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| The Tick Vs. Season Two | 
 enlarge | Director: Hank Tucker
Actors: Kay Lenz, Gail Matthius
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $34.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 17788
Format: Animated, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 255 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.5
MPN: DISD53216D
UPC: 786936722116
EAN: 0786936722116
ASIN: B000Q6775O
Theatrical Release Date: 1994
Release Date: August 7, 2007
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Product Description
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 08/07/2007
Amazon.com
The second season of the enormously entertaining and offbeat animated series The Tick arrives on DVD in an attractive package (with cover art by the character's creator, Ben Edlund) but little else, which should give pause to some of the program's dedicated fans. The Tick's surreal adventures got even stranger by the series' second season - among his opponents this season are the giant whale Blowhole, who makes trouble for The Tick and his temporary sidekick, Little Wooden Boy ("Little Wooden Boy and the Belly of Love"), portly villainess Venus, who removes The Tick's arms to commit a crime spree with them ("Armless But Not Harmless"), and Multiple Santa, a petty criminal whose encounter with a electrified billboard allows him to transform into Kris Kringle clones ("The Tick Loves Santa!"). Long-running nemeses like Brainchild and El Seed make return appearances as well (in "Coach Fussell's Lament" and "Bloomsday," respectively), and the episodes themselves have held up well in the decade since their broadcast. But one of the season's funniest episodes, "Alone Together" (written by Christopher McCulloch of The Venture Bros.), is inexplicably missing from this two-disc set, and its absence, along with a lack of any supplemental features save for a collectible lithograph, is bound to have Tick followers scratching their head over why their favorite blue tights-wearing crime fighter is getting such a raw deal. Could this be the work of Chairface Chippendale? -- Paul Gaita
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 Great Show November 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I never saw "The Tick" as a kid but apparently my husband did, so I buy them for him. The funny thing is that my 4yr old daughter loves them too! Out of all the movies and cartoons she has "The Tick" is one of the most requested. I actually appreciate its humor and so I will keep buying them for my family.
Receipt of Tick Season 2 September 10, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The product was shipped in a timely manner, arrived in good condition and was exactly what the seller advertised. I was pleased.
The Tick Complete Collection??? August 22, 2008
Just a quick shout out here.
The Tick is a of course an amazing show.
My daughter who is now a Jr. in High School used to have to watch it every Saturday morning, followed by the X-men cartoon.
Just have to wonder/ask why don't we get what they have offered in Region 2 in the UK? They now have out The Tick - The Complete Collection (Season 1-3). Where is our option for that instead of the season 1, season 2 etc.
They also have now released Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends - Complete Season One (Marvel Originals Series - 80s, The Incredible Hulk - Season One Parts One & Two (Marvel Originals Series - 90s),you can pre-order now Silver Surfer - Complete Season (Marvel Originals Series - 90s).
Makes me wish I had a multi-region DVD player.
Just as I remembered August 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Too funny to see the older shows again, quality was good and it took 1 week to recieve after I placed the order.
 A great show spoiled by a bad DVD release. May 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Tick is one of my favorite animated television programs. A wonderful and hilarious send-up of the superhero genre, with plenty of both incisive satire and outright silliness. Ben Edlund's comic should be required reading for all superhero comic fans everywhere; and the animated series captures it perfectly. When the DVD was first announced, I was ecstatic.
Then Walt Disney/Buena Vista went and screwed it up. Badly. For starts, as many others have noted, there are missing episodes. Like Season One, this set is also missing an episode. However, unlike the first missing episode, generally regarded as one of the weakest; this one is one of the best espisodes of the series. But enough has been said on this subject by others. There are numerous other weaknesses with this release; which make it seriously disappointing, and rather overpriced.
The biggest is simply the incredibly poor quality of the transfer. Having purchased numerous other DVD releases of old animated programs, I'm astounded at just how bad this transfer is. Even on an ordinary analog television, the low resolution and high level of compression artifacts is painfully obvious. It almost looks like they created the DVD, not from the original sources, but from some of the pre-DVD videos that have been floating around the Internet for years. The sound transfer isn't much better, and is rendered flat and lifeless, although without obvious artifacts.
There are no extras to speak of, and it appears that they instead used all the space saved by the low-bitrate transfer to cram in a lot of extra advertisements that are extremely annoying to have to forward past to get to the show.
If it wasn't for the fact that this is likely to be the only offering of The Tick on DVD, and if The Tick wasn't as great a show as it is, I'd say don't bother with it.
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