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Studio: Comedy Central & Paramount
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Number of Discs: 3
Number of Episodes: 14
Running Time: 308 Minutes
MSRP: $49.99
Creator:
Matt Stone &
Trey Parker
Cast:
Trey Parker. . Stan Marsh/Eric Cartman/Randy Marsh/Ms. Garrison/Philip/Timmy/Jimmy/God/Satan/Mr. Mackey/Tom the News Reporter/Clyde/Grandpa Marsh/Ned Gerblanski/Officer Barbrady/Additional Voices (voice)
Matt Stone. Kyle Broflovski/Kenny McCormick/Gerald Broflovski/Stuart McCormick/Jimbo/Terrance/Leopold ‘Butters’ Stotch/Tweek/Jesus/Additional Voices (voice)
The show:
It’s a rare and special thing when a TV show not only reaches its tenth season, but manages to be even greater than it was when it started. In season 10, South Park is smarter, funnier, and better than ever!
This time around, the rowdy fourth graders take on rival TV show, Family Guy, Oprah, Al Gore, the Dog Whisperer, World of Warcraft players, 9/11 conspiracies and more. What’s always been great about this show is that when they decide to skew an issue or a person they manage to skew both sides. The show always ends with a message too. The message isn’t always a great one, but it’s always funny.
This season opens with the conclusion to season nine’s cliffhanger. Isaac Hayes quit the show due to his disagreement with the Scientology episode. In a genius move, all the Chef’s dialogue was a pulled from previous episodes. This allowed them to make Chef say whatever they wanted. Matt and Trey get their digs on the man who abandoned them and take a few more digs at Scientology as well.
However, the big controversy of this season was the two-parter Cartoon Wars. In the episode the Muslim nation is upset because Family Guy is going to put the image of Muhammad in their cartoon. Eric Cartman takes this opportunity to try and get Family Guy taken off the air for good cause he hates it so much. He’s even joined by Bart Simpson in this quest. At the end of part 2 Muhammad was animated in South Park’s version of Family Guy. Sadly, Comedy Central refused to air this image and censored it, even though Muhammad appeared in a previous episode, The Super Best Friends from season 5.
While other shows lose their fire come season 10, South Park is as strong as ever. There is still no line that Matt Stone and Trey Parker will not cross for a laugh, from Oprah’s privates, Gary and Minge, taking hostages to Kyle’s little brother Ike having an affair with his teacher, this show remains as inappropriately hilarious as ever. Sure not every episode is an instant classic, but the few stinkers in this seasons are completely overshadowed by the great ones.
Eric Cartman meets Bart Simpson.
Disc One:
The Return Of Chef
Chef returns form his trip with “The Super Adventure Club,” but he’s changed. Now all he wants to do is sleep with the children instead of the ladies. The boys know something is wrong and learn “The Club” hypnotized him and it’s up to them to save him, but can they?
Kyle: We shouldn’t be mad at Chef for leaving us, We should be mad at that fruity little club for scrambling his brains.
Smug Alert!
When Kyle’s family gets a hybrid car Kyle’s dad becomes smug and moves to San Francisco. Stan convinces the rest of the town to by hybrid cars in hopes that his friend will come back. What he doesn’t count on is the Smug Storm that builds and threatens to destroy society.
Cartman: I swore I would never set foot in San Francisco. God help me.
Cartoon Wars Part 1
When Family Guy announces that it will animated Muhammad into an episode. The Muslims are upset about this and begin to threaten retaliation. Cartman takes it upon himself to travel to Hollywood in hopes to get the show cancelled all together.
Cartman: Do you have any idea what it’s like? Everywhere I go, “Hey Cartman, you must like Family Guy, right?” “Hey, your sense of humor reminds me of Family Guy, Cartman.” I am NOTHING like Family Guy! When I make jokes, they are inherent to a story! Deep, situational and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT! Not just one interchangeable joke after another!
Cartoon Wars Part 2
Kyle fights Cartman to save Family Guy and the right to free speech. We learn that the writers of
Cartman: You came so close to stopping me; didn’t you, Kyle? There was just one thing you didn’t count on: that more people besides me hate Family Guy.
Bart: Yeah.
Kyle: Well, a lot of people like Family Guy too! Who are you to decide it shouldn’t be on the air?!
Bart: Shut up! You shut your f****** face, man!
A Million Little Fibers
In this episode (in which none of the boys appear) Towelie writes his memoirs but no publisher will touch a book about a towel. So he rewrites the book to be about a person, it takes off and he winds up on Oprah. Meanwhile, Oprah’s private parts are sick of being ignored and try to get her fired so she’ll pay more attention to them.
Larry King: Tonight we have a very special guest Stephen McTowelie. How are you doing Stephen?
Towelie: To tell you the truth Larry, I’m just a little bit high.
Disc Two:
Manbearpig
Desperate for attention Al Gore comes to South Park to spread the word of the dangerous creature Manbearpig. Stan and the others feel sorry for him and go along with it. This lands them trapped in a cave they may not escape from.
Kyle: Hey… Did Cartman just crap treasure?
Tsst
Unable to control her son Mrs. Cartman hires the Dog Whisperer to help, but Cartman won’t go down without a fight.
Cartman: God Damn it! You can’t stand here and eat KFC in front of me!
Make Love, Not Warcraft
While the boys are playing World of Warcraft a high level character comes along and kills them all. The decided to level up as high as they can to kill the other guys character once and for all. This is pretty much one of the best episodes ever.
President of Blizzard Entertainment: Whoever this player is, he has played World of Warcraft nearly every hour of every day for the past year and a half. Gentlemen, we are dealing with someone here who… has absolutely no life.
Thomas the Board Member: How do you kill that which has no life?
Mystery Of The Urinal Deuce
In probably the worst episode of the season Cartman thinks he’s uncovered the true culprit behind the September 11th attacks. But when he blames Kyle, he and Stan take it upon themselves to find the real truth just to prove Cartman wrong. This episode wouldn’t be half bad if not for the worst characters ever on the show: The Hardly Boys.
Stan: He was right, you did cause 9-11.
George W. Bush: Yes. Quite simple to pull off, really. All I had to do was have explosives planted at the base of the towers, then on 9-11 we pretended like four planes were being hijacked when really we just rerouted them to Pennsylvania then flew two military jets into the World Trade Center filled with more explosives and shot down all the witnesses in Flight 93 with an F-15 after blowing up the pentagon with a cruise missile. It was only the world’s most intricate and flawlessly executed plan ever, ever.
Miss Teacher Bands A Boy
In a hilarious parody of Dog, the Bounty Hunter, Cartman becomes a school hall monitor and the power goes to his head. Meanwhile Kyle is upset when he learns that his brother Ike is sleeping with his teacher and no one will do anything about it. That is until Cartman learns that their love is bleeding out into his hallways.
Cartman: You got a crush on your teacher, bra? Keep it outta my hallway. Go with Christ.
Disc Three:
Hell On Earth 2006
It’s Halloween and Satan is throwing the biggest costume party ever! Hilarity ensues as everything that could go wrong does. Butters summons Biggie Smalls and has to get him to the party or else. Then to top it off Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy (who are treated like the Three Stooges) are charged picking up Satan’s Ferrari cake and delivering it to the party.
Satan: I know. Yes, it’s perfect. At midnight, all the lights go down, the music stops, and then we wheel in a Ferrari. Only it isn’t a Ferrari; it’s a cake, and everyone gets a piece.
Minion: A Ferrari cake?
Go God Go
In part one of this ridiculously fantastic two-parter Cartman can’t wait three weeks for the release the new Nintendo WII, so he buries himself in an avalanche of snow instructing Butters to wake him when the Wii has been released. However, something goes wrong and Cartman awakens 500 hundreds years in the future where sea otters are at war with the humans. Meanwhile, in the present, Ms. Garrison doesn’t believe in evolution until a man shows her the light.
Ms. Garrison: Now I, for one, think evolution is a bunch of bullcrap! But I’ve been told I have to teach it to you anyway. It was thought up by Charles Darwin and it goes something like this… In the beginning, we were all fish. Okay? Swimming around in the water. And then one day a couple of fish had a retard baby, and the retard baby was different, so it got to live. So Retard Fish goes on to make more retard babies, and then one day, a retard baby fish crawled out of the ocean with its… mutant fish hands… and it had butt sex with a squirrel or something and made this. Retard frog-squirrel, and then that had a retard baby which was a… monkey-fish-frog… And then this monkey-fish-frog had butt sex with that monkey, and that monkey had a mutant retard baby that screwed another monkey… and that made you! So there you go! You’re the retarded offspring of five monkeys having butt sex with a fish-squirrel! Congratulations!
Go God Go XII
In part two of this story Cartman must find a way back to his time and stop Garrison from destroying the future.
Blavius: The United Atheist Alliance has taken the bait! Soon they will send their ships out to destroy our decoy clam fields! And while their ships are away, the United Atheist League intends to attack them! Our plan has worked perfectly! For when the United Atheist League attacks the United Atheist Alliance, we will charge in and kill them all! Our Science, our answer to the Great Question shall prevail!
Stanley’s Cup
Stan Marsh reluctantly becomes the coach to the local peewee hockey team despite his horrible experience playing the sport when he was younger. He must face his past and turn the kids into winners.
Announcer: Oh, it appears the goalie has pooped his pants.
The DVD:
VIDEO: How does it look?
(Presented with a 1.33:1 full screen aspect ratio)
This is a great looking show. Sure the animation is simple, but that’s what makes it so great. Plus it has much improved over the years.
AUDIO: How does it sound?
(Dolby Stereo)
The sound on this show is really good. The music is always great and the sound is really crisp and clear.
Extras:
Mini-Commentaries with Matt and Trey: These guys go for quality over quantity. There commentaries are only 3-5 minutes long but are very informative and not filled with crap you don’t want to hear. They give very detailed concise backgrounds on the creation of each episode, which is always interesting. These guys don’t want to waste your time and that should be appreciated. The best part here is when they talk about how the writers of The Simpsons and King Of The Hill called them to compliment them on their Family Guy bashing.
Comedy Central Quickies: As on all Comedy Central DVD sets, there are a handful of clips from other shows. These are pretty funny.
And if you buy Season 10 now it comes with a 14-day free trial of World Of Warcraft. This works with both Pcs and Macs.
South Park: The Complete Tenth Season |
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The Inside Pulse
If you’re a South Park fan this season is a must buy. If you’ve been hiding under a rock and for some reason have never seen this show, this is a pretty good place to start. South Park is one of those rare shows that just gets funnier every year.
