Commentaries, featurettes, outtakes, deleted scenes, an extra disc with more outtakes, deleted scenes from the original pilot.

The British will put the weirdest stuff on TV. Thank God for them doing that because in America anything weird and unusual would be cancelled by the third episode. “The Mighty Boosh” ran for three series (they don’t use “seasons” over there) on the BBC and gained a cult following for its unusual humor. The Boosh as they refer to themselves consisted of comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding originally and they took their inspiration from the surreal humor of Monty Python and the British TV show “The Goodies” among other British institutions. The members on the TV show included Barratt & Fielding as well as Dave Brown, Michael Fielding and Rich Fulcher. They proceeded to conquer stage, radio and the small screen in the UK and developed a cult audience in the U.S. as well on Cartoon Network’s “Adult Swim”. ***

The series always begins and ends in Bob Fossil’s beat up zoo the “Zooniverse” and the characters end up migrating to everything from the Arctic tundra and even stranger places. In the series Vince Noir a sort of Ziggy Stardust type of character and Howard Moon a writer/wrestler/boxer and musician work under Bob Fossil a “touched” individual in the Zooniverse. The series follows their zany and surreal adventures through space and time. Oh, did I mention that these guys have their own musical act that they are trying to promote as well? It’s called, yep, The Mighty Boosh. By the time of the third season the series had shifted it’s “locale” to a beat up thrift shop and they had two interestingly bizarre characters (as if the characters already on the show weren’t bizarre enough) including Naboo the Enigma (who has gives his name to the thrift store cleverly called the “Nabootique”) and his ape buddy Bollo (yep, a man in a bad ape suit). ---

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“The Might Boosh” looks pretty good on DVD. It won’t set new standards in terms of the quality of the transfer but the images are clear and while there are some artifacts they’re not distracting.

The season includes “Inside the Zooniverse”, “History of the Boosh”, Boosh music videos, outtakes, picture gallery and commentary on “Bollo”, “Tundra”, “Electro”, “Hitcher”. ***

The second season includes the Boosh pilot, publicity about the show, a making of featurette on the second season as well as commentary on all six episodes plus deleted scenes. ***

The third season includes deleted scenes, Boosh music, outtakes, Boosh promo trailers for the third season, audio commentaries on all six episodes, publicity, deleted scenes and “Making of Boosh 3”. ***

There’s a bonus disc when you buy all three seasons together with additional material that will make it worthwhile for fans. We also get a behind-the-scenes featurette on a “live night”, footage from the Royal Television Society Awards, an interview with Dave Stewart, “The Making of Sammy the Crab”, Bob Fossil audio outtakes as well as deleted scenes from the pilot and pre-recorded live night links. ---

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