We just bought the first DVD ever made.

Most of you know that Trevor likes movies and good deals as much as he enjoys breathing, so he's been taking the two- and three-dollar movie sale at Big Lots by storm. I recently joined him on one outing and we came away with a copy of Little Women. (I picked this one, obviously, as Little Women is a classic novel and a fairly good film, if my memory serves me correctly, and Trevor's illiterate. Just kidding. This is a joke he often uses on himself, and this is my way of guilting him into actually reading our blog.)

Anyway, we opened up the DVD case to find a little card tucked in with the disc. Here's what we read:

Care Tips and Disc Removal

To remove disc from its case, press the "push here" button on hub located at the center of disc. Using your other hand, gently remove disc by its outer edge. Never remove disc by prying its outer edge.

The tips continue, but you get the idea. It was so strange that it made me laugh to see these instructions included with the DVD, almost like I was Christopher Reeve seeing the penny in Somewhere in Time, and it transported me back (instead of forward, like in the movie) to 1994.

If that doesn't make you laugh, a shot of the DVD menu will. Get a load of this:


What is this, 1905?

Anyway, we had a good chuckle over the sheer novelty of it all. I watched the movie and then proceeded to tell Trevor, nearly verbatim, about that Friends episode where Rachel reads Joey's copy of The Shining and he reads her copy of Little Women. Another classic. Can't you just hear Joey now?

Joey: Beth is really, really sick. Jo's there, but I don't think there's anything she can do.
Rachel: Joey?
Joey: Yeah?
Rachel: You want to put the book in the freezer?

So view both for a good laugh AND a good cry. And go to Big Lots. You won't be sorry.