Product Review

The series really hits its stride in this set of six episodes, which includes "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" ("Please allow me to introduce myself," the Devil says to Bart when he temporarily goes to hell); "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish" (Homer eats poison sushi and tries to cram an entire life into the 24 hours he has left to live); "The Way We Was" (how Homer and Marge met in high school in the dazzling disco days of 1974); "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" (Homer gets an illegal cable box to watch a boxing match with a fighter that looks and sounds suspiciously like Mike Tyson); "Three Men and a Comic Book" (greed corrupts the friendship of Bart, Milhouse, and Martin when they jointly purchase a rare edition); and "Lisa's Substitute" (Dustin Hoffman does the voice of a teacher who finally appreciates Lisa for the little overachiever she is). --Marshall Fine