The Simpsons Season 11 DVD

13 reviews for The Simpsons Season 11 DVD

1. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   AJ Blanc – January 11, 2014

   Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase

   Decent start, meh finish

   For years I told myself I was going to stop collecting the box sets after season nine, because I felt the later seasons were fairly hit or miss. Not long ago I received season 10 as a gift, and while there’s certainly some great episodes in 10 I figured if those were combined with the greats of 11 it would make a pretty good season. So that’s how I rationalize this purchase I suppose.

   The episodes of season 11 often get confused with other seasons, but most fans could immediately guess that it takes place after season 9. There are some classic eps here, and some easily forgettable ones as well. Unfortunately, the season felt a bit misbalanced to me with the good early in the season and bad at the end. All this is subjective of course, but I probably won’t be watching the forth disc of this box set again; something I couldn’t say about any of the other seasons. Also, there’s a very definable shift this season in how the jokes are presented; instead of the witty, satirical humor that has been the Simpsons’ MO since day one it has began to rely more on the random, off the wall humor that Family Guy has always displayed. I don’t make that comparison as an insult to FG, it’s just not the Simpsons style.

   Another area about this collection that has drawn a lot of well-deserved criticism is the packaging. Gone are the plastic pages that usually secure the discs quite well in lieu of accordion-style sleeves that the discs must be pulled out of, increasing the risk of damage and lowering convenience. While it makes more room for Simpsons-related images, and is probably cheaper to make without lowering purchase price, but the practicality and logic of this change is non-existent, aside from the likelihood of increased profits. I daresay that the packaging choice of this season is the main reason it has a lower rating of its pre and post seasons.

   Aside from the lower quality of episodes and packaging, season 11 will still bring in the laughs, and I don’t think it possible for me not to recommend the Simpsons.

2. 

   Rated 3 out of 5

   Reconnecting To My Childhood – October 23, 2008

   Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase

   Hopefully Helpful Information

   I didn’t want to just write a review about my initial response to the new box design because I think we all know how we as fans feel about that. First I wanted to give actual information about the set to people who are unsure or when shopping on Amazon don’t want to be bothered to look on tv.com for episode lists.

   The set contains the following episodes from Season Eleven:

   Beyond Blunderdome- Mel Gibson and Homer team up
   Brother’s Little Helper- Bart has ADD, takes Focusyn Drug
   Guess Who’s Coming to Criticize Dinner- Homer, Food Critic.
   Treehouse of Horror X- Ned: Werewolf, Bart, Lisa: Superpowers, Y2K: World Ends
   E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)- Family lives on a farm, Tomaco
   Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder- Homer bowls 300 and his life peaks
   Eight Misbehavin’- Apu has his octuplets
   Take My Wife, Sleaze- Homer becomes a biker, biker’s kidnap marge
   Grift of the Magi- Christmas, Funzo and Gary Coleman
   Little Big Mom- Marge breaks leg, Lisa takes over
   Faith Off- Bart becomes a faith healer
   The Mansion Family- The Simpsons live in Burn’s Mansion
   Saddlesore Galactica- The Simpsons get a horse, again, Furious D.
   Alone Again, Natura-Diddily- Maude Flanders dies
   Missionary: Impossible- Homer Vs. PBS, save me Jebus
   Pygmoelian- Moe gets plastic surgery.
   Bart to the Future- Bart is a deadbeat, Lisa is president.
   Days of Wine and D’oh’ses- Barney goes sober.
   Kill the Alligator and Run- The family goes to Florida, Spring Break.
   Last Tap Dance in Springfield- Lisa finds difficulty tap dancing, Bart lives at the mall.
   It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge- Otto’s girlfriend moves in with the simpsons, Marge gets paranoid.
   Behind the Laughter- A parody of behind the music.

   Those are the episodes for anyone wondering. As for the box, Amazon sells the limited edition Krusty head cheaper but it is the same as the regular box but with a krusty face rubber cemented on, the same stuff used to hold on the listing of episodes on the back of all previous box sets, so you can remove it and have the regular box but I don’t know how much damage the stuff is capable of if it bonds too much and I’d rather just pay more for the other one. The inside of the box is very disappointing, we all know and seem to agree, the cardboard is a bad idea because it defeats the most important purpose of the box set which is to keep our discs well stored and accessable. The tight carboard slots rather than plastic holders make it more difficult to get at our discs and store them properly, though I haven’t had problems with it yet I foresee down the road a few years when the constant contact with cardboard will erode and scratch the discs no matter how careful I always am. We buy boxsets to own the episodes and be able to keep them so why make a set that won’t preserve the life of the discs? It’s not for the enviroment or they wouldn’t use that wasteful Krusty head on it or use non-biodegradable cardboard. I think it is just laziness or a bad idea.

   Anyway everyone debates their last great season of the Simpsons and this is the one truly great last season for me. Opening with Mel Gibson and ending on the Behind the Music Parody it’s entertaining from beginning to end. Twelve and thirteen move further into a bad place in the series where for some of us who grew up on it it became too hard to relate to anymore. I stopped watching completely by the end of thirteen. From here the comedy gets more obvious and straight forward and rather than the quick, rapid fire joke pacing they developed (and Family guy came out with and became known for) they move to a place where they hold on a joke for too long and seem to try too hard. It feels to me like they wrote it trying to make it funny to other people when the rule of comedy is to write something you find funny and so will other people.

   Great episodes on the set, commentaries and extras are what they always are and provide some viewers entertainment, I find the commentaries rather amusing as they poke fun at themselves and you can see here that they really find what they wrote in those years amusing. Packaging seems to be everyones sore spot here and I agree but sadly am used to Fox disappointing me in these recent years, first by stopping the release of King of the Hill box sets before the last great seasons and second by only releasing the first season of Malcolm in the Middle and finally with the huge amount of time they took in releasing the Simpson box sets thus far. Thankfully I will only be buying season twelve and then after that I’m finally done with Fox and their dreadful box sets. (What happened to the days of Futurama volumes 1-4, those sets were excellent).

   PS.
   People in America think they’ve had trouble with the sets but I live in Canada and besides the set back of season 6 and this recent development with 11 I also had them screw me up on season 8 by changing the titling on the side of the boxes to include les Simpson reverting the Simpsons to half the size to make room (since they have moved both around numerous times on following sets in experimentations but none ever match the previous box sets in the series). With the distinctive art of the show on the cover and the name simpsons in yellow on it you think anyone in any language could tell what this is without specific useless articles of speech being translated. Now I buy from the US. GOB BLESS THE USA.

   Thanks For Your Time.

3. 

   Rated 1 out of 5

   Amazon Customer – January 7, 2016

   Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase