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• Actors: Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer
• Directors: Bob Anderson, Jen Kamerman, Jim Reardon, Lance Kramer, Mark Kirkland
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Surround), French (Stereo), Spanish (Stereo)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Dubbed: French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: October 7, 2008
• Run Time: 484 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (205 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000MR8W8I
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,140 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "The Simpsons: The Eleventh Season (Collectible Krusty Head Pack)" on IMDb

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Simpsons Season 11 includes all 22 episodes from the 11th season and bonus material on all 4 discs.

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Simpsons Season 11 includes all 22 episodes from the 11th season and bonus material on all 4 discs.

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54 of 59 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Hopefully Helpful Information October 23, 2008

By Reconnecting To My Childhood

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

I didn't want to just write a review about my initial response to the new box design because I think we all know how we as fans feel about that. First I wanted to give actual information about the set to people who are unsure or when shopping on Amazon don't want to be bothered to look on tv.com for episode lists.

The set contains the following episodes from Season Eleven:

Beyond Blunderdome- Mel Gibson and Homer team up
Brother's Little Helper- Bart has ADD, takes Focusyn Drug
Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner- Homer, Food Critic.
Treehouse of Horror X- Ned: Werewolf, Bart, Lisa: Superpowers, Y2K: World Ends
E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)- Family lives on a farm, Tomaco
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder- Homer bowls 300 and his life peaks
Eight Misbehavin'- Apu has his octuplets
Take My Wife, Sleaze- Homer becomes a biker, biker's kidnap marge
Grift of the Magi- Christmas, Funzo and Gary Coleman
Little Big Mom- Marge breaks leg, Lisa takes over
Faith Off- Bart becomes a faith healer
The Mansion Family- The Simpsons live in Burn's Mansion
Saddlesore Galactica- The Simpsons get a horse, again, Furious D.
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily- Maude Flanders dies
Missionary: Impossible- Homer Vs. PBS, save me Jebus
Pygmoelian- Moe gets plastic surgery.
Bart to the Future- Bart is a deadbeat, Lisa is president.
Days of Wine and D'oh'ses- Barney goes sober.
Kill the Alligator and Run- The family goes to Florida, Spring Break.
Last Tap Dance in Springfield- Lisa finds difficulty tap dancing, Bart lives at the mall.
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge- Otto's girlfriend moves in with the simpsons, Marge gets paranoid.
Behind the Laughter- A parody of behind the music....

Those are the episodes for anyone wondering. As for the box, Amazon sells the limited edition Krusty head cheaper but it is the same as the regular box but with a krusty face rubber cemented on, the same stuff used to hold on the listing of episodes on the back of all previous box sets, so you can remove it and have the regular box but I don't know how much damage the stuff is capable of if it bonds too much and I'd rather just pay more for the other one. The inside of the box is very disappointing, we all know and seem to agree, the cardboard is a bad idea because it defeats the most important purpose of the box set which is to keep our discs well stored and accessable. The tight carboard slots rather than plastic holders make it more difficult to get at our discs and store them properly, though I haven't had problems with it yet I foresee down the road a few years when the constant contact with cardboard will erode and scratch the discs no matter how careful I always am. We buy boxsets to own the episodes and be able to keep them so why make a set that won't preserve the life of the discs? It's not for the enviroment or they wouldn't use that wasteful Krusty head on it or use non-biodegradable cardboard. I think it is just laziness or a bad idea.

Anyway everyone debates their last great season of the Simpsons and this is the one truly great last season for me. Opening with Mel Gibson and ending on the Behind the Music Parody it's entertaining from beginning to end. Twelve and thirteen move further into a bad place in the series where for some of us who grew up on it it became too hard to relate to anymore. I stopped watching completely by the end of thirteen. From here the comedy gets more obvious and straight forward and rather than the quick, rapid fire joke pacing they developed (and Family guy came out with and became known for) they move to a place where they hold on a joke for too long and seem to try too hard. It feels to me like they wrote it trying to make it funny to other people when the rule of comedy is to write something you find funny and so will other people.

Great episodes on the set, commentaries and extras are what they always are and provide some viewers entertainment, I find the commentaries rather amusing as they poke fun at themselves and you can see here that they really find what they wrote in those years amusing. Packaging seems to be everyones sore spot here and I agree but sadly am used to Fox disappointing me in these recent years, first by stopping the release of King of the Hill box sets before the last great seasons and second by only releasing the first season of Malcolm in the Middle and finally with the huge amount of time they took in releasing the Simpson box sets thus far. Thankfully I will only be buying season twelve and then after that I'm finally done with Fox and their dreadful box sets. (What happened to the days of Futurama volumes 1-4, those sets were excellent).

PS.
People in America think they've had trouble with the sets but I live in Canada and besides the set back of season 6 and this recent development with 11 I also had them screw me up on season 8 by changing the titling on the side of the boxes to include les Simpson reverting the Simpsons to half the size to make room (since they have moved both around numerous times on following sets in experimentations but none ever match the previous box sets in the series). With the distinctive art of the show on the cover and the name simpsons in yellow on it you think anyone in any language could tell what this is without specific useless articles of speech being translated. Now I buy from the US. GOB BLESS THE USA.

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars About the boxes... October 7, 2008

By A Regular Joe

Format:DVD

The limited edition box has a 3D krusty head glued to the front of the box the way the episode guide is glued to the back, otherwise they are the exact same box - crappy cardboard boxes that are sure to give your dvds plenty of scratches. The limited edition box also has a coupon to get to the front of the line on the Simpsons ride at Universal.

99 of 115 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Fire whoever is designing these boxes October 8, 2008

By Jim M. Hastings-trew

Format:DVD

I thought the Homer Head box was the pinnacle of stupid in this series, but this one takes the grand prize as the absolute worst DVD packaging I have ever seen. The discs are imprisoned in incredibly tight cardboard sleeves. It is impossible to get the discs out without either bending the cardboard artwork, getting your finger prints on the bottom of the disc, or scraping the disc across the cardboard in a desperate bid to remove and watch them. The whole travesty is then folded up tight, accordion-style. Unfolding the packaging simply makes the discs impossible to remove. You have to jam your fingers into the folded version and hope you don't ruin the disc just trying to get it out.

Whoever designed this mess should be fired.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars The last gasp before the Simpsons' dark age... January 12, 2009

By Matthew T. Weflen VINE™ VOICE

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

I had been wondering when I would stop purchasing season box sets of the Simpsons. Well, I am wondering no longer. After having watched this set all the way through, I recall vividly the point at which this show "jumped the shark."

But I'll get to that in a bit. First off, let me echo all of the other negative reviews of the packaging. This is by far the worst packaging Fox has foisted upon us - and that is saying a LOT. The cardboard sleeves seem designed to either rip in half or scratch the discs inside. Also, let me just say that the DVD menus of the Simpsons sets are atrocious. A user is forced to burrow through layer after irritating layer of menu to find an episode or to do something like turn on subtitles - a function which the disc will not allow you to adjust while the video is playing.

As far as the show itself, here are the highlights:
-"E-I-E-I-Annoyed Grunt": The 'Tomacco' episode is a gem.

-"Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder": A classic. It has all the elements. Bowling, an emotionally based family-values story with Maggie, and a funny guest star who isn't too obtrusive.

-"The Mansion Family": Burns/Smithers is generally golden, and they don't disappoint here.

-"Bart to the Future": Simpsons future stories have always been pretty good. They allow for character development and future humor, which usually works.

-"Little Big Mom": once Lucy Arnez showed up, this show took off.

-"Behind the Laughter": a swan song if there ever was one. After the dreck of the preceding 2 discs, such a perfectly executed and funny episode was almost sad. Except it was still hilarious.

The (very) lowlights:

-"Saddlesore Galactica": Is this the one where the show jumps the shark?... Gosh, when you have a 2-minute musical number featuring evil elfin jockeys, it's hard to argue. Except for:

-"Alone again, Datura-diddly": this has to be just about the worst episode in the show's run. It has joke about an oversized penis, which is REALLY inappropriate for this show; it tries to pull heartstrings by killing a character, but fails because of the off-key humor and the fact that no one cares about Maude Flanders (not even the original voice actress, apparently); it goes on for minute after minute on two painfully unfunny sequences (NASCAR and Ned's dating), it's just a disaster from start to finish. If "Saddlesore" began the leap over the shark, This episode was the stuck landing on waterskis.

-"Days of Wine and D'oh-ses": another side-character focus episode, this one ruining Barney for no apparent reason.

-"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge": any group of writers who can render Parker Posey unfunny has really achieved something for the ages.

Overall, this season has a few more duds than good ones. But its major offenses against the franchise would take nearly a decade and a feature film to recover from. The parade of unfunny, nonsensical guest-stars, and the departure from the kind of storytelling that made the Simpsons "golden age" so good (character driven stories with recognizably human motivations) were really pretty fatal to the show. I LOVED the Simpsons. But it became very difficult to watch after this season. I'm sure there are theories. The departure of this or that writer or producer, actor, etc. But it simply comes down to this: since this season, the show has never really recovered, the bloom was off the rose.

It's worth a purchase at under 20 bones (I got it for 15 in a post-Xmas sale), but not for full price. It's still the Simpsons. It's still better than most stuff on TV. But if you are a true fan who has loved the ten seasons preceding this one, this one will be bittersweet at best (and downright infuriating at worst). If you are a newcomer to the show (which is difficult to imagine), you'd be better served purchasing season 4, let's say. Read more ›

160 of 192 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Mike Scully's Impact...seasons 9-12 February 17, 2008

By Leland M. James

Format:DVD

To all passive Simpsons fans, you will instinctively have knee-jerk, post-season 8 attitude towards the show. Many find the work that Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein on seasons seven an eight to be a peak for the series. Truly, their voices did help to restructure the possibilities within the series. Their focus on creating 'non-traditional' episodes (like 'Who Shot Mr. Burns' '22 Short Films About Springfield' and 'Simpsons Spin-off Showcase') actually reinvigorated a show that had begun to become an institution in television.

We must remeber that there was much discussion as the series turned ten as to when the series should end. Fans and critics were worried that the show would become rather repetative and stale if it continued. Many of the original writers who nursed the show to perfection left to prusue other projects. Season 10/11 was the same year that Futurama premiered, taking David X. Cohen, Matt Groening, Josh Weinstein and Bill Oakley away from the Simpsons. So, the wonderful Mike Scully took over as show runner for seasons 9-12. These three years were definitely transitional in nature, as the series had transcened its efforts in creating a rich cannon of consistency into toying with both its content and perception by these fans who questioned the quality of the show. This is greatly illustrated in two episodes in season 11: Saddlesore Gallactica and Behind the Laughter. The first was a deliberate foible to shatter all expectations towards the show, it used the continuous gag of Jeff Albertson (aka Comic Book Guy) to be the self aware voice of reason: "The Simsons already had a horse, which forced Homer to work extremely long night shifts at Apu's store, with hilarious consequences...." What we get is a direct aim at critics who questioned the use of similar story arcs as the series aged. It was as if the creators were saying 'Yes, we know we did play with this idea before, but the show was not the same then, and we're in charge, and we think this stuff is hillarious.' Not exactly what die-hard fans want to hear, and there was considerable backlash upon this episode's airing by the fan community (Ian Maxtone-Graham is noted as directly attacking this blossoming backlash by the fans: "That's why they're on the Internet and we're writing the show"). But this kind of sparring actually helps this episode seem much more relevant today, with ten years time gone by. We know now that this episode and this season were no where near the low of the series and it actually stands out as a great absurdist template, one that the show would play with at greater detail as the years progressed.

Now Mike Scully did have quite a task on his hands in these years, and there were a few stumbles. However these pale in comparison to the number of complete misses during the following era, the Al Jean years, which we still currently reside in. Season 11 actually is one of the last consitently good seasons the series offered. To those who believe that Ten is a magic number in gauging quality in seasons, as though that was the tipping point, you are sorely mistaken. The tipping point was season 13, when Jean took over, and the series seemed to unfortunaltey suffer as it appeared irrelevant in the Bush 43 era. It is seasons 13-18 that are the hits and misses years, with 18 serving as the absolute worst season ever put out. Yet, season 19 seems to be turning another corner for the show, following its great departure to the big screen last summer. Perhaps, the voices behind the show have rediscovered the passion and interest in the characters yet again. But my opinion, is that the writers of the series these days grew up with the show as children, and have a definitive passion to these characters and this universe. The show has been on for 20 years, and yes it has stumbled at times, but there is always a rediscovery, and new approach to the series that seems to recharge the show. But these characters have penetrated so many wonderful comedic minds of our time that there is a definite love and passion towards this world shared by a huge community of talented aspiring writers. And that is enough, because that means there will always be great voices to fuel the series beyond its occasional dip into mediocrity for ever. And this is one show that could quite possibly last another decade. Seems unlikely, but no one sees an end in sight, which means there is still a passion to use the show as a forum for wit and social commentary that is much appreciated. Do yourself a favor and buy season 11, any hessitation will be put out of your mind upon the first episode, 'Beyond Blunderdome.' A notably strange entry, because it proves there is no way better to end a story than by cutting to the dog with the shifty eyes. Read more ›