The Mighty Boosh: Special Edition

Howl at the surreal comedy of Vince Noir (Noel Fielding) and Howard Moon (Julian Barrat)-now available in one smashing set! Anytime you need a big laugh, sit back for these bizarre and hilarious adventures starting at the dilapidated "Zoo-niverse," as they battle mutant animals, fight a kangaroo to raise money for their woebegone workplace, and dress up as animals because the zoo can't afford any real animals. Follow more antics at a zany record shop and a unique boutique, in 22 episodes of off-the-wall humor, puppets, animation and music. Includes a Mighty number of extras!

Season 1
Killeroo - Dixon Bainbridge asks Bob Fossil to set up a highly illegal and shady kangaroo boxing match between the terrifying ‘Killeroo'... and Howard. Howard thinks that by winning the fight he will impress the Head of Reptiles, Mrs Gideon. Vince enlists his uncle, a bare-knuckle fighter with a very strange accent, to help with Howard's training.

Mutants - All is not well at the Zoo-niverse. Animals are disappearing one by one. Things go from bad to worse when Joey Moose, one of the zookeepers, goes missing. When Mrs Gideon reports that her python is also on the missing list, reported stolen, Howard is determined to save the day. Howard and Vince stumble across Dixon Bainbridge's secret laboratory and the terrible truth behind his ‘experiments' comes to light.

Bollo - Bollo, the eldest and most respected gorilla at the Zoo-niverse is gravely ill. Bob Fossil persuades Howard to dress in an ape suit, replacing Bollo, so that he can continue accepting sponsorship money for the gorilla. Everything's going smoothly until the Grim Reaper arrives and mistakenly takes Howard to Ape Hell instead. Vince sets off to rescue Howard and they run into trouble when they encounter the Ape of Death who is plagued with problem hair..

Tundra - In an attempt to compete with daring adventurer Dixon Bainbridge, Howard and Vince set off in search of the Egg of Mantumbi - with the assistance of Gary Numan. Into the whiteness, the nothingness of the Arctic Tundra, the boys come face to face with hideous ice demon Black Frost. Luckily, Vince has befriended a polar bear.

Jungle - Dixon Bainbridge, owner of the Zoo-niverse, is intent on selling to the highest bidder. There's a road being built through it and ‘if the animals won't work on it, they'll be underneath it'. Howard and Vince embark on an arduous trip deep into the Jungle Room, in search of the only man they think can help save the zoo - Howard's hero, Tommy Nookah.

Charlie - Howard is hell-bent on a career as a serious writer in the hope that he will improve his chances with Mrs Gideon. However, when famous publisher Hamilton Cork arrives at the Zoo-niverse, he decides to publish Vince's literary efforts about a pink bubblegum character called Charlie. Meanwhile, Bob Fossil has embarked on a new breeding programme for the pandas.

Electro - Vince is convinced that The Human League invented music. According to Vince, Howard's past career as a jazz trumpeter does not measure up. When Vince is offered a chance to join a new band, ‘Kraftwork Orange' with Johnny Two Hats and the Electro Girls, he's intent on leaving everything behind, including Howard.

Hitcher - Bob Fossil has a big problem at Zoo-niverse. Ivan the bear has developed some very anti-social habits and attacks Fossil. After Naboo saves his life, Fossil arranges a place for Ivan at an Animal Offenders' Institute. All he has to do is find a couple of idiots to drive Ivan there in the clapped-out old Zoo-niverse van. All Howard and Vince have to do is get there and back, in one piece, without falling foul of the Hitcher.

Season 2
The Call of The Yeti - During a break at Kodiak Jack's reclusive log cabin, Kodiak tells Howard of the mythical Yeti that lives in the forest. His desire for fame and fortune gets the better of him and Howard trades Vince for directions to the Yeti's lair. However, things don't go according to plan when the Yeti's kidnap Howard and Vince is propositioned by a maniac trapper.

The Priest and The Beast - Vince and Howard are struggling to find the new sound needed to secure them a record deal with Pie Face Records. They enlist the help of Naboo who tells them the tail of musical gurus Rudy Van Disarzio and Spider Dijon who only found their new sound after saving a town full of women from the evil Betamax bandit. Guest stars: Razorlight, Roger Daltrey of The Who, and Alice Lowe Hot Fuzz, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Angelo's, My Life In Film as Monkey.

Nanageddon - In an attempt to impress two goth girls, the boys stage a séance in their front room. Trouble ensues when they summon the most evil demon known to man, an old lady called ‘Nanatoo', who does a runner with their flat-mate, the Shaman Naboo's, most magic book. Naboo is livid and gets immediately drunk leaving it up to Howard and Vince to find the demon, retrieve the book and prevent Nanageddon. Guest stars: electro-punk band Robots in Disguise.

Fountain of Youth - When another bad gig is put down to Howard being old and past it, the boys use Naboo's magical amulet to transport themselves to the Fountain of Youth, where they hope to turn back the clock. However, to get there they must first go through the Desert of Nightmares where they encounter an evil cockney Sultan, a rebel army and ‘Sandstorm', a beast made of sand that is incapable of love. (Guest star: Nick Burns Nathan Barley, Roman's Empire, Man Stroke Woman, Absolute Power as The King.)

Old Gregg The Funky Merman - Following a poorly received gig, the boys decide to skip town for a bit. They take in a spot of fishing on Black Lake where angry at Vince's fishing success, Howard sends him back to the local pub. Whilst Vince swaps tales with the locals at The King Prawn's Head, Howard is abducted by ‘Old Gregg', the eerie merman who haunts the Lake's waters.

The Nightmare of Milky Joe - Whilst marooned on a desert island, Howard sees an opportunity to nurture his poetry whilst Vince takes to making bamboo fashion lines. However, with no-one to talk to but each other and nothing to eat but rancid coconuts, they soon find themselves in the midst of a coco-nightmare.

Season 3
Eels - Naboo and Bollo are off on the Head Shaman's stag do, leaving Howard and Vince in charge of Nabootique. The duo challenge one another to a sales contest, each trying to sell their latest fads, Elbow Patches and The Indie Celebrity Radar. Things are going pretty well until an unexpected visit from the evil cockney Hitcher. After summoning Elsie Queen of Eels, The Hitcher demands protection money from the boys, but this is money the boys just don't have...

Journey To The Centre Of A Punk - In an attempt to impress his new punk mates, Vince rebelliously bites Howard's rare jazz record. Unbeknown to Vince however he has bitten off more than he can chew as the corruptive Jazz Beast enters his blood stream. As Vince's life hangs in the balance, Naboo has no alternative but to shrink Howard and his jazz companion Lester Corncrake down to the size of a pea and send them into Vince's body to locate and kill the invasive cell. Can they kill the Jazz Beast before it kills Vince?

The Power Of The Crimp - Vince and Howard are distraught to learn they've had their style stolen by The Flighty Zeus. As The Flighty Zeus' popularity rages amongst the kids, The Boosh find themselves increasingly pushed out. The boys hope to regain their popularity with the invention of a new dance craze, Crimping, but with a massive face-off planned at The Velvet Onion, will Crimping be enough to win back their reputation?

The Strange Tale Of The Crack Fox - Whilst putting the rubbish out, Vince befriends the Crack Fox, inviting the poor soul into Nabootique for some hot soup. However, the Crack Fox is not as he seems and after knocking Vince out with his potent smell, he vanishes with Naboo's most precious possession, a bottle of Shaman Juice. Punishment for the loss of the juice is death and whilst Naboo awaits his fate on Shaman Death Row, it's left to The Boosh to recover the juice and destroy the evil Crack Fox once and for all.

Party - It's Howard's birthday. Reluctant to celebrate, Howard finally succumbs to Vince's plan for a huge party. With Bollo on the door, Saboo and Harrison on the decks and Vince's uber-trendy friends on the dance floor, the party really starts to hot up. That is, until someone is caught in a compromising position with the Head Shaman's wife in Naboo's stock room.

The Chokes - Vince is MC-ing a night at the Velvet Onion, to be headlined by The Black Tubes. Keen to fill the shoes of their recently deceased front man, Vince goes to immense lengths to get into their obligatory drainpipe jeans, but at what price? Meanwhile Howard takes acting lessons from Montgomery Flange in an attempt to overcome his stage fright and secure work with director Jurgen Harbourmaster, but will he miss out to Sammy the crab? Guest stars: the British garage rock band the Horrors as The Black Tubes.

Directed by Paul King
Produced by Spencer Millman
Executive Produced by Henry Normal, Lindsay Hughes, Simon Wilson

Season 1
"...endearing, daft and so refreshingly clean that one can imagine children loving it as much as cult comedy enthusiasts" The Times

"...it really works. It's funny and fast, referential but endearingly innocent." Time Out

"The Mighty Boosh hadn't been running for more than five seconds before I was giggling, but I couldn't be sure what about. It helped that Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding's pilot for BBC3 had been very funny. But there was also something winning about the combination they made as their alter egos, Vince Noir and Howard Moon. Underneath all the surreal top-dressing it was quite conventional, a double-act in which one is self-important and full of aspirations, and the other is silly and mischievously undermining... but, whenever Barratt and Fielding were on screen together alone, it was funny." Independent

"This new comedy series could be described as Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer meet Rene Magritte ... a show that can be best summed up as wacky, wild and weird. In the past, Barratt has said that the idea behind their comedy is to make people "think ‘what is going on?' It's good to give people a jolt. If they're expecting one thing, it's important to give them something else." They certainly subvert normal comic expectations here." Independent

"It's all strangely likeable, being vaguely reminiscent of The Goodies, and so refreshingly clean that one can imagine children loving it as much as cult comedy enthusiasts." The Times

"If you like your comedy on the surreal side then you won't want to miss this new series." Observer

"Surreal, stylish and funny, The Mighty Boosh (as Barratt and Fielding call their partnership) could prove a hit for BBC3, especially with its youthful target audience. They may even enjoy, in time, a crossover success onto BBC2, like the recent and popular transfer of Little Britain" Sunday Times

"The dynamic works well - would-be rock star Fielding is a preening dandy while the taciturn Barratt is a tragic, misunderstood quiet man, and the material is impressive for favouring imagination over cheap or cynical laughs." Guardian

"The first tickle of a new obsession being formed is a powerful thing, and it happened to me this past week when I happened to catch The Mighty Boosh on BBC America's late-night comedy lineup ... The creators/writers/stars Julian Barratt (Howard) and Noel Fielding (Vince) are a kicky twosome, and their show ... is like a Sid and Marty Krofft production engineered by Frank Zappa. But its delight in fantastic plots, genre parody, warped songcraft and quick-witted off-road conversations ultimately vaults The Mighty Boosh ... into some rare atmosphere between sitcom and sketch." Los Angeles Weekly

"It's not only utterly unbleak, it's actually rather charming. And it features lots of great monkey dancing." Philadelphia Weekly

Season 2
"Surreal, stylish and funny" - Sunday Times

"...a big, bouffant-haired corker of a show. Its stars and creators, the Perrier-award winners Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding, have risen to the challenge of being called Julian and Noel by penning something truly original. This resolutely surrealist vision was spawned when Barratt invited Fielding to join him in becoming ‘the new Goodies'. In fact, their combination of whimsy, intellect, talking animals and extreme dandyism suggests more august antecedents such as the Goons, Python, Reeves and Mortimer, and Harry Hill. Theirs is beyond-sitcom comedy in which a situation is taken (zoo keeping, the postal service) and transformed into a parallel universe populated by Mods, zombies, slapstick, glam rock, explorers, yetis and a running gag concerning the efficacy of Nicky Clarke straightening irons. The pair's thwarted lunatic (Barratt)/Bambi-eyed innocent (Fielding) double act is backed by a strong supporting cast, and episodes have the habit of culminating in a song and dance routine. The result is charming, audacious and genuinely innovative, in which nobody has to get laughed at for having a disability unless they are, say, a moth with a broken wing." - Hannah Betts, The Times

"Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt's surreal, innocent creation stands at odds with the general trend for grot in comedy, and their enthusiasm for chasing after figments of their imagination is refreshing." - Will Hodgkinson, Guardian

"...it's the sotto voce exchanges between Fielding and Barratt that give the show its gentle brilliance ... What an unjust world it is in which Little Britain amasses Himalayan peaks of gold, yet the wonders conjured up by Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt earn barely a murmur." - Ed Pottom, The Times

"...mighty bonkers..." - Garry Bushell, People

"... zany adventures and hippie-ish, 1970s-style humour..." - Sunday Times

Season 3
"Easily the freshest comedy on TV... The Mighty Boosh looked kaleidoscopically beautiful" - Telegraph

"Charming, audacious and genuinely innovative" - The Times

"I can't get enough of their absurd eccentricity ... the  dialogue, the bizarre incidents and the cool costumes ensure this comedy's place among the truly surreal ... inspired..." - Simon Horsford, Daily Telegraph

"It's all as wilfully, spikily surreal and cartoonishly daft as ever, but the adventures of Howard and Vince (Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding) remain bizarrely enjoyable." - Ceri Thomas, London Evening Standard

"Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt's universe is like a psychedelic Narnia dreamt up by David Lynch. Fielding is a kind of glam-rock pixie and Barratt a downbeat intellectual ... This world happily embraces part-flamingo pop stars, songs about eels in painful places and Barratt's Elite Elbow Patch Collection." - Ian Johns, Observer

"...this is part Alice in Wonderland, part Terry Gilliam cartoon with added nonsense ... Amazingly, once you start watching, all this will actually make sense." - Critics' Choice, Sunday Times

"As brilliantly weird as ever." - Will Dean, Guardian

"The Mighty Boosh is the most out-there show on the box." - Tim Jonze, Guardian

"...oddly compelling..." - Daily Mail

"...sweetly surreal and freely imaginative comedy." - Gerard Gilbert, Independent

"Surreally brilliant." - Mail On Sunday

"As always, it has a skewed logic that means it all makes its own hilarious sense - and it ends with a frightful early contender for the Christmas No 1." - Gabrielle Starkey, The Times

"Mighty mental, mighty fine." - Garry Bushell, Daily Star Sunday

"...superbly surreal (and deeply studenty) adventures..." - Adrian Pettet, Sunday Express

"You either love The Mighty Boosh for its childish weirdness or it leaves you stone cold." - Jane Simon, Daily Mirror

"The Mighty Boosh are such a good idea, aren't they? A tall man who looks like an unwashed sleepy weasel. A short man who looks like a shark wearing lipstick with fashion-risk hair. Doing random things. In vintage. On prime time. In our lifetime. What a result ... Being in the Boosh looks a blast. I mean, if you have to write a sitcom, you'd want to do it Boosh-style: what with their home-made puppets, and deadly serious musical numbers, and getting Noel Fielding's brother, who can't act for toffee, to play a key character, just because they want him around. With the Boosh's hypnopompic reasoning, you can follow a classic, formally structured gag (‘There's no smoke without fire..' ‘What about smoke machines?') with a sequence in which Julian Barratt gets sucked into a Cockney's top hat, and then dances with a dead woman. The freedom and scope is, like, wheeeee! ... Essentially, it's Open All Hours, as painted by Richard Dadd ... The Boosh is obviously the kind of thing that will still be repeated in ten years' time. It's clearly the kind of thing talking heads will be quacking about on I Love 2007." - Caitlin Moran, The Times

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