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Hey, if anyone can find this cheaper than at Amazon, let me know... Scarily enough, even DDD isn't beating them at it, and they've spelled it wrong on their site. Lone GunMAN. I've told em about both, and still nothing.
Anyway, it's 27.99 with free shipping with AM.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...1/104-9862442-8598367?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846

EDIT: Oh, and by the way, the Lone GunMEN thing? It, for them (Frohike, Byers, and Langley) mocks the "lone gunman" Oswald shooting theory of JFK- in other words, a lone group. An oxymoron. It spawned from the character "X", when confronting the trio on their origin story on an episode of the X-Files, makes a snarky remark about their wacky theories, referring to the "lone gunman."
 
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That was one of the best television spin-offs ever IMO. I absolutely loved that show, but then again, I loved nearly everything X-Files. I really hated it when they cancelled the show. I didn't even know that they had put the series on DVD. I wonder if BB or Fry's would have it then.
 
[quote name='Kayden']How can they be alone if theres more than one of them? [/QUOTE]

They're not alone. They're lone. Two different words.
 
Isn't lone another way to describe someone as being alone?


[quote name='"Dictionary.com"']lone Audio pronunciation of "lone" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ln)
adj.

1.
a. Without accompaniment; solitary: a lone skier on the mountain.
b. Without companionship; isolated or lonely.
2. Being the only one; sole: the lone doctor in the county.
3. Situated by itself: a lone tree on the prairie; a lone blue tile in a white floor.


[Middle English, short for alone. See alone.] [/quote]
 
I'm glad this is finally out! Some of my favorite episodes are the ones with Langley, Frohike, and Byers.

By the way, the term "Lone Gunmen" is a reference to their emphasis on conspiracy theories, relating back to the lone gunman explanation for JFK's assassination. And since there are three of them working to expose these conspiracies, they call themselves the "Lone Gunmen." It's a way of saying, we're the guys who expose these conspiracies.
 
[quote name='boyward']... And since there are three of them working to expose these conspiracies, they call themselves the "Lone Gunmen." It's a way of saying, we're the guys who expose these conspiracies.[/QUOTE]

Close. Very close. See my explanation above...

The best eps were when they were on.

Scully drunk and flirting with Frohike? Priceless.
 
No, never with Fox! I swear Family Guy has got to be the first time a show has ever returned from cancellation due to soaring ratings after being cancelled. Nothing like making corporations eat humble pie. And yet, American Dad blows chunks and will shorten the hilarious Arrested Development by three episodes to get it on the air faster.

The ideas just keep turning gold at Fox.
 
I want to rent this just to check out that episode where there's a plot to fly airplanes into the World Trade Center by remote control. I think it's safe to say that would never have aired on TV again if this show had taken off.
 
Wow, after seeing the title of this thread and then reading the first post, it was like a door opening in some part of my mind, and the memories came flooding in.

Yeah, from what I remember, the Lone Gunmen was a great show. I kind of miss it now. :(
 
[quote name='Watchman']No, never with Fox! I swear Family Guy has got to be the first time a show has ever returned from cancellation due to soaring ratings after being cancelled. Nothing like making corporations eat humble pie. And yet, American Dad blows chunks and will shorten the hilarious Arrested Development by three episodes to get it on the air faster.

The ideas just keep turning gold at Fox.[/QUOTE]

I don't know, Arrested Development caught me more near the end of the 1st Season when I felt it was more outrageous, now it's started to get too tame for my tastes. And come on you have to give American Dad a chance just for the fact they're making fun of the Bush Administration and people scarily paranoid about Terrorism, see most people loyal to Bush.
 
I never cared for X-Files much after the first season or two, but I loved the Lone Gunmen show. I hated it that it got cancelled, but at least they wrapped up the cliffhanger on an X-Files episode.
As for Arrested Development, I just don't get what anybody sees in that show. I went in wanting to like it since I like Jeffrey Tambor (and David Cross and Jason Bateman to a lesser extent), but that show is just brutal. It's not funny; it's just stupid. But to each his own, I guess.
 
[quote name='Sarang01']I don't know, Arrested Development caught me more near the end of the 1st Season when I felt it was more outrageous, now it's started to get too tame for my tastes. And come on you have to give American Dad a chance just for the fact they're making fun of the Bush Administration and people scarily paranoid about Terrorism, see most people loyal to Bush.[/QUOTE]

But you have to concede that even if it is tamer, it's still infinitely more witty and well written than vomiting aliens that sound like Paul Lynde. Really, McFarlane could have done so much better. This was tripe. Utter tripe, and recycling an existing idea-- just take an idiot dad and make him a paranoid government patriot, replace the alcoholic dog with a fretting E.T., and a meglomaniacal baby with a German-sounding fish.

I'll take an uber-dysfunctional family with a genuinely funny cast anyday.

:speaktothehand:
 
[quote name='ElwoodCuse']I want to rent this just to check out that episode where there's a plot to fly airplanes into the World Trade Center by remote control. I think it's safe to say that would never have aired on TV again if this show had taken off.[/QUOTE]

That's the first thing that went through my mind.

I wonder if they left that episode/footage intact?
 
[quote name='NormanB258']That's the first thing that went through my mind.

I wonder if they left that episode/footage intact?[/QUOTE]

Oh yes. All the episodes are there, untouched. Otherwise, they'd have had to scrap the episode altogether-- that whole scenario took up the last quarter of the show. There is an audio commentary by the creators, so I'm sure there will be a lot of "Don't blame us, we had nothing to do with this" going on in it.

Dean "Langley" Haglund has spoken on it on occasion, and he says that the writers got tons of conspiracy theory stories over the years from sources, whether credible or not. That factor wasn't important, since this is a fictional show, after all, so all crackpot theories and credible stories had an equal chance of becoming a storyline.

It's just chance that this ended up happening. After all, we now know that the government had the info and scenario for this situation months in advance, so it's not entirely impossible that this filtered down to the writers somehow, with a few tweaks (the remote control as opposed to terrorists, which, if you think about it, would have been nigh on impossible for Byers and his dad to deal with).

In that same idea, here's hoping Edgar on 24 tonight finally gets back to that info on the dead pilot quick.
 
[quote name='dracula']whoa, i will keep my eyes peeled for a deal on this, or just wait for the 20% off sale at DDD.[/QUOTE]
Meh. I just got it yesterday from Amazon. No way I'm waiting until July for the intrepid trio.

Oh, and if anyone who posted before is reading this, yes, the Pilot episode is 100% untouched.

I still felt uneasy though during the episode's climactic moment...
 
I've never seen this series, but I'm planning on picking it up during the DDD sale, because I've always liked them on the X-Files.
 
[quote name='Kaijufan']I've never seen this series, but I'm planning on picking it up during the DDD sale, because I've always liked them on the X-Files.[/QUOTE]

You shan't be disappointed, if I do say so. They pulled out all the stops for the DVDs, short of deleted/blooper scenes. Full-on clip menu intros (fantastically done, if I do say so), great packaging, a handful of commentaries, and the inclusion of Jump the Shark, the X-Files tie-in/wrap-up of the cliffhanger that so unceremoniously was smashed with a ball peen hammer by the execs.

At least the story had a resolution, if bittersweet.
 
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