# Firefly on DVD
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 20, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376 "2003-05-20T20:17:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/1 "2003-05-20T20:17:02Z")
This may be old news but I know it was on a lot of people’s wish lists; it appears that _Firefly_ **will** be coming out on DVD. Nathan Fillion (Mal) confirms it. He says he has just finished recording commentary for _War Stories_ and will be recording one for _Serenity_ next. He also said that the DVD set will include all 15 episodes, including the three that never aired on Fox.
All details from [http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-05/20/11.45.tv](http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-05/20/11.45.tv)
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/2 "2003-05-20T21:23:43Z")
Wow. I went out to grab some lunch, and was thinking, “When the hell is Firefly coming out on DVD?” I get back with my burrito, open up Cafe Society, and this is almost literally the first thread I see.
The Straight Dope: So smart, it can answer questions before you even ask them.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/3 "2003-05-20T22:01:25Z")
😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃
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### Author:  [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/4 "2003-05-21T00:09:01Z")
Y’know, I thought I’d be happier about this news. Instead, I still feel bitter that this great SF series was cancelled before it even had a chance. A pox on Fox, I say.
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/5 "2003-05-21T00:18:02Z")
What **Cervaise** “said.”
🙂
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/6 "2003-06-06T15:35:01Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Hodge \*
> **…I still feel bitter that this great SF series was cancelled before it even had a chance.**
Be strong! While Firefly the TV Series is dead Joss has turned his attention to making **Firefly the Movie!** The boy just loves that show and has been burned more by TV networks lately than by movie studios, so…
One board I frequent is Firefly-based and most of the cast posted at one time or another. Yes, they were verified. These weren’t psychos PRETENDING to be cast members, though Adam Baldwin has turned out to be enough of a (grrrrr!) Republican to make me wonder about the psycho part. 😉 He’s turned into a regular poster with almost as many posts as me. I tried directing him over here but he hasn’t shown up that I know of. As for the commentaries on the DVD, he logged on once asking for help–he was taping his bit in 45 minutes and didn’t know what to say.
I’ve found a site that has all the eps available for download to hold me until the DVDs come out but I ain’t sayin’ where it is! 😃
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### Author:  [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/7 "2003-06-06T15:59:25Z")
Well, here I am.
Glad to hear about the DVD release, though I’m electronically impaired enough that a DVD is about as useful to me as a fish is to a bicyle (or however the saying goes).
Still, it does my heart good to know it exists, and here’s hoping a Firefly movie fares better than the series did!
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/8 "2003-06-06T16:13:20Z")
My wife claims to have made up that saying. Gets mad when it’s misquoted, saying it’s Capital M Man, not “A man.” I can’t find any references before when she first wrote it on a ladies room wall in the early 70s so I’m forced to take her at her word until the day when, joy of joys!, I can prove her wrong. There is little that makes me happier but it’s rare when I can.
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/9 "2003-06-06T18:20:34Z")
Huh?
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/10 "2003-06-06T18:39:38Z")
“Man without God is like a fish without a bicycle.”
All the other versions of it piss her off, too. I should pass along her claim of attribution to the other Sunday school teachers! (devilish grin)
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### Author:  [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/11 "2003-06-06T19:06:46Z")
Sorry to continue the hijack, but thought this might be of interest:
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> _from [Phrase Finder](http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/414150.html)_
> “Woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle”
>
> Often attributed to Gloria Steinem. Other claims for origination point
> to Flo (Florynce) Kennedy or to an anonymous author who painted
> the slogan on a wall at University of Wisconsin in 1969.
>
> Gloria Steinem had this to say in a letter she wrote to Time
> magazine in autumn 2000:
> “In your note on my new and happy marital partnership with David
> Bale, you credit me with the witticism ‘A woman needs a man like a
> fish needs a bicycle.’ In fact, Irina Dunn, a distinguished Australian
> educator, journalist and politician, coined the phrase back in 1970
> when she was a student at the University of Sydney.”
I’ve never heard your wife’s “Man without God…” version, **dropzone**.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/12 "2003-06-06T19:28:16Z")
Oooooh! Thank you! I can TRULY enjoy this evening! Actually, I won’t mention it but will bask in my superiority, anyway.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/13 "2003-06-06T19:35:59Z")
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> _Originally posted by Kn_ckers \*
> \*\*I’ve never heard your wife’s “Man without God…” version, **dropzone**. \*\*
Call me “drop.” BTW, it was quoted (incorrectly, IIRC) in Robert Anton Wilson’s [Cosmic Trigger-The Final Secret of the Illuminati](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1561840033/103-4831911-1183816?vi=glance). I thought the Illuminatus Trilogy and associated books were required reading on this board, like everything by Douglas Adams. You can’t get the fnord jokes otherwise. 😉
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/14 "2003-06-06T20:30:22Z")
Looks like you might have hit submit too soon, there, **drop.** Your last sentence reads “You can’t get the” and then ends. What did you mean to say?
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/15 "2003-06-06T20:39:46Z")
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> \*Originally posted by dropzone \*
> \*\*You can’t get the fnord jokes otherwise. 😉 \*\*
Gee, it works on MY computer. Did you cancel early? Is the board playing mean tricks on you?
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### Author:  [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/16 "2003-06-08T22:53:34Z")
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> \*Originally posted by dropzone \*
> \*\* These weren’t psychos PRETENDING to be cast members, though Adam Baldwin has turned out to be enough of a (grrrrr!) Republican to make me wonder about the psycho part. \*\*
Wow, now I have even more reason to like him than his excellent acting in Firefly. Cool. 😃
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### Author:  [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/17 "2003-06-09T00:33:27Z")
It’s 'cause Cervaise hasn’t read the book yet, he hasn’t learned how to see the fnords 😉
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/18 "2003-06-09T06:57:46Z")
You mean the Robert Anton Wilson book?
I tried to read it, but half the pages were blank.
Total suck, man. I don’t see what everybody else sees in it.
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/19 "2003-06-09T14:56:59Z")
When I was in college one of the Christian groups made t-shirts picturing a fish riding a bicycle, so the God version of the slogan obviously had some currency – at least in central New York in the mid-1990’s.
–Cliffy
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefly-on-dvd/176376/20 "2003-06-09T15:09:40Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by RikWriter \*
> \*\*Wow, now I have even more reason to like him than his excellent acting in Firefly. Cool. 😃 \*\*
Head over to the Prospero Firefly board and the two of you can hang out and talk and start threads that I don’t read 'cuz they just piss me off! 😃