Here is the fourth instalment of the Simpsons! Every episode from season four put
into one collection, not only that,
there is a selection of special features that are sure to keep you entertained. If
only there was enough time to sit and
watch them all at once. This is the season that the episodes are really start to peek
and are defining why the Simpsons
are so brilliant. One of my personal favourites is the Whacking Day episode in which
Barry White makes a guest
appearance, if you're a fan you will know this episode and will find it amusing.

Features

This collection of timeless classics is spread over four disks, which include the
episodes, commentaries, featurettes,
deleted scenes (interesting!) and Easter eggs. An Easter egg is an amusing addition
that creators sometimes put into
there work that is not blatant but once pointed out you can't fail to spot it.
http://www.eeggs.com has more information on
Easter Eggs, if you're sad like me then you will love the Easter eggs parts of the
DVD. This is a feature that have been
on previous releases and are always a great addition.

Here is an episode quick list of the ones that come on this box set

[8F23] - Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes?
[8F24] - Kamp Krusty
[8F18] - A Street Car Named Marge
[9F01] - Homer the Heretic
[9F02] - Lisa the Beauty Queen
[9F04] - Treehouse Of Horror III
[9F03] - Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie
[9F05] - Marge gets a Job
[9F06] - New Kid On The Block
[9F07] - Mr. Plow
[9F08] - Lisa's First Word
[9F09] - Homer's Triple Bypass
[9F10] - Marge vs. the Monorail
[9F11] - Selma's Choice
[9F12] - Brother from the Same Planet
[9F13] - I Love Lisa
[9F14] - Duffless
[9F15] - Last Exit To Springfield
[9F17] - So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show
[9F16] - The Front
[9F18] - Whacking Day
[9F20] - Marge In Chains
[9F19] - Krusty Gets Kancelled

Here are my personal episode descriptions of the episodes that were originally aired
from the 27th August 1992 until the
final episode on the 13th May 1993.

8F23 - Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes, Homer's half brother Herb Powell returns into
Homer's life. Herb is trying to
patent a unique baby talk translating machine, he needs to money and it just so
happens that Homer has just won $2000.

8F24 - Kamp Krusty, Bart and Lisa enrol at Kamp Krusty for the summer holiday. The
kids expecting to see Krusty at Kamp
Krusty are disappointed that he isn't there and Mr Black has taken his place.

8F18 - A Street Car Named Marge, Marge auditions for a part in, Oh, Streetcar! a
musical version of A Street Car Named
Desire directed by Llewellyn Sinclair. Maggie is enrolled at the Ayn Rand School
where her pacifier is confiscated.

9F01 - Homer the Heretic, Homer wants to avoid church, much to Marge's disgust. Homer
receives a message from God in a
dream that it is OK to skip church. With this message Homer goes by the rules of his
own religion.

9F02 - Lisa the Beauty Queen, Lisa has a caricature drawn of her and the exaggeration
of her features convinces her of
her ugliness. To boost her confidence Homer enters her a beauty pageant.

9F04 - Treehouse of Horror III, Three more tales of terror. In 'Clown Without Pity',
Homer is pursued by a cursed Krusty
doll. 'King Homer' sees Marge joining up for an expedition to the tropics and 'Dial Z
for Zombies' is story about
Springfield being over run by the living dead.

9F03 - Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie, Bart's behaving very badly and Homer won't punish
him. Marge forces Homer to punish
Bart, so Homer comes up with the almighty punishment...Bart is not allowed to see the
Itchy & Scratchy Movie.

9F05 - Marge gets a Job, The Simpsons family home is sinking so to be able to pay for
repairs Marge has to get a job.
She finds a job at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Mr Burns is smitten and has
Tom Jones perform for Marge.

9F06 - New Kid on the Block, The Winfields move away and the Powers move in. Bart is
attracted to Laura Powers
immediately, while Marge befriends single mum, Ruth Powers. Bart thinks he is getting
somewhere with Laura, until he
finds out that Laura has a boyfriend, Jimbo Jones! Bart becomes very jealous and has
to get back at Jimbo.

9F07 - Mr. Plow, Springfield is buried under snow and Homer realised this is a great
opportunity to start his own
business, Mr Plow. He ploughs people's driveways and business is booming until the
Plow King (Barney Gumble) comes on
the scene.

9F08 - Lisa's First Word, The Simpsons are trying to get Maggie to talk. Homer and
Marge reminiscence about Bart and
Lisa growing up.

9F09 - Homer's Triple Bypass, All the years of Homer's bad eating habits have caught
up with him. A massive heart attack
will mean massively expensive surgery, unless he can go to Dr. Nick Riviera who has a
special deal of $129.95 for any
operation.

9F10 - Marge vs. the Monorail, Springfield's town council comes into a couple of
million dollars and a debate is raised
on how the money should be spent on helping the town. They decide to give the money
to Lyle Lanley who promises to build
Springfield a monorail and put them on the map.

9F11 - Selma's Choice, After the death of Gladys Bouvier, Selma begins to think that
she really needs children. When
Homer falls ill from eating a week old, foot long hoagie, Selma tests her suitability
as a family woman by taking Bart,
Lisa and Maggie to Duff Gardens, where Bart is nearly decapitated. While Lisa falls
under the spell of a dangerous
narcotic found in one of the rides water.

9F12 - Brother from the Same Planet, Bart feels neglected by Homer and applies to the
Bigger Brothers agency for a
replacement role model. Bart is found a bigger brother called Tom and this makes for
a vengeful Homer who also joins the
agency. Homer is given a little brother called Pepe. Lisa gets hooked to a phone
hotline when she has a crush on Corey
Masterson.

9F13 - I Love Lisa, It's Valentines Day, and out of pity, Lisa sends Ralph Wiggum a
Valentines card. She'd love to
forget all about him but Ralph has two tickets for Krusty's 29th Anniversary Show and
then he's cast as George
Washington in opposite Lisa (who plays Martha in the schools President's Day
pageant.

9F14 ? Duffless, Lisa and Bart enter projects in the school science exhibition. When
Bart destroys Lisa's hothouse
tomato, she vows vengeance, and begins a series of tests to compare Bart's
intelligence to a hamster's. Homer is caught
by the police and is breathalysed after visiting the Duff beer factory, and then
Marge convinces Homer to give up beer
for a month.

9F15 - Last Exit to Springfield, Lisa needs braces but Mr Burns has withdrawn the
dental plan from his employees at the
power plant. Homer becomes the leader of the union to win it back.

9F17 - So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show, a can of beer shock up by Bart as
an April Fool's day joke sends
Homer into a coma. Perhaps clips from previous episodes might jog his slumbering
consciousness.

9F16 - The Front, After a really dull Itchy & Scratchy cartoon, Bart and Lisa try to
sell a script for a better one but
aren't taken seriously as they're just kids. So they use Grampa's name and he is
hired as a writer.

9F18 - Whacking Day, It's time for Springfield's annual Whacking Day - the
traditional day for whacking snakes. Lisa
objects to this day and soul legend Barry White is on hand to help her.

9F20 - Marge in Chains, The dreaded Osaka flu hits Springfield. In all the confusion
of helping her family and being
rushed off her feet, she accidentally pockets a bottle of Colonel Kwik-E-Mart's
Kentucky Bourbon and ends up in jail.

9F19 - Krusty Gets Kancelled, Gabbo is coming... Krusty has hot competition for
ratings when a ventriloquist's act hits
television, the hype of this new act has everyone talking and wondering. Krusty's
show is cancelled and Bart and Lisa
plan a comeback show for Krusty that includes a lot of his celebrity friends.

Special Guests

Here is a list of special guest starts from the season, the Simpsons always have some
great special guests and even to
this day, celebrities are on the waiting list to appear. Listen out for the voices in
the episodes and see how good
these people look cartoonised!

Danny DeVito
Joe Frazier
Jon Lovitz
Bob Hope
Neil Armstrong
Tom Jones
Sarah Gilbert
Pamela Reed
Linda Ronstadt
Adam Wes
Elizabeth Taylor
Leonard Nimoy
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Brooke Shields
Barry White
David Crosby
Johnny Carson
Bette Midler
Luke Perry
Hugh Hefner
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Conclusion

This is the latest season released from the FOX broadcasting company and is one of
the best in way of quality of story
lines. The design of the box is kept the same as the previous DVD's and looks great.
There is not enough time in one
sitting to watch everything on this collection, which is a good thing and makes it
value for money. Any Simpsons fan
will enjoy, if not buying it for you, buy it as a gift, it will be greatly
appreciated.

All the blackboard and couch gags are left in, so you can see what ones you might
have missed through the television
channels leaving them out so the episodes fit in their spot on their screening
schedules

When comparing the DVD to the video's that include The Simpsons episodes the DVD is
so much better, with the DVD you
have loads of episodes, special features and the DVD is easier to store and doesn't
take as much space up when storing
them. The videos have newer episodes but are only limited to about 4 per video, but
that is where the waiting game comes
in, waiting for the DVD collections of later seasons! Roll on The Complete 5th Season
DVD!

As for price, it pays to shop around, especially on the Internet as the price changes
all the time and with the news of
the 5th season DVD to be released, the price has taken another drop recently at
amazon.co.uk. Make this part of your
collection.