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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 7867
Released: October 19, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Uncut, uncensored and unrelenting, Greg the Bunny stars Seth Green and Eugene Levy and is rude, crude, and stuffed with attitude. TV wasn’t ready for him. Are you? The complete series on DVD includes two never aired episodes and much more. Puppets are people too!
Description of Greg the Bunny - The Complete Series:
Cheers to Fox for even putting Greg the Bunny on the air, and jeers to Fox for yanking it after a mere season (an ignominious fate it shared with The Ben Stiller Show and Andy Richter Controls the Universe). Ripe for discovery, this cult-worthy 2002 series took its cue from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and anticipated the subversive Tony Award-winning Muppet spoof Avenue Q by imagining a world in which puppets (or, to be more PC: "fabricated Americans") live amongst humans. Greg, a sweet-natured bunny, lives with his best friend Jimmy (Seth Green), a slacker whose father, Gil (the inestimable Eugene Levy), is the director of the "struggling," "low-rated" children's show Sweetknuckle Junction. Greg prevails upon Jimmy to get him a job on the show, but Greg inadvertently finds himself replacing the star. the washed-up Rochester Rabbit. Jimmy signs on as the production assistant to watch over Greg, and to pursue the icy network executive, Alison (comedy siren Sarah Silverman). Rounding out the human cast is gun nut Junction Jack (Bob Gunton) and ditzy, puppet-loving (and we mean that literally) Dottie (Dina Walters).
The puppet ensemble is no less impressive than the "fleshies." There's Count Blah, a vampire with a Sesame Street complex and a penchant for punctuating his sentences with "blah"; Warren "Professor Ape" Demontague, a soused monkey with thespian pretensions (and an ongoing feud with neighbor Corey Feldman); Tardy Turtle, an appellation which, unfortunately, does not just refer to his lack of speed, and Susan, a monster who makes Janet Reno look like Salma Hayek. Profanity and crude behavior emanating from puppets is certainly good for some easy laughs (prepare for the worst when adorable laundry icon Snuggles enters a bathroom stall in the episode "Father & Son Reunion"). But Greg the Bunny plays it smart as well, with sly in-jokes and movie references (catch the King Kong homage when an enraged Demontague jumps on Gil's shoulders in "Blah Bawls"). The show only got better and funnier as its lone season unfolded, making its cancellation that much more keenly felt. A Family Guy-type resurrection seems unlikely, but what about a Count Blah spinoff? Until then, this features-stuffed two-disc set, complete with clips from Greg's humble public-access beginnings, cast and in-character commentaries, behind-the-scenes segments, and a new Tardy featurette, will really sock it to you. --Donald Liebenson
Greg the Bunny - The Complete Series Reviews:
hassle free 
2008-07-07 - While there is always a chance things can go wrong this transaction like the vast majority was as uneventful as it should have been.
hilarious, blah.
2008-06-26 - One of the great one season wonders in tv history this show is as good the fifth time you watch the episodes as the first. The extras left me a little disappointed but the show is just so original and funny it doesn't matter. I got it for 12 bucks with free shipping so the price really cant get any better either.
Best Ever
2008-05-02 - This show was the funniest thing I had seen in years and it was a crime that it was pulled.
Fox sucks! for cancelling this show.
2008-04-27 - This was quite easily the funniest show Fox has ever aired and they yanked it after seven episodes. One of the many reasons a lot of us have quit watching Fox in general is their history of cancelling excellent shows because they didn't immediately get high ratings. Greg the Bunny is just a silly, twisted, alternate reality show where puppets are just the same as people, only shorter and filled with fluff instead of blood & gore. Seth Green & Eugene Levy worked wonderfully together as father & son, and the rest of the cast is just as insane as they are. A must see for anyone who enjoys offbeat humour.
To FOX : *raise middle fingers*!
2008-03-31 - Yet another series brought around and cancelled between the cancellation of Family Guy and it's return. If the idiot network producers had known where they wanted Greg The Bunny to go, it would have not only been able to finish it's first season (2 episodes on the set never aired), but it would still be airing today. Seth Green, Eugene Levy, Sarah Silverman, Dan Milano, all comedic geniuses. If FOX only realized their mistake in cancelling this show, they'd be punching themselves in the face. My stepdad and I both love this show, along with the many shows that FOX cancelled before they had the chance to take off. Greg may still live on on the IFC network, but it isn't the same.
