South Park - The Complete 1 Season
Paramount Pictures (1997)
Animation, Comedy
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085393763329
IMDB   9.2
280 mins USA/English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Trey Parker Stan Marsh/Eric Cartman/Mr. Garrison/Ned/Big Gay Al
Matt Stone Kyle Broflovski/Kenny McCormick/Pip/Uncle Jimbo Kearn
Isaac Hayes Jerome McElroy
Jose Brown Narrator
Mary Kay Bergman Ms. Cartman/Wendy
Director Parker,Trey
Stone,Matt
Trey Parker
Matt Stone
Writer Trey Parker
Matt Stone


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
Season 1
1. 1-1 101 13-Aug-1997 Cartman Gets an Anal Probe
2. 1-2 103 20-Aug-1997 Volcano
3. 1-3 102 27-Aug-1997 Weight Gain 4000
4. 1-4 104 03-Sep-1997 Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride
5. 1-5 105 10-Sep-1997 An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig
6. 1-6 106 17-Sep-1997 Death
7. 1-7 107 29-Oct-1997 Pink Eye
8. 1-8 109 19-Nov-1997 Starvin' Marvin
9. 1-9 110 17-Dec-1997 Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo
10. 1-10 108 04-Feb-1998 Damien
11. 1-11 111 11-Feb-1998 Tom's Rhinoplasty
12. 1-12 112 18-Feb-1998 Mecha-Streisand
13. 1-13 113 25-Feb-1998 Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut (1)

Episodes
 30 mins    8/13/1997  1.  Cartman Gets an Anal Probe
While the boys are waiting for the school bus, Cartman explains the odd nightmare he had the previous night involving alien visitors abducting him from his bed. Meanwhile Kyle and Stan try to convince Cartman that the dream was in fact a reality.
Director:  Trey Parker  Writer:  Trey Parker  / Matt Stone 
Guest starring:  Franchesca Clifford
 30 mins    8/20/1997  2.  Volcano
Mr. Garrison starts the day off with a special announcement; one of South Park's own has won a national essay contest. Everyone is shocked to learn that the winner is Cartman, who doesn't even remember what he wrote about.
Director:  Trey Parker  Writer:  Trey Parker  / Matt Stone 
 30 mins    8/27/1997  3.  Weight Gain 4000
The boys get together with Stan's Uncle Jimbo and Jimbo's war-buddy Ned for a hunting trip in the nearby mountains. After Cartman's mom makes sure her "little" boy is safe and sound (much to Cartman's dismay) the group heads off for adventure. As they drive away from the town, Jimbo explains the "finer" points of hunting.
Director:  Trey Parker  Writer:  Trey Parker  / Matt Stone 
Guest starring:  Karri Turner
 30 mins    9/3/1997  4.  Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride
Stan's got a new dog-named Sparky. Stan proclaims his pet to be the toughest dog on the mountain. Though while Stan thinks his dog is ready for fighting, Sparky proceeds to hump Sylvester like a little bitch. The other boys taunt Stan about his gay dog and Sparky runs away to find someone who will love him for who he is.
Director:  Uncredited  Writer:  Trey Parker  / Matt Stone 
Guest starring:  George Clooney
 30 mins    9/10/1997  5.  An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig
Stan notices a new addition in their bus stop crew, an elephant standing alongside Kyle. At school, class lessons for the day involve genetic engineering (conveniently enough). Kyle questions the possibility of a genetically engineered elephant made smaller by design. The boys have to beat the rough kids in their genetics experiment, and will try anything to do it.
Director:  Trey Parker  Writer:  Trey Parker  / Matt Stone 
 30 mins    9/17/1997  6.  Death
"Happy Birthday" to Stan's Grandpa Marsh who just turned 102. How does the wizened Mr. Marsh feel about his birthday? He sums it up in five words; "I wish I were dead." and proceeds trying to end his life enlisting Stan to do it for him. However, Stan is aware of a very important thing if he kills his grandfather, he'd be in trouble, and if he's in trouble he can't watch Terrance and Phillip.
Director:  Trey Parker  Writer:  Trey Parker  / Matt Stone 
 30 mins    10/29/1997  7.  Pink Eye
The first Halloween episode starts off with the failure of the Mir Space Station, which crashes right on Kenny. An ambulance comes and takes his body off to the morgue. The boys start to brag about their Halloween costumes. At the morgue, a freak accident involving a bottle of Worcestershire occurs, and next thing you know Kenny is a member of the undead. Kenny breaks free and wanders off into the night.
Director:  Trey Parker  Writer:  Trey Parker  / Matt Stone 
 30 mins    11/19/1997  8.  Starvin' Marvin
The four boys are at Cartman's house watching the "Terrance & Philip Thanksgiving Special" on television. During a break from the show, a Sally Struthers commercial convinces the boys that the prospect of a free "Taiko" sport watch with a five-dollar donation is irresistible. Typical greedy American youth. So Stan dials in, using his mother's credit card number and makes their donation.
Director:  Trey Parker  Writer:  Trey Parker 
Guest starring:  Jesse Howell
 30 mins    12/17/1997  9.  Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo
South Park Elementary is on stage rehearsing for the schools play. Kyle begins to sing a song about Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo. Of course, no one has any idea what the heck he's singing about. Kyle explains that Mr. Hankey comes every year to all the good boys and girls who have a lot of fiber in their diet. Everyone thinks he's insane and sends him to a mental institute.
Director:  Trey Parker  Writer:  Trey Parker 
Guest starring:  Jesse Howell
 30 mins    2/4/1998  10.  Damien
Eric is handing out invitations to his birthday party at school. Mr. Garrison informs them all that there is a new student joining the class. Announcing to all that he is Damien, the son of Satan. Even as Damien demonstrates his demonic powers the children are more loathsome than impressed.
Director:  Trey Parker  Writer:  Trey Parker  / Matt Stone 
 30 mins    2/11/1998  11.  Tom's Rhinoplasty
Wendy and Stan discuss their plans for romance. Principal Victoria comes into the classroom and announces that Mr. Garrison is going to be out and that a substitute will be taking his place. The lovely Miss Ellen speaks to Stan and he pukes all over his desk. Wendy is upset because Stan only pukes when he is in love and has Mrs. Ellen arrested for being a spy.
Director:  Trey Parker  Writer:  Trey Parker 
Guest starring:  Natasha Henstridge, Toddy Walters
 30 mins    2/18/1998  12.  Mecha-Streisand
The boys meet up with Barbara Streisand who wants to take over the world with Kyle's discovery and an archaeological dig. Leonard Maltin, Sydney Potier, and Robert Smith come to the rescue to defeat Babs and her terrible destruction.
Director:  Trey Parker  Writer:  Trey Parker  / Matt Stone 
Guest starring:  Robert Smith
 30 mins    2/25/1998  13.  Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut (1)
Cartman needs to find out who his father is but his mom is no help. Learning that his father could be one of the many people that his mom "had relations" with during an annual party called "The Drunken Barn Dance," he finds that there's more to his mother then he thought.
Director:  Trey Parker  Writer:  Trey Parker  / David Goodman 
Guest starring:  Jay Leno, Toddy Walters
Edition Details
Series South Park
Release Date 11/12/2002
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Standard 1.33:1 Color
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo [CC]
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 3

Features
Disc 01 Animated Color Closed-captioned Box set