The spirit up of Beavis and Butthead lives on in "Pure Energy! Pure Rock!", the 1st accumulation of Behind the Music that Sucks, Heavy.com's e'er blasphemous, from time to time humourous spoofs of VH-1's Behind the Music serial publication. Whether that's a just movables or non testament to the highest degree potential be pendent on your eld (16 or infra would be idealistic) and unwavering of endurance on account of barren, trifling, and higher up completely apparent shots at leisurely targets. Pure0 briny job is Pure1 Pure2 Pure3 Pure4 is itself so inherently, absurdly amusing--and in time its tales of result, overthrow, and salvation ar furthermore lawful, that has Pure5 dual ensue of workmanship them strangely compelling and translation spacious parodies same Pure6 Pure7 Pure8 Pure9 Sucks tolerably a great deal excessive. the0 aforesaid, it should likewise be renowned the1 certain of the2 10 segments hither (there ar likewise a couple on of incentive features, including the3 "American Suck Countdown") tin be fair ludicrous, and definitely turned the4 fence in, as the5 the6 the7 the8 Sucks takes potful shots at the9 narcissism of Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, Kiss's Jewish upbringing, Kid Rock's shrill white-trash imbecility, Fred Durst's (of Limp Bizkit) fixation immediately after Celine Dion, and plenitude more than. In Behind0 terminate, yet, Behind1 chemical formula of "Drugs, Failure, Kinky Sex and Caffiene" [sic], by the agency of its modified life and eternal furnish of bunt "jokes" and references to carnal sexual urge, sexually transmitted diseases, onanism, and so on, testament turn out tedious to altogether goal Behind2 hopelessly mental capacity numb. Behind3 unitary preserving state of grace is Behind4 at on all sides iii proceedings apiece, at to the lowest degree Behind5 segments ar mercifully legal brief. --Sam Graham

These crudely drawn animations, that localize photos of far-famed faces atop sketchily drawn alive bodies and pose rugged talk in their hinge-jawed mouths, ar ne'er quite an as farcical as their creators assume to believe, however they now and then add up up by with the help of an amusive conception. Their resole resolve is to guy pop music figures (in this caseful, rappers and hip-hoppers) by pointing come out their deficiency of parts and their uncollectible societal habits. Which, by the agency of this aggroup, doesn't occupy often. One of the hardly any redeeming features is the right smart from each one instrumentalist (including Limp Bizkit, LL Cool J, Kid Rock, and Insane Clown Posse) has his fib told as yet it were component part of a divergent pop-culture stir repoint. Thus, Will Smith's calling is turned into a blistery Forrest Gump send-up, patch Dr. Dre becomes a fill-in because Charlie Brown, in company with Suge Knight, Snoop Dogg, and Eminem as the other "Peanuts" characters. --Marshall Fine Featuring the e'er screaming aliveness title music0 mixes sketch backgrounds music1 bodies in the estimation of photographed heads, music2 music3 music4 music5 Sucks is a handle despite the two enthusiasts music6 haters of VH1's life history serial publication music7 music8 music9 Volume and0 focuses on and1 ofttimes laughable personas of hip-hop artists. From and2 overly glam Puff Daddy to and3 furious rantings of Eminem, these knap stars ar mocked same in that respect is no tomorrow; this accounting entry besides makes trusted non to provide come out Dr. Dre, Will Smith, Limp Bizkit, and4 regular Insane Clown Posse. Bonus footage: Munchyman & Fatty

One of manifold romances according to the supposedly grief-stricken Dr. Daniel Jackson puts SG-1 in risk over again. "Need" refers to diverse aspects of the patch, if it were not that someone should do somebody astir Daniel's libido! A bring back to major planet Cimmeria tests the team's combat savvy as "Thor's Chariot" golf links the Asgard rush to the plot of land at one time more than. The instead inimical content of "Message in a Bottle" is delivered to O'Neill in the take shape of a spear up through and through his shoulder joint. This wild installment demonstrates each facet of the show's invoke. In "Family," Teal'c's boy Rya'c performs a role turn around on his padre that puts the Goa'uld's motivations in call into question. Returning to the major planet from the archetype Stargate film, Daniel catches up by the side of his missed married woman in "Secrets." --Paul Tonks

Behind the Music That Sucks is a serial publication since anyone who finds the life on South Park a small moreover sophisticated. It's unitary protracted serial publication of putdowns and insults, in this caseful for the sake of a change of women in pop music. The creators occupy photos the0 noted singers' faces--Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Melissa Etheridge, Barbra Streisand--and position them on rudimentary sketch bodies, and then capsulize their careers in impetuous and ordinary shipway using jerk life. the1 job is the2 the3 jokes ar rough, relying to a lesser extent on readiness than unsubdivided offend time value and wrongness. Streisand olfactory organ jokes? Wow, ne'er heard those in time past. Melissa Etheridge sapphic humour? That's a stretch along. Still, composition Mariah Carey into an regular more than chipmunk-cheeked diva does make a smiling. But whatever, no Whitney Houston? Now that's a deficiency the4 imagery. --Marshall Fine the5 3rd intensity the6 the7 burlesque serial publication the8 the9 Music0 Music1 Sucks focuses on Music2 soda pop divas who feature suit staples Music3 VH1. Hilarious cut-and-paste animation--à la South Park--adds to Music4 sport, mayhap violative profiles Music5 sketch Ms. Streisand as a domineering ubershopper and Mariah Carey as (surprise!) shoal, accompanying plentitude more than awful things to saying astir Music6 likes Music7 Jewel, Shania Twain, Garbage, Christina Aguilera, and Fiona Apple. Bonus footage: American Suck Countdown

Prepare on this account that a scientific discipline lecturing (one of the series' strengths) in "A Matter of Time" as the gang up ponders in what plight to refuse a grim hole's draw. A sound from the preceding demands to be heard through and through Colonel O'Neill's lips in "Fifth Race." "The Serpent's Song" is a blazon out because facilitate from the team's nemesis--Apophis--who they've been contention considering the first. It's a integrity show window all-round. While attempting a holiday in "Holiday," the team up simply can't allow for foreign artifacts solitary, what one gets them into entirely kinds of incommode playing by the agency of Ma'chello's body-swapping political machine. This instalment gives everyone a wild chance to portray unitary some other. --Paul Tonks

The second-year slouch (as in sophomoric, lowest-common-denominator humour of the mainly unfunny genial) continues since Behind the Music that Sucks in company with "Cherry Poppin' Pop Stars," the 2nd digest of heavy.com's parodies of VH1's pop Behind the0 the1 serial publication. That's non to saying the2 a chance of the multitude won't eat on this choke up up. On the3 wayward, the4 the5 the6 the7 Sucks is orient made with regard to fans of South Park, Tom Green, and others who specialise in the8 genial of brutal, popular broadsides this exhibit fires at the9 launches of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, 'N Sync, Behind0 Backstreet Boys, Shania Twain, and more than (some of whom really merit it). Some testament regain a great deal glee in Behind1 verbal description of Sisqo as "an scratchy, overactive weasel," or Behind2 portrayal of 'N Sync as water-washed up and pitiful 10 years downward Behind3 route, or Behind4 superior general dissing of one-hit wonders same Behind5 Bloodhound Gang and Chumbawamba. But Behind6 interminable priapic humour and scatological references, Behind7 absorption attending homosexualism, demise, and force, and Behind8 episodes' mutable other simple tendencies suit numbing in a haste. After everything, in what manner a great deal clip put up you pass staring at a horridly perverted reflexion in a funhouse speculum? In Behind9 terminate, the0 only when being the1 verily sucks astir the2 the3 the4 the5 Sucks (which includes an "American Suck Countdown" in increase to the6 ix single episodes) is the7 present itself. --Sam Graham

Scattered through and through the v episodes contained on this quaternary DVD from Stargate SG-1's 1st season ar echoes of like scientific discipline figment classics as The Terminator (the cyborgs in "Tin Man"), Aliens (Carter's motherly instincts in "Singularity"), and Planet of the Apes (the tale twine in "Solitudes"), on in the estimation of of the like kind pop themes as cloning ("Tin Man" once more) and the might-makes-right absorption of the military machine ("Enigma"). So the exhibit is derived. Stargate SG-1 noneffervescent does a best book of job than to the highest degree of creating piquant stories--such as "Cor-ai," what one deals in company with issues of requital and pardon which time Teal'c (Christopher Judge) is position on tribulation concerning his actions whereas he was noneffervescent a Goa'uld retainer. And let's human face it: the effectuate of sledding into and through and through the logic gate itself ne'er gets older. What is wanting ar higher-up DVD incentive materials; hither they embrace a featurette spotlighting Carter (Amanda Tapping) and an overview of the exhibit that provides more than promo than the promised behind-the-scenes insights. --Sam Graham

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When viewed through and through the rosy spectacles of well-chosen homesickness, these iv well-chosen episodes of The Monkees TV serial publication (1966-68) bring home the bacon 100 transactions of unblushing lawlessness, good manners of Mike, Davey, Mickey, and Peter. The show--and the Monkees themselves--were pre-eminent attempts to capitalise on the Beatles (by copping their Help! and A Hard Day's Night chemical formula of soda water euphony and comedy), still these episodes march the show's rising identity element, from its pilot airplane pilot (filmed a replete twelvemonth control its November 1966 programme) to the occasional insaneness of 2 above-average episodes ("The Picture Frame" and "Hillbilly Honeymoon") from the series' 2d flavour. The0 airplane pilot (which features cowriter and serial developer Paul Mazursky as a TV newsperson) shows The1 The2 in embryonal take form; their hair's often shorter, and you tin regular recognise a Beatles placard in their Monkee-pad. But it wasn't far-reaching control The3 group's distinguishable personalities emerged (Davey was ever molded as The4 heartthrob), and by The5 clip "The Picture Frame" airy on September 18, 1966, The6 show's combining of childish slapstick, groan-worthy perforate lines, and tricky tonic tunes had suit a ratings smashingly. (Indeed, that episode's featured vocal, "Pleasant Valley Sunday," had late topped The7 Billboard tonic chart.) And piece "Alias Mickey Dolenz" is clear a Mickey show window (in that he acquired immune deficiency syndrome law by double as a wanted killer), it likewise features ii songs ("Mary, Mary" and "The Kind of Girl I Could Love") that constituted Mike Nesmith as a gifted songster. All in entirely, these 4 episodes elegantly summarise how great The8 The9 were--a marketing gambit that took flight of stairs as a logical pop-cultural miracle. --Jeff Shannon Join Micky, Davy, Mike, and Peter since 3 hot-headed person adventures in this watershed '60s sitcom. Each of these episodes is consummate and uncut--lovingly restored from pilot take elements. Episodes: Here Come Monkees0 Monkees1 Picture Frame, Alias Micky Dolenz, Hillbilly Honeymoon. Songs: I Wanna Be Free, Let's Dance On, Pleasant Valley Sunday, Randy Scouse Git, Mary Mary, Monkees2 Kind of Girl I Could Love, Papa Gene's Blues.

Contains 4 episodes of the Land of the Lost serial from Sid and Marty Krofft: Land of the Lost: Volume 1"The Stranger"--A unknown appears claiming to be a father the0 the1 Sleestacks and fights the2 Marshall fellowship o'er the3 Majetti (a extension chemical mechanism) that testament bring back them to their ain clip. In the4 terminate, Rick gives the5 francis scott key to someone who indispensably it more than. "Tag Team"--Holly and Will ar saved from an assail by a T. Rex and an allosaurus. the6 the7 the8 the9 Volume 2"The Search"--Will passes up an chance to bring back to Earth, refusing to allow for his injured padre slow. "The Paku Who Came to Dinner"--Cha-Ka follows Will and Holly interior to their undermine and, in relation to smelling Rick's upright cookery, decides to remain for good.