The DVD is divided into three sections: Buds, Stems and Seeds. Buds contains full episodes of The Sarah Silverman Program, TV Funhouse, Strangers with Candy, The Root of All Evil and Reno 911!. Stems is individual sketches from Chappelle's Show, Drawn Together, Crank Yankers and Viva Variety, while Seeds isn't Comedy Central originals, but things like an episode of Bob Ross' classic public-broadcast painting show The Joy of Painting, "Spiders on Drugs" (the more recent variation of the classic educational film), as well as a clip from The Animation Show and an older in-school educational film called "Weed."
The episode of The Sarah Silverman Program starts off with Steve and Brian having to look for a new weed dealer and end up trying some medicinal grade product. Meanwhile, Sarah believes that being Jewish is harder than being black, but when a local man hears her talking that way, they decide to switch races for a day. She paints her lips white and her face flat-black and goes out on the street.
The TV Funhouse episode, entitled "Christmas Day", has the Anipals extracting concentrated Christmas Cheer from Doug's spine and getting high on it, while the episode of Strangers with Candy is the pilot and introduces Jerri's desire to return to school after being on the street for 32 years. What's great about this is seeing a younger Steve Colbert before he became the American mascot that he is today.
The Root of All Evil, for those that aren't familiar with this new series, is Lewis Black's weekly trial where two comedians try to argue that one person/place/thing is more evil than another. As you would expect based on the general theme of this DVD, this episode is "Weed vs. Beer."
I have to say, Home Grown is a fairly good slice of what Comedy Central has to offer, both on TV and on DVD. I like the idea of it being a themed collection because that really helps to tie the whole package together, but people not familiar with these shows might pick up this DVD (to see what the fuss is about) and think that they are all full of drug references. That isn't the case, but these series don't shy away from the subject by any means (ok, that is the case with Strangers with Candy, but not so much with the others).
I would recommend this DVD to anyone who likes a few of the shows on the disc and is on the fence about, or hasn't seen, the others. The sketches are fun, even Drawn Together's sing-along clips, and should appeal to anyone who already likes the channel. If you are easily offended though, then this is not the DVD for you. Heck Comedy Central isn't the station for you.
