LaughAtlantis

My husband often buys TV shows on DVD. For drama, I can see where that makes sense. You want to be able to see the story arc from one show to the next. After all, you don't want to catch just some random repeat of Lost on television, not knowing where you are in the adventures of life on the island. And if you catch a repeat of X-Files that's beyond season two, you're pretty much screwed.

But Rod has every episode of Friends on DVD. I don't get that. With comedies, it's pretty easy to just tune into any given repeat and say, "Oh. Rachel and Ross are dating," or "Oh. Cousin Oliver is already living with the family," thus making it pretty easy to tell where you are relative to the whole damn series. You can watch them individually without a care in the world as to what comes up in the next episode or the one before. And the likelihood that you are going to suddenly wake up in the middle of the night saying, "Ooh! I want to see the episode where Mr. Furley becomes the new landlord!" seems slim.

I don't know. For me, it just seems easiest to tell your TiVo to record some random stuff and hope that a repeat of Night Court or Suddenly Susan will pop up at some point. I'm certainly not going to spend good money on those.

All that said, I own Taxi, Freaks and Geeks, 21 Jump Street, That 70s Show, Homicide, and several seasons of both Angel and Buffy all on DVD. Do as I say! Not as I do!