While Fox has been doing a great job at (slowly) releasing the complete seasons of The Simpsons onto DVD, they've also been tossing out a few themed releases, usually with just a handful of episodes on them. The latest such release is Simpsons Gone Wild. The premise? Hi-jinks!

Episode 1 – Homer's Night Out: Bart busts his old man when he's at a stag party, living it up with a belly dancer by the name of Princess Cashmere, capturing the moment with his handy dandy spy camera. When the photo finds it's way into the hands of pretty much everybody in Springfield, Homer has to find a way to not only live it down, but make amends to Marge and teach Bart that women are more than just objects.

Episode 2 – Sunday Cruddy Sunday:Homer helps out a tour guide by filling a bus with his friends and co-workers who all want to head off to the Super Bowl. When they get there, it turns out that their tickets are phony and have in fact been printed on some sort of cracker. They try and make it in past security but get caught and wind up in Super Bowl Jail. Luckily, Dolly Parton is on hand to help the boys out in their time of need.

Episode 3 – The Mansion Family: Mr. Burns is whisked off to the Mayo Clinic and puts Homer and the crew in charge of his home while he's gone. So while Mr. Burn's is off being diagnosed as the sickest man in medical history, Homer decides to live like a billionaire and throw a party. When Moe won't sell him beer before the legal time, he gets the boys together and heads out to international waters in Burn's boat, and things are looking just fine… until the pirates show up and the monkey knife fights begin.

Episode 4 – Homer The Moe: Moe loses his enthusiasm for serving drinks, so when he goes back to his old bartending school to try and rekindle his passion, he decides to give the bar a facelift and renovate the old dive. His designer creates an all new Moe's, renaming it simply 'M' and designing it to appeal primarily to yuppies and the like. Homer and the rest of the regulars soon find they don't belong there anymore so they open up their own bar, under the guise of a hunting club, in Homer's garage and have REM play at the grand opening.

Fox has put together four stand out episodes on this compilation. Plenty of great laughs are contained within and the sheer volume of odd little pop culture references and details ensure plenty of replay value (which is more or less a given for the entire run of the show).

Video:

The episodes are shown as they should be, in glorious 1.33.1 fullframe format. Colors look nice and bright, except for the reds, which are just a tad too harsh when compared to the rest of the color palette used in the show. Edge enhancement, while it exists, is minimal and there aren't any compression problems worth noting. There is some really miniscule dirt that appears on the image in a couple of scenes but it's really only there if you're looking for it. For the most part, all four episodes are pretty clean and look decent enough.