Hey Arnold on DVD!

Just now getting around to reviewing ShoutFactory!'s DVD of Hey Arnold: Season 2, Part 2 that just came out this part July... cause I'm just really getting tired of reviewing crap DVDs like this.

Do companies not realize that fans want the episodes of shows released IN THE ORDER THAT THEY ORIGINALLY AIRED??? If they do, then they're just assholes. Because this is my second review in a week, where a company has screwed up the episode order.

The problem: we have the episodes "Part-Time Friends" and "Biosquare" that originally aired as the 16th episode of season 3, on the season 2 DVD of the series. Seeing as how it was produced as the 19th episodes of the series overall, it would have made sense to maybe include it in the season 1 DVD, but that didn't even happen. So some moron over at ShoutFactory! made the stupid call to just randomly stick it on the season 2, part 2 DVD.

This is the third DVD release for the show, you'd think they'd have stuff like this organized by now. I'm losing my faith in ShoutFactory!

Aaahhh!!! Real Monsters!!

After almost a decade and a half of being off the air, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters finally comes to DVD thanks to Shout! Factory. I've made it a goal of mine to get all the DVD releases of the old Nickelodeon shows Shout! releases on DVD, and I was doing very well. Until all of a sudden, the stores in my area, Walmart, Target, even Best Buy, stopped selling these releases, old and new. I have no clue what happened there, but it made it very difficult to get the DVDs, as I wished to get them on the day they were released. Most recently, Walmart isn't even selling newer releases online. I don't know how Shout! is expecting to make money off these with such limited releases.

Today I ordered the newest releases of The Angry Beavers, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Danny Phantom, and Hey Arnold all online.

Also finished season 2 of Real Monsters today. It has become one of my favorite older cartoons, and I had never even heard of the show before Shout! started releasing it on DVD last October. The only thing I really don't like about these releases, is that there are no special features! >:(

For those who don't know, it's a pretty dark show, like Invader Zim, that centers around a trio of monsters that are in school for the art of scaring humans. The show takes events and obstacles that happen in our every day lives, and twists them to what they might be like if monsters truly did exist. This is a show I'd recommend to any cartoon lover like myself! :)

Survey Says... Danny Phantom!

Danny Phantom is one of my absolute favorite shows from Nickelodeon! And when Shout Factory! announced last year that they had got the rights to it (along with many other old Nick shows), I was so excited about getting them on DVD!

Season 2, Part 1 was released April 3, 2012, so OF COURSE I went out and bought it (I did the same for Season 1) :3 But I feel like ShoutFactory! didn't really give a shit about this release. The artwork is cool and all, but the actual content on the discs are all screwed up.

The inside artwork of the DVD set lists the first ten episodes as being:

1. Memory Bank
2. Doctor's Orders
3. Pirate Radio
4. Reign Storm, Part 1
5. Reign Storm, Part 2
6. Identity Crisis
7. Fenton Menace
8. The Ultimate Enemy, Part 1
9. The Ultimate Enemy, Part 2
10. The Fright Before Christmas

The list on the artwork is 100% correct, as that's the order the episodes were originally released by Nickelodeon while they were on air. HOWEVER (and this is what really saddens me), while watching the DVD, I noticed the episodes are ordered all out-of-whack, some are missing, and some are on the set that shouldn't be there. The DVD episodes go in the order of:

1. Reign Storm, Part 1
2. Reign Storm, Part 2
3. Doctor's Orders
4. Identity Crisis
5. Fenton Menace
6. Pirate Radio
7. The Fright Before Christmas
8. Micro-Management (should be in part 2)
9. Masters of All Time (should be in part 2)
10. Beauty Marked (should be in part 2)

So yeah, way to show no respect for the fans of a show. It looks like they just slapped together a bunch of episodes that just HAPPENED to be in Season 2 of the show, called them part 1, and hoped no one would notice. And so, obviously part 2 (whenever it's released), will be just as jumbled of a mess to finish up the season. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that Season 3 isn't as out of order as this was.

**UPDATE**
ShoutFactory! commented on a Facebook post I left them about this issue, and they stated that the episodes on the DVD are in the order that they intended, but there was a misprint with the DVD artwork. They informed me to email them about getting the correct DVD wrap, so I'm doing just that! >.>