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| Freakazoid - The Complete First Season | 
| Actor: Paul Rugg
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $26.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (31 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1414
Format: Animated, Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Portuguese (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 300 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 117185
UPC: 085391171850
EAN: 0085391171850
ASIN: B0017INRG8
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: September 9, 1995
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Product Description
Cyber nerd Dexter Douglas surfs the web one fateful night gets swept into a digital techno-electro smash-up that bites him in the gigabytes and ? ZAP! ? goes from geek to freak. To Freakazoid! that is a smart- mouthing butt-kicking mega-voltage superhero with things to do (unless there?s something really good on TV). It?s Freaka-Me Freaka-You fun!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC:085391171850 Manufacturer No:117185
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Conceived by the same team that created Tiny Toons and Animaniacs and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the animated series Freakazoid! was ostensibly about a mild-mannered teen who transformed courtesy a computer virus into a raving lunatic who battled a bizarre gallery of criminals. But as anyone who watched Freakazoid! during its brief network run in the mid-'90s will tell you, that's not what the series was about; in fact, Freakazoid! really wasn't about anything at all. The adventures of Freakazoid were just one element in a rapid-fire barrage of pop culture references, visual and verbal non sequiters (plugs for non-existent toys, stock footage of Bavarian folk dances), and parodies of then-current movies and television series, including other Spielberg-produced cartoons. First-time visitors to Mondo Freakazoid! via this two-disc set will be treated to the sight of the title hero imitating the Emergency Broadcast System signal (before passing out), lessons on how to say obnoxious statements in French, and whole segments devoted to peripheral characters like The Huntsman, who is constantly thwarted in his crime-fighting pursuits, and the Jonny Quest spoof Toby Danger. Suffice it to say that few cartoons are as polarizing as Freakazoid!; viewers will either eat it up or find the whole thing bewildering, as many kid TV viewers during its brief network run. Those ready to take the trip with Freakazoid and pals will find all 13 episodes of its debut season in this set (in what can only be seen as a Freakazoid-like movie, the episodes "Candle Jack" and "The Cloud" are included twice). Three of the episodes feature commentary by producer Tom Ruegger, story editor John McCann and writer Paul Rugg, who also provided Freakazoid's voice. All three are also showcased in an amusing making-of featurette; even funnier is a collection of the show's promotional spots, which mercilessly lampoon a series of artsy cruise ship commercials while providing no actual information about the show itself. --Paul Gaita
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 Hilarious show... subpar DVD October 13, 2008
I'm finding it challenging to accurately "star" this review because I am frankly overjoyed to be able to own this gem of a show on DVD.
THE SHOW: First the good news: The show is hilarious. Rating the DVD on the episodes alone I'd give it a 5 of 5. Some of the humor is decidedly childish, and alot of it relies on a knowledge of the events and culture of the mid-1990s, but when it hits it can be side-splittingly funny. The extended lament on the loss of the aerial tram at Disneyland has made me laugh for over a decade.
The quality of the shows voice acting is consistently excellent, with inspiring performances by Ed Asner, Ricardo Montleban, David Warner, Paul Rugg and others.
The animation quality is on a par with quality Warner TV animation at the time. It comes off as a hypbrid of the styles of Batman: The Animated Series and Animaniacs.
THE DVDs: Now the bad news. This is not a lovingly restored animated show. In fact, compared to a number of other 2-D animated features I own on DVD the show looks downright awful. Noise and artifacting are rampant throughout the discs. It looks worse than a standard def television broadcast of the same material, which is truly a shame.
On a more positive note, the commentary on 3 episodes is very entertaining and the original promotional spots (which I don't remember ever seeing on TV at the time of the shows airing) are a hoot.
SUMMARY: Great show, poor transfer, average special features. I hope it says alot about the quality of the show itself that I will definitely still purchase Season 2 (a meager but rewarding 11 episodes) if/when it is released.
Emmitt Nervend appeared one time in this review
 What you would expect September 28, 2008
I watched Freakazoid! when it was on TV. This collection brought back many fun morning memories and gut busting high jinx.
Finally Freakazoid! September 18, 2008
I have been waiting for this ever since Animaniacs was released on DVD. I used to watch this cartoon every Saturday morning as a kid and now my kids love it. I really hope they release season 2 & 3.
Scream. September 16, 2008
Twice I experienced incontinence on this DVD set. First time was when I saw it on the store shelf (How did this come out without my knowing it?) and again as I watched it.
If you were in middle or secondary school or even college in the 1990s, and awake when Freakazoid! was shown, you watched this. The subreferences are almost on par with the original Warner Brothers cartoons (No flames on that, please, The Lobe is launched on the Alpha Omega bomb from Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Mark Hamill makes one of his earliest of many pokes at his Star Wars past in "Fanboy," I win, you lose, PBBB!)
Come for the nostalgia, stay for the fact that this was up there with Ren and Stimpy as one of the best cartoons of the late twentieth century and the humor still holds up.
KA-BLAM!
Oops.
Signed,
epsteinsmutha (Scream.)
Just as I remember September 15, 2008
It's been so long since this show has been on television (11 years in fact) so it's great to see that it has finally come out to DVD. This Emmy award winning series has so many off color jokes and references that sometimes it gets hard to keep up. If you enjoy the Animaniacs, then Freakazoid is for you.
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