Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #341 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-09-28
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Full Screen, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 9
• Running time: 450 minutes

Customer Reviews

Beautiful packing that damaged the discs
I really like this season and it has some of my favourite episodes; HOMR, Worst Episode Ever and the sublime Trilogy of Error.

The packing is gorgeous - the crimson outer box is lovely and the discs are held in a separate, six-fold concertina which is wonderfully decorated with scenes of a Springfield sci-fi convention.

However, there is an issue with the packing. Having lived with it for a few days, I realise that almost everything about the cover and sleeves ensures they're going to get damaged themselves and cause damage to the discs.

The outer box is of quite thin card and it's going to need supreme care not to crush and crease it. There's a fold-in flap that I'm having to leave open if I don't want to crease the box taking the inner packing out.

What people say about the inner box is true; it's a chore and scratches the discs. When I took them out the first time, all 4 discs were scratched already. In pulling one disc out, I scratched the playing side badly on the edge of the adjacent disc (this is possible because each pair of discs comes out edge first from a slot on either side of a fold in the concertina). Lastly, the tightness of each 'wallet' makes it hard to get a grip on the disc when trying to get it out. You either have to bend and crease the wallet or use your finger or nail on the surface of the disc to get a grip on it, guaranteed to grease or scratch it.

The scratched disc seems to play ok but I was very lucky not to have ruined it. I honestly feel I was careful with the packaging because I'd seen a warning about it elsewhere.

Many of the episodes in this set are good to great. But the packaging ensures that both it and the contents are going to be damaged.

Overall, I have to give this set 2 stars. Good episodes, lovely looking artwork, but incomprehensible design.

Horrible Packaging
OK my review is not about the season it is about the Boxest it is the worst one ever they have not taken any of the reviews to mind and have made the packeging even worse. i ripped the box as i was treying to get the dvds out they have made the cardboard sleeve even tighter

The Packaging
If you like The Simpsons, you'll get this regardless of the quality of the episodes (although I admit they were starting to go downhill around this point, thanks to Jerkass Homer). I can't exactly give a review for 21 episodes.

But the one star is because of the packaging. If you disliked Season 11's packaging (and that was pretty awful) this is even WORSE.

Last time, the DVDs were held in a dreadful little case that had 'pockets' for the DVDs that make them difficult to remove. Despite all complaints, that method of holding remains.

And worse, the actual BOX is more like something you hold cornflakes in, or one of those small Sunmaid Raisins boxes (without the pro of having raisins), and you need to open a flap to get the DVDs out. You can't just slide them out. And worse, they're tightly wrapped so that it's also tough to get them back in. And that little thing that used to insert inside with information about the season? Now it's stuck to the back, very vulnerable to damage. And not well-stuck on either.

This is The Simpsons; they can AFFORD to have decent packaging. But they're being real cheapskate - usually only the very cheapest and crappest of movies are wrapped up like this. And we're STILL paying the same price as we were back when Seasons 1 to 4 came out. It's not like these guys are exactly POOR, and NEED to save a few pennies. It's just pure cheapskate laziness.

This really is NOT good enough.