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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 Str… More >>
South Park – The Complete First Season
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Warner Bros. are finally releasing South Park’s first season on DVD. **ALL** of the episodes from season one are on here, and it has some really good ones. I can’t wait until it comes out because I will definitely buy it. If you’re not sure which episodes are on the First Season, or forgot what they’re about, here they are:
1. Cartman Gets An Anal Probe – 13-Aug-1997
Brief Plot: The boys rescue Kyle’s little brother from aliens who have come to South Park.
2. Weight Gain 4000 – 27-Aug-1997
Kathie Lee Gifford presents the award to Cartman for winning the school’s essay contest.
3. Volcano – 20-Aug-1997
The boys hunting trip is threatened by activity from a nearby volcano and a mysterious creature.
4. Big Gay Al’s Big Gay Boat Ride – 3-Sep-1997
Stan’s dog explores his sexuality.
5. An Elephant Makes Love To A Pig – 10-Sep-1997
A genetic engineering experiment unleashes Stans mutant twin.
6. Death – 17-Sep-1997
With the help of Stan’s grandfather, the kids summon the Grim Reaper.
7. Pink Eye – 29-Oct-1997
Pinkeye interrupts Halloween festivities.
8. Damien – 4-Feb-1998
Jesus and Satan fight a battle for spiritual domination on Pay-Per-View which conflicts with Cartman’s birthday party.
9. Starvin’ Marvin – 19-Nov-1997
Government authorities mistake Cartman for a starving African child and send him to Ethiopia.
10. Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo – 17-Dec-1997
When Kyle’s musical holiday pal Mr. Hankey shows up it makes for a memorable Christmas in South Park.
11. Tom’s Rhinoplasty – 11-Feb-1998
A substitute teacher gets in between Stan and Wendy’s relationship.
12. Mecha-Streisand – 18-Feb-1998
The boys find a prehistoric relic that spawns a monster that threatens to destroy the world.
13. Cartman’s Mom is a Dirty Slut – 25-Feb-1998
When Cartman begins acting strange a guidance counselor suggests the cure lies with finding his father.
This is going to be great! With such episodes as ‘Cartman Gets An Anal Probe’ and ‘Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo’, you would be crazy not to get it.
- Pez King
Rating: 5 / 5
Let me start out by saying that if this first season of South Park weren’t so great, I would have given this set 0 or 1 star.
The 2 main drawbacks to this DVD are: 1) the episode listings by disc that are included on the flaps are not even close to the sequencing that actually exists on the discs, with some episodes appearing out of order and in 2 cases not even on the same disc as noted; and 2) no chapter-within-eipsode system exists, which is made painfully obvious after sitting through the howlingly unfunny “Fireside Chat with Matt (Stone) and Trey (Parker)” that prefaces each show. And although the video is quite good (due to the fact that there is only about 95 minutes of video on each disc) the sound is far less superior, filled with many audio “pops” and syncronization issues that were not resolved by swapping out my set for another.
In short, I would like to say that although it is great to see South Park finally come to the DVD format that allows us to appreciate the animation more, Warner Bros fell far short of even my most meager expectations for what a DVD should be. I am glad I received this as a gift otherwise I might try to track down the Warner’s CEO for my forty bucks back, and until they correct their glaring technological and quality-control issues they will not see another dime from me on future South Park releases.
Rating: 2 / 5
I received this for Christmas the year it came out and can’t tell you how my heart filled with joy to have it! I guess that’s fitting since Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo makes his first appearance this season. South Park is a show that I never really saw until some time after it began on comedy central in 1997, but like many others, when I did see it I was hooked. This essential 3 DVD set includes the 13 episodes that make up Season one. Before this set arrived and before I owned DVDs (perish the thought!) I only had the first three VHS tape volumes totaling 6 episodes! So at that point I hadn’t seen the majority of season one! I can still remember when there was so much talk that season sets wouldn’t happen, but like Chef told Cartman – “You wait and you wait and you wait…” as did I and it finally came! Season one ran from August ’97 to February ’98 and includes the following:
Disc One:
01. Cartman gets an anal probe
02. Volcano
03. Weight Gain 4000
04. Big Gay Al’s big gay boat ride
Disc Two:
05. An elephant makes love to a pig
06. Death
07. Pinkeye
08. Damien
Disc Three:
09. Starvin’ Marvin
10. Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo
11. Tom’s Rhinoplasty
12. Mecha-Streisand
13. Cartman’s Mom is a dirty slut
Each disc includes the same set of South Park/Comedy Central promo commericals, but disc 3 has these additional features:
- Cartman’s “O Holy Night” video
- Ned’s “O Little town of Bethlehem” video
- Jay Leno’s appearance on South Park (shown on Tonight Show)
- The South Park boys announce a cable ace award
Several fans have complained about the lack of episode commentary by Trey Parker & Matt Stone, but who can quibble with all 13 episodes at the push of a button? Besides each episode does include the “fireside” intros Trey & Matt did, which were the funniest of the three (the others being where they are “entertaining” senior citizens & the “makin’ bacon” show) I was really happy they included them. South Park is here!
Thanks to Trey & Matt for the funny show and thanks to Robert Smith for destroying Mecha-Streisand!
Also Recommended:
More South Park!
Rating: 5 / 5
From what I found on other sites the DVD will be full frame with Dolby Digital 2.0 audio. It will also include, intros by Trey and Matt to each episode, Jay Leno’s South Park guest appearance and two South Park Christmas music videos.
Cartman: “O Holy Night”
Ned: “O Little Town of Bethlehem”
The episodes will include:
Cartman Gets an Anal Probe
Weight Gain 4000
Volcano
Big Gay Al’s Big Gay Boatride
An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig
Death
Pinkeye
Damien
Starvin’ Marvin
Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo
Tom’s Rhinoplasty
Mecha Striesand
Cartman’s Mom is a Dirty Slut
I must have watched these 100′s of times. Big gay Al with Stan’s gay dog and Tom’s Rhinoplasty with Mr. Garrison looking like David Hasselhoff are two of my all time favorite South Park episodes.
The only thing I don’t like about this is that they have all been released on DVD before so there are no new episodes here.
**** One big minus, you have to order the audio commentary from Trey and Matt from the Comedy Central website. For $3.50 in shipping and handling you get 5 CD’s of commentary, not bad but it should have been included in the DVD’s. Apparently they said some things about the movie “Contact” with Jodie Foster, and since Jodie brings in more money than South Park, they yanked it from the DVD. *****
Rating: 5 / 5
For all of us who have this first boxed set of dvds, PLEASE just enjoy them for the sake of the episodes themselves, and for the funny intros by Matt and Trey. HOWEVER, I recently read in a brief news article the answer to everyone’s major complaint: why there is no commentary track on the episodes!
According to the article, Matt and Trey did record commentaries, but Warner Home video was NOT pleased with some of the things Matt and Trey had to say – especially regarding other Warner Video titles that Matt and Trey depicted in a not-so-nice light. When Warner told them to change the commentaries, Matt and Trey said NO WAY – seems they are sick of the studios trying to tell them what’s funny and what they can include in their own show – and they got fed up and pulled the commentary tracks from the dvds.
I ordered my own set of commentaries with the special offer from the website the day after the DVDs were released. That is fine with me. I would MUCH rather Matt and Trey be true to their vision of the great “South Park” than to bow down to what any studio wants them to do. Long Live “South Park”!!
Rating: 4 / 5