that it was based off the Honeymooners and a lot of the humor is aimed at adults but... man, $55 to watch a handful of episodes you've probably seen 35,000 times seemed a bit steep. Ok, whatever.

Moving on along... ALF. ALF? There's actually people out there thinking "life would be better if I had the first season of ALF at my fingertips"? Are there still cable stations out there showing ALF? Everyone knows who ALF is but if I was to throw out a witty one-liner from the show could any of you actually identify it? Although I suppose ALF did get a made for TV movie and a reunion show. You know who didn't?

Who's The Boss?. WTF? Who in God's holy name actually wants to watch the entire first season of Who's the Boss?? Unless you have some perverse desire to leer at an eleven year old Alyssa Milano, what market could that show possibly have?

So I'm giving it a year and a half before every show from 1978-1999 is on DVD. Small Wonder? On DVD. Manimal? With director's commentary. Jennifer Slept Here? Extras including a segment on Ann Jillian's battle with breast cancer. An entire generation of television archived and on the shelf at Best Buy.

Off topic, they also had a $5 rack of movies and I wanted to buy Glitter just for the giggles of owning it but I couldn't bring myself to actually take it up to the register.

Right now Blockbuster has a thing that if you bring in your VHS, in good condition, they will give you 8 dollars. Serioulsy, no matter what movie. They gave my cousin $8 for Robin Hood: Men in tights. She payed $2 at a yardsale for it.

Anyways, take in 5 movies, BAM. $40.00 Turn around, buy thier 4 DVD's for $20. 8 DVD's for $40. Thier okay movies to.

The Butterfly Effect, Thirteen, Crossroads (okay not crossroads) but yeah.....

Out with the old, in with the new....

I just can't bring myself to get rid of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles though....Great movie on VHS.

Rose politely shows her bits to good effect in that movie though-- keep one copy for those Friday nights you don't have a date, Jo.

Totem

Manimal was the bee's knees. I wanted to have a house like that kid's, with panthers in the wall and whatnot. I bet it was a ***** to clean, though.

Edited, Sun Oct 10 20:20:06 2004 by Atomicflea

For that matter, I had quite the crush on Ann Jillian. Not sure if I'd buy a boxed set of Jennifer Slept Here though.

But I'd buy it before I bought Glitter

With Ann Jillian? I dunno.. she's got to be getting up there in years by now.

Santa doesn't like smartasses.

the real question is How Long Until Everything is on DVDA?