SCTV Volume 3 DVD

Well, I've barely had two seconds to watch any of it, but I'll critique what little I know about it thus far:

• The discs are arranged in much the same way as the Faces' Five Guys Walk Into a Bar box in that the discs themselves overlap in the packaging. You have to pull disc two out of the box in order to pull out disc one (if anyone knows the technical term for this, please email me).
• "Stairways To Heaven," a hilarious K-Tel send up featuring Slim Whitman, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Luciano Pavarotti. Rickie Lee Jones and others doing their rendition of the AOR staple, is missing. Musical extortionists Led Zeppelin obviously didn't feel as though the piece did justice to their overrated legacy and wouldn't license it. This also results in the deletion of an entire section of Linsk Minyk with the Happy Wanderers, in which they performed "Stairway To Heaven."
• The tribute to John Belushi, originally appearing at the end of The Great White North Palace, has been cut either because Broadway Video wouldn't allow clips to be used or the compilers considered it arcane and unecesssary.
• There is a bonus audio CD attached, From the Second City Stage, which features a compilation of Second City stage highlights.

Despite its unavoidable flaws, it is still a must-have for any SCTV fan. I would recommend buying it at either Amazon or J&R Music World, if you live in New York. The Virgin Megastore doesn't even have it on sale (and it's a brand new release. What's up with that?)