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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2389 in DVD
• Brand: Unknown
• Released on: 2006-08-29
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 3
• Dimensions: .65 pounds
• Running time: 308 minutes

Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews

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.

Anyway, since I wrote my review on Season 7 back in April 2006, I've grown up a fair bit. So for those who read my previous reviews, it's all changed. I watched these episodes back in August/September 2006, when this set first came out, but never got around to reviewing the box back then for some reason.

Disc 1:
Good Times With Weapons: Personally, this episode didn't (and still doesn't) do much for me, as I grew out of anime a few years ago. 6/10

Up The Down Steroid: Better than GTWW, one of the better ones in this season. 7.5/10

Passion Of The Jew: Again, didn't do much for me, the whole Passion Of The Christ stuff simply didn't interest me. 5.5/10

You Got F-d in The A: Good storyline, but kinda weird at the same time (I don't know why, it seemed South Park changed a lot between Season 7 and Season 8, or it might just be me) 7/10

AWESOM-O: One of the better episodes of this season. God Cartman is evil sometimes! 9/10

Disc 2:
The Jeffersons: Michael Jackson was (and still is) a target for humour, again more classic Cartman, but still not as good as an average Season 3-7 episode. 8/10

Goobacks: Don't really like this episode for some reason, though the gay man pile is slightly funny. 5/10

Douche And Turd: Failed to meet my expectations, and that scene where Stan gets thrown out of town on a cow and gets a bucket put on his head? That is NOT funny! 4/10

Something This Wal-Mart Way Comes: Again, failed to meet expectations, okay for what it is, but it does make me want to go to Wal-Mart! 6/10

Pre-School: Another interesting (but mildly funny, no serious laughs like previous seasons), episode, nice piece of back history. 6.5/10

Disc 3:
Quest For Ratings: The whole 'Close Up Of Animals' concept is funny at first, but not enough to sustain a whole show. 6/10

Stupid Spoiled Whore Playset: Nowhere near as good as I thought it would be, and the Paris goes up Mr. Slave's butt scene is just a rip-off of the Lemmiwinks episode, which was both funnier and more disturbing. 5/10

Cartman's Incredible Gift: Ms. Crabtree dies for some reason, not that made much of a difference anyway, unlike a certain operation in the first episode of Season 9... Married with Children did a better psychic episode back in 1992 anyway, worth checking that show out. 6.5/10

Woodland Critter Christmas: The best of this season by far, this was the last episode (although we didn't know about it at the time) that Mr. Garrison was still Mr. Garrison. VERY funny. 10/10

I'm not sure whether it's just me, but my advice to new South Park fans would be to watch all the seasons before this one first, and if you like this one (more than I did), then go on to Season 9 and 10. It's all downhill from this season on, I'm afraid...............

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 this whole season is very funny, I dont think there is a weak episode in this season, and I cant say that about any of the other seasons. Highly recommended, though im sure you know if your a fan of the show that you can get all the episodes for free online, but if you just want to have a season in your collection..this it.

Season 8
As the years go along South Park seems to be getting better and better. This season has some great classics, "Good Times with Weapons", and "Awesom-o". If you a fan you have to own this season because it is one of the best.