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The Complete Fourth Season
The Simpsons
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Release Date June 15, 2004
Format DVD
Region 1
Distributor 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Disc Count 4
Episode Count 22
Running Time 506 minutes
Retail Price $49.98
Video Full Screen (4:3)
Audio English: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital Surround
French: Dolby Digital Surround
Subtitles
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The Complete Fourth Season is the fourth DVD season set from The Simpsons. It contains every episode from the fourth season, including several fan favorites written by then upcoming writer Conan O'Brien.

Contents

A Word from Matt Groening

Welcome to the daffy, laffy, fun-as-saltwater-taffy Fourth Big Boxed Set of The Simpsons on DVD, featuring every yak, chortle, titter and knee-slapper from perhaps the greatest season in the show's history, at least until Season 5.

This box is full of many fan favorites: Bart and Lisa's ill-fated trip to Kamp Krusty; Homer's encounter with a five-fingered God ( the theological implications of which are staggering); Maggie's great escape from the Ayn Rand School for Tots; Marge, Apu, Chief Wiggum, and Flanders singing their hearts out in "Oh! Streetcar!"; the disturbing debut of Itchy & Scratchy in "Steamboat Itchy"; the legendary Mr. Plow/Plow King rivalry the animated adventures of Worker & Parasite; Ralph Wiggum's immortal "Choo-Choo-Choose Me" valentine to Lisa; and of course the classic monorail episode. That's the one that has my all-time favorite Simpsons line, when Homer points at the hissing possum family and says: "I call the big one Bitey."

So, on behalf of the brilliant animators, actors, writers, musicians, production team, and assorted abused underlings, I'd like to welcome you to another great batch of The Simpsons, or as you say in France, Les Simpsons." - Matt Groening

Disc Breakdown

Disc 1

Disc 2

Disc 3

Disc 4

Special Features

  • The Cajun Controversy: Jeff Martin, writer of A Streetcar Named Marge, comments about the controversy surrounding a song he wrote for the episode. The song is about how terrible New Orleans is and how it's the "Home of pirates, drunks and whores," but it was meant to be a parody of a Sweeney Todd song about how lousy London is. A New Orleans critic saw the episode in a screening and published the lyrics prior to the episode's release, which caused a lot of anger in the city and may have lead to the show being pulled from the New Orleans affiliate temporarily. Fox quickly issued an apology and animators rushed together a "I will not defame New Orleans" blackboard gag for the next episode.
  • Bush vs. Simpson: James L. Brooks talks about the People article fated October 1, 1990 in which Barbara Bush declared that The Simpsons "was the dumbest thing [she] had ever seen." In response, the writers sent a letter to Bush in the voice of Marge as response. Julie Kavner reads this letter aloud.
Dear First Lady:
I recently read your criticism of my family. I was deeply hurt. Heaven knows we're far from perfect and, if truth be known, maybe just a wee bit short of normal; but as Dr. Seuss says, "a person is a person."
I try to teach my children Bart, Lisa, and even little Maggie, always to give somebody the benefit of the doubt and not talk badly about them, even if they're rich. It's hard to get them to understand this advice when the very First Lady in the country calls us not only dumb, but "the dumbest thing" she ever saw. Ma'am, if we're the dumbest thing you ever saw, Washington must be a good deal different than what they teach me at the current events group at the church.
I always believed in my heart that we had a great deal in common. Each of us living our lives to serve an exceptional man. I hope there is some way out of this controversy. I thought, perhaps, it would be a good start to just speak my mind.
With great respect,
Marge Simpson
The letter was sent on September 28, 1990 and a reply was received on October 9, 1990, written by Barbara Bush as if Marge were a real person. It is as follows:
Dear Marge,
How kind of you to write. I'm glad you spoke your mind ... I foolishly didn't know you had one.
I am looking at a picture of you ... depicted on a plastic cup ... with your blue hair filled with pink birds peeking out all over. Evidently, you and your charming family ... Lisa, Homer, Bart and Maggie ... are camping out. It is a nice family scene. Clearly you are setting a good example for the rest of the country.
Please forgive a loose tongue.
Warmly,
Barbara Bush
P.S. Homer looks like a handsome fella!
It seemed like the matter was over with that, but the controversy popped up again when George H. W. Bush addressed a convention of religious broadcasters and said families need to be "a lot more like The Waltons and a lot less like The Simpsons. Brooks shows their response to this, with a family watching the speech on television and Bart saying, "Hey, we're just like the Waltons. We're praying for an end to the depression too!" Brooks was later invited to a dinner with 40 or 50 people including the President and First Lady as the guests of honor. When he went to shake her hand and she gave him a "drop dead" withering look.
  • Promotional Material: "Promotional Material" is a promotional reel from January 1991 of interviews, commentary, behind the scenes video and clips from the first four seasons of the show (particularly the fourth). Among the topics discussed are broadly overviewing the family and secondary characters, as well as a discussion on why the show is geared towards adults and not kids. Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, Alf Clausen, Danny DeVito, Adam West, Leonard Nimoy appear in interview segments and some video of the a script read-through and recording session for Kamp Krusty are shown as well. The material ends with Groening and Brooks talking about how their show has become comparable to classics like M*A*S*H and Cheers and that their best episodes have the chance to become timeless because there's nothing else like it.

Easter Eggs

  • Disc 3: Select the extras for Homer's Triple Bypass. On this menu, press "2", "Enter", "40", "Enter" to make a pencil appear in the bottom right corner of the screen. Press "Enter" to view secret sketches of Homer.
  • Disc 3: Select the extras for Marge vs. the Monorail. On this menu, press "1", "Enter", "50", "Enter" to make a microphone appear in the bottom right corner of the screen. Press "Enter" to view the episode with a secret second commentary featuring Conan O'Brien.
  • Disc 4: Select the extras for Krusty Gets Kancelled. On this menu, press "35", "Enter" to make a pencil appear in the bottom right corner of the screen. Press "Enter" to view several secret sketches from the episode.

Alterations

  • In Marge Gets a Job, Bart originally claimed to have Tourette's Syndrome so that he could get out of a test. This line proved to be offensive to people actually afflicted with the disorder and it has since been removed out of respect for them by producers, including on this DVD set.
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