The Art of Ruining a DVD Collection (The Simpsons)

Do you remember well where Waldo is throughout the years? I've been playing my own little version of the game. Every time I come across a photo of someone's DVD

collection

, I'm looking for something—not a man in striped clothes, but this. piece of plastic is the original DVD release of season 6 of the

simpsons

surrounded by the cardboard boxes from the other season this plastic box sticks out like a sore thumb, i would know it's been in my peripheral vision for over a decade, Sure it's a bit annoying in a

collection

, but I'm not buying a replacement cardboard box.

The same can't be said for all this stinking packaging. Maybe it's time for the 20th century fox to enter the 21st century. I like my Homer head, Jeff. Okay, if this all sounds like it's some dumb drama from 2005. Well, it is, but bear with me, I found something I wasn't supposed to do. This story has a little bit of everything, from corporations being extremely passive-aggressive to accidental leaks of personal customer information. Welcome to what could be one of The Simpsons' darkest controversies. Always the curious case of Homer's head, let's review this obligatory paragraph of history. The Simpsons were created by cartoonist Matt Greening in 1987.

Their 30-second shorts first aired on the Fox variety show The Tracy Allman Show. Fans loved it, so the network gave it the green light. a complete series 2 years later, fast forward 31 seasons and fill in the blank. The Simpsons would get frequent home releases on VHS during its first decade of existence. There were dozens of these things, but each tape wouldn't have more than two or three episodes. primarily a technical limitation, there were box sets that included multiple tapes, but you get the gist, it just wasn't as convenient to watch The Simpsons on your own time, that would change with the switch to DVD in September 2001, when 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment would release the complete first season of The Simpsons on DVD as networks prepared to premiere season 13.

Despite this 12-season gap, the Season 1 DVD became the best-selling TV show DVD ever dethroned just for the Chappelle show three years later and man did it. These Simpsons DVDs are big sellers, their content is rich with special features such as commentary from producers, directors and creators, Matt Greening, never-before-seen outtakes, behind-the-scenes footage, foreign clips and much more from the show that defined a generation, suffice it to say the first five seasons. pleased both the fans and the fox we are already in July 2005 and there is an announcement of the DVD release of the sixth season oh, I wonder what color they will choose for the box.

We already have white, silver, aquamarine, purple, blue, red. Chances are, lemme, people just didn't like it. This isn't that Homer's head is a bad design, it's fun and in the spirit of the show, most of the criticism ended up being the lack of strength of the casing, the outer casing being made of a flimsy plastic comparable to a glass of 7-eleven soda, I can attest. I need a piece of duct tape to keep the case closed and Fox was well aware of these issues before they were sold. Inside Homer's head was a piece of paper with a phone number printed on it that you could call to get information on how to do it. to replace your plastic box with a cardboard box more in line with seasons one to five a problem the number they printed was incorrect for some time 800 should have been 888 but if you discovered this and called the correct number you would be greeted by a clip homer's voice they didn't hire dan castellaneta homer was voiced by a similar sound the number is no longer in service and i can't find any recording online but i don't think we're missing anything great simpson's lost media after homer tells you convince me that this is not a scam.

He would refer you to the official website here. You could get your replacement cardboard box through what they called The Simpsons Season 6 Alternative Packaging Program. The show stopped around April 2011 and Fox stopped. We renewed the domain name shortly after, it is now a Japanese postpartum website. Fortunately, there are archives of the original website available and it is full of jokes, mostly funny. They greet you with welcome complaints. Click the button to receive a very derivative old style, nothing new like before. box and one of the requirements for the cardboard box is that you don't like storing your digital media inside a hollowed-out human head, it's kind of fun and on-brand, but some dialogue on the website didn't sit well with customers who paid and expressed their valid comments, an example of This is a different requirement, as it is a solemn promise to stop your whining or this drop-down menu where you must choose why you want to receive a box.

The reasons are a quote, an anal retentive solitaire, will sell a new box to nerdy collectors for big profits, as if it were free. Things and big baby, I probably would have gone for anal retentive anyway. I was exploring the archives by snooping through the page sources. I noticed some fun things like this image of Homer in the corner being called friend, just like Marge's nickname for him, cute, but then. I found something I really shouldn't have, we're talking web security 101. I found the full names and addresses of the people who requested the cardboard box. Yes, I reported my findings to the necessary parties and hope they remove the offending files. 15 years later, although it's too late, let's say that when you filled out the redemption form, it appears to have generated a printable version that was saved to a publicly accessible folder on the website; worse still, the website's robots.txt file was configured incorrectly, this meant that some search engines and archivers undoubtedly preserve the contents of that folder, I mean how else would I be looking at an archive of this stuff ?

So if you used the Season 6 redemption form online, there's a chance your information has been floating around out there, sorry. the news for you 15 years late in brighter news at the end of 2005, the seventh season of The Simpsons was released on DVD and Fox listened to its fans. Yes, by now the UK was already selling cartons of season 6 in retail stores and in the US. I wanted a special edition season 7 Marge plastic head to match Homer's. Retailers gave you the option between cardboard or plastic. That's why in all these photos season 6 is the odd one out after Marge, there was Maggie with Lisa in season 8. with season 9 and bart with season 10.

Starting with season 11, we get a hybrid special box Cardboard and plastic Krusty the Clown. The default cardboard boxes had noticeably degraded quality. From here, you slide the DVDs into these sleeves instead of the plastic containers I don't use. I really don't like season 12 introduces us to the comic book guy 13 is horrible ralph wiggum 14 is kang or kodos i can never tell 15 is otto 16 professor frank and season 17 is sideshow bob season 20 had a date special release in early 2010 to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary, you may have noticed that I skipped seasons 18 and 19 and that's because Fox did too for the better part of a decade with the decline in physical media sales and the rise of streaming services, twice-yearly DVDs gradually tapered off to annual seasons and then to a season every two or three years from 2017 to 2019 there was this annoying gap in collections that fans feared would It would never be full, but there was a surprising turn of events after Disney acquired Fox in March 2019 and season 19 was absolutely worth the wait.

The box art and the menus are beautiful. It's made by Bill Clinton. A guest animator. family of the show will have physical releases in season 21 and from now on I'm not holding my breath, I honestly could go on and on about all the benefits of physical media, but that's beside the point, come on Disney, keep them coming, there are dozens of us and that's the story of the Simpsons DVD fiasco. Finding that security flaw on the website took me completely by surprise, but if you want to stay smart online, consider using your brain and nerves. tonic warning can cause gigantism