The Simpsons – Season 20
DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:
This DVD has all of the episodes from the 20th season. Twenty seasons is a milestone for any endeavor. For a TV show it means nearly a generation (~25 years) of people have grown up with it – so it is clearly a cultural force.This season while not as good as the earlier ones (many argue that seasons 5-10 are the best) but still it has good moments: “Four Great Women and a Manicure”, “Gone Maggie Gone”, “How the Test was Won”If this were the Krusty the Clown 20th anniversary DVD created by Krusty Co and produced by Roger C. Meyers Jr. we’d all understand. But come on – Matt Groening, James L.
As fans of “The Simpsons” know, the producers have been releasing excellent DVD sets of the show’s initial seasons, with the first 12 seasons now available. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show, they jumped ahead in the sequence and released this 20th season set. Not a bad idea. However, as other reviewers have noted, this set seems hastily put together and includes no commentaries, deleted scenes, or other typical extras. As a fan of the show, I always watch the episode and then the corresponding commentary track, which are invariably funny and informative. This set seems like a rip-off, and I suspect that, when they get to season 20 in the sequence of DVD sets, they will redo the package, meaning that I will probably be purchasing a similar set in a few years.-Westley
Unlike every other season of the show released on video, there are no commentaries, deleted scenes, or other extras related to the episodes. The only thing other than the episodes is a “preview” of the Morgan Spurlock documentary that Fox has already aired (although it does have some brief snippets of things that were not in the finished documentary, like Morgan attending an Albuquerque Isotopes game). Also keep in mind that half of the episodes are not widescreen, as Fox did not make the switch to HD until the middle of the season. If you want the full-featured version, I assume you will just have to wait until they get to season 20 in the normal releases…which should be sometime around 2017…assuming they haven’t switched from discs to something else (like SDs, or just having everything downloadable).-Don Del Grande
DVD Wholesale Main Features:
Actors: Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith
Format: Multiple Formats, AC-3, Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Surround), French (Stereo), Spanish (Stereo)
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Dubbed: French, Spanish
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 4
Rated: NR-Not Rated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Release Date: January 12, 2010
Run Time: 456 minutes
ASIN: B001L1S1PI
