The Simpsons: Backstage Pass is a collection of four episodes featuring some of the best bands of the past and the present. The four episodes are "Homerpalooza", "A Tale of Two Springfields", "The Otto Show" and "Homer's Barbershop Quartet".
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The Simpsons: Backstage Passis a veritable rock&roll extravaganza: you'll hear a classical ... more
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A TALE OF TWO SPRINGFIELDS.Infuriated by a new code in Springfield, Homer goes on a ... more
mission to divide the town into two. As designated mayor of West Springfield, Homer wages war on the East. However, when 'The Who' is scheduled to play East Springfield...
The Simpsons: Backstage Passis a veritable rock&roll extravaganza: you'll hear a classical ... more
version of "Insane in the Membrane" and watch The Who destroying rubbish with pure guitar power. It also features guest performances by The Who, Cypress Hill, The Smashing Pumpkins, Peter Frampton and Spinal Tap.In "Homerpalooza", Homer has a mini mid-life crisis caused by his inability to recognise new bands in the local record store (not even Sonic Youth). The result is a trip for him and the kids to the "Hullabalooza" festival where Homer fulfils his rock star dreams by touring as part of the freak show. "A Tale of Two Springfields" sees the town divided by a change in area code, which only The Who can solve with their infinite wisdom: "Why don't you get phones with auto-dial?". In "The Otto Show" Milhouse and Bart enjoy their first outing to a rock gig to see top super-group, Spinal Tap. Finally, "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" offers the rare opportunity to see Homer sing as part of Springfield's B Sharps, who allegedly rocked America back in 1985!On the DVD:The Simpsons: Backstage Passoffers a collection of Otto's finest moments, proving what acoooolguy the local bus driver is. Otherwise the disc is barren of extras. Picture is standard 4:3 and you can choose between English, French and German audio languages with a vast range of European subtitle options. --Nikki Disney
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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
The Simpsons: Backstage Pass is a collection of four episodes featuring some of the best bands of the past and the present. The four episodes are "Homerpalooza", "A Tale of Two Springfields", "The Otto Show" and "Homer's Barbershop Quartet".
"Homerpalooza" is one of my personal favourites and concerns Homer, who seems to be having a mid-life crisis, so he takes Bart and Lisa to the ... ...happen in The Simpsons, he gets to fulfill his rock star dreams by touring with the festival. The bands here are amazing, from classic rockers (Peter Frampton) to newer, indie rock (Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins) and really shows the difference in musical tastes between then and when the show started, and also since Homer was a teenager as well.
"A Tale of Two Springfields" is about the phone company giving Springfield a ... more
The Simpsons: Backstage Pass is a collection of four episodes featuring some of the best bands of the past and the present. The four episodes are "Homerpalooza", "A Tale of Two Springfields", "The Otto Show" and "Homer's Barbershop Quartet".
"Homerpalooza" is one of my personal favourites and concerns Homer, who seems to be having a mid-life crisis, so he takes Bart and Lisa to the Hullabalooza festival where, through some bizarre coincidences that could only happen in The Simpsons, he gets to fulfill his rock star dreams by touring with the festival. The bands here are amazing, from classic rockers (Peter Frampton) to newer, indie rock (Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins) and really shows the difference in musical tastes between then and when the show started, and also since Homer was a teenager as well.
"A Tale of Two Springfields" is about the phone company giving Springfield a new area code. Homer is incensed by this, and leads a revolt, taking whoever was left the old code (the poor people) with him. He appoints himself the mayor of "New Springfield" but all does not go well, and it's up to The Who to set things straight. The premise of this story is not a good one, but what the writers do with it is very well done. One of the better recent episodes, it has memorable moments like Homer not being able to differentiate between different classic songs and who sung them in his head, like asking them to perform "Pac-Man Fever".
"The Otto Show" guest stars the legends that are Spinal Tap. Bart and Millhouse enjoy their first rock concert seeing the tap, and Otto moves in with the Simpsons. Naturally, hilarity ensues. The Spinal Tap moments were just like the film, with the actors being pretentious, but kinda stupid as well so you don't hate them. This episode also sees the first appearance of Comic Book Guy, selling T-shirts at the concert. Also, for some reason Homer singing "Spanish Flea" makes me smile every time I see it.
Finally, "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" has Homer recounting the days when he was part of a Beatles-esque barbershop group with Skinner, Apu and Chief Wiggum (later to be replaced with Barney). This episodes guest stars George Harrison, probably one of my favourite guest stars, although Homer seems more interested in knowing where George got his brownie from. It also continues a trend of treating the Grammy award like a bad cold (Homer gives theirs away to the waiter, who is excited until he sees it's a Grammy and throws off the balcony). There's also a great spoof at the end where they all get together to sing their hit "Baby On Board" on top of Moe's bar to which George Harrison drives past and says "It's been done".
No extras, and rather expensive too. As good as some of the episodes are, they're not worth 15.99. Five stars for the episodes, but get a season, I recommend starting from the beginning and working your way forward, it only get better.
Advantages: Audio-visual equivalent of Prozac Disadvantages: Only lasts for 87 mins, costly if collecting
...every single VHS video in the collection and although I can't wait for the new releases, it's another £12.99 to shell out as well unfortunately.
Still, I don't mind The Simpsons money-machine taking my hard earned if the quality is of this standard every time. On this special musically themed video (as all the others, bar the series' are), the most amous family in the world become involved in different scenarios - each one hilarious.
In Episode ... ...divide in their town.
However, The Who (Roger Daltrey et al.) are booked to play Springfield and unfortunately for Homer, the Stadium they are to play is not in their territory. Episode closes The Who giving it stick...cool!!
Best Quotes are:
Moe on the telecommunications industry's area code.
"Homer's right, we're gettin' the Joan Collins special!"
Roger Daltrey on the problem.
"Why not buy phones with auto-ringer, or as you Yanks say, Speed-dial?"
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ewancowie 06.06.2002 (13.06.2002)
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Advantages: Four great episodes of the Simpsons and on DVD! Disadvantages: Only four episodes!
...music theme, four great episodes! The Simpsons have made a move from VHS and the producers have started to distribute episodes on DVD, which in my opinion is so much better. With the DVD version you have a lot better sound and colour quality, oh, and there's no rewinding! The episodes found on this DVD are Homerpalooza, A Tale of Two Springfields, The Otto Show and Homer's Barbershop quartet.
Here are the lists of episodes with information about ... ...each of the episodes and my personal opinion on each. There are in order of how they appear on the video. They act as a memory refresher to those of you who have seen them and a taster for those of you who
haven't.
[3F21] - Homerpalooza
Original Air Date: 19 May 96
Written By: Brent Forrester
Directed By: Wesley Archer
Special Guest: Cypress Hill, Peter Frampton, Smashing Pumpkins and Sonic Youth.
Story Line: Homer is feeling out of touch ...
johnsy32 25.11.2004
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Advantages: very funny and great to watch Disadvantages: -
...what can I say about the Simpsons Backstage pass well first thing it’s great it’s the best DVD I have ever bought her is a list and my review of each episode
A tale of two Springfield’s:
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I really enjoy this episode
Bart tries to force Santa’s little helper in to his kennel when there is a badger in there. Homer tries to get the badger out of the kennel and ends up getting bitten on the head.
Homer looks for ... ...please make sure you have the correct area code”.
Then Marge come in and tells home about the area code change she says half of the town keeps the 636 area code and the Simpsons half gets 939 then homer loses his temper about it.
KBBL are giving away tickets to see The Who at Springfield’s historic yahoo search engines arena. The producers of kbbl radio call the number 555-0113 and Mr. Burns answers and wins the tickets.
Homer goes to the nuclear ...
donnamarie2004 06.08.2004 (07.08.2004)
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Advantages: Great episodes with great guest apperances. Disadvantages: Only 4 episodes and you can only watch it a couple of times
...is brought into springfield giving the rich side of town one code and the less rich side a different code. Homer decides he wants to split up the town and create West Springfield. He then makes himself Mayor and builds a big wall to divide the towns. Things go wrong in West springfield so everyone moves to East springfield. Until Homer convinces The Who to perform in his side of town to bring people back.
"Homerpalooza" Homer gets tickets to Hullabalooza ... ...has a freakish talent at the festival and gets to tour with the bands promoting his freakish talent. But what talent is it?
"Homer's Barbershop Quartet" After bart finds a record with Homer on it,Homer talks to Bart and Lisa about his band that he used to have with barney apu and principal Skinner.He tells them about the band and there road to fame.
"The Otto Show" After bart goes to a Spinal Tap concert he decides he wants to become a guitar player. ...
bananamansarse 10.07.2007
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Advantages: some good bits and great effects Disadvantages: bad timing and events
...unfortuanatley this is not good. The episodes are certainly not the best and it kind of gets your mind saying why are these yellow blobbs that are crazy on my television screen as it is poor. There are some good bits in it but really, I don't like this DVD at all. It's the sort of one that some people will like and some people will not as it all depends if you actaully like The Simpsons or not as personally I am not that fond of them. However it's ...
alanbowlermail 14.06.2007
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Harry Shearer, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Hank Azaria, Yeardley Smith, Dan Castellaneta, Who, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Peter Frampton, Cypress Hill
Band
Cypress Hill
Languages
Main Language
English
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Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Animated
Animated
DVD Description
This SIMPSONS collection includes four rockin' episodes. In "A Tale of Two Springfields," a feud over a new zipcode leads, oddly enough, to Homer hanging out with the Who. "Homerpalooza" features Homer on tour with bands like the Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Cypress Hill, and...Peter Frampton
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