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Title:
South Park: The Complete Fifth Season
Region:
One
Genre:
Animated Comedy Satire TV Series
Disc One Episodes: “It Hits The Fan”, “Cripple Fight”, “Super Best Friends”, “Scott Tenorman Must Die”, “Terrance And Phillip: Behind The Blow”
Disc
Two Episodes: “Cartmanland”, “Proper Condom Use”, “Towlie”, “Osama
Bin Laden Has Farty Pants”, “How To Eat With Your Butt”
Disc
Three Episodes: “The Entity”, “Here Comes The Neighborhood”, “Kenny
Dies”, “Butters’ Very Own Episode”
Starring
The Voices Of: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mona Marshall, Eliza Schneider, and
Isaac Hayes
Guest
Voices: Radiohead
Created
By: Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Executive
Producers: Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Feature
length: 315 minutes
Extras:
Mini Episode Commentaries With Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Comedy Central
Quickies, DVD Previews
Languages:
English Stereo Sound
Subtitles:
English Closed Captions
Packaging:
Three-Disc Digipack Gatefold Within A Cardboard Slipcase
Chapter
Stops: 5 Per Episode/70 Total
Sound:
Stereo Sound
Year
of Television Broadcast: 2001/DVD Release: 2005
Home
Video Distributor: Comedy Central Home Video Through Paramount Home
Entertainment
MPAA
Rating: Not Rated
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
With
the series heading into its ninth season, “South Park” is undeniably one of
the most successful animated series to ever air on cable and satellite
television. The fifth season features some very funny episodes that include
“Cripple Fight,” which introduces the character of Jimmy, “Scott Tenorman
Must Die,” which features the alternative rock band Radiohead and is also
notable for the length in which Cartman goes to get his revenge. “Proper
Condom Use” might be the most graphic jab at sex education or the fear of it
ever produced and certainly ever animated. “Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants”
was in part inspired by the World War II era Bugs Bunny cartoons produced by
Warner Brothers and was nominated for an Emmy® while “Kenny Dies” features
the sad final demise of the character who Parker and Stone simply got sick of
killing off each episode. I do not watch “South Park” on a regular basis so
I am not exactly sure where the series is at now, but in the audio comments
Parker and Stone state that Kenny is alive again though they have no explanation
for his return from the dead, after all Kenny always returns from the dead with
no explanation on nearly every episode of “South Park.” The season concludes
with “Butters’ Very Own Episode,” which Parker and Stone state was
produced in part because they wanted to prepare viewers for his expanded role in
the sixth season as Kenny’s replacement character and because they simply love
the character.
All
14 episodes look great in their (1.33:1) television broadcast aspect ratio with
a lively English Stereo Soundtrack and English Closed Captions for the hearing
impaired encoded onto the three discs as an option. It has been a while since
I’ve watched and reviewed a “South Park” DVD set, but I must state that I
was very impressed by the short commentaries delivered by series creators Trey
Parker and Matt Stone. Though short, these comments are concise, funny, and at
times quite illuminating. Recorded between finishing their recent feature film
“Team America: World Police” and storyboarding the new season’s upcoming
episodes, Parker and Stone reveal that “Terrance And Phillip: Behind The
Blow” is their least favorite episode from that season and they also express
their great admiration for the work Pixar has done with taking simple stories
that one can figure out what the premise is and how it will probably play out
very quickly and yet their films are still very entertaining and hold the
viewer’s attention. Parker and Stone aspire to improve their own writing
skills as they streamline “South Park” while maintaining its deceptively
simple visual style. They also share an anecdote regarding a meeting they had
with Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones where the two Monty Python alumni told them
they had once thought of playing an episode where the entire first half would be
played straight and not for laughs, but in the end they abandoned the idea. The
episode “Kenny Dies” was originally written to be a serious episode because
Parker and Stone thought the melodrama might actually work as a satire of sorts
for when TV programs make a big deal about the death of one of their characters.
After their meeting with Gilliam and Jones, Parker and Stone quickly rewrote the
episode however with the quick turn around time they decided to still leave a
bit of seriousness to the episode, but make the humor dark.
In
addition to the short commentaries for each episode, there are three short
Comedy Central Quickies made up of “South Park: Professor Chaos” (1:56),
which features the character of Butters, “Chappelle’s Show: Anti-Drug”
(2:19), and “Reno 911! - Rough Morning” (1:45). There is also a reel of DVD
previews (8:09) featuring “Chappelle’s Show: Season Two”, “Reno 911! –
The Complete First Season”, “The Ren & Stimpy Show: Uncut: The First And
Second Seasons Collector’s Edition Box Set”, and “Team America: World
Police.”
After
a short animated segment from a select episode on each disc, the menus become
standard interactive still frames that are easy to navigate. “South Park: The
Complete Fifth Season” on DVD box set is available now at retailers on and
offline courtesy of Comedy Central Home Video and Paramount Home Entertainment.
©
Copyright 2005 By Mark A. Rivera
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