The Simpsons - The Complete First Season DVD

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Average Rating: Rating: - At last The best television art North America has ever produced comes to DVD at last. All 13 original episodes and with commentary by Matt Groening too and then some !! Mmmmmmmm DVD with sprinkles. Here are more details: Disc One: 1. "Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire" episode and commentary. 2. "Bart The Genius" episode, commentary and original script. 3. "Homer's Odyssey" episode and commentary. 4. "There's No Disgrace Like Homer" episode and commentary. "Bart The General" episode, commentary and original script. 5. "Moaning Lisa" episode, commentary and original script. Disc Two: 1. "Call Of The Simpsons" episode and commentary. 2. "The Telltale Head" episode and commentary. 3. "Life On The Fast Lane" episode and commentary. 4. "Homer's Night Out" episode and commentary. "The Crepes Of Wrath" episode and commentary. 5. "Krusty Gets Busted" episode and commentary. Disc Three: 1. "Some Enchanted Evening" episode, commentary, unaired outtakes and original script. 2. Animatic of "Bart The General" with commentary by Matt Groening and David Silverman. 3. Albert Brooks outtakes from "Life On The Fast Lane." 4. "America's First Family" BBC special. 5. ABC News special report on the famous Bart Simpson T-shirt controversy. 6. "Good Night Simpsons" short, the first to air on "The Tracey Ullman Show. " 7. At least five foreign language clips. 8. 100 early sketches in a still gallery. 9. 12 stills and magazine covers. Rating: - Are you a fan? Buy this! Bottom line: The Simpsons is the funniest, smartest show on television. This is satire at its best! It has a strong cast of characters which is one of the reasons it has survived for so many years. This DVD is a fan's dream, and is loaded with clips, commentary, and of course the groundbreaking first season of shows. A landmark show finally has a fitting DVD set. The early episodes of course aren't quite as sharp in the animation department, as the art and produciton values will continue to grow with each season. The writing is there, however, and its fun seeing how the characters have evolved/grown over time. And hey, these are the classic episodes! I look forward to the release of the rest of the seasons, but for now will enjoy this wonderful set. If you are a fan (and you probably are since you're reading this) this is a must have. This is the kind of set you go buy a DVD player for! Rating: - The Beginning of a Legacy Almost all diehard Simpsons fans (of which I am one) will agree that season one was up and down in terms of quality of characters, humor, entertainment value, etc. The animation was not as good as in the following seasons, and like in any series, the characters were not necessarily the same in the first season as they would become in the remaining seasons. Ned Flanders was mixing drinks and losing his temper and not acting as the passive Christian neighbor, Lisa was smart but much more bratty, Marge was more aggressive, Smithers was black, etc. There are some funny episodes the first season, but few that were as geniously funny as they would become once the characters and everything were more figured out. Of course in comparison to other shows, even when the Simpsons are bad they're better than 95% of what else is on television, but once you've seen how great they can be it's hard to settle for less. What's really cool about these DVDs though are the commentaries by Matt Groening, the animators, producers, etc. It's really interesting to hear different strategies they employ in creating the Simpsons (e.g., they try to never have a shot of them straight on, but rather at a sideways angle) and to hear them joke about different characters and how their characterizations developed (e.g. Smithers' homoerotic love for Mr. Burns). Although these will probably not be episodes you watch over and over again (at least now that the second season is out), any Simpsons fan should have it to listen to the commentaries, and just to make a complete collection.

The Simpsons - The Complete First Season DVD

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