South Park: Series 11 [DVD]

For those worried that South Park might be losing its edge, season 11 is a timely reminder that Trey Parker and Matt Stone probably have the most creative minds in animated comedy. The season is as offensive, crude and brilliantly funny as ever, featuring the epic "imaginationland trilogy", the guitar heroes episode, a parody of 24 as well as an episode that feels like the "day after tomorrow" but with headlice...

Other highlights include Cartman's bizzare friendship with Butters taking some darker turns as well a landmark for the series in that this is the first uncensored box set. The only disappointmnet is that we've had to wait nearly a year after region 1 to get it!!!!

If you love South Park, get this season, it won't disappoint

I loved this. It's typical South Park: Challenging, irreverant and obscene.
From racism and the chip on the shoulder response to it, the perceived "threat" of a bi-curious child, a sanctuary for lice in Angelina Jolie's pubic bush, Islamic terrorism, Mr/Ms Garrison discovering the beauty of sex with another woman, dealing with the homeless, Cartman and Tourette's symdrome, Bono and the biggest turd in the world, Imaginationland, Guitar Hero and the kudos that goes with beaing able to "play" a toy guitar on the 360 and the lists that little girls make and the motives and machinations behind them. All this nonsense is dealt with in the usual manner and if you like South Park, you'll enjoy it.

Whoa! ....I am shocked and stunned.
I have just seen Her Majesty the Queen blow her brains out with a revolver; Jesus kill an American Catholic leader with a Ninja star; two boys aged under-10 unwittingly engage in felashio; a pig poking US sec. of state Hillery Clinton umm ... down under, as it were; and learned that actress A. Joly has a serious case of pubic lice.
During one episode, the insulting N word for Afro-Caribbean was uttered 41 times.
OK, some of these scenes are more suggested, in that seemingly primitive animation style, rather than openly portrayed, but you know exactly what's going on, as would the legion of kids under the set's certificate age of 15 whom we all know watch this stuff.
Welcome to the mad world of South Park, the eleventh series.
Perhaps I've led a sheltered life, but I seem to remember Christian do-gooders protesting outside cinemas showing Life of Brian and the Last Temptation of Christ (without some of them even seeing the films) protesting against concepts nowhere near as (potentially) controversial as this.
Times change, the principle of free speech is widened coach and horses style and anyone still managing to stand on some sort of pedestal of dignity in the twenty-first century is knocked down, ridiculed, scandalised and gets her brains bouncing on the regal carpet.
Yes I know I've spelled some names and words wrong - I'm worried this review might earn Amazon a lawyer's letter and that this review will be pulled like building seven. I know that it is easier to get away with libel when it is done under the guise of comedy, but I still can't believe they have not pulled the plug on South Park, shredded the wire and smashed the TV.
And you know what? I'm somehow glad. `Cos I laughed like a hyena, cackling on the bones of Hollywood celebs and pompous politicos being made complete fools of.
That scene of the Rev Jesy Jackson having his bare butt kissed by Stan Marsh's repentant dad Randy as he says almost seductively, "Apologise" will remain with me for the rest of my life.
Side-splittingly hilarious AND brilliant.
Brilliant? The three-part Imaginationland episode is fantastic satire on the highly-exaggerated terrorist threat propaganda that propels governments to greater power and makes people believe that a plane and not a missile went into the Pentagon.
And the sub plot of Cartman pursuing Kyle through the courts in order to get his promised testicular moistening is still making me giggle days after I first saw it.
Is South Park a phenomenon or just part of a much wider sewage lorryload of litmus tests on our sick society? Can South Park somehow actually help kids make sense of this crazy planet? As I say, I don't watch much TV.
Bottom dollar is that Stan, Kyle, Kenny, Buttons et all (except Cartman), always somehow emerge from the excreted morass of profanity and weirdness with some sort of moral framework still intact.
And it's amazing what you learn - I never knew St Peter was a rabbit and not a highly-promoted Galilean fisherman from the first century.
Must remember to bring the lettuce when I approach the celestial gates, though I fear the punishment for my laughing at all this cartoon sacrilege will be a trip downwards.