South Park “201” Review

This week’s South Park episode, titled “201” (Sorry, I can’t put a link to the episode because the creators didn’t post it because of the bleeps Comedy Central made in the episode), is the continuation of the episode titled “200.” In this episode, the Super Best Friends team up to fight the newly rebuilt Mecha-Streisand, who has been sent by the celebrities to force South Park to give them Muhammad. Meanwhile, Cartman attempts to uncover the mystery of who his father is, but is captured by the Ginger Separatist Movement.



I liked some things about this episode and I didn’t like a lot of things about the episode. The main thing I didn’t like about this episode was all the censorship they did in the episode. It would be one thing if they censored it for the episode, but it was really in response to the warnings made against Matt Stone and Trey Parker by Revolution Muslim . I really got annoyed when they censored the entire speech at the end which was about fear and intimidation and it didn’t even feature the word Muhammad. It was kind of ironic that they censored the speech about fear and intimidation because of fear and intimidation. The parts of the episode I did like was the parts about who Cartman’s father is and the return of Scott Tenorman.

That does it for me for this week, see you next week.

Top Cartman Moments

Hello, this week I am going to discuss my top Cartman moments.  This was extremely hard to do because there are so many great Cartman moments.  But, I was able to widdle it down to four great moments.  Just like last week, I encourage any of you reading this to post your own top Cartman moments and tell me what you thought of my list.  Without further ado, here's my picks:

5.  Cartman and the ginger kids in "Ginger Kids." 

In this episode, Cartman gives a presentation about how ginger kids are disgusting, inhuman, dumb, have no souls, and are unable to survive in sunlight. This scene is very funny and the fact that the class actually believes Cartman and begins to treat ginger kids like outcasts makes it even funnier. To make it even better, Kyle, Stan, and Kenny decide to sneak into Cartman's house and turn him into what he hates, a ginger kid. Now a ginger kid, Cartman gets all the ginger kids together and convinces them that gingers are the master race and they need to get rid of all non-gingers. This all culminates in a hilarious scene where Cartman is ready to throw all non-gingers into a pit of lava until he is told by Kyle that he is not really ginger. At this point, Cartman flips his stance and says that everyone needs to get along.

3.  Cartman pretends to have Tourette's syndrome in "Le Petit Tourette." 

After learning what exactly Tourette's syndrome is Cartman starts to act like he has it so that he can say whatever he wants to whoever he wants. His thinking of Tourette's as a "golden ticket" that should be exploited is so wrong but so funny. He goes around swearing at people and saying whatever pops into his head. He later reveals to Kyle that he plans to go on Dateline NBC and give an antisemetic hate speech. Fortunately, at this point Cartman begins to actually be unable to control what he says and he begins to blurt out embarassing things. How his plan begins to backfire on him is hilarious.

2.  Cartman in the Special Olympics in "Up the Down Steroid."

After Cartman finds out that their is a $1,000 prize for the winner of the Special Olympics, Cartman decides that he will fake being disabled and win. The montage that follows of him researching being disabled, including practicing what face to make and wearing a bicycle helmet, is just brilliant in its politically incorrectness. Luckily, the episode does not result in Cartman winning the $1,000 prize. Due to him being extremely out-of-shape and overweight, he is unable to win a single event and wins the spirit award for coming in last place. At the end, when it is discovered that he is not disabled he tries to say that he was pretending to be disabled in order to teach Jimmy a lesson about using steroids.

1.   Cartman feeding Scott Tenerman his parents in "Scott Tenorman Must Die."

As you learned last week, this is my favorite South Park episode and the number one Cartman moment is a big reason for that. This episode showed how truly sick and twisted Cartman is and how far he will go to get what he wants. From his revelation to Scott Tenerman that he is eating his parents, to Radiohead mocking Scott, to Cartman lick the tears off of Scott's face, it is all comedy gold. Stan and Kyle sum it up perfectly when they say they should never piss off Cartman again.