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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17402 in DVD
• Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
• Released on: 2003-04-29
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 30 minutes

Amazon.com
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the beach comes Son of the Beach, an uproarious Baywatch parody that revels in juvenile idiocy, bawdy puns, gleefully tasteless social and ethnic stereotypes, and the skimpiest wardrobe on prime time. Co-creator Timothy Stack is the world's greatest lifeguard Notch Johnson, a paunchy, pasty, middle-aged boy scout who patrols the surf with his team of bikini-clad hardbodies. Former Playmate Jaime Bergman is B.J., a daffy trailer-park bimbo, and Leila Arcieri is Jamaica, a hip-hop honey from the hood. Roland Kickinger provides the hunk factor as the body-building "breath of fresh Aryan" from the Fatherland, Chip Rommel, and Kim Oja does straight-man duty as the obligatory "sensible, flat-chested one."

These well-endowed lifeguards battle the everyday dangers of beach life--toxic waste, insidious cult leaders, mobsters, assassins, and randy sea monsters--and still find time for a racy video fashion show in every episode ("A lingerie party? What would that be like?"). Produced by Howard Stern's company, this anything-goes spoof has all the restraint of a bachelor party with a no-host bar and the energized delivery of a screwball cartoon.

The 3-DVD set features 21 episodes of political incorrectness, including the never broadcast episode "Chip's a Goy," in which the studly German sacrifices his foreskin for an Israeli beach babe, and the inspired "Queefer Madness," a gonzo remake of The Wild One with David Arquette, Lucas Haas, and Neil Patrick Harris as beatnik rebels on BMX bikes. Ride the big one, daddy-o! --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews

Under-rated show finally gets respect
Once "The Shield" became popular, the cable channel FX decided it was too good to air Son of the Beach and cancelled the show. I thought this was a shame...I always thought the show was clever and under-rated, and always fun to watch. Now the show has made it to DVD.
This 3-disc set contains the first 21 episodes from seasons 1 and 2 of the show. The episodes are all hilarious...if you like one, you'll like them all.
There's also some nice extras...there's a funny outtakes reel, and behind the scenes stuff. If you like women wearing next to nothing, there's several new "montages" (Montages being the moments on the show where the characters stop and say "now what would THAT be like?") The best extras are the commentaries on several episodes by Tim Stack, the producers, and assorted cast members. It's clear they had a fun time making the show, and it's interesting to hear them talk about it. I highly recommend this boxset, and I hope they release the rest of seasons 2 and 3.

one liners, double entendres, handful of breasts
"Son of the Beach" is everything it promises to be, and more, or less. It centers around the Malibu Adjacent "Shore Patrol Force" (SPF-30) team of lifeguards who save the day in one form or another in every goofy episode.

The characters have names such as BJ Cummings, Jamaica St. Croix (with a sister named Montego Bay), Kimberly Clark, and leader Notch Johnson. The town mayor is Anita Massengil. Guest star characters include Walter Koenig as "General Dimitri Sukitov", Pat Morita as "King Kumonya", Victoria Silvsted as "Eva Rommel" (sister of SPF 30 member "Chip Rommel") Erik Estrada as "Seymour Wences", Alan Thicke as "Captain Entenille", and various others such as the Latina temptress "Labia", the Mermaid "Areola", and the Asian villainess "Rucy Ru".

Episode titles include "South of Her Border", "A Star is Boned", "Attack of the Cocktopuss", and "Two Thongs Don't Make A Right".

If the character names and titles aren't enough fodder for puns and one-liners, they also throw in locations such as Humidor and Begonia, an island volcano named "Mt. Maheinie", and make references as silly as "super, Mario" (to the supposed janitor), or parodies of "The Wild One" in which BJ asks co-virgin Neil Patrick Harris if he wants to come into her pink trailer which, he remarks, "smells fresh, like a summer's eve".

It is as silly as it sounds, and that is the humor. If you expect more, you might be disappointed. But, for silly funny humor it gets 5 stars.

So stupid, but you can't help laughing
From Howard Stern's production company, Son of the Beach is a more than inspired parody of Baywatch and then some, and just as you would expect from anything involved with Howard Stern, Son of the Beach is juvenile, politically incorrect, full of ... inuendo and puns, and is incredibly hilarious. Timothy Stack (from the short lived but equally funny Night Stand with Dick Dietrich) plays Notch Johnson; the world's greatest lifeguard who, with his crew of hard bodied lifeguards (including ... Jamie Bergman) outwit the mafia, assassins, and lots of other baddies, while featuring a plethora of guest stars (including The Sopranos Vincent Pastore, Alan Thicke, David Arquette, Lucas Haas, Neil Patrick Harris, and Gilbert Gottfried among others). The humor may be too juvenile for many, but fans of the Howard Stern show or just low brow comedy in general will definitely have a blast with this sadly short lived series.