South Park – The Complete Tenth & Eleventh
Seasons (Comedy Central DVD)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: C+ Episodes: B
After an
ugly falling out with Isaac Hayes after the Ninth Season of South Park,
the creators had to act fast and get the show back on track, including a sort
of relaunching of the show. With the
first episode of the next season, Chef was back as a pedophile and Darth Vader
before trashing him and permanently burning the bridge with Hayes and the
series past. Then the show moved on like
nothing had happened and was as funny as ever.
The Complete Tenth & Eleventh
Seasons (2006 –
7) are now available in separate three-DVD sets and continue in the mode of the
past release sets delivering shows as crazy and bold as ever. This includes a two-part show in which they
attack Family Guy, the first show to
rival this one since it debuted. I like
both very much, but they are at ideological odds with each other and the
competitor has yet to respond, itself making one of the greatest comebacks in
TV history.
Other Tenth Season highlights include Towelie
and Oprah Winfrey, an Al Gore visit, Dog whisperer send-up, World Of Warcraft
videogame send-up, censored Muslim show, two-parter with Cartman using
cryogenic freezing to get a Nintendo Wii, Halloween and hockey shows.
The Eleventh Season includes shows dealing
with the “N” word, an anti-Gay Christian camp, lice breakout, Easter show,
homeless as zombies, send up of Guitar Hero, a few gross shows and a
three-parter that was previously released as the straight-to-DVD feature Imaginationland, which we previously
covered at this link:
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/6764/South+Park+-+Imaginationland+(DVD)
Needless
to say the show has not lost any of its edge in this transition.
The 1.33
X 1 image is soft at times in each show and has it share of aliasing errors
here and there, but the color is good and consistent for such oversimplified
animation. Wonder how the show will be
in HD? The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo is
also good and well recorded, though there are no surrounds. Extras on both are simply more of creators Trey
Parker & Matt Stone’s funny mini-commentaries, though the box illustrations
are always amusing.
- Nicholas Sheffo
