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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396254619
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Running Time: 491 minutes
Sales Rank: 15766
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: September 27, 1982
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Square Pegs follows the hilarious misadventures of Patty (Sarah Jessica Parker, TV's Sex and the City) and Lauren (Amy Linker), two freshmen girls desperate to fit in at Weemawee High School. Befriended by oddball characters Marshall (John Femia), a budding comedian, and Johnny Slash (Merritt Butrick), a wacky new-waver, Patty and Lauren still hope to impress the popular kids: valley girl Jennifer (Tracy Nelson), her tough boyfriend Vinnie (Jon Caliri), and their sassy friend LaDonna (Claudette Wells). And it would 'behoove us' to not forget Muffy (Jami Gertz), the ever-peppy preppie!
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Square Pegs was in a class by itself, but much like brainy, bespectacled Patty (Sarah Jessica Parker) and pushy, overweight Lauren (Amy Linker), popularity eluded this late, lamented series, which was expelled from prime time after one season. Rarely seen in syndication, its cult cachet has only increased with time (enhanced by Parker’s extreme makeover into Sex and the City’s trend-setting Carrie Bradshaw). In the words of peppy, preppy Muffy Tepperman (a spirited Jami Gertz in her own career-launching role), it behooves us to report that the series lives up to its rep as a smart and hip alternative to what creator Anne Beatts (in one of the newly filmed interviews with the show’s creators and cast included on each disc) calls 'processed cheese television' of the day. Square Pegs was a totally different head; totally. Anticipating 16 Candles and Freaks and Geeks, Square Pegs viewed high school from the perspective of the bottom of the high-school social food chain. Patty and Lauren are freshmen at Weemawee High School. Lauren has it 'all psyched out': If the girls can click with the right clique, they will at last have 'a social life that’s worthy of us.' Alas, it is not to be. The girls instantly run afoul of the school’s reigning Mean Girl, Jennifer (Tracy Nelson), her bad boy boyfriend, Vinnie (Jon Caliri), and her sassy best friend, LaDonna (Claudette Welles). 'La Donna doesn’t like anything I do,' Patty wails, 'and I don’t do anything.' They are also treated with disdain by Muffy, who seems to have the run of the school to rally students around sponsoring a 'Guatemalan child' (they need swimwear, too). Patty and Lauren reluctantly bond with fellow square peggers Marshall Blechtman (John Fernia), an aspiring comedian always ready with a <>Saturday Night Live or Monty Python reference, and the 'laid back and left back' Johnny Slash (the late Merritt Butrick), who’s New Wave, and not punk. (New Wave, he explains, is 'a totally different head; totally').
Each episode brings some new fresh hell for Patty and Lauren, but also some hope that their fortunes will somehow change and their stock will rise (in the pilot episode, Patty impresses a 'stone fox' upperclassman, and in another, she's Vinnie's leading lady in the Chorus Line-inspired school musical, 'A Cafeteria Line'). Until then, cup size may trump IQ, but friendship will trump popularity. Weemawee High School appears to be based in New York, but everything else about the show is totally Los Angeles, from, like, Jennifer’s Valley Girl-speak to an appearance in one episode by Steve Sax and the Dodgers. The laugh track is as lame and half-hearted as the one employed by SCTV, but the show’s left of center spirit shines through. Two standout episodes feature, respectively, Bill Murray (Beatts’ former National Lampoon and <>SNL colleague) as an unorthodox substitute teacher, and Devo, who performs at Muffy’s New Wave Bat Mitzvah. And that’s Wally Cleaver himself, Tony Dow, as Patty’s estranged divorced father in what passes as a Very Special two-part holiday episode. Square Pegs is totally '80s (in one episode, Marshall's Pac-Man addiction can only be cured by an intervention by Don Novello’s Father Guido Sarducci), but the Waitress’s indelible theme song ('I’d like it if they like us/But I don’t think they like us') sets just the right pathetic/persevering tone that will resonate for a new generation for whom 'one size does not fit all.' --Donald Liebenson
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Rating:  - Yikes...
You ever remember a movie or TV show from your youth as being really good, but then you watch it as an adult and say, "What the #@$% was I thinking?"
This is one of those.
A cast you know (Sarah Jessica Parker, Jami Gertz, Capt. Kirk's son in Star Trek 2), overacting in every scene. Each and every "joke" is delivered with the subtlety of freight train. But the scripts are so inane, you can't blame them.
Pick up a copy of Breakfast Club for your 80s fix, instead.
Rating: - "I COULD JUST BARF"-- IN A VERY GOOD WAY--OVER "SQUARE PEGS"
After she starred on Broadway as "Annie" and long before she became Carrie Bradshaw from "Sex and The City," Sarah Jessica Parker portrayed Weemawee High School outcast Patty Greene in the short-lived but fondly remembered 1982-1983 CBS sitcom "Square Pegs." The series struck a major emotional chord with me at the time; for I was also a major "square peg" in high school. Looking at it now after 25 years, I appreciate the show's satirical spin on high school horrors more than ever but, also, I still feel the pain. This proves how very much on the mark "Square Pegs" was and still is.
The series revolved around Patty and Lauren's (Amy Linker) relentless pursuit of "Popularity." The two misfit girls actually DID FIT IN quite well with class comedian Marshall Blechtman (John Femia) and his constantly "zoned out" sidekick Johnny Slash (The late Merrick Butrick, whom the cast recalls fondly on a sweet remembrance in the DVD'S "Weemawee Yearbook Memories" Segments).
Some of "Square Pegs" is dated; particularly the "Pac-Man Fever" episode, in which Father Guido Sarduchi from "Saturday Night Live" cures Marshall of his video game addiction. And snotty Jennifer's (Tracy Nelson) vapid "Valley Girl act"-- "like, gross me out the door!"-- grows old very quickly. But several other episodes, including "Halloween XII," "A Simple Attachment," and "Weemaweegate" skillfully mix humor and genuine charm.
Sarah Jessica Parker, wearing glasses that her character Patty despises, is as luminous, ... Read More
Rating:  - about time
MY DAD HADE TAPES OF THIS SHOW AND I'VE WATCHED THEM HUNDREDS OF TIMES. AFTER ALMOST 25 YEARS (I'M 23) IT'S HERE ON DVD. so us fans get what we have been waiting for. and now new fans can come about.
Rating:  - NOT AS SQUARE TODAY
One of the great things about DVDs has been the release of past television shows that were once favorites or new cult hits. Having the chance to watch Columbo ruminate over the clues that have been present for all to see or watching the stranded cast of LOST was so much easier being able to stop and start without fear of missing a few seconds.
Then again, some of the shows chosen have left a lot to be desired. There have been numerous occasions where childhood memories were crushed as we watched shows that were not near the hilarious fun fests we remembered them as. Such is the case with SQUARE PEGS: THE COMPLETE SERIES.
This series from the eighties followed the misadventures of Patty (a young Sarah Jessica Parker) and Lauren (Amy Linker), two freshmen at Weemawee High School whose main goal seems to be trying to fit in. Not only do they want to fit in, they want to be part of the IN crowd. But the chances of that were slim to none.
Though it sounds like a nice premise for a series, it fails on so many levels. Which is stunning because I recalled this as one of those shows that was a must see and has developed a cult status since its departure. The biggest problem? It relies far too much on stereotypes. While this may make it easy to keep the characters separate, it also makes for a boring show week to week.
First off is the school stuck up snooty valley girl Jennifer (Tracy Nelson). As portrayed here we here the phrase "like..." so often that you can ... Read More
Rating: - Like totally bringing back memories, totally! : )
Wow, the dvd of this beloved show from my youth has been treated with extreme care,pristine picture and sound, and speaking of sound they captured the sound perfect, where alot of other shows at the time were blaring loud sounds, music riffs, etc etc, this show always had the sound of what school was really like, sometimes loud, but sometimes hollow, like when you are alone on a hall, they captured all that and i think that helped make the show more realistic, it did for me anyways!Packaging is great, as to be expected with Sony, slimline double disc packaging, can't go wrong with that, a huge space saver when you have a ton of dvds!Thank you to the people who put this package together , i just started watching and haven't gotten to the extras yet, and i can't wait!
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