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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936722116
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 07, 2007
Running Time: 255 minutes
Sales Rank: 6606
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1994
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Description:
Evil-doers, check your rear-view mirror because justice is closer than it appears! Everyone’s favorite big blue hero, along with his trusty moth sidekick Arthur, is back for more hilarious adventures in THE TICK VS. SEASON TWO. With a heart as big as the moon and as warm as bathwater, The Tick flexes the muscle of goodness to keep the citizens of The City safe from the strangest collection of villains yet. Season Two brings the return of über-villains El Seed and Brainchild, our heroes make their reality TV debuts and The Tick whittles himself a new sidekick when a woman comes between him and his old chum Arthur. With a cornucopia of laughs and thrills stuffed onto three shiny discs, THE TICK VS. SEASON TWO delivers a one-two punch of goodness straight to your home entertainment center.
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Receipt of Tick Season 2
The product was shipped in a timely manner, arrived in good condition and was exactly what the seller advertised. I was pleased.
Rating: - The Tick Complete Collection???
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.
Rating: - Just as I remembered
Too funny to see the older shows again, quality was good and it took 1 week to recieve after I placed the order.
Rating:  - A great show spoiled by a bad DVD release.
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Such a great show. Why the lousy treatment?
I loved the Tick when it originally aired, and went on to enjoy the comics as well. Season two contains some of my favorite Tick episodes, and it is great to finally see them on DVD.
If you love satire, screwball humor, or hilarious moral messages, you'll love the tick. This show kept spot on faithful to the Tick of the comics and brought him into an animated world that a character like him could really thrive in. This is entertainment great for kids and adults alike. I doubt you will be disappointed with the show itself.
The DVD however is another story in itself. Why they keep cutting out episodes is beyond me. The Mole Men episode from season one wasn't too much of a loss, but will hopefully be on an upcoming DVD. This season really lost a great one though. "Alone Together" is one of the best Tick episodes that aired, and it is completely missing from this collection. My only hope is that this episode, and possibly the mole man episode make it on to the Season Three DVD. This all is kind of strange to me. The UK seasonal DVD's contained all of the episodes. In fact, there is actually a three disk boxed set you can get on Amazon UK if you can play region 2 DVDs.
These DVD's also seem to be lacking any sort of feature. The story of how the Tick came to get published is certainly interesting enough to warrant, at the very least, a five minute featurette. Instead we get ads for unrelated shows.
Overall, above-par episodes, sub-par DVD. Let's hope ... Read More
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