My first post since "I don't know when" isn't exactly film therapy, but what the heck.

South Park - The Complete Sixth Season DVD Review

Every season of South Park has its hilarious and memorable moments/episodes. The sixth season is full of laughs and funny stories. Asspen is one of the season’s standouts, which finds the boys on vacation in Asspen while their parents have to endure the pain of sitting through countless Time Share presentations. The best part is when Stan gets challenged to a ski race by a stupid jock, but he must win in order to save a youth center and “get the girl” (a famous cliché). The episode is also memorable for its “sports montage” song that Trey Parker and Matt Stone later adapted for their hilarious action-spoof-with-puppets movie Team America.

Freak Strike is also funny as Cartman signs up Butters for a talk show that offers special assistance to grossly disfigured people. The New Terrence and Phillip Movie Trailer is another memorable episode as we are introduced to “Russell Crowe: Fightin’ Around the World,” which finds Crowe going around the world and fighting people (it’s pretty hilarious and ridiculous). In Professor Chaos, the boys fire Butters as their friend, which uncovers a deep and dark part in his life.

The Simpsons Already Did It is a direct response to that show which has forced Parker and Stone to abandon some of their ideas because, you got it, the Simpsons already did it. Free Hat offers excellent commentary on why directors (in this case Steven Spielberg and George Lucas try to alter Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc) should not go back to update or “improve” their movies. The boys make a case for this debauchery trying to win support from the townsfolk by offering a “free hat”, which everyone assumes is a crusade to free a convicted baby killer.

Bebe’s Boobs Destroy Society says something true about all of us guys (or most of us); the fascination with boobs and sex turns us al into competitive monkeys! Child Abduction Is Not Funny offers great social commentary on the subject of child abduction – the boys’ parents go to extreme lengths to protect their children by protecting them from themselves, because parents can become child molesters or kidnappers, too. Also, because of fear of kidnappers, the parents hire the owner and operator of the local City Wok to build a Great Wall around the city, which is then continuously attacked by “stupid Mongorians”.

You’ll also remember the funny spoof of The Lord of the Rings where the boys must return a “precious” videotape to the Two Towers video store. Also hilarious is The Death Camp of Intolerance, which features the introduction of Mr. Slave and Lemmiwinks, and also finds Mr. Garrison trying desperately to be fired as the boys’ 4th grade teacher using every means (and sick ways) possible to prove he’s a pervert. Meanwhile the boys get a big life lesson when their parents send them to a concentration camp to learn “tolerance”.

Another memorable episode is The Biggest Douche in the Universe, for several reasons: 1) Stan finds psychic John Edwards is a giant douche because he gives fake hope to people by claiming to talk to their dead loved ones, and he calls Edwards out on it too, 2) Cartman drinks Kenny’s ashes which traps his spirit and the only way to exorcise it is some voodoo magic from Chef’s mom in Scotland, 3) Throughout the episode we see trailers for stupid Rob Schneider movies where he plays a stapler, a carrot and Kenny (a take-off on Schneider’s other stupid movies where he plays an animal and a hot chick). Also funny is the completely nonsensical title of one of the movies, “Derp Dee Derp Da Diddly Derp Dee Dumb Dee Dum”, or something to that effect.

The last two episodes of the season are also very funny. The last ten seconds of My Future Self N’ Me are classic (it affects Cartman’s future), and Red Sleigh Down is an action-packed Christmas episode (one scene is excellently modeled after Black Hawk Down) that finds Santa and the boys trying to bring Christmas to the downtrodden citizens of Iraq. In summation, you just can’t go wrong with South Park, ever. It always succeeds to make us laugh and cry.