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Summary: The Best Simpsons Season Ever
Review: I have been reading through the reviews for the past half hour and am amazed at how many people say the first season is not as funny as later ones and that the show has gotten funnier. Some people have even gone so far as to say that they do not like the first season. This is ludicrous. The first two or three seasons were the best, and then the show went downhill. It became sillier but was still okay for a season or two, but by the time I entered high school-1996-the show had gone to pot and the current show bears absolutely no relation to the first seasons. Who cares if the animation is not as standardized(I actually think it is very clever and innovative-note the dream sequences in "Bart the Genius", "Life in the Fast Lane", and the "Bully" episode). I would rather have stick figure representation of the simpsons with the original writers than the junk they put out now. Anyway, these are the classics!
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Summary: LOVE THE SIMPSONS
Review: I bought this as a gift for my husband's birthday. He loves it. Brings back memories when watching these episodes.
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Summary: Grotesque and Cynical
Review: The show is, from early on, an especially cynical and grotesque portrait of American society in which there are no heros or absolute values. I can find that amusing, up to a point - personally I believe that all morality is relative and not absolute. But this show is so relentlessly unpleasant, so much the tortured cry of the kid who was picked on at school and never got over it, that it quickly begins to grate on me.There are many funny momemnts and clever jokes present in these cartoons, but unfortunately it's completely unfocused. The creators of this show are from this early point on unable to express any coherent point of view or sense of direction in this series. And I know that it only gets worse in future years - they'll blast everyone and everything American or human, then have the family hug at the end for the most cynical of "happy endings". As with "Seinfeld", the show is much more interesting as a cultural phenomenon, which has inspired an incredible army of "Simpsons geeks", than as a show unto itself.
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Summary: The Simpons First Season
Review: The complete first season, of my favortie show of all time, The Simpsons, is a good buy. Although it isn't as humorous as the later years, it is still good to see where the show came from. The first season isn't as developed and contraversial as the later seasons. It contains episodes like Bart the General and Moaning Lisa. It is a good gift for any Simpsons fan.
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Summary: Mmmm ... Simpsons
Review: What a great collection. After seeing these old episodes mangled by FOX (when they're even shown any more), it's nice to have them complete and in one boxed set. It's also amazing traveling back in time to see these early episodes. Here's Homer, sounding like Walter Matthau. There's Marge getting drunk at the company picnic. Who's that family whose car receives the ray of sunlight from the Lord - they're not the Flanders! Chief Wiggum is young and nearly robust. And is Smithers black? Of course, there were the days when nobody on the show had identifiable skin color. Every episode has a commentary track - unlike some other TV DVD sets - by a handful of the creators, from Matt Groening and James Brooks to the various writers and directors. Hearing their insights into how characters developed - which characters are "off-model," how changes came about - puts all the weirdness into perspective. And hearing them crack up as they see episodes they haven't watched in years is an added attraction. No matter how much they were feeling their way in the first season, this collection is full of classic episodes, such as "Call Of The Simpsons," in which the family goes camping and Homer is mistake for Bigfoot, "Krusty Gets Busted," which introduces Sideshow Bob's criminal genius, and "There's No Disgrace Like Homer," complete with electroshock therapy. I'm going to watch some right now!
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Summary: EEXCELLLENNNT...
Review: Kudos to those at Fox for releasing the first season in such a wonderful format. A must have for Simpsons fans that have had to suffer throught the episodes that are in re-runs that have been hacked up and edited to the point that it's aggrivating just so a network can sell two or three extra commercials. The running commentary that is available for each episode is really facinating and well worth listening to. Enjoy the DVD's and in the words of the great philosopher, Homer J. Simpson, "Homer no function beer well without..."
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Summary: The Beginning of a Legacy
Review: 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.
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Summary: Simpon's first season
Review: It is the 1st season!
Duh! It's worth buying...
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Summary: One fine show.
Review: I could pontificate for hours over each episode here, this is classic stuff. The Tracy Ulman clips really put a smile on my face, as that was were I first fell in love with The Simpsons. If you are sitting on the fence as to if you should purchase this or not, DONT its awesome.
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Summary: woo!
Review: While the simpsons got funnier as it progressed,fans must own this!Simply because it is the first season!You get 13 episodes and many extras!Recconmended
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