Product Details

• Actors: Mary Kay Bergman, Isaac Hayes, Gracie Lazar, Mona Marshall, Trey Parker
• Directors: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Adrien Beard, Toni Nugnes, Eric Stough
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 5, 2000
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0790735911
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #71,608 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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This, volume 3 of three, contains two episodes from the first season of South Park, Comedy Central's wildly successful animated sitcom. In addition, viewers get two very tongue-in-cheek fireside chats with co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The controversial cartoon gained a devoted cult following for its wonderfully unabashed assaults on dull sitcom formula and politically correctness. While the show's animation is beyond primitive, with goofy construction-paper cutouts acting as characters, its writing is hilariously shocking and pushes the envelope of good taste off the table. Episodes explore the small mountain town of South Park through the point of view of four foul-mouthed yet lovable eight-year-olds. They include level-headed co-leaders Stan and Kyle; the fat, terminally pissed-off, and hysterical Eric Cartman; and the hooded, incoherent Kenny (who dies in every episode). As such, it's stuffed with toilet humor, graphic violence, and profanity; but South Park also cleverly subverts TV clichés and acts as a scorching satire of America's hypocritical attitude towards social problems like racism, homophobia, jingoism, neglectful parenting, etc. Of the three volumes currently available, this is the finest. "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig," is a crazy, raunchy look at genetic cloning--not to mention a parody of Marlon Brando's embarrassing performance in The Island of Dr. Moreau--as the boys try to win a science fair by mating Kyle's pet elephant with Cartman's pot-bellied pig. "Death" addresses both euthanasia and, self-consciously, offensive television. As Stan's 102-year-old grandfather tries to get anyone to off him, South Park parents try and get their kids' favorite TV show--starring the farting, swearing duo, "Terrence and Phillip"--tossed off the air. --Dave McCoy

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3.0 out of 5 stars Very little things to laugh at., November 29, 2000

By	David Rogers (Emmett, ID, USA) - See all my reviews

An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig was allright, but Death was just plain bad, I don't even want to go into details with it. I recomend this for only die-hard South park fans.

4.0 out of 5 stars An elephant makes love to a pig;Death, November 25, 1998

By A Customer

South Park kicks ass!Escpecially this tape

4.0 out of 5 stars As good as it gets, September 3, 1998

By	"[e-mail]" (Australia) - See all my reviews

South Park was a sensation almost within days of being aired. The inspired wierdness of the humour and the total lack of political correctness have served the series well. This video details two (yes, only two) episodes of the series. An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig is the archtypal SP episode. At least one scene to make you wonder how this can happen on your television, a couple of running gags, some humour - driven violence and an off beat ending. Suffice to say, the kids attempt to mate an elephant with a pig in order to create smaller elephants, along the way enlisting the aid of an insane genetic engineer who creates a Frankensteins monster type clone of one of the kids. Wierd, but Goddamn funny. Death (the second episode) parodies many of South Parks opponents in merciless fashion. however, after this pair (the final pair of the first half-season) the show is all downhill. With the exception of Halloween and Christmas. both within the next few weeks none of the newer episodes from the second half of season one into season two even come close to matching any of the first half dozen that were made. The inspired insanity has gone to be replaced with a series of stretched, sick plotlines which go way too far with a bunck of one-joke characters (and they are, don't doubt it). This video (and the previous two) are worth getting, and include some incredibly staged and deliberately fake interviews with the writers. But after this one? Nah. END