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The Norm Show: The Complete Series
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September 7, 2010 "Please retry" | — | 8 |
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| $399.99 | — |
Format | Box set, Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Dolby, Full Screen |
Contributor | MacDonald, Norm, Metcalf, Laurie, Zuckerman, Steve |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 8 |
Runtime | 19 hours and 45 minutes |
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All 54 Original Episodes
From Norm Macdonald and executive producer Bruce Helford (creator of The Drew Carey Show) comes this warped look at a pro hockey player turned criminal turned social worker.
Meet Norm Henderson. Once a fairly well-known, but not particularly skilled, professional hockey player, Norm had a penchant for gambling and an aversion to paying taxes that resulted in his expulsion from hockey for life. Facing a possible jail term, Norm was instead sentenced to community service as a caseworker in social services, where his mischievous and sarcastic personality has him breaking all the rules, leaving his friends, by-the-book coworker Laurie (Laurie Metcalf, Roseanne) and neurotic colleague Danny (Ian Gomez, Cougar Town), to constantly help him out of trouble. Also starring Max Wright (ALF) as his Boss Mr. Denby, Nikki Cox (Las Vegas) as Taylor the ex-prostitute social worker and Artie Lange (The Howard Stern Show, Dirty Work) as his crooked if not crazy half-brother: smart, edgy, dry comedy was the norm.
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In the booklet that accompanies this welcome boxed set, The Norm Show cocreator Bruce Helford calls this late lamented series "the one that got away." A show that was just getting better as it went along, it fell prey to the vagaries of network scheduling, moved from Wednesday nights where it did very well to the programming sinkhole that is Friday night, where it did not, and was cancelled after three seasons. Helford also cocreated The Drew Carey Show, and Norm is cut from the same cloth. It shares the same off-center rhythms, delight in meta-musings and tweaking sitcom conventions, and cold openings, such as Norm's parsing of TV's ratings system (with rebuttal in one episode by the Devil) and the episode that begins apropos of nothing with costumed cast members engaged in a Pokémon battle. The show also engaged in Carey-esque stunts, such as the punch line and movie reference contests. Norm MacDonald is a pricklier personality than Carey. His Norm is not as likeable as Carey's Everyman. He is a former professional hockey player who avoids jail for tax evasion by performing community service as a social worker. He is a slacker in an office of dedicated professionals, including compassionate and overworked Laurie (the remarkable Laurie Metcalf) and the luckless and sensitive Danny (Ian Gomez). To the show's credit, little effort is made to dull Norm's sarcastic and acerbic edge that made him one of SNL's best Weekend Update anchors and Conan O'Brien's most dependably funny talk show guests. In one episode, when Danny says, "But you don't want to hear my problems," Norm replies, "Thanks, buddy. I was gonna say that but I thought it'd sound bad." The ensemble also includes sitcom veterans who raised MacDonald's game, including Murphy Brown's Faith Ford as Norm's social worker and romantic interest, Alf's Max Wright as Norm's tormented boss, MacDonald's Dirty Work costar Artie Lange as Norm's irresponsible brother, and Nikki Cox as Taylor, a former hooker, whom Norm helps rehabilitate. There are no Very Special Episodes, but several involving story arcs (Norm lapses into gambling, Danny and Taylor's budding relationship). And just for fun, there are memorable cameos (Richard Pryor in his last screen appearance as an abusive and uncooperative case, Lou Rawls as a hansom cab driver) and guest star turns, including Jack Warden as Danny's macho father who may be gay and Tommy Smothers as Norm's less than paternalistic father. As the show got better, so did its opening credit sequences. Season 2's never gets old, a comically choreographed street scene that perfectly encapsulates the characters. Extras are limited to several entertaining audio commentaries by MacDonald and Helford, who share writing and comedy insights and secrets from the set (during the episode "Norm Dates Danny's Dad," Helford reveals Norm's failed catchphrase that, alas, can't be repeated here). --Donald Liebenson
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.01 ounces
- Item model number : SF12056
- Director : Zuckerman, Steve
- Media Format : Box set, Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Dolby, Full Screen
- Run time : 19 hours and 45 minutes
- Release date : September 7, 2010
- Actors : MacDonald, Norm, Metcalf, Laurie
- Studio : Cinedigm - Uni Dist Corp
- ASIN : B003NHMYI8
- Number of discs : 8
- Best Sellers Rank: #205,314 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #154,343 in DVD
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The show itself is awesome as I mentioned, Norm is hilarious. The DVDs are not super high-tech, they are on the cheaper side, but I expected nothing else. You have limited controls, for example in regard to fast forwarding and stuff like that. Also there are no English subtitles, or any subtitles at all for that matter. Personally I appreciate English subs because sometimes you might miss a word due to ppl around you or whatever noises around your environment there is. But to the shows credit they do speak very clearly, no character that mumbles or the like, so I can't say I have missed the subtitles yet. And I can only speak for season 1 of this 3 season box set so far. The other seasons' DVDs might have more functions that I am not yet aware of. The box itself is very nice, visually I mean. Looks like any other box, doesn't look cheap or nothing like that.
So over all I am more than happy with it, I got exactly what I expected in terms of quality, and I payed what I felt was fair. As an added bonus the actual show was ten times better than I had anticipated, so in hindsight this was a bargain ;)
//Neco
The only complaint I have about the set is they did not include Max Wright in the picture that adorns the front of the DVD box set. I don't know why for sure, but I have a feeling because of the "scandal" revolving around him a few years ago with drugs. If so, that's too bad as he was awesome in this show and a bigger part of the show that Artie Lange who they DID put on the cover.
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Nur auf englisch-aber für mich absolut kein Problem,da bei der Übersetzung ins Deutsche immer soooviele Gags verloren gehen.
No extras except for commentaries which I must admit is worth it (I listened to the first 2 episodes with commentaries) and it's funny...
Long Live Norm
Cheers