Oh my god, they stopped killing South Park!
In a rather lackluster season of South Park, which has so far included Britney Spears attempting suicide and a half hour about HIV, we have finally come back to the quality we've come to expect.
Tonight's episode was a not-particularly-disguised dig at the WGA strike. In a nutshell, Canada decides to go on strike until they are respected again and get more money. Where are they going to get said money? From the Internet, of course. And the head of the strike works for the WGA: the World Canadian Bureau.
Meanwhile, Kyle and the gang try to end the strike as fast as possible so they can get new episodes of "Terrance and Phillip" and so Kyle's brother Ike (a Canadian) can eat. Their solution: Make a web video that becomes a huge Internet sensation and they can collect money.
What follows is a meeting of all the viral video sensations coming together in the same room: Chris Crocker, "Chocolate Rain", Numa Numa guy, and more. They're all trying to collect their earnings, in denominations of "theoretical dollars."
To cut to the chase, they boys all get 10 million theoretical dollars which they bring back to Canada in hopes of ending the strike. But the head of the WGA needs something real to give back to the Canadians who are getting restless. He doesn't ask for much, just something. Kyle manages to get the countries of the world to give Canada free bubblegum for life and coupons to Bennigans. The head of the WGA celebrates his victory, and quotes directly from the REAL WGA's press release: "We didn't get everything we asked for, but we bargained hard and we won!"
And the lesson? Kyle summarizes what every industry person was thinking: Why give up real money on the assumption of Internet revenue? And operating on that feeling, the Canadians set the head of the WGA adrift on an ice floe after realizing that the monetary loss exceeded the monetary gain.
I was thrilled to see that South Park has managed to get back on track after wandering into...horrible territory previously. If you haven't watched the episode yet, go to southparkstudios.com and see it. It's completely worth the time.
Comments
coolboarder26 04/03/08
South Park has already been alive and kicking this season. With that said, I admit that the Britney Spears' episode was taken to the extreme. However, in the age of tabloids we live in, South Park exploited people's stupidity beautifully.
This episode returned to mocking the foolish events that go on in the U.S. (The battle between all of the famous internet sensations was genius!) that people cannot get enough of. The best part of that episode, that proved South park was back on track, was that they were able to rip on both sides of the issue, vintage SP!
t3hdow 04/03/08
I didn't see the Spears one, but I thought the AIDS episode had a funny, yet depressingly true metaphor on its possible cure. When Cartman and Stan find out that piles of money is the cure after injected into your bloodstream, a man drives into Africa, tells them how to get rid of AIDS and leaves. Basically, that's Stone and Parker's sly way of saying that even if the US finds a cure to the disease, Africa's still screwed because of major underfunding. Ingenious.
I didn't really care about the cat piss one, despite the funny references to the Holocaust and the N.Y. Governor's recent fall from glory.
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