South Park - The Complete 2 Season (1998)

Now that enough time has lapsed, we can all have a good laugh over South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone's amusing little April Fools prank, in which they kicked off the show's second season not with the conclusion to season one's cliffhanger that would reveal the identity of Cartman's father, but with an all-Terrance, all-Phillip, all-farting episode, "Not Without My Anus." The ensuing outcry illustrated just how seriously its devoted fans take South Park. There is little evidence of sophomore slump in this three-disc collection of 18 episodes that continue the coming-of-age trials of third graders Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny. There is considerable shock value just in the episode titles alone, among them "Cojoined Fetus Lady," "Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson," and the infamous "Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut." But mostly, the episodes are just--in Cartman's words--hella funny. "Spookyfish" is a creepfest about a killer fish, possessed animals, and alien alter egos (in which the so-called Evil Cartman is much nicer than the real Cartman) presented in Spookyvision, with pictures of Barbra Streisand framing the screen. "Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls" is a hilarious send-up of the Sundance Film Festival and the indie film scene that marks the return of Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo, and ends with the burial of Robert Redford in excrement.

As always, hard-earned life lessons provide South Park with fertile territory for skewed and subversive social commentary. In "Chicken Lover," Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is an argument against literacy. "Underwear Gnomes" makes a strong case for corporate takeover of local family business. It is difficult to respect Warner Bros.' "authoritah" with the scant DVD extras. There are no commentaries, but Parker and Stone are present to introduce most of the episodes, each of which they proclaim to be their favorite. But their incarnations as abusive retirement center entertainers and as the hosts of an all-bacon cooking show fall flat. Bring back Rootin'-Tootin' Trey Parker and Pistol-Slingin' Matt Stone from the Season One set! --Donald Liebenson
Season 2
14. 2-1 201 01-Apr-1998 Terrance & Phillip in "Not Without My Anus"
15. 2-2 202 22-Apr-1998 Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut (2)
16. 2-3 204 20-May-1998 Ike's Wee Wee
17. 2-4 203 27-May-1998 Chickenlover
18. 2-5 205 03-Jun-1998 Conjoined Fetus Lady
19. 2-6 206 10-Jun-1998 The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka
20. 2-7 207 17-Jun-1998 City on the Edge of Forever (a.k.a. Flashbacks)
21. 2-8 208 24-Jun-1998 Summer Sucks
22. 2-9 209 19-Aug-1998 Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls
23. 2-10 210 26-Aug-1998 Chickenpox
24. 2-11 211 02-Sep-1998 Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods
25. 2-12 212 23-Sep-1998 Clubhouses
26. 2-13 213 30-Sep-1998 Cow Days
27. 2-14 214 07-Oct-1998 Chef Aid
28. 2-15 215 28-Oct-1998 Spooky Fish
29. 2-16 216 09-Dec-1998 Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!
30. 2-17 217 16-Dec-1998 Gnomes (a.k.a. Underpants Gnomes)
31. 2-18 218 20-Jan-1999 Prehistoric Ice Man

30 mins 4/1/1998 1. Terrance & Phillip in "Not Without My Anus"

The show starts off with the build up from last season's cliffhanger revolving around Cartman's paternal origins. However, just as it seems they are about to get on with the second half of "Cartman's Mom Is A Dirty Slut," they do a 180 degree turn-around and reveal that for April Fool's Day they will be showing Terrance & Phillip in "Not Without My Anus."

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker / Trisha Nixon

30 mins 4/22/1998 2. Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut (2)

Dr. Mephisto is about to reveal who Eric Cartman's father really is! Glass shatters and gunshots ring out. A mysterious assailant apparently shot Mephisto while the lights were off. Much to Eric's chagrin, they rush Mephisto off to the hospital. Chef rushes out the door with Mephisto in hand. They must fight against time to learn Eric's background, who is his father? Where does he come from?

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker / David Goodman

Guest starring: Toddy Walters, Jennifer Savage Matthews

30 mins 5/20/1998 3. Ike's Wee Wee

Ike's going to have a Briss and everyone is invited! Stan, Kenny, and Cartman find out what a Briss really is and try to warn Kyle that his parents are going to cut off Ike's wee wee. Kyle sends Ike away to protect him from his scissor wielding parents.

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker / Matt Stone

30 mins 5/27/1998 4. Chickenlover

The Booktastic bus is in town and soon everyone finds out that Officer Barbrady can't read. He is whisked off to school with the boys so he can save his job. While he's there someone in South Park is having sex with the town's chickens and only Officer Barbrady with his new deputies Kenny, Kyle, Stan, and Cartman can stop them!

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker

Guest starring: Bruce Howell, Jesse Howell

30 mins 6/3/1998 5. Conjoined Fetus Lady

Kyle is injured and must go to see the school nurse and is terrified because of the stories he's heard. She looks fairly normal, except for the dead fetus sticking out of her head. Kyle's mother educates the boys on her "condition" and decides that everyone in South Park should be made aware. Meanwhile, the South Park Cows dodgeball team goes to the state, national and finally the international finals in China.

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker / Matt Stone

30 mins 6/10/1998 6. The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka

Mr. Garrison assigns the boys to learn about Vietnam from somebody they know. Stan's Uncle Jimbo and his friend Ned tell the boys their outrageous tale. Mr. Garrison doesn't believe the boy's report and gives them detention. They plot revenge against Stan's Uncle by submitting a phony video of the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka to them.

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker / Matt Stone

30 mins 6/17/1998 7. City on the Edge of Forever (a.k.a. Flashbacks)

While their school bus is dangling on the edge of a cliff, the boys remember some of their past adventures. Mrs. Crabtree catches a ride into town with a stranger and winds up doing a brief stint as a standup comedienne. Back in South Park, Mr. Mackey convinces the parents that their missing children must have run away. In the end it's all a dream within a dream.

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker / Nancy Pimental

Guest starring: Bruce Howell, Henry Winkler, Jay Leno, Brent Musburger

30 mins 6/24/1998 8. Summer Sucks

Schools out for summer and with Mr. Hat missing, Mr. Garrison is over the edge. The state has a ban on the sale of fireworks, and it screws up the boy's plans for a 4th of July celebration. Mr. Garrison seeks psychiatric help from Dr. Katz while Jimbo and Ned go to Mexico, in an attempt to smuggle fireworks back to the children of America.

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker / Nancy Pimental

Guest starring: Nico Agnone, Jonathan Katz

30 mins 8/19/1998 9. Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls

A film festival moves to South Park, only to have a devastating effect on the sewer system. Mr. Hankey calls upon Kyle for help. The movie people interpret Kyle's pleading as a pitch and they quickly turn his story into a film starring Tom Hanks and a monkey they call "Mr. Hankey." Kyle is outraged that the filmmakers aren't hearing his pleas. Soon Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls energizes everyone.

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker / Matt Stone

Guest starring: Toddy Walters

30 mins 8/26/1998 10. Chickenpox

Cartman's mother plots to give the boys the chickenpox by sending them over to Kenny's for a sleepover. Both Stan and Cartman breakout, but Kyle remains immune. Kyle discovers "the parental conspiracy" and with the other boys hires a prostitute to give their parents herpes. Meanwhile, Kenny's mother and Kyle's mother reunite their husbands who were both childhood friends that drifted apart.

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker / Matt Stone

30 mins 9/2/1998 11. Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods

The kids go on a field trip to the planetarium. All of the children except Cartman are acting weird. As usual Stan and Kyle, with Kenny's sacrifice, try to get to bottom of the mystery. Meanwhile, Cartman wins an appearance on a snack commercial. The four boys get to the root of the strange planetarium.

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker / David Goodman

30 mins 9/23/1998 12. Clubhouses

Stan needs to build a clubhouse so he and Kyle can play "Truth or Dare" with Wendy and her friend, who has a crush on Kyle. Cartman and Kenny retaliate by building a clubhouse of their own; only theirs has hot chicks. Meanwhile, the Marshes marriage breaks up and Stan learns a valuable lesson about love and family.

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker / Nancy Pimental

30 mins 9/30/1998 13. Cow Days

South Park's annual "Cow Days" party is happening! The cows become transfixed on a cow statue. In order to get the money they need to win Terrance and Phillip dolls, the boys sign Cartman up for a bull riding contest. A freak accident has Cartman believing he is a Vietnamese prostitute named Ming Li. The boys learn about money and cow insanity.

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker / David Goodman

Guest starring: Dian Bachar

30 mins 10/7/1998 14. Chef Aid: Behind the Menu

Chef is getting sued by Capitalist Records for trying to obtain the rights to a song he wrote twenty years ago. He needs 2 million dollars to hire Johnny Cochran. In response the boys round up all of Chef's old musician friends and organize a huge concert to raise the cash.

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker / Matt Stone

Guest starring: Elton John, DMX, Rick James, Meat Loaf, Ol Dirty Bastard, Ozzy Osbourne, Primus, Rancid, Joe Strummer, The Crystal Method, Ween, Toddy Walters

30 mins 10/28/1998 15. Chef Aid

Sharon Marsh's Aunt Flo makes her monthly visit and she has present for Stan, a fish. Stan's fish really freaks him out, especially when the dead bodies start piling up. Mrs. Marsh is convinced Stan is doing the killings and begins hiding the bodies. The boys discover there are two Cartmans and a gateway to a parallel universe at the "Indian Burial Ground Pet Store."

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker

Guest starring: Genevieve Thomas Colvin

30 mins 12/9/1998 16. Spooky Fish

Kyle, Stan and Kenny accompany Eric and his family to a Christmas celebration with the Cartman family. One of Cartman's relatives breaks out of jail for the reunion, with his cellmate, Charles Manson.

Director: Eric Stough Writer: Trey Parker / Nancy Pimental

Guest starring: Dian Bachar, Toddy Walters

30 mins 12/16/1998 17. Merry Christmas Charlie Manson!

Harbucks coffee plans to move into South Park and drive Tweek coffee shop out of business. Mr. Garrison assigns a report on current events to help him keep his job. The boys are planning on doing their report on the underpants gnomes. Tweek's father schemes to use the boy's report as a platform for fighting Harbucks. The report the boys deliver sparks the town into taking action.

Director: Trey Parker Writer: Trey Parker / Matt Stone

Guest starring: Jennifer Howell

30 mins 1/20/1999 18. Gnomes (a.k.a. Underpants Gnomes)

Kyle falls into a cave. Stan goes to rescue him and finds an iceman, and the two fight each other for sole credit. Dr. Mephisto discovers that the iceman has been frozen since 1996. The iceman is put on display and the fighting Kyle and Stan free him. The iceman tries to return to his family, but finds himself a man out of time. Meanwhile, the government has their own plans to use the iceman in their plot against Sweden.

Director: Eric Stough Writer: Trey Parker / Nancy Pimental

Guest starring: Stanley G. Sawicki

19. Prehistoric Ice Man

Director	Parker,Trey Stone,Matt Trey Parker Matt Stone
Producer	Frank Agnone II
Writer	Trey Parker Matt Stone