Last night's South Park

I think my favorite bit was the very end when Stan's discussing cultural hatred with his Afgahnistan counterpart. his conculsion is "I'm so confused." Which probably sums up a lot of people's thoughts.

You wanna get hi?

Joei was appalled by last week's episode until I mentioned the Warner Brothers propaganda link.

I missed the towlie episode but agree that "you wanna get high?" is classic.

"Wow, he's getting really fucking WASTED on life!"

I laughed really hard at this latest ep, partly because they finally got around to commenting on the jenkem bullshit, partly b/c they got the Heavy Metal bits down _perfectly_.

The Spitzer thing seemed like a last minute throw-away thing, but i did lol at kyle's mom up by the podium with the "pissed off politician's wife" look.

that was pretty funny

they nailed the heavy metal stuff

Even the blood stuff was dead-on.

damn your rocking tits!

YOU CANNOT YET CARESS MY DAUGHTER'S AWESOME ByOO-BAGE

lololoolol!!

Fukit, allsp.com seems to have gone down. I love that site.

It was a great episode...also last week's (Britney is attempting a bizarre entire-top-half-of-her-head-gone look) was the most horrifying I've seen since Cartman fed that kid his parents.

The Britney ep was one I regretted watching over dinner.

Britney ep was lame, like most of their "message" episodes. I lol'ed at the Heavy Metal stuff tho, I always enjoy that shit.

Heavy Metal ep was the first ep I've enjoyed in ages. Love that they used the Hagar song...and the animation was so dead on, I was having major flashbacks throughout. I liked the Anne Frank cats too.

Goddammit, it's one thing to run a polemic episode. It's another for a non-union production to mock the writer's strike as well as being totally disingenious for representating the stakes, conditions, and gains made.

Still, this was their first disagreeable ep I've seen where they properly balanced out the political shit with sufficiently absurdist bits.

their politics are execrable, but they are still occasionally funny

Why is it that Matt and Trey can't make fun of the strike but Tina Fey can? (ans: no one wants to fuck Matt and Trey)

(also yeah, Tina's joke was funnier, but I think the fucking point still stands)

I think this guy pretty much nails the subject of taking any of Parker/Stone's political commentary seriously. Still, a funny ep.

Also to be noted: not sure what the word is, but odd timing that they just put up all their episodes online and supported by corporate advertising? Rendering their own point about nobody making money off the internet really stupid?

I don't pay attention to Tina Fey Dan, sorry.

yeah, didn't see the tina fey thing

It was her monologue on SNL after the strike when she did the extended thing talking about precisely what the writers won in the strike, which as described as nothing anyone who wasn't a writer would care about.

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v62457356gnNgPzf

Super Fun Time is pretty great.

Did anybody spot the music bits? The only one I got was Trey Parker doing a bad Chameleons UK track.

there was definitely a joy division rip in there, but i don't know if it was of any particular song. i love the goth kids. and butters. i like when they let butters have an episode to himself.

the final "burn the hot topic down" song was great.

yeah, with all the goth eps they do, was one or both of the SP guys goth at some point?

I wouldn't call this conclusive evidence but I do think it's worth remembering that the very first special guest they ever had on the show back in 1997 was Robert Smith, after all -- and after he kicked Barbra Streisand's ass and headed home, either Stan or Kyle shouted after him, "DISINTEGRATION IS THE BEST ALBUM EVER!"

per se

this ep was so great, my only regret was that there was no overt reference to Twilight

All the new South Parks are like "What's up with the stuff kids like these days?"

this ep was so great, my only regret was that there was no overt reference to Twilight

C'mon now, they didn't NEED to make that reference. That was the point!

I guess they did "girls swoon over fad that adults find silly" thing last week so they didn't need to do it again.

Loved the scene when the goth kids tried to wear normal clothes!

My favorite SP thing ever came from one of the goth kids episodes, when Stan was told to stand below Wendy's window and play Peter Gabriel on a boombox...and he played "Shock the Monkey"

SP has been on fire lately. much like hot topic, per se,

I loved that episode so much.

vampire one was way better than the last one. 'elementary school musical' was an obvious but fine idea, but the gay-dad plotline was lame. they could've done a lot more with the basic idea.

the most pointless and unfunny south park episode I've ever seen

kinda this season so far

also this 'secret girlfriend' show after south park is pretty wtf.

it's like they're trying to give you the experience of being a character in an apatow movie? but they're not attempting to make it funny?

Actually, it wasn't the worst one, but it definately gave me the feeling of a much older episode.

I'm trying to think of the last ep that was as good as the latest Butters episode.

i watched about two minutes of secret girlfriend -- utterly atrocious, and i say that as someone who watches a lot of crap tv.

yeah this had all the cleverness of a white teenager discovering the word "niggardly"

what a retarded episode

RONG, worth it for the initial Tom Cruise, fudgepacker joke. And Tom Cruise having so many closets.

tom cruise closet thing was the closest thing to a joke in the episode

okay, really?

didn't laugh at all at this one :(

it not being funny is not the same as it not having any jokes

tom cruise closet thing was the closest thing to a *funny joke in the episode

Not even Butters asking "Mr. Cruise, why are you packing fuuuudge?"

And Randy trying to point out to Tom Cruise he was, in fact, packing fudge without him getting offended.

the most phoned-in of phoned-in South Park episodes

why is this show still on

cuz it's freaking hilarious.

I enjoyed this ep a whole lot - the whole thing was so self-referential to the point of absurdism. I particularly liked the return of both Mitch Connors and Mr. Hat. Also trying to pick out all the previously-mocked celebrities in the room was fun. Keep an eye open for a spectacularly emaciated Sarah Jessica Parker...

why was this show ever on?

there's still at least one or two flat out hilarious episodes per season, and that's been keeping me on the hook

jay and silent bob strike back

i think it's hard to justify a show's existence if it has resorted to making tom cruise gay jokes in 2010

the last three episodes were great so

this one just happened to be a huge crock of shit

75% is a better average than your posting career tbh

says "human centipeedi peedi"

says dude living by example w/r/t ilx meme + random rapper = terrible screen names

that is like the most forkian comeback too, "SAYS GUY WITH STUPID SCREEN NAME THAT I'M TOO BLIND TO SEE IS EXACTLY LIKE MY OWN TERRIBLE SCREEN NAME"

hoosalah is at least a tacit admission of laziness -- human centipeedi peedi is the most recent in a long line of constipated puns

in lieu of somehow merging any potential discussion about this with the American Jihadists thread,

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/19/security-brief-radical-islamic-web-site-takes-on-south-park/?hpt=T2

On Sunday, Revolutionmuslim.com posted an entry that included a warning to South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone that they risk violent retribution – after the 200th episode last week included a satirical discussion about whether an image of the prophet could be shown. In the end, he is portrayed disguised in a bear suit.

The posting on Revolutionmuslim.com says: “We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them.”

don't suppose vegas is taking bets on matt & trey getting daggered

uh didn't South Park already do the "cartoon of muhammad!" thing like three seasons ago or something?

they are revisiting old plot points for the 200h episode

They showed him once in 2001 before the cartoon thing, and then when they did the cartoon episode in like 2005 or whatev, comedy central wouldn't let them do it.

it's all so insidery and superfanboy ish. thus my jay and silent bob strike back comment upthread

ohh. ok i honestly had no idea why you posted that

Oh man this thread got really good when we were fighting over whose stupid display name was less stupid.

hmmm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8636455.stm
all this and it wasn't even a funny episode

accusing tim burton for not having an original idea since 'beetlejuice' was a bit harsh

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QwosRGjuo0Y/TLPELcxJedI/AAAAAAAAA_w/5wkvqJK8-xA/s1600/0.jpg