South Park: Complete Series 2

Amazon.co.uk Review

Set in a Colorado mountain town that gets destroyed on a regular basis and is populated by the dumbest, most vulgar characters imaginable, South Park is an anarchic animated sitcom that owes more to the spirit of Monty Python than to its comparatively tame predecessor The Simpsons. The show's origins go back to a 1995 Christmas video "postcard" called The Spirit of Christmas that a Fox Studios executive had commissioned at the previous Sundance Film Festival for $2000 having seen the work of film-makers Trey Parker and Matt Stone (Cannibal: The Musical). The adventures of Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny became an instant ratings and merchandising smash and the foul-mouthed eight-year-olds have expanded to the cinema screen (Bigger, Longer and Uncut), found their way to the MTV Movie Awards and allowed the show creators/(song) writers/voice-artists to pursue equally anarchic comedy at the box office with Baseketball and Orgazmo. Constantly pursued by a censorship outcry, the series has survived several copycat cartoon threats and even the death of its lead female vocal-artist during its third season. Perhaps the show's biggest controversy has always been that--despite a disclaimer before every episode--under-aged children still see it. But lured by a universe full of Cheesy Poofs and Cookie Dings, where no-one's afraid to badmouth school bus driver Miss Crabtree and where it's OK to vomit from being in love, it's no wonder that children of all ages can't help but love it. Seriously. --Paul Tonks

Season Two: Parker and Stone intentionally annoyed audiences by holding back season one's cliff-hanger resolution ("Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut") where we learn the surprise truth of who Cartman's dad really is. Season two instead opens with a TV Movie-of-the-Week Special for cartoon-within-a-cartoon characters Terrance and Phillip in "Not Without My Anus". A clever sub-plot runs through the middle of the year with closet homosexual schoolteacher Mr Garrison losing his hand puppet Mr Hat and replacing him with Mr Twig. It comes to an end in the amazing "Chef Aid" with Mr Hat busting Garrison and Chef from jail to attend a concert where Elton John, Meat Loaf and Ozzy Osborne are playing (all voiced for real). We get to explore the dubious leisure activities of Jimbo and Ned on their cable access show "Huntin' and Killin'" during a ratings war with "Jesus and Pals" (Christ having chosen the town to live in--naturally) in the Jerry Springer spoof "The Mexican Staring Frog of southern Sri Lanka". The season is rounded off by visits from the Evil Eric Cartman (who's nice!) from a parallel universe in "Spooky Fish", the Booktastic Bus in "Chickenlover", the Underpants Gnomes and even Charles Manson. --Paul Tonks

Customer Reviews:

Trey Parker and Matt Stone's greatest achievement.......2006-08-04

The second series is just as eventful as the first, and yet better. The plot of the episodes are more interesting AND this series has 18 episodes, where the first only has 13. One other interesting thing is that series one ended with one question: who is Eric Cartman's father? Well this series reveals the answer. For those of you that have recently become South Park fans or have not seen the episode, I ain't going to spoil things and reveal the answer, but it's the person you'd least suspect. The first episode of the series revolves around Terrance and Phillip completely, which is that Terrance and Phillip special the boys saw advertised at the end of the first series. It's a funny episode, featuring Saddam Hussein, plotting to take over Iraq. This series also reveals how useful Pip can be in sport, but nobody cares when Pip wins victory of the game. Trey and Matt continue to take the p*ss out of people as usual, such as Fred Savage and Charlie Manson, who turns good. One funny moment is when Mr Hankey summons a lot of sewage, resulting in South Park being covered in sh*t. The boys in this series meet a nice version of Cartman and Stan gets a goldfish that kills people. Mr Garrison loses Mr Hat, then realises he no longer needs him, and gets a twig, which he names Mr Twig. Kyle learns that Ike isn't really his brother after all, Mr Mackey takes drugs and Cartman takes authority into his own hand when officer Barbrady temporarily retires. Also that bus driver Miss Crabtree finds true love. This series is really excellent and well worth getting.

Great! but carefull non english speakers.......2005-12-26

Great serie but please notice that it comes with no subtitles. Some of the gags are really hard to get if you are not a native speaker.

Extra info on the boxed set.......2005-04-14

OK, everything I can say about the series is redundant -- 5 stars!
I'd just like to add some info that might be important for foreign, non-native English speaking buyers:
a) the boxed set I bought from Amazon.co.uk is actually coded not only for Region 2, but also for Regions 3, 4, 5 and 6;
b) the DVD has both English and French audio, and both French and Duth subtitles.

"Respect My Authoritiiiii!!!".......2004-07-04

This season of South Park is absolutley fantastic and completely dispells any lingering doubts that the show's appeal lay in "immature toliet humour".

Instead the humour stems from great characters and bitting satire and social observation. Indeed this series includes some of Cartman's greatest moments e.g as a cop in "Chicken Lover" and sinining "Sailinng away"in "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut"!!

Definately recommended for all lovers of offbeat animated humour.

The Best South Park Series.......2003-10-28

Like the title this is the best series in the entire collection it contains some really hilarious episodes including Flashbacks,Chicken Lover,Chef Aid and Gnomes.
Own this collection now you will really be impressed.

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