[quote name=\'Pyramid80\' post=\'138450\' date=\'Nov 21 2006, 02:19 PM\']
After searching Best Buy locations that had it available...I went on a little trip during my lunch break. After searching through the DVD's...it was no where to be found. I asked one of the associates if they had it and he said all of the new releases had been put out. He checked the back of the store and brought a copy out to me. I guess they are holding them in the back...thinking that no one would want them.
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That's what happened to me with that one, and with the "Sesame Street: Old School" that came out last month; if the website says they're in stock, they're in stock.
I got mine at Best Buy (as they seem to be the only major retailer with it in stock), and I'm currently scanning the disks at the moment. Some of you may think I wasted $20 (and some may not). At the risk of sounding like a fanboi, I got the set not so much for the episodes (although it IS great to have some eps complete and uncut, including "School Riot"), but for the fee and ticket plugs. If that excites you, too, you will NOT be disappointed.
Disc 1 doesn't reallly have many (I'll expand on Disc 1 in a bit), but Disc 2 is a virtual TREASURE TROVE. The CBS eps on that disc don't have any ticket plugs but the fee plugs are something else...A little "Match game 76" logo and then homing in on a single soul in the audience on one, and the "School Riot" episode has a similar plug. Also on there is the last syndie ep, also with a ticket plug (?) that's never been seen since its original airing, with CNR and his dummy. Some of the ticket plugs with the faces are downright hilarious, I LOL'd at some of them. Johnny O does chuckle at the end of a few, apparently they made him laugh too.
Disc 3 and 4 have some more ticket and fee plugs (the MG77 episode on Disc 3 includes an early faces ticket promo) as well. Apparently the MGPM eps didn't do ticket plugs, or else none of the episodes on the discs had them.
Back to Disc 1...I did notice that on the 10/2/76 episode that in the second chapter, near the end, the video and audio are WAY out of sync (about 3 or 4 seconds off). This was fixed by chapter 3 of that episode. I'm curious if anyone else came across that, too.