- South Park: The Complete Eighth Season is a 2006 DVD release of Season Eight, including all fourteen episodes from the season and featuring audio mini-commentaries by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The Blu-ray boxset containing the re-rendered episodes was released on December 19, 2017. 1 Special Features 2 Cover 3 Episodes 3.1 Disc 1 3.2 Disc 2 3.3 Disc 3 Audio mini-commentaries by Trey Parker.
- Season eight of South Park, an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, began airing on March 17, 2004. The eighth season concluded after 14 episodes on December 15, 2004, and was written and directed by Trey Parker. The season deals with various topics that were relevant at the time of release.
When a Wall-Mart built in South Park takes business away from local businesses, the boys go to the company's headquarters to get it destroyed. S8, Ep10 10 Nov. Michael Jackson moves to South Park but tries to conceal his identity. And local cops try to frame him because he is a rich black man. Director: Trey Parker Stars: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dante Alexander, April Stewart.
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| Season 8 | |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 14 |
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| Original network | Comedy Central |
| Original release | March 17 – December 15, 2004 |
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Season eight of South Park, an American animatedtelevision series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, began airing on March 17, 2004.[1] The eighth season concluded after 14 episodes on December 15, 2004, and was written and directed by Trey Parker. The season deals with various topics that were relevant at the time of release. The episodes portray a spectrum of topics, from the effect of large scale retail corporations to immigration.
Production history[edit]
On the DVD commentary for the episode 'Cartman's Incredible Gift,' series co-creator Trey Parker referred to the eighth season as 'the year from hell,' due to the grueling work schedule under which he and co-creator Matt Stone worked on both the series and their feature film Team America: World Police.[2]
Episodes[edit]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date [3] | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 112 | 1 | 'Good Times with Weapons' | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | March 17, 2004 | 801 |
| The boys buy Japanese weapons at a fair and imagine themselves as anime characters, but when Kenny injures Butters in his Professor Chaos guise with a throwing star, they must rush to get him medical attention without being caught. | ||||||
| 113 | 2 | 'Up the Down Steroid' | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | March 24, 2004 | 802 |
| Jimmy uses steroids to cheat in the Special Olympics and Cartman disguises himself as a child with a developmental disability in order to enter. | ||||||
| 114 | 3 | 'The Passion of the Jew' | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | March 31, 2004 | 803 |
| Kyle finally sees Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and is convinced that Cartman was right about his Jewish deicide claims. Stan and Kenny also see the movie and hate it, prompting them to head to Malibu to retrieve their ticket money from Mel Gibson himself. | ||||||
| 115 | 4 | 'You Got F'd in the A' | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | April 7, 2004 | 804 |
| In this spoof of You Got Served, Stan recruits a Raisins girl, a Goth, and a Dance Dance Revolution master to compete against a group of breakdancers from Orange County. Butters is discovered to be a good dancer, but he has flashbacks of causing death and mayhem at a tap dancing contest. | ||||||
| 116 | 5 | 'Awesom-O' | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | April 14, 2004 | 805 |
| Butters befriends a robot (actually Cartman in disguise) he receives in the mail and takes him to Hollywood, where movie execs want him for film ideas, over 800 of which star Adam Sandler. The government pursues Cartman for national security reasons. | ||||||
| 117 | 6 | 'The Jeffersons' | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | April 21, 2004 | 806 |
| A mysterious and very eccentric new neighbor named Michael Jefferson moves into town with his sheltered son, sparking fears that he is an unfit parent, and the police scheme to frame him for crimes he didn't commit. Meanwhile, Kyle begins to worry for the man's son, who is being neglected by his father. | ||||||
| 118 | 7 | 'Goobacks' | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | April 28, 2004 | 807 |
| The townsfolk becomes angry when immigrants from the year 3045 arrive and take the residents' jobs for lower wages. | ||||||
| 119 | 8 | 'Douche and Turd' | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | October 27, 2004 | 808 |
| Stan is forced to vote in an election for the school's new mascot after the old one is protested against by PETA. | ||||||
| 120 | 9 | 'Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes' | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | November 3, 2004 | 809 |
| When a Wall-Mart store comes to South Park, the townsfolk are torn between their love of the store's low prices, and their anti-corporate hatred of the retail giant which has reduced their local business center into an abandoned ghost town. | ||||||
| 121 | 10 | 'Pre-School' | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | November 10, 2004 | 810 |
| A bully from the boys' past is paroled from juvenile hall, which sends them into hiding. | ||||||
| 122 | 11 | 'Quest for Ratings' | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | November 17, 2004 | 811 |
| The boys' school news show is in competition against a rival television program created by Craig. | ||||||
| 123 | 12 | 'Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset' | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | December 1, 2004 | 812 |
| Wendy feels left out when all the fourth-grade girls start emulating the slutty antics of Paris Hilton, who tries to buy Butters from his parents. | ||||||
| 124 | 13 | 'Cartman's Incredible Gift' | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | December 8, 2004 | 813 |
| Cartman thinks that he has gained paranormal powers after getting in an accident, and abuses them to become a psychic detective for hire. | ||||||
| 125 | 14 | 'Woodland Critter Christmas' | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | December 15, 2004 | 814 |
| In the show's final Christmas episode for a decade, Stan helps seemingly innocent woodland creatures prepare for the birth of their Lord and Savior, the Anti-Christ. | ||||||
References[edit]
- ^'South Park Episode Guide (seasons 6, 7 and 8)'. MSN. Archived from the original on 2009-04-15. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- ^Hicks, Jesse (December 10, 2006). 'South Park: The Complete Eighth Season'. PopMatters.
- ^'Watch South Park Episodes Online Season 8 (2004)'. TV Guide. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
External links[edit]
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- South Park Studios - official website with streaming video of full episodes.
- The Comedy Network - full episodes for Canada
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| Episode no. | Season 8 Episode 5 | ||
| Directed by | Trey Parker | ||
| Written by | Trey Parker | ||
| Production code | 802 | ||
| Original air date | April 14, 2004 | ||
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South Park S8 E1
'Awesom-O' is the fifth episode in the eighth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 116th episode overall, it originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 14, 2004. The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker.
In the episode, Cartman masquerades as a robot, named AWESOM-O, for Butters in an attempt to obtain an embarrassing video tape of himself that is in Butters' possession. While Butters is thrilled to have found a new best friend, Hollywood is after the phony robot to develop their next big blockbuster and the U.S. Army believes AWESOM-O is a new secret weapon.
Plot[edit]
Cartman plays a prank on Butters by disguising himself in a crude cardboard suit as a robot named 'A.W.E.S.O.M.-O 4000' and by putting himself in a crate 'from Japan' on Butters's doorstep. Cartman is planning to befriend Butters so that he can discover his most embarrassing secrets, which will allow him to blackmail him and/or embarrass him in school. Butters falls for the trick and reveals highly embarrassing personal secrets. However, just as Cartman is about to reveal his identity, Butters mentions that he himself knows one of Cartman's secrets: Butters has a videotape of Cartman doing a Britney Spears dance routine to a life-sized cutout of Justin Timberlake while dressed as her and making out with the cutout, which he plans to show to his classmates the next time Cartman plays a prank on him.
Cartman, terrified of Butters' plan of revenge, searches desperately for the tape (while having the robot suit on, or Butters will know AWESOM-O was another prank), but to no avail. Cartman soon begins to starve because Butters believes that, since he is a robot, he does not need to eat. Butters also forces the robot to do all his chores for him, including some of the more unpleasant tasks. With the agreement of Ms. Cartman, who is willing to temporarily let her son off punishment for trying to exterminate the Jews two weeks prior, Butters' parents (knowing who AWESOM-O really is, but thinking it is an elaborate game that Butters is in on) decide to let Cartman come along with Butters on a trip to Los Angeles to see his aunt. Cartman realizes that he will have to accompany Butters on the trip, in order to keep up his disguise. Upon arriving, he is so hungry and worn out after wearing the suit for a whole airplane ride that he makes up an excuse to use the bathroom and proceeds to eat toothpaste.
During their visit to Universal Studios Hollywood, two movie producers find out about the 'robot' and decide to hire him to create movie ideas. Cartman, as the robot, comes up with over two thousand terrible, nonsensical film concepts (800 of which would star Adam Sandler), which the movie producers all find brilliant. To make matters worse for Cartman, the fortune that he makes from the movie ideas is donated to charity by Butters, who believes that AWESOM-O has no need for the money. Meanwhile, the U.S. military hears about AWESOM-O, and decides to capture it and make it into a weapon. Cartman flees the movie studio in panic after a film producer tries to engage in sexual activity with him, thinking that he may also be a 'pleasure model'. The military captures Cartman by shocking him and conveying him to a secret base.
Cartman tries to explain that he is really just a kid, but the military believes he is a robot with artificial intelligence enabling him to think like a human, even possessing the memories of a nonexistent eight-year-old child. A scientist, moved by this, attempts to save Cartman, who is about to reveal that he is a human when Butters shows up to rescue him. He has to maintain his disguise, allowing the military to kill the rebellious scientist. Butters pleads with the military to spare AWESOM-O, and the general is touched. Just as it appears he will get off undetected, Cartman farts, and his attempts to cover it up cause everyone—including Butters—to suspect and finally discover his true identity.
Butters carries out his promise and shows the video to the whole town, as well as the movie producers and the military, at a special screening. The theater is filled with wall-to-wall laughter. As Butters finally celebrates his revenge and the military general calls Cartman a 'little faggot,' Cartman, ridiculed and upset, simply utters, 'Lame.'
Production[edit]
'Awesom-O' has one of the shortest production cycles in South Park's history, being produced in just three days while series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone attended a wedding in Hawaii.[1] The episode starts with a cold open stating that an old episode of the show will 'not been seen tonight' because of 'tragic events in Hawaii'.
The name of Cartman's robotic alter ego is derived from Honda's ASIMO humanoid robot.[2]
The song 'Let Me Tell You About My Robot Friend' sung by Butters in the episode is a parody rendering of 'Girlfriend' by Harry Nilsson.
Home release[edit]
'Awesom-O', along with the thirteen other episodes from South Park's eighth season, was released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on August 29, 2006. The set includes brief audio commentaries by Parker and Stone for each episode.[3] The episode was also released on the two-disc DVD collection A Little Box of Butters.[4]
References[edit]
- ^Parker, Trey (March 2006). South Park: The Complete Eighth Season: 'Awesom-O' (DVD Disc (audio commentary)). Paramount Home Entertainment.
- ^'Southparkstudios FAQ'. Southparkstudios.com. Retrieved 2010-02-22.
- ^Schorn, Peter (August 26, 2006). 'South Park: The Complete Eighth Season DVD Review'. IGN. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
- ^Burchby, Casey (September 28, 2010). 'South Park: A Little Box of Butters DVD Review'. DVDTalk. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
South Park Season 8
External links[edit]
- AWESOM-O Full episode at South Park Studios
- AWESOM-O Episode guide at South Park Studios
- 'Awesom-O' on IMDb
- 'Awesom-O' at TV.com