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April 24th, 2008

The Andy Griffith Show (Season 5) DVD Review

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One of the most beloved and most popular comedy series in history is The Andy Griffith Show, known for its small town American values and celebration of neighborly love. The series follows the life and times of Mayberry Sheriff Andy Griffith and his young son Opie. The two are joined by the hilarious and bungling Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife and a host of other oddball characters and friendly neighbors.

The Andy Griffith Show (Season 5) DVD features a number of hilarious episodes including the season premiere “Opie Loves Helen” in which Opie falls head over heals into puppy love with his teacher, Helen Crump, lavishly spending seventy-four cents on a gift for her… Other notable episodes include “Otis Sues the County” in which the appearance of an ambulance-chasing lawyer leads to trouble when he convinces Otis to sue the county for hazardous jail cell conditions, and “Banjo-Playing Deputy” in which Jerry Van Dyke makes a hilarious guest appearance as Jerry Miller, a carnival act who becomes Andy’s deputy for a short time after losing his job…

Below is a list of episodes included on The Andy Griffith Show (Season 5) DVD:

Episode 128 (Opie Loves Helen) Air Date: 09-21-1964
Episode 129 (Barney’s Physical) Air Date: 09-28-1964
Episode 130 (Family Visit) Air Date: 10-05-1964
Episode 131 (The Education of Ernest T. Bass) Air Date: 10-12-1964
Episode 132 (Aunt Bee’s Romance) Air Date: 10-19-1964
Episode 133 (Barney’s Bloodhound) Air Date: 10-26-1964
Episode 134 (Man in the Middle) Air Date: 11-02-1964
Episode 135 (Barney’s Uniform) Air Date: 11-09-1964
Episode 136 (Opie’s Fortune) Air Date: 11-16-1964
Episode 137 (Goodbye, Sheriff Taylor) Air Date: 11-23-1964
Episode 138 (The Pageant) Air Date: 11-30-1964
Episode 139 (The Darling Baby) Air Date: 12-07-1964
Episode 140 (Andy and Helen Have Their Day) Air Date: 12-14-1964
Episode 141 (Three Wishes for Opie) Air Date: 12-21-1964
Episode 142 (Otis Sues the County) Air Date: 12-28-1964
Episode 143 (Barney Fife, Realtor) Air Date: 01-04-1965
Episode 144 (Goober Takes a Car Apart) Air Date: 01-11-1965
Episode 145 (The Rehabilitation of Otis) Air Date: 01-18-1965
Episode 146 (The Lucky Letter) Air Date: 01-25-1965
Episode 147 (Goober and the Art of Love) Air Date: 02-01-1965
Episode 148 (Barney Runs for Sheriff) Air Date: 02-08-1965
Episode 149 (If I Had a Quarter-Million) Air Date: 02-15-1965
Episode 150 (TV or Not TV) Air Date: 03-01-1965
Episode 151 (Guest in the House) Air Date: 03-08-1965
Episode 152 (The Case of the Punch in the Nose) Air Date: 03-15-1965
Episode 153 (Opie’s Newspaper) Air Date: 03-22-1965
Episode 154 (Aunt Bee’s Invisible Beau) Air Date: 03-29-1965
Episode 155 (The Arrest of the Fun Girls) Air Date: 04-05-1965
Episode 156 (The Luck of Newton Monroe) Air Date: 04-12-1965
Episode 157 (Opie Flunks Arithmetic) Air Date: 04-19-1965
Episode 158 (Opie and the Carnival) Air Date: 04-26-1965
Episode 159 (Banjo-Playing Deputy) Air Date: 05-03-1965

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of The Andy Griffith Show (Season 5) DVD.

April 3rd, 2008

Futurama (Season 3) DVD Review

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A brainchild of Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Futurama launched itself into homes across the galaxy in Spring 1999. Employing the same quick wit and visual humor that has made The Simpsons one of the most successful shows in television history, Futurama (despite its early cancellation in August 2003) maintains its own loyal cult following…

The Futurama (Season 3) DVD offers a number of hilarious episodes including the first on the DVD in which Fry ingests a bad egg-salad sandwich that subsequently makes him smarter and stronger. Professor Farnsworth concludes that intelligent worms have taken over Fry’s body, and the crew must work together by shrinking themselves (a la Fantastic Voyage) in order to fight the parasites. But Leela has second thoughts, however, when she falls in love with the “worm-effected” Fry… Other notable episodes from Season 3 include “Amazon Women in the Mood” in which a planet of Amazon women sentences Fry and the rest of the male crew to death via abundant pleasure, and “That’s Lobstertainment!” in which Dr. Zoidberg tries his hand at comedy and enlists the help of his uncle, Harold Zoid to help him… Season 3 features yet another proprietary alien language that viewers can decipher by studying signs and billboards throughout the various episodes…

Below is a list of episodes included on the Futurama (Season 3) DVD:

Episode 33 (Parasites Lost) Air Date: 01-21-2001
Episode 34 (Amazon Women in the Mood) Air Date: 02-04-2001
Episode 35 (Bendless Love) Air Date: 02-11-2001
Episode 36 (The Day the Earth Stood Stupid) Air Date: 02-18-2001
Episode 37 (That’s Lobstertainment!) Air Date: 02-25-2001
Episode 38 (The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz) Air Date: 03-04-2001
Episode 39 (Luck of the Fryrish) Air Date: 03-11-2001
Episode 40 (The Cyber House Rules) Air Date: 04-01-2001
Episode 41 (Insane in the Mainframe) Air Date: 04-08-2001
Episode 42 (Bendin’ in the Wind) Air Date: 04-22-2001
Episode 43 (Time Keeps on Slipping) Air Date: 05-06-2001
Episode 44 (I Dated a Robot) Air Date: 05-13-2001
Episode 45 (Roswell That Ends Well) Air Date: 12-09-2001
Episode 46 (A Tale of Two Santas) Air Date: 12-23-2001
Episode 47 (Anthology of Interest II) Air Date: 01-06-2002
Episode 48 (Love and Rocket) Air Date: 02-10-2002
Episode 49 (Leela’s Homeworld) Air Date: 02-17-2002
Episode 50 (Where the Buggalo Roam) Air Date: 03-03-2002
Episode 51 (A Pharaoh to Remember) Air Date: 03-10-2002
Episode 52 (Godfellas) Air Date: 03-17-2002
Episode 53 (Futurestock) Air Date: 03-31-2002
Episode 54 (A Leela of Her Own) Air Date: 04-07-2002

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Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Futurama (Season 3) DVD.

April 2nd, 2008

4 8 15 16 23 42 Create Your Own Pattern

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Many very smart people and mathematicians are looking for the answer to this riddle and sequence of numbers, which appeared on the ABC Lost Series Reality Television Show. If you search around the Internet you will find a lot of rather interesting ideas on what this number actually is or means? Some believe it is a pattern, which can be figured out with a sequence.

Yet as people try they are usually met with disbelief and on Internet Forums with condemnation such as; “You are just full of it” “stop the bull” or “You just took those numbers from the ABC Lost series you can’t define an actual pattern for those numbers because all you do is write bull”

Indeed, I think this detractor is generally correct and indeed that is that is where the 4 8 15 16 23 42 came from. I do not watch reality TV, but this was simply emailed to me by a friend, after working with the number for a few house, as far as a sequence:

Here it is; 4 8 15 16 23 42, 32, 39, 65, 139, 64, 71, 104, 204, 443, 128, 135, 175

Think of a set of waves sine and cosine, with an variance in modulation. You do not need a calculator to do it if you put them into a pattern, you can even find the pattern using a linear sheet of paper. I do not believe to have “FOUND” the pattern, but rather I simply created one. I think too often people misjudge and do not think out of the box. After considering the possible mathematics of it, I just decided to flip it over and create my own pattern. Perhaps you can do the same. Consider this in 2006.

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