FireBlade DVD Review: South Park Volume 6

Review by Jerry Stratton, 12/31/1999

We don’t have a Nintendo. We’ve got a Colecovision plugged into the black and white TV.

I was first introduced to South Park through the movie (which also kicks ass). The television shows are amazing. Variety, of all things, calls it “gloriously subversive art”. Yeah, whatever. It’s great shit that you must eat. I recommend buying the collected three-DVD sets. Make sure you check the pricing, however: at Amazon, the sets are more expensive than buying the individual disks! The first set, at least, contains nothing but the individual disks: there is no bonus to buying the set. (In fact, now that the second 3-pack is out, the pricing is all fucked up for South Park, so pay attention.)

This DVD includes episodes 21 through 24 of South Park. These are all good episodes, filled with cheap humor, bad puns, and very, very strange ideas. Did you know that chickenpox is a form of herpes? South Park is a very educational show.

In “Chef’s Salty Chocolate Balls”, Park City, Utah, has become too much like Los Angeles, so Robert Redford moves the Sundance Film Festival to the quiet mountain town of South Park. This episode marks the return of Mr. Hankey, the Disney Poo. And Chef tries to strike it rich with his many fudge and chocolate concoctions.

“Chickenpox” is possibly the strangest because it comes so close to being true. The kids’ parents deliberately expose them to the chickenpox virus to ensure that they’ll get it young. So the kids decide to get even...

“Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods” only tangentially mentions Roger Ebert. Cartman gets the opportunity to sing the Cheesy Poofs theme song on television, while the rest of the kids have their minds eaten away by an evil planetarium director.

It’s time to play “Truth or Dare”, and the girls won’t play without a clubhouse. So Stan and Kyle get together to build one while Stan’s parents get a divorce, and Cartman and Kenny build one to meet older women. In the end, Kenny dies. (Oops, did I ruin it for you?)

The introductions on this DVD continue from the cooking show, “Makin’ Bacon with Macon”, and Macon the pig chows down a lot of pork. If you decide to follow the recipes, remember to take the baking temperature and cooking times with a grain of salt.

As far as I can tell, this DVD is not available separately from the 3-pack. I’ve put in an e-mail to Amazon asking for confirmation.

Recommendation: Purchase
Alternative: Volume 2 3-Pack

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