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Rating: - I am the wild blue yonder
Shame on Fox for canceling "The Tick" a few years back after only nine episodes. Compliments to any and all responsible for bringing the entire series to dvd.
"The Tick" was so absurd and off the wall it's not hard to see why it made the suits nervous. It's hard to market test something this unique, and safer to pull the plug on it before giving it a chance to find its audience.
The Tick, of course, is the "big blue jug of justice" played PERFECTLY by Patrick Warburton (Elaine's boyfriend Putty on "Seinfeld"). Decked out in a loud blue outfit with interactive antennae Warburton IS the Tick, a super hero dedicated to crime fighting. His sidekick is Arthur (David Burke), a super-hero wannabe - he wears a white jumpsuit thing with pop-out wings and slick antenna thingies on the top of his head. Most of the time he looks like a rabbit. Rounding out the erstwhile group is Captain Liberty (Liz Vassey) and Batmanuel (Nestor Carbonell).
The cast is simply first rate and very funny, although poor sidekick Arthur has to play the straight man (which he does extremely well) most of the time. The writing is strong throughout the short series, as well. How can you not fall for a series when a four-hundred-pound blue Tick opens a program with these eulogizing words? "Let's look at the word `funeral'. Starts with the word `fun,' doesn't it?" Add Warburton's pitch-perfect line reading and the hook is set deep.
What about this typical non-sequitur throwaway - "Look at me. Babbling like the brook that knew too much." Or this little exchange between Arthur and the Tick - "Why is that man wearing a dress?" "Because he's a judge." "Well, I judge the judge funny."
Four or five of the episodes come with commentary tracks. All by Tick creator Ben Edlund save for the first, the pilot episode directed by Hollywood veteran Barry Sonnenfeld. Besides giving us behind-the-scene info on the series, Sonnenfeld also discusses his frustrations with network executives and the chance that if they sell enough dvds they might, just might, create enough of an underswell to allow them to make a feature length movie with this cast.

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