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DVD South Park - The Complete First Season
South Park exploded on the pop culture landscape like a dirty bomb in 1997, and the 13 episodes that comprise the groundbreaking first season have lost none of their subversive impact. If Seinfeld was a show about nothing, then South Park is a show about everything, from important moral lessons in compassion and tolerance to good old-fashioned animated character assassination (Kathie Lee Gifford in "Weight Gain 4000" and Barbra Streisand in "Mecha-Streisand"). Like an After School Special gone quite mad, profanity-spewing third-graders Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and the ill-fated Kenny navigate childhood in their mountain town. Nothing in South Park is sacred, and each episode has something to offend, from "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" (featuring George Clooney as the voice of Sparky, the homosexual dog), to the Halloween episode "Pink Eye," in which Cartman dresses up as Adolph Hitler. Best not to even get started on Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Pooh, or the season finale cliffhanger, "Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut."
Each episode is preceded by a faux introduction by creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who proclaim every episode to be their favorite. Their incarnations as Rootin'-Tootin' Trey Parker and Pistol-Slingin' Matt Stone indicate that after South Park runs its course, they'd be great hosts of their own children's show, which--and this cannot be stressed strongly enough--South Park is not. Other extras include the South Park boys' appearance on the CableAce awards and "A South Park Thanksgiving," featuring Jay Leno, which aired exclusively on The Tonight Show. A minor annoyance is the slapdash packaging that mislabels the episodes ("Damien," for example, is on disc 3, not 2 as indicated). --Donald Liebenson
Review(s): DVD South Park - The Complete First Season
O boy...
Okay i'll admit this show does make me laugh, and yes the show does end on a rather phylisofical note with a final thought which resembles Jerry springers final thought, but those are the only positives I can think of.
Lets face it, South park isn't clever, we can't relate to the characters in fact the show has almost no redeaming values. The "Humor" is 8 year olds swearing and acting like brats. they wind up in discusting situations because of an offensive plot and ends with the situation being resolved in some matter which I don't agree with. The final thought is usualy debatible and wrong so I always have a bitter taste in my mouth after an episode. Cartmen is probably one of the most anoying and discusting things I have ever seen. the only character's I like are chef (because I like Issac Hayes) and Kenny (because he dosen't talk. the animation is horrible, all the characters sound alike, the gags are repetitve and usualy are sex related or have something to do with a bodily function. Matt stone and Trey parker constantly use this show as a means to lash out at people they don't like (Mel Gibson in a more recent episode, the Catholic church, steven speilberg, tom cruise etc) which wouldn't be so bad if they at least used facts to do it (they potrayed mel as a lunatic and tom as crybaby). I could go on for days but I have stuff to do. Bottom line, South park represents alot of things wrong with television, it's rude,offensive,hypocritical,low quality,hateful,bitter,lued and on top of that teens watch the show and arn't offended by it. they don't notice and arn't moved by the things they see that are offensive, they have been decensitized to all the horrible things they are watching. Thats why things have become progressivly more offensive and violent, until the day that there are no longer standerds. Not just on TV or in other types of media, but in society itself.
Witty, incisive, crude and hilarious.
While perhaps a third of the episodes of South Park do miss their mark, another third are pretty funny and the remaining third are brilliant. Wickedly funny and at times incisive, South Park when at its best delivers big laughs and makes you think a bit too.
I watched South Park the day it premiered and have seen many episodes since then. The creators still turn out a fairly consistently clever and funny product even after 10 years. This set gathers together all of the episodes that started the phenomenon back in the very first season and viewers who came to the show after season one will enjoy being able to see these shows without having to wait to catch them in reruns. Collectors and fans of the show will definitely want to own these early gems in what has become a staple of our pop culture. It's worth it just for the first episode; the alien abduction story still makes me laugh as much as the first time I saw it.
"No Kitty, It's MY pot pie!!!"
I love this dvd set. I have never laughed like I did the first time I saw "Cartman gets an Anal Probe." I haven't even finished watching the episodes, but I've seen enough to give this five stars. This is without a doubt the funniest animated series. Buy it ASAP.
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Now that enough time has lapsed, we can all have a good laugh over South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone's amusing little April Fools prank, in which they kicked off the show's second season not with the conclusion to season one's cliffhanger that would reveal the identity of Cartman's father, but with an all-Terrance, all-Phillip, all-farting episode, "Not Without My Anus." The ensuing outcry illustrated just how seriously its devoted fans take South Park. There is little evidence of sophomore slump in this three-disc collection of 18 episodes that continue the coming-of-age trials of third graders Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny. There is considerable shock value just in the episode titles alone, among them "Cojoined Fetus Lady," "Merry Christmas,... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Matt Stone - Eric Stough - Trey Parker - Richard Spiller DVD Release Date: Released the 29 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The third time's the, for want of a better word, charm for South Park on DVD. Instead of mere episode intros as on the first two boxed sets, Trey Parker and Matt Stone finally oblige us with actual episode commentary, or, as they call it, "commentary-mini." On this optional audio track, Trey and Matt goof for about five minutes or so at the top of each episode, certifying some as favorites ("Tweek vs. Craig," "Jewbilee," and "Worldwide Recorder Concert," which is described as "a reverse after-school special from hell"), championing others popularly dismissed by South Park's otherwise loyal fans ("Jakovasaurs," "Sexual Harassment Panda"), and provocatively dismissing all of season 2.
The third season was frantically produced simultaneously with the feature film, South... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Matt Stone - Eric Stough - Trey Parker DVD Release Date: Released the 16 December 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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In the episode "Chef Goes Nanners," Cartman is left standing alone in the snow after Wendy blithely proclaims her improbable attraction for him to has suddenly vanished. Cartman heaves a heavy sigh, and exits Chaplinesque stage right. But any concerns that South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone had gone soft, or that Cartman would undergo a more sympathetic, Louie De Palma-like makeover are abated in nearly every other episode of South Park's pivotal fourth season. From the "downright immature" trashing of Phil Collins (whose "You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan had emerged victorious Oscar night over Parker and Stone's "Blame Canada") to an episode in which Cartman becomes the unwitting poster child for NAMBLA, South Park gave its viewers much shock... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Matt Stone - Eric Stough - Trey Parker DVD Release Date: Released the 29 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Comedy, Lenny Bruce once said, is tragedy plus time. Less than two months--hardly any time at all--had elapsed after September 11 when South Park broadcast an episode that addressed the tragedy. Wit and satire have their place, of course, but in the aftermath of epochal upheaval, sometimes good old-fashioned ridicule can diminish an enemy and help to heal a grieving nation. The Emmy-nominated episode "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants" does the cathartic trick, as Cartman plays Bugs Bunny to Osama's Elmer Fudd with a series of humiliating pranks, one of which reveals Osama's miniscule Bin Laden. "This is how we deal with stuff," creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone remark during the "commentary-mini," a listening option on each episode. In this fifth season, "It Hits the Fan," to... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Matt Stone - Eric Stough - Trey Parker DVD Release Date: Released the 22 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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First thing, WHO said "Jarred Has Aides" wasn't a great episode? In fact I believe it to be one of the FUNNIEST of its particular season. Although, this season which has some fantastic episodes the subsequent 2 seasons are EVEN stronger, but this is a great followup to season 5.. with only a few.. well no real flat out duds, there's always SOMETHING in there.. but it doesn't quite stack up to the seasons around it.
Still.. Free Hat, Red Hot Catholic Love, Jarred has Aidea, The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers were some of the FUNNIEST episodes of the series.. and are easily in the top 25, the show reached its 100th episode in the 8th season with "I'm a Little Bit Country".
