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The Simpsons - The Complete Second Season

The Simpsons - The Complete Second Season

List Price: $49.98
Your Price: $37.49
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hilarious
Review: Simple the best. The complete 2nd serie of the Simpsons is amazing. Hope for the next ones.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: ITS GREAT
Review: THIS NEW SIMPSONS DVD IS GREAT. THE SPECIAL FEATURES ARE GOOD BUT THE ARE NOT SPECTACULAR SPECIAL FEATURES. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT IF THEY HAVE SHOWN THE ACTORS DOING THE VOICES FOR A SHOW. BUT OTHER THEN THAT THE SHOWS ARE GREAT. I JUST CANT WAIT FOR THE COMPLETE 3RD SEASON.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Huge Improvement
Review: I bought this set 5 days after it was released and the biggest improvment in my mind was in three ways: The Animation, the voice acting, and the story lines. Animation is the most noticeable. The first season was great but the crude animation was a huge setback. The second season is still primitive compared to today but still good enough so that you can enjoy the episodes. Some of the best Simpsons episodes are here too. Especially "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" the ranks as being my favorite. All in All for any Simpsons fan this DVD set is a must have.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Cool!
Review: I purchased this item for my husband and he loves it! Not much more to say. The Simpsons rule!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: No Audio Commentary?
Review: I found one thing much more difficult than the trick to skip the spinning heads. I watch on my PC and when selecting the audio tracks the pink glazed donut never shows up next to audio commentary when I point at it with the mouse. I was convinced I had a defective CD until I realized that I could down arrow to audio commentary and then hit enter. That is the only way you can get it on a PC...its impossible to click on it.

Well, I'm happy now! Hopefully I may save someone else this frustration.

By the way THESE EPISODES ARE GREAT!!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I think I'm in heaven!!
Review: You think you know what a good DVD or DVD set IS? If you don't have this, and if you don't get it...you don't. This is the kind of set you buy a DVD player for. All 22 second season episodes of the Simpsons are in this set. Among my favorites are "Bart Gets An F", "Bart's Dog Gets An F", "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge", "The Way We Was", "Old Money", "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", and "Principle Charming". These are classic, must have Simpsons episodes. I have been watching since I was 4-5, and now, finally this great show is available to own on DVD. You get well worth your money, in fact, this set could be worth 40 bucks, I'd pay it! It's a whole season that made television history. America's favorite family came into their own with this season. This is the season that made America fall in love with the Simpsons. As bonus features go, I rate this DVD 5 stars. You get two Bart Simpson music video: "Deep, Deep Trouble" (such a good song!!) & "Do The Bartman" (my favorite of the two). These are great!! Also, the Emmy Awards presenation is halarious, and the interview with the creators of the show is very informative as well as the commentary on every episode and the featurette on the making of an episode. You also get a photo gallery with great photos and magazine covers around the time of the second season. Also hidden among the menus of this set are several Easter Eggs (or hidden bonus features). The hidden features are sketches & one storyboard of a deleted scene in "Bart Gets An F". All in all, this is what makes having a DVD player even more fun & entertaining. Not only does "The Simpsons" make you laugh, it can make you sad too. This is not just a cartoon, this is "The Simpsons". My reccomendation is you buy this awesome set, grab some popcorn, and sit down & watch these classic Simpsons episodes again and again. You won't be able to stop.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fantastic
Review: I seem to be in the minority, but I think the first 3 Simpsons seasons were fantastic, and then did a long steady decline. The last couple of seasons are almost unwatchable. It seems people are sharply divided on this. Those who watched the season from the beginning prefer the earlier episodes, and those who started watching in the mid 90s like the later stuff. Anyway...

I mainly wanted to comment on the false reports of editing in the "Bart the Daredevil" episode. The extended scene of Homer falling down the cliff the second time was NOT in the original broadcast. I know, because I have the episode on tape from it's debut broadcast.

The extra footage was added later, for a clip show retrospective. My guess is that the "2nd time falling down the cliff" footage was fully animated and intended to be used for the original episode, but was cut for time. (Or perhaps because of a squeamish censor?). It wound up being added later for the clip show, and that is what most people seem to remember. Since the extended scene wasn't in the original episode when it aired, it doesn't belong on the DVD. (Assuming it's put on the clip show episode, when that's released!)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Even better than the Season One Box Set
Review: While season 2 of the Simpsons is still building the series to the smoothness in animation and comedy it is today, season two is still hilarious. This is way above the first season set in terms of sounds, animation, comedy, characters, and especially with the number of episodes and features

It's simple. If you love the Simpsons, buy it, you'll be in heaven. If your on the fence, still buy it, you will definitly find something that you'll love on here. You can't beat the price on owning the entire season. If you ever taped these episodes back in the early nineties, you probily spent more money on those now useless tapes!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Best Show Ever, but edited......Why?
Review: I am an avid fan of the Simpsons and have recorded over 200 episodes on tape. When I found out that they would be releasing them on DVD I was so excited. I bought the first season and was thrilled. Now I purchased the second season and was delighted again, but extremely disappointed.

I went to watch one of my favorite episodes, Bart the Daredevil, and was shocked to find that it had been edited. They cut the best scene in the episode where after crashing in the ambulance Homer falls back into the gorge wrapped in bandages, IV bag flying and the gurney tumbles after. This was a crucial scene and the fact that they cut it from the "complete" second season is a major let down for any true Simpsons fan. But you be the judge.

It is worth every penny to have crystal clear picture and awesome sound, but what is the point of editing the most humorous scenes?

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Buy it for The Simpsons, not the features
Review: There's really not a whole lot to say about this DVD collection; there are plenty of episode guides already out there (I particularly recommend the "Simpsons Forever" series) so there's not much point in me rehashing on an episode-by-episode basis. Suffice it to say that this set includes all of the shows from season two of The Simpsons, as well as a few "extras". I put the extras in quotes, because they are a bonus in name only; like its predecessor, this disc has no particularly interesting special features.

In fact, the so-called extras consist of a few Butterfinger commercials, some embarrassingly bad footage of the Bartman video, and a hodge-podge of old promotional materials. There are also "director commentaries, but a significant portion of those tracks are taken up by Matt Groening et al either a. laughing, or b. quietly enjoying their work.

Ultimately, what this set comes down to is the episodes. They look and sound fantastic, and they contain a lot of material that hasn't shown up in syndication for years. The series really hit its stride in the second season: the characters are more clearly defined and start to sound "normal", the animation improves drastically, and the humor becomes much more sophisticated. For these reasons alone, the set is more than worth owning, especially to a die-hard fan. But the fact of the matter is that Fox has been incredibly lazy about assembling these compendiums; considering the overwhelming lack of additional features, there's no reason why they shouldn't have twice as many seasons out by now. I think most fans would be more than happy to buy each season without any extra features, and pay a little less, especially considering the extras are pretty lame to begin with.

To conlude: buy this because you love The Simpons, not because you are a DVD aficionado who loves special features.

Enjoy!


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