Description: The funniest show you never saw - starring Ben Stiller featuring all 12 regular season episodes plus an originally unaired episode. This cutting-edge Emmy Award-winning sketch comedy show aired on Fox in the 1992-93 season and in syndication on Comedy Central.
EPISODE SYNOPSES:
1. Sketches include: U2, The Early Years, Cape Munster (Spoof of Cape Fear with Stiller as Eddie Munster), Ben's Video Diary, What Is Sexy?, Michael Pheret, Agent (guest starring Roseanne & Tom Arnold and Gary Shandling) and Last Stand of Yakov Smirnoff.
2. Melrose Heights 90210-2402 is introduced, along with Skank, Tom
Cruise: Dress Casual, Tonight Show Auditions and Cops In Salem, Mass. Guest stars include: Bobcat Goldthwait, Todd Bridges, Norman Fell and Ernie Hudson.
3. Running gags about Bruce Springsteen and Star Trek frame sketches including Amish Studs, The Quest For Space, Michael Pheret - Talent Agency and What Is Sexy? Guests include James Doohan, Run DMC, Jeanne Triplehorn.
4. Trendy Melrose Avenue in Hollywood is skewered throughout the show, framing sketches including Skank Goes Blind (guest starring Todd Bridges), Cops In Ancient Egypt, Low-Budget Tales of Cliched Horror and B-Minus Time Traveler.
5. Colin Quinn, Casey Kasem and Adam West co-star in sketches which include, Opening From A Train Museum, Annoying Guy At A Restaurant, Melrose Heights 90210-2402, Anti-Drug Lecture and Information 411.
6. Sketches include, Oliver Stone Land, Pan American Salesman Of The Year, Jake Steele Marionette Cop, Blue & White Shampoo, Bomb Squad and the introduction of Ask Manson. Sarah Jessica Parker co-stars.
7. More humor at The Boss' expense in Counting With Bruce Springsteen and other sketches like Grady's Oats, The Grungies, Stiller's Wheel Of Filler - Jewish Fly Guys, Video Diary, Of Buildings And Women. Rob Morrow and Dana Gould co-star.
8. Gary Shandling, Gary Coleman, Danny Bonaduce and Alex Karris co-star in sketches which include Hair Styling With Bruce, Woody Allen's Bride Of Frankenstein, Bad Twist Ending Theater, Ask Manson and America's Most Suspicious.
10. Dennis Miller and Danny Bonaduce co-star in sketches which include Three Men And An Old Man, Manson, Casting Call: Beethoven, America's Most Suspicious, Casting Call: Mighty Ducks and Tito Gallegos - Pig Latin Lover.
11. Antics on California beaches frame sketches like Relaxation Tape, Roundtable Takes On Skank, Headslammer's Ball, Andy Dick's Political Children's Theatre and Bruce Springsteen Makes An Answering Machine Message Tape.
12. A Few Good Scouts, Cops In Medieval Times, American Profiles -
Hightech Hillbillies, Words We Can Use, The Legend Of T.J. O'Pootertoot and Grady's Oats.
13. The lost Ben Stiller Show episode includes Zoo TV At Night, Otto The Anti-Cupid, Kreepee Board, Michael Pheret, 30-Second Conspiracy Theory, Jacques Cousteau In The Recording Studio and Leslie Chapman - Actor/Dancer/Zombie
Features:
Audio Commentaries by Ben Stiller, the entire cast, and writers for the show on 7 key episodes
Featurette: A Brief History of The Ben Stiller Show including alternate versions of the pilot and two early parodies made for MTV
Deleted scenes: 5 unaired sketches with optional commentary
Outtakes
TV Special: An E! "Behind The Scenes" Special
Easter Egg: An Easter Egg with "Melrose Heights" commentary by Ben Stiller and Bob Odenkirk
