Product Description

Follows four irreverent grade-school kids in the town of South Park, Colorado.
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 13-MAR-2007
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2042 in DVD
• Brand: SOUTH PARK
• Released on: 2004-06-29
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Number of discs: 3
• Dimensions: .60 pounds
• Running time: 380 minutes

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In the episode "Chef Goes Nanners," Cartman is left standing alone in the snow after Wendy blithely proclaims her improbable attraction for him to has suddenly vanished. Cartman heaves a heavy sigh, and exits Chaplinesque stage right. But any concerns that South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone had gone soft, or that Cartman would undergo a more sympathetic, Louie De Palma-like makeover are abated in nearly every other episode of South Park's pivotal fourth season. From the "downright immature" trashing of Phil Collins (whose "You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan had emerged victorious Oscar night over Parker and Stone's "Blame Canada") to an episode in which Cartman becomes the unwitting poster child for NAMBLA, South Park gave its viewers much shock value for its basic cable dollar. This was the season that introduced the show's most unlikely breakout star, the wheelchair-bound Timmy, who, despite being only able to say his own name (or perhaps because of it), carried the pathos in his own holiday special, "Helen Keller! The Musical." This was the season in which Parker and Stone somehow were able to comment with Daily Show immediacy on the Elian Gonzales incident ("Quintuplets 2000") and the presidential election debacle ("Trapper Keeper") within days of the actual events. This was the season in which other "statement shows" skewered the South Carolina confederate flag controversy ("Chef Goes Nanners") and hate-crime legislation ("Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000"). This was also the season in which the South Park kids graduated to the fourth grade, we got a harrowing look inside Cartman's brain ("Helen Keller!"), and estranged lovers Saddam Hussein and Satan were reunited (in a two-parter, no less!).

Episodes not appreciated in their time can now be seen with fresh eyes. "Pip," hosted by Malcolm McDowell, and featuring none of the South Park regulars, is a faithful abridgement of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, monkey robots notwithstanding. As in the season 3 set, Parker and Stone provide brief, "fun-size commentary" that address their censorship skirmishes with Comedy Central and illuminate the inspiration and backstory for each episode. To quote the pro-commercialism holiday episode, "A Very Krappy Christmas," "If we all buy presents, everyone benefits." For South Park fans, this boxed set is an excellent start. --Donald Liebenson

Customer Reviews

Fourth Times-a-Charm
For some of you that may not know, the fourth season of South Park was and always will be the best season ever. Here's the episodes and a description about them.

1. Cartman's Silly Hate Crime: Cartman throws a rock at Token and goes to Juvie. There he meets a kid who always wanted to go to Disney World.

2. Tooth Fairy Tats 2000: The boys need quick cash and steal teeth to get money from the "Tooth Fairy".

3. Quintuplets 2000: The boys adopt quintuplets.

4. Timmy 2000: Timmy comes into the boys' class and joins a rock band with Stan's sister's ex-boyfriend.

5. Pip: Pip goes back to England and remenisces about old times he had there.

6. Cartman Joins NAMBLA: Cartman is too "mature" for the other kids and joins an organization with child molestors. There is a real NAMBLA, called "National Accosiation of Marlon Brando Look Alikes".

7. Cherokee Hair Tampons: Kyle becomes sick and needs a new kidney, and Cartman is his last hope. (a.k.a. The Cheech and Chong episode).

8. Chef Goes Nanners: (Never saw this episode, heard is good).

9. Something You Can Do With Your Finger: The boys start a boy band called "Fingerbang".

10. Do The Handicapped Go To Hell? (Part 1): The boys learn about confession and Saddam Hussein comes back into Satan's love life.

11. Probably (Part 2): Cartman teaches kids the joys of Christianity and Satan does it with Saddam...again!

12. Fourth Grade: The boys go to 4th grade and they hate their new teacher, Ms. Choksondik, while she goes on a quest to find the missing Mr. Garrison.

13. Trapper Keeper: Cartman gets a Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper that holds a secret to destruction.

14. Helen Keller- The Musical: The kids make a play on Helen Keller, starring Timmy, for Thanksgiving. (Gobbles!!!)

15. Fat Camp: Cartman goes to fat camp while Kenny is famous for doing crazy things.

16. The Wacky Molestation: The kids get back at their parents for teaching them what molesting was.

17. A Very "Crappy" Christmas: Mr. Hankey teaches his family about how poop helps everyone.

There you have it, all 17 legendary episodes of the greatest season of South Park.

Viva La Risistance!

COOL SHOW
This is porblably one of the best seasons of South Park. Below is a list of all the episodes and when they aired in the fourth season.

5-Apr-00 The Tooth Fairy's TATS 2000
12-Apr-00 Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000
19-Apr-00 Timmy! 2000
26-Apr-00 Quintuplets 2000
21-Jun-00 Cartman Joins NAMBLA
28-Jun-00 Cherokee Hair Tampons
5-Jul-00 Chef Goes Nanners
12-Jul-00 Something You Can Do With Your Finger (a.k.a. Fingerbang)
19-Jul-00 Do the Handicapped Go to Hell? (1)

26-Ju-00 Probably (2)
8-Nov-00 4th Grade
15-Nov-00 Trapper Keeper
22-Nov-00 Helen Keller! The Musical
29-Nov-00 Great Expectations
6-Dec-00 Fat Camp
13-Dec-00 The Wacky Molestation Adventure
20-Dec-00 A Very Crappy Christmas

More Laughs; Less Poo
After the blow-out success of their movie, creators Stone and Parker realized just how much they could get away with in their show (there are some funny stories about that in the mini-commentaries to be found on these discs). They used this new-found power not just to reach new heights of depravity, but also to more effectively utilize the show as their own personal soapbox. A tactic like this would cripple shows of less caliber; it is what gave South Park its new legs.

Proving themselves capable of taking on any subject (and rivaling even some news programs with their blink-of-an-eye topicality), season four finds the kids waxing philosophic on hate crimes (Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000), the Elian Gonzales controversy (Quintuplets 2000), holistic medicine (Cherokee Hair Tampons), the Confederate flag (Chef Goes Nanners), the presidential election (Trapper Keeper), and, of course, religion, in the two-parter "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?" & "Probably," which could be viewed as a quasi-sequel to the movie.

Most notably, this season introduces us to Timmy, a character that Comedy Central initially (and understandably) balked at. Thank God they let this vocabulary-challenged child on the air; who would've guessed that this unlikely staple to the show would prove to be much much more than a one-joke wonder.

The boys behind the screen also churned out some of their most famous episodes this year. Kenny gets grosser than ever (and Cartman slims down, maybe) in "Fat Camp." South Park goes rogue when the parents all leave town in "The Wacky Molestation Adventure." We are treated to a disturbing (and absolutely hilarious) look into the gory depths of Cartman's brain in "Helen Keller! The Musical." Mr. Hanky returns in "A Very Crappy Christmas." And, in arguably one of the shows best episodes ever (if not the most memorable), Cartman -- seeking more "mature" friends -- joins NAMBLA.

The show skids a few times in this season. Their recreation of Dickens' "Great Expectations" is amusing, but only gets laugh-worthy when the show strays from the script (Genesis machine! Robot monkeys!). Even on the mini-commentary (these guys aren't just a treat to listen to, they also give the inside scoop on a lot of things you'd want to know anyway), the creators admit "Chef Goes Nanners" has their most "bummer" ending. And although "4th Grade" is responsible for introducing us to Ms. Choksondik (and also for finally outing Mr. Garrison), it seems like one of the weakest episodes in this season.

But, then again, in a season starring Cheech and Chong, where we're treated to a reality-warping Kyle and Cartman as the tooth fairy, where a handicapped child gets a handicapped pet, and where the kids form a boy band with an unlikely name, the competition is notably fierce. Another great season for a stand-out show.