The folks out at A&E sent over a copy of Dog the Bounty Hunter: The Wild Ride Megaset, and I can assure you that it will indeed be a wild ride. It may not be a ride you really want to take, but it will indeed be a wild ride.

Dog the Bounty Hunter: The Wild Ride Megaset is basically a best-of collection across several years of episodes of the series. The series itself follows Duane “Dog” Chapman, a bounty hunter who, along with various members of his family and other associates through the season

There’s a reason South Park made fun of this show for an entire episode, and there’s a reason that they made Cartman the Dog analogue. See, Dog’s sort of a caricature of himself, really–a man who’s trying to be larger than life and yet at the same time not act that way. Sounds oddly contradictory, but that’s a lot like what I got when I watched this.

There is a certain fun involved in watching Dog and company hunt down people, trying various strange tricks to get the criminals to show up. And it gets even more interesting when Dog and Beth get married, and later, it’s all topped off when Dog himself gets busted while on that case we heard about down in Mexico.

There are plenty of extra featurettes and additional features, so the value here is something to be mentioned–you’ll get a whole slew of episodes of variable quality (sometimes watching the Dog can get a little repetitive, but sometimes something really, really awesome will happen so you’ll feel better about having slogged your way through a bunch of crap to get to the really awesome part), and you’ll also get plenty of extra footage and featurettes and whatnot to really bump up the value.

Will you enjoy Dog the Bounty Hunter? Well, that’s debatable. I had fun with it sometimes, and sometimes, not so much. And by the time you consider the whole DVD, well, you’re in a pretty good position vis-a-vis value here.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives Dog the Bounty Hunter: The Wild Ride Megaset a six out of ten. It is indeed a wild ride, but many will likely wish they hadn’t come along as the convoy will often develop engine trouble. But still, for the parts where the ride works out, it’ll be so full of scenery that you’ll be glad you came. Having exhausted my supply of car analogies, I can say this: it’s good on average, if you can handle the parts of it that don’t match up to the overall quality.