TV-on-DVD...2008 edition!

To my great surprise and relief, four of my hoped-for television shows were released and/or set for release ("Downtown", "6teen" - in a sense, "Weird Science" and, in a last-minute announcement, "Duckman") in the year since my last such post.

And even more fine shows are coming this year ("Tiny Toon Adventures", "Sam and Max: Freelance Police", "Freakazoid!")...and I didn't even have to list them or take hostages or anything.

However, not all is joyful in Mudville. There are still many fine shows yet to reach the medium of the DVD. In addition to the shows mentioned, yet not released, in last year's post, there's:

The Chimp Channel: From two of the writers behind Freaked (the ones who aren't Alex Winter) came this hilarious TBS show about a television network...run by monkeys. (The set should also included the movie parodies that aired on the net.)

The PJs: Superintendent Thurgood Stubbs presides over the residents of the Hilton-Jacobs projects in this funny stop-motion series from Eddie Murphy. Love that theme song from George Clinton, too.

Raw Toonage: This one-season wonder was essentially a (successful, in my opinion) attempt at sketch-style storytelling from Disney Animation. They would later try again with the equally underrated "Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show".

Tokyo Pig: A touching (and totally off-the-wall) story of a boy and his pig. Imagine if the dub writers of "Shin-Chan" still managed to be creative and funny within the constraints of a 'TV-Y7' rating. (There's a best-of set out there, but only 30 episodes were produced. How hard can it be to put them all out there?)

Yes, most of these shows are animated. I like cartoons better than live-action. That's not a problem, is it?