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The Simpsons Season 1 on DVD
Don Calamari writes "Confirmed from Fox, season one of the Simpsons are going to be released in a DVD boxed set on September 25. This has been a big week for Homer with this and his legendary catch phrase DOH! finally being added to the Oxford English dictionary." The 13 episode season will be only like $40. I don't think the show hit it's stride until 2nd or 3rd seasons, but still, shows like this deserve to be released on DVD. I'm irritated with the decision not to show the actors recording voices. Screw the illusion of the characters, this is what DVD releases of TV shows are for! The fans crave this stuff!
DOH! finally being added to the Oxford English dictionary.
Damn it!!!! Its "D'OH", not "DOH"
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This just shows how cool the Simpsons is, IMHO. It will be good to be able to use `Doh!' in front of English teachers. Bwahahaha!
I've been a major Simpsons fan from the begining.I'd always read that this wasn't going to be released until after the show had ended and the movie was made. I won't bitch though.
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I for one think the first season of the simpsons was awful. The voices were wrong, the sound was fuzzy, Bart was psychotic, the content was sick, etc etc. It was like a Ren & Stimpy rehash.
I enjoyed the Simpsons first season. They may not have hit their stride until later seasons, but at that time they were competing with such hilarious shows as In Living Color (Jim carey, and Jennifer lopez got their start), on FOX and so the show was a bit more raunchy than it is now - not that that makes a show better or funnier or anything...
Not sure it's worth $40 though. Maybe get the James Bond Boxed Set instead...
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It's "d'oh." D'oh!
I don't think the Simpsons is watchable at all until the second or third season. Once the voices change and the animation settles down, its the funniest show ever.
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I'm just hoping they release the alternate endings to "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" (They had several alternates animated so that no one could leak what the real ending was - or so rumor has it).
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While I did enjoy the Simpson's early exploits, when I see those episodes now I largely find them hard to watch. The drawing is primitive, the voice acting horrible (I saw one yesterday and I believe Ned was doing Carl's voice...but it sounded like Ned. And there's the whole issue of both Chief Wiggums and Smithers being seemingly African-American half the time), and the family more bizarre. The series definitely refined as it went through the years. I will probably buy the DVD set anyways though.
I was humored by the Apolcalypse article just before this one as anyone who saw the episode where the Simpsons visited Japan (one of my favourites. Homer walking through the walls was classic Homer, and as a Canadian I found the Canadian couple getting rained on by scorpions hilarious) and Homer spent the last of their money to buy a square watermellon (which promptly popped back to round one).
Honestly, I don't want to see the behind the scenes voice acting. I enjoy the illusion that Taco seemingly doesn't. I feel the same with Slashdot. I sure as hell don't want to see behind-the-scenes footage of CmdrTaco posting a news story or see Jon Katz in his underwear posting yet another article about geeks.
From the article..."With only 13 episodes in the first season, the first three-disc set will be fleshed out with loads of extra material, including the original shorts that debuted on ``The Tracey Ullman Show'' and never-before-seen lost episode."
I would really prefer to see a DVD containing all the shorts that were made. Although they may not be as high of quality as the espisodes, I can catch episode reruns on TV on a regular basis, so I've seen most episodes at least 2 or 3 times. But most of the shorts I haven't even seen once.
"It's because they're stupid. That's why everybody does everything."- Homer Jay Simpson
Does anyone have information on which episodes will be released on DVD? I know that In The Beginning and one of the other feature films are hopefully to come to DVD later this year, though I've heard they may hit the UK (Region 2) first, which is of no help to me. (I hate regions. They're useless.) I want the full series and all the feature films. Any info would be appreciated. :)
Or, failing that, how about mail order ... ?
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What I'd like is all the Ren & Stimpy episodes on DVD, particularly Space Madness.
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The first quote is from 1952, but the main credit in the etymology goes to Dan Castellaneta. First uttered by the character Homer in Punching Bag, broadcast on 27 Nov. 1988 as part of the Tracey Ullman Show.
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Look at it this way, Czarny....you'll be able to afford it when (and if) you graduate. It'll give you something to look forward to. There's also, Christmas, Your Birthday, etc. Laughter is one of the most important parts of living. And investing in something that makes you laugh in this format is well worth it. Have you ever seen the very 1st Simpsons Halloween Special? One of the most creative and hysterical pieces of comedy written for the small screen. These box sets are going to rule. Now if WB would release a box set of Bugs Bunny...woof!
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Awhile back my roomates and I were talking about the possibility of a Simpsons cable channel. After 13 or so seasons they should have enough footage to run it. If not a channel then how about a 4 hour a day run similar to the Anime stuff that they do on Cartoon Network. Anyway its just a thought. .
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I find the first season, parts of the second, and the Tracy Ullman shorts hard to watch: they're just not LOL funny as the later work, and the animation is too damn crude.
Sure, I loved it when they were first out since I've been a Matt Groening fan for 16 years now. But, like ST:TNG or Degrassi jr. High, it's just too painful to watch sometimes.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
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I'm the president of the Simpson's club in my high school (or supreme dictator for life) and as a result of my position, I'd like to raise two points. First, the scripts for the show don't say d'oh or doh, they say "annoyed grunt" so this nonsense over its misspelling in the dictionary is futile. Second, Fox should have done the DVDs a long time ago, or at least made the videos suck less. They should be releasing entire seasons on DVD, or videos with more than 2 episodes. I have a tape with 28 full episodes!
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does anyone know which season featured the "family therapy" episode, where they shock eachother non-stop and cause a blackout?
Wait a minute... Forty dollars! D'oh!
I think I'll wait till it's down to like $10-12...
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is this.....is this for REAL?
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I would pay $100 for all (best) the Seinfeld episodes on one or two DVDs.
IMO, The Simpsons has been going down the tubes for quite some time now. Get rid of Itchy and Scratchy - what uselessly violent nonsense. And get rid of some of the tasteless jokes about handicapped people, etc... Isn't this show meant for all ages? I think some people let too much slide when it comes to watching TV.
Homer's Brain: "Forty dollars can buy many peanuts."
Homer: "Explain how!"
Homer's Brain: "Money can be exchanged for goods and services."
Disgraceful, adding your private family catchphrase to the OED.
I think I'll just wait till the DivX ;) version comes to favorite "locations".
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Matt Groening has enough money.
*digitally remaster* the first episode to improve the anime like everything else these days. :-)
Is the Simpsons really worthy of this? If they came out with a reasonably-priced boxed set of the entire Star Trek original series, I'd go out and buy a DVD player. But the Simpsons?
Screw the Simpons. Know what series really needs to be fried to DVD? Nikita.
Enough said.
like myself, you can just hope onto something like hotline and download all the episodes ever made. They are usually all in .rm, 30 megs a peice, pretty decent quality for crap, but its good enough to catch up on missed episodes (like all of this season that i missed).
Hell, there is even a guy who doesn't make you click banners or anything to download, you just have to wait in queue.
First i thought of about the dvds: higher quality episodes. I won't be able to fit a season to a cd anymore, but i could make my own vcd's of 2-3 shows etc.
is to have every Seinfeld episode on DVD. Is something like this allready on the market?
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Ther is now a good book about philosophy and the simpsons. It uses simpsons excerpts to discuss philosophical issues. The review on amazon says that groening was a philosophy major in school. I have this book and it is pretty good. A lot better than sophie's world a book along the same lines...
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MPEG should come up with a new level of compression especially geared towards cartoons. I'm sure that animations like South Park and The Simpsons could compress really really small and still be top quality images with the proper algorithm. THEN, we could fit an entire season of episodes on ONE DVD!
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What we need now is Seinfeld on DVD...
I also wouldn't mind seeing original Space:1999 eps on DVD.
And while I'm at it, every Trek Episode.
Of course this sort of thing will truly be fantastic when next generation DVD's are out, and 10 episodes or more will fit onto one DVD. That will make ownership of an entire run of some TV shows not have to take up your entire video cabinet.
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Also all of the syndication edits will be gone. I remember when I first saw the sydicated version of "The Last Temptation of Homer" Homer and Mindy ordered room service in the hotel in Capitol City, I got all excited to see the Winged Monkeys, but they cut to a commercial instead. To get the un-edited version is completely worth it, even though we get 3 episodes a day here in the Bay Area. $40 a DVD is cheap, I offered Fox $100 a season a while ago.
I think it is a good idea to have the simpsons on DVD. It is the longest running series in the world with 15-16 years. It deserves something better for making people laugh that long. Now people can watch the simpsons whenever they want without having to tape all the shows. This gives people an opportunity to watch any episode whenever they want in any order. So they can watch there favorite episode over and over.
http://www.dvdindetail.com/article/41D70001BE7B69F 20000
This shows the extra bits that will be on the UK version. Notice that it is dated 2001-5-2.
...But I wanted a peanut!
I could be mistaken, but I swear there was an episode in the last three seasons or so where somebody actually starts writing out the "Annoyed Grunt," and the spelling is definitely "D'oh." I'm not having any luck finding a reference for it, though.
Also, the OED is including the word, but I've seen nothing about the OED actually making mention of the Simpsons with respect to the word. I couldn't find the new words list at the OED web site.
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I want the whole series, all 5 seasons, in a huge really neat collectible (autographed?) set.
Oh, btw, make sure they're anamorphic widescreen and DD5.1. Anything less simply will not do.
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I have a tape with 28 full episodes!
That can't be VHS... what are you using? DLT or DDS4 with the episodes in DiVX format?
Here in rural North Dakota we only get the Simpsons via over-the-air broadcast about three times a week... and I'm itching to learn if Simpsons has a 'laugh track'. I can't for the life of me recall if there is one or not...
Opponents to these critics simply responded, "Don't have a cow, Man!"
Jump forward a decade, and what do we find? Well, I believe that if those critics would just visit /. and read some of the thoughtful comments posted here, then they would realize that they were obviously, um, cough, wrong cough.
It speaks volumes about the strength of the show that it was able to live on for so many years after the merchandise stopped being profitable.
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I wish I had a more concrete reference for
you, but there was a "Life In Hell" strip
in which a character exclaims "D'oh!", and
an asterisk following it explains that
it is to be pronounced "in the manner
of Homer Simpson." That was enough for
me.
"The Simpsons Sing the Blues" definitely had some bad songs, but I still enjoy "Moanin' Lisa Blues."
It speaks volumes about the strength of the show that it was able to live on for so many years after the merchandise stopped being profitable.
It really isn't all that surprising since the show wasn't made to sell merchandise.
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At 20 some minutes per episode its going to be between 4.5 and 7.5 hrs of video. Animation tends to compress real well so all the episodes should fit on one DVD.
Also does anyone watch the extra crap they put on DVDs? The advertising seems to show its an extra value so they can charge more for DVDs but it has no extra value for me.
I'm not sure but I think it was just that woman that did Maude Flanders voice. It was the only voice she did and she demanded as much money as Dan Castellaneta(sp?) who does about 7 voices including Homer. They killed Maude off and now they don't have to put up with her jawing.
Last time I saw anything about the pay deal was that they got a pretty large raise to like 3 or 4 million a year.
IMO they deserve it..
"If we had $10,000 we'd be millionaires!" - Homer Simpson
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Actually, only one was animated for that episode. HOWEVER, another 10 or so were made for one of the episodes "hosted" by Troy McClure (where even Santa's Little Helper shoots Mr. Burns).
Yeah The Simspons is a great show, but I would really like to have Futurama on DVD too, just hope it doesn't take 10+ years
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The first five episodes (The Pluto Campaign) are available on a DVD from Colombia/Tri-Star -- I don't know about the other 35 or so episodes however. One can always hope -- Roughnecks was the single best CG show ever.
This won't make a difference.
Liberal teachers have never minded the usage of "d'oh", while those conservative won't tolerate it just as they don't any other slang.
(Check how long expletives have been regarded as "official" English.)
She also did many other regular minor characters, including Helen Lovejoy, Ms Hoover, Luann Van Houten, and several one-shot chacters, includding Sherry Bobbins, etc.
She was asking for $6,000 per episode- the core cast members are up to $50,000/episode, including Dan Castellaneta.
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Has anyone noticed that the chief editor of Oxford Dictionary is called Simpson too ? ha... that's why Homer Simpson got the nod...
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That's worth $40 right there.
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The original Southparks were done using paper cutouts. Then the creators got a SG machine when it became popular. Of course, somebody might have gone back and re-done them.
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of why the movie and TV industries are idiots. How long have the Simpsons been on TV? And they're just now releasing the first season on DVD? This should have been done long ago.
Oh wait. No. That would be a bad idea. A very bad idea that would hurt the TV industry's profits.
After all we know that putting movies on Video Cassette just a few months after their theatrical release has hurt the movie industry terribly.
D'OH!!
I can't wait until the other episodes are released on DVD. I'm not a big fan of the first two seasons; too crudely drawn and Bart is a moron with his "don't have a cow" and constantly using "man" as an interjection (particularly in season 1). But starting with season 3, the show was great!
Like most, I've seen many of the episodes many times. Even though Fox shows the Simpsons twice day in Dallas, invariably, the syndicated version cuts about a minute or two off each episode. For example:
* In the episode where the Simpsons move to a neighboring town for Homer's new job, Homer asks his new boss for some sugar for his coffee. His boss shuffles in his pockets and dumps some sugar on the table. This part gets cut: His boss then says, "Want some cream, too" and he puts his hands in his pocket. Homer pauses for a second and say, "Uh... no thanks". I fell out of my chair after that line
* During the episode paying homage to "Pulp Fiction" they always cut Professor Frink's song at the end, particular when he mumbles, "ooh, that monkey is gonna pay".
* In one of the Halloween episodes, when Homer and Bart appear as CG, they always cut the scene where Frink explains the "third dimension".
So is it worth it to buy the DVD collections for those extra 30-60 seconds that they cut during syndication play? Probably not, but it would be great to see the shows intact and without commercial interruption.
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Well think about it, if they are releasing season 1 of the simpsons, despite the crude drawing and all it's flaws of it's time, shurly if it does well they will keep up the trend, for die hard simpson fans, this is a blessing, if ya didn't like the first few seasons, ya skip it and wait for the seasons as they are released.
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Wow, he writes like people talk!
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It is officially "Annoyed Grunt," but it's spelled "d'oh" officially, and is spelled in the captions as "D-OHH."
(BTW, The Simpsons is the one show I watch with captions ON. The captioned jokes are funnier, as I'm assuming the captioners are sent scripts before they are censored by Fox execs. A true Simpsons fan, watching with captions on, knows what a "reverse convoy" is...watch Homer's lips as he "says" it. =)
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Too bad, there used to be an excellent website about a year and a half ago that had 213 out of the 240 (or thereabouts) episodes available for streaming download. Fox shut that place down, though...
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It appeared in an early episode in which Homer gives Lisa her saxophone, or rather replaces the one that was crushed. The inscription on the horn says "D'oh!" The show itself is the final word on this. End of argument.
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Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, was never on it. You could, however, see Hank Azaria (any number of secondary Simpsons characters including Apu and Dr. Hibbard) and Yeardley Smith (Lisa).
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