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South Park - The Complete Eighth Season

directed by: Trey Parker, Matt Stone

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Unknown
EAN: 0097368897946
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Running Time: 308 minutes
Sales Rank: 2817
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: August 13, 1997



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Product Description:
Follows four irreverent grade-school kids in the town of South Park, Colorado.
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 29-AUG-2006
Media Type: DVD

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To quote Bad Day at Black Rock, a man is as big as what'll make him mad. By this criteria, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are giants. Fanaticism of any stripe, steroids, vapid pop culture icons marketed as role models for impressionable youth, and mass merchants encroaching on small town life are just some of the hot button issues tackled in South Park's eighth season. Of course, South Park is not above (or beneath) stooping to conquer, as witness 'Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset,' which climaxes in a 'whore-off' featuring--you guessed it--Paris Hilton. Sure, Paris is an easy target, as is Michael Jackson (portrayed in the episode 'The Jeffersons' not as a child molester, but as an infantile parent who needs to grow up). But just as a segment of the population tunes in to The Daily Show to get Jon Stewart and company's satirical take on the day's news, so do South Park fans eagerly await Parker and Stone's perspective on the zeitgeist. Which brings us to the season's most infamous episode, 'The Passion of the Jew,' in which Kyle is devastated by Mel Gibson's brutalizing epic, Cartman is transformed into Gibson's Hitlerian apostle, and an unimpressed Stan and Kenny try in vain to get their money back from Gibson himself, a loony toon with a penchant for torture. And while Janet Jackson's Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction is old news, South Park's response, 'Good Times with Weapons,' remains a relevant satire of misplaced parental priorities, not to mention an anime-stylized tour-de-force in which the boys purchase martial arts weapons at a county fair and imagine themselves as ninja warriors.

In one of Stone and Parker's candid mini-commentaries, available as a listening option on each episode, the duo grade this season a B+. Give them extra credit, then, for such seriously (or hilariously) twisted episodes as the one (whose title cannot be printed here) that sends up the film You Got Served, and the instant holiday classic 'Woodland Critter Christmas,' with its Satan-worshiping forest creatures, and a brilliant surprise ending that echoes Chuck Jones's classic cartoon Duck Amuck, in which the unseen animator tormenting poor Daffy is revealed to be none other than Bugs 'Ain't I a stinker?' Bunny. --Donald Liebenson



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Best So Far
it has many good episodes such as the one where the kids turn into ninja charecters and micheal jacksln ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A Season Of Originality And Parody
With season 8, the South Park creators achieved a feat of true originality and utilised their genius for ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Well, it's been a while...
...since I wrote a review on a South Park DVD boxset, in fact it's almost been a couple of years.
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - THE BEST SEASON OF SOUTH PARK
This in my opinion is the best season of South Park. This has the Osimo epsiode that is hilarious, frankly ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Season 8
As the years go along South Park seems to be getting better and better. This season has some great classics, ... Read More

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