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Regular Show: Mordecai Pack (DVD Review)

Cartoon Network’s Emmy Award-winning comedy series Regular Show is bringing the laughs with an all-new DVD: Regular Show: Mordecai Pack! Chock-full of 16 Mordecai-centric episodes from the latest seasons! The Mordecai Pack follows Mordecai and the rest of the gang on their extreme and surreal misadventures.  This 1-Disc DVD set will be available on January 27th from Warner Brothers Home Video Entertainment and the wonderful folks over at Cartoon Network.  Regular Show airs ALLLLLL THE TIME over on Cartoon Network.  So if you have the channel, chances are you can land on it and check it out in the next couple hours.  This is a show I’m particular fond of but don’t watch near enough.  It features call backs and humor that I scratch my head whether kids of the “target audience” are going to understand.  But, that’s sort of the beauty of it that I can watch it with my kids to equal enjoyment. 

Show 

The series revolves around the daily lives of two 23-year-old friends, Mordecai—a blue jay, and Rigby—a raccoon. They work as groundskeepers at a park and spend their days trying to avoid work and entertain themselves by any means.  This is much to the chagrin of their manager/boss Benson—a gumball machine and their coworker Skips—a yeti, but to the delight of their (other) manager/boss Pops—a man with a lollipop for a head. Other coworkers include an overweight green man called Muscle Man, and a ghost called Hi-Five Ghost.

This new “Mordecai Pack” features assorted episodes from the show’s third, fourth, fifth and sixth (which is the current airing) seasons.  The episodes, like the majority of that on Cartoon Newtork, run about eleven minutes a pop.  This makes binge watching all the palpable.

The episodes included on this DVD are:

• Bet To Be Blonde
• Country Club
• Paint Job
• Guy’s Night
• Caveman
• Every Meat Burritos
• Real Date
• Saving Time
• New Year’s Kiss
• Laundry Woes
• Dodge This
• Portable Toilet
• Play Date
• Tants
• Bad Portrait
• Maxin’ and Relaxin’

Video 

Encoding: MPEG-2

Resolution: 1080p

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Clarity/Detail:  The picture quality here is merely okay.  Since its cheaper 2-D animation I guess it gets a decent pass, but I couldn’t help but think that even as a DVD this could have been better looking.  Its a nice image that feels like someone took a dingy filter to it.

Depth:  Its pretty flat.

Black Levels:  Blacks are natural and deep.

Color Reproduction:  Colors are okay and accurately represented.

Flesh Tones:  N/A

Noise/Artifacts:  Some ghosting and aliasing noise present throughout.

Audio 

Audio Format(s): English 2.0 Dolby Digital

Subtitles: English SDH

Dynamics:  Solid audio quality.  Everything is nice front and center.  I found the music to be blending in with the vocals an effects a lot better than the previous Cartoon Network DVD I reviewed.

Low Frequency Extension: N/A

Surround Sound Presentation: N/A

Dialogue Reproduction:  Clear and clean.

Extras 

Nothing to see here.  Literally.

Summary 

This is a nice sort of sampler of a terrific little cartoon.  The presentation for which is decent enough and passable to do the trick.  No extras is a pretty big bummer, which would give this release a bit more of a purpose.  If you need something random for the kids, here’s a good cheaper go option.  But, if you’re a fan of the show, you might as well just pick up the season sets as they drop.