I just counted and we have at least 22 complete first seasons of some great television shows! Ok…..maybe not all of them are great. But that is subjective. Come start your TV collection! Cheaper than cable, folks!

Lots of comedy: Arrested Development, Fat Actress, Friends, King of Queens, Married With Children, My Name is Earl, The Simpsons and Strangers with Candy. We even have Wings! How could you not want that in your collection?

Procedural shows like Bones, Boston Legal and Columbo.

Otherworldly shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed and a cool box of the show Sliders that includes the 1st and 2nd seasons.

Old school favorites The Dukes of Hazzard and Knight Rider. Fast cars and action!

Medical shows are represented by Grey’s Anatomy, House and Scrubs. Trashy, serious, and hilarious. Everything a hospital should be.

Also on deck are The Sopranos, Desperate Housewives, The OC, and Entourage.

We basically have it all.

It took a couple months of working here before I fully realized something important.

I don’t need cable.

I have 1000’s of films at my fingertips and now that I have truly discovered that used DVDs are just as good, if not better (hello? The price!!!!) than new ones, I think that I may never need standard cable again.

Granted, I do watch some online TV just to keep up with the latest stuff (I adore Glee and Bones…I NEED them), but when my fave shows  are on hiatus, I turn to our fabulous wall of ever growing television shows to see what I can get into.

Without any commercials.

TV on DVD has to be the most fabulous invention ever. You can watch an entire season of something without waiting through the ads, the weeks of  “what is gonna happen next?”, and pause it while you pee.  I know DVR makes this stuff possible for live TV too, but you still have to wait for next week’s episode and you can only record so many at a time.

So this is where picking them up used comes in.  Our television section has been steadily growing for a while and I am always impressed with the prices. I picked up the first 3 seasons of Dexter for half the cost of them elsewhere….and promptly became addicted. I am always on the lookout for the first season of something cool that my two boys will enjoy (My Name is Earl, Smallville, Malcom in the Middle) so I can see how they like something before I start investing in all of them. It has been great. My kids no longer spout commercial jingles to me, I do not have to watch the same aggravating cartoons over and over, and my cable bill is….well…gone.

Tons of my friends rent shows from other places, but I like the way we roll a little better. Getting the discs in the mail means they might very well be scratched (hey, we buff and check our stuff before sending it home with ya!), and renting them from certain stores means having to pay out more than I think is necessary. If you take a look at our ingenious rental system, you can see that you could save a lot renting TV rather than buying it outright.

A customer stopped in today having bought Mr. Show season 4. He decided he would rather rent it. He ended up only paying $2 to watch that. And walked out again with Monty Python and the Holy Grail and still had money left on his account. He was pretty pleased.

Also,  even though a show is really great….I don’t always need to own it. Case in point, I decided to check out Boston Legal. We have the 1st season and even though James Spader and William Shatner bug me, I thought I would give it a try. I discovered it is an excellent program with brilliant writing and I would gladly check out the other seasons…..but I don’t need to watch the 1st season again. It just wasn’t good enough to  memorize (Red Dwarf is a show I have memorized, so is That 70’s Show), but it was worth watchin’ once.

It is like TV for commitment-phobes.

And right now you can try all kinds of different things on for size.  All the seasons of Sopranos, Entourage, most of Charmed, a healthy selection of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Family Guy. We also have many other shows on hand to introduce you to something new! Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Burn Notice, Laguna Beach, The Simpsons, Lost, Heroes, The Osbournes and some cool comedy sketch stuff like The Dave Chappelle Show, and Mind of Mencia. Even some old shows like Beverly Hillbillies and Sanford and Son.

I guess the bottom line is why pay for cable?

You should pay us instead. You will save a bunch of dough and support an awesome local business in the process! It is a win/win situation!

Recent releases just arriving in the store include Lymelife, O’Horten and Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant. We also have brand new copies of The Twilight Saga: New Moon in the 2-disc special edition package.

Cool new trades keep coming in this week, like this three-fer of hyperviolence: Romper Stomper, the 2-disc super-amazing special edition of Fight Club and A Clockwork Orange. More musical goodies with The Commitments, Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols and This Is Spinal Tap.

How about all six seasons of The Sopranos? Would that do it for ya?