The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley: The Complete Series

Terrific DVD which I never thought they'd actually release
This set (probably the most unusual of Hanna-Barbera) has all 13 episodes of Ed Grimley. The animated portions of the episodes are fun for kids, but adults who like (and miss) SCTV may really appreciate the live action segments featuring Count Floyd (Joe Flaherty) and Catherine O' Hara-these portions are a riot. Andrea Martin (also of SCTV) provides various goofy voices reminiscent of Edith Prickley and Edna Boil.

Goofy and earnest-to-a-fault Ed Grimley lives with his goldfish and tries to be of assistance to his neighbors and just about anyone he runs into who needs help. My favorite episode is "Good Neighbor Ed", in which Ed tries getting photos of all his neighbors in the entire neighborhood. His landlord (Jonathan Winters) and his wife (Andrea Martin) bicker hilariously; then there's a live clip where Count Floyd tries to convince us that lounge singer Skippy High (Martin Short) is scary (he has a lisp and bores the children). The humor is goofy, basically SCTV in...

Totally decent. You can't say it's not.
I never thought I'd see this on DVD, but thanks to Warner Archive, and whatever serendipitous happenings, here it is. If there's a drawback to the WA DVD-R sets, it's that Amazon doesn't mark them down, but, amazing as it seems, in this case they have (who knows how long that may last?). The top-notch packaging matches the Hanna-Barbera Golden Collection. Inside, you just get the two, one-sided DVD-R discs snapped into the case. No booklet. You have to slip the disc in your DVD or Blu-Ray player to see the contents, and it's sad there are no extras. But there is art on both discs.

The good news is that here are thirteen great episodes of this quirky show. I might have a bone to pick with some of the writers/ storyboarders (although not nearly as much as on shows like Animaniacs. Why do the villains have to be caricatures of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby? Nevertheless, this show, made in conjunction with Colossal Pictures, which did MTV's Liquid Television, was in every way a...

Finally!
I loved this back in the...80's? Whenever it was originally broadcast. Of course I loved a lot of crap that is just painful to watch now...not this show! Been hoping for a video release forever. Hilarious.

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