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After almost a decade of Simpsons perfection or near-perfection, Season 9 is the beginning of a painful era, in which the emerging weaknesses of the series became more visible than its established strengths. It would take several years for the show to recover from a mediocre team of writers and producers with a painful shortage of new ideas or subversive laughs. The key to keeping the series even partially fresh during this uneven season was to introduce new developments for some of the supporting characters, particularly Apu in "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons," Moe in "Dumbell Indemnity," and Ralph in "This Little Wiggy." The series continued to excel by building a very well-defined cast of supporting characters, <
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>However, character development for the main Simpson family pretty much screeched to a halt this season. This goes especially for Homer, who was nearly ruined this season. Homer's endearing denseness has become simpleton stupidity, played for cheap laughs, while the writers had him committing a distressing quantity of criminal acts. Homer was also subjected to the very amateurish writing strategy of forcing him into new occupations in practically every other episode - all of which wreck the show's continuity and are then never mentioned again - including football coach, carnival worker, naval reservist, FBI informant, sanitation commissioner, and mountain climber. Throwing around transitory one-time ideas like this does constitute quality character development. Meanwhile, fans should be particularly troubled by the completely nonsensical dead-end plots in the awful "Das Bus" and "King of the Hill." <
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>This season also began a worrisome decline in production quality. For example, see the horrendous animation of the football action in "Bart Star," or the sluggish choreography and music in the new segments of "All Singing, All Dancing." The humor's traditional sharp timing and quickness are also sadly deficient this season. The traditional subversive deep thoughts have been largely replaced by cheap guffaws, and even those are in short supply. Just try to find such low quality at any point in the series since the first season, when the team was understandably still refining the show's style. As for the ongoing writing and development of the series, there are still a few episodes in Season 9 that display the old Simpsons brilliance, like "The Joy of Sect" or "Lost Our Lisa." But by Season 9 the golden age was over, and changing production personnel can be blamed. Granted, it's amazing for a show to maintain a high standard of quality for nine years, much less eighteen out in TV land. But even the Simpsons had their ups and downs, and the downs can still be distressing to longtime fans. For collectors of the DVD series, the dark ages are upon us. [~doomsdayer520~]

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ONE OF THE BEST SEASONS!!
ITS SO FUNNY THAT MAKE YOU LAUGH TILL YOUR HEAD !! I WATCHED IT MANY TIMES AND I DONT GET BORED FROM IT !!! :)

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An outstanding season loaded with awesome extras!
If you're anything like me, you're such a huge Simpsons fan that you ran out and bought Season 9 yesterday, the day it released to DVD. And if you haven't yet picked it up and you're a huge Simpsons fan, you simply MUST! When you load in the first disc, it automatically plays a rough cut scene from the upcoming movie set to open in July 2007, which is quite a pleasant surprise. Of course, you'll find all of Season 9's fantastic episodes, like the one where Homer and family head to New York to get Homer's car, one they never show on air anymore since the tragedy on September 11th. You'll also find the one with the Movementarians cult, the one where Bart & Homer become carnies, the one where Homer becomes sanitation commissioner, and the one where Apu gets married, just to name a few. There's also tons of deleted scenes and fun extras to play with. Truly a must-have for your Simpsons collection and since it's the season for giving right now, would make any Simpson fan's holiday season much cheerier. You'll love it! Enjoy!