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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Salesrank: 27476
Released: February 28, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Drew Carey is your everyday blue-collar guy who's struggling through life's ups and downs with his closest friends, Oswald, Lewis and Kate. Stuck in the same job for ten years, Drew performs a balancing act between sucking up to his boss and doing his best to irritate his annoying co-worker, Mimi. When he's not at work, he's trying to have some success in the romance department and indulging in a few of his own beers he brews in his garage with his friends.
Description of The Drew Carey Show (Television Favorites Compilation):
It's a five o'clock world, and before it was unceremoniously pink-slipped in 2004, few television workplace comedies so keenly or hilariously captured the mind-numbing drudgery and soul-crushing despair of cubicle culture as The Drew Carey Show. This representative collection samples six episodes spanning the 1995 series' first four seasons. The pilot introduces the bespectacled, buzz-coiffed Everyman who works as the assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store, a position, he notes, "of indirect respect and oblique power." Misery loves company, and the company Drew kept formed one of TV's most amiable ensembles, including Ryan Stiles as Lewis (or, as Jason Alexander joked on Comedy Central's Drew Carey roast, "Kramer-lite"), Diedrich Bader as goofus Oswald, Christa Miller as Kate, Drew's lifelong platonic friend and unrequited crush, Kathy Kinney as Drew's office nemesis, Mimi. Craig Ferguson later joined the cast as Mr. Wick, Drew's pink slip-happy boss. "Playing the Unified Field" features a smoldering Jamie Lee Curtis as Drew's barber, a hard-partying danger-seeker who agrees to go out with Drew ("Don't bore me"). "We'll Always Remember Evaluation Day" finds Drew torn between his job and his secret girlfriend, a fellow employee (the enormously appealing Katy Selverstone). "Drew Blows His Promotion," the highlight of the collection, culminates in a practical joke that literally backfires in a symphony of flatulence. "My Best Friend's Wedding," the climax of season 3's Oswald-Kate story arc, would be best appreciated in a complete-season set. "DrugCo," with the monkapotamus (not to mention Charles Nelson Reilly), is one of the series' most bizarre episodes.
The Drew Carey Show was distinguished by its spontaneous, off-center sense of humor, exemplified by such throwaway bits of business as Ferguson's Sean Connery and Michael Caine impressions in "Promotion," and the wholly unexpected blockbuster production numbers ("Five O'Clock World" and "Cleveland Rocks") that became the series' signature. One could quibble with the episode selection here, but it's great to have Drew back on the job, or at least on DVD. --Donald Liebenson
The Drew Carey Show (Television Favorites Compilation) Reviews:
Laugh Therapy 
2009-02-24 - The Drew Carey: TV Favorites Compilation
This may be a cheap DVD to purchase, but for those who need to laugh to deal with anything from depression to chemotherapy it is a hoot!
PLEASE READ BELOW FOR FANS OF THIS SHOW - YOUR VOICES NEED TO BE HEARD!!!
2008-09-20 - Last Monday, September 15, 2008, The Home Theater Forum had Warner Brothers home video (T.V. and Animation Divisions only) on their chat line. Questions about a release for the 2nd season of Drew Carey Show were asked and Warner Brothers flatly said "no plans". I think this is a disgrace!!! Drew Carey is one of the best Comedy shows of the 90's!! We need to write to Warner Brothers and bombard them with emails and letters to get this show on DVD!!! Fans of the series Knots Landing did just that, and now Knots Landing (according to last mondays chat) Warner Brothers is giving that show another chance on DVD! We need to do the same for this show if you want more seasons of this show released on DVD!!! GET YOUR VOICES HEARD!!! The good news is Warner Brothers is planning to release another DVD set of Drew's other show: Whose Line Is It Anyway? Season 2. Personally, I would prefer The 2nd season of THE DREW CAREY SHOW......but at least Drew's other show is getting recognized!!!
Funniest Episode Ever!
2008-03-11 - This is a fun inexpensive way to have some of the funniest Drew Carey Show episodes. The best show is the one when Drew decides to remake all the office's old safety videos, and Kate redoes them for a birthday present for him. One of the funniest shows ever! :)
Love this show!!!!!!!!!
2007-04-10 - This show put Drew Carey and Cleveland on the map. I can't wait to get the complete first season when it comes out! These episodes are pretty good ones, but definetly not the best. Just wait for the actual season's to start coming out on DVD, then you'll see what I mean. But this is ultimately a great purchase for any fan of the show, or Drew Carey for that matter. Get it if you just can't wait for the season's to come out on DVD, or if you just need a quick fix!!!! Cleveland Rocks!!!!
Drew Carey
2007-01-15 - I was a fan and have been trying to get the full series for a long time now so this is a foretaste of whats to come if Warner Bros put the full series out. You either like Drew Carey and his gang or not and the show always makes me laugh. Great buy and Cleveland really does rock.
