How to Spend $20

By Kim Hollis

February 24, 2009

In addition to stealing Human Horns, I bet Lrrr cheats at poker.

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Welcome to How to Spend $20, BOP's look at the latest DVDs to hit stores nationwide. This week: Futurama takes its final bow, Malcolm in the Middle's dad goes bad, the Librarian does battle with Dracula and Chace Crawford flashes his dimples in a sinister way.

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For people who did the nasty in the pasty: Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder

Okay, Futurama fans. This is it. Really. Fox totally means it this time. Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder will be the last episode(s) of the show you will ever see - unless you fans can pull a family guy and buy enough of the direct-to-DVD movies to convince the studio to put it back on the air. Or perhaps for a theatrical version to be created.

Into the Wild Green Yonder begins as an accident at a construction site causes a piece of necklace to become lodged in Fry's head, giving him the ability to read minds. Naturally, this leads him to do some, well, Fryish things. Meanwhile, Bender falls in love with a fembot who is married to the Donbot of the Robot Mafia, and Leela and Amy join a militant eco-feminist society. Fry is told that his special brain is the only thing that can stop the destruction of the "new green age".

Sound confusing? If so, that's sort of par for the course with the direct-to-DVD Futurama movies that have been released over the past several months. We're hoping that Into the Wild Green Yonder is more Bender's Game than The Beast With a Billion Backs.




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For people who are tired of seeing Bryan Cranston be such a goody-goody: Breaking Bad: The Complete First Season (2-DVD Set)

I loved Bryan Cranston on Malcolm in the Middle, and when I saw that he was going to be doing an edgier series on A&E, I was all excited about watching it. Alas, despite the fact that I TiVo'd Breaking Bad the very first day it aired, I have yet to watch even a minute of the first season. It's not that my excitement or interest declined, really. It's just that I already watch so much TV that it's always hard to justify adding something new to the schedule. Though perhaps once Burn Notice and Battlestar Galactica have closed out their seasons, there might be a space.

And it's a shame that I've missed it, really, because from all accounts, this is a nastily good little show where Cranston has drawn rave reviews. Now that its first season is being released on DVD, everyone has a chance to catch up on the series in advance of season two, which starts on March 8th. In Breaking Bad, Cranston plays a high school chemistry teacher named Walter White who has a handicapped teenage son and a pregnant wife. Financially struggling and having just learned that he has terminal lung cancer, Walter realizes that he has to take drastic measures to help his family financially. Naturally, he determines that starting a meth lab with a former student is the best way to do this.

I think that during these troubled financial times, we can all relate to people who might do desperate things in order to help their family survive. And if Cranston is half as good as he was on Malcolm in the Middle, this is totally worth adding to your queue.


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