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Summary: ONLY FOR EXTREME SIMPSONS FANS!
Review: As an extreme Simpsons fan, recording Simpsons episodes, as much as I can, I couldn't wait until the first season came out. I got it for Christmas as my first DVD, and I can tell you that this season isn't the best because the characters look very strange and the voices sound strange, but the features are awesome! See the actual scripts from some episodes, and see clips in different languages, and much more! I know that the seasons to come will be great, but you can't forget the classics! I would also advise the extreme Simpsons fans to sign up your e-mail addresses for when updates of Season 3 will come out. i also think you should pre order season two! If you like this review, please say yes below!
Keep watching America's #1 Family Cartoon!
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Summary: Great Show, Terrible Execution on the DVD
Review: Yes, I'm an ardent Simpsons fan, yadda yadda. The first season DVD has pathetic navigation. It isn't in chronological order. There isn't a way to play all of the episodes in sequence, since starting each episode playing requires going through a sub-menu.
I desperately hope the second season is done better.
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Summary: To See The Phenomenon From The Beginning
Review: This DVD series contains the entire 1st season of the Simpsons. That much is evident from the box. THe shows are marginally funny, compared to later seasons/ What is interesting is to see the changes from the first epidose to the last in terms of character development.
The 1st season focuses almost entirely on Bart, around which other characters revolve, excepting the episode of Moaning Lisa. toward the later episodes, Homer begins to take center stage, a position he has held ever since.
The extra features are not funny but the conversation with Groening provides some insight into his mindset when creating the Simpsons. He admits that they were a last minute creation to avoid failure, something I've long suspected.
It's amazing that from thses humble beginnings, the Simpsons have evoled into one of the funniest, most satirical shows on TV.
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Summary: Short first season but a classic!
Review: Excellent DVD - brought back memories of when I first saw the simpsons on TV almost a decade ago. The animation and sound quality are not up to the standards of the current season obviously, but the writing is top notch.
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Summary: Every episode...uncut PLEASE!...
Review: I can't add much more about the 1st season. It's well done but as others say: they are releasing them too slowly(GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE!...) and I also heard that the Tracy Ullman shorts were part of the deal. Oh well... That said the Simpsons is,in my opinion, the best show television has yet produced. It's full of biting satire,dead on cultural commentary, smart yet funny insights and more of what makes popular art stick to your bones than anything I've seen created in my lifetime. It is family life taken to extremes yet it can oddly parallel my own home life at times. Like almost all great humor,it deftly flows between low and high brow jokes while spending most of it's time somewhere in the middle-just making you laugh. Also, it mixes in the bittersweet moments that make great humor "human". It has a brain and heart(and of course a writting staff) that most "sitcoms" must envy with the greenest of eyes. The show has evolved so much since the early episodes on this 1st season set (still great but yearning to be set free as it would be with each new season). It is an awesome thing to behold. The show manages to feature some of the most fully realized characters on tv while planting it's self firmily in the absurd. Each season that absurdity has become more obvious yet the writing is still up to the task. Homer is the most obvious example of this growth. He is simply one of the funniest and most complicated fictional characters around. His evolution from braindead ... (as he is too often broadly painted in this 1st season) to quirky,still slow witted but largehearted patriarch has been a joy to behold. These DVD sets are also a chance to return the episodes to their original, uncut form. They are often chopped up so badly for syndication that punchlines and payoffs are lost, running jokes are sidetracked and controversial references are stricken(mentions of Pier One,the late oscar winning actor Haing S. Ngor and Troy McClure's banished line "Sweet liquor eases the pain." pop to mind). Anybody who is a fan that missed the earlier seasons original runs NEEDS to see these episodes uncut. You are simply not getting the whole picture in syndication. I've seen some of the episodes so many times that lines of dialogue and scenes of animation run ahead of the action on the screen yet pretty much every episode holds up to repeated viewings. I've never seen a single episode (and I've seen 'um all at least a couple of times)that didn't produce at least one out loud laugh. It's simply the most consistantly funny thing I've ever stumbled upon. What other show has run 13+ years and is better at it's end than at it's begining? What other show could have gotten the 3 living Beatles,Jack Lemmon,Johnny Cash,Susan Sarandon,Meryl Streep,Kelsey Grammer,Michael Jackson,Dustin Hoffman,Kirk Douglas,Albert Brooks,Steve Martin,George Carlin AND Britany Spears to contribute their talents? How about Johnny Carson,Hugh Heffner and Elizabeth Taylor all in the same episode? Plus it was a great playground for the late,great Phil Hartman. The Simpsons joyfully large pallet can make a good show (like Seinfeld) seem very one dimensional in retrospect or a popular and run of the mill one (like Friends or Will & Grace) seem even more boring and simple than it already is. Need I say that it makes "reality tv" look like the worthless tripe that it is? Syndication may be numbing some to it's joys (it ran as many as 3 times a day here at one point) but this show is a mammoth achievement and a true work of genius. Anyway you slice it,this is tv at it's best.
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Summary: Different than later seasons but still good!
Review: I love the Simpsons and I think season 1 is fine, so the animation and voices are a little different, that really is no big deal to me and I just can't not like it because of the cruder animation and the voices not being what they are today, I'm just not that nit-picky! Season 1 has some good episodes like when Bart goes to France and the one where Homer is mistaken for Big Foot, that episode is priceless! It has some other good episodes too including the Christmas one which was the first episode and also we get introduced to Bart's nemesis Sideshow Bob and yes maybe the earlier shows focused more on Bart and later ones feature Homer a lot more but since Bart and Homer are my favorite characters I can't complain about season ones focus on Bart.
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Summary: The Reivew
Review: This is the greatest televsion show of all time. The adventures of a modern family of the misfit capital city of Illinois (Springfield). This family is cool: A bald-headed, outrageous, funny father with a crayon lodged in the half of his brain (Homer Jay Simpson), a beautiful but party-pooping wife with a blue pompadour (hair) (Margaret "Marge" Bouvier Simpson), a 10-year-old, rule-breaking boy (Bartholomew "Bart" Jo-Jo Simpson), a 7 or 8-year-old, dorky, smart, A+ materialized girl (Lisa Marie Simpson), a passifier sucking young but female child (Maggie Simpson), an old coot or the father of Homer Simpson(Abraham "Grandpa/Abe" Simpson), two ugly, big-boned, smoking
siblings of Marge Simpson (Patty Bouvier and Selma Bouvier Terwilliger Hutz McClure), and six pets. Which one are 2 dog is Santa's Little Helper & Bart's Colie, the 2 female cats are Snowball (Born: 1988 Died: 1990) & Snowball II, a goldfish, and Homer's lobster. The family is great, the townspeople are funny, the people of Springfield Elementary are funny, the people including the Simpsons are all funny, including the Guest Stars.
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Summary: excellent
Review: This is a beautiful show, one of the best TV series, right up there with The X-files, as the two quintesential shows of the 90s, and two of the best shows to ever get on DVD.
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Summary: A must-have for any fan of the show
Review: Although I'm a pretty big fan of "The Simpsons," I hesitated before buying this DVD set. I don't have any first-hand memories of these episodes (I was born in 1983, which would make me 6 at the time these were released), and my impression of this season from reruns was not favorable. There's no such thing as a bad "Simpsons", of course, but this season always struck me as mediocre. The animation was poor and the characters were not well-defined, and the show didn't have its manic satirical bent yet.However ... this set made a believer out of me. The episodes are presented in crystal-clear picture quality, and the sound is great. The episodes themselves, while still not the best ones in the show's history, are all quite entertaining, while several ("Life in the Fast Lane," "Moaning Lisa," "Krusty Gets Busted") are great. The audio commentary by Matt Groening and other writers and directors is fabulous, and the extra features are a nice bonus. The entire box set couldn't have been put together better. Although this is still part of the awkward developing stage of "The Simpsons," this box set couldn't have been a more satisfying purchase. I can't wait for "The Complete Second Season"!
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Summary: A Must Have
Review: For anybody that has grown to love the Simpson family and all their wackiness, this is a requirement. Not only can you go back and see the first shows that brought Our Favorite Family to life, but you can listen to the producers and writers as they reflect on how much they learned and how many mistakes they made during the first season. It gives you a new insight into how the Simpsons is created and makes you appreciate the cartoon series even more. And the best part is you'll have all the shows at your fingertips for an eternity, or until you play the DVDs to death.
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