# Will The Aristocrats come to DVD in America?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 27, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285 "2004-05-27T02:53:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285/1 "2004-05-27T02:53:43Z")
Someone in another thread earlier today posted one of the dirtiest, most disgusting things I’ve ever seen in my life. It was absolutely hilarious.
It was a roughly 2 minute clip of Eric Cartman of South Park fame telling a joke. The clip can be seen [here](http://www.waxy.org/random/video/southpark_aristocrats.wmv) (WARNING: this video clip could be considered **incredibly** offensive. DO NOT watch this if you are easily offended or squirmish about topics of taboo sex. This clip is not work safe.)
Anyways, I did a little research, and it turns out that Penn is making an entire movie out of this joke ([link](http://www.lnreview.co.uk/media/journal/001842.php).) He’s going to have 100 comedians tell their own versions of it and he says that the South Park one is not even in the top 5 dirtiest.
What do you guys think about this? Will it come to the land of the free or will it fail to pick up distribution or (gasp) be banned?
If it comes, does anybody know _when_? I cannot wait to see this :D.
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### Author:  [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2004, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285/2 "2004-05-27T04:51:24Z")
Isn’t it not supposed to be funny?
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2004, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285/3 "2004-05-27T06:03:45Z")
> [@SmackFu](#):
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> Isn’t it not supposed to be funny?
I don’t think so, what makes you think that?
I think it’s funny because the teller of the joke gets to absolutely lambast you with the sickest possible shit his demented mind can churn out for as long as he wants with absolutely **no** payoff.
It’s like a grotesque, twisted rendition of a shaggy dog story.
Of course, a shaggy dog story loses its edge when you know what it is, but I’m curious how sick these guys got if Penn says that the South Park clip isn’t even in the top 5.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2004, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285/4 "2004-05-27T14:52:20Z")
Am I the only person who read the thread title as the Aristo_cats_?
I was really confused that someone was filled with hope that someday they could own _that_ on DVD.
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### Author:  [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285/5 "2004-05-27T15:23:23Z")
> [@Zebra](#):
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> Am I the only person who read the thread title as the Aristo_cats_?
Nope. I’m just popped into the thread to tell **Cisco** that Aristocats is on DVD. I know because my wife bought it.
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### Author:  [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285/6 "2004-05-27T15:25:36Z")
_I’m just popped???_.
English better more caffeine me goodly.
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### Author:  [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2004, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285/7 "2004-05-30T08:01:59Z")
[What is the Aristocrats joke?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=235974&highlight=aristocrats)
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### Author:  [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285/8 "2004-05-30T12:24:59Z")
> [@Cisco](#):
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> It was a roughly 2 minute clip of Eric Cartman of South Park fame telling a joke. The clip can be seen [here](http://www.waxy.org/random/video/southpark_aristocrats.wmv) (WARNING: this video clip could be considered **incredibly** offensive. DO NOT watch this if you are easily offended or squirmish about topics of taboo sex. This clip is not work safe.)
Can I ask where that clip’s from? Is it a SP episode? I sure don’t recognize it.
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2004, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285/9 "2004-05-30T12:31:44Z")
> [@dantheman](#):
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> Can I ask where that clip’s from? Is it a SP episode? I sure don’t recognize it.
It was made specifically for the upcoming movie mentioned in the OP.
Waaay too dirty to air on tv, even if they bleeped it. Did you watch it?
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### Author:  [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2004, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285/10 "2004-05-30T12:52:34Z")
> [@Cisco](#):
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> It was made specifically for the upcoming movie mentioned in the OP.
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> Waaay too dirty to air on tv, even if they bleeped it. Did you watch it?
Sure did. So the SP characters will be in a non-SP movie, eh? Unusual…
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285/11 "2004-05-30T12:56:23Z")
> [@dantheman](#):
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> Sure did. So the SP characters will be in a non-SP movie, eh? Unusual…
That clip is the extent to which they will be in it. The movie consists of 100 different comedians telling their own version of that joke. That clip is Trey Parker’s version.
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### Author:  [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2004, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285/12 "2004-05-30T13:06:27Z")
Oh, I know. I just don’t think I’ve seen them in anything other than a SP environment (save bootlegs and ripoffs, of course).
I have to wonder, though, how many people would want to see a movie consisting of people telling the same joke over and over again, albeit in different ways. And an inside joke, at that.
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2004, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285/13 "2004-05-30T13:27:28Z")
> [@dantheman](#):
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> I have to wonder, though, how many people would want to see a movie consisting of people telling the same joke over and over again, albeit in different ways. And an inside joke, at that.
I agree. I figure there will be a lot of boring junk, with two or three real jaw-droppers mixed in.
Then again, Penn has never dissapointed me in the past, so he just might find a way to make this interesting. Either way, I’m dying to see it.
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-aristocrats-come-to-dvd-in-america/247285/14 "2004-06-01T22:21:00Z")
That…that was _awesome!!_ :eek: