The Simpsons: The Complete Tenth Season DVD Collector's Edition

[Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland]

I've watched the commentaries on "Sunday Cruddy Sunday", "Kidney Trouble", "Viva Ned Flanders", and "Mom and Pop Art". I gotta say, I don't wanna be that Scully-basher guy, but the quality of the commentaries is really parallel with the quality of the episodes. They just don't talk about... well, anything, really. They just tend to laugh at the jokes, explain them, try to remember who wrote each bit, and compare them to past and later similar jokes. They don't get into any real history behind the episodes very much, they don't talk about fan reactions, and most of all, they don't talk about the inspiration behind the stories (except for Al - before he had to run to get back to the movie). Scully, himself, doesn't say anything about where he wanted to take the show direction-wise as showrunner or anything either.

Great, I knew this would happen. Some season 9 episode audio commentaries were a pretty good indicative. More forced laughter and whatnot.

[Speedy Boris]

Holy crap, even more animation studios differences! According to the season 10 DVD, "Homer to the Max" was animated by Anivision as well, instead of Akom. I suspected as such- there was always something "off" about the look of that one.

[Ramier Wolfcastle]

I'll probably get this on Saturday, as it's a tax-free holiday where I live. Both my local Best Buy and Target are selling it for $29.99, with Target offering a $5 gift card. Quite the deal for a mediocre season! (but still worth buying for extras...)

[Cerpin Taxt]

Man, I hate Lard of the Dance...man.

But I did enjoy Wizard.

Aaand...Bart the Mother was alright.

So far, the most disappointing set of the first 3 so far.

[dzinndesign]

Now I wonder whats next for seasons 11-15. I'm hoping highlighting secondary characters and their specific locations. Apu/Kwik-E-Mart, Moe/Moe's Tavern, Burns/Power Plant, Comic Book Guy/Android's Dungeon and Krusty/The Krusty the Clown Show would be a fun series.

Nope...listen to the opening by Matt, he specifically states that this is the last head case dvd. THANK GOD!

[Speedy Boris]

I freaking KNEW it. "Maximum Homerdrive" WAS Anivision, and syndication for some reason always listed it as Rough Draft.

Man, this season was ripe with wrongly credited studios when it went to reruns.

[Lobster Harmonica]

I got this earlier today. The packaging and such is really great, maybe the best so far. The menus are better and seem to be becoming more advanced every season. The episodes are decent-ish for the most part, but there's some really shit ones. I'm yet to listen to the commentaries but the one for Mayored to the Mob with Mark Hamill sounds interesting.

[Matt B.]

I just got the set earlier today at Best Buy (that $10 off coupon worked) and I am now on Disc 2 and the episodes are ok. The set looks terrific. I have not listened to the commentaries yet.

[homer2121]

how do you get the $10 off coupon????

[NJ Pete]

2-3 pages back

[homer2121]

i dint find it can someone just tell me how to get the $10 off coupon

[Green_Peaness]

Boy, the Lard of the Dance commentary is easily more boring than any season 1-9 commentary...hopefully the rest are more interesting.

[Swartzweldian]

Boy, the Lard of the Dance commentary is easily more boring than any season 1-9 commentary...hopefully the rest are more interesting.

Haha.. Yea it was an especially slow one to be the first. I couldnt take it.

[Matt B.]

i dint find it can someone just tell me how to get the $10 off coupon

Here it is:
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[AngryDad33]

according to wikipedia-

Matt Groening's introduction this is the last one to be shaped as a Simpsons head.

-No big suprise

[grissom]

Used the $10 off Best Buy coupon. Good deal. The packaging is really nice, but I don't know if the theme is pulled off quite as well as it is with some of the other sets though. The disc art is weird. It's not bad though. The head design might be my favorite one out of the five. Watched 3 episodes already, 1 with commentary.

[homer2121]

so thats $10 off Best Buy coupon works. It looks kind of sketchy. And it says do not double. But it works?

[Akbar_and_Jeff]

I don't know if anyone's pointed this out yet, but you can see Mike Scully entering Homer's Museum of Hollywood Jerks on the inside of the disc case.

[Mr_Scorpion]

Mike Scully apologizes for the shitty ending of Monty Can't Buy Me Love.

So... score one for us.... I guess.

[TerrorK]

I don't know if anyone's pointed this out yet, but you can see Mike Scully entering Homer's Museum of Hollywood Jerks on the inside of the disc case.

Not surprising... I've noticed the guy seemed to almost constantly insert himself and/or his family into the show during his run. Bloody narcissist.

[Adam R]

The box looks very nice. I'll probably get this around the time of my birthday, I don't care about it enough to buy it on UK release. Disappointing to hear about the commentaries, I guess Scully must have never had any clear aims for the show, so there's nothing to explain.

[Gibbles]

Got mine today in the post. I fully recommends Ebay for getting the R1 set in the UK, the past 2 years I've bought with PlayUSA and they usually took an extra month to get to me and had a stupid tax addition which I had to pay, Ebay I got it the day it came out in the states with no extra charge.

Anyway so far all I’ve watched are the extras on disc 4 and judging by the deleted scenes this season is better then I remember it to be. I also enjoyed the commercials and the unused song animatic from the movie, the Moe prank phone call thing just felt like a dumb advertisement for the other set...and that’s pretty much all it was.

[Mr_Scorpion]

The "maybe I have, son" deleted scene from Maximum Homerdrive made me laugh twice as hard as anything from the actual episode.

[Swartzweldian]

Theres good jokes in these episodes, no question. Maximum Homerdrive is pretty enjoyable aside from the ending (flying the truck). The show was also alot slower than the past seasons - however, it looks downright fast compared to the show today. Even the movie.

[Captain Squid]

Nope...listen to the opening by Matt, he specifically states that this is the last head case dvd. THANK GOD!

I never said these would be head cases. I meant standard cardboard cases featuring a secondary character and their location. Sheesh!

[Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland]

I cancelled my season 10 order today. Made this decision after reading about how shitty the commentaries are (AGAIN, like season 9), knowing that there's not one episode in the bunch I genuinely love and that most episodes are absolutely horrible. Was more of a bad impulse order to begin with anyway.

Season 9 had quite an amount of episodes I like, season 10 maybe one or zero. I think I've made the right choice here. I'll stick with my S1-9 collection and call it quits. The dvd collecting was fun while it lasted

I just hope some of you guys will enjoy this set!

[Swartzweldian]

Ha! The commentary on "They Saved Lisas Brain" is awesome!

Im from St. Louis and found it all hilarious. East St. Louis is a total dump hole. St. Louis is a very proud city and doesnt take well to criticism. It fits perfectly..

[Tomacco]

Are there any of those flashing green light deleted scenes in the episode menus? From all the ones I've checked, I can't see any. And it seems like they set up a spot for the blinking light by having those three red lights below the screen... but so far I haven't seen anything.

[Lollygagger]

Where do I get that Best Buy coupon?

[poochied-d]

Ha! The commentary on "They Saved Lisas Brain" is awesome!

Im from St. Louis and found it all hilarious. East St. Louis is a total dump hole. St. Louis is a very proud city and doesnt take well to criticism. It fits perfectly..

it's sooooooooooooooooooo awsome, that one story on that commentary IMO makes the set worth buying, spoiler alert
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I wish they had taped that prank on sellman so we could have seen it though!