The good news is that the MTV cartoon series, which paved the way for “South Park,” “Ren and Stimpy,” “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” and a legion of others is finally available on DVD. The bad news is that, like the previous VHS releases, the episodes are stripped of their best parts: the segments in which B&B berate music videos. (Presumably getting the copyright permission to use all those songs was impossible.) These three disks feature creator Mike Judge’s favorite cartoons, and therefore are pretty likely to include most of your favorites, as well, among the 40 he chose. (My own favorite is right at the beginning of disk one, where da boys struggle not to laugh during a sex ed lecture.) The extras are a bit on the thin side, and some of the cartoons have been edited of once-controversial material (like Beavis’ fixation with fire). But you will still laugh.

A French remake by Jacques Audiard (Read My Lips) of James Toback’s totemic 1978 debut Fingers, which starred Harvey Keitel as a low-level mob enforcer and aspiring classical pianist. Lacking the personal obsessions that Toback was working out, Audiard has reimagined the material skillfully and persuasively. The character and situations are still narrative conceits, but it’s less brutal and more emotionally consistent, with a subdued but increasingly effective moral dynamic. It’s derived from a crime melodrama tradition, but it reaches beyond its origins for emotional effects that are beyond generic conventions.

For Your Height Only (1980, Wea Corp, $24.95)—An underappreciated classic in the realm of so-bad-it’s-good cinema, this Filipino James Bond spoof stars Weng Weng, who measures a hair shy of three feet tall. (“Bigger than Goldfinger’s Finger—Bigger Than Thunderball’s….!” boasted the ads.) The hilarious dubbing adds to the fun (all of the bad guys sound like they’re voiced by the same guy, doing an Edward G. Robinson impression), as does the fact that this may not have been intended to be a comedy.