Product Details

• Actors: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Isaac Hayes, Mona Marshall, Eliza Schneider
• Directors: Trey Parker
• Writers: Andrew Borakove, Brian Graden, Carol Watson, Dan Sterling, Dave Polsky
• Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: November 12, 2002
• Run Time: 301 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (174 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006FDCR
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,668 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

  Popular in this category: (What's this?)

  #12 in

  Movies & TV > Animation > Comedy > South Park

• This is item 1 in The South Park Series.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
South Park exploded on the pop culture landscape like a dirty bomb in 1997, and the 13 episodes that comprise the groundbreaking first season have lost none of their subversive impact. If Seinfeld was a show about nothing, then South Park is a show about everything, from important moral lessons in compassion and tolerance to good old-fashioned animated character assassination (Kathie Lee Gifford in "Weight Gain 4000" and Barbra Streisand in "Mecha-Streisand"). Like an After School Special gone quite mad, profanity-spewing third-graders Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and the ill-fated Kenny navigate childhood in their mountain town. Nothing in South Park is sacred, and each episode has something to offend, from "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" (featuring George Clooney as the voice of Sparky, the homosexual dog), to the Halloween episode "Pink Eye," in which Cartman dresses up as Adolph Hitler. Best not to even get started on Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Pooh, or the season finale cliffhanger, "Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut."

Each episode is preceded by a faux introduction by creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who proclaim every episode to be their favorite. Their incarnations as Rootin'-Tootin' Trey Parker and Pistol-Slingin' Matt Stone indicate that after South Park runs its course, they'd be great hosts of their own children's show, which--and this cannot be stressed strongly enough--South Park is not. Other extras include the South Park boys' appearance on the CableAce awards and "A South Park Thanksgiving," featuring Jay Leno, which aired exclusively on The Tonight Show. A minor annoyance is the slapdash packaging that mislabels the episodes ("Damien," for example, is on disc 3, not 2 as indicated). --Donald Liebenson

Product Description
Mr. Hankey! Mecha Streisand! Cartman's Mom! And more. It all started here, in South Park's groundbreaking first season. Still going strong in its sixth season, South Park continues to be Comedy Central's highest rated and most recognized original series ever.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

190 of 213 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's finally coming!, October 19, 2002

By	Angela M. Healey "AngelaMHealey" (Hull) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Warner Bros. are finally releasing South Park's first season on DVD. **ALL** of the episodes from season one are on here, and it has some really good ones. I can't wait until it comes out because I will definitely buy it. If you're not sure which episodes are on the First Season, or forgot what they're about, here they are:

1. Cartman Gets An Anal Probe - 13-Aug-1997
Brief Plot: The boys rescue Kyle's little brother from aliens who have come to South Park.

2. Weight Gain 4000 - 27-Aug-1997
Kathie Lee Gifford presents the award to Cartman for winning the school's essay contest.

3. Volcano - 20-Aug-1997
The boys hunting trip is threatened by activity from a nearby volcano and a mysterious creature.

4. Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride - 3-Sep-1997
Stan's dog explores his sexuality.

5. An Elephant Makes Love To A Pig - 10-Sep-1997
A genetic engineering experiment unleashes Stans mutant twin.

6. Death - 17-Sep-1997
With the help of Stan's grandfather, the kids summon the Grim Reaper.

7. Pink Eye - 29-Oct-1997
Pinkeye interrupts Halloween festivities.

8. Damien - 4-Feb-1998
Jesus and Satan fight a battle for spiritual domination on Pay-Per-View which conflicts with Cartman's birthday party.

9. Starvin' Marvin - 19-Nov-1997
Government authorities mistake Cartman for a starving African child and send him to Ethiopia.

10. Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo - 17-Dec-1997
When Kyle's musical holiday pal Mr. Hankey shows up it makes for a memorable Christmas in South Park.

11. Tom's Rhinoplasty - 11-Feb-1998
A substitute teacher gets in between Stan and Wendy's relationship.

12. Mecha-Streisand - 18-Feb-1998
The boys find a prehistoric relic that spawns a monster that threatens to destroy the world.

13. Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut - 25-Feb-1998
When Cartman begins acting strange a guidance counselor suggests the cure lies with finding his father.

This is going to be great! With such episodes as 'Cartman Gets An Anal Probe' and 'Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo', you would be crazy not to get it.

- Pez King

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great show, but horrible DVD, December 28, 2002

By	Ehren Stemme "ehrenstemme.com" (St Paul, MN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Let me start out by saying that if this first season of South Park weren't so great, I would have given this set 0 or 1 star.

The 2 main drawbacks to this DVD are: 1) the episode listings by disc that are included on the flaps are not even close to the sequencing that actually exists on the discs, with some episodes appearing out of order and in 2 cases not even on the same disc as noted; and 2) no chapter-within-eipsode system exists, which is made painfully obvious after sitting through the howlingly unfunny "Fireside Chat with Matt (Stone) and Trey (Parker)" that prefaces each show. And although the video is quite good (due to the fact that there is only about 95 minutes of video on each disc) the sound is far less superior, filled with many audio "pops" and syncronization issues that were not resolved by swapping out my set for another.

In short, I would like to say that although it is great to see South Park finally come to the DVD format that allows us to appreciate the animation more, Warner Bros fell far short of even my most meager expectations for what a DVD should be. I am glad I received this as a gift otherwise I might try to track down the Warner's CEO for my forty bucks back, and until they correct their glaring technological and quality-control issues they will not see another dime from me on future South Park releases.

68 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Five-star episodes; one-star DVD set, December 5, 2002

By	J. H. Huebert (Ohio, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I want to begin by saying that South Park is the best show on television, ever, and I love having all of the first-season episodes together on DVD like this.

With that out of the way, it must be said that what WB has done with this set is outrageous. What could Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone have possibly said on their commentary track that would have offended someone who would spend money on a South Park box set--a set which specifically notes that it's for mature audiences on a sticker on the package? Even bleeped commentary would be better than nothing.

Apparently, you can get a set of CD's with the commentary on them, although I'm still not sure how one goes about this, unless you buy the DVD's directly from Comedy Central. But the idea of attempting to sync a CD with these episodes (if you even have a separate CD and DVD player in the same place) is absurd. The point of DVD technology is that it lets you watch the video with or without commentary. I could just easily try to sync a CD with a VHS tape as I could with a DVD. (Why did no one ever come out with audio commentaries on CD like this in the days of VHS, before DVD's came out? Because it's a really dumb idea!)

And speaking of VHS, you get to relive the days of VHS by having to fastforward and rewind to any particular parts of episodes that you might want to see, because WB failed to put in any chapter breaks within the episodes.

There are also typos on the packaging, listing at least one episode on the wrong disc.

Again, I can't deny that I'm glad to have this set, and it's pretty safe to say that these will be the most frequently-played DVD's I own. But if WB doesn't get its act together for season 2, I'm going to be reluctant to shell out the cash again.