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Mr Show: The Complete Collection [6 Discs] - DVD

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Rating: TVMA
Format: DVD
Length: 900 minutes
Genre: General Television
Studio: Unknown
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

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Includes:

Mr. Show: The Cry of a Hungry Baby (1995)

Mr. Show: What to Think (1995)

Mr. Show: Who Let You In? (1995)

Mr. Show: We Regret to Inform You (1995)

Mr. Show: The Velveteen Touch of a Dandy Fop (1996)

Mr. Show: If You're Going to Write a Comedy Scene, You're Going To Have Rat Feces in There (1996)

Mr. Show: Now, Who Wants Ice Cream? (1996)

Mr. Show: The Biggest Failure in Broadway History (1996)

Mr. Show: Operation Hell on Earth (1996)

Mr. Show: A Talking Junkie?! (1996)

Mr. Show: Heaven's Chimney (1997)

Mr. Show: Flat-Top Tony and the Purple Canoes (1997)

Mr. Show: The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost (1997)

Mr. Show: A White Man Set Them Free (1997)

Mr. Show: Oh, You Men (1997)

Mr. Show: Bush is a Pussy (1997)

Mr. Show: It's a No Brainer (1997)

Mr. Show: Goin' On a Holiday (1997)

Mr. Show: Please Don't Kill Me (1997)

Mr. Show: Peanut Butter, Eggs, and Dice (1997)

Mr. Show: It's Perfectly Understandishable (1998)

Mr. Show: Story of Everest (1998)

Mr. Show: Rudy Will Await Your Foundation (1998)

Mr. Show: Life is Precious and God and the Bible (1998)

Mr. Show: Eat Rotten Fruit From a Shitty Tree (1998)

Mr. Show: Like Chickens...Delicious Chickens (1998)

Mr. Show: Show Me Your Weenis (1998)

Mr. Show: Patriotism, Pepper, and Professionalism (1998)

Mr. Show: Sad Songs Are Nature's Onions (1998)

Mr. Show: It's Insane This Guy's Taint (1998)

Mr. Show: The Cry of a Hungry Baby
The premiere episode of HBO's cutting-edge sketch comedy Mr. Show introduces recurring character Ronnie Dobbs (David Cross). Dobbs, a Southern redneck character, does a PSA for the National Entitilitus Foundation, claiming that he's dying of the mysterious disease. Then the show begins with Bob Odenkirk and Cross onstage. "Well, America," Bob explains, "You asked for it. You told HBO, 'We want to see a sketch show hosted by two people we've never seen before.'" "And that's us," adds David. They begin by taking suggestions from the audience, but things get ugly when one simple-minded audience member (Odenkirk) and his friend (Cross) are thrown out for suggesting Bob and David play different characters, and perform scripted material. The "centerpiece" of the show is a sketch in which Terry (Odenkirk doing a cheesy English accent) reminisces about his discovery of Ronnie Dobbs. Terry was a cameraman for the reality TV show "Fuzz," and noticed that in nearly every city where they filmed, the police would arrest the same violent drunken redneck -- Ronnie -- usually during a loud, ugly domestic dispute with his girlfriend (Mary Lynn Rajskub). Terry gets the producers to devote a series to Ronnie, who eventually gets arrested in every state and becomes a celebrity. Ronnie cleans up his act and moves to Beverly Hills, where cops ask for his autograph and he literally can't get arrested. During a dramatic visit from Terry, David momentarily breaks character to complain about the set, speculating that "HBO spent more money on Fraggle Rock." After Mr. Show completed its run on HBO, Terry and Ronnie would resurface as the main characters in a feature film, Run, Ronnie, Run. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: What to Think
The second episode of Mr. Show opens with Senator Tankerbell (Bob Odenkirk) at the podium railing against government funding of the arts. The conservative Southern senator makes a bizarre analogy to an obscene joke involving a traveling salesman and a milking machine. Then, the show proper opens with Bob alone onstage. He explains that David Cross is not doing the show because certain artists are being supervised by U.S. senators, and David is being forced to wear a tracking collar that gives him a shock every time he steps on a stage. Bob convinces David to do the show, and he's in agonizing pain until Tankerbell turns the collar off. There's also a sketch about "The Book of Marshall" with (Cross) the lost apostle who speaks like a late-night infomercial host ("Jesus, what if I told you the meek could inherit something a whole lot better than the earth?"). In another sketch, Odenkirk portrays a voice-over actor laying down a string of promotions and disclaimers, including the infamous "Mr. Pickles Fun-Time Abortion Clinic -- We'll bring out the kid in ya!" The show also features the introduction of the ubiquitous Globo-Chem Corporation ("We own everything, so you don't have to"), a staple of the series, and their mascot, "Pit-Pat," described by an ad exec (Cross) as "a magical, pansexual, non-threatening spokesthing." Guest Janeane Garofalo appears in a commercial for Globo-Chem's Bag Hutch, a cardboard box which, the ads proclaim, reduces household messes by holding up to 12 paper bags. The show ends with David acceding to the angry Tankerbell's demands, as the cast, with an exuberant performance from Jack Black (High Fidelity), performs a musical theater version of the senator's dirty joke from the top of the show -- "The Joke: The Musical." ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Who Let You In?
On the fourth episode of Mr. Show, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross add another fatal disease (in addition to the recurring Entitilitus) to their repertoire -- Imminent Death Syndrome. The show opens with Bob and David distractedly introducing the show while watching TV. When Bob notices that the audience is watching the same thing, he decides they'll just put the image up on the big screen for everyone. They're all watching a live transmission of the LAPD chasing -- not O.J. Simpson's white Bronco -- but the Pope-mobile. The newscasters (Tom Kinney and Jill Talley) explain that a local bishop was found "brutally excommunicated," and, because they found a Pope-like staff and conical hat at the bloody scene, the Pope is a prime suspect. The anchors later report that polls show "85 percent of the public believes the Pope didn't do it, even if he did." In another sketch, a young man named Larry (David) goes for his first guitar lesson. Nils (Bob), the teacher, responds to his tuneless strumming by proclaiming him a "guitar god." It turns out that Larry's mother called ahead, and explained that the boy only had a short time to live. He goes on to perform in a rock band, get a doctoral degree from Harvard, and practice medicine at a Florida hospital, all because no one wants to hurt his feelings. But he doesn't die. A doctor (Bob) explains that Larry has Imminent Death Syndrome, in which "the victim is literally on the brink of death for 80 to 100 years." As it turns out, this rare disease explains the successful careers of Juliette Lewis, Clarence Thomas, Anne Rice, and many others. Later in the show, a performance artist, Spank (David), takes the American flag to court, because he became constipated when he tried to defecate on it. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: We Regret to Inform You
The third episode of HBO's Mr. Show, "We Regret to Inform You," features a guest appearance by former O.J. Simpson hanger-on, demi-celebrity Kato Kaelin! This episode is also chock-full of reflexive commentary on its gay content. In one sketch, David Cross complains about Bob Odenkirk replacing him in the "kissing sketch" with the comely Sarah Silverman. Bob claims he didn't think David "found the character's voice." David indignantly points out that Silverman "is playing me," and reassures Bob, "Men can kiss. Men can get married. They even have a pill nowadays that lets them make love to each other." There's also a sketch in which Bob profiles actor Borden Grote (David), who takes method acting to absurd extremes. Grote studied crowds before appearing as an extra in a crowd scene. He attended medical school before doing a 15-second cameo as a doctor in Mel Brooks' flop, "Badman Whatever." As Bob catches up with Grote, he's had his frontal lobe removed in preparation for playing the lead in a film about abuses at a mental institution. While Grote runs around his Hollywood home, jabbering and grunting, celebrities like white soul singer Larry Black (Odenkirk), hot college comic Blueberry Head (Cross doing a blue-haired Carrot Top impression), and the aforementioned Kato Kaelin party at his place. Later in the show, we see Larry Black doing his act. "This one is for the ladies," he explains, "Men, take it outside." After a moment, mildly annoyed, he continues, "Okay, the men are going to stick around -- I'm just going to pretend you're not here." Then he does his number, in which he sings about "tonight's the night," but has to pause during the song to check his date book. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: The Velveteen Touch of a Dandy Fop
In this episode of Mr. Show, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross take on self-congratulatory celebrities and their charitable works. Bob takes the stage to introduce the show while running in place, part of his "Annual Ten Day Run for People With Full-Blown Entitilitus." David tries to demonstrate his own charitable leanings, pointing out that "David's Kids," a trio of wide-eyed moppets, are in the audience. Bob points out that this doesn't count, because they're actually David's illegitimate children. Bob has to explain the meaning of charity to David -- "Charity is something you do for people while other people are watching." Bob also calls a blind man, Gary (David), to read him the funnies. It turns out Gary is a successful, busy executive, but as he puts it, "I like to take a few minutes to let a non-handicapped person 'help' me. It gives a sense of purpose to their otherwise meaningless existence." There's also a sketch about "Coupon: The Movie," a huge Hollywood flop, for which a movie executive (John Ennis) berates his staff. As one of them indignantly points out, "People love the coupon. They should love the movie!" Another movie exec (David) says they shouldn't blame themselves, but the public. "They tricked us into believing that this coupon is what they wanted to see," he rants. "The American public has screwed the movie industry over for the last time!" The movie company successfully sues America, and everyone is sentenced to one viewing of the film. Naturally, the film people use the judge's ruling -- "This is the movie all of America must see"-- as a blurb in their ad campaign. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: If You're Going to Write a Comedy Scene, You're Going To Have Rat Feces in There
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Mr. Show: Now, Who Wants Ice Cream?
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Mr. Show: The Biggest Failure in Broadway History
On this episode of Mr. Show, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross take on generational differences, with a special focus on "Generation X." In one sketch, Marjoe Crawley (Warren Hutcherson), the Grand Wizard of the KKK, explains that they don't "hate" slackers -- they just don't want them around. He suggests sending them all up to Seattle and letting them live there. The interviewer points out that Crawley himself is African-American, and asks, "Isn't the Klan against your people?" Crawley responds by showing him a promotional spot for "The New KKK," which features a black guy and a white guy fishing and playing badminton in their robes while a jaunty song plays. This segues into an advertising award show where a new image campaign for the North American Man-Boy Love Association (featuring the tagline, "NAMBLA -- We're not killers") wins an award. Bob plays an iguana in another sketch. This episode also features "Jeepers Creepers Semi-Star," a sharp parody of Jesus Christ Superstar about a sort of indecisive Gen-X Jesus, Jeepers Creepers (Jack Black), who spouts wisdom like, "Always be good, except when you're bad." This sketch also features a guest appearance by a singing Jeanne Tripplehorn (Basic Instinct). ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Operation Hell on Earth
This episode of HBO's cutting-edge sketch comedy series Mr. Show opens with Bob Odenkirk and David Cross introducing their redheaded moppet of a daughter, Superstar, who comes on-stage in a tutu and tap dances. The two stage parents reminisce (in flashback) about the mistakes their own parents made. David's mother (Mary Lynn Rajskub) competed with him for his father's attention ("I can drool better than a dumb baby!"), while Bob's parents were gamblers who goaded him into betting "zillions" of dollars on such matters as what time he would fall asleep each night. Bob and David swear they won't make the same mistakes with Superstar, but when they notice her tap dancing slacking off, they scream at her. This turns out to be the unhappy flashback of Future Superstar (Jill Talley). The episode also features Ken (David), a white supremacist planning the forced relocation of all minority groups and homosexuals into their own separate parts of the country. Ken has assembled a multi-ethnic group of co-conspirators to help him plan, but they can't seem to agree on much. Ken tells them about "Operation Hell on Earth," which involves placing a bomb in a rented van at an undisclosed location. One member of the group suggests that a recording of an explosion would be better, because it wouldn't damage the van. After some discussion, they decide to play Billy Ocean's "Caribbean Queen" instead of a recorded explosion. This show also includes "The Recruiters," a Hoop Dreams-style documentary in which Bob and David compete to get a preschool basketball player to commit to their respective colleges. Another sketch features (David) as "Fartin' Gary," a comic whose act consists of uniquely expressive flatulence. He's "heckled" by an audience member (Bob) who "had Chinese for dinner." Dave Foley and Julia Sweeney guest star. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: A Talking Junkie?!
This episode opens with Bob Odenkirk and David Cross introducing the show, as usual, when Bob interrupts to complain about the "fake-y British accent" that David is using. When the rest of the cast comes out to complain, David drops the accent and admits that he's "just trying to have some personality." He gets upset and tells them he only has one friend. They scoff like they know who he means, and Jill Talley tells him, "There's no such thing as a talking junkie." David runs out of the studio, and meets his junkie friend, whose voice is badly dubbed and sounds startlingly similar to the voice of the dog on the old children's show Davey and Goliath. There's also a sketch about a "Mom and Pop" porn shop, where Mr. and Mrs. Appleway (Bob and Jill) treat their patrons like family. In another sketch, Bob and David play an R&B group, Three Times One Minus One, who appear on WPCBCN -- the White People Co-Opting Black Culture Network -- where they complain about being hassled by the cops for jaywalking. There's an ad for Lloyd Wilson Weber's "Rap: The Musical," a musical theater revue about rap music that trumpets the fact that it "contains no rap music!" TTOMO reappear later at the Homage Awards -- "Honoring excellence in the field of borrowing from black culture." When the group wins an award, Bob gives "a shout out" to his "main man, God." ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Heaven's Chimney
In the first episode of the third season of HBO's Mr. Show, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross aim their unique brand of quirky, scabrous humor at religious beliefs, theme park thrills, and educational films. The opening sketch posits Mr. Show as a suicidal cult, with The Bob (Odenkirk), its leader, seen on a huge video screen behind Cross, an acolyte. Cross is then abducted and dragged off-stage, while The Bob orders his audience of adepts to eat the poison S'mores his minions are passing out. "Get 'em while they're poison-y!" he urges them. Cross is then seen being "deprogrammed" by his friends, including "former" Mr. Show cast member Tom Kinney, who arrives dressed as a priest. "There's no heaven's chimney, and there's no razzleberry waterfall," Kinney expounds on the afterlife to Cross, "but there are giant golden gates on top of the clouds, and a wise man with a beard will have your name written into a fancy book." This segues into the opening credits of "Crazy Religious Beliefs," an America's Funniest Home Videos-style television show. Another highlight of the show is a film festival, where the world's oldest educational film (from the Middle Ages), "The Limits of Science," is shown, and features such nuggets as "All facts begin as dreams, dreamt by a wizard." The show ends with a segment from an evangelical cable program on the Hail Satan Network, hosted by Bobby C (Kinney) and Kimberly (Jill Talley). Odenkirk comes out as a guest and greets his hosts, telling them, "To Hell with both of you," and complimenting Kimberly -- "You are just the mother of all whores." ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Flat-Top Tony and the Purple Canoes
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Mr. Show: The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost
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Mr. Show: A White Man Set Them Free
When Bob Odenkirk and David Cross open their "Viewer Hate Mailbag," they're very disappointed to find it empty. They sing a few ditties in an effort to remedy the situation. There's a song addressed to African-Americans from white people, telling them, "You're Welcome," because a white man freed the slaves. Another song lets American Indians know, "We Forgive You," for fighting white people to hold onto their land. Checking the mail again, they find one letter praising their songs, which they don't recognize as sarcastic. Later in the program, there's a promo for "Marriage-Con and Boat Show '97," where attendees can get marriage advice from "experts," and possibly buy a boat. This sketch segues into a socially awkward scientist (David in a truly special wig) in a Biosphere, who finds himself unable to get a date on New Year's Eve. After seeking advice from some cartoon animals, he's visited by his "step-fairy godmother" (Laura Kightlinger), who explains, "Your real fairy godmother is in a coma." There's also a commercial for Benjamin, Gerard, and Associates Ice Cream, a takeoff on Ben & Jerry's. Benjamin (David) says of one new flavor, Rock & Roll Double Chunk, "It's got chocolate in it, and we think if people like rock & roll music, they'll like this cuz it says 'rock & roll' on it." There's also a flavor dedicated to the last living American Indian, "Last Indian Doodlesnicker." Other sketches include a talk show hosted by a senate subcommittee. Senator Tankerbell (Bob) is one of the hosts, with Jon Stewart and "hot college comic" Blueberry Head (David with idiotic props, mocking Carrot Top) as the guests. The episode ends with the "All-Star Salute to the Last Indian," which features Bob and David as "Les Balloons Sportifs," inane performance artists who play with balloons. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Oh, You Men
This is the "lost episode" of Mr. Show. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross plan to have a "uniformed official" lose the episode after they finish taping. The Mayor of Television (John Ennis) himself comes out on-stage to cut a ceremonial ribbon, proclaiming, "Here's to future nostalgia." This episode documents a feud between East Coast and West Coast ventriloquists, which, reminiscent of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, has become violent. There's also "The DeLongpre Dannon Show," a talk show on which one guest (Bob) thinks he's a pregnant teenager, and another (David) thinks he's a seven-foot-tall psychiatrist. It turns out David's character also thinks he's an irate audience member, as he runs into the audience to offer his opinion -- "Fake girl, you oughtta be able to have your imaginary baby!" In another sketch, Bob and David play Sam and Criminy Craffft, (obviously based on H.R. Pufnstuf creators Sid and Marty Krofft) two former hippies responsible for creating children's television programs in the early '70s. They show a clip from the unaired show that got them fired, which takes place in "The Altered State of Druggachusettes." This hilarious parody features David as Billy, a British-accented boy with a talking bong, who is lost in a candy-colored world of talking pills and potheads. Tom Kinney does a Charles Nelson Reilly impression as Professor L.S.D. Trails, who tries to help Billy and his friends (including a giant talking tab of acid named "Hallucino-Jenny") order a pizza. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Bush is a Pussy
This episode of Mr. Show opens with comedian Kedsie Matthews (Tom Kenny) filling in for Bob Odenkirk on-stage while Bob runs some errands. When Kedsie, who's an annoying cross between Robin Williams and Carrot Top, strays from the script and starts "riffing," the Mr. Show audience loves it, and David Cross encourages him. Odenkirk catches the show while grocery shopping, and storms back, outraged. "I go to the store to get some eggs and you let this guy take over?" he chastises Cross. Cross calls Kedsie "hilarious," and fires Odenkirk. Then he fires himself. When Odenkirk protests that he's funnier than Kedsie, Cross points out that Kedsie makes more money, which leads into a sketch about "the Worthington Law," which is "More money = Better than." As explained by Carl Espick of Value Magazine, this means that Darryl Strawberry is a better person than St. Francis of Assisi. There's also a sketch about a successful executive, Ted (Odenkirk), whose former Siamese twin, Ned (Cross), wants them to be surgically reattached, because things aren't working out for him. There are flashbacks of Ted playing quarterback at school while Ned smokes pot, and of Ted returning home from combat attached to antiwar protester Ned. Later, in a skit parodying Amadeus, Cross plays Salini, a mediocre composer of marching band music who is tormented by the brilliance of idiot-savant marching music genius John Baptiste Philouza (Odenkirk). Salini responds to Philouza's tuneless humming, saying his "music revealed a world of unimaginable beauty. Was this God and the angels conversing? Or was it the Devil? Or was it God and the Devil...interrupting each other?" Salini ends up beating Philouza in a contest, because the judge is worried that "brilliance upsets people." The episode ends with an animated guest appearance from Comedy Central's Jonathan Katz. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: It's a No Brainer
Protestors (Bob Odenkirk and David Cross) in the audience interrupt Bob and David as they introduce the show. The protestors demand to be thrown out, and are obliged. Out on the street, they find themselves hungry and without funds. They quickly make up picket signs and chant, "Give us a hot dog, we demand! Or close down this hot dog stand!" until they cajole a vendor into feeding them. After protesting to get a car, and to get laid, the boys end up protesting their way to the top, eventually becoming the heads of a large oil company. At a protest outside the company's offices, a television newsman (Paul F. Tompkins) sparks a riot by sneakily throwing a rock at a cop. Tompkins turns out to be from "On the Spot News 6," and their motto is "We make the news." In another sketch, Lamar (Bob) and Geoff (David) try to start their own "Make-a-Wish" style charity, promising terminally ill children meetings with celebrities like Michael Jackson and Shaquille O'Neal, after which Geoff tries to reach Jackson by calling information for Los Angeles. This episode also features a commercial for "Crazy Devil Kiddie Massage Cream," a product aimed at children, because "Fun and games can be hard on muscles." It's also noted that "All the major 'play points' can be a target for aches and pains." Products like these are condemned at a press conference, at which a satanic priest (Bob) and a Catholic archbishop (David) team up to ask the media for more responsible depictions of Satan. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Goin' On a Holiday
Bob Odenkirk and David Cross introduce their families, who are sitting in the audience. David, upon seeing Bob's grandfather, becomes accusatory. "You never told me your Grandpa Timmy was elderly," he cries, "That means you're part old. You're not pure." David gives Bob a pamphlet describing "the coming age war." Grandpa Timmy first denies the elderly are trying to take over the world, but then asks if a world run by old people would be such a bad thing. There are a few scenes of what such a future would look like, including a group of young people wearing pastel sweaters, golf pants, and porkpie hats, and calling each other "dear." Then there's a sketch wherein Chris (Bob) and Tracy (Brett Paesal) find out that they're both having an affair with the same guy, Lee (David). Not only that, Lee is seeing the entire family, including their teenage daughter, her boyfriend, and Nana McCrudden. They're all heartbroken when Lee breaks up with them, confessing, "I'm seeing another family." This episode also features the beloved "Blowing Up the Moon" sketch, in which NASA announces that they finally have the technology to do it. This causes a national excitement, with celebrations planned, and a patriotic pop song about blowing up the moon hitting the charts. The high spirits are dampened when Galileo, the chimpanzee assigned to fly the explosives to the moon, uses sign language to ask one of the scientists, "Why?" Later, clips are shown from a misbegotten 1970s movie about streaking, "Bare Ambition." Jimmy (Bob) is an ambitious streaker who runs into trouble when he meets Coco Robbins (David), a streaking superstar. Coco feels threatened, and has his henchmen beat Jimmy up and force him, at knifepoint, to put on his clothes. Bob and David appear naked throughout the sketch. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Please Don't Kill Me
Bob Odenkirk and David Cross open this episode with their Swearing Jar. Every time someone in the cast curses, they have to put a nickel in the jar, and the money goes to a charity, Swears for Cares. "Hopefully we'll make a difference," says Bob. "A little...f*cking...difference," David corrects him, dropping a nickel in the jar. There's also a documentary about "The Fab 3," three mop-topped British guys in the early '60s whose photographs make them a pop phenomenon, although they play no music. They travel to America, and there's a press conference where one of them, Larry (Cross), says, "We've been photographed more than Jesus Christ." "Everyone agreed that this was true," the solemn narrator recounts, "and the group was shocked at the lack of controversy it sparked." Later in the show, Panzic Poojaran (Cross), a man enduring a hunger strike for political reasons, holds a press conference, during which he dazedly states, "I want the world to know...that I am so hungry." If he dies, he says he wants his people to know, "Bury me in mashed potatoes." The show closes with a clip from the annual Doomsday Telethon. Thirty million dollars must be raised each year in order to stop Dr. X (Odenkirk), a bald mad scientist with a German accent, from blowing up the earth with his "doomsday laser." A comic (Tom Kinney) who makes kooky sound effects like Charlie Callas appears as a guest, and says of the doctor, "This man is one great evil madman." The young "poster boy" for the Doomsday Telethon also comes on the show. Dr. X prods the boy, "Tell zee audience vhat you told me backstage," and the boy says, "Please don't kill me." "Dis is vhy I do dis," says Dr. X, "For der kids." ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Peanut Butter, Eggs, and Dice
Bob Odenkirk and David Cross present a "very special episode" of Mr. Show. To boost their ratings, David reveals that he (not just the bald character he plays -- David Cross) is actually bald. Later in the show, Terry (Bob, from the first episode of Mr. Show), the British cameraman for "Fuzz," a Cops-like TV series, explains his inspiration to make a musical based on the show. Ronnie Dobbs (David Cross), the most arrested man in the history of the show, is naturally the star, and in one number he plaintively sings "Y'all are brutalizing me," to the cops. Later in the show we're taken to the "Cyrus Dewey Awards," named for a silent film actor who played mentally challenged characters in 65 films and gave himself an award for "making such a brave choice" after each film was completed. Bob LaMonta (David) is on hand, and introduces a film about his life with mentally challenged parents -- "Why Me? The Bob LaMonta Story." It opens with him in school, embarrassingly surveying the lunch his parents have prepared for him -- a peanut butter, eggs, and dice sandwich, and a thermos full of silverware. To escape his humiliation, LaMonta begins running, and he doesn't stop until he's a three-time Olympic champion. After the film, which is dedicated to his memory, LaMonta explains that it's all true, except for a few dramatic choices. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: It's Perfectly Understandishable
A rehearsal tape shows Bob Odenkirk and David Cross being whipped and forced into cages by their trainer, Lane (John Ennis). This segues into an episode of "Those Amazing Actors," with Lane explaining the rigors of getting actors to perform. He's shown slathering peanut butter on the faces of two soap opera actors, in order to get them to kiss convincingly. "There's a reason for the expression, 'As dumb as an actor,'" Lane explains, as guest star Vince Vaughn is shown chasing sheep. In a later skit, a bloody accident victim manages to dial her cell phone, calling "The Emergency Psychic Hotline." Manning the phones are psychic Mystique (Becky Thyres), J.D. Path (Jill Talley), and Maple Syrup (David), an obese, Jheri-curled soul singer. When someone calls in to say his baby fell in the pool and isn't breathing, Mystique tells him, "I'm receiving a color image -- sort of an aquamarine?" "Oh, my God," the caller responds, amazed, "She's turning blue!" In the unusually lengthy sketch that closes out the show, Bob plays suburban teen Dougy, who is chosen as the 18th incarnation of the Dalai Lama. While Dougy is adjusting to life as a Buddhist monk in Tibet, his friend Derek (David) writes him from America. "Did you see the Video Awards? Halen won!" "It is good news about Van Halen," the spiritually awakened Dougy writes back, "Like the lotus, they bloom for you again and again." But when Derek shows up in Tibet looking for a job, their friendship is tested. The monks learn to deal with Derek's propensity for juvenile pranks, just in time for them to compete in the "Summer Olympican" against "those rich snobs from the fat kids camp." This Meatballs-style parody features cameos from Brian Doyle-Murray and Jon Cryer as Ducky. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Story of Everest
In the opening of this episode, Mr. Show is shown as "a Lethal Injeckshun Production," executive produced by the imprisoned Sweetie Pie Jonus (Freez Luv), who seems to be modeled on felonious rap mogul Suge Knight. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross begin the show with a ridiculous skit, which is interrupted by Jonus, who is broadcasting live via satellite. "I cut that scene, fools," he tells them, exhorting them to "Funny that sh** up." This segues into a sketch about a new program that "allows criminals to be productive members of society while serving out their sentences." The home of Larry Cleest (Bob) is shown, with signs outside proclaiming "Beware of Rapist." Another man (Jay Johnston) follows him wherever he goes, shouting a warning, and wearing a sandwich board that says, "I'm with a rapist." Larry is shown at his job, where he is making cold calls. "Hello, I'm Larry Cleest," he tells potential clients, "I'm a rapist. Have you considered insurance?" "People don't seem to be interested in insurance these days," Larry complains, "I think the industry's in a slump." Another sketch is the Goodfellas parody, "Pallies," which includes a character nicknamed "One Time" (David), because he says everything one time. This turns out to be the "edited for television" version of the film, with the violence and foul language edited out, leaving an incomprehensible jumble in which characters call each other "mother fathers." The show ends with Johnston returning home in the 1920s to tell his parents about conquering Mount Everest. While telling the tale, he keeps stumbling backward into his mother's thimble collection, sending it crashing to the ground. When his brother arrives, his father urges Johnston, "Tell him the story." When he begins his tale, his father interrupts -- "No, not about Everest. About you slipping." ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Rudy Will Await Your Foundation
Bob Odenkirk and David Cross open the show wearing tuxedos, because this is the "blooper" episode of Mr. Show. Bob gets angry at David for repeatedly showing a clip of Bob vomiting, so he shows a clip of David dancing and singing into a hairbrush in front of the men's room mirror. David tops that with a clip of Bob's parents at the doctor's office, where they're told, "It's simply too late to have an abortion. Your son is four years old." The camera pans to the young Bob, who asks plaintively, "Mommy, what's a 'gagortion'?" "Ultimate blooper!" shouts David triumphantly. "Superstar Machine," the song David composed in the men's room, turns into a huge pop hit. There's even a parody version, "Sushi Bar Machine," by Daffy "Mal" Yinkleyankle (Bob). In another sketch, Glen (Bob) is at work, and on the phone with his friend, Mike (David). Glen loses a bet and owes Mike two hours of phone sex, which, Glen is dismayed to learn, Mike expects him to provide personally. Glen calls himself "Peppermint," and talks in a high-pitched voice while Mike pleasures himself. Later, Rhonda (Jill Talley) and Del (Bob) are a white trash couple who enter their unborn daughter in a Prenatal Pretties Pageant, run by a doctor (David) who explains that he "can surgically apply makeup" and "liposuction baby fat" from the unborn. Rhonda refers to the couple's neglected toddler as "the old baby." The show ends with a sketch about a restaurant, The Burgundy Loaf, so fancy that the French-accented ma�tre d' (Bob) explains, "We would not soil our atmosphere with a men's toilette room." Instead, the customer (David) is asked to defecate through a hole in his chair, into a velvet-lined box, which Frenchy (John Ennis), a cockney chimney sweep-type, then carries off. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Life is Precious and God and the Bible
Bob Odenkirk and David Cross open the show, as usual, but this time, Bob notices that David is stoned. It's medical marijuana, David explains, showing Bob his prescription. "For stress related to working with Bob Odenkirk," Bob reads. Bob accompanies David to the pharmacy to get a refill, where they're forced to "hang out" in a back room and listen to a tape of the pharmacist's band. Later, guest star Michael McKean plays a bombastic law professor (modeled after John Houseman in The Paper Chase) who harangues his incoming students. When he's called away on a personal matter, he asks a student, Gerald (Bob), to take over the class. Quickly getting over his nervousness, Gerald tries to mimic the professor's bluster. "You come in here with heads full of soup," he rants, "When you are done with law school, your brain will be like a steel trap with the bloody foot of law inside it, crying out for its mommy." In another sketch, the growing phenomenon of Hitler cloning is addressed. As reparations for the Holocaust, the cloned Hitlers are being given to Jewish families as servants. At a bar where the Hitlers congregate, one complains about the dating scene ("Once they find out you're Hitler, forget about it"), while an older Hitler explains, "We have a saying around here, 'Get used to it, Hitler.'" Later, Bob plays a daytime talk show host stuck on a lifeboat with his bickering guests: a man, his girlfriend, and his girlfriend's mother, who is pregnant with his baby. There's also an audience member onboard. The show ends with David playing a consumer reporter on the local news, who investigates the legitimacy of "Wishing Well and Such," where the proprietor (Bob) promises customers that their wishes will come true. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Eat Rotten Fruit From a Shitty Tree
The show opens with Bob Odenkirk and David Cross hosting "The Mr. Show Water Cooler," a parody of Politically Incorrect described as a "political jam session -- featuring absolutely no experts." The guest panelists are Xona (Becky Thyres), a porn star, and Keith (Jay Johnston), a skydiver. It takes a while for Bob and David to think of a topic, then David mentions that he heard a comedian say that a senator was planning to have plastic surgery "to remove the NRA's lips from his ass." He and Bob start to discuss this as though it was an actual news event, until Keith interrupts them, to point out that it was just a joke. Keith is forced to spend the remainder of the show in the "Smarty Pants," a giant pair of pants filled with vanilla custard. From there, he watches the International News Report with anchor Aviana Prujmpur (Jill Talley), who reports on a monsoon in Myanmar, the devaluing of yen, and a major event in the U.S. -- "the president has allegedly farted." This last story is causing a national uproar, and there's even a clip of Chris Rock talking about it on his HBO show. President Fruitty (Johnston) eventually addresses the nation, stating, "This matter should be between me, my wife, my pants, and our God." God (Bob Odenkirk) Himself appears in another sketch. He's a smooth-talking, club-hopping, show-biz type, and He records a book-on-tape of His autobiography, "My Life in the Fast Lane." Later, the reality show, "Probings," is dedicated to the topic, "Monster Parties -- Fact or Fiction." As the narrator solemnly intones, "Dracula...The Wolfman...The Mummy...Would these monsters ever assemble as a group in a party setting, to dance or eat and drink together? While skeptics declare it impossible, novelty songs seem to suggest quite the opposite." ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Like Chickens...Delicious Chickens
David Cross opens the show sporting a top hat and cane. When Bob Odenkirk asks him why, he tells Bob that he's Jewish, and he's just sharing the wealth in anticipation of receiving his "reparations" from the Swiss government. Then he receives a check for 82 cents and a cute apology greeting card with a kitten spilling milk on the cover. In a sketch that takes place in 1924, adventurer Edmund Premington (Bob) addresses a Gentlemen's Hunt Club about his adventures in Africa. His audience is appalled as he describes the effects of the lion's roar, mentioning that "you feel it first in your scrotum," that "the hairs on the end of your penis stand up," and that "you feel the nipples on your ass become erect." When one guest (David) says, "I must take severe umbrage at your anatomical logic," Premington responds, "I speak honestly, from the bottom of my vagina." The guest speculates, "You don't know what words mean, do you?" In a later skit, newscaster Mark Treems (David) interviews the obese soul survivor of an Andes plane crash, Todd (Bob), who says, "I was forced to eat the flesh of my companions. Their flesh was seasoned with courage." Treems points out, "You've only been out here for 30 days. Did you have to eat all 234 people?" "When I get depressed, I eat," says Todd, "It's my outlet." There's also a parody of Ken Burns' documentary series entitled, "The Civil War: The Re-enactments." "The re-enactment of the battle of Turner Springs would prove to be one of the fake bloodiest in history," the narrator intones, "Thousands would come to pretend to be brave." The re-enactors get into a dispute with a renaissance fair and are forced to move into the parking lot. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Show Me Your Weenis
Bob Odenkirk and David Cross open this episode with a Playboy Club atmosphere, with swinging jazz, smoking jackets, and scantily clad women wearing moose antlers. "All the cats are here," says Bob. "And the 'Mr. Show Objects' are here with us tonight as well," says David, referring to the ladies. In a later sketch, a father (David) is relieved to bring his boy home after a kidnapping. Strangely, the kidnapper never asked for a ransom. After the boy is safely home, the kidnapper (Bob) calls and asks if the father received the "package" he left. He's angry with himself when he realizes that he accidentally left the boy, instead of the toe in a jar he had meant to leave. He's further chagrined when he realizes that he mistakenly cut off his own toe, instead of the boy's. "There are days and there are days," he bemoans. Later, the heavy metal band Wicked Sceptre is dumbfounded when they find out from dismayed record company execs that the bootleg backstage party video of them having sex with each other indicates that they're gay. The show closes with the low-budget science fiction parody, "Racist in the Year 3000." Byron (David) considers himself "practically the last pure white man in the galaxy." Sitting in a Star Wars-style cantina (though a low-budget version where one of the musicians wears a Nixon mask), Byron complains to the bartender about how the planet has changed. "Everything was fine until that goddamn black Jew lesbian tree-hugging Martian President Billins went and signed that goddamn Bill of Robot Rights," he gripes. He's further dismayed to learn that his sidekick, Dougie (Bob), with whom he was trying to propagate the species, is 1/80th African-American -- "I can't believe I've been making love with a man who's part Negro!" ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Patriotism, Pepper, and Professionalism
The last episode of the fourth and final season of HBO's Mr. Show begins on-stage with Bob Odenkirk and David Cross at the "Globo/Chem Corporate Retreat." "We have got a comedy show tonight that's gonna help you laugh your sales through the roof!" says Bob. Later, Josh Fenderman -- a white performer who dresses and dances just like Michael Jackson -- and his group, Honesty in Motion, take the stage. This segues into a documentary about Fenderman, a former child star who has fallen on hard times. Confronted with accusations that she exploited him, his mother (Jill Talley) explains, "For the first five or six years of his life, he made no money at all. We paid for everything." Fenderman ends up suing the U.S. Treasury, because, as he explains about his money, "It didn't come with instructions or a manual." He wins his case, prompting the Treasury Department to put warnings on all currency reading, "Warning: This Dollar Is Not Yours After You Spend It." In another sketch, Bob and Jill are a couple reuniting after a week-long break-up. Jill asks Bob what he did all week, and he responds, "Besides cry?" But over the course of their lunch date, she discovers he joined a Christian rock band, got engaged then left his bride at the altar, and starred in a porn film. This episode also features the renowned sketch in which David plays Marilyn Monster, a scary, Marilyn Manson-like depraved rock star, in a training video for his pizza restaurant chain's "fun-ployees." Monster says they hire "fun, rebellious extroverts who make their own rules." He then explains a long list of rules. He ends the training video by saying, "Oh, and don't forget to break some rules!" then adds, "But -- don't break any rules." ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: Sad Songs Are Nature's Onions
The episode opens with David Cross writing a note explaining that he's running away from the show. Bob Odenkirk comes out and asks him why. "Because of the content warnings," David explains, "They give the whole show away. How am I supposed to trick little kids into seeing my butt?" A weird space child with an adult voice who uses big words appears onscreen. It turns out he's responsible for the content warnings. He transports Bob and David to his space pod, and gives them a drink that makes them shrink before his parents come in and punish him. Later, in a parody of Inside the Actors Studio, David plays Cyrus, the obsequious host of "Inside the Actor." He introduces his guest, Ryan Dorn (Jay Johnston), as "a bountiful treat from which I invite you to partake." Cyrus asks for questions from his students, but when someone speaks up, Cyrus shouts, "Who dares question Ryan Dorn!?" He then begins washing Dorn's feet. When Dorn mentions his interest in directing, it's too much for Cyrus, who cries, "Have mine ears bewitched me with whispers of Xanadu?" In order to "gain further insight into the actual workings of the actor," Cyrus and two students are shrunk down to microscopic size and injected into Dorn. This segues into a parody of Land of the Lost, complete with a similar theme song. It turns out Dorn is inhabited by plastic dinosaurs and a cute robot. The show ends with a music awards show where Horace Loeb (David) wins a "Teardrop Award" for a sad song about the untimely death of his son. "I wish my boy could be here to share this with me" the triumphant Loeb says, "but then I wouldn't have written the song, so scratch that." ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Mr. Show: It's Insane This Guy's Taint
This episode opens with a heartfelt tribute to a crew member who has died. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross ask the audience for a moment of silence. David further requests, "Please hold your breath, in honor of him who cannot breathe." In an unrelated sketch, the cast assembles, on Bob's request, for an "intervention." David arrives (wearing a fat suit), and the others try to "help" him see that he has a problem, by making jokes about how fat he is. At one point, as abuse is heaped on him, David says, "I'm crushed," and Paul F. Tompkins replies, "No, if you were crushed, you'd be thinner." But when Bob anoints Paul the new "King of Slams" and tries to high-five him, Paul leaves him hanging. David takes off his fake belly and they tell Bob the truth -- the intervention is really for him. "We're tired of the way you run your interventions," David explains. Later in the show, there's an episode of "Car Wash Change Thief Action Squad," with an overly zealous host (Bob) using sting operations and hidden cameras in a failed effort to stop car wash employees from stealing the change from his dashboard. In another skit, Reverend Ahlid Kalunda (Jerry Minor), the head of "The Men's Club of Allah," takes the podium to clarify some previous statements that he says have been "distorted by the media," including his call for the beheading of all white women. This somehow transforms into a Batman parody, in which Kalunda and his young ward battle the arch villain, The Windbreaker (Jay Johnston). In the Boogie Nights parody that closes the show, David plays a magazine publisher who pushes the limits of gay porn by focusing on the "taint," the area between the genitalia and the buttocks. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

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cc Season 1&2: "Fuzz" the musical "Before it Was a TV Show..." The Best of Mr. Show: "Incredible, Fantastical News Report" Commentary on all 10 episodes Season 3: Bob and David at the U.S. comedy arts festival "Druggachusettes" The Best of Mr. Show: "Fantastic Newness" Commentary on all 10 episodes Season 4: Crack-me-ups! blooper reel "The Naked Improv" Mr. Show jukebox "The Grand Reunion" featurette Commentary on all 10 episodes Original tv spots and much more

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Includes:

Mr. Show: The Cry of a Hungry Baby (1995)

Mr. Show: What to Think (1995)

Mr. Show: Who Let You In? (1995)

Mr. Show: We Regret to Inform You (1995)

Mr. Show: The Velveteen Touch of a Dandy Fop (1996)

Mr. Show: If You're Going to Write a Comedy Scene, You're Going To Have Rat Feces in There (1996)

Mr. Show: Now, Who Wants Ice Cream? (1996)

Mr. Show: The Biggest Failure in Broadway History (1996)

Mr. Show: Operation Hell on Earth (1996)

Mr. Show: A Talking Junkie?! (1996)

Mr. Show: Heaven's Chimney (1997)

Mr. Show: Flat-Top Tony and the Purple Canoes (1997)

Mr. Show: The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost (1997)

Mr. Show: A White Man Set Them Free (1997)

Mr. Show: Oh, You Men (1997)

Mr. Show: Bush is a Pussy (1997)

Mr. Show: It's a No Brainer (1997)

Mr. Show: Goin' On a Holiday (1997)

Mr. Show: Please Don't Kill Me (1997)

Mr. Show: Peanut Butter, Eggs, and Dice (1997)

Mr. Show: It's Perfectly Understandishable (1998)

Mr. Show: Story of Everest (1998)

Mr. Show: Rudy Will Await Your Foundation (1998)

Mr. Show: Life is Precious and God and the Bible (1998)

Mr. Show: Eat Rotten Fruit From a Shitty Tree (1998)

Mr. Show: Like Chickens...Delicious Chickens (1998)

Mr. Show: Show Me Your Weenis (1998)

Mr. Show: Patriotism, Pepper, and Professionalism (1998)

Mr. Show: Sad Songs Are Nature's Onions (1998)

Mr. Show: It's Insane This Guy's Taint (1998)

Mr. Show: The Cry of a Hungry Baby
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Mr. Show: What to Think
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Mr. Show: Who Let You In?
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Mr. Show: We Regret to Inform You
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Mr. Show: The Velveteen Touch of a Dandy Fop
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Mr. Show: If You're Going to Write a Comedy Scene, You're Going To Have Rat Feces in There
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Mr. Show: Now, Who Wants Ice Cream?
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Mr. Show: The Biggest Failure in Broadway History
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Mr. Show: Operation Hell on Earth
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Mr. Show: A Talking Junkie?!
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Mr. Show: Heaven's Chimney
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Mr. Show: Flat-Top Tony and the Purple Canoes
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Mr. Show: The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost
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Mr. Show: A White Man Set Them Free
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Mr. Show: Oh, You Men
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Mr. Show: Bush is a Pussy
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Mr. Show: It's a No Brainer
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Mr. Show: Goin' On a Holiday
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Mr. Show: Please Don't Kill Me
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Mr. Show: Peanut Butter, Eggs, and Dice
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Mr. Show: It's Perfectly Understandishable
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Mr. Show: Story of Everest
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Mr. Show: Rudy Will Await Your Foundation
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Mr. Show: Life is Precious and God and the Bible
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Mr. Show: Eat Rotten Fruit From a Shitty Tree
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Mr. Show: Like Chickens...Delicious Chickens
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Mr. Show: Show Me Your Weenis
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Mr. Show: Patriotism, Pepper, and Professionalism
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Mr. Show: Sad Songs Are Nature's Onions
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Mr. Show: It's Insane This Guy's Taint
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