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Summary: Fantastic series, weak DVD collection
Review: If you enjoy South Park, caught on to it late or saw the film and wondered if there were some references then South Park - The Complete First Season will be a satisfying purchase and is the best value in terms of getting the first season.There are several build-ups that get fuller and nastier treatment in the Bigger, Longer, Uncut film which makes this funny collection of season one worth having. There is a big down side however. As others have noted there are pops in the audio which most certainly is a post production error that the lamest audio engineer could have fixed. Disc 3 seems to be clear of the problems if that makes your purchase decision any easier. Warner Brothers put almost nothing into the quality of the actual content and most of it's money on a 3 DVD set with cardboard case. It is cynical and typical of how a mega-corp slaps material together and says NEW! NEW! There isn't anything new other than popping audio. The set could have been two discs with room to spare. The extras are fun but far from essential. There are too many highlights to discuss in a brief review. I didn't see most of this season, a couple of episodes were on reruns but for the most part much of this set was new to me and features the early development of characters. South Park continues to defile sacred cows and is perhaps a bit more developed as the series progresses but this is the beginning and for a first season the quality is remarkably consistant. Buy it if you want to watch these episodes over and over but realize that Warner Brothers did a poor quality audio transfer and almost nothing in addition to this fine series. If you are easily offended pass on South Park in general. If Jesus on cable access offends you, you won't be happy with much of South Park. If you dig talking pooh, creative cursing, have any memory of being a little kid - especially males then you'll have a lot of laughs from this set. But the botched quality needs mentioning as it seems almost wrong to reward Warner Brothers for the cynical disrespect they show towards the people that purchase their wares. Series: 5 stars
Quality: 1 star
Chance of yet another collection where they get it right: 3
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Summary: commentary & a few better extras would be nice...
Review: one of the main reasons i was anxiously anticipating the first season collection of south park was to hear matt & trey's commentary on each of the episodes. honestly, i wasn't a huge fan of the first season (especially when compared to the more recent seasons) but i couldn't wait to see what insight the two would have to give on creating one of the most controversial shows on television during it's first year on the air. well, warner pulled the commentary at the last second, so this is pretty much the same release as the previous "numbered" dvds, except for the small inclusions of a few shorts & 1 ad, none of which are all that great. don't get me wrong, if you're a south park fan & don't already have the first season collection in one form or another, pick this up. otherwise, it's not worth the extra money.
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Summary: Not South Park at it's best
Review: This stuff is classic, and is a building block for what South Park has become. There is alot of differences between the first season and the rest of the series, pertaining to voices and what the characters look like. They pretty much got all of that situated by the end of the season and the start of the second. I only gave this collection a 4 because the episodes are not the greatest. But there is no way you can pass this up, this is bar none the funniest show I have ever seen.
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Summary: Probly the worst boxed set I have ever seen
Review: They're right, WB is the worst distributor of DVD's ever,
Paramount was for a while until it changed to an all Dual Layer DVD standard, Has WB done that yet? NO!!!!!!!!! First off, the first TWO discs in this set are single layered,
COME ON, I really cannot stand it when there is multiple DVD5's in the same boxed set,
I dont mind Monty Python's multiple DVD5's cause at least each disc has it's own unique case, & I dont mind Tales of the City either cause it was released by a cheap DVD company who probly can't afford DVD9's. but TWO DVD5's, jeez, I would rather thay were double sided, than nothing at all,
wouldnt a 2 disc set have been more ideal than a 3 disc set? ...
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Summary: Great show, poor DVD production
Review: The terrible job Warner Bros. did with the production of this DVD has been documented pretty well in all the other reviews. In fact, WB is starting to get a nice reputation for being one of the worst distributors of DVDs. As for South Park, the biggest gripe I had was the deletion of the audio commentaries, but I wanted to reserve judgement until I could actually hear them. Now that I have I can only guess that the "stardards issues" involved one or all of the following: a) fear of a slander lawsuit by Barbara Streisand or Bob Saget, b) Matt and Trey ripping of the movie "Contact," which WB owns, or c)several references to Fox, another network Matt and Trey shopped the show to. Whatever the reason, it's nothing a disclaimer at the beginning of the DVD wouldn't have fixed. But even though it pains me that I can't give the DVD 5 stars becasue of Warner's foolishness, I love the show too much to give it 3.
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Summary: HAHAHAHAH great!
Review: Oh man this show seriously kicks ...! This show can go over the limits of cable TV and not look back! I got this DVD on Christmas Day and i still continually watch it over and over again u cant get sick of them! I...I cant even imajine myself explaining all of the good things in this show. One of the great things about this DVD is that despite it being the first season the shows r still rlly funny and raunchy unlike other first season DVD's ... So plain and simple: get this DVD ull be extremely pleased with it.
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Summary: This is kick a**
Review: I'v always loved south park but this way over me. with great (20min) episodes including Cartman Gets an anol prob
Mr. Hankey
+ other great classics like pink eye.
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Summary: The First Season - Because it's the first
Review: I can't give this DVD 5 star... Because it's not the best season of them all! And all these Episodes are allready been realesed on DVD, but having them together in chronological order is really convenient! Although they are not so good as the Simpsons... But they come close! Specialy South Parks first season is better then the Simpsons first season!! On this DVD there are not only the 13 episodes, but also some extra's like: "A South Park Thanksgiving" as seen on "The Tonight Show"; Cartman "O Holy Night" music video; Ned "O Little Town of Bethlehem" music video; On-Air promos; The Boys present at the 1997 CableACE Awards... The DVD contains 3 discs!! All three full of joy!! Buy it!! You'll love it!!
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Summary: haphazard packaging for priceless material
Review: No animated series since "The Simpsons" so completely trashes and celebrates American pop culture like "South Park." Beyond the obvious dirty language and inuendo that critics have sought to define this Comedy Central series, there are some excellent, albeit twisted, observations about our lives to be found with Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, et al. The 1997-98 first season is the best representation of the highs and lows that this series has reached over the years, and it contains the defining episodes people are still talking about half a decade later. This DVD set would be perfect for the casual and ardent "South Park" fan alike if the quality control had been a bit higher. Two episodes "Starvin' Marvin" and "Damien" were reversed in the literature on the DVD packaging. For the record, "Starvin'" is on disc two, "Damien" is on disc three. The shamelessly self-effacing Comedy Central promos are contrived, and worst of all, identical, on each of the discs and should be avoided. The audio track on the episodes suffer from a number of annoying "pops" that make it seem the productrion was slapped together, though the reat of the packaging suggests otherwise. Possibly the worst problem this 3 disc set suffers is the inability to easily fast-forward past the funny, but quickly tiring, introductions by show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. These guys are hilarious, the "Scratch" gag is priceless, but after you watch two or three of the intros, the joke starts to wear thin, cowboy costumes or no cowboy costumes. Overall, any collection of "South Park" is worth the money, but this set is by no means perfect. Buy it anyway.
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Summary: The Audio Pops Are Very Annoying
Review: For such a hit show, you think they'd do a good job on the dvd production. The audio & video are great, with some stereo effects I don't remember being on the tv versions...but there are a plethora of audio "pops" that are loud and very distracting. I felt I couldn't enjoy the show because I was anticipating the next POP! Also annoying are the intros before the episodes by Trey & Matt...why aren't these bypassable or at the end of the disc as extras? I could stand the intros if there were no pops, but both together are too much.
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