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Pandemic 2: The Startling!! Wednesday's SOUTH PARK 2.11!!
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THE PANDEMIC CONTINUES…
IN AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF “SOUTH PARK” ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 AT 10:00 P.M.* ON COMEDY CENTRAL
NEW YORK, October 27, 2008 –- Giant guinea pigs are attacking cities all over the world in the exciting conclusion of an all-new, two-part episode of “South Park” titled, “Pandemic 2 – The Startling” premiering on Wednesday, October 29 at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on Comedy Central.
This week, the boys are lost in the Andes Mountains where they discover the startling secret behind the attack of the giant guinea pigs. The boys now have the power to rescue their town and the rest of the world from the onslaught but the Head of Homeland Security stands firmly in their way. Meanwhile, Randy bravely documents the destruction while trying to save his family.
The season so far:
12.1 Cartman gives Kyle AIDS.
12.2 The boys learn why Britney Spears is so popular.
12.3 Cats transport Kenny and Gerald into “Heavy Metal.”
12.4 The Canadians go on strike.
12.5 Mrs. Garrison clones a new wiener.
12.6 Randy heads to California in search of Internet.
12.7 Escaping thieves take hostages at Pioneer Village.
12.8 The gang mourns the violation of Indiana Jones.
12.9 Wendy Testaburger schools Eric Cartman.
12.10 Craig hold the key to preventing a furry apocalypse.
10 p.m. Wednesday. Comedy Central.
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IN AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF “SOUTH PARK” ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 AT 10:00 P.M.* ON COMEDY CENTRAL
NEW YORK, October 27, 2008 –- Giant guinea pigs are attacking cities all over the world in the exciting conclusion of an all-new, two-part episode of “South Park” titled, “Pandemic 2 – The Startling” premiering on Wednesday, October 29 at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on Comedy Central.
This week, the boys are lost in the Andes Mountains where they discover the startling secret behind the attack of the giant guinea pigs. The boys now have the power to rescue their town and the rest of the world from the onslaught but the Head of Homeland Security stands firmly in their way. Meanwhile, Randy bravely documents the destruction while trying to save his family.
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This would have worked better as a single episode... it's a strange one and a little drawn out.
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is the new first.
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Mat and Tre might not have any standards as far as self censorship goes (that's why SP is so cutting and funny) but they do have restraint when it comes to thinking that their own political endorsement is so sacrosanct that they have to compromise their art and subvert it to serve their political egos.
Maybe there will be time for an election special before the polls close but i doubt it would be anything but gold satire of the hyperbole that we are seeing in the media regarding the prophet Obama.
I don't think Obama is such a bad guy, not my party (not that im a rabit republican or anything) but i wouldn't mind Obama as president. He seems like a basically decent person.
However the American media from newspapers and magazines to individual celebs to tv shows have totaly embarassed themselves with their shamelessly ignorant promotion of Obama as a some kind of kennediesque, Messiah. The truth is he is basically a blank page. An average candidate and an average Senator until now. Nothing wrong with that really but Bush is so unpoppular and has horrified people so much that they are strongly projecting wishful thinking onto Obama.
I'm not saying he won't be a decent President. I guess he will be ok but people have to stop fantasising and worse than that, the media knows he's just an average, if decent, guy but they are the ones cynically creating this silly Obama as savoir myth.
Good luck to him. If he's elected then I'm sure he'll be a fine president but i can't stomache this wave of sicophancy in the media.
Anyway, a good topic for a SP episode i think. -
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The thing is, I think McCain signed his own death warrant when he brought Palin in. I seriously doubt it was his idea by the way and if that's the case, so much for standing up to your own party.
I'm no fan of Obama by the way and I'm an outsider, I have no vote. So my opinion is just that. At this point, I think it's Obama's to lose and the Republican campaign reeks of desperation. The only chance McCain has is the racist vote...that's what it will come down to...deep down, will the American people elect a black President? You look at recent McCain and Palin rallies where you hear cries of "terrorist" and people saying they fear having a black President and it makes you wonder.
I'm an optimist however and I believe that the majority are not racist...but by that token the last think the US needs is to elect a candidate just to prove that they aren't racist. The winner should be elected based on the strength of their argument, not the color of their skin or the fact that they were a POW, which has absolutely no bearing on what makes a good President by the way. -
I went over to Amazon and bought the damned thing with 4 Warner Bros. blu rays and got another 100 off. 189 bucks for all of it. Thanks aintitcool. And in related news, South Park is awesome
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This is still the best explanation I've ever heard those things popping up everywhere. I have never seen anyone actually buy their CDs.
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It was to weak a comment but it fitted.
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"... you're always going off on some stupid plan and you always end up in a foreign country, or outer space or something."-CraigBest meta-line in the show's history.
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So craig will be the hero in this two parter. Ok, I'm there. and Randy is just too funny in this. But the best part of last weeks show was when they explained why Kyle didn't wanna go to Peru was because he had a friend who was raped there. LOL So I can't wait for tonight.
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much like Family Guy,it's getting rather stale.
IMHO,the last good SP episode was the one with all the homeless invading town,and they moan,"change?"
one of the better zombie spoofs I've seen in awhile. -
Gotta see this one...dang there was a part 1 to this???
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even though it seems to be an episode most people hated..i actually loved it and the guinea pigs running and andy out of breath and saying "i am so startled" was hillariousi'm not a big fan or 2 or 3 parters only cause we get 7 episodes per half season so to spend 2 episodes on the same story feels like a cheat (its a long wait till march when the new season starts)i wish matt and trey would do at least one more episode a half season, bring the total up to 16 a year..oh well
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C'est bon. Bleh.
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David Tennant is leaving the show. But where is it.
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He's leaving? Damn...I liked him as The Doctor. I assume he's doing the XMas specials/TV movies, and won't be back for the regular series?
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Sorry for hijacking your TB, South Park people.
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You're absolutely right. He's doing four 2009 specials and then regenerating into.... hopefully someone just as good.
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...because I'm been bitching to my wife for years about how there seemed to be one Peruvian String Band that followed us to every street fair or tourist site we ever visited. Beyond that, it's pretty much just a rehash of two or three other "South Parks," that parody disaster flicks, including the far superior "Die Hippie Die" and, of course, "Imaginationland."
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For a minute I thought you were telling us that the DID do an Obama episode.
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Outside US people actually like these bands - and that's because they actually like the music, not because it's something "cultural" or whatever. Not everybody is a metal fan. But if you don't like them that's ok - I'm sure the music you're listening to sounds like crap to me too.
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and nobody liked them then either.
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Damn Funny
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with Craig's starting and ending narration? It reminds of something but I don't know what.
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ok, that one was ape shit weird. lol
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Yeah, what a douche.
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remember spaceman craig?
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Craig's deadpan handling of the situation(s) was way funny. It was Southpark making fun of itself through Craig.
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Oct 30, 2008 7:35:25 AM CDT
How Many Jokes This Week? One? I Bet Cartman Said Something In
by laserpants
Zzz.
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And I'm one of the biggest South Park supporters out there. Completely boring.
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Although there were episodes that I've hated more, due to their preachiness, these were easily the least funny South Park episodes I've ever seen. Boring is right. The fact that they thought it so good as to make it a two-parter disturbs me.
Also, I don't think I've ever seen a Peruvian flute band and I live right near the real South Park. Must be a California thing. -
Hence all the meta-criticism via Craig.
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This episode was wrong in so many ways but proves that you can not take it serious because it is a tv show. and they do lots of drugs
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"This show is so fucking lame! These guys don't have any talent anymore! They should just fucking give up already....... So I'll be back next week so I can continue bitching about a show I shouldn't even be watching since it's not any good anymore but I keep on watching because my life is worthless if I'm not being an egotistical fucktard on the internet! See y'all next week! Skittles!" Fucking. Hopeless. Why not try doing something constructive with your lives? Like creating art instead of taking the piss out of other's work? Just a thought.
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...were one of the funniest gags in the shows history. When the head of Homeland Security turned into a Pirate Guinea Pig, I totally lost it. When he escapes prison in the prisoner outfit, forget it. These episodes ruled.
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Oct 30, 2008 12:09:04 PM CDT
The guinea pigs were not the story, but the vehicle
by shut the fuck up donny
I think it was a way to get Trey and Matt to just address, or at least poke fun of, the criticisms of the show in it's later seasons. In particular is how some people think some of the episodes are absolutely absurd and are absurd just to raise a laugh; Well, we got probably the most absurd "WTF" episode that comes to my mind in recent history (guinea pigs; alien/guinea pig guys in the DHS?!); And it wasn't funny. Proving that randomness and "WTF" moments in itself don't make the humor. Hell, this again may be a jab at Family Guy, but now I'm getting WAY out there.
Craig's meta humor may be making a point how people were getting sick of topical/preachy humor and how the show wasn't adhereing to its roots of focusing on the four kids as much as it used to. Well, here's ANOTHER adventure with those four guys, and they're ending up in another ridiculous situation that's in another country (or in space). Maybe that particular story combo, in the writer's minds, is a bit played out. Which is maybe why secondary characters and more topical humor are being addressed more frequently in the later episodes.
These are just examples, and I might be on the verge of a nutwing PhD thesis with this, but I've found that Trey and Matt are a little smarter then we sometimes give them credit to be. -
Actually the guinea pigs were hilarious, and when they started dressing those little guys up it was even better.
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came to me this morning...just popped in my head.
Craig is the everyday citizen that goes with what happens, doesn't look to change or affect things. His musings during their adventure of "you go into the scary cave and look where others don't",you should just leave things to be as they are etc...where matt and trey's way of representing those that don't vote,since they think that their vote in the grand scheme of things won't matter all that much.
The boys represent those that question or at least when faced with something go ahead and check it out, look to see what is going one etc....the active voter.
the guinea pigs represent two things...one, they represent a funny take on "the cloverfield monster"...the other thing they represent is laws, acts, campaigns that our govt carries out that could go awry if there isn't a system of checks and balances to keep things sane (the panflute bands).
When Craig, who feels that the boys are assholes for not leaving things alone and look for trouble becomes the sole factor that can stop the guinea pigs, he realizes that even one person who doesn't have any kind of "power", can be more effective than they ever thought they could be. He realizes or starts to wonder about this when he sees the painting on the cave wall.
Trey and Matt must just love having this "stage" to voice all their opinions, ideas and such on everything that goes on in the world.
kudos to the them!
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I fell asleep during the commercial break after they saw Craig on the wall. I loved the Guinea pigs (and guinea bees!, etc). Looked like some ridiculous shit I would make. Also loved the part where we get the view of Randy being all retarded with the camera, running back and forth to make it extra shakey and get closeups of peoples faces.
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Nice wrap up.
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It was just so fucking silly. The two parter was I think just to highlight this even further.
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...These were good episodes. I thought they were a scream - something about the weird live action guinea pigs mixed into the cartoon was just funny. But if you didn't like the guinea pigs, I can see how you would think these episodes sucked. Because without that joke, that leaves only the Craig deadpan joke and Randy being used to make fun of Cloverfield. Which was funny, but not two-parter funny.
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and it seems like it should of ended on part 2, its like they just continued it for the hell of it after the success of imagination land, hopefully they will make it worthwhile with the next episode. Trey said on the 11th season commentary that he liked doing the trilogy because it challenges him as a writer, i think he fucked this episode up. It seemed like they were just filling time rather then exploring the idea that they had come up with.
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I just splurged and got the player with 4 blu rays for 187 dollars...fuck yes.
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I bet he did. He's not fat he's big boned. Ha... ha... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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Oct 31, 2008 8:16:46 AM CDT
It was unfair for me to say the episode was unfunny
by shut the fuck up donny
as I laughed every time the guinea pigs popped up--especially the pirate one.
But I just didn't get the belly laughs from the episode that I associate with the ones I'll watch repeatedly. I probably just hold the show to an unreasonably high standard every week. -
Can't believe nobody has mentioned this was basically a slam on Cloverfield. That movie deserved a parody a long time ago- it was a waste of perfectly good celluloid.
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how ya like those STRETCH pants?
seriously, that was the worst 2-parter in the shows history and maybe one of the worst episodes period. I think I cracked a smile at the guinea pig footage, but didn't even come near laughing once. -
but I will still watch every future South Park, because they cause me to laugh out loud more times then not.
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Anything stays on the air long enough and it's going to become stale. The Simpsons stopped being truly funny several seasons ago. Family Guy lost a lot of its (limited) humor once Fox brought it back and seemingly let the writers get away with whatever the wanted, because this made them lazy and they could just write something shocking or offensive instead of clever or witty. South Park has been going for how many seasons now? I'm sure even Matt and Trey don't know what to do with the show anymore, except when there's something in the news or pop culture that simply begs to be parodied, and thus things just keep getting more bizarre and absurd. There are still some good moments in all those shows, but the they've mostly become increasingly less and less funny as a whole, with fewer laughs per episode and fewer great episodes per season. In my opinion, South Park and The Simpsons should have gone off the air once the series were in decline, and the creators could have put out a movie either once a year or every other year, pooling all their best ideas, gags, and jokes for one truly memorable experience rather than a season of mostly filler. (And Family Guy should have just stayed dead, since Seth MacFarlane is clearly not interested in the show anymore and just wants to push his other projects, which aren't half as funny as Family Guy used to be.)
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Craig's whining felt especially tired because they've already done episodes where the 4 lead boys have been disinterested participants in a ridiculous storyline... The Aspen vacation episode, The original Towelee episode ("We don't care, we just want our video game back"), Stan as the Pee Wee Hockey coach... The Guinea pigs were great but this 2-parter shat.
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I was guffawing at the guinea bees. Fucking GUFFAWING so much I spit out the pizza I was eating and alsmost choked.
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You know what? This episode reeked of no idea what to do, just filler, no real jokes or storyline, not even good at completing what they set out on in the first place. They just took the lesser, flat elements of the previous episode and spun them for 22 mins. Hell, I would have been more impressed with SP if they hadn't bothered to finish this storyline, if Pandemic had ended on the exact note it did and the next week life was back to normal, nobody talked about it, maybe 1 character could call them on it and they'd brush it off. THAT would have been funny. Going back to those times when SP could kill Kenny every week, when everything was for THAT story instead of creating an overarching universe. SP needs to take itself even less seriously, figure out what it wants to do now, and do it. Oh, and dial back Cartman in general, this episode showed Cartman not pulling that shit and it displayed him as one of the gang, someone they may not like but they actually would hang out with because he completes their dynamic. In any event, it does seem like this half-season of SP has picked up a bit, but this episode is definitely the weak point.
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I always defend South Park from the haters and firmly believe it's the best show on TV. All that being said, the last two episodes were not funny at all.
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This was total WTF. I guess they really are running out of ideas, even though the first two eps of the run were solid.
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