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    South Park - Vol 4
    Warner Vision/Warner Vision . R4 . COLOR . 110 mins . M15+ . PAL

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    Not Without My Anus: America waits with bated breath for four weeks to discover just who Cartman's father is. The night arrives and... instead it's a special presentation starring Canada's hottest action stars, Terrance and Phillip. But hey, just relax and take a load off guy! Our flip-flop headed heroes are in court - Terrance has been accused of murder, but is saved from the gas chamber. Journalist and T&P arch-nemesis Scott is incensed, wishes cancer on them and hatches a plan to get revenge on his flatulent foes - I mean really, fart jokes just aren’t funny, are they? (PARP!) Will Saddam Hussein take over Canada? Will T&P find treasure? Are they gay? Can Ugly Bob find love? Will T&P save Terrance and Celine Dion's daughter Sally from Iran? Will Terrance and Celine reunite (with Phillip gaining a pop vocalist rather than losing a friend along the way)? Will smelly gentleman Saddam achieve world domination, or can T&P save the day? Can the Roughriders beat the Roughriders? Just what the hell is Kroff dinner anyway? And Iran or Iraq, what the hell's the difference? Oh, don’t forget to read the credits...

    Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut: After all the teasing here it comes - the big announcement! Who is Cartman's father? BLAM! A shot rings out - oh no, the man with the answer has taken a bullet! Who shot Mephisto? Who will be killed next? (Perhaps Cartman if he keeps singing Styx's Come Sail Away). Can America's Most Wanted help out? Who will be cast first? With a raging blizzard and no power is everybody at the hospital completely bleeped? Who framed Roger Rabbit? Who the hell made Jimbo boss? Who is screwing with the lights? Who built the pyramids? Will Team B (Kenny) save the day yet again (and avoid the veloce raptors), or will he become a freezie pop? What's the deal with Ave Maria? Is it too late for Mrs Cartman to get an abortion, and spare bringing Eric into an already overpopulated world? (I mean she is only in her fortieth trimester). Perhaps her congressman, the governor or the President can help? Oh, and who was Cartman's dad again?

    Chicken Lover: Hang on, is this South Park or COPS? Anyway, the Booktastic Bus has hit town, will it enable the townsfolk to give in to the magic of reading? Oh hang on, what's this? A hostile situation - some fayful weirdo is plucking chickens! Will another one get it tomorrow, or will Officer Barbrady be able to stop this shocking outbreak of chicken violation? Well perhaps if not for his embarrassing little secret he would - he's off on a leave of absence (as he is the solitary representation of law in South Park, total anarchy ensues within two seconds) and going back to third grade, deputising our four pint-sized buddies along the way. Will Barbrady learn what he has to in time and conjugate the verb, or will he be replaced? Will people respect Deputy Cartman's authoritahhh? What have Richard Nixon and Ayn Rand got to do with anything? And just what is it about Oprah Winfrey's knockers? Kenny survives, survives, survives, and oh...

    Ike's Wee Wee: What, what, what?! Ike's bris is about to happen, and on doing a little research Kyle and his pals discover that it involves circumstition (sic) - how could they chop off the piece of him that's more sacred to a male than anything else, his fireman?! Meanwhile (m'kay), Mr Mackey conducts a "drugs/smoking/alcohol/marijuana/LSD/fun" is bad lecture in class (m'kay), but where did his weed sample end up? After strip searching the kids in search of Mary Jane to no avail Mackey is fired (m'kay), kicked out of his home and looks destined to clean up vomit with that pink sawdust stuff (m'kay). He's off on his own adventures - will he enjoy his trip? Will he enjoy India? Will he enjoy being A-Teamed away to the Betty Ford clinic? M'kay? Ah, but back with Ike, Kyle decides to save his widdle brother (or is he?) and sends him off on a train to Nebraska (kick the baby!) Why do dogs have cold noses? What's with Havah Nagilah on the bagpipes? Why is Mr Mackey singing Pat Benatar songs? Will Ike lose his pee-pee? And what the hell is gahagafugga? Bye bye Kenny...

    Conjoined Fetus Lady: Oh goody - it's dodgeball time again! What's this though? Could the South Park Cows have a new star in limey wuss Pip? Well, they're off to the state finals, if they win there they'll be in the nationals and if they win that it's off to China (you can get there by bus, can’t you?) But back to school, where after getting klonked on the schnozz Kyle is sent to the school infirmary - and Nurse Gollum (insert dramatic sting here). So what's the problem with the nurse? Could she be hideously deformed? Well, no - but she does kind of have a dead foetus attached to the side of her head that if removed will see her, well, die. After consulting her trusty book of Freaks A-Z, Mrs Brovslovsky decides to rally around and bring Ms Gollum's plight into the light - to make her feel all comfy and welcome, of course. Parades, dinners and achievement awards follow, with nobody realising that she's quite happy in just doing her job and getting on with her life with a minimum of fuss, expecting no special or different treatment - but it's a bit late for that now. You work out the (extremely valid) message. Ooh, Kenny's all squished...

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    You get a crappy jewel case on steroids, the tail end of the credits chainsawed into oblivion (no Braniff or Comedy Central logos here folks - well, until the final episode), no chaptering within episodes and no extras whatsoever. Poo!

    However, regardless of these negatives you do get five episodes, mostly absolute classics, presented with a visual pristinity that anybody used to plopping down in front of SBS for their South Park fix should absolutely boggle at. Sonically we're delivered a Dolby Stereo mix that is as good as television series' come, and you can even pop over to the French soundtrack for a bit of scarcely decipherable fun (well, for those of us who only did three years of French it's tres hard to follow - there's no "j'aime la glace" here folks...)

    Matt and Trey were still firing on all cylinders and then some for these episodes. You get the priceless Cartman does COPS episode, and I don’t give a flying flatulent ferret what many may think, Not Without My Anus is hilarious animated silliness at its absolute finest. Hey, I find fart jokes funny - ooh. I must be a lowlife trailer dwelling no-brained loser. Well, either that or I have a broad sense of humour...

    No South Park fan's DVD collection is complete without this little gem of a disc, m'kay?


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