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This The Simpsons Season 4 DVD set includes all 22 episodes of the 1992-93 Fox season on 4 discs, from “Kamp Krusty” to “Krusty Gets Kancelled,” with “Marge vs. the Monorail,” “Mr. Plow” and “A Streetcar Named Marge.” It is a brand-new copy, in stock and ships free within the US. Add it to your cart today.
| Format | DVD |
|---|---|
| Discs | 4 |
| Studio | Fox Home Entertainment |
| Released | June 2, 2014 |
| Condition | New |
| Availability | In stock |
This The Simpsons Season 4 DVD set holds all 22 episodes of the 1992-93 Fox season on 4 discs, from "Kamp Krusty" to "Krusty Gets Kancelled." It is the season of "Marge vs. the Monorail," "Mr. Plow" and "A Streetcar Named Marge," three standout episodes of the series.
You will receive a brand-new copy. As a DVD, it plays in standard DVD players and in Blu-ray players.
The Simpsons follows Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie in the town of Springfield. Matt Groening created the series and developed it with James L. Brooks and Sam Simon. Al Jean and Mike Reiss ran Season 4, their second season in charge, before leaving to create The Critic. Jean later returned as showrunner starting with Season 13.
The premiere, "Kamp Krusty," sends Bart and Lisa to a miserable summer camp. In "A Streetcar Named Marge," Marge stars in a musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire, with Jon Lovitz as a guest star. "Mr. Plow" puts Homer in the snowplow business, with Adam West and Linda Ronstadt.
In "Marge vs. the Monorail," Lyle Lanley sells Springfield a monorail, and Leonard Nimoy guest stars. Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus for the episode reads simply, "One word: Monorail."
Dan Castellaneta won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his work as Homer and Barney, and "Mr. Plow" was the episode behind that win. "Treehouse of Horror III" was nominated for music composition and sound mixing.
The season also picked up an Annie Award, a Genesis Award for "Whacking Day" and a Saturn Award for Best Television Series. With so many celebrated episodes in one set, Season 4 is a strong pick for any Simpsons collection.
Watch the seasons before it with The Simpsons Season 2 and The Simpsons Season 3, or jump ahead to The Simpsons Season 8. Browse our animation collection for more. For the full episode list, read the Wikipedia article on season 4.
The Simpsons Season 4 DVD: Questions Buyers Ask
How many episodes are in The Simpsons Season 4 DVD?
All 22 episodes of the fourth season, on 4 discs.
Is "Marge vs. the Monorail" included?
Yes. It is one of the 22 episodes in this season.
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Deputy-_-M_A_X___P_O_W_E_R –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
My personal fav season of the Simpsons! Also the best Treehouse of Horror!
This season of the Simpsons have some of my favorite episodes making it my personal favorite season! This season has 22 awesome episodes and won 3 Emmy awards for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series, and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series. Other awards are the Annie Award for Best Animated Television Program, Genesis Award for Best Television Prime Time Animated Series, and a Saturn award Best Television Series. Along with more additions to the Simpson cast like Bumblebee Man and Superintendant Chalmers, this season also has many special celebrity guests like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Elizabeth Taylor, Adam West, Leonard Nimoy, Barry White, and many others.
My favorite episode on this one is “Treehouse of Horror III” which include The Simpsons throwing a Halloween party and sharing scary stories to spook each other. 3 stories are told that make up the episode include ‘Clown without Pity’ A live Krusty doll tries to continuously kill Homer and no one believes him. ‘King Homer’ a B&W clip of Homer as King Kong. and ‘Dial Z for Zombie’ Where Bart accidently casts a spell to bring back the dead! IMO, the best Treehouse of Horror to date! Other favs include “Whacking Day” where the town of Springfield celebrate a day which they hunt innocent snakes, leaving Bart and Lisa to harbor the reptiles with the help of Barry White. “Mr. Plow” Homer crashes his car into Marge’s resulting in them shopping for a new car, and wouldn’t you know it, Homer ends up buying a snowplow. Homer gets into the plowing business and ends up making great money, however one of his best friends, Barney, moves in on his business and becomes competition. These are only a few of my top favs, so many other episodes in this set, all 22 episodes deserves a mention, but my reviews are long enough lol.
Special features include more cool commentaries and Easter egg commentaries and sketches. Storyboards and commercials featuring The Simpsons. An introduction from creator Matt Groening, and The Cajun Controversy and Bush vs. Simpsons featurettes. This is one season that every animated comedy fan should have!
Michael Siegel –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
The Show Hits It Peak
Season Four of the Simpsons is where the show truly came into its own. The animation had matured from the awkward early seasons into something close to the style it’s had ever since. The characters were now fully formed. The first writers had left for greener pastures, but they’d added Conan O’Brian — who would be one of their best writers before late night TV took him away. The show was still fresh original and slyly satirical. These days it seems to want to either play it too safe or skate too obviously on the edge. In these years, they had the balance just right. I debated (a little) about buying the first few seasons. This one was a no question purchase.
What I love about these episodes is that the writers paint in the corners, so to speak, milking every joke they can. Homer’s friends bring him a get well card with “Danger! DO NOT REMOVE!” on the back. When Bart mentions the father-son picnic, Homer laughs “You don’t have a son.” A hilarious two-minute spoof of COPS. Even a serious moment has to be leavened with humor. Homer lays down the law with Bart — just as Snake passes by with a stolen VCR and realized to his horror that it is a Betamax.
The writers also excel at turning what could be sappy melodramatic moments into funny touching ones. Good writers can find humor in Bart and Lisa at “Kamp Krusty” (my personal favorite episode) or Homer founding a new religion (Homer the Heretic). But who would have thought Homer having a heart attack would be hilarious? Or that his hospital-bed speech to Bart and Lisa could be both funny and touching?
Perhaps I’m a little biased. I’m about the same age as most of the writers on the show at this time, so the pop culture jokes hit home with me. (I bet you no one born after 1976 understands the Krusty Olympic Burger joke). But I still think the appeal should be universal.
So why buy the DVD’s, you ask? After all, the show is in syndication constantly. Well, the picture and sound are great. The shows are frequently cut in syndication, losing the most random – and frequently funniest – jokes. The extra aren’t amazing, but I do love the commentaries. It’s funny and interesting to hear the writers talk about how the show was put together, the fights they had with sensors, the humor that O’Brian added, the humanity that Jim Brooks added. I do wish they’d included cast commentaries as in season three, but having O’Brian and Jon Lovitz drop in for the occasional comment makes up for that.
This is a must-buy for Simpsons fans, especially the younger ones who may not have seen the series in it early years, when it was — without question — the funniest and most daring show on TV.
David N. Reiss –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
Great Program!
The Simpsons may well be the best TV sit-com ever. The weird thing there is that you rarely see it mentioned on great sit-com lists. Currently, the show is in its 16th season, which should lead to the assumption that it would get it some mention on those lists. But for some reason it doesn’t.
I think other great shows like Seinfeld, M*A*S*H, All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Barney Miller, I Love Lucy, Cheers, The Cosby Show, The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Friends, Get Smart, Sex in the City, The Jefferson’s, etc. All of which should be mentioned on a list of great Situation Comedy, but the Simpsons should get mentioned.
The major reason that the Simpson’s probably doesn’t often get mentioned is that it is an animated show. Animation does not get a lot of respect. The second big reason I would think is the Simpson’s make fun of everything, and doesn’t give itself a lot of respect. It has a postmodern look at the world and itself, and that is what a lot of the fans love about the show, but what a lot of other people just “don’t get”.
The fourth season of the Simpsons has often been called the best of any of its seasons. I don’t know about that, but it does include episodes like:
Homer the Heretic
A Streetcar Named Marge
Selma’ Choice
Kamp Krusty
Mr. Plow
Marge vs. The Monorail
Homer’s Triple Bypass
Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie
Whacking Day
Krusty Gets Kancelled
All of them are among the (pause) best (pause) episodes (pause) ever. The Simpson’s are cool and you aren’t cool unless you think the Simpson’s are cool. Which, of course, means you aren’t cool. If you don’t understand that line of reasoning, then you should just move on to some other show. If you do get that, then you’ll love the Simpson’s.
The other thing I like about the DVD’s is the commentary on each of the episodes that includes Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Reiss, James L. Brooks, and a good number of the Cast, Writers, and even a few with Conan O’Brien on them. Each episode is uncut. Nothing is cut out to make room from more commercials, which is a common occurrence in syndicated shows. You also get some outtakes and other features that are kind of cool.
All in all, one of the best “seasons” of any TV program that has been put out on DVD.
Jason –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
So worth it.
What a DVD. Season 4 is easily the best of the bunch thus far, and if you are at all a Simpsons fan, you MUST purchase it! It perfectly reflects why I hold ‘The Simpsons’ as my favorite TV show of all time.
There are so many great episodes here, it’s unbelievable. You’ve got three of ‘The Simpsons’ great directors working on this one: Rich Moore, Mark Kirkland, Jim Reardon, as well as other greats Carlos Baeza, Wes Archer, David Silverman, Jeff Lynch. I mention the three in a different category only because their episodes in particular ooze dripping quality through every animated cell, but truly, the others listed are nearly just as good. Then, of course there is the fantastic writing, courtesy of a handful of brilliant comedic minds.
My personal favorite episodes — and it’s really so difficult, there are so many — are probably those directed by the three directors listed above. It’s quite interesting too, as most of the directors had been with the show from the first and second seasons, so you can really get a glimpse of them really finding their niche. The dry-wit and cynicism is ever-growing, and the jokes really do come at you at breakneck speed. The animation, which HAS to be credited for the show’s uproarious laugh count, has really become sublime. And I don’t just mean camera angles and backgrounds, but even more so character expressions and movement, which add infinite substance to the already great writing and voice acting. It all gels together so beautifully by this point, it’s a sight to behold.
The commentaries, while not “that” interesting, are fun to listen to, and I’ve been through them all about twice. I just like hearing the guys (primarily Groening, Jean, and Reiss) talk about a great show whilst watching it. It’s a very enjoyable experience. Interesting commentaries worth noting are the two in which Conan O’Brien appears; it’s quite obvious the rest of the crew hold the man in sort sort of awe, as they laugh (appropriately) at his every word. The same could be said for Jon Lovitz, who is hysterical always, and the one audio track he has (“A Streetcar Named Marge”) is appalingly funny, enough for me to go out and get the “Critic” DVD simply to hear him talk spontaneously (and make homosexual remarks to Jean and Reiss).
All in all, this is just a great step up from the seasons before it. By this point, the show had lost most of its emotional value, but its the comedic strength that made this show what it was, not the more sentimental aspects (though those are always intact and certainly shouldn’t be dismissed). It’s also probably the most endearing show I’ve ever seen, and even though it’s the biting, jaded cynisicm that I come back for, the show ultimately holds a dear place in my scathed heart.
doomsdayer520 –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
I Can’t Believe I Ate the Whole Thing
By the fourth season, the Simpsons were completely unstoppable for a good four or five more years. There is not a single weak episode this season. The social commentary was becoming stronger and ingeniously written, the characters were delivering nonstop classic one-liners (such as “I love the sexy slither of a lady snake… oh baby…” by Barry White in “Whacking Day”), the animators had perfected the outstanding visual look of the series, and all the voice actors had raised their efforts to an art form. The cast of supporting characters became stronger this season; especially Grampa and Ralph Wiggum (in the sensational “I Love Lisa”), while within the Simpson family Marge and Lisa were becoming more outspoken characters as well. Even little Maggie developed well this season, with many indications of her budding genius, though that notion was unfortunately forgotten in later seasons. Here Maggie provides us with what I think is one of the most brilliant Simpsons scenes ever, as she engineers the mission to rescue the pacifiers at the Ayn Rand School for Tots in “A Streetcar Named Marge.”
While it’s hardly the end of the world, there is one major case of censorship in this package, as Bart’s aping of Tourette’s Syndrome has been removed from “Marge Gets a Job” (though other reviewers don’t need to be such crybabies about it). However, there is one good case of reverse-censorship here. In “So It’s Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show” one of the remembered scenes is when Homer fell down Springfield Gorge, and his entire second trip down the gorge is seen, including when the gurney slams him in the head at the bottom. This scene had been removed from “Bart the Daredevil” back in the Season 2 DVD set.
This package has voluminous DVD extras, some of which are great for everyone like featurettes about controversies the show got involved in after insulting New Orleans (in “A Streetcar Named Marge”) and getting criticized by George and Barbara Bush. Two episodes come with deleted scenes, with the special option of watching them with the deleted scenes restored (those that were cut from “The Front” are especially funny). And finally, every single episode comes with audio commentary from the production team. That’s okay for collectors and obsessives, but this is the main reason why it is taking so dang long for these Simpsons DVD packages to come out. I’d rather get these packages once every six or seven months, like we have for Futurama, than wait an entire year for this barely crucial commentary. [~doomsdayer520~]