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Daddy Day Care: Daddy'll Fall Asleep
Daddy Day Care seems like the perfect kids comedy. Don't get me worng, it is. But the daddies might snooze off during it. When a father gets fired from his job, he starts a day care center for kids. Eddie Murphy doesn't look happy doing this little kiddy-joke comedy, but his acting is still grade-A. All the good jokes are given away on the commercial. The movie still ain't bad, for a kid flick. Each child in the movie you get to know better and better and every character as his/her own funny joke. The movie keeps kids awake, but age 20 and up might find it boring. Daddy Day Care is 90 minutes, just enough to cram all the jokes and punchlines into. The ending is happy, the characters are happy and the movie itself seems happy. Bottom Line: There's better movies out there, but if the latest box-office hit is sold out, Daddy Day Care is the way to go.

Fun for the whole family
We first went and saw Daddy Day Care at the theater and really enjoyed it. My mother in law bought it for our family for Christmas and we have watched it 3 times since, and I laugh more and more each time. Eddie Murphy is truly a genius. I enjoyed his hard core stand up comedy, his Beverly Hills Cop movies, Coming to America, etc. and now am enjoying watching him in family movies like the Dr. Dolittles and Daddy Day Care. It is good clean fun our family can enjoy together, and that is rare nowadays. The little boy who plays Murphy's son is absolutely precious, and the casting for everyone was perfect, from Murphy's wife to his day care business partners.

I have read reviews where people thought the movie was juvenile. Well, it is about children, so I don't know what the expectation was. Anyone who has spent time with little kids, or has kids of their own will definitely appreciate this hysterically funny film.

The special features are fun too. There are interviews with the kids, and the kids do some interviewing too. Great music also!

Great flick
What do you have when two cereal promotional guys are fired off from the only thing they know how to do and they bills are piling up, and they need a job badly? In the same time, you need to find a good day care center for the kids when both parental units are off to work and find work. The main problem is, it is hard to find any at least a daycare that is trustworthy to even leave your kids and not to worry at all if it is safe enough and cheap!

So back to question to unemployment. What do you do? Open an excellent daycare yourself! Open a business up! The only problem is you have a very strong and able competition, from an established day care which act like preschool. And the owner is very keen to keep every kid in her daycare not anybody else's.

Much to add, there is a short animated movie in this dvd set and you gotta watch it *grins* Early Bloomer is the cutest animation I have ever seen and I must admit of watching it repeatitively way too many times hehehe

Good for a Laugh
The movie isn't dealing with profound concepts and ideas, but it is a light hearted movie that provides many laughs. Very enjoyable.

a very cute kids movie
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In Loving Memory of Dr. Katz...Professional Therapist.
This, and the rest of the video collection, is all we Dr. Katz fans can hold onto.

As far as I'm concerned, this was the best show on TV (along with Martin). I still can't believe Dr. Katz was cancelled, even syndication!

This squiggly vision show will have you laughing until your belly hurts! Watching Dr. Katz's daily life is HILARIOUS!
All of Dr. Katz's patients are professional comics (i.e. Dave Chappelle, Ray Ramono, Ben Stiller, Jon Stewart, Kathy Griffin, and more!). It makes the show even funnier!

Synopsis of Main Characters:

Dr. Katz- Meek, soft spoken, divorcee who is a professional therapist. He is often walked all over by his secretary, son, and good buddy.

Ben Katz- Product of Dr. Katz's failed marriage, Ben is a 25-year-old boy (hence the word BOY) who still lives with his father in a 2-bedroom apartment in the city. Ben is VERY dependent, and has no plans (or at least realistic ones) of doing anything for himself. He has never had a job; the closest thing was his mission to breed Vietnamese pot bellied pigs from home! The only thing stopping him was the $3,000.00 he would have to pay per pig; he had a great time trying to talk daddikins into that one. All he does is walk around the house in non-matching socks, a t-shirt, and his tidy whiteys! Oh, and Mr. Bulley; he always has to have Mr. Bulley (a stuffed bull).

Laura- She is the sassy secretary of Dr. Katz that doesn't seem to take anyone seriously. Although she does nothing in the (helpful) office, it's more like she is running it. She is also the one to credit for their creative filing system: "Nuttier than a fruit cake, nutty as a fruit cake, not as nutty as a fruit cake"! She is also the sparkle in Ben's eye; Benny Boy has a great big crush on Laura!

Stan- He reminds me so much of Larry on Three's Company! He is a late 30's early 40 something year old bachelor that thinks he is the total ladies man. He sells real estate by day, and picks up the ladies by night (or so he thinks!). He is always feeding Dr. Katz with bad advice on women. He even drinks at a place that is very similar to the Regal Beagle that Larry and Jack drank at.

With these four, and all the supporting characters of the show, that is why this is one of the best shows my Magnavox has ever seen! Even without the professional comics The Katz Man, Ben, Laura, and Stan make the show worth watching!

I would recommend this, and all Dr. Katz videos to everyone! ...

Get this tape!
This has the first appearance of Dom Irrera on Dr. Katz and great comedy from Ray Romano and Emo Phillips. While the side stories on this tape are not as good as others, the comedy easily makes up for it. ... Read more

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In loving memory of Dr. Katz...Professional Therapist.
This, and the rest of the video collection, is all we Dr. Katz fans can hold onto.

As far as I'm concerned this was the best show on TV (along with Martin). I still can't believe Dr. Katz was cancelled; even syndication!

This squiggly vision show will have you laughing till your belly hurts! Watching Dr. Katz's daily life is HALARIOUS!

All of Dr. Katz's patients are professional comics(i.e. Dave Chappelle, Ray Ramono, Ben Stiller, Jon Stewart, and more!). It makes the show even funnier!

Synopsis of Main Characters:

Dr. Katz- Meek, soft spoken, divorcee who is a professional therapist. He is often walked all over by his secretary, and good buddy.

Ben Katz- Product of Dr. Katz's failed marriage, Ben is a 25 year old boy (hence the word BOY) who still lives with his father in a 2-bedroom apartment in the city. Ben is VERY dependent, and has no plans (or at least realistic ones) of doing anything for himself. He has never had a job; the closest thing was his mission to breed Vietnamese pot bellied pigs from home! The only thing stopping him was the $3,000.00 he would have to pay per pig; he had a great time trying to talk daddikins into that one. All he does is walk around the house in non-matching socks, a t-shirt, and his tidy whiteys! Oh, and Mr. Bulley; he always has to have Mr. Bulley (a stuffed bull).

Laura- She is the sassy secretary of Dr. Katz that doesn't seem to take anyone seriously. It's more like she is running his office. She is also the sparkle in Ben's eye; Benny Boy has a great big crush on Laura!

Stan- He reminds me so much of Larry on Three's Company! He is a late 30's early 40 something year old bachelor that thinks he is the total ladies man. He sells real estate by day, and picks up the ladies by night (or so he thinks!). He is always feeding Dr. Katz with bad advice on women. He even drinks at a place that is very similar to the Regal Beagle that Larry and Jack drank at.

With these four, and all the supporting characters of the show, that is why this is one of the best shows my Magnavox has ever seen! Even without the professional comics The Katz Man, Ben, Laura, and Stan make the show worth watching!

I would recommend this to everyone!

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Daddy Day Care: Daddy'll Fall Asleep
Daddy Day Care seems like the perfect kids comedy. Don't get me worng, it is. But the daddies might snooze off during it. When a father gets fired from his job, he starts a day care center for kids. Eddie Murphy doesn't look happy doing this little kiddy-joke comedy, but his acting is still grade-A. All the good jokes are given away on the commercial. The movie still ain't bad, for a kid flick. Each child in the movie you get to know better and better and every character as his/her own funny joke. The movie keeps kids awake, but age 20 and up might find it boring. Daddy Day Care is 90 minutes, just enough to cram all the jokes and punchlines into. The ending is happy, the characters are happy and the movie itself seems happy. Bottom Line: There's better movies out there, but if the latest box-office hit is sold out, Daddy Day Care is the way to go.

Fun for the whole family
We first went and saw Daddy Day Care at the theater and really enjoyed it. My mother in law bought it for our family for Christmas and we have watched it 3 times since, and I laugh more and more each time. Eddie Murphy is truly a genius. I enjoyed his hard core stand up comedy, his Beverly Hills Cop movies, Coming to America, etc. and now am enjoying watching him in family movies like the Dr. Dolittles and Daddy Day Care. It is good clean fun our family can enjoy together, and that is rare nowadays. The little boy who plays Murphy's son is absolutely precious, and the casting for everyone was perfect, from Murphy's wife to his day care business partners.

I have read reviews where people thought the movie was juvenile. Well, it is about children, so I don't know what the expectation was. Anyone who has spent time with little kids, or has kids of their own will definitely appreciate this hysterically funny film.

The special features are fun too. There are interviews with the kids, and the kids do some interviewing too. Great music also!

Great flick
What do you have when two cereal promotional guys are fired off from the only thing they know how to do and they bills are piling up, and they need a job badly? In the same time, you need to find a good day care center for the kids when both parental units are off to work and find work. The main problem is, it is hard to find any at least a daycare that is trustworthy to even leave your kids and not to worry at all if it is safe enough and cheap!

So back to question to unemployment. What do you do? Open an excellent daycare yourself! Open a business up! The only problem is you have a very strong and able competition, from an established day care which act like preschool. And the owner is very keen to keep every kid in her daycare not anybody else's.

Much to add, there is a short animated movie in this dvd set and you gotta watch it *grins* Early Bloomer is the cutest animation I have ever seen and I must admit of watching it repeatitively way too many times hehehe

Good for a Laugh
The movie isn't dealing with profound concepts and ideas, but it is a light hearted movie that provides many laughs. Very enjoyable.

a very cute kids movie
if you have a choice between this or the haunted mansion get this this movie is a very good kids movie that the whole family will enjoy. All of the characters are awesome ... Read more

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This is Stewart/Shydner/Greenberg/Phillips/Maron/Odenkirk
Episodes 303 (#22) - "Fructose" - 10/20/96, and 306 (#25) - "Guess Who" - 1/5/97. "Fructose" is hillarious. Bob Odenkirk, of HBO's "Mr. Show", will completely obliterate you with his failed gang-joining attempts and the David Copperfield monologue. Emo Phillips also shines (I'll never get that train station image out of my mind). "Guess Who" is not as funny, although Jon Stewart is quite humorous with his stomach cancer and emergency broadcast bits.

For anyone who's never seen "Dr. Katz", it's a show about a cartoon psychiatrist who's patients are all celebrities. The couch sessions amount to hillariously illustrated small bits of stand up comedy. The in-between sessions bits tell a story in the life of Dr. Katz, his lazy son Ben, and his exasperated secretary Laura, usually extremely well written satirical pieces on American Life.

Another thing to note is that although the tape box says 100 minutes, the video is really only 45. ~$12 is a bit high for 2 episodes, but for the quality of laughs it's worth it in my opinion.

Now if only they'd release a tape with the "manatee" sketch... *sigh*.

****
H.B. Telling is an amatuer film reviewer at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. His website is http://www.mrmcfeely.com.

If you can only buy one Dr. Katz tape make it this one!
This is by far the best two episode Dr. katz tape the comedy is sharp and witty and the Ben side stories are to of the best. I watch this tape almost every week. ... Read more

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There are some good laughs to be found in Daddy Day Care, especially if you're a preschooler with energy to burn. This romper-room comedy shamelessly exploits its high concept idea--dropping Eddie Murphy into a seething den of rugrats--but kids will have plenty of vicarious fun as Murphy and his fellow laid-off colleague (Jeff Garlin) battle unemployment by opening a day-care center in Eddie's home. In partial Witches mode, Anjelica Huston hams it up as a day-care competitor bent on closing Eddie down, while doofus extraordinaire Steve Zahn is recruited as a third partner in "Daddy Day Care," trying his best to entertain a pack of hyperactive kids who've stopped taking their Ritalin. Zahn makes a funny Star Trek fan (even when the script contains bogus Trekkie trivia), and Murphy deserves credit for giving his all in a comedy that mostly squanders his talent. Indeed, is Daddy Day Care a comedy or every parent's nightmare? Daring viewers can decide for themselves. --Jeff Shannon ... Read more

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Better than expected
I rented this movie for my pre-teen stepdaughters and was kind of bummed that I was going to have to sit through the whole thing because I thought it looked stupid. I don't know about you, but I've gotten kind of sick of seeing Eddie Murphy playing the same character over and over again... But, I was pleasantly surprised when even a half hour into the movie, I was laughing and no longer dreading the rest. Eddie Murphy is funny and, although it is a regular old comedy, his acting has somehow improved. The boy that plays Murphy's son is hilarious! Some kind of comical-kid-genius. The story is about 2 guys who lose their jobs in advertising, and a friend, who start a day care out of their homes (well, actually just Eddie Murphy's home)

The kids will love the silliness and the jokes of the other kids, and the adults will like the heartwarming story about a father finally getting to know his son and the funny jokes. I recommend watching it with the whole family!

Surprisingly warm and funny
When I saw a trailer for a PG-rated Eddie Murphy movie, I didn't think I was going to like it. Let's face it: Murphy's comedies as of late have been hit-or-miss. But people actually recommended it to me, so I gave it a shot. Now I must admit that I enjoyed it very much.

Murphy plays an ad-exec named Charlie who loses his job after his account for "Veggie-O's" cereal fails. After weeks of an unsuccessful job search, he and pal Phil (played gregariously by Jeff Garlin) decide to start their own day care center out of Charlie's home. Not only must they deal with a group of hyperactive kids, each with their own personality quirks, but they also face competition from a very snobby private pre-school owner named Miss Harridan (Angelica Huston). Both Charlie and Phil soon find joy in parenting after their initial frustrations, thus reiterating an important theme of fathers as role models.

While many kids in film can be annoying, the tykes in this film are quite funny in an over-the-top way. Even funnier are the grown-ups' reactions to them. Observe the scene where Charlie is kicked by bratty Crispin. Or the infamous "bathroom scene." Both Murphy and Garlin's almost cartoon facial expressions are priceless.

It should also be noted that Angelica Huston makes a fantastic villain. Her character starts off relatively tame, but as she performs dastardly deeds to save her school, she becomes a wicked stepmother type with a voice to match.

Overall, this film is likable. It's not genius by any means, but it's a nice comedy you can watch without any deep thought. Plus, it's clean and entertaining enough to watch with your kids. And it's ALWAYS good to find something to keep them occupied.

Great flick
What do you have when two cereal promotional guys are fired off from the only thing they know how to do and they bills are piling up, and they need a job badly? In the same time, you need to find a good day care center for the kids when both parental units are off to work and find work. The main problem is, it is hard to find any at least a daycare that is trustworthy to even leave your kids and not to worry at all if it is safe enough and cheap!

So back to question to unemployment. What do you do? Open an excellent daycare yourself! Open a business up! The only problem is you have a very strong and able competition, from an established day care which act like preschool. And the owner is very keen to keep every kid in her daycare not anybody else's.

Much to add, there is a short animated movie in this dvd set and you gotta watch it *grins* Early Bloomer is the cutest animation I have ever seen and I must admit of watching it repeatitively way too many times hehehe

Good for a Laugh
The movie isn't dealing with profound concepts and ideas, but it is a light hearted movie that provides many laughs. Very enjoyable.

a very cute kids movie
if you have a choice between this or the haunted mansion get this this movie is a very good kids movie that the whole family will enjoy. All of the characters are awesome ... Read more

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Comedic therapy at its best!
It really is a shame that the entire series of Dr. Katz isn't available in a boxed DVD set. Most all of the comedians are extremely funny and the Richard Jeni material on this tape in particular is exceptional. It's a true classic that you'll play over and over again. You can't help but laugh at all the cartooned mental imagery that gets bantered across the Katz couch. Hopefully Comedy Central will wise up one day and realize that they're sitting on a goldmine with this stuff.

BUY THIS!
This is a wonderful two cartoon collection. While the box showcases the extra performers the real stars of Dr. Katz as anyone will tell you are the Dr. and Ben. This tape is a must have! ... Read more

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Brilliant comedy!
This is not Dr. Katz at his best, but even a sub par Dr. Katz is beeter than most other television. The highlight of this tape is Ray Romano! ... Read more

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Classic
An absolute classic. Hilarous combination of witty exchanges and breath taking animation makes this an absolute winner. You'll want to watch this one again even before you finish it. Click and buy it now, you won't regret it. ... Read more