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10/10
the wizard, the ranger, Kenny's soul and the Jew
RainDogJr28 October 2008
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South Park the Hits: Volume 1 – "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers" (Season 6, 2002)

A "kids being kids" episode, as Trey and Matt always remarks, so we watch the kids after watching and loving The Lord of the Rings pictures so this time is not Cartman, Stan and Kyle but the wizard, the ranger and the paladin. Is hilarious that scene in which the young heroes arrives to Clyde's house to talk with the high elf of Faragon so Clyde appears and seconds later there you have the high elf of Faragon. After this there's a meeting of all the Lord of the Rings kids (check the kid with the storm trooper helmet!) since apparently the videotape of The Lord of the Rings that the ranger's dad rented hold an evil power. First the mission for the wizard, the ranger and the paladin was easy, it just consisted in bringing that videotape to Butters, who was eager for watching finally The Lord of the Rings, but later they had a new and also easy mission that consisted in bringing the tape back to the ranger's parents. However our heroes quickly sees how this videotape make people act in a bizarre and desperate way, the videotape is the precious, Butters is Gollum, the 6th graders and the parents complement the ones that really want that videotape. But why they want particularly that videotape of The Lord of the Rings specially if the DVD with 12 hours of extra footage is available? Well, the heroes will try to find the reason and who's the one who will make the "sacrifice" for the rest by watching the "evil" videotape? Of course Talingharr the Black and is just great his reaction, practically whatever he saw made him stop playing to be once again Token and certainly the rest of the kids could confirmed what they were thinking so now there's only one alternative: return the videotape to the store! Is not an easy mission, certainly not indicated for one single kid, specially if he is a kindergarten dwarf, so the ranger, the wizard, the dwarf, the cleric, the warrior, the Jew and Kenny's soul will be the fellowship of the ring. Even with the expected problems (see the cleric trying to be like Gandalf!) the kids could return the evil tape and nobody but Butters and Token watched it so everything is fine, even for Butters finally with his precious, but as soon as the parents arrives…

The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers (great title by the way) is definitely one of my all time favourites so certainly highly re-watchable so if you haven't watched it why are you waiting? Go to South Park Studios! Oh and the Harry Potter stuff is hilarious, Harry Butthole Pussy Potter!
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10/10
The perfect parody doesn't exi...
Bruno_Cinema15 January 2024
As a great fan of "The Lord of the Rings" and South Park, this is for me a perfect combination.

Everything here fits.

From the references, how well introduced are, the jokes, the stupid premise of a South Park episode about confunding a Porno movie, the roles of the characters, how the kids are "being kids", playing and acting so innocently, on contrast of the parents and how despair are for his stupidy, Butters being Gollum and a Porn addict, one of the best endings of a South Park episode, theat made me laugh so hard...

It's such deservly one of the best episodes of the show. And also works as an amazing tribute of the trilogy itself.
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9/10
Awesome
gangstahippie4 January 2009
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Stan's parents rent both "The Lord Of The Rings" and a pornographic film entitled "Backdoor Sluts 9".The parents give the boys the Lord Of the rings to give to Butters saying it's a "quest".However they accidentally give the boys the porno tape instead.So the whole episode involves all the parents looking for their children who have a copy of the porno so they can try to put into context what they saw.Meanwhile the sixth graders find out the boys have the tape and try to find it for themselves.The boys think that the tape is just a strange copy of Lord Of The Rings which is making people act weird.This episode has some very funny and good moments and is overall an entertaining episode.
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10/10
Some of the best South Park has to offer
Amthermandes30 April 2024
It's got everything South Park is good at: innocence tainted by adult content in a comedic manner, a sharp contrast of the nerdiest media entertainment to a mature, confrontational social situation, social commentary of what it's like for an adult couple with an "active" lifestyle while raising children, the life and minds of young boys, movie parodies and references to modern trends (at its time) up the butt, situational humor on an animated level, offensive humor masked by innocent animated characters, and just good 'ol classic South Park shenanigans.

A perfect episode for the serious fan, and cautious investigator unfamiliar with the series. Welcome to the best of animated adult humor. So good.
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7/10
the videotape is haunted
mrdonleone30 May 2009
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I enjoyed myself so much with this episode! maybe it's not as original as the episode about a 'ladder to Heaven', but it certainly is just as fun. during their portrayal of the characters of the Lord of the Rings-series, they come in an identical situation that involves a videotape 'that must be destroyed'. really funny... many times while watching this one, I was thinking just how genius the screenwriters of the South Park series really are... every time they come up with funny stories to show us! how is that creativity even possible? 188 episodes and still counting? even funnier than The Simpsons? wow! respect to you guys!
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7/10
Hilarious...but something is off....
english310197222 July 2020
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This is hilarious and highly rated BUT I think this is a bit of a mistake that makes little sense to me...YES, It's a cartoon but....the premise is that the boys end up with a nasty porn instead of Lord of the Rings that they are supposed to take to Butters while on their own quest/game as Lord of the Rings. Randy rents the porn and the LOTR but never watched the porn until they sent the kids away with LOTR so how does the porn end up in the LOTR box when the kids had already been watching it?? There would have already been a tape in the porn box when the kids put the LOTR back in the box.....soooo, this mistake which may have been done on purpose still leads us to a funny episode. The best part of course is poor Butters going after his 'Precious.'
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