Product Description

• Audio: English: 5.1 Dolby Surround / Spanish & French: Stereo
• Language: Dubbed: English, French & Spanish / Subtitled: English & Spanish
• Theatrical Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 1.78:1

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2146 in DVD
• Released on: 2010-01-12
• Rating: Unrated
• Formats: AC-3, Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 482 minutes

Customer Reviews

Season 20 - You're in a high-def world now, baby, and it's FAN-TASTIC!
And here we are, season twenty. Yes, after twelve of the previous nineteen seasons have been released on DVD, Fox decides to mess with our minds and skip ahead a few notches! And why?

Well, best guess: HD. Yes, this is the first season of "The Simpsons" to include episodes shot in HD. Not all of them are, but many are, and it makes a difference!

Quality wise, this season was up there with most of the last few: mostly good episodes, a few great ones and only one or two that were "meh". I don't generally laugh out loud at the show anymore, but I do chuckle quite a bit and usually come away having had a good time.

Here's a list of the episodes, stolen from Wikipedia!

"Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes" - Homer and Flanders team up to become bounty hunters! With special guest star Robert Forster, playing basically the same character he played in Tarantino's best film, "Jackie Brown".

"Lost Verizon" - An average episode where Bart gets his hands on Dennis Leary's cell phone.

"Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" - Yep. They went there. A "The Prince and the Pauper" ripoff. Some good moments, but not a great story.

"Treehouse of Horror XIX" - One of the best of the Halloween specials, particularly "It's the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse!"

"Dangerous Curves" - A reasonably decent flashback episode showing Homer and Marge's early romantic life.

"Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" - Enter the exciting world of crossword puzzles!

"Mypods and Boomsticks" - Remember the "American Dad!" episode where Stan though the neighbors were terrorists? Yes? Then you've seen this one. Also, Lisa gets a portable mp3 playing device.

"The Burns and the Bees" - Burns tries to be an interesting and popular millionare with hilarious results! Ok, they weren't THAT hilarious, but was a good episode anyhow.

"Lisa the Drama Queen" - Lisa meets another girl who is rather disturbingly wrapped up in a fantasy world of her own creation.

"Take My Life, Please" - Welcome to the exiciting world of HIGH DEF SIMPSONS! Honestly, I don't remember much about this episode beyond that, which is not a good sign. Apparently it involves spaghetti.

"How the Test Was Won" - Not a great episode, but some funny moments watching Homer deal with the fact that, for a while, the family is uninsured!

"No Loan Again, Naturally" - When the Simpsons lose their home, Flanders buys it and rents to them, with hilarious results! Easily one of the better episodes of the season.

"Gone Maggie Gone" - A reasonably ok take on "The da Vinci Code"-style of story. Not great, but ok.

"In the Name of the Grandfather" - The Simpsons visit Ireland, only to find out that it's not what they expected!

"Wedding for Disaster" - Mix in the "Saw" movie franchise and Sideshow Bob and what do you get? ... Well, you get this. Which is pretty good!

"Eeny Teeny Maya Moe" - Moe develops a small problem in his love-life.

"The Good, the Sad and the Drugly" - Bart falls in love, Lisa obesses over global warming, and I lose interest. Not a bad episode, but certainly not great.

"Father Knows Worst" - Homer becomes a helicopter parent and Marge discovers the joy of the sauna!

"Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh" - Homer rents an apartment in an upscale neighborhood so the kids can attend a better school. Guest staring Anton Chigurh as the hilarious school inspector!

"Four Great Women and a Manicure" - Another anthology episode. This one is better than most, and features a great take on Ayn "What a hot guy!" Rand. The lowest-rated episode in the show's history, but one I rather liked!

"Coming to Homerica" - Ogdenville experiences a massive crisis, resulting in them bringing their Norweigan ways to Springfield! Beware, America, of the ludefisk menace on your border!

The extras will probably be what we usually have with these DVDs. Expect a lot of commentaries and deleted scenes, and probably something talking about the show's transition to HD.

Overall this is a good season and one I look forward to owning!

"Not A Bad Season"
The Simpsons have been around for more than 20 years now and it`s safe to say that if you ever surfed your television you came across them. It paved the way for other animated comedy shows of its genre, it has more than 400 episodes to its credit, won a few awards, it`s been on air since seemingly forever and there`s plenty more to say about it. There have been some complaints about the decline of the show ever since the beginning the 00`s. It`s hard to pick a season where the decline really began but it is true that the show is not as good as it was I`ll admit it, but I think it`s still good and I still enjoy it. Since some time each season has a few great episodes mixed with a few good ones and some not-so-good one, season 20 is no different.

Now I won`t be doing an episode list because some other reviewers will take care of that. But I really liked a few episodes like "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe" in which Moe has a new romance, "No Loan Again, Naturally" was great with Ned Flanders helping the Simpsons trough difficult time as they reached bankruptcy and this season`s "Treehouse of Horror XIX" was very good and the allusion to Charlie Brown was brilliant. The worst episode of this season is perhaps the worst in the show`s history "Four Great Women and a Manicure" , another Simpsons twist on history but this one proves to be the worst yet. The season was mostly good.

You will notice a change in the visual style of the show, it is pretty much the same but somehow it's different. It features more technology which turns out to be very funny and the visual style has changed a little it's like the show has gotten a facelift, and I don't think it hurt after so many years you're bound to change at some point. You will also notice the new title sequence for the show, I like it but I miss Homer's scream from the original! The Simpsons are now in HD and it looks very good.I`d like to think that the box of this season will be different than season 11 and 12`s accordion style but no one really knows now. They should really consider doing something else or return to the older boxes format I never hear anyone complain about those. I know how they want to do an eco-friendly packaging but it`s obviously not a hit with most fans, it didn`t look so good and I didn`t like how it scratched my discs and I`m sure I wasn`t the only one.

Season 20 is not bad really but it just doesn't compare well to the earlier seasons. I don't laugh as I much as I used to while watching the show but I still find it entertaining and worth watching. There were some very good episodes and this season was better than a few of the previous ones. I don't know why they are releasing this one ahead of the others (13-19), yes it's the 20th anniversary but still this will make some fans angry. I'll give season 20 three stars it was a good season. So will I be buying? Well yes because it's still better than no Simpsons in my opinion and if you don't like the show at this point then don't bother with it that's all.

20TH SEASON FOR 20TH ANNIVERSARY
Not really a review, although I did like some of the gags in Season 20 while others left me scratching my head, but I thought I'd point out the obvious reason why they skipped from Season 12 to Season 20 in the DVD releases. Fox is making a big deal about celebrating the show's 20th anniversary. In fact, the 20th Anniversary Special airs January 10, two days before this release. 20th Anniversary - 20th Season. As Homer might say, "Well duh!"