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The Mad About You Collection | 
 enlarge | Directors: Barnet Kellman, Craig Knizek, David Steinberg, Gordon Hunt, Linda Day
Actors: Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt, Maui, John Pankow, Anne Ramsay
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.95
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Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 19109
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 491 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 1.3
MPN: COLD09077D
ISBN: 1404969608
UPC: 043396090774
EAN: 9781404969605
ASIN: B0006SGYLU
Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 1992
Release Date: February 8, 2005
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In the early to mid-1990s, Mad About You was about as good as sitcoms got. As newlywed couple Paul and Jamie Buchman, stars Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt crackled with rapid-fire wit, and a chemistry that created some genuinely moving moments. The Mad About You Collection is a set of 21 highlight episodes from all seven seasons; Reiser and Hunt selected the episodes and introduce each with a 4- to 6-minute Q&A. From the first season are the pilot and the story of how they first met. From the second season are Paul's encounter with Christie Brinkley in a virtual-reality investment opportunity and the recap of the marriage proposal. From the third season are the zany family Thanksgiving dinner in which Murray the dog eats the turkey, Paul's attempt to create an "honest" 15-minute film about a day in their lives (this was before the reality-TV craze), and Carl Reiner's guest appearance as a TV legend. From the fourth season are Yoko Ono playing herself and the three-part finale in which some hints of infidelity lead to serious marriage problems. Mel Brooks appears as Uncle Marty ("Firm embrace!") in the fifth season, and Bruce Willis makes a goofy guest appearance in the two-part season finale, "The Birth." It's well-known that TV series that try to keep themselves relevant by making momentous changes usually go quickly downhill (a phenomenon known as "jumping the shark"). In Mad About You's case, it was the birth of baby Mabel, or perhaps it was that the lead characters' neuroses simply began to wear thin. Either way, the later seasons became more erratic, and it might not be a great loss to see only a few episodes from them. The selections from the sixth season focus on Jamie and Paul writing letters to Mabel, and Paul directing his parents in The Pirates of Penzance while Jamie battles postpartum depression. In the seventh-season episodes, Paul and Jamie ask their therapist about resuming sexual activity, they try to teach Mabel to go to sleep by herself, and Paul runs over his mother-in-law. Then in the series finale, Janeane Garofalo plays a grown-up Mabel telling how her parents discovered they weren't really married, and what happened over the following years. In addition to the episode intros, the set's bonus features are enjoyable and informative commentary tracks by the two stars on the first and final episodes, a blooper reel, and featurettes on the guest stars and the theme music (you can see Reiser playing the piano). The involvement by the stars might appease the frustrated fans who bought the first two complete seasons on DVD then waited in vain for the third. DVD fans have become accustomed to having complete seasons, because no matter how well highlight episodes are selected, some favorites are bound to be missing (how about the what-if-they-hadn't-met episode, or the Rashomon-like taxi ride?). On the other hand, the previous sets had no bonus features, and a fan boycott that results in poor sales might mean no more Mad About You DVDs at all. That would be a shame, for even with its shortcomings, The Mad About You Collection reminds us that the series had a special ability to make us laugh and cry. --David Horiuchi
Product Description
22 of the stars favorite episodes. This is not a season box set. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/20/2005 Starring: Helen Hunt Run time: 491 minutes Rating: Nr
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 The Final Frontier June 25, 2008
Luke D. Bolland (Perth, Western Australia.)
As a fan of the show this DVD boxset didn't disappoint. I know a lot of people are annoyed because they want every episode. However for me I am happy just having "the best" episodes to watch and relive the memories with.
To be honest this one is worth the price just for the final ever episode (The Final Frontier) which is on here in it's full uncut form and wish commentary from Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt. If you ask me the last ever episode was far and away the best. Funny, romantic and a real tear jerker. Like I said this one episode is worth the price of the boxset all the other great best of episodes and behind the scenes footage are just a bonus.
Disc 1
The Pilot (a.k.a. "Romantic Improvisations"; Season 1)
Met Someone (Season 1)
Virtual Reality (Season 2)
Cold Feet (Season 2)
Giblets for Murray (Season 3)
Disc 2
Our Fifteen Minutes (Season 3)
The Alan Brady Show (Season 3)
Yoko Said (Season 4)
The Finale (Parts 1, 2, & 3; Season 4)
Disc 3
Citizen Buchman (Season 5)
The Penis (Season 5)
The Birth (Parts 1 & 2; Season 5)
Letters to Mabel (Season 6)
Moody Blues (Season 6)
Disc 4
Le Sex Show (Season 6)
The Conversation (Season 6)
Paved with Good Intentions (Season 7)
The Final Frontier (double-length series-ending Season 7 episode)
Now hurry up and release them all!
 Mad about you March 11, 2008
Anne White (dothan, al United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Don't waste your money,
If you want ALL THE EPOSIDES.
DON'T BUY IT.
IT IS NOT COMPLETE.
I WAS DISSAPOINTED.
A Review From Someone Who Actually Owns the Product October 24, 2007
That Girl (Lexington, KY)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I got this as a birthday present, because I am a big "MAY" fan. I thought, "Oh, wow! A 'best of' collection!!!" But the episodes are badly chosen, and only a few of my favorites are included. Also, so many are the ones Paul Reiser obviously thought were his best as auteur, so we are presented with way too many that are too fussy or too serious, including the three- (Lord help us) part episode where the Buchmans' marriage is put to the test (Gosh, don't we all want to watch all of THAT again?!!), and the "New Frontier in sitcoms? Not so much" episode where Paul and Jamie sit outside the bedroom door agonizing over whether or not to go in because the baby is crying.
I'd recommend buying sets for separate seasons and just watching the ones you want, unless you think Paul Reiser was the Orson Welles of the 1990s, as Reiser apparently does. (The box says he and Helen Hunt chose the episodes, but you know Helen picked maybe two.)
 GREAT ENTERTAINMENT July 14, 2007
Mrs. Jill Williams (LLANDUDNO, CONWY United Kingdom)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, I bought this DVD cos I remember catching glimpses of the show in the nineties - and then thinking..."Hmm this is good" - and then I read an online interview with the great Jack Klugman who said "I like Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt. I think they're real and funny"....And they are....this is so watchable. The only reason I won't give this five stars is cos of the intro's to several episodes...Paul Reiser is Paul Reisers biggest fan. ...That alone bceomes tiresome on this DVD
Mad About You collection March 13, 2007
Patricia M. Dryburgh (Canada)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Of course I'd seen this series. Loved it.
Ordered the collection and it was at my house in less than a week.
Bravo!!
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