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Comedy, Lenny Bruce once said, is tragedy plus time. Less than two months--hardly any time at all--had elapsed after September 11 when South Park broadcast an episode that addressed the tragedy. Wit and satire have their place, of course, but in the aftermath of epochal upheaval, sometimes good old-fashioned ridicule can diminish an enemy and help to heal a grieving nation. The Emmy-nominated episode "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants" does the cathartic trick, as Cartman plays Bugs Bunny to Osama's Elmer Fudd with a series of humiliating pranks, one of which reveals Osama's miniscule Bin Laden. "This is how we deal with stuff," creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone remark during the "commentary-mini," a listening option on each episode. In this fifth season, "It Hits the Fan," to quote the title of the notorious season-opening episode, in which the "S" word is uttered a staggering 162 times. In another series milestone, "Kenny Dies," and actually stays dead (at least until season 6). One of South Park's best characters gets his own half hour in "Butters' Very Own Episode," while one of the series' absolute worst, "Towelie," also gets his. Over the course of these 14 episodes, many life lessons are learned about sex education ("Proper Condom Use"), prejudice ("Here Comes the Neighborhood") and stereotypes ("The Entity"). But perhaps the most valuable lesson is: "Don't tick off Cartman," as witness his diabolical revenge against the unfortunate ninth grader who rips him off in "Scott Tenorman Must Die."
The genius of South Park is its uncanny ability to make satiric hay with such otherwise sure-fire comedy killers as aborted fetuses, concentration camps, and cancer (which becomes instantly funny when the words "up the a**" are added to it, and funnier still when spoken by actual members of Radiohead). 2001 was a rough year for America, and while this country's "problems" provide Stone and Parker with a fount of material (most of it objectionable), we can take odd comfort that they remain vigilant in rooting for their "team." --Donald Liebenson
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Now all 14 classic episodes from South Park's hilarious fifth season are available for the first time in this exclusive 3-disc collector's edition. Join Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny as these four animated tykes take on the supernatural, the extraordinary and the insane. For them, it's all part of growing up in South Park.
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The best adult cartoon out there!,
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This review is from: South Park: The Complete Fifth Season (DVD)
This is the best adult cartoon that has ever been invented. I remember when I was a child I had to sneak behind my father's back if I wanted to watch this show. This show pushes the envelope like no other show has ever done before. The best part is that southpark is still strong.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Oh my god they killed Kenny!!!,
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This review is from: South Park: The Complete Fifth Season (DVD)
Lot of action as south park enter its 5th season as Kenny dies(and stay dead until a while),the boys meet ossama bin ladden ,Jimmy made his first appearance and much more.South park changed and is changing at that point.I see season 5 as a hilarious season in wich poked fun at everithing its a great season.The plots are crazy enough:a geneticaly modified towel that gets high,162 use of the Sh**word,cartman get his own theme park and more.There is not a single episode that doesnt keep attention and Butters get his own episode.From begenning to end this season of s-p is hilarious it really goes to the extreme like the ossama bin ladden episode. Here`s the episode list; 502-It hits the fan 503-Cripple fight 504-Super best friends 501-Scott Tenorman must die 505-Terrance and Philip:behind the blow 506-Cartmanland 507-Proper condom use 508-Towelie 509-Ossama Bin Ladden has farty pants 510-How to eat with your butt 511-The entity 512-Here comes the neighborhood 513-Kenny dies 514-Butters`very own episode Don`t let the number of episode fool ya this season has only 14 episodes but they are really great!South is different many say its darker ans episodes like `scott tenorman must die` and `kenny dies`proves that.Many important things happens during this season as Jimmy is introduced,we see Kyle`s cousin and more.South park has grown and devlopped so much over the years but that year in particular and opened up for Kenny`s death,more butters and changes but south park remained a great show all along. In this season Kenny dies and doesnt come back for a period of time.He isnt there during season 6 and if you watch this episode it will make more sense so its is one episode you got to see.Butters gets his own episode where only him and his parents play a big role its a weird but cool episode.Timmy doesnt like the new kid Jimmy and they fight in a bloody battle. My only complaint would be that there are no bonus features exept comedy central prwiews and comentaries by Trey Parker and Matt Stone.There is no other languages for those who dont understand english.I wish that they would have added deleted scenes and bunch of stuff like that because what you have here isnt satisfiying in my opinion but the commentaries were good. Overral this season is awesome if you are a south park fan then get it.At the price it is on amazon its reallly well worth buying.A funny season i recomend it!Its a different south park but its still great!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another stellar season,
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This review is from: South Park: The Complete Fifth Season (DVD)
Simply put...some of the best episodes this show has put forth.Although a bit shorter than other seasons (running only 14 episodes), each episode contained in this collection were hilarious. Keep in mind I'm watching these for the 1st time in 2011 (10 years after the boxset was released to the public) I'm a new South Park fan and even tough it had a slow start in seasons 1 & 2, season 3-5 so far have been amazing and its easy to see how this show got so popular. Once again no real special features to mention aside from some incredibly brief commentary. Once again no captions on the disc so if your TV can't automatically detect them you're S.O.L. same great packaging as the previous seasons...looking forward to season 6!
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