Undergrads: The Complete First Season (2001)

The complete first season of the hippest cartoon on TV comes to DVD! Straight from MTV and Teletoon come the freshman adventures of NITZ, GIMPY, CAL and ROCKO, four high school friends hitting college for the first time. How they managed to "deal" with l

Good show, decent DVD

The show is very good. It's enlightening that many say that all but "X" character(s) was(were) boring, since X is usually who they identify with best. The show had someone for most people to identify with, and it touched on a lot of the common issues that college students face. Stereotypical? Yes. But there's just enough newness to keep the often told stories of college fresh.

In my mind it's up there with Undeclared for the most "true" college show. True not meaning blindingly accurate, but true on a more fundamental level. A couple episodes did seem drawn out a bit, and making a few of the characters (especially Cal, possibly Rocko) a little less stereotypical would have made it easier to relate to them, and would have stopped some pigeonholing (Cal being a constant womanizing idiot and Rocko being a constant wannabe womanizing idiot) that occured later in the series. But it was still a very good show overall.

The DVD was ok. Not bursting with features but it's got a few. I'd recommend getting the DVD if the words "College TV Show" make you interested at all. July 15, 2008

HAVE NOT RECIEVED STILL

It has been almost two months and I still have yet to recieve the product....other books and items have succesffuly been shipped to my address and I have checked the ship to address for this product and it is no different. I am not impressed... January 6, 2008

Love Undergrads!

Pete Williams is a genius! He's like a geeky verison of Mike Judge. He does all of the voices so well and the real life experiences are so true and entertaining. It's a same they didnt make it for a Sophomore Season. Nevertheless a great series! Highly Recommend

-Steveo November 27, 2007

Far too many stereotypes

I rented the first disc of this and watched six episodes. This show has a few funny bits but the majority of the jokes fall flat, primarily because of characters that only fulfil stereotypes without bringing anything unique to them.

Gimpy is funny. The other characters reuse jokes over and over again that were never funny in the first place, and are generally annoying. Cal is unbelievably dumb, but that's pretty obvious from his dopy expression and hearing him display his stupidity with his every comment gets old quickly. Also Cal's voice has to be the most annoying thing I've ever heard come out of my television. The dumb frat character is also dumb, crude, and everything you'd expect from a dumb crude fratboy (except, oddly, that his fratbrothers detest him, which is one of the few surprising things in his storyline). He has zero depth and no sympathetic qualities. The only surprising thing about fratboy is that his high school friends tolerate his constant macho bs and stupidity and only get mildy annoyed. As far as I remember, computer nerds and idiot jocks didn't really hang out together in high school. They didn't normally have much in common to discuss. It's surprising any of these characters are friends with each other besides the "sort of" main character, Nitz. Nitz isn't funny either. He's the stereotypical "regular guy" with no irregular characteristics besides that he's friends with such a diverse group of people. He is pretty boring (perhaps a side-product of being completely "regular"), and his obsession with an older girl who barely notices him would be boring to anyone who didn't go through a similar experience and ineptly flounder around in a similar way. Heck, even to those of us who did, we know what's going to happen. Hasn't this been done in enough 80's movies?

There're very few funny occurances and the dialogue isn't great. The show is completely predictable (that won't spoil the humor for some people) and desperately attempts to appeal to viewers who had similar friends in high school or college. Unfortunately, I was friends with no stereotypes in high school- only individuals with uniquely blended personalities.

The occasional Gimpy storyline is surreal and fairly entertaining. If he had more screen time it would have helped. August 5, 2007

Godsend for Fans of the Show

Maybe it's not the most advanced DVD, but it gets the job done. It's great to again be able to watch this unjustly short-lived series. July 8, 2007

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