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Revenge is a dish best served... "chili."
Apr. 23rd, 2010 12:14 pmAfter all these years of highs and lows, I still love SOUTH PARK. It's hard to find others who do. At least other who like it the same way I do. Some people did love it, but feel it's past its prime, ala THE SIMPSONS. Some people have strange preferences for what they consider funnier, which makes sense considering the amount of high and low humor the show balances.
Many people hate the show for its crudeness, others find it unfunny as satire... most bizarrely, there are a lot of people who think it's too preachy. As if the "I learned something today" speeches at the end of each episode are completely without even a trace of irony themselves! I don't always agree with Parker and Stone's libertarian politics, but I can usually still laugh.*
'Course, they've been in the news lately due to the MuBLEEPad debacle over their recent two-part episode. The shows themselves were fun, but fell short of their finer hours, possibly because Comedy Central reportedly censored huge chunks of dialogue without SP Studios' permission.
Honestly, even when we do hear those uncensored speeches down the line, I doubt they'll drastically improve the episode. It was fine, fun purely for long-time viewers like me. And many of those moments made me cackle most heartily.
But none more so than the moment they brought back Scott Tenorman. Let's face it, there was really no reason to do a follow-up to Cartman's finest (and most horrifying) hour, an episode beloved by everyone, even geeks like me who weren't giddy at the TITUS ANDRONICUS reference. Really, in terms of sheer I-can't-believe-they're-referencing-this-who-else-would-get-it value, I never imagined they could have topped themselves.
And then they introduced Scott like this:
Look familiar?
Right down to the garish (and superior) original coloring by John Higgins. As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
surrealname put it with his reaction: "OH MY GOD! Dude! DUDE! It's like God is rubbing my tummy!"
*Al Gore and ManBearPig, for example. It was shitty satire, but the quotable absurdity won through, I'm super-cereal.
Many people hate the show for its crudeness, others find it unfunny as satire... most bizarrely, there are a lot of people who think it's too preachy. As if the "I learned something today" speeches at the end of each episode are completely without even a trace of irony themselves! I don't always agree with Parker and Stone's libertarian politics, but I can usually still laugh.*
'Course, they've been in the news lately due to the MuBLEEPad debacle over their recent two-part episode. The shows themselves were fun, but fell short of their finer hours, possibly because Comedy Central reportedly censored huge chunks of dialogue without SP Studios' permission.
Honestly, even when we do hear those uncensored speeches down the line, I doubt they'll drastically improve the episode. It was fine, fun purely for long-time viewers like me. And many of those moments made me cackle most heartily.
But none more so than the moment they brought back Scott Tenorman. Let's face it, there was really no reason to do a follow-up to Cartman's finest (and most horrifying) hour, an episode beloved by everyone, even geeks like me who weren't giddy at the TITUS ANDRONICUS reference. Really, in terms of sheer I-can't-believe-they're-referencing-this-who-else-would-get-it value, I never imagined they could have topped themselves.
And then they introduced Scott like this:
Look familiar?
Right down to the garish (and superior) original coloring by John Higgins. As
surrealname put it with his reaction: "OH MY GOD! Dude! DUDE! It's like God is rubbing my tummy!"*Al Gore and ManBearPig, for example. It was shitty satire, but the quotable absurdity won through, I'm super-cereal.
