Product Details
- Audience Rating: Unrated
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Matt Stone
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- EAN: 9786304958476
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- Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
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- ISBN: 6304958471
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- Label: Warner Home Video
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- Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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- Number of Items: 3
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: Warner Home Video
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- Release Date: 2000-09-05
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- Studio: Warner Home Video
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1997-08-13
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- Title: South Park Gift Pack Volumes 1-3
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- UPC: 085393644932
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Product Description: Fans of South Park, Comedy Central's wildly successful animated sitcom that's become a cultural phenomenon, can save cash by purchasing all three of the available volumes in this one blandly packaged box set. Each volume contains two episodes from the show's hilarious first season, plus two very tongue-in-cheek, self-mocking fireside chats with cocreators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The controversial cartoon gained a devoted cult following for its wonderfully unabashed assaults on dull sitcom formulas and political 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. The six episodes explore the small mountain town of South Park from the point of view of four foul-mouthed yet lovable 8-year-olds. They include level-headed coleaders 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 attitudes toward social problems like racism, homophobia, jingoism, neglectful parenting, euthanasia, and so on. Tape 1 includes the sci-fi parody pilot, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe," and "Volcano," a send-up of Hollywood disaster movies and a commentary on hunting. Tape 2 includes the show's sharpest social critique, "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride," along with "Weight Gain 4000." Finally, tape 3 wraps up the collection in outrageous style with "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig," about genetic cloning, and "Death," which tackles euthanasia and, appropriately, offensive television. --Dave McCoy
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