The Tick Vs. Season 2

Here in the desert wasteland of region one DVD, Tick fans are allowed almost all of Tick Season one, and with this DVD almost all of season 2. Each set is missing one episode. Exactly why this is true is pretty much in the hands of the conspiracy theorists. The most likely answer being: the folks who made the decision forgot why. Meantime there is a 3rd Tick Season over in England, but American sales did not justify a region 1 release.It is my belief that if you splice together the two missing episodes , then reverse the polarity of the leads in the third season you get unedited proof that Jack Bower wasted a bunch of his twenty four hours, in every season, sitting on the can and reading The Shadow comic books.The Tick continues to be the best in Hipster humor. The best lines are usually the throw away ones that may take an extra viewing or two to catch. Meantime we have a rerun of a number of the old villains. This is a tradition in the non-satire world of super heroes and in keeping with tradition, Tick faces off against villains who now have a personal grudge against the big blue guy. There are some new villains most noticeably the Swiss Commandos who have multi-tools the like of which us Victorinox fans can only dream. On the other hand, the Commandos have to keep explaining that they are villains and not agents of the Swiss government.If there is a complaint against season it is the tendency to fill episodes with The Tick going on longer Tick speeches about evil and goodness and the Valentine heart of love and whatever replaces having a full length comic adventure. Tick being who he is these monologues are barely coherent, which is the joke. This particular joke is over used.My bottom line is that the total level of humor remains, mostly hipster, with just enough appeal to satire and `think a moment' humor that I enjoyed it. Tick Vs Season 2 is not for everybody. But if you "Can Dig", these are fun half hours.

Let me start off by saying that I know how everyone feels. I agree. "Alone Together" was one of the best episodes of the season, and for me, the only one that's better is the one where they fight against the dolphin with the fish magnet. The lines, "You call that a haiku? You're just counting syllables! Get back in the water!" are burned into whatever part of my brain controls joy. Really, I understand your anger. But please, don't take it out on this DVD set, because it's not the DVD sets fault. This is a Walt Disney Studio's problem, and we should definitely blame them, and write them letters, and moan at them until they give us what we really want.But support The Tick. And here's why. If sales of this DVD are poor, then the execs over at Walt Disney are going to decide that they failed because people weren't interested in the content, because they don't want to blame themselves. Studio execs get paid enormous salaries, all based on the idea that they don't make mistakes that cost the company lots of money. If they make that mistake, they will find something else to blame. It's what they're good at. It's why they still have their jobs, even with all those atrocious movies Disney's been peddling for the past few years.So yeah. It stinks that this set doesn't have Alone Together. It really does. But if we want to give The Tick a chance for a truly complete collection, a collection that the studio execs are going to be willing to go to bat for, to fight for the rights to all the episodes for, then we have to prove to them that it's going to be a hit when it happens. Support the Tick. If not for you, then for me. Because this show epitomizes everything that I love about what comics can be, what television can be, and what true heroism in the face of horrid cynicism can be. Fight for the Tick, cause he'd damn well fight for you. Spoon, baby. Spoon.

It's beautiful and in great condition. It just arrived late. Shipping is nuts this time of year but it's important to get gifts on time, especially for Christmas. But I can't complain about the product itself. Great work, and thank you.

My only hesitation in strongly recommending every season of the Tick is the possibility that Buena Vista is deleting episodes from each season for the simple reason that they want to release a "complete series" box set after they are done with the seasons -- and they want to be sure that true fans will buy it all again by holding a few episodes back. This possibility presents itself because the seasons are available (or will soon be available) in the UK from a different distributor with no episodes missing, which might mean that Buena Vista is not being forthcoming with the truth behind the missing episodes here in the US. Despite the possible evil, it still makes the most sense to buy this US edition, even if it is missing one of the key episodes.

I want season three. I want the missing episodes. Pppplleeease!!! Who can resist the series that gives us:"Sorry I haven't been around much lately. I'm easily distracted by shiny objects." from "The Tick vs. The Proto Clown"And"WANNABES! All of you, spit polishing your prosthetic limbs, und whitewashing your liver spots for this wretched back-patting, smarty-party! The true mad scientist does not make public appearances! He does not wear the ‘hello my name is” badge. He STRIKES from below like a viper! Or on high like a PENNY, dropped from the tallest building around! He has only ze one purpose: do bad things, to good people, MIT SCIENCE!!!! You're not mad scientists; you're a bunch of hippies!" from "The Tick vs. Science"

Raynygrrl's comment is wrong. I ordered this DVD and it works perfectly inside my DVD player. If you look at the back of the case its says that it is a region 1 format which means that it will play in the USA and Canada. It also says that it is a NTSC which is also a USA and Canada format (I think they use PAL in the United Kingdom). Also if you look at the product details here on Amazon it says the following:Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. about DVD formats.)So either Raynygrrl lives in a different country (with a different format) or she does live in the USA or Canada but is not using a NTSC region 1 format DVD player.Now for the review of the DVD.It brings back good memories and is very funny to watch. The picture and volume quality was perfect. For some odd reason it says on the back of the case "this collection does not contain episode #15". I do not know why they would exclude that specific episode. Read more

As good as the first dvd, very funny! Now if only they could release the 3rd season on dvd! At least we can get it on bluray...

I loved this show back when it was on fox forkids (by far the best tv cartoon production company of the day), so take anything I say with a grain of salt. This season of The Tick is just as good as the first (again lacking any speacial features for the diehard fan) and is again missing the mysterous 13 episode, although this season doesn't have subtitles. The only thing really lacking is that there hasn't yet as of this review come out with season 3 on dvd (hoping that there will be extras and the two missing 13 episodes if it ever does come out). But as for this season they did a great job of bring the tick back to his true form, no unnessary editing or cutting of the oppening sequence (best use of ska ever).

I used to wonder where my life would head as a child. Apparently my life is but an emulation of this childhood cartoon based on the tick.

A witty and fun show, but I've purchased several copies and have trouble playing the dvds on many players.