FUNimation is Funny
by Zube (zube@stat.colostate.edu)
Created:  Oct 10, 2006
Updated:  Jan 31, 2008
http://www.stat.colostate.edu/~zube/funnymation.txt

There are many things that annoy me (no! yes, it's true), but the worst are
those that tell me what I can or cannot do.  Censor a book and it's the 
first one I want to read next, for example.

Unskippable DVD intros fall into this heinous category.  

It's bad enough I have to sit through the legalese each time I want to
watch something I bought, but to be forced to watch a 90 second intro
is too much to endure.

FUNimation, a company whose name begs to be ridiculed, puts unskippable
trailers at the front of their DVDs.  Actually, this *may* not be
strictly true.  According to some, instead of hitting the menu button
(which does nothing) you may be able to skip them by hitting the title
button.  Regardless, the disabling of the menu button is done on the
advice of, I suppose, your average marketing dim bulb.

That's not the funny part.

Recently, I made a purchase from Right Stuf.  Along with my "stuf" I also
received a bunch of goodies.  In the bunch was a FUNimation DVD called
_FUNimation Goes Gonzo_ which included a couple of full length episodes
and a zillion trailers.  

On this DVD, a free DVD, there was no unskippable trailer.

I hope someday to wake up and find myself back on planet Earth.