Customer Reviews
funniest show i was ever on 
2006-10-11
I was lucky enough to appear as an extra on a few episodes of this show. The cast and crew of 3rd Rock are by far the nicest people to ever work with. Most shows treat the extras like cattle...not this show. Everyone was friendly. This season was one of my favorites. Every member of this show was perfect in their roles. The writing was top-knotch. It was the funniest show on at the time. No other show on the air even came close to 3rd Rock's hilarity. John Lithgow is a God.
Nonstop Laughs! 2006-08-05
This series is absolutely absurd, and so very enjoyable. I put these DVDs in whenever I need a good hard laugh, as each show has something new that the aliens misunderstand. The booklets that come with the DVD sets are hysterical, too. In a sense, it reminds me of the old early 1980's series "Mork and Mindy". but instead of just one alien, we've got 4, attempting to create the illusion of a normal family. I will have to keep ordering these! My best friend came over, and I put the very first DVD of the series on. He said he'd never liked it much, but he insisted on watching all 4 or 5 DVDs that night, and we were both laughing so hard that the next day we felt like we'd done 200 crunches. I find this humor to be more or less the American version of Britain's Monty Python. You either love it or hate it. I love it, and I plan to keep watching it over and over.
3rd Rock from the Sun: Season 3 
2006-03-24
Not as good as seasons 1 and 2, but still worth the money.
Can't wait for the next seasons.
A Big Drop Off In Quality From Seasons 1 and 2 
2006-03-21
Seasons 1 and 2 were a blast, filled with great ensemble fun fueled by the sheer wackiness of the premise wherein four aliens are discovering everything from kleenex and sushi to what it means to be a man, a woman, a teenager. A big mistake that set Season 3 off on the wrong foot was the inexplicable decision to break up all of the major relationships of the show--Dick and Mary, Tommy and August, Sally and Don--within the first few weeks of the season.
The show was always madcap, but it also had a sensitivity and sweetness that are missing while the characters snipe at each other as a result of their various breakups. Tommy and August were so precociously funny, Sally and Don were straight out of film noir, and Dick and Mary were sweet and crazily witty. Because of the breakup of Dick and Mary, the show's center is now off-kilter. Jane Curtin has much less to do in this season, now that her character has separated from Dick.
I can guess why they engineered these breakups. They feared they'd written themselves into a corner. But if you're going to break up Dick and Mary, the main focus of much of the show, you should use that breakup wisely. I most certainly would have had Dick pining for Mary even while he tries to go out with other women. And the two parter where Roseanne shows up as Dick's assigned alien spouse just didn't work for me--the whole breakup seems artificial, and much of the humor in this season seems forced. Again, if you're gonna break them all up, you'd better have something good to fill the void, and they don't.
Individual episodes are still good, but some seem so forced--Scaredy Dick is the worst episode in the first three seasons, contrived and seemingly slapped together. I could see Mrs. Dubcek coming out of that basement the second I heard the first "ghostly" moan. I found myself saying "this is so sitcommy."
I would also guess that a new production and/or writing team took over this season, because so much here is just flat or not fully imagined. The show had depth AND wit, and now it just has wit, without polish which is not always enough.
Still, I give it three stars because of the wonderful, wonderful cast, even if the plots and scripts aren't always up to their talent level.
KICK ASS SHOW! 2006-03-19
This show is so funny and greate! It like Roswell meet the Marks Bothers.. It so grate to see this show again! Comidy meets si-fi.
3rd Rocked Me 2008-07-19
this show is stupid-funny but not rediculous. the cast is so talented, john lithgow, joseph gordon lithgow, and wayne knight, to name a few. if you get the show, you'll love it; if you don't, just remember that they only know human activity from television.
Third Rock Never Fails to Entertain! 2008-07-14
Third Rock from the Sun never fails to entertain! John Lithgow and French Stewart (and the amazing cast & crew) give stellar performances as always! Very funny dialogue and situations, as can always be expected from this series.
Season three is a bit of a letdown. 2008-06-10
Because of jobs and children I rarely got to watch prime-time TV in the 1990s. So I missed a whole decade of TV and am only catching up now. Seasons one and two of Third Rock was a blind buy for me, and I was blown away by it. Being a fan of British comedy, I enjoyed the refreshingly non-American off the wall comedy. Lithgow is brilliant. Season two ended with a bang and a larger budget than usual. So I was looking forward to Season three. I'm only a third of the way through, and I am disappointed.
First, what was the point of doing the big-budgeted, one hour season ending of year two if they were going to resolve the whole story in less than two minutes at the opening of season three? That made no sense.
Second, I was able to swallow my EXTREME dislike of Rosanne and watch the two part season opener. Again, what was the point? Why break up the romance of Dick and Mary in such an uncomfortable (and implausible) way? I can only imagine the writers were going down the 'Cheers' path (romances breaking up and resolving multiple times) which has been done ad nauseam over and over again in American sitcoms.
'Scardy Dick' was one of the worst episodes yet. Dick has gone from child-like to whiney.
I can only hope the rest of the season improves, and I am looking forward to the John Cleese two-parter.
I give it three stars ONLY because of the brilliance of John Lithgow and the other cast members who are able to overcome substandard stories.
3rd Rock from the Sun - Season 3 2007-07-23
The best and funniest TV show then, and still is today. What the networks offer currently in comedy pales in comparison. Period.
Still Going Strong 2007-01-03
I used to watch reruns of Third Rock occasionally so it has been nice to see them in order. Although the first one hour episode is very, very weak (it's painful watching Rosanne try to act) the rest of the show is light-hearted and fun, just like the rest of the season so far. In fact I would say it's getting better.
