Has anyone bought it? I love all the pointless extras on it - being able to watch lavalampified and pingpongified episodes, the undeleted scenes and utterly needless disk 2. Doubledipalicious.

Yeah. I got it last summer. Love it!
I've not watched it in ages though. Will have to have a big Jam session soon.

My housemate's got it. I almost didn't remember how truly screwed up a series it really was. Great stuff.

Brilliantly dark, twisted, demented comedy good/badness.


"Of course I want the change, what do you think the gun's for?"

Check out the simulated 5.1 sound as well. Disc 2 is actually not quite needless as the sleepified versions on it were broadcast as Jaaaaam and it's nice for completists.

You used to be able to download from www.jamcredits.com an audio file of
background gunfire for one of the alternative sound options too, I seem to recall...

if you watch too many episodes back to back it does wierd things to your brain!

Yeah I just got this recently on the off chance it would be good. Now I was expecting dark, I've always been a fan of 'dark' comedy
(back in the days when 'dark' and 'funny' weren't mutually exclusive)
and was never really affected by programs that were described as dark. But this just shocked me Nothing is dark compared to this, the most sick twisted depraved moments of things like league of gentleman and south park seem happy cuddly childrens programming by comparison, I love it.

Although Goitre is much better

Hay?

What's the difference between the two? I only flciked through the first episode on the second disk and I thought it was the same. I just thought it was Chris taking the piss out of the double disk special idea.

It's Adam and Joe's pisstake of Jam. Those cheeky scamps.

"It's supposed to be subversive!"

The images on screen are kind of weirder and blurry and distorted.

"My Mum's going to watch this"

Ahh, Adam & Joe. Legends.

Jaaaaam is a much woozier re-edited version of the same shows.

I'd much rather watch my Ad and Joe DVD than sit through Jam again. Moments of brilliance, but plenty that's not that great. The boiler/baby repair man, casual parents and suicide x 40 (amongst others) stick in the mind, but I prefer something with less dark a heart. Like A+J or the Boosh.

Perhaps that's why I liked NB so much, I wasn't expecting as much as some of you.

I'd agree Nathan Barley was greater than Jam.
Jam was a very intresting piece of work but there's much less replay value and
Sitcoms with plots and rich intresting characters will pretty much always beat a sketch show in my book.

I liked Nathan Barley.

I forgot Jam had the same cast and writers as Big Train, without that Simon Pegg bloke whoever he is. Maybe it's David Cann and the absence of Simon Pegg that makes Jam -eeevil-.

Yeah David Cann as the doctor is terrifying Heap, Eldon and Pegg can play Psychotic, distubed damaged characters but there's something so sweet and loveable about them when they do it. but David Cann is just so sinister and subtle, its played completley straight and that's what makes him so scary.

But its not really the same writers its just that Linehan and Matthews wrote a few sketches or contributed to some sketches.

I'd actually really like to know who wrote each indvidual line in every sketch.

I suppose any sketch that would fit in Big Train were written by Lineham and Mathews. But then Morris did some odd and light hearted sketches for Big Train, so, I dunno. I'd have thought all the info would be on jamcredits.com, but Channel 4 seems to have buggered up with the link.