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The Simpsons - Classics - Viva Los Simpsons is part of the Simpsons classics series of DVD's. Four episodes are included here: "Homie The Clown", "$pringfield", "Viva Ned Flanders" and "Homer At The Bat".
"Homie The Clown" has Homer enrolling at clown college after spotting a billboard for it. After becoming an official Krusty the Clown impersonator, he soon finds himself being recognized AS Krusty and in trouble with the mob. The Simpsons movie references are aplenty here, the best one being Homer banging his head on some glasses and playing the theme from The Godfather while being held captive by the mafia. A very good episode this, has memorable moments like Homer imagining everyone around him are clowns, even if they're his friends being burned to death, and Marge singing a circus anthem.
In "$pringfield", Mr. Burns sets up a casino and Homer takes a job as a blackjack dealer, although Marge discovers she has a gambling problem. Bart, hoping to capitalize on the casino, opens him own mini casino in his treehouse and Lisa is having trouble with her school project. Obviously influenced by Howard Hughes, Mr. Burns becomes increasingly paranoid about germs, and resorts to storing his urine and walking around in tissue boxes. Robert Goulet guest stars as Bart's star attraction, he did book a Liza Minnelli impersonator, but it turns out it was really Liza Minnelli. A well crafted episode that shows even during much hardships they can all come together as a family.
"Viva Ned Flanders" has Ned persuading Homer to show him how to live life to the fullest, so they go on a road trip to Las Vegas. After an all night bender, they wake up to find that they are both married! Perhaps not as good as other episodes on this DVD, this still has some good moments, with Homer obviously preferring Ned's wife to his own, to them being circled when they try to run by, amongst others, The Moody Blues, who say a short poem before wanting to kick their arses. Again the writers do a good job of parodying institutions, in this case, marriage in Vegas ("Someone dishonoring their marriage vows? Not in Las Vegas!").
"Homer At The Bat" is one of my favourite Simpsons episodes and concerns the Springfield nuclear power plant softball who, thanks to Homer and his "wunderbat" go a whole season undefeated. As the pennant approaches, Mr. Burns makes a million dollar bet with the owner of the Shelbyville nuclear plant, so gets 9 ringers from MLB to make sure he wins. One of the first great episodes, it has 9 of the greatest baseball players of the time, including Darryl Strawberry, Ken Griffey Jr., Don Mattingly and Jose Canseco. They all have a great time with this episode, never taking themselves or their sport seriously, poking fun at their personalities and even making fun of Yankees' owner George Steinbrenner. Sharp writing, and a great song at the end make this an episode not to be missed.
No extras are included, but seeing how cheap it is on amazon marketplace, it could be worth buying, if you just want a few episodes and don't really want to shell out on a full season. Five stars for some very good episodes.
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Comedy - Director: Richard Boden, Mandie Fletcher, Martin Shardlow - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Rowan Atkinson
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Jan 4th, 2009
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