Yesterday, I woke up, and got on the bus to go to my local city centre. With my money in my pocket, I looked around to find the best and cheapest place to buy "The Simpsons Complete first series" on DVD.
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Comedy - Director: Tony Dow - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: John Challis, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Tessa Peake-Jones, Gwyneth Strong
Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
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
Advantages: Massive list of features, Finally out on DVD, Presentation of Box is cool Disadvantages: More than double the US price
Yesterday, I woke up, and got on the bus to go to my local city centre. With my money in my pocket, I looked around to find the best and cheapest place to buy "The Simpsons Complete first series" on DVD.
Details on this are at the end, but first, and breif explanation of what is included in the Box Set.
** DISC 1 **
- Simpsons Roasting on an open fire
- Bart the genius
- Homer's Odyssey ... ...- Bart the General
= Special Features =
- Bart the Genius SCRIPT
- Bart the General SCRIPT
** DISC 2 **
- Moaning Lisa
- The Call of the simpsons
- The telltale head
- Life on the fast lan
- Homer's Night out
= Special Features =
- Moaning Lisa SCRIPT
** DISC 3 **
- The crepes of wrath
- Krusty gets busted ... more
Yesterday, I woke up, and got on the bus to go to my local city centre. With my money in my pocket, I looked around to find the best and cheapest place to buy "The Simpsons Complete first series" on DVD.
Details on this are at the end, but first, and breif explanation of what is included in the Box Set.
** DISC 1 ** - Simpsons Roasting on an open fire - Bart the genius - Homer's Odyssey - There's no disgrace like home - Bart the General = Special Features = - Bart the Genius SCRIPT - Bart the General SCRIPT
** DISC 2 ** - Moaning Lisa - The Call of the simpsons - The telltale head - Life on the fast lan - Homer's Night out = Special Features = - Moaning Lisa SCRIPT
** DISC 3 ** - The crepes of wrath - Krusty gets busted - Some enchanted evening = Special Features = - Outtakes from unaired version of "Some enchanted evening" - Anamatic from "Bart the General" - The Making of the simpsons - Foreign Language Clips in: > French > Italian > Spanish > Japanese > Portuguese - Tracy Ullman Show Short "Good Night Simpsons" - Albert Brooks Audio Outtakes from "Life on the fastlane" - Art of the simpsons > Matt Groaning's Hall of fame > Early Sketches and drawings > Comic Books * HIDDEN * - "Some Enchanted Evening" SCRIPT - ABC News Special * HIDDEN *
Even though the price is quite high here in the UK, you have to admit that the list of features above is pretty long.
** PRICE ** Ok, back to the shopping, I had seen The Simpsons Complete Season 1 DVD available for the following prices at the following stores:
WHSmiths £29.99 Woolworths £35.99 Game £39.99 HMV £39.99
And, as you can imagine, one week later, all but HMV had sold out. I was told however that WHSmiths would have some more in stock on Moday. So, I could either wait and risk going out of stock again, or buy from HMV, one of the most expensive places. I decided to buy(I really wanted to see it)
** Actors Featuring the voices of ** - Julie Kavner - Albert Brooks - Kelsey Grammer - Dan Castellaneta - Nancy Cartwright - Yeardley Smith - Hank Azaria - Harry Shearer - Phil Hartman - Pamela Hayden - Marcia Wallace - Tress MacNeille
** Other details ** Certificate: PG Year: 1989 Screen: Fullscreen 4:3 Languages: English - Dolby Digital (5.1) Subtitles: Spanish
** My thought ** I think that even though this box set is very expensive, compared to the US, it is still worth the money, expecially since buying the whole first season on Video format would surely cost a lot more. Plus, the video format would not have as many special features, and you have the hassle of having to rewind them after use, which is not needed with DVD's.
Advantages: great show, good presentation, good commentaries Disadvantages: R2 is overpriced, Extras are very short,
Since the advent of dvd users have been calling for the release of certain title over everything else. Little by little they are coming with next weeks release of The Godfather films, the first entry for a star wars film and of course now we see the release of The Simpsons Season 1 on dvd but is it worth the wait. Well here's my view on the three-disc set. The release comes in silver grey gatefold style packaging with some nice artwork. This slips ... ...almost rainbow effect on it. Overall a nice start with the addition of a small booklet listing the episodes, some trivia and air dates. Spanning three dvd's we get the whole 13 episodes of season one that breakdown as follows: - Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire ----------------------------------- Homer doesn't get his Christmas bonus and has to moonlight as a Santa as the department store. Meanwhile the festive cheer is all around the Simpson’s ...
utero 06.10.2001
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Advantages: The product itself is great: a succint collection of complete series one with everything in one package. Funny. Good commentary Disadvantages: As a program, series one is far worse than later series of Simpsons.
This box set is great for Simpsons fans-it contains all the episodes of Season 1, with commentary on all episodes, with relevant production notes and promotional footage, in one set. The box is well decorated in simpsons designs, with lots of information-not just a Simpsons disc (or 3 of them, even) but a whole SImpsons package!
The show itself however is not magnificent. Yes, if you are a fan of the Simpsons like myself, you will want it as it ... ...jokes that started the early 90's Bartmania craze. A notable differewnce is the realsim of the show and the way real issues and family problems are confronted, featuring many examples of family relations and emotions. However, if you are a comedy lover in general, it probably would be better, given the choice, to buy a later Season Box Set first. By all means have this in your collection, but it is not as good as later series.
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Egdelwonk 05.09.2004
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My mum and dad bought me this simpsons dvd last weekend and i've been watching it all week. Every episode is so funny it makes us all laugh until it hurts! Homer is the dad, he works at the nuclear power plant. He loves do-nuts and is very stupid! Marge is the mum, she has to put up with a lot from homer and the kids. Bart is the oldest child - he is very naughty and does not do as he is told at school. He likes to skateboard and has lots of sayings, ...
charlesatlas 05.07.2003
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