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Can you handle the truth? If you’re Mickey Mouse, George Will, a Philip Morris executive, or any one of the corporate no-good-doers who pollute the environment, abandon their customers, or cheat their workers, best be on your guard: Michael Moore has got your number, or at the very least, your home address! Moore, muckraking journalist, guerilla filmmaker (Roger & Me), and all-around nonpartisan offender, follows up his Emmy-winning, albeit short-lived, TV series TV Nation with this even more confrontational series that can be seen on Bravo (”Between the Playboy Channel and Cartoon Network”). This set contains all the episodes from the show’s premiere season. It is perhaps the most outrageous television you have never seen. The series is much more than Moore “going in someplace to bug somebody.” There is method to Moore’s madness. His outrage is palpable as he shames an insurance company into paying for a customer’s life-or-death pancreas transplant by staging the man’s mock funeral outside corporate headquarters. At the height of Monica-gate, Moore shows Washington, D.C., what a real witch-hunt looks like, complete with shrieking costumed Pilgrims. Other season 1 highlights include the return of Crackers, the plucky Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken, who visits Disneyland to advise Mickey Mouse about Disney’s alleged unfair labor practices. Moore also spreads holiday jeer inside Philip Morris by leading a choir of cigarette-ravaged carolers, each of whom must use a voice box. The Awful Truth is not for the faint of heart (or conservatives, for that matter). As Moore remarks after a segment in which his “Gay Team” cruises America in a pink Sodommobile, “We’ll never be back on NBC now.” You go, Mike! –Donald Liebenson

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From the acclaimed filmmaker who brought you Roger & Me comes the most daring documentary show to hit the American Public since Moore’s TV Nation: THE AWFUL TRUTH

Michael Moore, hailed by the New York Times as a modern-day Mark Twain, is at it again with the show that was shut down by the mayor of NYC, got Moore sued by a wealthy industrialist, and landed his Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken in Disney World’s very own jail.

Shot in his signature “guerilla video” style, each half hour episode is filled with scathingly funny observations that bridge comedy and controversy and places Moore in the middle of today’s hot topics.

[if There's no middle ground when it comes to liberal activist Michael Moore-- you either love or hate him. Moore's 24-part half-hour humor/investigative journalism series "The Awful Truth" aired on the BRAVO network from April 11, 1999 to August 9, 2000.

PROGRAM CONTENTS for "The Awful Truth, Season #1":

EPISODE #1 - (4/11/99)--
Segments: "A Cheaper Way to Conduct a Witch Hunt" and "Funeral at an HMO." (guests: James Carville and 5 Congressmen)

EPISODE #2 - (4/18/99)--
Segments: "Beat the Rich" and "The Sodomobile." (guest: Trent Lott)

EPISODE #3 - (4/25/99)--
Segments: "Crackers vs. Mickey Mouse" and "The Voice-Box Choir." (guest: Paul Wellstone)

EPISODE #4 - (5/2/99)--
Segments: "Sal, The Bill Collector" and "Duck and Cover."

EPISODE #5 - (5/9/99)--
Segments: "The Awful Truth Man of the Year," "TV Pundits?" and "150 Feet from NBC." (guest: Conan O'Brien)

EPISODE #6 - (5/16/99)--
Segments: "Work Care!," "LucyCam" and "Air-Drop TVs on Afghanistan." (guest: Sally Struthers)

EPISODE #7 - (5/23/99)--
Segments: "William Sebastian Cohen," LucyCam #2" and "Manpower."

EPISODE #8 - (5/30/99)--
Segments: "Montana Shacks," "Joe Camel Gets a Job" and LucyCam #3."

EPISODE #9 - (6/6/99)--
Segments: "Hail Turdonia," "Teen Sniper School" and Hitler Makes a Withdrawal."

EPISODE #10- (6/13/99)--
Segments: "Crackers Goes to Buckeye Eggs," "The Michael Moore Playset," "American Apartheid" and "Bill Gates' Housewarming." (guest: Willie Nelson)

EPISODE #11- (6/20/99)--
Segments: "Weapon Inspectors," "The Make a Wish Foundation" and "We Find Hillary a Date." (guest: Rosanne Barr)

EPISODE #12- (6/27/99)--
Segments: "NAFTA Mike," "Strikebreakers" and "Mergers."]

Customer Review

There’s no middle ground when it comes to liberal activist Michael Moore– you either love or hate him. Moore’s 24-part half-hour humor/investigative journalism series “The Awful Truth” aired on the BRAVO network from April 11, 1999 to August 9, 2000.

PROGRAM CONTENTS for “The Awful Truth, Season #1″:

EPISODE #1 – (4/11/99)–
Segments: “A Cheaper Way to Conduct a Witch Hunt” and “Funeral at an HMO.” (guests: James Carville and 5 Congressmen)

EPISODE #2 – (4/18/99)–
Segments: “Beat the Rich” and “The Sodomobile.” (guest: Trent Lott)

EPISODE #3 – (4/25/99)–
Segments: “Crackers vs. Mickey Mouse” and “The Voice-Box Choir.” (guest: Paul Wellstone)

EPISODE #4 – (5/2/99)–
Segments: “Sal, The Bill Collector” and “Duck and Cover.”

EPISODE #5 – (5/9/99)–
Segments: “The Awful Truth Man of the Year,” “TV Pundits?” and “150 Feet from NBC.” (guest: Conan O’Brien)

EPISODE #6 – (5/16/99)–
Segments: “Work Care!,” “LucyCam” and “Air-Drop TVs on Afghanistan.” (guest: Sally Struthers)

EPISODE #7 – (5/23/99)–
Segments: “William Sebastian Cohen,” LucyCam #2″ and “Manpower.”

EPISODE #8 – (5/30/99)–
Segments: “Montana Shacks,” “Joe Camel Gets a Job” and LucyCam #3.”

EPISODE #9 – (6/6/99)–
Segments: “Hail Turdonia,” “Teen Sniper School” and Hitler Makes a Withdrawal.”

EPISODE #10- (6/13/99)–
Segments: “Crackers Goes to Buckeye Eggs,” “The Michael Moore Playset,” “American Apartheid” and “Bill Gates’ Housewarming.” (guest: Willie Nelson)

EPISODE #11- (6/20/99)–
Segments: “Weapon Inspectors,” “The Make a Wish Foundation” and “We Find Hillary a Date.” (guest: Rosanne Barr)

EPISODE #12- (6/27/99)–
Segments: “NAFTA Mike,” “Strikebreakers” and “Mergers.”

Funny, Best of Michael Moore – Lynn Ellingwood – Webster, NY United States
The first season of The Awful Truth is Michael Moore at his best. He plays the everyman who goes out of his way to fight corruption and support “the little guy. This season is the best and very funny to boot. I enjoyed every episode. Highly recommended.

No closed captioning – Jake O’Donnell – Here, there and everywhere.
Michael Moore is a favorite of mine. Too bad Docurama couldn’t be bothered with closed captioning the series, hence the ZERO vote.

Without closed-captioning, the DVD is useless to hearing impaired people.

Shame on you Docurama for ignoring years of requests! You just don’t care!

Satire for the bold and the brave – Herr Tarquin Biskuitfaß – Luton
I had never heard of this series before and, being a fan of Michael Moore, I decided to buy this earlier this year.

If I could rate each disc, I’d give the first disc 5 stars and the second 4 stars.

There are many memorable and bizarre moments in the series, and some of the skits are so simple and effective that I kept saying, “why didn’t I think of that?”. As you’d expect, the first season is overflowing with the populist, blunt, political and social satire that has made Michael Moore famous.

If it weren’t for some of the distasteful skits, such as “Teen Sniper School” (not funny), I’d give this five stars, as it’s otherwise a low-budget, but very straightforward and eye-opening series. I recommend this set to fans of Michael Moore or people looking for some good and funny exposés on corporate America.

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