My dad collects stuff.

He always has.

Christmas ornaments, VHS tapes, DVD sets, Happy Meal toys, you name it.

So it’s no surprise that when seasons of The Simpsons started to come out on DVD way back in *looks up release date of the first season and gets lost on Wikipedia for two hours* 2001, he started to collect them season by season. Then we got to Season 6 and the DVD box looked like this:

Yes, that is a 3D plastic Homer head. I think it had a super flimsy clear sleeve to make it more DVD-box-shaped, but I don’t remember what happened to that.

Anyway, I remember thinking that people might be upset at the sudden structural change to the DVD box. When I read the little insert inside that had a blurb from Matt Groening, he actually mentioned that they sold “regular” versions of the case (where it was just your traditional DVD box shape and material) for people who were “obsessive about that sort of thing” (not a direct quote, but it was something like that). Which is hilarious.

Anyway, here’s a whole video on the controversy surrounding this unique box.

Fun times.