The full-screen video on these episodes look great, but due to the high quality of the image, the animation can expose the low-budget production, as the edges of the live footage look rough against the animated background. Highlight: Sav Macauley is amazing, thanks to the maniac he calls.
Gene Winterbuck (Dane Cook) book requests Highlight: It doesn't get any better than Karl Malone's Beanie Babies. Hadassah calls from the Department of Waste Management Highlight: Ken is a riot, while Spoonie Luv's ad is guaranteed to make you laugh. Highlight: One of the weaker moments, but Dane Cook as Sav Macauley is fun. Sav Macauley (Dane Cook) in The Phone Zone Highlight: Niles Standish's naughty note takes the prize. Vote for Tony DeLoge (Super Dave Osborne) Helen Higgins (Susie Essman) has a problem petīobby Fletcher needs a job (social worker) Highlight: A great all-arond episode, with Lida, Frank and Danny all delivering hilarious calls. Terrence (Jimmy Kimmel) makes a reservation for Cosby Highlight: Wanda's call is great, but the reaction to the Touch-Tone Terrorists is priceless.īobby Fletcher (Jim Florentine) needs a job Woman thinks she called parcel company (with the Touch-Tone Terrorists) Miles Standish (Tony Barbieri) needs assistance Wanda (Wanda Sykes) calls from Internet sex site to thank customer Karl Malone (Jimmy Kimmel) - You Got to Know Highlight: The sweet nature of Savin's "mark" makes the call a winner. Rob (Stephen Colbert) lends deaf friend a hand Hadassah (Sarah Silverman) responds to ad Shavin (Dave Chappelle) makes a reservation (with the Wu Tang Clan)īob Carlman (Super Dave Osborne) calls a Dick Highlight: Special Ed's character defining moment and Cammie's ridiculous situation. Jimmy (Jimmy Kimmel) needs help downstairs (with Sarah Silverman) Highlight: The fully-nude Tenacious D performance is great, while Batman's Nemesis is fun and silly.īoomer (Patton Oswalt) and the Nudge (Jimmy Kimmel) radio contest Gladys Murphy (Wanda Sykes) lodges a complaintīatman's Nemesis (Jordan Rubin) calls 411 The set is packaged in two ThinPak cases, with episode information on the inside, housed inside a cardboard slipcase.Įlmer (Jimmy Kimmel) calls for an apartment Animated intros lead into nicely-designed menus built around a telephone keypad. The first season is split across two discs, with five episodes on each. The fact that they are being dropped by puppets makes it funnier in a way, working along the lines of how South Park has children cursing. I really didn't think the bleeping was a big deal, but some people enjoy an F-bomb caressing their ear. It's odd to see that the puppet makers included nipples on their felt creations, but if you wondered what that was like, this set is the way to go. The big selling point of this set is that it's uncensored, which means that all the puppet nudity that was blurred and the cursing that was bleeped, is included in its untouched form. Small interstitials serve as transitions between the various locales of fictional Yankerville. The shows fly by, at 22 minutes a piece, with six or seven calls in each, some longer than others. Some of the best segments of the show came during the first season, including the sweetly-retarded Special Ed (Jim Florentine) calling tech support, creating the show's signature cry of "I got mail! Yay!", Sav Macauley of The Phone Zone (Dane Cook) calling a crazy military man and Shavin (Dave Chappelle) trying to book the Wu-Tang Clan rooms at a bed-and-breakfast. The quality of the calls can be hit or miss, depending on the responses by "The Mark," but on a whole, they tend to be pretty good. The calls are rarely abusive, as the jokes tend to be more fun and goofy, which raises the show above the level of The Jerky Boys. The premise is simple, as Kimmel, Adam Corolla and a crew of guest comics, including Kevin Nealon, Jim Florentine, Billy West and Tracy Morgan, act out a cast of outrageous characters calling people and harrassing them. Who could have bet against that formula? Jimmy Kimmell ("The Jimmy Kimmel Show", The Man Show") and his production partners didn't, turning their love of prank phone calls into one of Comedy Central's most popular shows.
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