South Park (season 8)
| South Park Season 8 | |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 14 |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Comedy Central |
| Original run | March 17, 2004 – December 15, 2004 |
| Home video release | |
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DVD release | |
| Region 1 | August 29, 2006[1] |
| Region 2 | September 15, 2008[2] |
| Region 4 | April 1, 2010 |
Season eight of South Park, an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, began airing on March 17, 2004.[3] The eighth season concluded after 14 episodes on December 15, 2004.[4] The season deals with various topics that were relevant at the time of release. The episodes portray a spectrum of topics, from effect of large scale retails corporations to immigration.
Episodes
See also: List of South Park episodes
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date[4] | Production code |
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| 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 hits Butters in his Professor Chaos guise with a throwing star, they must rush to get Butters medical attention without getting caught. | ||||||
| 113 | 2 | "Up the Down Steroid" | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | March 24, 2004 | 803 |
| 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 | 804 |
| Kyle finally sees Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and decides Cartman's anti-Semitic claims are true. 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" "You Got..." "You Got Served" | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | April 7, 2004 | 805 |
| 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 | 802 |
| 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, and the government wants him for national security. | ||||||
| 117 | 6 | "The Jeffersons" | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | April 21, 2004 | 807 |
| 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. | ||||||
| 118 | 7 | "Goobacks" | Trey Parker | Trey Parker | April 28, 2004 | 806 |
| 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 turned the center of South Park 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 series's final Christmas episode, Stan helps seemingly innocent woodland creatures prepare for the birth of their Lord and Savior, the Anti-Christ. | ||||||
References
- ↑ "Season 8 (Region 1)". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- ↑ "Season 8 (Region 2)". Amazon.uk. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- ↑ "South Park Episode Guide (seasons 6, 7 and 8)". MSN. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "South Park (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)". epguides. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
External links
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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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