The Simpsons DVD boxsets

The Simpsons DVD season boxsets have been released since 2001 in different regions all over the world. They have been released with Region 1 (North America), Region 2 (Europe) and Region 4 (Australia, and Latin America) encoding.

The first five box sets all have outer packaging based around a memorable couch gag from the show. For the following seasons, the production changed to plastic packages in the shape of the head of one of the Simpson family members or a themed box.

Seasons 1-10

Seasons 1-10

The Complete First Season

This is the first Simpsons box set, released on September 25, 2001 in North America, and September 24, 2001 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It contains all 13 episodes from the first season, remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1. Although the video quality is generally of a high standard, it is from a broadcast tape and not an original film print, as the show was edited on video. The outer packaging is of the family sitting on the couch with no gag (used a couple of times in Season 1), whereas the inner packaging and the discs feature the family spinning in a vortex.

Episodes

Every episode contains an additional commentary audio track with Matt Groening and usually one or two writers and director of the episode. Season one is on three discs:

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• Disc 1
  • "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
  • "Bart the Genius"
  • "Homer's Odyssey"
  • "There's No Disgrace Like Home"
  • "Bart the General"
  • "Moaning Lisa"

• Disc 2
  • "The Call of the Simpsons"
  • "The Telltale Head"
  • "Life on the Fast Lane"
  • "Homer's Night Out"
  • "The Crepes of Wrath"
  • "Krusty Gets Busted"

• Disc 3
  • "Some Enchanted Evening"

Bonus features

• America's First Family, an extract from a 2000 BBC special.
• "Good Night" short from The Tracey Ullman Show.
• Selected clips of the unaired version of "Some Enchanted Evening".
• Audio outtakes from "Life on the Fast Lane".
• A short animatic scene from "Bart the General".
• Life in Hell comic strip, "The Los Angeles Way of Death" from 1982.
• Still gallery of animators' sketches.
• Scripts

"Bart the Genius"

"Bart the General"

"Moaning Lisa"

"Some Enchanted Evening"

• Five foreign language clips from "Life on the Fast Lane"
  • French
  • Italian
  • Spanish
  • Japanese
  • Portuguese

Easter eggs

These can be played by finding "easter eggs", or hidden menu options in the DVD.

• Bart T-shirt controversy clip from ABC News (accessed by highlighting Bart's T-shirt in the "Extra Features" menu).
• Still gallery of magazine covers printed during the 1989-1990 season (accessed by highlighting the comic book Bart is holding in the "Art of The Simpsons" menu).

Regional differences

• In the Region 2 and Region 4 releases, the episode "Moaning Lisa" is on Disc 2 and the episodes "The Crepes of Wrath" and "Krusty Gets Busted" are on Disc 3. There is also no commentary on the "Some Enchanted Evening" deleted scenes.

• Packaging - The Region 2 version has The Simpsons' logo written in yellow rather than the red of Region 1. The spine also features the whole bodies of Bart and Lisa rather than just their heads.

The Complete Second Season

The second season box set was released on August 6, 2002 in North America, and July 8, 2002 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was the second box set to be released, coming about a year after the first season. It contains all 22 episodes from season two. The packaging is based on the couch gag where the family come in with their heads on the wrong bodies. Each disc's picture features a Simpson's body with only the head cut out of it, due to the disc losing space for it (on purpose). The picture behind each disc, when you take the disc off of its centered holder in the package, shows the Simpson sitting at a table with three other Springfield residents. Before each disc loads to its main menu, it shows the four Springfield residents from the disc's picture behind it (in the package), and their heads are not on the right bodies. You have to click on the hand in the center three times before the heads are on the right bodies, and the main menu will also appear at that time. The main menu for each disc has each preceding episode below each other.

Episodes

All episodes contain commentaries with Matt Groening, writers Al Jean and Mike Reiss, and various directors. Season two is on four discs:

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• Disc 1
  • "Bart Gets an F"
  • "Simpson and Delilah"
  • "Treehouse of Horror"
  • "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"
  • "Dancin' Homer"
  • "Dead Putting Society"

• Disc 2
  • "Bart vs. Thanksgiving"
  • "Bart the Daredevil"
  • "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"
  • "Bart Gets Hit by a Car"
  • "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"
  • "The Way We Was"

• Disc 3
  • "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"
  • "Principal Charming"
  • "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
  • "Bart's Dog Gets An F"
  • "Old Money"
  • "Brush with Greatness"

• Disc 4
  • "Lisa's Substitute"
  • "The War of the Simpsons"
  • "Three Men and a Comic Book"
  • "Blood Feud"

Bonus features

• Interview with Matt Groening and James L. Brooks recorded during the second season.
• The Simpsons' presentation at the Emmy Awards on September 16, 1990, achieved by compositing animation over live action.
• Nancy Cartwright presenting at the American Music Awards in a Bart suit on January 28, 1991.
• Two popular music videos (with additional commentary).

"Do the Bartman"-this is the directors cut version that repalces scenes from the Berlin Wall remain, Paris , and Statue of Liberty with an entire dance number from the "cool kids" in the video

"Deep, Deep Trouble"

• "The Creation of an Episode" featurette with David Silverman showing the process of animating an episode; specifically the third segment of "Treehouse of Horror".
• Three Butterfinger commercials featuring Bart:
  • "No Teasing" (1990)
  • "The Bully" (1991)
  • "The Shock" (1991)
• Five foreign language clips from "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish".
  • French
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
• Eighteen magazine covers from 1990 and 1991.
• Storyboards

"Bart Gets an F"

"Bart vs. Thanksgiving"

• Numerous drawings and sketches.

Easter eggs

• Thank you message to David Silverman for providing early sketches and drawings (accessed by highlighting Blinky in the "Language Selection" menu of "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish").
• Four bizarre drawings of Bart's head (accessed by highlighting the torn quilt that Santa's Little Helper is chewing on in the "Language Selection" menu of "Bart's Dog Gets an F").
• Gag drawing of Grampa (accessed by highlighting Grampa's fez in the root menu of "Old Money").
• Model design sheet for Mr. Burns (accessed by highlighting the picture frame in the "Language Selection" menu of "Brush with Greatness").
• Odd drawing of Bart, Milhouse and Martin (accessed by highlighting the baseball card Comic Book Guy is holding in the "Language Selection" menu of "Three Men and a Comic Book").
• Acting poses of Homer for the "Living in a World of Make Believe" sequence (accessed by highlighting the statue's eyes in the "Language Selection" menu of "Blood Feud").
• Extra storyboard (accessed by pressing up on the 11th page of storyboards for "Bart Gets an F")

The Complete Third Season

This box set was released on August 26, 2003 in North America, and October 6, 2003 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The set was also released in Australia on October 22, 2003. It contains all 24 episodes from season three plus additional bonus material. The packaging theme is based on the couch gag where the couch tips back and the family fall through the back wall. This was the first box set to have a "Play All" feature, which enabled the viewer to watch all episodes on one disc sequentially, without having to browse through menus. The main menu features the Simpsons sitting on their couch, but every other menu has all yellow letters/characters with a completely black background. Each preceding selection for each of those menus are below each other, save for the general selections ("back to main menu", "back to episode menu", "resume episode", etc.), which are in a horizontal line formation at the bottom of each menu.

Episodes

Season three is on four discs:

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• Disc 1
  • "Stark Raving Dad"
  • "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington"
  • "When Flanders Failed"
  • "Bart the Murderer"
  • "Homer Defined"
  • "Like Father, Like Clown"

• Disc 2
  • "Treehouse of Horror II"
  • "Lisa's Pony"
  • "Saturdays of Thunder"
  • "Flaming Moe's"
  • "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"
  • "I Married Marge"

• Disc 3
  • "Radio Bart"
  • "Lisa the Greek"
  • "Homer Alone"
  • "Bart the Lover"
  • "Homer at the Bat"
  • "Separate Vocations"

• Disc 4
  • "Dog of Death"
  • "Colonel Homer"
  • "Black Widower"
  • "The Otto Show"
  • "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"
  • "Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes?"

Bonus features

• Five Butterfinger commercial spots from 1992.
  • "The Pacifier"
  • "The Last Butterfinger"
  • "Bart's Karate Lesson"
  • "Good vs. Evil"
  • "Bart's Homework"
• Interactive scene specific sketches that can be seen while playing the episode.
  • "Like Father, Like Clown"
  • "Treehouse of Horror II"
  • "Flaming Moe's"
  • "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"
  • "I Married Marge"
  • "Radio Bart"
  • "Homer Alone"
  • "Dog of Death"
  • "Colonel Homer"
  • "Black Widower"
• Pop-up trivia option in "Colonel Homer".
• Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade clip from 1991 featuring a balloon of Bart on a skateboard.
• Promo clip for "Colonel Homer" with some footage not seen in the episode.
• Simpsons Jukebox feature.
• Four foreign language clips from "Treehouse of Horror II".
  • Spanish
  • Quebecois French
  • Czech
  • Polish
• Storyboards edited by Matt Groening that can either be synced with the episode's audio or viewed as a gallery.
  • "Homer Defined"
  • "Treehouse of Horror II"
  • "Radio Bart"
  • "Black Widower"

Easter eggs

The following episodes contain a fifth audio track with an alternate single person commentary. It can be accessed by either entering "10" on the remote on the "Special Features" menu of each episode or by switching to audio track five with the DVD player's remote while playing the episode:

• "Stark Raving Dad" with Mike Reiss
• "Lisa's Pony" with Mike Reiss
• "Bart the Lover" with Al Jean
• "Separate Vocations" with Al Jean

Audio outtakes that can be accessed from the main menu of disc three by entering "84763" (the price that appears on the cash register during the opening sequence of The Simpsons) and waiting for the menu to reload after each number. If that doesn't work, try hitting the "enter" button after each number. I.E. - 8 "enter" 4 "enter" 7 "enter" 6 "enter" 3 "enter".

• "Homer's Spanish Flea" featuring Dan Castellaneta.
• "Ya Hoo!" featuring Hank Azaria and Dan Castellaneta.
• "Hands Across America" featuring Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright and Yeardley Smith singing.
• "Homer's Foibles" featuring Dan Castellaneta and Beverly D'Angelo ad libbing together.
• "O.J. Smith as Bart" featuring Ozzie Smith's son doing the voice of Bart.
• "Baby Bart" featuring Nancy Cartwright.
• "There's A Party in Ken's Mouth" featuring Ken Griffey, Jr. attempting to speak the line "There's a party in my mouth and everyone's invited".
• "I Want Peanuts" featuring Dan Castellaneta.
• "Milhouse is Down" featuring Pamela Hayden.
• "Clemens' Chicken Sound" featuring Roger Clemens attempting to do a chicken voice.
• "You Should Be Proud, Darryl" featuring Darryl Strawberry and Harry Shearer.
• "Darryl's Got It" featuring Darryl Strawberry attempting to speak the line "I've got it".

Thirteen random drawings by the animators can be seen by entering 7, 4, 2 and pressing enter after each number on the remote in the "Special Features" menu of disc four.

The Complete Fourth Season

This box set was released on June 15, 2004 in North America, and August 2, 2004 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The set was also released in Australia on August 25, 2004. It contains all 22 episodes from season four in addition to numerous bonus features. The packaging theme this time is of all the citizens of Springfield invading the couch gag (and the rest of the box). This set is noted to have an improved menu system over Seasons 1-3. All menus have a random animation that will play when a menu option is selected, but this animation can now be skipped by pressing the "next chapter" button on the DVD player's remote.

Episodes

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Season four is on four discs:

• Disc 1
  • "Kamp Krusty"
  • "A Streetcar Named Marge"
  • "Homer the Heretic"
  • "Lisa the Beauty Queen"

• Disc 2
  • "Treehouse of Horror III"
  • "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"
  • "Marge Gets a Job"
  • "New Kid on the Block"
  • "Mr. Plow"
  • "Lisa's First Word"

• Disc 3
  • "Homer's Triple Bypass"
  • "Marge vs. the Monorail"
  • "Selma's Choice"
  • "Brother from the Same Planet"
  • "I Love Lisa"
  • "Duffless"

• Disc 4
  • "Last Exit to Springfield"
  • "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show"
  • "The Front"
  • "Whacking Day"
  • "Marge in Chains"
  • "Krusty Gets Kancelled"

Bonus features

• Audio intro spoken by Matt Groening.
• Bush vs. Simpsons Controversy.
• The Cajun Controversy.
• Animation Showcases
  • "A Streetcar Named Marge"
  • "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"
  • "Homer's Triple Bypass"
  • "So It's Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show"
• Deleted scenes
  • "Homer's Triple Bypass"
  • "The Front"
• Cormercials Simpsons (1993), Simpsons (1992), Butterfinger: Beach Homer with Crabs (May 1995) & KFC (1993).

Easter eggs

• A bonus audio commentary with Conan O'Brien on "Marge vs. the Monorail" can be accessed by either entering "150" on the remote in the episode's "Extras" menu and clicking on the microphone or by switching to the fifth audio track while playing the episode.
• Hidden sketches of Homer can be accessed by entering "240" on the remote in the "Extras" menu of "Homer's Triple Bypass" and clicking on the pencil that appears.
• Hidden sketches of Krusty can be accessed by entering "35" on the remote in the "Extras" menu of "Krusty Gets Kancelled" and clicking on the pencil that appears.

The Complete Fifth Season

This box set was released on December 21, 2004 in North America, only six months after Season 4. It was released in the UK and Ireland on March 21, 2005 and March 23, 2005 in Australia. It contains all 22 episodes from season five, and has the memorable extra-long circus couch gag as its main packaging theme. It's main menu format features a picture at the top half of the page based on an episode it contains, with various things happening in it. The bottom half of the page contains each episode with a "play" button next to it, and a "plus" button that goes to the episode's menu. Each episode's menu is exactly the same way. It is sometimes packaged with a "Includes the 100th Episode!" sticker.

Episodes

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Season Five is on four discs:

• Disc 1
  • "Homer's Barbershop Quartet"
  • "Cape Feare"
  • "Homer Goes to College"
  • "Rosebud"
  • "Treehouse of Horror IV"

• Disc 2
  • "Marge on the Lam"
  • "Bart's Inner Child"
  • "Boy Scoutz N the Hood"
  • "The Last Temptation of Homer"
  • "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"
  • "Homer the Vigilante"

• Disc 3
  • "Bart Gets Famous"
  • "Homer and Apu"
  • "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy"
  • "Deep Space Homer"
  • "Homer Loves Flanders"
  • "Bart Gets an Elephant"

• Disc 4
  • "Burns' Heir"
  • "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"
  • "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"
  • "Lady Bouvier's Lover"
  • "Secrets of a Successful Marriage"

(*=Credited as "$pringfield")

Bonus features

• Commercials.
• Animation Showcases.
• Special Language Feature.
• A Look Back with James L. Brooks.
• Deleted Scenes.
• Commentary on all Episodes.

Easter eggs

• You can highlight certain objects on each of the main menus to see some extra animation.
• The menu for "Deep Space Homer" contains a hidden outtake of James Taylor recording the version of "Fire and Rain" that appears in the episode.
• On Disc 4, on the "Art and Animations" menu, you can higlight the 100 episode banner to hear a secret commentary on the animatic. (Can also be accessed by using the 'Audio' button on the animatic.)

Limited edition boxes

From the sixth season of The Simpsons on, boxes in the shape of the family member's heads became available (they are only available as "limited edition" outside the US). Due to consumer complaints, cardboard box-sets have also been released to ease the controversy surrounding the new design. The cardboard box-sets have been added to have a hole on the front cover for a special feature.

• Season 6- Homer's Head/Who Shot Mr. Burns? Theme - Hole is in the magnifying glass.
• Season 7- Marge's Head/Celebrity Theme - Hole is in the camera lens where Marge's eye is.
• Season 8- Maggie's Head/Family Album Theme - Hole is in the picture of Maggie's first tooth.
• Season 9- Lisa's Head/Music Theme - Hole is the message "200th episode" on the ticket.
• Season 10- Bart's Head/Driving Theme - Hole is in the picture of a security guard at a parking lot.

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The Complete Sixth Season

This box set was released on August 16, 2005 in North America, September 28, 2005 in Australia and October 17 2005 in the UK and Ireland. It contains all 25 episodes from season six. The couch gag packaging was discontinued as of this season, instead having separate themes for each box set. The recurring style of the booklet that came with each box set was also discontinued, instead being incorporated into the theme of the box. The Sixth Season's overall theme is "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", the only ever Simpsons cliffhanger, whilst the booklet theme is that of a police investigation file. The menus continue the format from The Complete Fifth Season. The 'window' in the outer box that shows the inner casing was carried on from the couch gag sets to the regular-shaped box sets for the Sixth through Tenth seasons. For the Sixth Season the window is Homer's eye through the magnifying glass, which shows through to a picture of Homer's face.

Episodes

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• Disc 1
  • "Bart of Darkness"
  • "Lisa's Rival"
  • "Another Simpsons Clip Show"
  • "Itchy & Scratchy Land"
  • "Sideshow Bob Roberts"
  • "Treehouse of Horror V"
  • "Bart's Girlfriend"

• Disc 2
  • "Lisa on Ice"
  • "Homer Bad Man"
  • "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"
  • "Fear of Flying"
  • "Homer the Great"
  • "And Maggie Makes Three"
  • "Bart's Comet"

• Disc 3
  • "Homie the Clown"
  • "Bart vs. Australia"
  • "Homer vs. Patty & Selma"
  • "A Star Is Burns"
  • "Lisa's Wedding"
  • "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds"
  • "The PTA Disbands!"

• Disc 4
  • "'Round Springfield"
  • "The Springfield Connection"
  • "Lemon of Troy"
  • "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"

Bonus features

• Commentary on all episodes.
• Deleted scenes.
• Springfield's Most Wanted TV special.
• Commercials.
• The Simpsons promotional plane footage.
• Animation showcases.
• Special language featurette.

Easter eggs

• On all episode menus, you can highlight the episode number after you watched at least one second of the episode. Usually it will just continue, but on "Treehouse of Horror V," you will see an eye peek through the logo that says "Season Six Disc One." Also, on "Who Shot Mr. Burns (part one)" some gun shots will appear through the menu.
• A drawing of the Simpsons' house made out of squirrels (a cut scene from "Treehouse of Horror V") can be accessed by highlighting the 'Play All Deleted Scenes With Commentary' option from the Extras menu of Disc 4, pressing Right, and selecting the pencil icon.
• If you watch the episode "Fear of Flying" with the audio commentary, after the episode is complete there is a short memorial for guest star Anne Bancroft, who died just before the boxset was released, by David Mirkin.

Box controversy

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Simpsons Season 6 Flyer Inside "Homer Head" DVD Box

The new design model for Season 6 has sparked controversy among Simpsons DVD collectors. Most do not have a problem with the box itself, the problem stems from the fact that a sense of uniformity in the DVD collection is now lost. However, there have also been complaints that the plastic is weak and tends to wear down quickly.

A flyer included in the set directs purchasers to a website which allows those disaffected with the "Homer's Head" design to receive (for $2.95 US or $4.95 CA shipping) a box for the season which will be uniform. The website (and flyer inside the DVD set) is vaguely and humorously insulting to consumers who are "afraid of change" and are "anal-retentive nerds who want their DVD boxes to line up on the shelf."

It was announced on August 25 2005 that the UK release on October 17 2005 would have two covers - the Homer head would be limited edition and only 50,000 would be released. The alternate cover art was speculated to also be the USA alternative cover art. Copies of the alternative box began arriving to the USA in late September 2005, and it was indeed the black 'Homer magnifying glass' box. However, there have still been complaints - the fact that it doesn't have a couch gag, that the 'Homer head' innards must be placed inside, thus it is different from past sets, the fact that the box falls apart easily and that, overall, it is not an "old-style just-like-before box" as the flyer quoted.

The Complete Seventh Season

The Complete Seventh Season was released on December 13, 2005 in North America and January 27, 2006 in Ireland on January 30, 2006 in the UK and in Australia on March 29, 2006. It contains all 25 episodes from season seven. The set was released in two different covers: a Marge head to match the Homer head of Season 6, and also a regular-shaped box. The menus continue the same format from the Complete Fifth and Sixth Seasons, and the overall theme (menus, packaging etc.) is a Celebrity Theme- (possibly to do with the 138th episode celebration or episode 22 Short Films About Springfield), and the booklet's theme was a newspaper. Unlike season 6, you cannot get both of the box designs unless you buy one of each at full price. The 'window' for this box is Marge's eye in the camera viewfinder, which leads through to a picture of Marge similar to the cover of the head-shaped box. The episodes on the DVD set are:

Episodes

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• Disc 1
  • "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)"
  • "Radioactive Man"
  • "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"
  • "Bart Sells His Soul"
  • "Lisa the Vegetarian"
  • "Treehouse of Horror VI"

• Disc 2
  • "King-Size Homer"
  • "Mother Simpson"
  • "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"
  • "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular"
  • "Marge Be Not Proud"
  • "Team Homer"
  • "Two Bad Neighbors"

• Disc 3
  • "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"

• Disc 4
  • "22 Short Films About Springfield"
  • "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish""
  • "Much Apu About Nothing"
  • "Homerpalooza"
  • "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"

Bonus features

• Introduction by Matt Groening.
• Commentaries on all episodes.
• Deleted Scenes for 15 of the episodes.
• Featurette - "Homer in the 3rd Dimension".
• Featurette - "Paul and Linda's Lentil Soup".
• Illustrated commentaries.
• Art and animation features.
• Smithers Trading Card.

Audio outtakes by Kelsey Grammer were also mentioned in the official press release, however these are not featured on the set.

Easter eggs

• By watching "Team Homer" with commentary, a special message from David Mirkin about his show-running job ending will appear at the end.

The Complete Eighth Season

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The two variations of the disc art shown here on disc 1.

The Complete Eighth Season was released in the U.S. on August 15 2006, and on October 2 2006 in the UK. The release date in Australia was September 27 2006. It contains all 25 episodes from season eight. The set was released in two different forms: a Maggie-shaped head to match the Homer and Marge shaped heads of the previous two sets and also a standard rectangular shaped box. Like The Complete Seventh Season, both box set versions are available for sale separately. Both editions share the same theme of a Simpsons' family picture album. The back has a film reel with pictures of Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II. The menus again continue the format first used in the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Season DVDs. The window on the package front is inside the top picture of the photo book Maggie is holding, showing her first tooth as well as her mouth that is on the packaging inside.

There are two known versions of disc art for this box set being found in seemingly random products. One version has the Simpsons family members holding up the number of fingers pertaining to each disc. The other version simply has the family members posing with a number in the form of a camera lens reflection signifying the disc number.

Episodes

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• Disc 1
  • "Treehouse of Horror VII"
  • "You Only Move Twice"
  • "The Homer They Fall"
  • "Burns, Baby Burns"
  • "Bart After Dark"
  • "A Milhouse Divided"

• Disc 2
  • "Lisa's Date with Density"
  • "Hurricane Neddy"
  • "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"*1
  • "The Springfield Files"
  • "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"
  • "Mountain of Madness"
  • "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"*2

• Disc 3
  • "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"
  • "Homer's Phobia"
  • "Brother from Another Series"
  • "My Sister, My Sitter"
  • "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment"
  • "Grade School Confidential"
  • "The Canine Mutiny"

• Disc 4
  • "The Old Man and the Lisa"
  • "In Marge We Trust"
  • "Homer's Enemy"
  • "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"
  • "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"

(*1=Credited as "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer")

(*2=Credited as "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(D'oh)cious")

Bonus features

• The Simpsons House featurette with James L. Brooks about The Simpson House built in Las Vegas.
• Animation Showcase: "In Marge We Trust" - Act III, "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" - Act I, and "Treehouse of Horror VII" - Act III
• Illustrated Commentary: "Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment", "Lisa's Date With Density", "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson", and "Treehouse of Horror VII" - Act III.
• Deleted Scenes gallery with optional commentary by Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Josh Weinstein, and Steven Dean Moore.
• Promotional spots featuring Matt Groening.
• Sketch gallery.
• A special language feature of "Homer's Enemy" in four different languages: Czech, German, French and Japanese.

Easter eggs

On the episode menus for one or two episodes on each disc, if a red button is seen on the video projector, select it and you will get a secret deleted scene from that episode. These episodes are:

• "You Only Move Twice"
• "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"
• "Mountain of Madness"
• "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"
• "The Old Man and the Lisa"
• "Homer's Enemy"

The Complete Ninth Season

The Complete Ninth Season was released in the U.S. and Canada (Region 1) on December 19, 2006, UK (Region 2) on January 29 2007, and Australia (Region 4) on March 21, 2007. The box set comes in two varieties – a limited edition Lisa Simpson head-shaped box and a standard rectangular box with artwork prominently featuring Lisa and her saxophone. The theme of the set is based around the 200th episode ("Trash of the Titans"), a concert, and an edition of "Rocking Stone" magazine.

A special bonus item consists of a sneak preview of the Simpsons Movie (due to be released in the Summer of 2007) that plays after placing Disc #1 into your DVD player. Homer introduces the short scene by asking the viewers NOT to tell Fox Studios that the clip is here, and to not complain that it's not in color. (He then, in typical Homer fashion, screams "What happened to the color!?!" as the clip begins.)

Once again, the menus continue in the same format already used in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Season DVDs. Also, on each disc, you can hear Lisa playing her saxaphone before the menus show up.

The boxset also comes with six 5 inch by 5 inch postcards, musically themed, including the three album cover parodies featured on the famous edition of Rolling Stone.

The Complete Ninth Season also features surprise commentators; Jay Leno on "The Last Temptation of Krust" and John Swartzwelder (via phone) on "The Cartridge Family", although the person on the phone denies being Swartzwelder at the end of the call.

In the Region 1 and Region 2 versions of the Boxset, some of the episodes in the booklet are incorrectly stated as being on disk three when they are actually on disk two.

Episodes

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• Disc 1
  • "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"
  • "The Principal and the Pauper"
  • "Lisa's Sax"
  • "Treehouse of Horror VIII"
  • "The Cartridge Family"
  • "Bart Star"

• Disc 2
  • "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"
  • "Lisa the Skeptic"
  • "Realty Bites"
  • "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace"
  • "All Singing, All Dancing"
  • "Bart Carny"
  • "The Joy of Sect"

• Disc 3
  • "Das Bus"
  • "The Last Temptation of Krust"
  • "Dumbbell Indemnity"
  • "Lisa the Simpson"
  • "This Little Wiggy"
  • "Simpson Tide"
  • "The Trouble With Trillions"

• Disc 4
  • "Girly Edition"
  • "Trash of the Titans"
  • "King of the Hill"
  • "Lost Our Lisa"
  • "Natural Born Kissers"

Bonus features

• Commentary on every episode by various people
• The Simpsons Movie Exclusive Sneak Peek
• Animation Showcase: Principal & The Pauper, Lisa The Simpson Act 1
• Illustrated Commentary: "All Singing, All Dancing" with Matt Groening, Yeardley Smith, Mike B. Anderson, Pete Michels
• Illustrated Commentary: "Lost Our Lisa" with Matt Groening, Yeardley Smith, Mike B. Anderson, Pete Michels
• Deleted Scenes Gallery with intro by Mike Scully and optional commentary with Matt Groening, Mike Scully, Josh Weinstein, David Mirkin, Al Jean, Steve O'Donnell
• Promotional Spots: Butterfinger "Alien" (May 1998), Butterfinger "Hit a Homer" (May 1998), *Butterfinger "Philosophy" (July 1998), CC's Chips Australia "Parachutist" (June 1998), CC's Chips Australia "Homerdini" (June 1998)
• Sketch Gallery
• Special Language Feature in four different languages: Polish, Portuguese, German, and Japanese
• A Riff From Matt Groening
• A Moment With U2

Easter eggs

• Like in season 8, there are a few extra deleted scenes seen by pressing the red button that blinks on some of the speakers on the episode menu. The episodes are:

• "The Principal and the Pauper"
• "Treehouse of Horror VIII"
• "The Cartridge Family"
• "Realty Bites"
• "The Joy of Sect"
• "The Last Temptation of Krust"
• "Lisa the Simpson"
• "Simpson Tide"
• "Girly Edition"
• "Natural Born Kissers"

• In the episode menu of "Trash of the Titans", after the animation, press 7, and then 27 (the day The Simpsons Movie opens in 2007), and you'll see David Silverman working on the movie.
• Also on the episode menu of "Trash of the Titans" if you wait for the clip to end, the words The 200th will appear, Homer's eyeballs making the two zeros.
• In the episode "Lisa the Simpson" when Lisa looks at the brain teaser at lunch press the 6 button and a hidden, episode-long commentary from Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein reflecting on their time working on the show and saying goodbye will come up. This secret is hinted at by Matt Groening in his intro.

The Complete Tenth Season

The Complete Tenth Season of The Simspons is due for release in the US on August 7th, 2007. The release dates for Australia and the UK will be revealed very soon.

Episodes

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• Disc 1
  • "Lard of the Dance"
  • "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"
  • "Bart the Mother"
  • "Treehouse of Horror IX"
  • "When You Dish upon a Star"
  • "D'oh-in in the Wind"
• Disc 2
  • "Lisa Gets an "A""
  • "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble""
  • "Mayored to the Mob"
  • "Viva Ned Flanders"
  • "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"
  • "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"
• Disc 3
  • "Homer to the Max"
  • "I'm with Cupid"
  • "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers""
  • "Make Room for Lisa"
  • "Maximum Homerdrive"
  • "Simpsons Bible Stories"
• Disc 4
  • "Mom and Pop Art"
  • "The Old Man and the "C" Student"
  • "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"
  • "They Saved Lisa's Brain"
  • "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo"

Bonus features

• Introduction by Matt Groening
• Audio commentaries on 16 episodes
• Deleted Scenes with optional commentry
• Animation Showcase for Lard Of The Dance
• Animation Showcase for Homer To The Max
• The Simpsons Movie - DVD Sneak Peek
• Butterfinger Commercials
• Intel Homer Advert
• CC's Commercials
• Sketch Gallery with 5 images
• Crank Calls 5:40
• A Bit From the Animators