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List Price: $49.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 25336
Released: August 15, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 15-AUG-2006
Media Type: DVD
Description of The Simpsons - The Complete Eighth Season (Collectible Maggie Head Pack):
Most TV shows never make it eight seasons, but then The Simpsons is not most TV shows. At a point where other shows would generally become stale and repetitive, Matt Groening & Co. pull out the stops to come up with one of the most creative and hilarious seasons in the whole series. Cases in point for season eight (1996-1997) include "Treehouse of Horror VII," in which aliens Kang and Kodos make a bizarre run for President having taken on the appearances of Bill Clinton and Bob Dole; "Bart After Dark," in which Bart gets a job at The Maison Derriere (featuring one of their most popular songs, "The Spring in Springfield"); and one of the great all-time episodes, "The Simpsons Spin-off Showcase," a trilogy of Simpsons spin-offs that never made it to prime-time (the final segment--"The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour"--is about the best six minutes of parody in the entire Simpsons canon). Season eight also features some of the most notable guest appearances: Rodney Dangerfield as Mr. Burns’s long lost son; Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny as Scully and Mulder from X-Files in "The Springfield Files;" "The Brother from Another Series" which brilliantly pairs up Kelsey Grammar as Sideshow Bob with his brother Cecil (David Hyde Pierce) in a parallel of their Frasier characters; and in a major casting coup, Johnny Cash shows up in the form of a red fox as Homer’s spirit guide in "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer" (also known as "The Chili Pepper episode"). Other notable episodes include "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show," a fun wink to the audience from the writers about keeping the show fresh without ruining it, and the send up of Mary Poppins "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(annoyed grunt)cious," which has one of their most memorable endings when Shary Bobbins floats off under her umbrella ("So long Superman," Barney cries)... only to get sucked into a jet engine from a passing airplane. That’s the thanks she gets for offering her help. Good to see that, eight seasons in, The Simpsons still don’t need it. --Daniel Vancini
The Simpsons - The Complete Eighth Season (Collectible Maggie Head Pack) Reviews:
great 
2009-06-11 - this is a great season it has a lot of great people and i think i will get into the simpsons more.
great seller and awesome product
2009-04-20 - A wonderful seller, very speedy with the shipping and product was better then he said it was..Great DVDs..I would transact with seller again and again.
MAGGIE SIMPSON COLLECTO'S HEAD SEASON 8
2009-02-05 - I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR SHIPPING IT TO ME I HAD A GREAT TIME WATCHING THE DVD EVEN THOUGH SOME SHOWS ARE ON TV I THINK WATCHING THE DVD IS MORE FUUNY I HOPE OTHERS SHOULD WATCH THE DVD AGAIN THANK YOU FOR THE DVD
Maggie
2008-01-13 - Watching these DVDs (I have all of them through season 10) reminds me that there was a time when the Simpsons was the damned smartest show on television. That isn't true anymore, so rather than watch unfunny crap for free on Fox, buy the old ones on DVD and actually enjoy an episode.
The last season where every episode is a gem
2007-09-27 - The eighth season of the Simpsons is the last season that is great from top to bottom. Sure there are lots of great shows in later seasons, but there isn't a weak show in this entire year. Critics (and the show's writers) have pondered about why the show is not as good now as then, and I think the answer is that the writers have had to go further and further afield to come up with new things for the Simpsons to do. Some of the most recent shows are simply weird. What makes the eighth season so compelling is that it's just at the start of this branching-out process: there are some "weird" shows, but they don't stray too far off the beaten path in terms of pop-culture references, characterisations, etc. Thus, many more of the background characters are brought to the fore: we see here for the first time the burgeoning romance between Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner, the divorce of the van Houtens, learn about Flander's parents ("lousy beatnicks!"), and meet the woman who is the voice of Itchy and Scratchy (and, incidentally, the Roadrunner). Most importantly for the evolution of the show, we have "The Simpsons Spinoff Showcase," a segment of which shows the Simpsons as a real family that plays The Simpsons family on TV, but who also have other interests (such as singing and dancing).
Of course, in this box set there are numerous little extras. The menus have a number of humourous little vignettes, but they are easily skippable to prevent frustration with menu navigation. Every episode has a commentary (as usual) but more of the guest stars and actors appear here. The best guest commentators turn out to be Dan Thomas, the voice of Rex Banner (although the commentary does become a bit of a love-in for SCTV), and John Waters, the voice of John "the Gay Man." Without giving an exhaustive list of episodes (which can be found elsewhere), it's difficult to cull the season down to the best episodes. But I'll give it a try; my favourites are:
You Only Move Twice: "For once in my life I'm good at my job! My team is way ahead of the weather machine and germ warfare divisions." Homer gets a job as a mid-level manager at a nuclear power plant in Cypress Creek. It turns out that it's run by a James Bond-esque supervillian intent on seizing the East Coast. My second-favourite all-time Simpsons episode (after "Last Exit to Springfield").
Bart After Dark: "I was only in there to ask directions about how to get out of there." In recovering a wayward model airplane, Bart accidently breaks a gargoyle on "the creepy house." When Homer orders Bart to work off the debt, Bart discovers the creepy house is actually a Burlesque house.
The Springfield Files: "This is the worst case we've ever investigated." A rare true "crossover" episode. Mulder and Scully from the X-Files are called in to investigate Homer's supposed sighting of an alien.
Supercalifragilisticexpiala(annoyed grunt)cious: "If you cut every corner it is really not so bad/ Everybody does it, even Mom and Dad/ If nobody sees it then nobody gets mad" Marge hires a nanny. An extended parody of (you guessed it!) Mary Poppins.
Brother From Another Series: "Hydrological and hydrodynamical engineer? Talk about running the gamut." Side Show Bob's brother (appropriately played by David Hyde Pierce) gives Bob a job and for once Bob tries to keep to the straight and narrow.
Homer vs. the 18th Ammendment. "Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all life's problems." The temperance movement (led by Helen Lovejoy and Maude Flanders) dicovers the prohibition law in Springfield is still on the books. Chief Wiggum is fired and replaced by Rex Banner (complete with fedora and tommy guns), while Homer becomes the city's lead bootlegger.
The Simpson's Spinoff Showcase: "New Orleans is not really a party town, chief." Troy McClure introduces us to three potential Simpsons spinoffs: Chief Wiggum and Principal Skinner as P.I.s in New Orleans, Moe in a supernatural sitcom with a haunted love tester, and a musical variety show like the Smothers Brothers or Carol Burnett show.
