I think we need to find out more about this. I may call my local Suncoast to see if they have it and I encourage other people to do the same. Even if they do have it on the shelf, though, I don't see how they can sell it for $69.98 when that's the price they are selling the regular set for.

Bought the 6-disc set blind and have finished half of the discs so far. God, this show is so awesome. I just ordered the Yerabook edition from the website and it took my order, so hopefully they are still available! I usually have no interest in extras but this set is something special.

Do we have any more info as to whether or not these actually showed up in stores?

Thanks,

Dan

Can you confirm which store you found it at? Was it at one of the following?


Store 1
Suncoast
Northpark Mall #241
1200 E County Line Road
Ridgeland, MS 39157
601-956-2827
view map | view directions


Store 2
Suncoast
Dogwood Festival Market, Space D-3
214 Dogwood Blvd
Flowood, MS 39232
601-919-9810
view map | view directions


Store 3
Suncoast
Bonita Lakes Mall
1090 Bonita Lakes Circle
Meridian, MS 39301
601-482-2760
view map | view directions

Its funny because Suncoast.com lists the regular set at 69.99

I went to one Suncoast in Long Island, and called up another - no dice on the 8-Disc edition....d'oh!

I bought the regular 6-disc version a few weeks ago as a semi-blind buy!

I remember watching a few minutes of an episode (Tricks and Treats) when it first aired and a part of Cheap Trick's "Gonna Raise Hell" was playing.

Since I'm a HUGE CT fan, and I've read about the hype surrounding this series, I just had to check it out....and it's awesome. Still deciding about whether I want to pluck down $120 when I just spent $45 at Amazon!

For the majority of unlucky ones who can't find them in Suncoast, I ordered my Yearbook last week, direct from the F&G website and they still have them in stock and I should have it tomorrow by UPS 2-Day. I never received the comfirmation email, but I contacted the extremely helpful customer service and they immediately responded and gave me the tracking number.

What's everyone's favorite episodes/moments, etc?

I'm going to buy the 6 disk set blind my next paycheck (damn ticket for running a stop sign taking all of whats left of mine this week). IMO no special features are worth $60

I always get a kick out of the last 2 episodes. "Little Things" and "Discos and Dragons."

Ben Stiller is hilarious. I love his speech about how he hates his life of a Vice President body gaurd. "You ever hear of somebody assassanating the vice president? Cause guess what, nobody cares!" That entire episode is very good, but the whole thing caught me a little offgaurd though.

Discos and Dragons just leaves everything on such a great note, but very open for possibilities. Seeing Daniel interact with all the geeks was excellent. All the Grateful Dead stuff was great as well. In my mind, those are the top 2 episodes. I'd probably rate D&D a little higher.

Now that you mention it...I'm curious...

In the last ep, Lindsey was on the bus...but, she eventually got out and met her friends. I'm probably thinking too hard on this, but how did that happen? Like, do you think she never planned to go (I forget where her real destination on the bus was to) to her real destination and planned to meet Kim and her friends all along? If not, how did they just happen to be at a bus stop when she got off? It's not like cell phones were big in the 80's or anything. She couldn't have just called Kim and said, "Screw it, Im meeting you guys, meet me as this bus stop...."

I'm just curious if I missed something? I watched the finale a month or so ago, so I may be forgetting.

I definitely think she was already planning on meeting Kim.

My question is how come the season spans an entire school year
(at least from pre-Halloween to Summer vacation) and yet it's never Winter. We're talking Michigan here. Did they just skip that part of the year? I realize it's probably a budget thing since it's hard to shoot Winter in California, but it's just strange.

^^Interesting point. I never thought about it. I could be totally wrong, but I don't think it's THAT expensive to take grounded soap or whatever and litter it on the ground and onto trees for snow effect.

I'm curious, is there any particular commentary that's really worth listening to? I'm still making my way through the special features.

I also always figured she planned to go with Kim all along. Lindsay only got on the bus to make her parents think she was really going to the teen conference or whatever. If you watch closely when she's leaving, everyone seems a little suprised by how she's hugging & kissing them--acting like she's not going to see them for a long time, if ever, when they think she's only going to be gone a month. I figure she just told Kim to meet her at the first bus stop & then they'd go off together.

I also wondered about the odd lack of snow on the show. Maybe 1980 was a very mild winter in Michigan?

In one of the commentaries they say that fans often wonder why the Halloween vandalism sequence was done in broad daylight. Their response is that it was too expensive to pay the young actors to work night hours,
so it sounds like they were on a pretty tight budget.

As far as recommended commentaries, I've only listened to four and I like them all, but I'm always a commentaries-enjoying kind of guy.

All the episode commentaries I listened to were good (I didn't listen to "the parents" or "the fans", though), however I specifically suggest avoiding the commentaries over the deleted scenes, as they largely consist of Apatow saying "Why are we doing a commentary for these scenes? Nobody will listen to this!" and then insulting people who want to listen (but not even in a funny way, just in a "I don't understand DVD" way).

I don't think it does, exactly; I've always thought that most of the school year was skipped, that the last few episodes take place at the end of a school year which we clearly didn't see all of.

Like, what happens with the election? At the beginning, Jimmy Carter is the president (Alan's line in the shower episode), and at the end, Ronald Reagan is (Bush being VP), but there's never any mention of that switchover going on, even in the backgrounds ... there's no winter, as you say ... there's a big jump (Neil's grades have been slipping for months) from 'The Garage Door' to the one with the ventriloquist's dummy ... the time of the show is loose that way. Which is cool; the season has enough events happen, yet it still feels as if we're only hearing anecdotes from a friend, rather than being told every single thing that happened to them in a year.

Got four more episodes to watch, so I'll post with my faves when I'm done with those!

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I really enjoyed the teachers' commentary on "Tests & Breasts," everyone does a great job improvising and staying in character.

Hard to pick between the pilot and Smooching and Mooching, but I'll have to go with S&M, just for the scene with Bill in the closet. One of the greatest TV moments ever! The last episode was great as well, but a little too depressing for me. Can't wait to check out the commentaries now.

Hey guys,

What did you think of the "Bus" Script that's on disc 8? Like it? Dislike?

Also, how much replay value (purely based on the shows themselves, not extras) do you think this has? Do you think you'll watch the 18 episodes often like other tv shows on dvd set collections you have?

I haven't checked out the "Bus" script yet, I am going through the special features on Disc 7 right now, I Just finished the Q&A.

As for replay value, this is the only TV Show DVD set I have watched completely through 3 times, without commentaries or extras. I blindly bought this and couldn't believe how great this show was that I watched it again with my brother (he ended up buying one as well) and have since watched it again.

I own all of the Friends, Simpsons, King of Queens, Family Guy, Futurama, 24, Sopranos, and a few others and none of those have gotten replayed as much as my F&G set.

Here's some geek trivia for ya. I just watched "Looks and Books". Near the beginning of the episode, Harris is sitting at the table with the other geeks. He is holding a copy of the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide. The edition he is holding didn't come out until 1983(cover shows the DM opening a pair of doors).

http://www.acaeum.com/DDIndexes/SetPages/DMG.html

An Efreet should have been on the cover since the show takes place in 1980-1981.

I'd guess that I'll watch these several times.

So...anyone check out the Bus script yet?