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.

South Park “200” Review

Well, it was a trip done memory lane on this week’s episode of South Park titled “200.” This week saw the return of such celebrity characters as: Tom Cruise, Bono, Mel Gibson, Paris Hilton, Mickey Mouse, and Stephen Spielberg. In the episode, all the celebrities who have been mocked by South Park residents in the past plan to file a class action lawsuit against the town. Tom Cruise promises to end the lawsuit if the town can produce the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

The episode itself was pretty good, although it was probably one of my least favorite of this young season. It was a lot of fun seeing all the characters from the past come back. It was also funny when they kind of made fun of themselves with the joke about rehashing material from the past. All the ways that they were trying to make sure they didn’t show Muhammad was really funny, especially Muhammad in the bear costume. I’m glad that they acknowledged that they actually have shown an image of Muhammad in the episode “Super Best Friends.” I’m psyched to see the return of Mecha-Streisand.

Well, that will do it for me this week, see you next week for the second part of the episode.

South Park “You Have 0 Friends” Review

In my opinion, this season of South Park has been tremendous, I’ve read some reviews of some of the episodes that weren’t very good, but I completely disagree with them. The streak of great episodes continued this week with “You Have 0 Friends,” which maybe the best episode of the season so far. The main focus of the episode was on something that I particularly dislike, Facebook. In the episode, Kenny, Kyle, and Cartman make Stan a Facebook profile against his will and he becomes embroiled and frustrated with everyone asking him for friend requests. In addition to parodying Facebook, they also parodied CNBC’s Mad Money and Chatroulette and Tron.

Some of the best parts of the episode included: the skewering of older people who get on Facebook, the lonely kid Kip Drordy who had 0 friends, Cartman’s Mad Money show, Mad Friends, and Chatroullette, which is just a bunch of guys masturbating. The parts when Stan’s dad gets angry that he didn’t make him a friend or make his grandmother friend on Facebook is so hilarious. Also, the parts with Kip Drordy were both hilarious and so depressing at the same time. It was good to see the episode have a happy ending, it was a nice change.

That’s it for this week, check back here next week as South Park has its 200^th episode.

South Park “Medicinal Fried Chicken” Review

Hello again for my review of this week’s episode of South Park titled “Medicinal Fried Chicken.”  This week I’m going to try a new type of review and see how it turns out.  Anyway, in the episode, the KFC in South Park is replaced by a medical marijuana store after medical marijuana is legalized in Colorado.  After finding out that the marijuana is only available to those who have a medical need, Randy tries hard to contract cancer in order to gain a doctor’s referral so that he can buy medical marijuana.  Overall it was a great episode which included a parody of Scarface.

Some of the best moments include:

·         Randy in the backyard smoking and tanning while having x-rays performed on him.

·         Randy and the other guys with testicular cancer bouncing around on their gigantic testicles.

·         The scenes with Colonel Sanders including the hanging of the spy for Jamie Oliver.

·         The joke about the Pope crushing the dreams of all those deaf boys.

·         The decision that KFC is preventing the town from getting testicular cancer.

·         The scrotum skin coat given to Sharon

        That'll do it for me for this week, see you next week for my review of next weeks episode.

South Park “The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs” Review

After failing to see the outrageousness of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the boys set out to write the most profane book they can in “The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs.”

The episode satirized the over analysis of pop culture, finding hidden messages in works that contain none. The episode also mocks the idea that books alone cause people to commit violent crimes, Sarah Jessica Parker, and the Kardashians. The mocking of over analysis was great and it often annoys me what some critics find in these works.

The throwing up throughout the episode made me laugh out loud several times throughout the episode but it started to get a little old towards the end. Butters as usual was hilarious, including him wanting to kill John Lennon and Ronald Regan, only to find out that they are both already dead. The mocking of Sarah Jessica Parker was great, especially when the boys brought her out to the forest wearing antlers trying to get her killed. Murder of the Kardashian family by a crazed reader of Butters new book was amazing.

Overall it was a great episode with many laugh out loud moments. That will finish it for me this week, see you next week for my review of next week’s episode.

South Park “Sexual Healing” Review

Well it’s finally here, South Park has returned for its 14^th season.  In this season opener, the Tiger Woods scandal causes the media and the public to search for answers as to why rich and famous men want to have sex with multiple people.  It is determined that the reason for this is that these men are sex addicts and after a test is developed to spot the addiction, Kyle, Kenny, and Butters are judged to be sex addicts.  The episode, titled “Sexual Healing," lampoons several aspects of the Tiger Woods Scandal, the media’s apparent obsession with these types of scandals, and of the idea of sex addiction being taken seriously. 

I loved the episode and several scenes made me laugh-out loud.  A particularly funny part of the episode was the new edition of Tiger Woods PGA Tour is not a golf game but a Mortal Kombat like game where Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren, fight.

Another laugh-out loud moment was the death of Kenny, who accidently died while trying autoerotic asphyxiation  in a Batman costume.  Another great moment was when they were doing experiments on monkeys in order to find the cause of the sex addiction.  In the scene, the scientists dump a bucket load of cash on a monkey, who then begins to go around and hump the other monkeys, until he is caught by his monkey wife and made a pariah by the rest of the monkeys.  The ending is hilarious when Stan and Butters fighting the alien wizard, who is really just a right thinking SWAT officer that was tied up and made to wear a giant mask, who the men say is the cause of the addiction and Stan shoots the SWAT officer several times.  The only thing I didn’t really like about the episode was the part where the SWAT officer tells everybody that there is no sex addiction and that wanting to have sex with multiple people is a normal part of being a male.  I didn’t like this part because the moral of the story part is always done by one of the four main characters, usually Kyle, and to have a random character we hadn’t seen till this point do it just felt weird.

       Well that will do it for me for this week, see you next week for my review of the next episode.

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.

Top Five South Park Episodes

After 13 seasons and 195 episodes, South Park has had countless classics. In this post, I have narrowed it down to what are my five favorite episodes of the entire series. This was a difficult task and I'm sure many of you will disagree with my picks but here they are:

5.  Red Hot Catholic Love

This episode revolves around the controversial topic of child molestation by priests. The South Park priest, Father Maxi, travels to the Vatican to try to solve the problem and people start to poop out of their mouth. There are several classic moments in this episode including: anytime people poop out of their mouth, Father Maxi at the Vatican, the Gelgameks, and the Queen Spider.  This episode featured the classic satire that South Park is known for.

4.  Woodland Critter Christmas

Stan agrees to help a group of adorable woodland critters build a manger in anticipation of the birth of their lord and savior, only to find it is the antichrist. I love this episode for so many reasons. The lion cubs learning to perform abortions is hilarious and the corny names of the critters, like Beary the bear, are funny small aditions. Also, the twist that these cute woodland critters are actually followers of satan is hilarious.

3.  Night of the Living Homeless

The homeless come to South Park in this "Dawn of the Dead" parody. The episodes hilarious parodies of countless zombie films makes this episode an instant classic. Some of my favorite moments are: the suicide attempt by the homeless expert, Cartman jumping the homeless, and when the boys lead the homeless to the California by singing a modified version of "California Love."

2.  Miss Teacher Bangs A Boy

In this episode, Cartman is appointed hall monitor and Kyle finds out that his little brother is sleeping with his Kindergarten teacher. Cartman acting like Dog the Bounty Hunter is the highlight of the episode, especially when he assembles his team to find Ike. Just seeing Beth, or Dawg's Bitch, with breasts so large you can only see above her forehead, makes me crack up every time. Also, it's great when Kyle tries to turn the kindergarten teacher into the police only to have the police respond to the complaint with "Nice!"

1.  Scott Tenorman Must Die

After being tricked into buying Scott Tenorman's pubic hairs, Cartman sets off on a quest of revenge, resulting in one of the darkest and funniest episodes of all time. Each plot for revenge Cartman comes up with is worse than the last, ending with cartman feeding Scott his parents at the Chili Con Carnival cookoff. The end when Cartman reveals his plot to everyone at the cookoff is the funniest moment of the entire series, and the part when Cartman is licking the tears off of Scott's face is icing on the cake.  

Well, that's my list of top five South Park episodes. For anyone reading this article, I encourage you to post your own list, crap all over my list, or praise it. See you next week with my top Cartman Moments.

My Introductory Post

Hello everyone, or anyone, out there reading this article, my name is Mark Sonnenberg. Over the next few months I will be writing articles on this blog about one of my favorite TV shows of all time, South Park. For 13 seasons, South Park has been the number one source of cutting-edge satire. Each week I will post a new article talking about South Park. Season 14 does not begin until March 17, 2010, so in the weeks leading to the premier, I will discuss topics such as the top South Park episodes, top Cartmen moments, general South Park news that interests me, etc. Once the season starts, I will post a review and recap of each week's new episode. That's all for this week, next week I will discuss the top South Park episodes of all time.