Keen!

There is a new champion of Best thing I have purchased recently. Yes, it was a shortlived title for the delightful IKEA boxes.

However, boxes are no match for the overwhelming blue ediface of joy that is:



I knew I would get it on release day. This was simply a geeky calling. I did not know it would deliver "the goods," as they were, in such a euphoric fashion. I have a collection of cartoons on DVD that would be a source of shame for someone with more of a sense of self worth or image, and yet I've been anxiously awaiting this release for a very long time. I've been worried that they were going to screw it up, or the show wouldn't live up to my memory, or whatever. It totally delivers, though it has the dig of missing one episode for no readily apparent reason. It's a crappy one, though, and after this volume-by-volume release crap most of my cartoon fandoms are seeing, seasons sets are still most welcome.

My only regret in this purchase came while watching one of my personal favorites, the Chairface Chippendale episode, which contains (for my money) the greatest act of megalomaniacal moon vandalism in all of popular culture. I had to mourn the unfortunate timing of this release with the recent death of Tony Jay. As a Tick Fan and voice actor nerd, hearing his voice so soon after learning of his death, especially emanating from a man with a chair for a head, was a bit of a bummer.

I'm saving the episode featuring the Midnight Bomber (what bombs at midnight) for last, as it is such cartoon perfection that I don't want the entire second disc to be overshadowed by its impossibly high water mark. But it's on there. I have it in my hot little hands forever, or at least until the polymers and magic pixie dust that make up the DVD fall apart.

Anyway, I highly recommend you all pick it up. 'Tis a very well put together set, and the show holds up phenomenally well after the years.

[May Evil beware and may Good dress warmly and eat plenty of fresh vegetables]