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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!
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!
Well in that case.... What is the missing chunk of word after the "D"?
Could it be that Homer is French or something?
Please, I honestly want to know...
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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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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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... I'll look out for it on usenet, irc, ftp, etc... ;)
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.
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What I'd like is all the Ren & Stimpy episodes on DVD, particularly Space Madness.
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I agree, while the Simpsons became an excellent show later on in it's life, the early shows were pretty bad! But it still would be nice to have the entire library of shows at your disposal.
In related news, I noticed over at The Simpsons Archive a while ago that a Simpsons spin-off show is in the works. I'm hoping the focus is on the Wiggums. An entire show related to Clancy and Ralph would be great!
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.
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.
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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?
is this.....is this for REAL?
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Homer's Brain: "Forty dollars can buy many peanuts."
Homer: "Explain how!"
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Just got to SNPP for season guides.
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The best Itchy and Scratchy episode was the cloning machine. The cat(scratchy?) was dead, so the mouse found an old axe with his blood on it after reading an article on cloning.
He builds a cloning machine, and out comes a new cat! He then kills the cat. This repeats over and over, until he gets tired. So he builds a killing machine so any new cloned cat gets killed shortly therafter.
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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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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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.
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...
In cartoons there are (uaually) large areas of the same color (like southpark). Since those areas don't change much between frames, it is compressed quite well.
However, MPEG was designed for sequences of continuous tone images (it shares quite a few similarities with JPEG, including the use of the DCT etc.). So a dedicated cartoon codec might really be a good idea.
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.
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).
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"Woohoo!"
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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That's worth $40 right there.
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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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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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