I bought W&G yesterday and watched a couple episodes last night. I'm impressed - so far.

"Honey, can I buy you a "little" happy?"

Same here, but I wish that instead of putting a few of the themed featurettes on each disc, they had put them all on one disc, like they did with Season 1. I also wish they hadn't messed up the packaging, as far as which episodes are on each disc. They list five episodes as being on disc 1, but there are actually six, which means that the info for every disc is wrong. But other than that, I love it.

Rob

They screwed up the episode list on one of the Friends sets. I believe the 6th. Ahh.
What does this set have in the way of extras. The last set was a disapointment. The interviews were fine but I felt the features to be totally a waste of time.

I'm waiting for my set from CH. But then again...i'm also waiting for Season 4 from Amazon uk.

Oh yeah, that's another thing that disappointed me about this set. All we get this time are the themed featurettes. Early specs for this set included outtakes and audio commentary; I'm really bummed that they weren't included.

Rob

The episodes and DVD are great, all I want...

wait...there aren't any commentaries or bloopers included????

Nope. Just the themed featurettes.

I was just coming back to this thread to post something else too:

Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled to have this show on DVD, but they sure managed to screw this set up. Besides the aforementioned packaging errors, the episodes on disc 4 are in the wrong order! They have the 2-part season finale ("Ben? Her?") first, followed by the rest of the episodes, which are also in the wrong order. So if you just pop the disc in and click Play (as I often do) they'll play out of sequence.

Rob

Wow...amazingly screwed up.

This sounds just like a rehash of the second season for region 2...though the sequencing wasn't that messed up.

Are the episodes all complete? I know at least 1 from Season 3 is the cut syndicated version. And I know that when they separate the season finales and show them in 2 parts instead of 1 which was how it originally aired, they cut material there as well.

I don't think any of the episodes were cut. I didn't notice anything missing, and the running times seemed pretty consistent.

Can't wait for Season 3!

Rob

Good luck. By the time that comes out, it'll be Winter 2004 and they'll be promising commentaries by everyone including Guapo and bloopers for seasons not 1-10 and what will you end up with? The syndicated versions...completely out of order.

If I'm not mistaken, Season 3 had the first "supersized" episode ("Cheaters"); I hope they include all the extra footage from the syndicated version, when the original 40-minute episode was expanded to two half-hour episodes.

Rob

They do include that. They include the shows as they are presented in syndication. The only problem being that sometimes there are small cuts like when they put the title sequence in, it cuts out a few lines and whatknot. I'm interested to see what happens to the supersize episodes in season 4 and on. I'm betting they'll be cut. I'm getting season 4 in a few weeks and i'lls ee what they did to the Matt Damon episode.

So how is Karen's voice with PAL speed-up?

It's ok. I HATE HATE HATE PAL speed up and aside from W&G I only have 1 movie in PAL. It's not terrible but I have to say it's more noticeable in the other characters than in her. When you think about it, her voice is already high, now they are just a bit higher as well. After season 5 I'm not buying the UK ones any more. I already have all of 5 and 6 complete on dvd from my own masters so I'm not worried as much about those.

Season Two is still quite hilarious and these first episodes on disc one refreshingly tackle some serious issues - trust, greed and human frailty. I don't think that's too shabby for a network "sitcom."

Anyone else get more than just hysterical laughter so far?

This is rediculios. I was looking forward to a real nice set and we get this. Why doesn't W and G get the respect of Friends. Freinds got commentaries, features and a game in most instances. Even the new Everbody Loves Raymond set looks better than this. And you better believe the Seinfeld set will be nice. Why can't they have consistency and give W and G the respect it deserves.