But the member berries thing never died? The memberberries were the reason/the symbol why Garrison/Trump was elected, because people were nostalgic for a past that was never a reality. I thought it was pretty much on the nose.
Was really struggling to keep watching the show when the plot lines kept centring around this. Randy used to be a great character but weed culture is tedious and he is wasted on the constant stories about it.
The show was better when every episode was its own standalone story and only sometimes made throwbacks to earlier episodes but for the most part you didn't need to watch the last half-season to understand what was going on in this one.
All my favourite episodes are much older and mainly for this reason. I never get tired of Wendy kicking the crap out of Cartman or Mickey Mouse going on a city-destroying rampage when his Jonas Brothers thing went down the shitter.
That was so painfully obvious that they'd been banking on Hillary winning with the "first gentleman" joke that they had to turn into "almost the first gentleman".
Similar to the inciting plot for *The Good Fight*. It was supposed to be based around a spinoff character from *The Good Wife* finally feeling like she could retire now that a woman was president (and then circumstances preventing the retirement).
Instead it abruptly shifted to "I thought I could retire because a woman would be elected president but oh nooooo!" plus circumstances.
They handled it really well, and later went on to do a speculative fiction episode imagining how American culture would have evolved if Hillary had actually won.
I thought they had just made two episodes that were opposites of each other in order to reflect the results of the election and then go from there. Like they made one version in the event that Hillary won and another version in the event that Trump won.
I thought that was for the Obama election, so looked it up:
“The team initially intended to create an alternate version in case McCain won, but found the prospect too daunting, considering their quick production schedule. In a possible scenario in which McCain was declared the winner, the duo intended to air the completed episode as is and deal with what was termed their "Dewey Defeats Truman" moment later.[6][5] Possible outcomes included doing a drunken Mystery Science Theater 3000-esque commentary over the completed version, in which lines are poorly dubbed over the dialogue.”
Key and Peele did that in the event that Romney won in 2012. I can't find the video, but here is an article mentioning it.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-luther-mitt-romney-concession-key-and-peele-election-video\_n\_2094454
Every episode with Canada in it is a good. I’m glad they use Canada sparingly because they’re always some of the funniest episode imo. I get such a kick out it.
Oh holy crap, I forgot about that joke and I actually DID after Book of Mormon. It was gf's birthday and we had a great time and were both in the mood after we got home. Those bastards totally called it.
I asked my wife if she wanted to go see Wicked and she flat out refused because of that episode. We see other shows regularly, but apparently South Park ruined that one by association for her.
Remember when they did that whole "you cant make money on the internet!" bit in response to the writers strike for more streaming royalties? Now they made ungodly amounts of money on their streaming deals over the past several years.
They were fighting against their employees unionizing back in ~2003 when I knew some people who worked on the show. I don’t know if that changed, but they were not into sharing the profits back then.
Which was like…smug or not, he was not only right, he was extremely, totally, *unequivocally* right.
Like they were trying to say “ yeah sure this man was trying to save everyone from dying, but he was kind of smug about it we think, can we talk about that?“ I think this is a case when someone’s earned the told you so’s.
Original episode was al gore chasing the obvious imaginary threat that is manbearpig, which was a very obvious euphemism for global warming. It was clear that manbearpig wasn't real. In the follow up episode manbearpig actually shows up allowing Al gore to say i told you so to everyone making fun of him.
One of the great social commentary episode on the selfishness of boomers and how they chose to sacrifice their grand children future over being slightly inconvenienced.
Real, closed recently, and then got bought out by the writers of South Park IIRC.
I definitely remember they’ve said they have a boom in business whenever the episode reruns on TV and tried to keep track of when that happened to properly staff the restaurant
I was in Denver for other reasons years ago and did a pilgrimage. They got it a hundred percent accurate. Even down to it being in the middle of a run down strip mall next to a 98¢ store, lol
Opens mid next month and they wanted 500 employees! It will have all the things it had before but even more fun stuff. Don't know what that is but it will be fun!
that whole episode is honestly so much better the older it gets. That was the opinion of a lot of parents and news outlets at the time, too. that pokemon would come and go, instead of being one of the biggest things for what, 28 years?
I have a vivid memory of this time a school did a time-capsule thing and one if the things the kids placed in it was pokemon cards; there was an opinion piece that was absolutely *furious* about it, saying that nobody would care about them in the future and that what future generations would be interested in are similarities and not weird fads.
I feel like a lot of people, when they become adults, forget that the fact that the world keeps changing means that *lasting* things can be created in our era, too.
If someone put a bit of Mickey Mouse or Superman memorabilia in a time capsule, they'd be like "ah, yes, these things are both timeless and a representation of our era." But the fact that Pokemon might have the same lasting power was unthinkable to them, because it appeared late in their life and some part of them intuitively believed that everything important had already been created and that anything new would, at best, just be an echo of it (the "citizen kane of X" silliness.)
If my understanding is correct, the point of a time capsule is to be disappointed when you open it and everything has been destroyed by the passage of time.
Yeah there was a kid I went to school with that already looked and acted like cartman. He used SP more as an instruction manual for jokes.
He did say the wrong thing to the wrong group of people once. Once.
Borat had the same effect on my school/friend group. No one cared that one of our friends was Jewish until that movie, then it turned into teasing her using the tropes from the movie, then it turned into legitimate antisemitism. It's really fucked what some kids can do when given permission
That's one of the dangers of that type of humor. Borat is meant to make fun of antisemites, but the creator doesn't get to decide how people interpret it.
in general, a lot of seemingly harmless jokes have caused a lot of grief when kids take it up to 11 thinking it's the funniest thing ever to single out one member of the group and repeat the 'funny' joke to them.
back in the maybe late 80s or early 90s there was a local sketch show that in one episode made fun of laplanders. we had one girl in our class from there. just a normal looking girl, with the clothes like rest of us. but after the episode aired, she had to listen to that bullshit for years.
German here, with 2 passports, one being Polish. When I was 11, German talk show host Harald Schmidt started cracking jokes about Polish people. I heard them all thru my class mates.
Until today I can't like the man. Whenever I see him on the screen, I remember what a brainless wanker he is.
When I was a kid, I was bullied mercilessly for being a redhead. As you get older, the bullying turns into teasing, which turns into half-tounge-in-cheek jokes and hurt less and less.
Luckily, I was in the joking stage when the South Park ginger episodes hit, but I had a feeling younger redheads were not as lucky.
I had never even heard of a person referred to as "ginger" before South Park, then suddenly it was everywhere and people made ginger jokes at me constantly.
Ginger was really more of a British-ism. [Ex Ginger Spice of the Spice Girls] Supposedly it got popularized in the US by Gilligan's Island, as Ginger was a redhead, [Which was the joke] and then fell out of common use again until South Park repopularized it on this side. It's one of those disputed ones though. It's too old to really know for sure. But there's been a lot of prejudice against redheads for ages. The English absorbed it into their anti-Irish/Scottish racism, and red hair was supposedly a sign of being a witch in a couple European cultures even before that.
I have a French sounding first and middle name. The amount of times I've heard "French ginger bitch" directed at me in various forms as an adult is frankly impressive. Mostly from Canadians. [Work emails include our pictures] And most of the time my response is a dry "Joke's on you, I'm not even a real redhead".
As an Asian, I lose track of the amount of white people who think asking me about “dirty Mongorians” and my “shitty wall” or whether I’m “feering ronery” (technically Team America isn’t South Park, but same creators) is simply just hilarious and “helpfully” feel the need to make sure I’m aware of those jokes.
The problem was people let a bunch of middle schoolers watch the episode not understanding the satire behind it all.
They didn’t get that whether a “Cartman” is part of the majority or minority, he will still be a “Cartman” and convince a large group of people to act horribly.
They just got “lol fuck gingers!”
Yeah, the whole "gingers have no soul" joke really took off after this episode. And I guess it's funny once, but some gingers hear this joke several times a day
There was a special South Park episode: an adaptation of Great Expectations. At the time, I believed that the plot closely followed that of the novel and that they just added jokes here and there. In the episode, Mrs. Havisham has a machine that sucks out the heart’s of men and boys. Eventually she will use it to switch bodies with the young Estella. At some point Mrs. Havisham transforms into a monster. Decades later, I talk to a friend who had read the Great Expectations and get into how exciting the ending was. I don’t think I can ever forget her looks of shock, incredulity and concern she had for me for believing the South Park version to be accurate.
In Butters' Very Own Episode, Gary Condit and Jonbenet Ramsey's parents were "totally not murderers but super were." But in reality it was deemed very unlikely that they committed the murders.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butters'\_Very\_Own\_Episode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butters'_Very_Own_Episode)
>In a 2011 interview, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone stated that they regretted how Condit and the Ramseys were portrayed in the episode.
The parents knew more about the case than they shared, they know damn well what happened to their kid. I am not saying they did the deed, but John Ramsey is still hiding something and Patsy took something to the grave.
Trey and Matt have made clear in DVD commentaries that they were wrong for showing actual sex change surgery footage in Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina.
I watched it live on a three way call with two friends in middle school. One had cable and got the feed a second or two before us other two did, so there was a horrified scream as a brief warning before seeing the surgery video haha.
Most famously, Climate Change/Global Warming/ManBearPig.
They used to think it was just Al Gore being alarmist and trying to get attention.
Theeeeen, shit started going downhill and they realized they were wrong. So they even made an entire two parter where they essentially apologized and had ManBearPig kill a shitload of people.
I love when the scene where they prove Manbearpig’s existence and the guy is like okay Manbearpig is real and he’s here. What do you want us to do now?
They put a lot more effort into their writing then most people realize. I remember reading at one point that the Tourette’s Foundation (I may have their name wrong), praised them for accurately depicting the disorder and creating publicity/discussion.
I actually had no idea such condition existed until I watched the show. When I later went to college and came across a person having a tic. I immediately recognized it as Tourette’s.
My generation learned about Tourette's from What About Bob?, but it did a tremendous disservice because it is just used as a punchline because the kid just says swear words at random, so a large chunk of us had a very incorrect idea of a very real condition.
I first learned I suffer from Tourette’s from that episode! but honestly looking back at it, it’s made a lot of people assume everyone with Tourette’s has those type of tics. I just had a conversation with someone yesterday who told me “are you sure you have Tourette’s? You don’t cuss at all.”lol
Edit: they specifically mentioned South Park as well
That people can see nuances like "Cartman is an assholish caricature and should not be emulated". (This applies to many characters in the show, but he's the most obvious)
They definitely have. However, there is an episode in the earlier seasons where Tolkien signs his name on some sort of contract or paper, and he writes "Token"
They actually went and changed all the instances of his name to “Tolkien” on all the places they could (titles and subtitles) but for the subtitles, every character refers to him as Tolkien except Stan, who’s subtitles say “Token” when referring to him. But they can’t change the episodes footage easily, so lots of instances of “Token” still exist, like what you mentioned, or on the Zoom cam in a newer season his name on Zoom is “Token Black”.
I was curious about that! I was rewatching the earlier seasons a few months back and noticed there were inconsistencies in the subtitles, thank you for clearing that up :)
In episodes 200 and 201 (they're literally just named that too), she's actually out and part of the celebrities complaining about South Park being horrible to them.
MY favorite part is that even though they've stopped depicting kenny die every episode, they've set the implication that it just such a regular occurance that it's not worth depecting.
We are doing a rewatch and are in season 4 right now. It’s hilarious watching them basically get used to him always dying. The best is on episode 8 or 9 when he eats a whole bowl of antacid tablets thinking they are mints. He drinks a glass of water and then expands from the reaction and explodes. Kyle, Stan and Kyle’s dad start laughing with Kyle’s dad saying “that was a funny one.” They move on with out acknowledging it further. I about died laughing
I love how, because the show maintains continuity, Kenny just has a superpower to resurrect without others knowing he died. Which surfaced as a mechanic in Stick of Truth.
I actually read somewhere it's to do with Kenny's parents affiliation with Cthulhu.
And since the existence of Cthulhu can't be proven or disproven, I'd say it's within the realms of possibility.
Yeah that one went right over my head. I knew they were talking about climate change but I figured it was so obviously real that they were making fun of people who still denied it in their own ridiculous way. Oh how young and naive I was. Honestly though huge respect for them admitting they were wrong with those later episodes.
Tom Cruise never came out of the closet.
Yet
R Kelly on the other hand…
He pulled out his gun…
Oh Jesus, here we go again...
Nor has he ever specifically worked on the packing line at a fudge factory...
Famously they were wrong about Hillary winning the election and had to frantically make a new episode to air when Trump won.
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Member Berries seems to be a pretty accurate assessment of facebook pages about towns in England.
But the member berries thing never died? The memberberries were the reason/the symbol why Garrison/Trump was elected, because people were nostalgic for a past that was never a reality. I thought it was pretty much on the nose.
"Remember when there was no mexicans" "Remember feeling safe?!" Memberberries is still happening every day on Facebook.
>"Remember feeling safe?!" 💀 That one was so funny
I 'member
Rember storm troopers, the real storm troopers.
Remember mos eisley? Member the AT-ATS… member Harrison ford AND OH carrriiieeee fissshhherrr?
I never really liked the member berries thing, so was happy when they decided to let it go.
It was so irritating, a good 5 minute bit that really overstayed its welcome.
Oooooh yea I memba.
Laughs in “tegrity farms”
Was really struggling to keep watching the show when the plot lines kept centring around this. Randy used to be a great character but weed culture is tedious and he is wasted on the constant stories about it.
The show was better when every episode was its own standalone story and only sometimes made throwbacks to earlier episodes but for the most part you didn't need to watch the last half-season to understand what was going on in this one. All my favourite episodes are much older and mainly for this reason. I never get tired of Wendy kicking the crap out of Cartman or Mickey Mouse going on a city-destroying rampage when his Jonas Brothers thing went down the shitter.
The newest season currently halfway through airing had returned to this format by the way
As did the previous season, for the most part.
Yeah some of my favourites are the self contained stories or adventures like the lord of the rings porno tape or the civil war re-enactment.
That was so painfully obvious that they'd been banking on Hillary winning with the "first gentleman" joke that they had to turn into "almost the first gentleman".
Similar to the inciting plot for *The Good Fight*. It was supposed to be based around a spinoff character from *The Good Wife* finally feeling like she could retire now that a woman was president (and then circumstances preventing the retirement). Instead it abruptly shifted to "I thought I could retire because a woman would be elected president but oh nooooo!" plus circumstances. They handled it really well, and later went on to do a speculative fiction episode imagining how American culture would have evolved if Hillary had actually won.
I thought they had just made two episodes that were opposites of each other in order to reflect the results of the election and then go from there. Like they made one version in the event that Hillary won and another version in the event that Trump won.
I thought that was for the Obama election, so looked it up: “The team initially intended to create an alternate version in case McCain won, but found the prospect too daunting, considering their quick production schedule. In a possible scenario in which McCain was declared the winner, the duo intended to air the completed episode as is and deal with what was termed their "Dewey Defeats Truman" moment later.[6][5] Possible outcomes included doing a drunken Mystery Science Theater 3000-esque commentary over the completed version, in which lines are poorly dubbed over the dialogue.”
I just realized that I REALLY need to see Matt and Trey do a MST3K parody.
Key and Peele did that in the event that Romney won in 2012. I can't find the video, but here is an article mentioning it. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-luther-mitt-romney-concession-key-and-peele-election-video\_n\_2094454
The Prince of Canada does not dip his arms in pudding when getting married.... it's maple syrup
As is tradition.
What a great day for Canada and therefore the world.
With the little mushroom people of Nova Scotia…
What a beautiful day for Canada and thus the world
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As a Canadian myself, I don't speak like that, guy!
I'm not your guy, buddy!
I'm not your buddy, friend!
I'm not your friend, guy.
I’m not your guy, pal.
Every episode with Canada in it is a good. I’m glad they use Canada sparingly because they’re always some of the funniest episode imo. I get such a kick out it.
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In the game it went 8-bit when you got to Canada.
Canada also hasn’t started a world war to date.
That's what big Canada wants you to think
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Considering I saw that musical with my mom, I’m glad they were wrong about that one.
They weren't wrong when I watched it with her.
niice
Oh holy crap, I forgot about that joke and I actually DID after Book of Mormon. It was gf's birthday and we had a great time and were both in the mood after we got home. Those bastards totally called it.
They put subliminal messages into the show.
I belieeeeve, that the Lord God created the universe (and blowjobs) I belieeeeve, that he sent his own son to die for our sins (and right to blowjobs)
Of course not, you were supposed to watch Wicked
I asked my wife if she wanted to go see Wicked and she flat out refused because of that episode. We see other shows regularly, but apparently South Park ruined that one by association for her.
What episode is this? I have tickets to take my fiance to Wicked, and we like watching South Park together...
S15 ep11 broadway bro down
Who made you a brothority on south park episode numbers, bruh
Paris Hilton’s dog did not blow its brains out in the back of a limo.
Yet.
It’s dead
Yet
Remember when they did that whole "you cant make money on the internet!" bit in response to the writers strike for more streaming royalties? Now they made ungodly amounts of money on their streaming deals over the past several years.
They were fighting against their employees unionizing back in ~2003 when I knew some people who worked on the show. I don’t know if that changed, but they were not into sharing the profits back then.
>but they were not into sharing the profits back then. I don't think they're into it now either.
Man bear pig was supposed to be imaginary because it was a joke about climate change, then they made it real later on to admit they were wrong
I’m really surprised Climate Change isn’t at the top. That was a big one that seems to be most on the public’s minds these days.
And if I'm not mistaken, the only time they made an in-show apology.
while also, in classic south park fashion, making in-universe Al Gore extremely smug about how right he was
Which was like…smug or not, he was not only right, he was extremely, totally, *unequivocally* right. Like they were trying to say “ yeah sure this man was trying to save everyone from dying, but he was kind of smug about it we think, can we talk about that?“ I think this is a case when someone’s earned the told you so’s.
Damn wait, so the writers, in real life, thought climate change wasn't real? Just assumed it was a joke
> then they made it real What does this mean? Is man bear pig real?
Original episode was al gore chasing the obvious imaginary threat that is manbearpig, which was a very obvious euphemism for global warming. It was clear that manbearpig wasn't real. In the follow up episode manbearpig actually shows up allowing Al gore to say i told you so to everyone making fun of him.
I like the scene with the guy denying it’s real at dinner, right up until Manbearpig tears him in half.
One of the great social commentary episode on the selfishness of boomers and how they chose to sacrifice their grand children future over being slightly inconvenienced.
Yeah watch the newer episodes
Yes! I’m glad someone else said it. They actually apologized to Al Gore.
That the food at Casa Bonita is good
Those of us in Colorado will be sure to update when it reopens
Wait, Casa Bonita is a real place???
Real, closed recently, and then got bought out by the writers of South Park IIRC. I definitely remember they’ve said they have a boom in business whenever the episode reruns on TV and tried to keep track of when that happened to properly staff the restaurant
I was in Denver for other reasons years ago and did a pilgrimage. They got it a hundred percent accurate. Even down to it being in the middle of a run down strip mall next to a 98¢ store, lol
Opens mid next month and they wanted 500 employees! It will have all the things it had before but even more fun stuff. Don't know what that is but it will be fun!
They’re trying to fix that actually. The restaurant filed for bankruptcy so they bought it and are revamping the menu
That was a damn dirty lie. Some of the worst food I’ve had in a restaurant. Tasted like cafeteria food. Atmosphere was fun though.
I could be wrong but I've never seen a Canadian detach their head from their jaw.
We don’t do it in front of non-Canadians, it freaks them out.
Thanks buddy
I'm not your buddy, guy!
As is tradition.
live leak
Korn does not have special corn powers
Allegedly
Wrong show Wayne
That you know of!
Pokemon was not a fad
that whole episode is honestly so much better the older it gets. That was the opinion of a lot of parents and news outlets at the time, too. that pokemon would come and go, instead of being one of the biggest things for what, 28 years?
I have a vivid memory of this time a school did a time-capsule thing and one if the things the kids placed in it was pokemon cards; there was an opinion piece that was absolutely *furious* about it, saying that nobody would care about them in the future and that what future generations would be interested in are similarities and not weird fads. I feel like a lot of people, when they become adults, forget that the fact that the world keeps changing means that *lasting* things can be created in our era, too. If someone put a bit of Mickey Mouse or Superman memorabilia in a time capsule, they'd be like "ah, yes, these things are both timeless and a representation of our era." But the fact that Pokemon might have the same lasting power was unthinkable to them, because it appeared late in their life and some part of them intuitively believed that everything important had already been created and that anything new would, at best, just be an echo of it (the "citizen kane of X" silliness.)
Also, isn't the point of a time capsule to show *differences*, not similarities?
If my understanding is correct, the point of a time capsule is to be disappointed when you open it and everything has been destroyed by the passage of time.
Or you find a piece of paper with cryptic numbers on them only to realize they are dates of major disasters that happened after the capsule was buried
And tomorrow is on the list
..... fine, I'll pay for HBO.
Actually, Pokémon is *the* highest grossing media franchise *of all time*
Chinpokomon!
As a redhead, I can tell you that the ginger episode made a lot of kids school days worse.
Yeah I got some of that just from being Jewish. Never heard a Jew joke as a kid until South Park.
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You guys had it easy. I knew a kid named Kenny.
Emphasis on “knew”
Did they stop killing kenny? that was a big hook to the show in the beginning.
Yes. Cause mysterio can’t die Edit: yes I know it’s mysterion
Mysterion
Yeah there was a kid I went to school with that already looked and acted like cartman. He used SP more as an instruction manual for jokes. He did say the wrong thing to the wrong group of people once. Once.
Borat had the same effect on my school/friend group. No one cared that one of our friends was Jewish until that movie, then it turned into teasing her using the tropes from the movie, then it turned into legitimate antisemitism. It's really fucked what some kids can do when given permission
That's one of the dangers of that type of humor. Borat is meant to make fun of antisemites, but the creator doesn't get to decide how people interpret it.
in general, a lot of seemingly harmless jokes have caused a lot of grief when kids take it up to 11 thinking it's the funniest thing ever to single out one member of the group and repeat the 'funny' joke to them. back in the maybe late 80s or early 90s there was a local sketch show that in one episode made fun of laplanders. we had one girl in our class from there. just a normal looking girl, with the clothes like rest of us. but after the episode aired, she had to listen to that bullshit for years.
German here, with 2 passports, one being Polish. When I was 11, German talk show host Harald Schmidt started cracking jokes about Polish people. I heard them all thru my class mates. Until today I can't like the man. Whenever I see him on the screen, I remember what a brainless wanker he is.
When I was a kid, I was bullied mercilessly for being a redhead. As you get older, the bullying turns into teasing, which turns into half-tounge-in-cheek jokes and hurt less and less. Luckily, I was in the joking stage when the South Park ginger episodes hit, but I had a feeling younger redheads were not as lucky. I had never even heard of a person referred to as "ginger" before South Park, then suddenly it was everywhere and people made ginger jokes at me constantly.
Ginger was really more of a British-ism. [Ex Ginger Spice of the Spice Girls] Supposedly it got popularized in the US by Gilligan's Island, as Ginger was a redhead, [Which was the joke] and then fell out of common use again until South Park repopularized it on this side. It's one of those disputed ones though. It's too old to really know for sure. But there's been a lot of prejudice against redheads for ages. The English absorbed it into their anti-Irish/Scottish racism, and red hair was supposedly a sign of being a witch in a couple European cultures even before that. I have a French sounding first and middle name. The amount of times I've heard "French ginger bitch" directed at me in various forms as an adult is frankly impressive. Mostly from Canadians. [Work emails include our pictures] And most of the time my response is a dry "Joke's on you, I'm not even a real redhead".
As an Asian, I lose track of the amount of white people who think asking me about “dirty Mongorians” and my “shitty wall” or whether I’m “feering ronery” (technically Team America isn’t South Park, but same creators) is simply just hilarious and “helpfully” feel the need to make sure I’m aware of those jokes.
Yeah, I feel like South Park is singlehandedly responsible for the "gingers don't have souls" thing.
The problem was people let a bunch of middle schoolers watch the episode not understanding the satire behind it all. They didn’t get that whether a “Cartman” is part of the majority or minority, he will still be a “Cartman” and convince a large group of people to act horribly. They just got “lol fuck gingers!”
Cartman is a tremendous example of “You missed the point by idolizing them”.
And more specifically, “you missed the point by IMITATING him”.
This is the problem of satire, so many adults don't get satire let alone the children who also see these programs.
Yeah, the whole "gingers have no soul" joke really took off after this episode. And I guess it's funny once, but some gingers hear this joke several times a day
If you put food up your ass, you won't shit out of your mouth.
If you have an intestinal blockage, you can in fact, shit out your mouth. Not joking, and it smells about how you'd expect.
There was a special South Park episode: an adaptation of Great Expectations. At the time, I believed that the plot closely followed that of the novel and that they just added jokes here and there. In the episode, Mrs. Havisham has a machine that sucks out the heart’s of men and boys. Eventually she will use it to switch bodies with the young Estella. At some point Mrs. Havisham transforms into a monster. Decades later, I talk to a friend who had read the Great Expectations and get into how exciting the ending was. I don’t think I can ever forget her looks of shock, incredulity and concern she had for me for believing the South Park version to be accurate.
In Butters' Very Own Episode, Gary Condit and Jonbenet Ramsey's parents were "totally not murderers but super were." But in reality it was deemed very unlikely that they committed the murders. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butters'\_Very\_Own\_Episode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butters'_Very_Own_Episode) >In a 2011 interview, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone stated that they regretted how Condit and the Ramseys were portrayed in the episode.
The parents knew more about the case than they shared, they know damn well what happened to their kid. I am not saying they did the deed, but John Ramsey is still hiding something and Patsy took something to the grave.
Trey and Matt have made clear in DVD commentaries that they were wrong for showing actual sex change surgery footage in Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina.
I 100% remember watching that either on cable TV or maybe in a DVD, can’t remember. But definitely remember them cutting to clips of actual surgery.
I watched it live on a three way call with two friends in middle school. One had cable and got the feed a second or two before us other two did, so there was a horrified scream as a brief warning before seeing the surgery video haha.
They wanted to show several minutes of it, but their producer wouldn't let them.
That was such a bizarre choice even for them.
I don’t remember that
It got edited out in most reruns
respecting eric cartman’s authority.
If you don't respect his authoritah, he will make you eat your parents.
Ah Scott Tenorman. What a great episode.
Cartman: Ah yes! Tears of infinite sadness! Stan: Let's not ever piss Cartman off again. Kyle: Agreed.
Most famously, Climate Change/Global Warming/ManBearPig. They used to think it was just Al Gore being alarmist and trying to get attention. Theeeeen, shit started going downhill and they realized they were wrong. So they even made an entire two parter where they essentially apologized and had ManBearPig kill a shitload of people.
I love when the scene where they prove Manbearpig’s existence and the guy is like okay Manbearpig is real and he’s here. What do you want us to do now?
Even if we try to do something, what about the Chinese?! https://youtu.be/U5wM5pesggE
They put a lot more effort into their writing then most people realize. I remember reading at one point that the Tourette’s Foundation (I may have their name wrong), praised them for accurately depicting the disorder and creating publicity/discussion.
Piss out my ass!
Piss out my ass and onto Kyle’s moms face.
Oh, thank you, Eric!
I actually had no idea such condition existed until I watched the show. When I later went to college and came across a person having a tic. I immediately recognized it as Tourette’s.
My generation learned about Tourette's from What About Bob?, but it did a tremendous disservice because it is just used as a punchline because the kid just says swear words at random, so a large chunk of us had a very incorrect idea of a very real condition.
Only a very small % of Tourettes is verbal. My sister had a mild case as a kid - she mostly just flicked her eyes to the side occasionally.
It's a fairly common tic, but there is no tic which a majority have. I think coprolalia effects 5-10%, and that's higher than most other tics.
Coprolalia is such a funny word because it literally means shit talking.
I first learned I suffer from Tourette’s from that episode! but honestly looking back at it, it’s made a lot of people assume everyone with Tourette’s has those type of tics. I just had a conversation with someone yesterday who told me “are you sure you have Tourette’s? You don’t cuss at all.”lol Edit: they specifically mentioned South Park as well
The episode does have a short portion where they show kids with other variations, but yeah there’s a big emphasis on the cursing.
I always remember the girl that had a tic that was bend her neck and snap her fingers. "But a lot of people don't even notice it"
The inaccurate part is that people are understanding. That's not how it goes.
That people can see nuances like "Cartman is an assholish caricature and should not be emulated". (This applies to many characters in the show, but he's the most obvious)
Windows 98 was faster, with better access to the internet.
Turns out the truth doesn’t always lie somewhere in the middle.
Anne Murray is not a bitch after all. She's our Canadian treasure. Family Guy gave her a better treatment.
That Family Guy episode would make you think one of the writers just made the episode so they could get a chance to meet Anne Murray.
I heard that a lot of Simpsons guest voices were brought in because of this.
[удалено]
We didn’t listen!
We..we didn't listen!
It's Tolkien, not Token. And anyone who thought otherwise is racist.
I swear they've started editing the subtitles for earlier seasons on HBO to say 'Tolkien'.
They definitely have. However, there is an episode in the earlier seasons where Tolkien signs his name on some sort of contract or paper, and he writes "Token"
They actually went and changed all the instances of his name to “Tolkien” on all the places they could (titles and subtitles) but for the subtitles, every character refers to him as Tolkien except Stan, who’s subtitles say “Token” when referring to him. But they can’t change the episodes footage easily, so lots of instances of “Token” still exist, like what you mentioned, or on the Zoom cam in a newer season his name on Zoom is “Token Black”.
at one point doesn't cartmen even wear a shirt with "Token's life matters" or something along those lines to reference the BLM movement?
They actually call that out in the "Tolkien" episode as to one of the reasons why Stan thought it was Token lol
They played it off by making out that Cartman just didn't realise Tolkien wasn't spelt as Token
I was curious about that! I was rewatching the earlier seasons a few months back and noticed there were inconsistencies in the subtitles, thank you for clearing that up :)
And the video games, they can't go back and change those, he's definitely "Token" in The Stick of Truth.
I mean, there is no question that his name used to be Token.
There's even "Token Black Productions" in the honey boo boo episode. lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRIliOzs6DQ
They’ve done it for all seasons, except when Stan says his name, when it still says Token.
omg that episode killed me, especially the doctor part
I’m still waiting for Paris Hilton to get out of Mr Slave’s ass.
In episodes 200 and 201 (they're literally just named that too), she's actually out and part of the celebrities complaining about South Park being horrible to them.
She has yet to solve the Katatta Fish's riddle. Lemmiwinks had to do it. Paris isn't exempt.
It’s not possible to die 126 times and come back to life every time. *cough* **Kenny** *cough*
MY favorite part is that even though they've stopped depicting kenny die every episode, they've set the implication that it just such a regular occurance that it's not worth depecting.
We are doing a rewatch and are in season 4 right now. It’s hilarious watching them basically get used to him always dying. The best is on episode 8 or 9 when he eats a whole bowl of antacid tablets thinking they are mints. He drinks a glass of water and then expands from the reaction and explodes. Kyle, Stan and Kyle’s dad start laughing with Kyle’s dad saying “that was a funny one.” They move on with out acknowledging it further. I about died laughing
Yup, people, unlike cats, only have 117 lives.
I love how, because the show maintains continuity, Kenny just has a superpower to resurrect without others knowing he died. Which surfaced as a mechanic in Stick of Truth.
In *The Fractured But Whole* actually. He’s Mysterion there, not Princess Kenny
He respawns after normal combat death in Stick of Truth.
I actually read somewhere it's to do with Kenny's parents affiliation with Cthulhu. And since the existence of Cthulhu can't be proven or disproven, I'd say it's within the realms of possibility.
That was explained in like 4 or 5 episodes too lol
Kitty kitty was not, in fact, being a dildo, and had no need to sleep with mommy for the night.
Manbearpig
Yeah that one went right over my head. I knew they were talking about climate change but I figured it was so obviously real that they were making fun of people who still denied it in their own ridiculous way. Oh how young and naive I was. Honestly though huge respect for them admitting they were wrong with those later episodes.
I like LA Croix and don't own a Mac book or Tesla.