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Summary: season one.
Review: unfortunately, i missed out on seeing the simpsons early years. i didn't start watching fox's sunday night line up until x-files moved from friday to sunday. once i started watching the simpsons, i was quite sad i hadn't caught onto them earlier.i purchased the season one dvd not having seen most of the episodes on it. for me, it was just nice to see the episodes i never had the chance to see. yeah, season one isn't as hilarious as some of the more recent seasons. and the animation isn't as good. but as a huge simpson's fan, i am glad i own it. it really is a collector's item. the packaging is quite nice, amusing even. and of course it comes with standard dvd extras like commentary and image galleries. so, not the simpsons' best. but still quite good just because it is the simpsons.
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Summary: I love the Simpsons!
Review: The Simpsons first season is like so funny.The first Simpsons piece of art from TV.This first season is so funny I watched the DVD two times in one day it's so funny.It's obviosly not as good as the new ones and that's not just cause of the animaion,it just wasn't as well thought up as the new season's.I can't wate till season three come's out,it's gonna be funny as hell.You can see my review on season two.That's also a great season.this season is so good,you've got to see it at a friend's or even better,buy it.You should own this piece of art if your a Simpson's fan.You are going to love it.I now it.Just see it.
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Summary: Simpsons, rock on
Review: The simpons is my all time favorite show. If your looking for for a hilarious show the simpsons is one of the best.From homer saying DOO!!! to Barts pranks this show will always be on top. The special features are great and its cool to see the birth of the show. also this dvd let you see the shows creater,Matt Groning. I loved this dvd and im sure you will to.
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Summary: Let's face it - the first season was not great
Review: These 3 discs contain the entirety of the first season of the television series Time Magazine called "The Greatest of the Century." Since television has only existed this century, I guess that means it's the greatest show of all time.... At any rate, the Simpson's did not earn that honour in its first season alone. In fact, most would agree that this season is the worst. As Matt Groening points out numerous times in the audio commentaries, "We had no idea what we were doing." It shows - the animation is sometimes crude, the characters are uneven (their personalities had not been worked out yet), and occasionally voices change because the character was read by two different actors. Finally, compared to the pace of the shows from the second season on, these move at a snail's pace and do not have nearly so many sly pop-culture references that make the later episodes so emminently re-watchable. However - all the Simpsons' charm is there, from Homer trying to buy a motor home bigger than the Flanderses' to Bart cheating on an IQ test. The audio commentaries are fun to listen to - these will probably be the most interesting ones because we get some insight into the origin of the series (although through 13 of these, there's some repetitive/contradictory information). The extras that are included are fun, especially the Tracy Ulman short (which is mostly shown in one of the "flashback" episodes somewhere around Season 12, but here it's shown in its entirety). The best part, though, is that these episodes are shown cut-free, as opposed to the hacked-up, ad-ridden syndicated versions we are subject to with the reruns on our local affiliate stations. Overall, the DVD is worth 3 stars. The series is showing promise at this point, but it's not until the 2nd season that the first really good episode appears (Homer and Delilah). There is a truly hilarious audio outtake bit on Al Brooks improvising Jacques' (the bowling instructor) dialogue. However, long-time fans are likely to be dissappointed that more early information is not provided. There's only 1 episode on the third disc so there's lots of extra space - why not give us more of the Tracy Ulman shorts? At any rate, this DVD is a great start to the Simpsons collection, and rest assured, the episodes just keep getting better and better (at least, until Season 8 or so.....)
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Summary: Well worth owning class stuff.
Review: The Simpsons are classic fun, I am glad I bought this DVD I can watch this stuff over and over again.Besides being very funny theres so much here to keep you intrested all kinds of extras: scripts, interviews and insight into what it takes to pull something like this together. If you have any intrest in the Simpsons and want some classically funny stuff, pick this up right now! Well worth the money to have in your DVD collection.
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Summary: simpsions rock
Review: The Simpson's are one of my favorite tv shows and for them to be on DVD is amazing. Of course the first season of the Simpson's was the worst but, hey you have to start somewhere. That's why you should by The Simpson's Complete First Season. You will spend hours watching all 13 episodes. The down side is since it was the first season, Matt and all the other producers didn't know what they were doing. Therefore you may notice some glitch's on the drawings. Anyway I think this set is really funny and any Simpson's fan should buy this.
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Summary: The First Family of dysfunction finally on DVD!
Review: Finally, I can have my favorite show on DVD, to watch over and over again (my poor videotapes were wearing out). Season One, with its crude and uneven animation (Smithers' dark skin in "Homer's Odyssey," for example) and tentative voice work (Dan Castellanetta's Walter Matthau-ish early Homer), does not look like the show that would revolutionize television. But the cleverly nuanced humor that has made the show immortal is here in full effect, and we see the beginnings of the characters that would become TV icons as enduring as Lucy, Klinger, and Joe Friday. We see that Bart was less of a brat then, and more of a scapegoat; Lisa had yet to emerge as the sax-wielding activist vegetarian Buddhist character she would become. Homer and Marge have remained mostly the same, though I could swear that Homer gets a little dumber with each season. And Maggie...well, if you had this family, you'd stay pretty quiet, too. Here we meet Smithers and Burns, Skinner and Mrs. Krabapple, Grandpa and Krusty, Sideshow Bob and Apu, Reverend Lovejoy and Ned Flanders, and Patty and Selma for the first time; we're also introduced to the mayhem of Itchy and Scratchy (pretty tame in season one). Here you'll find some of the show's bona fide classics: "Krusty Gets Busted," "The Crepes of Wrath," "Call of the Simpsons," and of course, the immortal Christmas special that started it all. The DVD extras are among the best I've ever seen, with hilarious commentary from creator Matt Groening on all 13 episodes, and some of his first character sketches. In addition, there's the short piece from the Tracy Ullmann show, "Goodnight Simpsons," plus original scripts for four episodes, and a handful of outtakes. And if you've ever wanted to watch the show in, say, French, well, the DVD offers that, as well. For rabid fans like myself, this is a godsend.
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Summary: The debut of the best animated series in history.
Review: I try to restrain from using hyperbole to describe any products I review, but there is no doubt in my mind that "The Simpsons" is the greatest animated series in television history. No other show has ever shown such adeptness at meshing social satire, contemporary events, and random, but hilarious jokes all into one series. It is interesting how an episode can begin in one place while its conclusion is somewhere completely different and unrelated. Yet, one never gets lost or confused by the path it takes. It is, paradoxically, a controlled stream of consciousness exercise. This "...Season 1" DVD shows how the show got its start.
Originally an animated short as part of the old "Tracey Ullman Show", "The Simpsons" got their own timeslot in 1989. A certain degree of apprehension existed, as no one was quite sure how an animated series, especially one as non-traditional and offbeat as this one would be received by the viewing audience. The producers involved shouldn't have worried. "The Simpsons" caught on like gangbusters and is now about to enter its 14th season and is the longest running animated series in TV history, and 2nd-longest running primetime show ever (behind the 20 years of "Gunsmoke"). In this first season, the animation and character development was a bit rougher than in subsequent seasons. Homer was a bit less stupid and little more of an angry man than the lovable oaf that he became. Bart was still the troublemaker, but not as clearly defined as a person. Maggie, Marge, and Lisa also had a ways to go before finding their niches in the series. But, I digress. This was still a very entertaining first season with such memorable episodes as the debut Christmas special "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" and "Krusty Gets Busted", which marks the beginning of Bart's lifelong troubles with Sideshow Bob. The extras are marvelous, and I still have yet to view all of them. This series is long overdue on DVD, but I'm elated that it has finally happened.
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Summary: good
Review: the simpsons season one dvd is pretty good. It has some extras, and the entire first season. The only reason i giving this 4 starts instead of five is the first season was not all that good. However, it has some good shows such the one when homer got the r.v and sideshow bob first showing, and the one when bart was "smart".
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Summary: Long Overdue
Review: It's declined in recent years, but The Simpsons was arguably the best comedy of the 90s. The whole first season is here, recolorized and looking a lot better than when they were first released. I only gave the DVD four stars, though, because of the mediocrity of the features. I don't think many people are interested in the first, badly animated version of one of the episodes; or a scene from Marge's birthday episode played in five different languages. I know I wasn't.
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