DVD : South Park - The Complete First Season
List Price: $29.98Amazon.com's Price: $18.99 You Save: $10.99 (37%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9781415703465
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 1415703469
Label: Comedy Central
Manufacturer: Comedy Central
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Comedy Central
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Running Time: 310 minutes
Sales Rank: 2888
Studio: Comedy Central
Theatrical Release Date: August 13, 1997
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/03/2007 Run time: 310 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com:
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
Average Rating: 
Rating: -
It's great to go back and see the begining of this series, espcially since I haven't watched much since then. These episodes are all classic and each one features an intro with the creators, which is hilarious. The only thing that I didn't like is that it's only 13 episodes and should have been put together with the second season as Volume 1.
Rating:  -
Television programs usually have an unwritten code that making fun of some things is just plain wrong and telling lies or demeaning celebrities can get you sued... except when it comes to South Park.
For some reason South Park seems to have been granted immunity from criticism by the masses. It is the only show that appears to be able to do anything it wants, however it wants, whenever it wants, and gets away with it scott free. Sure the hotlines to the television watchdogs might be ringing off the hooks when it really gets offensive but quite frankly nobody is answering because it seems that the world just likes a good old demented outlet now and again and the safest venue appears to be the adult cartoon South Park.
The concept is simple. Combine dumbeddown 2D animation with unique characters with quite interesting and deep personalities with complex backgrounds combined with outragours stories, horrific sequences, extremely black humour, absolute stupidity, relationships gone wrong, real life famous personalities, layers of offensive material so nobody gets away unscathed, all within the framework of a small backward town that is on the tip of exploding into mayhem for one reason or another. It is all outrageous stuff... but bravo to the makers because its sooooo very funny.
Matt Stone and Tray Parker just let their minds loose every episode to come up some of the craziest television that is so original in concept that nothing out there ... Read More
Rating:  -
My reviews will NOT be about the DVD. Since every episode is on here, this is what I will be talking.
Okay, so Trey Parker and Matt Stone give us the first episode "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe." This has the first normal trend of South Park which is killing Kenny in almost every episode. Although the episode itself is not entirely funny, we DO have Cartman, one of the single most hilarious characters ever created. Kudos to Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone.
From there spawns twelve more episodes, none of them really gut-busting hilarious (thus the three stars). In this season, we get South Park's Christmas icon...who is a piece of crap (literally). The brown little stick that is Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo. (This little guy is actually pretty funny.) In the same episode, we also get Mr. Mackey the school counselor...m'kay? (In my book, he ranks third as the most hilarious character in South Park.)
In the second episode (I think it's called "Volcano"), we are introduced to Randy Marsh, probably the stupidest(meaning in the show) character in all of South Park. (He ranks second in my book, right behind Cartman.) You don't get to see much of Randy in the first two seasons, so you unfortunately don't get to see how stupid he really is. Too bad.
Anyway, that pretty much sums up my thinking on this season. Interesting that usually comedies' first seasons are usually their best. THIS is an exception where some of the later seasons ... Read More
Rating: -
When at the top of their game, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone deliver some of the sharpest satire and raunchiest I-can't-believe-they-did-that-on-TV comedy. For my money, "Mr. Hanky," "Mecha-Streisand," and "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" are the highlights. Lots of laughs here.
Rating: -
South Park is a great show, but the DVD presentation can suck my balls.
Don't be fooled by thinking how great a 3 disc edition of season one sounds great. I can assure you that 3 discs sounds better then realizing that it is 4 episodes to a disc, and no bonus features or commentary.
If they gave the DVD presentation it deserved you would see that they could easily fit the entire first season onto 1 disc, maybe 2, and the rest of disc 2 could have been bonus features. but noooooooo, 3 discs sounds likes it's a lot and people will think it's packed full of extra goodies. It's not.
Browse for similar items by category:
|
