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South Park: Cult of Cartman
comes with 12 four- to five-star unbleeped episodes of the funniest comedy on television. All installments on the set center on Kyle’s chubby anti-semite nemesis:
5.4 “Scott Tenorman Must Die.” Radiohead plays a role in Cartman’s plot against the 15-year-old who tricked him into attending the Pube Fair. (Tears of unfathomable sadness put in an appearance, and Kenny actually laughs himself to death!)
5.6 “Cartmanland.” When Cartman inherits a million dollars from his grandmother, he buys a theme park and refuses to let anyone else play in it. Also, Kyle renounces his faith because he got a hemorrhoid and Michael Bay gets to keep making movies.
8.2 “Up The Down Steroid.” Cartman feigns a disorder in order to compete with Jimmy and Timmy for the $1000 Special Olympics prize.
8.5 “A.W.E.S.O.M.-O.” While Cartman impersonates a robot to retrieve Butters’ incriminating videotape, he is recruited by both movie execs and the Pentagon. One of the movie execs mistakes A.W.E.S.O.M.-O for a pleasure unit.
9.6 “The Death of Eric Cartman.” When Cartman eats all the skin off a communal bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, his friends all decide to pretend he doesn’t exist. Butters gets the news about “Super-AIDS” and the doctors give him a really sore hinder. Scott Tenorman makes a graveside cameo!
9.11 “Ginger Kids.” After Cartman accuses Kyle of being a soulless half-ginger “daywalker,” Kyle, Stan and Kenny transform him into a befreckled redhead. Curiously, the horrified Cartman stops wearing the trademark cap that would normally obscure his new hair color.
10.3 “Cartoon Wars Part I.” When an episode of “Family Guy” depicts the prophet Mohammad, “Family Guy”-hating Cartman heads to Hollywood to shut the show down “Seriously, ‘Family Guy’ isn’t even that well written,” warns a terrorist. “The jokes are all interchangeable and usually irrelevant to the plot.”
10.4 “Cartoon Wars Part II.” In Hollywood, Cartman teams with an angry Bart Simpson and learns the terrible secret of the “Family Guy” writing-room. “If you look closely at the writing in ‘Family Guy,’ you will see the jokes never derive from plot,” points out Osama Bin Laden. Hear Bart Simpson say, “Cowabunga, motherfucker!” (Note that Comedy Central’s censorship of Mohammad’s image persists on this set.)
11.8 “Le Petit Tourette.” Cartman discovers a means by which he can say anything and not get in trouble, but regrets the decision when he seems to start suffering from the disease for real. “Dateline” correspondent Chris Hanson’s studio runs red with the blood of homosexual pedophiles.
12.1 “Tonsil Trouble.” Cartman contracts the HIV virus via a transfusion mix-up, then squirts a syringe full of his own blood into Kyle’s mouth. Jimmy Buffett sings “AIDSburger in Paradise.”
12.5 “Eek, A Penis!” When Mrs. Garrison decides to pursue a cloned penis, Cartman takes over as substitute and ends up getting a job teaching in the inner city. We learn that abortion is the ultimate form of cheating, and that cloned cartoon penises can sing.
12.7 “Super Fun Time.” The last time we saw Butters, he was dragging a bloodied and unconscious Cartman out of Pioneer Village.
I noticed no commentaries, but each episode is preceded by Cartman himself offering a very short never-aired “life lesson.” Lesson number five is “Family Guy sucks my balls.” There’s also a decal and a Eric Theodore Cartman Society membership card. The box itself resembles a goldleaf prayerbook. When did they stop sticking “Braniff: Believe It!” at the end of episodes?
The writer’s strike cut the number of episodes in “30 Rock’s” second season to 15, but it won the series' second “outstanding comedy” Emmy anyway.
During the Dratch-free second season? “MILF Island” scored in the ratings, Jerry Seinfeld learned NBC was repurposing his image, David Schwimmer played the eco-friendly superhero Greenzo, Liz badmouthed Jack to the press, starting dating a 20-year-old and befriended a washed-up comedy writer (Carrie Fisher), Buck Henry, Anita Gillette and Andy Richter turned up as Liz’s family, Jenna battled weight gain, Tracy took up dog fighting, Liz’s ex Dennis became a subway hero, GE CEO Don Geiss went into a coma and Jack took a job with Homeland Security.
COMMENTARIES:
2.2 “Jack Gets In The Game.” Will Arnett.
2.3 “The Collection.” Jane Krakowski & Jack McBrayer.
2.6 “Somebody To Love.” Fred Armisen.
2.7 “Cougars.” Judah Friedlander.
2.10 “Episode 210.” Tina Fey & producer Jeff Richmond.
2.11 “MILF Island.” Scott Adsit.
2.12 “Subway Hero.” Tim Conway & Jack McBrayer.
2.13 “Succession.” Writer-producer Robert Carlock & episode writer/producer John Riggi.
2.14 “Sandwich Day.” Tina Fey.
2.15 “Cooter.” Jane Krakowski & Jack McBrayer.
DELETED SCENES:
2.1 “Seinfeld Vision 1: What I Did This Summer.” (:27) Pete and Cerie reveal what they did; Toofer does not.
2.1 “Seinfeld Vision 2: Outside The Bridal Store.” (:09) Liz discusses her special day.
2.4 “Rosemary’s Baby: Kenneth’s Burned Jacket.” (:53) Jenna remembers her visit to the United Nations.
2.7 “Cougars: Lutz Wears a Onesie.” (:35) Frank shames a urinal-utilizing co-worker.
2.11 “MILF Island: Candy Bar.” (:41) Pete discovers a possible source of sustenance.
2.14 “Sandwich Day: Jack’s Job Interview.” (1:15) A desperate Jack is asked how he intends to bring about Webtopia.
OTHER EXTRAS:
* “Cooter Table Read.” (31:28) See the cast read their scripts while the actual script scrolls by at the bottom on your screen. Learn that Alec Baldwin wears a suit and tie to the read. Learn that Fey read the Helen Mirren lines.
* “30 Rock Live at the UCB Theater.” (46:45) Episode 2.8, “Secrets and Lies,” is performed live in mid-November, three weeks before it aired on NBC, as a fundraiser for the series production assistants put out of work by the writers strike. As Fey points out in the introduction, the audio is not the greatest. SNL writer Paula Pell takes the Edie Falco role of Celeste Cunningham, the Democratic congresswoman Jack both loves and hates. Writer Robert Carlock plays James Carville. John Lutz and Jack McBrayer improvise the commercials, which hawk photocopiers, beer, tampons and flamethrowers. James Carville T-Shirts and Shinehardt Wig Company T-shirts are raffled off. “30 Rock” plays exceedingly well in this live, minimalist setting, as the show carries over so much of the surreal “SNL” sensibility.
* “Tina Hosts SNL.” (8:05) A backstage look at the days leading up to Fey’s hilarious and highly rated Feb. 23 return to “Saturday Night Live.” See a sketch about Eagles fans that was cut at dress! See Fey accidentally wreck the fake ax she used in the “Annuale” commercial. Learn that Fey wrote the “Annuale” sketch, the monologue and her “bitch is the new black” “Update” endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
* “The Academy of Television Arts and Science presents an evening with 30 Rock.” (23:09) Some time after “30 Rock” won its first “outstanding comedy” Emmy and NBC anchorman Brian Williams hosted SNL on Nov. 3, Williams moderated a panel consisting of Tina Fey, executive producer Lorne Michaels, writer-producer Robert Carlock, Alec Baldwin, Lonny Ross, Judah Friedlander, Keith Powell, Katrina Bowden, Jack McBrayer and Scott Adsit. Learn that Fey and Baldwin both partially modeled Jack Donaghy on Michaels. Learn that all 10 writers work on every episode.
Fans of “The Wire,” “Mad Men” and other quality dramas are still encouraged to take a look at Showtime’s “Brotherhood.” There’s a third season coming, and its ratings keep growing, but I feel this show about Rhode Island mobsters and politicians should be much, much bigger than it is. Of course, I feel the same way about “The Wire” and “Mad Men.”
I’ve particular fondness for 2.7, “Only a Pawn …,” in which bad guy Michael Caffee is assigned to help an ever badder guy, a terrifyingly effective visiting hitman. Series mastermind Blake Masters wrote and directed; if it doesn’t bring you aboard I can’t imagine anything will. Well, beyond the Annabeth Gish nudity.
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Season four of the original “Twilight Zone” just fell to $31.49. The other four seasons are $32.49 each. These are the “definitive” sets that were selling for north of $100 last year. They are packed silly with extras and were designed for fans (like me) who have already seen every episode 10 to 20 times.
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my 4th and 5h season of rocky and bullwinkle dammit. those releases must of been canceled which suks hate having imcomplete dvd sets
also scrubs season 7 set better have the episodes in the proper order or imma be pissed EFff nbc for airing them out of order -
Wat i don't understand is that he still appears in the opening credits of later seasons (in the extended cast shot) and in the much earlier super-best friends episode. If they were gonna be censors, at least they might be fucking consistent about it.
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I'm HIV positive LOL
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Also some of the other Fox shows (like Dark Angel)
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I think it is a MUCH funnier joke, if you tell yourself that the censor was intentional. Here's a full 2-EPISODE story about censoring Mohammad - and when the pay-off comes, it's CENSORED! I laughed my ass off when that happened.
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I met Andrew Zimmern a couple weeks ago. Really nice guy!
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do you mean in viewership or in scope, because i don't see how the wire could get any bigger. As for Brotherhood, i found the last five or six episodes of season one to be top notch and i'm excited to pick this up today.
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is absolutely brilliant. Much like Herc says, if you liked The Wire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men etc then you'll love this.
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Each one is great. Also, How I Met Your Mother has been really good so far this season.
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Anyone know if the discs have proper holders or are just those terrible cardboard sleeves that most series sets insist on using?
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The individual volume sets are in the cardboard, I don't know how they're handling this new "complete series" set.
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That's one mom I'd like to fuck.
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Herc, add it to your list, even if it only comes out in Germany (but especially because like Season 1 it isn't announced somewhere else yet)
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Especially in leopard-print.
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It's a great episode and like everybody else I think that it has the best ending of the whole series (Well, maybe together with Free Willzyx) but Psycho-Cartman should have been a single joke. Now they changed the whole character from a very entertaining antisemitic asshole, to a scheming psychopath who loves to kill people.
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and legen...wait for it...dary.
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Because the first 6 or 8 episodes were as boring s a usual episode of Friends. Not even Neil Patrick harris could save it. (Although the swordfight in that one episode made me laugh.)
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Scott Tenorman Must Die is possibly my favorite South Park. Although I would replace 'Eek, a Penis' with 'Cat Orgy' and 'Super Fun Time' with 'The Passion of the Jew.'
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speed racer : the next generation : the fast track : the movie. honestly?
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Because of all this damn election stuff, when I saw 'Palin' in the heading I was thinking Sarah, not Michael.
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I predict that only 4 people will actually spend money on that (and they were all in the cast).
Is it just me or is it really creepy that a show for kids is called "The Naked Brothers Band"?
I still don't understand why CBS decided to cancel "Moonlight". It was doing well enough in the ratings and was paired well w/ "Ghost Whisperer". I mean, what else are they going to put on after "Ghost Whisperer" on Friday nights that will actually do well? Their new show is already tanking. -
Yes, it does get better, and I thought the exact same thing. The first few episodes are the weakest of the series. I really started to love it around episode 10 or 11 of season one and then it kicks it into an even higher gear in season two.
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for releasing a set of mostly already released episodes with minimal additions... and screw me for going to buy it.
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I fucking HATE it that most of those things stick the discs in those awful cardboard sleeves. I got the complete X-Files set a few months back for a pittance, but still felt ripped-off when I cracked that bad boy open and discovered that the discs were in cardboard sleeves. Grrrr.....
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After Cartman became the Cartman he was now, he wasn't featured nearly as prominently. Now, half the season tends to be "Cartman episodes". It'd be interesting to see if things were any different had such a "change" not taken place.
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South Park??
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Is anyone else bothered that all the season sets from last season that was cut short by the writers strike are still as expensive as a complete season would be, 30 rock, chuck etc all like $40 for a shortened season
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Casa Bonita NOT on the Cartman release?
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Pretty good for eleven episodes and a ton of extras.
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