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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097361225142
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 04, 2007
Running Time: 451 minutes
Sales Rank: 37784
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: November 27, 1980
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Description:
Kip and Henry work at an advertising agency as an artist and writer respectively. When the apartment that they were living in was condemned, they had no place to live. So Amy their co-worker, who has a crush on Henry, suggests that they stay with her but the only the problem is that it's for girls only. So they get into drag and assume the personas of Buffy and Hildegarde. When Kip meets Sonny, Amy's attractive roommate, he is smitten and when they learn that there's a vacancy in the building, Kip convinces Henry to take it so he can be close to Sonny, and so that this experience might be good material for a book that Henry can write.
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Bosom Buddies' high-concept premise (two displaced friends don dresses so they can live in a 'dirt cheap' hotel for women) was ridiculous. Listening to costars Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari narrate the opening credits ('…but they also know us as Kip and Henry, Buffy and Hildy's brothers'), you got the feeling that they thought so, too. The immensely appealing and likeable duo had emerged as a crack comedy team worthy of better, and the second eason accommodates them with an unprecedented premise-wrecking about-face. In the season opener, Kip (Hanks) reveals his secret to Sonny (Donna Dixon), the girl of his dreams. ('Ain't this a shocker, huh?'), and Henry (Scolari) follows suit. No problem. Aspiring singer Isabelle (Telma Hopkins), promoted to hotel manager (farewell, Lucille Benson), allows them to stay. Further, Kip and Henry leave their ad agency and set up their own commercial production house. In short, there is much less cross-dressing this season and a lot more Airplane-style scattershot pop culture cross-references ranging from Noel Coward and Philip Roth to Slim Whitman and the Ozzie Nelson family. The ensemble's (including Holland Taylor and the late, great Wendie Jo Sperber) infectiously silly improvisational byplay recalls Robin Williams' mad riffs on Mork and Mindy, and freshen up such sitcom staples as the flashback episode, the imagine-us-when-we're-old episode, and the inevitable variety-show episode (with special guest Penny 'Laverne' Marshall, who would direct Hanks to his first Oscar nomination in Big).
Bosom Buddies is mostly madcap, but some genuinely moving moments took the series to another level. In 'The Reunion,' one of the series' best episodes, a guilt-stricken Henry apologizes to the deaf girl he stood up at their high school prom, and 'Kip off the Old Block' fades out on Kip's admission that he is afraid of growing up. Enjoyable in its own right, Bosom Buddies is best remembered today as the career launching pad for Hanks. Revisiting it is like paging through an old high school yearbook and marveling at the phenomenal success of the former class clown. Hanks for the memories. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Hmmm
Great show! Hot blonde in it, but where the heck is the normal theme song???? The Billy Joel 'My Life' theme song is gone from all the intros, and some dorky lady singing a goofy song instead. Thank god the opening credits can be skipped over.
Rating:  - Perhaps not as hilarious as I remembered it, but still great fun
I absolutely loved this show when it originally aired in the 1980's and I have fond memories of it even still. But as is so often the case things aren't always as wonderful as we remember them. Watching the show now I do find it to be a bit dated, and even some episodes aren't as funny as I'd remembered them to be. With that said however the chemistry between Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari is timeless and still great fun to watch. They seem to have a limitless energy on screen and appear to be genuinely enjoying themselves. I will also say that despite the fact that season two is somewhat disjointed and the show seemed to be shifting direction from it's original premise, it is also the season that contains many of my favorite episodes. Worth mentioning is that like season one the original opening theme song by Billy Joel has been changed to something totally generic. Also, and again like season one, some episodes have scenes omitted that were shown in the original broadcasts. Admittedly though I only noticed this myself in one episode, where a sing along between Kip, Henry, and their two cellmates was omitted from a jail scene. When all is said and done I have great nostalgia for the show and I still enjoyed watching it. If only the powers that be had let the show go for more than two seasons and allowed them the time to develop and grow... who knows how great this little show might have eventually become?
Rating: - Bosom Buddies
I enjoyed watching this show when in was on the air. It was fun to revisit the show with all it's silliness. I found it as sweet and humorous as when I first saw it.
Rating: - One-gag show becomes the proto-Friends
What Bosom Buddies always wanted to be was somewhere between Dick van Dyke and Friends-- a show about people of a certain age and station in life, their friendships, their loves, and not really too much else.
For one season, the network didn't have the nerve to let it happen and the show stayed hung on the peg of its high concept. And then, to kick off the second season, TPTB tossed the whole concept out the window. The cross-dressing some-like-it-hot gag went out the window and the two leads went into the ad business.
If I had never seen the dresses again, I wouldn't have cared. I was entertained to see people my age, going through the business of getting their young lives started, and there really wasn't much of that happening at the time on tv.
Yes, some episodes are kind of, well, dumb. And some were inspired fantasy-- if you were that age at that time, you got it. But what held the show together was a group of characters who really liked each other, anchored by the comedy team of Hanks and Scolari who, particularly when it came to physical gags, were a well-oiled machine.
Had the show stuck around, I think it could have morphed into something as fun and special and of its age and time as Friends would later become, but it was too late. It had changed so radically from its initial conception that only a handful of people ever uncovered this little gem. But in this second season you can see some great moments and the promise of what might have ... Read More
Rating: - Misshi-masshy
I don't really have any special thirst to review this product, but that being said, I do think I can come up with one or two points, now that I own this DVD.
This season of Bosum Buddies is a shambles. Things are going in all kinds of directions, plots are picked up and then lost, with little or no ramifications. Wether or not the people knew this was going to be the last season, I don't know. Tom Hanks character also goes from lovable to pretty much a complete tool at such a relentless pace, you wonder if the show was being written by two groups of writers who had no idea what the other group was up to.
For those of us who are used to the sit-coms of the nineties and naughties, a show that doesn't plan ahead for their characters might seem a bit unresponsible, but remember, shows are still being axed, leaving characters in perpetual limbo (Joey).
And just one more thing before the good news, this is very dated. Shows from the 60's and 70's kind of work now, because the 60's are always cool, and brown being the new black, again, 70's shows also work pretty well now.
80's shows tend to be pretty cheesy to watch now. The music just sounds so cheap and out of place, and the way people are dressed, not to mention their hairstyles? Puh-lease!
Now, the 4 stars. Tom Hanks, pretty much, he is the alfa and omega of this show, and why he succeeds to this day is easy to see. From Bosom Buddies to Alex uncle on Family Ties, Splash via Man With Red ... Read More
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