The legacy of Charles M. Schulz lives on in a new animated Peanuts miniseries arriving on home video today. The good, clean, educational fun of This is America, Charlie Brown is counterbalanced by the sophomoric, often moronic humor of Beavis and Butt-Head in another set of episodes hand-picked by series creator Mike Judge. Also hitting shelves today is The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection, Vol. 4’Swingin’ Pink.
This is America, Charlie Brown aired in eight installments on CBS. The program has the Peanuts gang visiting important events in U.S. history, including the voyage of the Mayflower, the birth of the Constitution, the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk and the NASA Space Station project. The series also looks at the great American inventors, the Smithsonian and the Presidency and the music and heroes of America. This two-disc set offers 194 minutes of entetainment and carries a suggested retail price of $19.99.
Fans of Beavis and Butt-Head can enjoy plenty of lewd jokes and witty asides from the sophomoric couch potatoes in the new Paramount DVD release Beavis and Butt-Head’Mike Judge Collection Vol. 2. Personally edited by Judge, this cool box set includes some of the duo’s finest MTV episodes and music videos by Beastie Boys, Pantera, Fate, Madonna, Pizzicato 5 and Radiohead among others. Other oddities and extras include Taint of Greatness: The Journey of Beavis & Butt-Head, Part 2; Butt-Bowl ’94,’95 and ’96; the MTV 20th Anniversary Special; Calvin Klein ad parodies; Moron-a-thon clips; an unaired I Love the 90’s segment and miscellaneous promos and montages. This 226-minutes-long collector’s item can be yours for $39.99.
The famous feline cartoon creation of Friz Freleng and David DePatie recently enjoyed a big, 124-episode DVD launch with the Pink Panther Classic Cartoon DVD Collection. For those scared off by the $69.96 price tag, that five-disc release has been broken up into several individually wrapped slices, the latest of which is The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection, Vol. 4’Swingin’ Pink. The MGM release is available for the list price of $14.94
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