"The Simpsons: The Complete Ninth Season" DVD Talkback (Spoilers)

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The ninth season of the classic animated series The Simpsons has arrived!

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Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Release Date: December 19th, 2006

Synopsis: The Emmy? award-winning animated antics of America’s favorite four-fingered family continue on December 19 when The Simpsons: The Complete Ninth Season arrives on DVD from Fox Home Entertainment. Created by Matt Groening, this DVD collection features all 25 outrageous episodes from the fan-beloved and critically-acclaimed ninth season, as well as a stellar roster of guest appearances including Helen Hunt, Martin Sheen, Mike Judge, Jay Leno, U2, James Earl Jones, Janeane Garofalo, Joe Namath and Alex Trebek among many others. With enough bonus materials to stock a Kwik-E-Mart, the four-disc collection will be available in two distinct packaging options as a special bonus for fans and collectors: a Limited Edition Lisa Simpson box, as well as a collectible, illustrated gatefold digipak.

Bonus Features:
-A Riff from Matt Groening
-Audio Commentary On All Episodes
-Special Language Feature – Trash Of The Titans
-A Bit From The Animators – Lost Our Lisa
-Illustrations by Matt Groening, Yeardley Smith, Mike B. Anderson and Pete Michels
-Deleted Scenes
-Commercials
-A Moment With U2 Featurette
-Collector's Cards
-And more!

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I'm getting it for Christmas. :D I can't wait to hear John Schwartzwalder on the commentary. :)

This season was really good, and with the exception of "The Principal and the Pauper", all the episodes were really well done.
 
He's not actually there for the commentary; Mike Scully called him at home during the commentary taping and asked him a few questions. Actually, that approach made the whole thing hilarious, especially when Mike hung up and said something like, "He's gonna sue us." :D

Sadly, not all the commentaries were as good as "The Cartridge Family". Aside from the three Oakley/Weinstein episodes and the two Mirkin-based ones, which were just as good as the last sets, the majority of the Scully-centered ones were actually fairly dull and had quite a few empty sections without discussion. I DID like "The Last Temptation of Krust", mainly due to Jay Leno's input, and there are brief moments of interesting factoids, but three discs in and I'm not really getting into these commentaries like I was in the previous eight sets.

The set design rocks, though- it's rock & roll themed, like a Beatles record. Good stuff.
 
"The Cartridge Family". Best Scully-headed commentary on the disc, no doubt helped by the massive amount of participants, too.

"Natural Born Kissers" wasn't a bad commentary, either. It was interesting to hear Fox being worried about the sex-heavy themes in the episode.

Wow, pretty much all the deleted scenes sucked this time. I'm glad they were included, but man, good thing they were cut.

Note to Fox: Keep including the "Word From the Animators". In this set especially, I actually enjoyed them more than the regular commentaries, simply because of how specific their discussion was, not to mention how they point out things I never noticed before in the animation (like Homer's head sticking out of the bridge in "Lost Our Lisa").
 
i'm upset they didn't include the "amplifying" gag of the other 3 releases :/

I need to catch up with 7,8,9, what is neat about 10 and over is while they may be the 'bad' episodes they are going to be new to me (most of them) since its when i didn't have access to them.
 
I'm enjoying this set so far(I'm on Disc 2 as of today...though I've skipped around a bit)....There are alot of episodes I like on this set....

The Cartridge Family
Treehouse of Horror VIII(my favorite of the Halloween episodes)
The Joy of Sect
Lisa's Sax
Bart Star
Bart Carny
All Singing,All Dancing(I usually don't like the "Clip Show" episodes,but I like seeing some of the great song moments,plus the funny opening)....
Natural Born Kissers

to name a few...

I also like seeing some of the old Butterfinger commercials(I remember seeing the "Hit a Homer,dude!!!" commercial on TV....)
 
"The City Of New York Vs. Homer Simpson" - *****
"The Principal And The Pauper" - **
"Lisa's Sax" - ****
"Treehouse Of Horror VIII" - ****
"The Cartridge Family" - *****
"Bart Star" - *****
"The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" - ***
"Lisa The Skeptic" - *****
"Realty Bites" - ****
"Miracle On Evergreen Terrace" - ****
"All Singing, All Dancing" - ***
"Bart Carney" - ****
"The Joy Of Sect" - *****
"The Last Temptation Of Krust" - *****
"Dumbbell Indemnity" - *****
"Lisa The Simpson" - ****
"This Little Wiggy" - *****
"The Trouble With Trillions" - *****
"Girly Edition" - **
"Trash Of The Titans" - *****
"King Of The Hill" - *****
"Lost Our Lisa" - *****
"Natural Born Kissers" - ****

Best Episode: The Joy Of Sect
Worst Episode: The Principal And The Pauper
Overall: Really good season with some of my favorite episodes ever like "The Joy Of Sect" and "The City Of New York Vs. Homer Simpson" but a couple of duds with "Girly Edition" and "The Principal And The Pauper", though even those have their moments. The show got wackier but it was still really, really funny. Mike Scully is blamed for the decline of the show. While the writing wasn't as sharp under him, I reiterate how funny it was. His last season as show runner, 12, was very below par when compared to the others under Scully and was the true beginning of the end but things didn't improve any when Al Jean took over, they just got worse. His earlier seasons as show runner weren't bad but he had Mike Reiss with him then. But I'm going somewhat off topic. My point is that Scully gets a bad rap but I think he did a damn good job for most of the time he was show runner. This season is part of that. Outside of "The Principal And The Pauper", there's nothing to truly hate here.
 
So what is the movie preview? Do they jsut show a teaser/trailer, or actuall scenes??(Yes, i know i already asked but i didn't get an answer that answered my Q)
 
Actually, I'm assuming it is the same trailer we got a few weeks ago on TV.

Hopefully Fox will have 3 sets out next year because of the movie. One in April, one in July/Aug, and one in Dec. Probably not, but it would be nice if they could get moving on these sets as I want Season 12.
 
I went ahead and picked this up last night. I've only watched "Homer vs New York" and "The Principal and the Pauper", but if those are any indication I may change my mind about buying all the seasons. I didn't laugh once during either episode. And was it just me or did the color/animation suddenly revert to Season 1 quality when Homer was running from the pimp?
 
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