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The Simpsons - The Complete First Season

The Simpsons - The Complete First Season

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Ahhh, the classics!
Review: I've been a Simpsons fan since they were nothing but a featurette to the Tracy Olman show. The newer, more modern episodes are funny, but the episodes you will find on this DVD collection are truly the greatest and funniest.

This collection contains one of my favorite episodes, "Bart the Genious," in which Bart is mistaken as a genious. He is then sent to a school for gifted children. A recipe for some great comedy, eh?!

Well, good luck, and have fun if you decide to buy it. I highly recommend it! Also, check out the 2nd season which is now released on DVD, as well.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: GREAT FUN , SEE HOW ALL STARTED....
Review: The Simpsons First Season contains 13 episodes, some of the great looking, someof them no so much so, but all of them classic. I've been a Simpson fun since the Third Season so is great to have the chance to see the first episodes without commercials.
All episodes have audio commentaries from Creator Matt and Producers, those are ok but is not worth how long each new season is arriving, please issue one every 3 monhts or so, but apart from that great DVSs!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: GREAT SEASON BAD ANIMATION
Review: This was an awesome season. The downside was that the animation and voices were not the good. I enjoy the plot and all but the year is almost as old as me. I really recemend it to every simpson or futurama fan out there. This DVD box is awesome.

Recemend: Simpsons 2 & 3 + Futurama 1 & 2

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Funny!!
Review: Contains 13 episodes of one of the best animated comedy shows ever!! Hilarious!!. Some episodes aren't that hot, but most are funny. Contains Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, Call of the Simpsons, Life on the Fast Lane, Bart the Genius, Bart the General, Homer's Night out, and more. Also includes special features. A must for Simpsons fans!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: simpsons
Review: If you are fighting to figure out which one of the two simpsons seasons to buy then i would go for the second season, but if you want to see what the simpsons where like from the beginning then go with the first season. There are 22 episodes in the second season and there are only 13 episodes in the first season. For more laughs go with the second season.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best show ever begins
Review: This DVD is a definite for anyone, Simpson fan or not. Tthis is the 1st season of the funniest, most clever, and best show ever, period. You should also get the 2nd season and each season that follows.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Disappointment
Review: The three disc set comes attractively packaged, but all the material could have been easily condensed into one disc. Note that the third disc contains but one episode. One has the feeling that the moneychangers are engineering this one.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Bad animation, but does it really matter?
Review: Ok i'll start off by saying that the first season of the Simpsons wasn't as crisp as later sesons or as crisp as Futurama first season. However it is still a great show and it really doesn't bother me that the voices would make a small child cry. there are so many firsts in this season that I can't name them all. watch them and watch them sixteen more times because they will never get old.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Long awaited, greatly anticipated
Review: This is the greatest television show of all time. It's hard to shove it past #2 All In The Family, but that's beside the point.

What is left to say about The Simpsons? It's won awards, received critical praise, steady television ratings, like those matter, consdering the shows otherwise success. It is the greatest television show of all time, outlasting most shows, animated and live actions, never losing steam, getting better with age. This past season is one of the best on record.

They are household names like the President and Michael Jordan. They're faces are everywhere. They're America's greatest family. Bart is American's Bad Boy, Homer is America's greatest father figure, he screws up but has redeming qualities, Marge is the do it all mother, but police officer and jailbird under the surface, Lisa is the underappreciated genious whose gifts go perpetually unrewarded and Maggie is just so cute.

The supporting characters are as good as the principal players. Grandpa and Moe are hilarious, Lenny and Carl are always reliable for a dumb laugh, Ned Flanders is irritating but you can't live without him, Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabapple are sardonically indespensible and laslty Apu is the unsung hero of the show: working twenty four hours a day, perpetual sex magnet and father to a score of children. And he's always giving us something to laugh at.

The music is memorable. Any fan will say they hum the theme song every day of their lives, even if it's just once. The songs and dances are staged like lavish Broadway shows, i.e. the We Put The Spring in Springfield.

But it was all here where the show started. The writing more than made up for the rough drawing and animation. One of my favorite things to do is watch this season compared to other seasons and see how the characters evolve: voices and hair styles, coloring and clothes and whatnot. The scenery changes, the colors change and it just transformed over night to the finely honed master piece it is today.

This first season is packed with some of the best episodes, no episode is a bad one, some of the best jokes, (Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Nixon, Comet, Cupid... Donna Dixon), some normal chalk board gags and some funny ones, the couch gags are all pretty much the same, the themse song and opening sequence is unrefined, but the show has become the mega hit it is today. The lines have been tightened, the colors have been sharpened, the voices have been tuned and this has become the best show on televisioin.

Order of episodes:
1. The Crepes of Wrath is the best of season one and remains one of the best of the entire series.
2. Krusty Gets Busted showscases one of the series more popular characters, initiates the best story line of the series, Sideshow Bob wants to kill bart. Very smart and very funny, it remains one of my favorites.
3. Bart The General is a great Patton parody and it begins the Bart versus Nelson journey.
4. Homer's Odyssey showcases Homer's fight aginst Mr. Burns, introducing one of the funniest characters in the show. Viva Senor Burns!
5. Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire sets the standard for how The Simpsons seem to be heading for the top, but just crash right back down at the bottom. It still hasn't lost it's freshness.
6. There's No Disgrace Like Home, I just like seeing Maggie get shocked, it's funny.
7. Life On The Fast Lane is the first of many clashes between Homer and Marge over Homer's, stupidity.

8. Homer's Night Out, is the second of many clashes between Homer and Marge over Homer's, stupidity.
9. Call Of The Simpsons is good poking fun at Homer's weight, smell and eating habits. Welcome Simpsons faithful Albert Brooks.
10. Bart The Genius is a good introduction to Bart's deceptive ways. But they get better.
11. The Telltale Head begins the chemistry between Bart and the bullies other than Nelson Muntz, but theirs are always enjoyable roles.
12. Moaning Lisa is just kind of a boring introduction to Lisa's moroseness we've grown accustomed to.
13. Some Enchanted Evening is the introduction of Bart and Lisa's hijinx, but they get better.

All in all, the first season, one of the best seasons, of the best TV series of all time is done justice with this box set. Even the packaging is great! I GIVE IT MY HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION POSSIBLE!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Greatest cartoon ever?
Review: It could be argued the simpsons is the greatest ever animated series. Obviously it's not made for kids, maybe the kid in all of us. The first season introduces us to many of the zany characters we have come to love. It's interesting to compare the animation and evolution of the series from these first few episode. A must see & own for fans. you gotta love it, now....EAT MY SHORTS!


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