When is the Spurlock documentary airing?

Jan 14

Sweet. I'm looking forward to it.

Assuming the show isn't laid to rest anytime soon, here's how I see the release schedule for the remaining seasons. This syncs up the release of current seasons just prior to the airing of a new season, something studios love to do.

Dec. 2009 — season 20
Aug. 2010 — season 21
Dec. 2010 — season 13
Aug. 2011 — season 22
Dec. 2011 — season 14
Aug. 2012 — season 23
Dec. 2012 — season 15
Aug. 2013 — season 24
Dec. 2013 — season 16
Aug. 2014 — season 25
Dec. 2014 — season 17
Aug. 2015 — season 26
Dec. 2015 — season 18
Aug. 2016 — season 27
Dec. 2016 — season 19
Aug. 2017 — season 28
Aug. 2018 — season 29

Why would they release seasons 20 and 21 back to back? I thought we assumed that they would release the older seasons in August with the newer seasons in December.

So then viewers can "catch up" with the last years season before the new one started. Thats pretty much how all shows are released

I think they would lose people who have been buying the older seasons if they did that.

I will probably get it but I can't decide if I like this or not... I would just prefer them just release them in order. Besides what is season 20 going to look like next to season 19 in 2016. I wonder if I would even still be interested in The Simpsons by then, I think they should hurry up and get the older ones released.

So far I have only purchased the first 4 seasons. Out of those 4 I hate to say it, but 2 of them contained defective discs and I had to exchange them - that's a 50% rate of defects. I would like to know if anybody else has had any similar problems with defective sets. The problem was one of skipping - the disc would freeze for 5 - 10 seconds and then jump ahead that 5 - 10 seconds. I have all of these sets on my Amazon.com wish list, but if this defective problem is as widespread as the experience I have already had then I don't want to purchase any more of them.

My season one and season eleven had defective discs, but other than that no problems. Go ahead and buy them you will have no regret. Plus they are only 13 bucks at walmart.

I have all 12 seasons and haven't had any problems with defective discs yet. Maybe I am lucky... Even the last 2 seasons with the worst packaging possibly ever thought of in terms of protecting the discs I did not have any problems with despite having a few small scratches when I opened them up.

I do remember with season 3 taking it back to target 2 times to get a replacement because it would freeze and skip but I eventually found out it was not the discs but my PS2. I guess it just decided it didn't like dvds anymore, I didnt think it was the problem back then because up untill just recently it has played all PS2 games just fine.

I have the first 11 seasons, and No defects, must of them bought on release day, a friend of mine has the first 11 seasons as well, with no defects

I have the first 12 seasons, most release day purchases. No defects whatsoever. In fact, I have two copies of seasons 6-11 and have watched all of them with no problems. That being said, the ones that are the accordion packaging I put in paper sleeves after watching them. Taking them in and out of the cardboard sleeves would inevitably damage the discs. Aside from that though, no problems whatsoever.

It is highly unlikely that even repeated insertion and removal of the discs into the cardboard "pouches" will ever damage the discs to the point of having read errors. It takes pretty deep scratching to make commercially pressed discs unreadable most of the time. At most, you're going to get some light scratches on the surface of the disc.

Thanks very much for your input everybody. I am glad to hear that I am an isolated case who happened to end up with 2 out of 4 sets which were defective!

me too....missed lots of cool seasons.

Since the show is still running, it would be a smart move to release season sets on the same schedule as other current shows, all while releasing the back catalog.

updated first post

Will they continue with commentaries on every episode? They have done that for every season set so far.

Actually it's just a preview of the documentary thats on the DVD(which is airing 2 days after the release date).

The writers from last season are still writing for this season and next, so I would assume they're too busy to do commentaries.

This seems like a rushed release to capitalize on how the show is HD now. I just think it's hilarious that Fox is charging the same amount for a set that's totally devoid of extras.

I'm on the fence about buying this now.

I was totally all in for a blu-ray purchase (even considering the $60 MSRP for 2 discs), but there's no way I'm going to purchase it if they drop the previous set precedent with special features. That's half the fun of 'The Simpsons' DVDs is knowing you get to watch the whole thing twice with Commentary.

They're pulling a Law & Order I see. Releasing the series chronologically, then stopping and releasing the most current season.

I'm not too worried about 13-19 being released. I've heard season 20 was good, but for my money the Simpsons had about 5 or 6 seasons that were completly UNWATCHABLE. 14-19 were garbage.

oh, thanks ill update

But Matt Groening hasn't been doing the commentaries every episodes anymore, so it would probably be easier to get them all done. For a week the writers just need to watch an hour, and they will have must of them done.