Join Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection. This is an episode that manages to do just all of that at once, in twenty-two minutes. Trey Parker has said of this episode that it's "a perfect example, to us, about how much fun the show can be when it's just kids being kids." It's sometimes easy to forget that this is, for the most part, how South Park got started before expanding its character roster and frequently tackling pop culture and other issues as well as the trials of small time adolescence.
It's fun to watch the show juggle the stories and hit several targets within one scene.
#Return of the fellowship of the ring to the two towers series
While at the same time acknowledging the power the series has with its fans. There's also a lot of nice little jabs at the LOTR phenomenon, it's pretensions and over indulgence – both in terms of the movies and the books (I say this as a huge fan). It's essentially the difference between kids who are still into dressing up and playing make-believe and the kids who essentially lost interest in doing that when they became interested in watching a porno tape. There's a great dichotomy here between the 4th graders and the 6th graders. Like when they go to Clyde's house and ask to speak to the "Elf of Feragon" – it takes Clyde a minute and he has to shut the door and return in costume – and in character.
As the plot mirrors the events of Lord of the Rings, it's fun to watch as other kids join in.