The Simpsons Forever: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family …Continued

Having bought The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, it was a natural that I would buy The Simpsons Forever: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family…Continued when it came out. The first volume covered the first eight seasons of the yellow-haired residents of Springfield, offering up detailed plot synopses, classic quotes and character bios. The second volume in the series tackles seasons nine and ten.

Thinner than its predecessor, The Simpsons Forever: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family…Continued doesn’t offer as much information, but as a guide to seasons nine and ten it picks up right where the original left off. The bulk of the book is once again devoted to offering up the kind of information found in the first volume. 

Each episode gets at least a page, filled with terrific animation, a thorough episode synopsis, bunches of quotes and a little box that lists the kind of jokes that require multiple viewings and freeze-framing in order to get. In addition, as with the first volume, The Simpsons Forever: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family…Continued continues to provide character profiles on each the most obscure of characters.

As with The Simpson: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, the Forever sequel also contains some additional goodies that make it worth the investment. For instance, you get the complete lyrics—and man is it a long song—to Do The Bartman. There’s also a box containing Stuff You May Have Missed for the video on the song. A lot of people forget that Do the Bartman was followed-up by another successful song from the album Simpsons Sings the Blues called Deep, Deep Trouble. You get the lyrics to that song as well as a box on the stuff you may not have noticed in the video.