ordered: from amazon, February 7
arrived: February 17 (amazon was much too modest with its delivery-time estimates)
watched: February 17-19
I love tWKUK. I'm just gonna point that out straight up. so, naturally, I bought their season one DVD right away. I considered pre-ordering, but pre-ordering is kind of a bitch.
now the show is great. but this isn't a review of the episodes, because it's not as though I would buy anything I hadn't seen all the episodes of previously and decided were fucking awesome (and in this case, of course, they really are), but the DVD...
format: simple, whatever, easy to navigate. there are nice pictures of them on the sub-menus (the one of Trevor as "Whip Boy" is kind of adorable), and their totally snazzy theme song plays on the main one. I don't think there are any easter eggs, though I haven't watched it on my computer yet because right now it is set to Britland-mode and I don't feel like taking the three seconds it takes to change in case I want to watch "Withnail & I" again any time soon. oh, and you can choose to start each episode sketch-by-sketch, which is really good for wasting even more time.
case: kind of unflattering pictures with the same quotes used a couple of times. it has one of those paper covers on the outside, like Arrested Development Season Two, which of course I keep because I am OCD like that. the two discs come in one case with an extra tray inside, which I guess is easier than the separate cases for switching discs in a hurry, though not really. it's kind of irritating how there is no list of the sketches per episode, or little descriptions of the best sketches per episode, etc., anywhere on the case. please take note, WKUK.
special features: uh, basically none. there is a
2 minute featurette I am planning to put on youtube that looks like it was shot in about 3 minutes on their last shooting day, and three sketches from season 2 (I do like the farting one, but I just don't really like "air dry" and the nail gun one is kind of long). basically, just the commentaries and the fact that the sketches come in a row are all that separate this DVD from my previous youtube-watching.
commentaries: best part of the DVD, for sirrious. the guys get kind of bored towards the end, but are still hi-larious. make sure you watch them all in a row, though, because there are running jokes and story-lines, and that way, you can pretend tWKUK are your best friends. plus they recorded them that way, all at once, with occasional piss-breaks and a shit-furlough between discs one and two.
rating: 9/10 (I did already say I love the Whitest Kids, you know?)
oh, and by the way, how was skydiving, Zach?
buy it on amazon, like chumps like me
