The Ultimate Simpsons in a Big Ol' Box: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family Seasons 1-12 [Paperback]

Matt Groening (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 22, 2002

For the first time ever, The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, The Simpsons Forever!, and the newest installment The Simpsons Beyond Forever! are collected together in an all-new, deluxe boxed set, celebrating twelve years of simply sensational Simpsons success. Each boxed set also comes with a set of exclusive Simpsons postcards!

From the very first cartoon short to the 12th season, "The Simpsons" has gone from overnight success to cultural phenomenon to television's longest-running prime-time, animated show. Featuring highlights from more than 250 episodes, plot synopses, quotes, character profiles, couch gags, guest stars, and much more, The Ultimate Simpsons in a Big Ol' Box supplies twelve years of giggles and gurgles, chuckles and chortles, snickers and snorts, and hoots and howls that will delight everyone in one, BIG boxed set.

The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Family (Seasons 1-8) This meticulously researched, colorfully rendered, exhaustively indexed, and lovingly fashioned episode guide provides memorable moments and little known facts that will make you an authority on the first eight seasons of "The Simpsons."

The Simpsons Forever! (Seasons 9 & 10) Continuing on from The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, The Simpsons Forever! provides more of everything you came to expect from the first volume. Focusing on Seasons 9 & 10, The Simpsons Forever! features musical moments from "The Simpsons," including the Bart Simpson music videos along with a special tribute to the career of Troy McClure.

The Simpsons Beyond Forever! (Seasons 11 & 12) Picking up where The Simpsons Forever! left off, this new guide tells you everything thing you want to know and more than you think you already know about "The Simpsons." In this volume each episode gets a full two-page, full-color treatment that provides more art and more moments from your favorite episodes from the 11th & 12th Seasons.

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About the Author

Matt Groening, the creator and executive producer of the Emmy^® Award-winning series The Simpsons, as well as creator of the cartoon strip "Life in Hell" and the animated POX television series Futurama, is the man responsible for bringing animation to prime time. In addition, Groening formed Bongo Comics Group in 1993 and currently serves as publisher of their four comic books—Simpsons Comics, Itchy & Scratchy Comics, Bartman, and Radioactive Man.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 22, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060516305
• ISBN-13: 978-0060516307
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 8.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,449,339 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bring you up to speed on our favorite animated family, October 26, 2002

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J. J. Kwashnak "voracious reader" (Monroe, LA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ultimate Simpsons in a Big Ol' Box: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family Seasons 1-12 (Paperback)

As the Simpsons head into their 14th season, there are more and more viewers brought into fandom. With the regular Sunday Night showings, and the ubiquitous syndicated re-runs, as well as the first two seasons on DVD, new fans join the gang. And for those of you who are new to the phenomenon, this is the way to get yourself up to date on what's come before. There have been three volumes of the Simpsons' episodes guide books published; The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, The Simpsons Forever! A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family...Continued, and The Simpsons Beyond Forever. For those who have not bought the books in the past, here is a chance to get all three outstanding volumes in one neat boxed package, and at a price cheaper than buying the three volumes individually. Each episode is given expanded treatment, with a synopsis, quotes from the episode, "in-jokes" and movie references and information on the guest voices. A complete roster of the nearly 300 introductory chalkboards and couch gags are spelled out, as well as other repeating themes, such as the use of "D'oh!" and "Mmmmmm...." And finally, indexes allow you to go looking for certain characters, actors or other reference - perfect for settling those trivia contests or bar bets. If you love the Simpsons, these books are the perfect companion to what Time Magazine declared the Television Show of the Century.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Ultimate Guide for the Ultimate Simpsons Fan, June 15, 2004

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"geforce_6800" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ultimate Simpsons in a Big Ol' Box: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family Seasons 1-12 (Paperback)

This Episode Guide has EVERYTHING that you can ever imagine in an episode guide. From Seasons 1-12, it has details on every single episode. Its got quotes, what Bart writes on the chalkboard in the intro, couch gags, special guest voices, writers, screenshots, episode number (i.e. 8F05), air date, scene selections, runtime, and a whole lot more. All of this for only about $30, what a bargain.

Now I have seen every single Simpsons episode up-to-date but sometimes I forget about an episode or about a quote from a certain episode that I forget but now all I do is look over at my episode guide, track the season down and from there I find out what I needed. This book isn't just for looking for episodes and finding quotes or stuff like that, it can also be entertaining and a time killer (I mean that in a good way). So if you're stuck in the car going on a vacation, you can open this Episode Guide up and have yourself a laugh and maybe even find out some useful stuff that you didn't know about. This is a strong recommendation for any Simpsons fan.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars really, really fun book, November 27, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Ultimate Simpsons in a Big Ol' Box: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family Seasons 1-12 (Paperback)

After we got these books we couldn't put them down! This is a perfect book for any real Simpson's fan. It describes each episode in extreme detail - down to what Bart writes on the blackboard during each of the opening credits! The artwork is great - there is nothing lacking. I picked up the book this morning just to look one thing up, and the next thing I knew an hour had passed and I was still flipping through the pages!