In the winter of 1989, when Fox first aired The Simpsons Christmas Special, I started recording the shows, taking care to cut out the commercials. Now, eight years later, I have more than 36 tapes of Simpsons episodes.
Unfortunately, all my work has recently become moot. Fox Home Entertainment has released six early Simpsons episodes on video. Available individually or as a boxed set of three, each of The Best of the Simpsons tapes contains a pair of shows from the first year, as well as an original short from The Tracey Ullman Show.
While you can see the show every day, thanks to reruns, the versions being shown in syndication have a couple minutes clipped out for more commercials. Not so with these videos; all the jokes are here.
With any luck, there'll be more of this series. There's still some great episodes worth preserving. Like the one where Bart cheats on an IQ test, or the one in which Sideshow Bob comes back to get his revenge on Bart, or ...
The Best of the Simpsons: US$9.98 each, $24.98 box set. Fox Home Entertainment: +1 (310) 369 3900.
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