The Complete First Season
This is the first Simpsons box set, released on September 25, 2001 in North America, and September 24, 2001 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It contains all 13 episodes from the first season, remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1. Although the video quality is generally of a high standard, it is from a broadcast tape and not an original film print, as the show was edited on video. The outer packaging is of the family sitting on the couch with Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II sitting upright with them (used a couple of times in Season 1), whereas the inner packaging and the discs feature the family spinning in a vortex. The spine features Bart and Lisa on the outer casing, and Homer, Marge and Maggie on the inner casing.
Episodes
Every episode contains an additional commentary audio track with Matt Groening and usually one or two writers and director of the episode. Season one is on three discs:
- Disc 1
- Disc 2
- Disc 3
Bonus features
- America's First Family, an extract from a 2000 BBC special.
- "Good Night" short from The Tracey Ullman Show.
- Selected clips of the unaired version of "Some Enchanted Evening".
- Audio outtakes from "Life on the Fast Lane".
- A short animatic scene from "Bart the General".
- Life in Hell comic strip, "The Los Angeles Way of Death" from 1982.
- Still gallery of animators' sketches.
- Scripts
- Five foreign language clips from "Life on the Fast Lane"
Easter eggs
These can be played by finding "easter eggs", or hidden menu options in the DVD.
- Bart T-shirt controversy clip from ABC News (accessed by highlighting Bart's T-shirt in the "Extra Features" menu).
- Still gallery of magazine covers printed during the 1989-1990 season (accessed by highlighting the comic book Bart is holding in the "Art of The Simpsons" menu).
Regional differences
- In the Region 2 and Region 4 releases, the episode "Moaning Lisa" is on Disc 2 and the episodes "The Crepes of Wrath" and "Krusty Gets Busted" are on Disc 3. There is also no commentary on the "Some Enchanted Evening" deleted scenes.
- Packaging - The Region 2 version has The Simpsons' logo written in yellow rather than the red of Region 1. The spine also features the whole bodies of Bart and Lisa rather than just their heads.
