You mean they put movies on DVD now?

Once again the influence of Andrew is felt far and wide, as those television programs which I require are finally being released on DVD.

Scrubs - Every month for the last three or four years I've checked for the release date of this set.

Greatest American Hero - More hotly demanded than you might imagine. There's been a bootleg DVD market for GAH (terrible acronym) episodes for years. I even downloaded the first season and burned my own DVDs. And made my own labels. I'm so handy.

But the official set also includes the unaired Greatest American Heroine pilot. So I bought it already.

Remington Steele - This show may well be awful, but I love it. I can't even tell for sure if it's bad. Its premise is pretty complicated, but individual episodes aren't hard to follow. Hmm.

See, it's about this female P.I. that nobody respects, because it's the 80s I guess. So she drums up business by pretending to be an assistant to a totally made-up detective named Steele, who conveniently is always busy elsewhere. Then Pierce Brosnan, a thief whose name we never learn, shows up and starts calling himself Steele. He pretends to be the boss, and takes all the credit for her detective work, while she attempts to deflect his Brosnan-like charms and find out his real name.

See, that's kind of complex for a TV show synopsis. It's no "he found a superhero suit but he doesn't know how to use it," or "they're a bunch of funny doctors."

Moonlighting - Why am I embarrassed to admit I've been waiting for this release? It's a smart show, and I can never find it in syndication. Well, there you are.

But my thirst for semi-obscure television is not quenched. Nay, not by a long shot.

Dark Shadows (1991) - A remake of a cult-popular soap opera about a vampire. It is awesome. Way better than the original, I say. And its pathetic 12-episode run will never, ever be released on DVD. (Luckily, I made my own out of the VHS copies! Bwahahaha. Hmm.)

Misfits of Science - I think there were only six episodes. It's about four kooky kids with super powers, solving mysteries or something. But one of them didn't have super powers. And now they're all dead.

Hey, ever notice how the one girl on the superhero team gets saddled with psychic powers that make her faint or give her nosebleeds if she uses them too much? Like Invisible Girl, Marvel Girl, Saturn Girl, what have you. Well, in this show, Courtney Cox has telekinetic powers, but using those powers causes headaches. Meanwhile there's a dude who can shoot lightning bolts at people without any negative effect. Yeah, that's fair.

The Flash - Don't ask. Flash is one of those superheroes, like Aquaman, where there's always some loser who feels the need to point out how stupid his superpower is. "Oooh, all he can do is run really fast! That's lame!" Puh-lease. Flash must be one of the most powerful superheroes in the Justice League because of how fast he moves. And Aquaman is third in strength after Superman and Wonder Woman, so no, he doesn't just "talk to fish." Jerk.