The Simpsons: Season 10

Season ten was an historic season of the Simpsons. Granted, I like many other reviewers here, think season 9 was better, some might say, the best.However, season ten had many important things, such as the last Phil Hartman episode (forever a sad day in Simpsons, Newsradio, comedy, etc). Also guest stars included the voices of Lisa Kudrow, Regis Philbin, Kathie Lee Gifford, Jerry Springer, Ed McMahon, Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, George Carlin, Mark Hamill, The Moody Blues, Cyndi Lauper, John Madden, Troy Aikman, Dan Marino, Pat Summerall, Roosevelt Grier, Fred Willard, Dolly Parton, Rupert Murdoch, Yo La Tengo, Elton John, Hank Williams, Jr., Jasper Johns, Isabella Rossellini, Jack La Lanne, Stephen Hawking, and George Takei.Episodes such as Hell Toupee (classic), D'Oh in the Wind (just watch it), Mayored to the mob(luke, be a jedi tonight), Homer to the Max (one of my top 5 fave episodes ever), and Simpsons over Tokyo (my favorite from this season) all combine to make for a solid Simpsons experience.I would definitely recommend this to anyone interested in comedy, the Simpsons, or as a gift to someone who does. A very funny show, still in its prime/early-early decline. DEFINITELY worth the time and expense.Thanks

Great DVD. You get five stars.

It will be forever debated among Simpson fans and fanatics where, exactly, the season did the Fonz trick, but my own opinion is it hasn't gotten there yet.As with any long running comedy show, you can't have winners (or winning seasons) all the time. But given that some of the best episodes are still yet to come (in terms of release) Season 10 is not only a must have, but remains solid evidence this show is still the most consistent laugh getter on television in the last 50 years.But the bottom line is this -- if you are a Simpson fan who has been buying these DVDs are you *really* going to be satisfied owning only the first nine seasons? Pretty obviously no one who has ever laughed at even one episode will pass this set by. So stop the debate and just go ahead and get this.

I love this show so much! Plus all of the discs are there and in great working order.

While I can't site the episode name, number, or even season (and I don't think that makes me any less of a fan), I do remember that at the end of one of their clip shows The Simpsons did a parody of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" with the line "We'll never stop The Simpsons". I took that promise to heart, and I sincerely hope that they never do. I've been watching The Simpsons since right around the beginning of the series, and have seen about 95% of the episodes. I disagree with those that say that The Simpsons are going "downhill" or that they are not as good as they used to be. The reason that The Simpsons has been around for 18 (20) years is that the writers, producers, and voice actors have kept it from getting stale. Some things must change for the series to stay fresh. If you really watch the episodes, you can see that there are phases that the series has gone through. If The Simpsons had stayed the same as it was in the groundbreaking first season we all would have stopped watching it years ago and it would have been ultimately pulled off the air. You can't have a concept around for 20 years and expect it to always be the same as you remembered it.The fact is, The most recent episode of The Simpsons is just as great as any episode from the much lauded season 8, just a bit different.

First off, I have to say that I absolutely love the Simpsons. Seasons 3 to 9 are still among the best television ever produced. The stories had broken out of the middle class family sitcom mold of the first 2 seasons yet were still cohesive; the writing was tight, without any padding; the characters were outrageous but still had emotional depth; the jokes were often thoroughly but subtly set up, callbacks were often surprising, and among the more obvious one-liners and sight gags, very few fell flat. 3 and 9 were, in my opinion, the upward and downward slope from the absolute peak of seasons 4 to 8, but were still great.Season 10 is when things definitely started getting shakier, before completely going off a cliff in season 11. No single episode in season 10 is truly bad, but the bad signs are definitely there. The writing starts relying more on an uneven string of throwaway one-liners that seldom reveal a deeper character underneath, or make incisive social commentary, and that start to fall flat with increasing frequency. Callback jokes are often seen from a mile away and sight gags aren't as clever. The stories themselves became more unwieldy, entailing ever more outlandish scenarios, and they're often quickly set up at the beginning and then neatly tied up at the end, with lots of fluff and meandering in between.I hadn't seen season 9 and 10 in a few years and watching them again, it's really surprising just how quickly the quality deteriorated. Even sadder is the fact that the show is still on, and that this turn for the worse happened basically a third of the way through the show's run. I can't bring myself to watch the new seasons; it's too risky.Still, this season deserves 4 stars. Even though it's not the best Simpsons season, it's still really good, and it's still a lot better than much of the drivel on TV, both when it originally aired and especially now. If anything, it's interesting to see it as the inflection point from the show's golden era to what it's become today.

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Great Bible-themed episode of The Simpsons