Release Date: 08/26/2003
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/Espanol/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 551 min
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
The Simpsons: The Complete Third Season box set is an excellent DVD release from
FOX. This four-disc set contains all 24 episodes originally aired from 1991-1992, each presented with a standard full-frame transfer and including all the jokes and little errors that you may have missed during the commercial television broadcast. The original 2.0 stereo soundtrack has been remixed in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound for the DVD presentation in English. The Spanish and French soundtracks are rendered in good old stereo, and the language menu uses side characters to represent each option. Subtitles are also available in English, French, and Spanish. There are a lot of supplements on this disc, and they're all pretty good. First of all, there's an audio commentary track for every single episode, with different groups of participants. Crew members like
David Silverman and
Al Jean provide most of the remarks, frequently involving character evolutions, story development, bits of inspiration, and celebrity gossip. Cast members
Dan Castellaneta and
Julie Kavner also provide some comments on a couple of episodes. For those interested in pre-animation sketches and storyboards, there are a lot of them. The storyboards can be viewed manually and the sketches can be viewed by pressing enter when a little pencil appears during an episode (optionally, of course). Other extraneous information can be gleaned with pop-up video-style trivia during the episode "
Colonel Homer." There's also a really cool Jukebox feature with access to every song from the third season. Other special features include Butterfinger commercials, the Thanksgiving Day parade appearance,
FOX promos, some hidden Easter eggs, and a sturdy booklet detailing the episode info. Overall, this is an awesome DVD release for any fan of
The Simpsons.
~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
