"Sadly, the worst edit of all was removing Oscar's "Singing In the Rain" bit at the end of the scene in "Felix Remarries" Five to ten seconds of this song was too expensive to leave in the show? It completely changes changes."
Cheapskates
Nik Ranieri | 12/29/2008
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Less 2 stars due solely to the editing of content.
I am in complete agreement with other buyers about the edits and I use the word "complete" literally, unlike Paramount/CBS when they say "The COMPLETE Final Season". In a previous season, an entire gag about trying to get Felix to go to sleep (featuring the song "Dream") was cut. This season, one of my favorite episodes, "Strike up the band or else..." had gags cut involving the song "In Some Secluded Rendezvous"(sung twice in the show by Tony Randall and Pernell Roberts). How expensive can these songs be that you have to butcher these episodes. Charge a little extra with the guarantee that all the episodes are intact and you'll sell just a many if not more."
Annoying Edits
True Crime Reader | NYC | 12/01/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Another song edited out. The episode "Your Mother Wears Army Boots" has Martina Arroyo sing For Once In Your Life to Howard Cosell at the end, with Oscar lip-synching along with her in a very nice moment in the show. The edits are very fustrating. These are supposed to be DVDs of the complete episodes. If there is time and place to show them complete and intact it should be in this format. I'll admit...all throughout the five seasons DVD's I have noticed they added little snippets of scenes I never saw on TV during syndication, but I think Paramount loses credit when they edit out other parts."
The odd couple the final season
Robert Cortes | new york city,usa | 01/30/2009
(1 out of 5 stars)
"this final season video stinks to high hell.why does it have to be severely edited .the best parts of the episodes is to see it in its complete form.if i knew it was severly edited like this i would have never purchased it. "I FEEL CHEATED" WHAT A GYP. THE SCENE WITH PERNELL ROBERTS SINGING WAS EDITED OUT AND MY FAVORITE PART OF OSCAR SINGING, SINGING IN THE RAIN WHEN HE WAS FINALLY RID OF FELIX WAS CUT OUT. WHY DO THAT TO US ODD COUPLE DIE HARDS .WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE COMPLETE EPISODES. I FOR ONE AM VERY DISAPOINTED WITH THIS FINAL EPISODES CD. IT STINKS TO HELL.not recommended till deleted scenes are put back in.
ROBERT C."
A great show gets dreadful treatment
Lou1972 | 01/03/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I would give this show 10 stars if I could, but as previous reviewers have pointed out, CBS/Paramount has given The Odd Couple such disrespect with their DVD releases (Season One was originally released by Time-Life). Every season from 2 thru 5 has been clipped and chopped just to avoid the chance that music royalties might have to be paid, yet they have the nerve to charge $40 for each season and still give us edits and complete scene removals. Boy what a gyp! So far I have noticed 3 big edits in Season 5 (and I'm sure there are more): In "Strike Up The Band or Else", Felix and later Billy Joe sing "Cocktails For Two" - CUT....In "The Subway Show", Felix and Scatman Crothers sing "Give My Regards To Broadway" - CUT...and in "Your Mother Wears Army Boots", Martina Arroyo sings "For Once In My Life" - CUT. In "Two Men On A Hoarse", after Felix regains his voice he sings Together, Wherever You Go while still tied as he and Oscar hop in their chairs - CUT. Maybe someday, there will be complete episodes, but for now we are at the mercy of blood sucking corporate greed."