The Simpsons - Season 7 [DVD]

Here, spread over four discs, are all twenty four episodes of the seventh year of the Simpsons.Episodes are as followsWho shot Mr. Burns? Part two.Radioactive Man.Home sweet homediddly-dum-doodily.Bart sells his soul.Lisa the vegetarian.Treehouse of Horror VI.King size Homer.Mother Simpson.Sideshow Bob's last gleaming.The Simpsons 138th episode spectacular.Marge be not proud.Team Homer.Two bad neighbours.Scenes from the class struggle in Springfield.Bart the fink.Lisa the iconoclast.Homer the smithers.The day the violence died.A fish called selma.Bart on the road.22 short films about Springfield.Raging Abe Simpson and his grumbling grandson in 'the cuse of the flying hellfish.'Much Apu about nothing.Homerpalooza.Summer of 4 ft 2.This is one of those seasons that nobody argues about the quality of, so you can take the merits of each episode for granted.The discs have the following language and subtitle options:Languages: English.Subtitles: English.Every disc allows you to watch an episode at a time or all of the ones on it in a row.Every episode has direct scene access and a commentary from some of those involved in it.Many episodes have deleted scenes and the episode menu will let you choose whether to watch the episode with them re-inserted or not.Every menu screen is different and will play some good visual jokes if you let them run without making a selection.Extras are as follows:Disc one:A minute long introduction to the season from Simpsons creator Matt Groening.Homer in the 3rd dimension. A six minute long feature about how the computer animation in the third part of the episode Treehouse of Horror VI was done.Paul and Linda's lentil soup. Sir Paul Mccartney reads a recipe for lentil soup first heard in the episode Lisa the Vegetarian.Animation showcase: this goes with the episode home sweet homediddly-dum-doodily and allows you to watch it with the animation in various stages of completeness.Disc thre:A bit from the animators: fourteen minutes from the episode the day the violence died with a commentary from some of the animators talking about how some of the visuals were acheived. It's pretty interesting even if you're not into the technical side of the subject.Disc four:The deleted scenes for the season, which are spread about on the discs between the episodes they come from, can be watched here all in a row. Running to eighteen minutes. Either with or without commentary from the production staff. Some are slightly unfinished and thus in black and white.Another of the above animation showcases, this time on the episode ragaing Abe Simpson and his grumbling grandson in 'the curse of the flying hellfish.'Another bit from the animators. This runs for nine minutes and has them looking at the episode summer of 4 ft 2.Special language feature. Allows you to watch the episode twenty two short films about Springfield with the subtitles in either Italian, Japanese, German or Brazilian Portugese.Also some original sketches from the animators of various characters and scenes. There are eleven of them and they can be looked at individually or in a row.It's another good package for another strong season of a television institution.

The Simpsons season 7 is another really good season of The Simpsons and is definitely worth buying. It's not my favourite season but it is still up there with the classics. The presentation box is good with this time round being film based and just as with the seasons before 11, it's well packaged with plastic cased holders for the DVDs instead of the cheap cardboard, budget packaging these days. The disc menu is animated with Simpsons characters and the menu is made up of play buttons and plus signs (for the extras) which is my favourite set-up, which they still use currently.On one of the commentaries we're told that this season was based around season 3, which had good family values and is a favoured season by the writers. I can see the parallels but this season is definitely different in feeling to that one. The season begins with the cliff-hanger of Who shot Mr. Burns? (part two), which was left at the end of season 6. Radioactive man was the first episode where they used digital colour and the look of it is quite different. Personally I prefer the hand coloured look rather than the perfect appearance that computers give these days. Other episodes to watch out for is Bart sells his soul (which I've seen a thousand times), Treehouse of horror VI which has a parody of Nightmare on elm street with Willie as Freddie Kreuger and Homer in a 3D world which has an interesting ending!Homers mother suddenly appears for the first time in Mother Simpson, which has a sweet feel to it, The Simpsons 138th episode spectacular is a highlight with clips from the show, some never seen before, presented by Troy McClure. Team Homer is a great episode with Homer and pals attempting to win a bowling tournament, but then Mr. Burns ruins their plans, Two bad neighbours with George Bush senior going head to head with Homer is definitely a standout, Bart on the road is definitely a favourite with Bart supposedly heading off to Canada for a spelling-bee but drives away to Knoxville with his friends, 22 short films about Springfield is definitely different with all these different stories occurring around Springfield at the same time, Homerpalooza, which features many guest bands and Summer of 4ft.2 with Lisa finding herself on a family vacation are decent endings.Matt Groening appears on 16 commentaries which is good to see because he barely gets involved with commentaries these days. David Mirkin gives a nice commentary after one of the episodes about how much he enjoyed being the show runner, a position he began on season 5. I really found the commentaries interesting but that's probably because I am sentimental about the episodes, something which I don't feel about everything post season 10.There are plenty of extras again this season with deleted scenes, available to play with the certain episodes, deleted scenes with commentary which appears on Disc 4 extras. On Disc 1 we've got a featurette on Homer in the third dimension, Paul and Linda McCartney's recipe for Lentil soup from Lisa the vegetarian, an animation showcase. Disc 3 has Art & animation from the animators for The day the violence died - a fun watch, Disc 4 as well as the deleted scenes has a language feature for 22 short films about Springfield, art & animation in a few different forms including original sketches which is interesting to watch.Another great season I would definitely recommend to any fan of this show young or old