The Bottom Line
- Stone and Parker take on subjects other folks won't.
- Butters comes into his own.
- Paramount needs to get over their fear of 1st amendment freedom and...
- allow Parker and Stone to give some real commentaries!
Description
- Three discs.
- Mini-commentaries for every episode.
- 14 episodes.
Guide Review - South Park - The Complete Eighth Season
At a time when the world was in love with Mel Gibson and his Passion of the Christ, Parker and Stone took him to task and portrayed him as a raving lunatic. Two years and one Gibson DUI later, the world is singing their song.
South Park also showed Paris Hilton in what I feel is a much more realistic portrayal of the heiress than we see on The Simple Life (which is more a description of hers and Nicole Ritchie's brain power than their environment). So while some folks are buying up her perfume, the rest of us are cheering on Lemmiwinks and Mr. Slave to win.
Mr. Larrick mentions that "Something Wall-mart This Way Comes" is a stand-out episode. I absolutely agree. Mom and Pop are getting run of of town by these chain stores, but they themselves can't stop shopping there! Though the episode offers no answers, it accurately depicts the dilemma of most hard-working Americans: Should I choose cheap prices or solidarity?
In all of these episodes, as well as "Good Times with Weapons," "Cartman's Incredible Gift" and so many more, the humor is concise, clever, sometimes shocking, and always abundant.
I also agree with Morgan that the lack of extras is pathetic. More and more DVD sets are overflowing with bonuses. Paramount, what gives?
