The Simpsons: The Twelfth Season

This season includes some classic episodes including "Treehouse of Horror XI", "HOMR" and "Simpson Tall Tales". Definitely not one to be missed. The only complaint that I have about this season is that in the episode Simpson Safari in the scene where their African guide is singing to a song on the radio, when it originally aired there were subtitles that translated the lyrics but they are mysteriously missing from the DVD.

Where to begin.Let's see. Simpsons Season 12 is filled with deleted scenes, tons of big name voice guest stars, extras and much more. Yet, what does that all matter if the content ( the episodes ) don't hit a homerun.

In my opinion, this is were The Simpsons start to curve downward. I'm not saying they're horrible episodes. All I'm saying is this is the start of it becoming not as funny as prior seasons. I loved to death seasons 1-11. This season is good just not great.

Enough rambling..lets talk episodes...

There are 21 episodes, and yes there are some far better than others in my opinion. Undoubtely my tops 3 favorite episodes of this season are in no particular order :

** I'm Going To Praiseland --I love Ned Flanders character and all of his episode based shows are so touching to me. This one is really good.

** Hungry Hungry Homer-- I love Homer's drive to stand up for whats right. Super funny episode though very serious. I mean sheesh think about it, Homer on a hunger strike, the odds of that are once in a lifetime :)

** HomR-- Another Homer based episode, I thought it was funny the first half of the episode than it gets really heartwarming and serious toward the end. It has the old vibe simpsons aura to it, with Homer and Lisa finding a bond like they have so many times before.

The episode that I didn't care too much for was Insane Clown Poppy. All in all this season is a good season at best. BTW, I'm not a fan of the packaging for this season, season 11 and season 20. Whats up Fox. Anyways pick it up if your a hardcore Simpsons fan, like me.

This was a gift for my son. He said it was great. His words.

There had been some decline in the quality of the episodes starting in season 9, but after I bought this and watched all the episodes...I realized this was the season in which I started to not enjoy the Simpsons nearly as much as the other seasons. I am a die hard season 2-11 Simpsons fan and could not live without those box sets but the others are hit and miss at best. It was a sad day after I finished the episodes and realized it was the last Simpsons box I would buy and that I needed to resell this set before it lost any value. The start of the smug Simpsons where there are environmentalist themes and an increase in (sigh) unfunny Lisa episodes.

I have season 1-12 and 20 already and purchased this to keep my set complete the only issue I have is that disk 1 will not play in my Sony Playstation 2 it just makes really loud noises not sure if it's my system or what because it will play in the Rca DVD player in the living room, on the other hand the rest of the disks play on the Playstation so I don't know I just thought it was worth mentioning. Also the first set was lost in transit prompt replacment sent out. Very happy with customer service.