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The Election Results are in
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NEW YORK, November 3, 2008 – A new President has been elected and the citizens of South Park are partying in the streets in an all-new episode of “South Park” titled, “About Last Night...” premiering on Wednesday, November 5 at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on COMEDY CENTRAL.
While the country celebrates, the President-elect catches everyone off guard when he arrives at the White House prematurely. From the Oval Office, the new Commander-In-Chief assembles his team and prepares for the job ahead.
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 The boys form a Peruvian pan-flute band.
12.11 Craig proves the key to preventing a furry apocalypse.
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and i voted for Obama.
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I agree. I've enjoyed South Park this season, but it's missing the bite that usually elevates it. I enjoy a good guinea pig joke as much as everyone--and I was laughing pretty hard at the utter stupidity of last week's pigs-in-costumes. But in an election season as contentious as this and with the economy in turmoil, South Park has been strangely quiet. Let's hope tonight they go for the jugular. I'm an Obama supporter, but I'd love to see them go for him...it has been strangely lacking.
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Minus the Indiana Jones rape scenes.
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are usually crappy, hopefully there wont be any guinea pigs or manbearpigs or anything silly in this one..
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CAN'T F'N WAIT!
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I can't fucking stand that show. It is seriously the most self-important garbage on television. They had the balls to make fun of Family Guy. Why, because Family Guy is irreverent and doesn't feel the need to felate the Daily Show-watching Onion-reading pretentious crowd? Let me say, I am an Obama-voting, tax-and-spend liberal, and I hate, hate, hate South Park and everything that those arrogant bastards stand for.
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Certainly nothing as funny as Over Logging this year.
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But yeah it clearly hasn't been one of the better seasons so far.
TBH they don't usually tackle real Politics much and seem far more comfortable with social and cultural satire. I certainly can't remember THAT much about Bush for example. Still, could be good I suppose. -
South Park may be kind of weak nowadays, but "not very funny" is still way better than "not funny" or in Family Guy's case "completely unfunny."
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as hilarious as this show can be, they are usually at the top of their game when they are skewering politics. I hope they don't drop he ball. Oh, and uh, yeah, Family Guy is as preachy as, if not more than, South Park with its ridiculously ham-fisted political jokes. Republicans are STUPID! ahhahahahahahahahaha!
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Including me taking a very satisfying dump.
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It has seriously run it's course.
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They attacked Family Guy because the show has just become non sequitor references that have become lazy writing because there are no plots. They were upset with Family Guy because they make easy jokes rather than developing a story. They were pretty clear about that, and I couldn't agree more. I may laugh at Family Guy and think it's "funny", but I under no circumstances think the show is well written. That's the difference. Can't wait to see what they do tonight. And come on, Cartman, out of nowhere just coughing up underwear is a pretty ridiculous image this season.
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YOU DIDN"T LIKE MANBEARPIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????!!!!111
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either didn't see the Imagination Land trilogy last year or is too stupid to be considered human. It must be hard for you to put spaces in between your words while typing because we both know you don't have an opposable thumb. Congrats on being a complete moron and enjoy hunting and pecking.
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Cartman shitting on the desk was so funny i almost fell out of my chair
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They say what they think. That's patriotic. I love this show.
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it's had its fair share of awesome, too. Heavy Metal titties, the American Tail tribute, Canadian strike song, Randy trying to whack off to doodle porn, the pioneer village, Guniea bees... the absolute best had to be using Cartman as a metaphor for cancer. Absolutely terrific. What's the best Family Guy did? A Nazi wearing a McCain/Palin pin? Yeah, that's smart writing.
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Isn't patriotic, any more than keeping your thoughts to yourself is unpatriotic. There is no correlation, at all, between loving your own voice and loving your country.
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It's exercising your freedom of speech which is patriotic. Patriotism is the love of your country. Using what your country has fought to give you is showing love. So... you're wrong. No two ways about it.
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... you don't say what you mean doesn't make you unpatriotic either. It's just doing nothing which goes neither way. I personally think it's cowardice.
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When they did the 9/11 ep. and Stan used the phrase, "if you aren't gonna root for the home team, then get the hell out of the stadium." Now that Obama is in and all.
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I still think Giant Douche vs Turd Sandwich was one of the greatest, and most accurate political commentaries of our time.
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Can't believe he still won. This country is dooomed!
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I'm not talking about regular people but the people who are bawling with joy right now...you know pretty much everyone who emulates Keith Olberman and Chris Matthews. Now these are people ripe for ridicule.
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If a 'freedom' to do something means you HAVE to do something or else you're in the wrong, then it's not a freedom at all.
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Nov 05, 2008 8:06:57 PM CST
People who read The Onion and watch The Daily Show are pretentio
by johnny smith
I'm sorry, but...wow.
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If you don't, you're lame.
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how can they possibly still be in fourth grade?
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You're an idiot! Enjoy. Not for your views, but for your idiot attitude.
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but...always funny. awesome show too!
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and I'm reduced to tears already. Thank you Matt and Trey; this has been a tough time for some of us and I really needed to laugh again.
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Eh.. a tad lame.
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Can't wait to see how this plays out.
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"i got a hundred dollars"
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I said, how long before South Park does Palin. I called it!
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Easily.
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Yeah, that was a really hard one to predict...
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Funny.
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that was really funny.
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Didn't see the Ike twist coming. Nice.
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I thought that was kind of in bad taste... but the rest of the episode was so good that I think I can let it slide.
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This is the first time I actually agreed with one of their messages. Obama supporters were putting a little too much stock in him being the second coming, and McCain supporters were paranoid about his election being freaking Armegeddon. Good message, I would say overall.
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I'm wondering how the episode would have worked if the results had been switched last night
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A Peruvian pan-flute band? Really? That's what they have come to?
And people accuse the Simpsons of running out of ideas...
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Matt and Trey had a great opportunity for sharp political satire, and all we get is "nothing's really going to change under Obama" and "it's not the end of the world that we elected him?" They could have done so much more. Maybe they will in the future.
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The 'Obama=Jesus' and 'Obama=Satan' crowds are just too Goddamn ridiculous for words. Utterly classic.
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Drunk Randy is always funny.
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Especially drunk, pantless Randy singing Obama's name to different songs.
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Not even a cameo.
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How can they turn these episodes out so fast?!?
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If they don't do it tomorrow, I can pretty much guarantee some paper will have this as a story. Granted, SP isn't the media blitz it once was, but with this being the Obama year, it might garner some attention.
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airing an older South Park before the new one every week is such a terrible idea. It only has the effect of highlighting the glaring drop in quality, poignancy, and humor in the new ones as opposed to the old ones. I laughed my ass of at the crime fighter episode, which I've seen a thousand times, meanwhile I managed maybe one smirk from the new episode.
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Another week without a chuckle. I was hoping for more than an Ocean's 11 parody. Did the boys lose their mojo?
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Maybe you don't have Facebook, but that was the first and most remarkable thing I noticed about this election, was how many people immediately went online to vent their frustrations via Facebook status update. And the reactions my conservative friends were posting matched up VERBATUM with dialogue from that cave scene.
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that episode was great. absolutely great. And then John McCain comes in dressed as a Football player comes.....boom baby.....Ike trying to kill himself. all of it. you guys need to get laid or do some drugs. there is something to this life you're just not getting.
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The overreaction level was high, very vocal, and definitely ripe for parody. I laughed.
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yeah, and for eight years liberals did nothing but compare Bush to Hitler, Satan, and/or the lochness monster. Point is, there's always over reaction on either side and that's the safest possible thing to "parody". There were SO many places they could have gone, they could have really reclaimed their status as "edgy" and "controversial" and not just by showing a man get raped, I mean by saying something relevant and challenging. And beyond all that, the shit just isn't very funny anymore. There's something about how they're writing these episodes and the difference is stark when you compare it to earlier seasons. In the end, my first priority with SP is that it's funny ,the second is that it's poignant. Recently, it's been neither. And why does every episode have to be a parody of a movie that came out between 1 and 7 years ago?
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have you noticed that South Park has gone the way of Family Guy? The plots are ludicrous for ludicrous' sake with really no point to them at the end of the day. They draw up some ridiculous and overblown situation, which is fine, but at the end of the day they aren't saying anything. Like with this, I thought maybe they were trying to say that both McCain and Obama are establishment candidates and either way the people will get robbed blind, and this whole election, just like every one, is a big dog and pony show. Now that would have been saying something. But then I realized, no, they're just trying to make fun of Oceans 11. Lame. Fucking lame.
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name the movies parodied this season that are 1-7 years old. i'll give you more names of older movies just from the first two episodes
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wasnt nearly as offensive as when they showed walter mathuea in hell 3 days after he died. not helpful to the grieving process. but chris rock in lethal weapon 4, thats offensive
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SP thinks it's better because of so called "topicality",but all it is really doing is trying(poorly,I might add)to make pop culture references funny.
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now that's a fucking hilarious show.
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Sunny is the funniest fucking show I think I have ever seen. Why the hell isn't there a talkback for that show?? South Park is much more tolerable than Family Guy...just throw that in there.
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and our funny bones are better for it.
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Did they write this and finish it this morning or was it made on the assumption Obama was gonna win. But those speeches had to have been recorded and animated this morning itself!
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It's possible they wrote 2 versions of this episode. One for Obama and one for McCain.
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of ZOmboma supporters
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Glad to see nothing is sacred, they stuck to their guns and ripped EVERYONE. Good job guys.But as an aside, what happened with Biden? Did I miss him in the background or something?
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What a letdown! The best idea they could come up with to cap off this insane election season was a lame Ocean's 11 parody? I've been sticking up for South Park when people slag it in the TB's, but there's nothing to defend in this flaccid episode.
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Nov 06, 2008 12:42:10 AM CST
weak. The "parodies" are just references like Meet the Spartans
by g100
Admittedly some of the supporters (on both sides) sections weren't too bad and raised a smile (extreme caricatures usually do) and Randy certainly had his moments, BUT the Oceans "parody" was 100% pure unfunny shit. Utterly pointless and craptacular.
Dead grandmother is a desperate attempt for some free publicity and a manufactured "shock" "outrage" headline or 2. And all the more pathetic for it. If you're going to try and shock (even if only for a headline or 2) have a fucking point or something to say at least. -
Why doesn't that show get a talkback? It's batshit-crazy-moronic-brilliant.
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are like those people that used to say "rap isn't music". Like it needed to be. As if all things created and put on a CD needed to be music or fit the common description. As if the genre even wanted those people's approval.
So it doesn't have any big "stories" (usually)? Big deal, it's still funny. So is South Park. Love them both. I wouldn't say this one was memorable, but the last few have been damn funny. I was really hoping they would have shown Palin killing them all and taking the diamond right after her confession of love for Obama. And she should have worn Wolf carcasses while shooting them all from a helicopter. But I loved the British accent. The ending was just a bit weak. -
That show is funnier than the Office, 30 Rock, and South Park. They at least deserve a little talkback here. I was shocked that they didn't have one.
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I liked 'Sunny' a lot the first season, but have now come to the conclusion that they suffer from 'unexeperienced actor shouting syndrom'. There is just too much shouting, just because it is easiest refuge for somebody who doesn't know comedic acting. Hopefully they will tone it down a lot, because the show has shitloads of potential.
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and all the more funny for it!
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...And the episode poked fun at both Obama and McCain supporters -- c'mon, guys, open your eyes.The only criticism I have about the episode is that they should have had Biden, Cindy McCain, Todd Palin and Joe the Plumber as the other four co-conspirators... I mean, really, isn't this obvious, Matt and Trey?
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Fuck you, you know it.
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Best episode in a while. It's the usual "doesn't matter who you vote for, you take the election more seriously than they do" message, but witty as fuck. They obviously had two versions ready. (They just have to change a few scenes and t-shirts)
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And while the Ocean's 11 subplot was just kinda silly, kudos to them for showing the diehard Obama and McCain supporters their idiocy. When all the Obama zombies are done chanting "Yes We Can", "Hope", "Change", they're going realize that it's nothing but platitudes and empty promises. Likewise, the McCain doomsayers are going to realize that their guy wasn't gonna do much better. Only difference between the two is that one's a big-government liberal and the other's a big-government conservative.
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Is that italian? Prego pasta sauce's competitor? What?
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Dumb-ass, gay porn shit show is all it is.
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SP is the shizzle for rizzle my nizzle grizzle pizzle.
GOBAMA!
Lol the ep was funny, whole season has been good, minus the Wendy Cartman episde. I hated that one. My friends and I have a lot of inside jokes about orientals and giant hamsters, so it's been my dream~team season. Then they toss me some drunken beer swilling RANDY, awesemo. -
...and Randy is always awesome whenever he goes way overboard on something.
And yes, they probably had the template OCEAN'S ELEVEN parody episode ready to go and just inserted scenes like Obama's victory speech and the tasteless faked Grandmother death joke in at the last minute.
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He truly was the highlight of last nights ep. "Dumb" Palin an actual mastermind genius..? SNL did that with Reagan eons ago.Randy with the camcorder, playing Guitar Hero, covered in spew..and so on. Like Butters, the secondary characters are getting the best "material".
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Very funny and very timely. It makes you wonder if they were that sure about the outcome ( I was pretty much ) or if they had a McCain episode prepared just in case.
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I'm a making a note here: Huge Success! But really, finally, a decent genuinely satirical episode. It's sad they still felt the need to make use a popular movie to do it (they are falling back on movie plots A LOT)it was still a really solid episode. Possibly the only one this season. And for the record, the Indy episode sucked. Huge.
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I loved it. My favorite part was Randy telling off his boss because an Obama victory means that "everything has changed." Politics aside, this messiah complex, cult of personality thing Obama has going on is only going to disappoint a lot of people when reality is forced to intrude. I think they really captured the insanity on both sides real well, without coming across as preachy. In other words, it was a classic episode. A nice change from that crappy two-parter from last week.
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just go over and click on the Obama TB.
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Too funny!
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Won't even appreciate how quickly this was thrown together and still manged to be quite funny (IMO). SP hasn't always been great lately but this was a fantastic episode.
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it doesn't matter if Oceans 11 isn't topical, thats not the point.It wasn't arbitrary like maybe the Cloverfield eps were but instead a perfect template for the type of story they wanted to tell. Even if you just take the B plot on its own terms and had never even heard of all the candidates, it was still a pitch-perfect skewer of every heist movie ever made.
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Bad South Park >>> "Good" Family Guy
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Bad South Park >>> Good Two and a Half Men. Not really an excuse for the drop in quality
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I love IASIP dearly, never miss an episode, but the fact is nothing on television makes me laugh out loud more consistently than The Office. IASIP is 'edgier" or whatever, that doesnt make it funnier. The key is that the office no matter how outlandish the situations and characters, really sells you that this is really happpening, IASIP just always seems like youre watching gifted comedians doing improv, desperately trying to keep your attention in some sweaty nightclub, so theyre always turned up to 10. The Office is pure naturalistic, grating hilarity. end of story. On the subjest os last nite's SP, brilliant considering its head spinning up-to-the-last-minute topicality, they must have been writing and animating that shit the previous morning, for that i salute them
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I'm sure they knew full well the political swing was leaning toward an Obama victory. And a few snips and cuts, it could have been adjusted for a McCain win. I'm sure they had alternate scenes, like the speeches, ready to insert.BTW, if Obama is Danny Ocean/George Clooney, would that make McCain Brad Pitt?
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I'm enjoying it so far. I wish Obama sounded at least remotely like Obama. Just a little bit.
"Here comes the change everybody!"
Good fun. And spot-on. "Losers! Losers!"
"Poor old John McCain. He looks real sad.""It's over! We're all dead."
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Joe Plumber should have been part of the team, as another TBer pointed out. Todd and Biden, too (who already has a smile and style aobut himself that can easily be parodied as "Vegas slick").For a moment there, I wondered if Obama was going to be President in the South Park universe. One line of dialogue I really wished Trey Parker had written at the end... MCCAIN: "Haven't you seen how fucked up this country is? My friend, why the hell would you want the job?"
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It's Obama-bama.
"Yes, I'd like to make a noise complaint.""Who let the Obama out?"And Obama and McCain hi-fiving each other. Awesomeness. I like this episode better than any of the other ones since the season started back."Hey, Obama, you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind. Hey Obama!" -
...Sarah Palin dancing thru the laser beams.
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'The Randy Marsh, Butters, & Cartman Show' is slipping a little bit. Cartman's one line was better than anything Kyle and Stan did. What, an Oceans 11 parody following a horses ass Cloverfield spoof? Weak.
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"Exercising your freedom of speech" is not the same as "speaking your mind". Freedom of speech was especially meant to protect political speech, and you CAN excercise it as a matter of patriotism, but you can also exercise it to say how much you hate the country. Or does somehow saying "I hate the country" make you a patriot, too? As for your cowardice remark, that's just insulting to thousands of people who are content in their views but don't feel the need to push them on others. Different people have different temperments. That's not cowardice.
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Of Cloverfield or Oceans 11, and ignore what I think is the heart of the episdoes (mocking their own absurd storylines in the one, and the rediculous expectations that supporters have about the impact of elections).
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He'd probably end up looking too much like McCain in animated form.
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here is my plea that I e-mailed to Herc a while back. never heard back...
Herc,
My name's Will, but I lurk and comment in the talkbacks as BadMrWonka. I've been around forever, and I love the site and what you guys do.
I know that throughout most every talkback, you are inundated with requests for talkbacks for other shows that don't have one. Obviously, not every show can have a talkback, and although there are some shows that deservedly have one because of their geek appeal, there are others that might have similar geek appeal but not enough popularity. And some shows, like SNL and The Office, deservedly have a standing talkback just because they generate so much hilarious discussion, and people love to argue over funny moments, etc.
So I understand there is not one set of criteria for which shows get talkbacks, and I'm sure there are a host of behind the scenes housekeeping issues which contribute to the process as well. I know that some shows without talkbacks also have lots of discussions in The Zone as well. That said, I feel compelled to plead the case for a talkback for my current favorite show on television, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Instead of a long and rambling diatribe on why I think it's so funny and creative, since that's always going to be subjective, I thought I would just hit some bullet points as to why this show would be perfect for a talkback.
-The talkbackers love it, and it's on Thursday nights along with The Office. I know SO MANY people who watch The Office and then look forward to the 10pm It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia afterwards on FX. It's like the heydey of great Thursday night TV that NBC had back in the day!
-Much like The Office, the show has really embraced online content, viral marketing, blogs, etc. in order to broaden its fan base, and make sure every bit of hilarity gets an outlet somewhere. AICN is a big part of that community, and I'm sure if there were a weekly talkback, reaching out to some of the creators for an interview or contest or what have you, would be that much easier. I wrote a funny little post for a friend's website about the show, and it was actually seen by one of the cast members, who took the time to write me and tell me she thought it was funny. That's pretty damn cool.
-The show really is unique. It started off as a very small show with a shoestring budget. It wasn't commissioned and marketed on the scale that a lot of shows are. FX just took a chance with it, and on the strength of its first hilarious season, they were able to land Danny DeVito for the second season. Great DVD sales mean that it's gonna hopefully be around for a while. It's a really odd mixture of Office-like character interaction, Reno 911-like improvisation, and South Park-like irreverence and depravity. Since The Office and South Park both have talkbacks, why not give one to the bastard lovechild of the two?
-If you create a new talkback based in part on clamoring from the talkbackers, you will be everyone's hero!
OK, that's all. I hope you'll consider giving this hilarious show a talkback. It will make the world a better place, fix the economy and save the rain forests.
Will
aka BadMrWonka
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With the early poling, I'm sure much of the show was done before the election results even came in.
I'm sure they just added the stuff in at the beginning from Obama and McCain's speeches.
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It was just pure absurdity and a pop-culture satire, mostly about Oceans 11-- which was great and bizarre. Kind of like how everyone said that Team American was a political satire, but it was just a huge Bruckhimer bash. Funny shit, though, and I liked Obama/McCain heist even more than Randy being drunk because it was, possibly, the randomest thing ever on south park.
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I agree with you whole heartedly. But I'm afraid your plea will go without action. The current season is halfway through, and unless Joss Whedon is involved in any way, shape, or form, Sunny will go "non-TB'd" around here, at least by Herc.BTW, you did know that FX ordered, I believe, three more seasons following this year. And do you find it odd to watch knowing that in real life Caitlin and Mac have just married...? It adds a weird vibe to watch them treat Dee like a total shit, knowing that.
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The first half (in the spring) was fucking brilliant. This second half is almost complete shit.
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Whatever you think of the episode, the speed of recreating and animating the speeches, down to backgrounds and clothing as it really appeared, is impressive. As for the rest, I think most the story would have been the same with characters and campaign logos switched around. My inner geek would like to know how they flowcharted assembly for each possible outcome.
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Nov 06, 2008 8:20:54 PM CST
They have to deliver the episode by 10 AM to Comedy Central
by tallboy66
10 AM Wednesday - lets say the speeches happen at midnight 12 AM, which was probably the final stuff they were holding onto - which gives them about 10 hrs to animate and record dialouge - which in South Park production time is, like, a breeze.
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I, for one, am delighted to have helped elect our first black Prez'. I do not expect him to solve all my problems, I DO expect him to be better than Bush.I don't think Matt and Trey get that.Where was Joey B? They really must hate him.
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There was a story on NPR before the season premiere of Always Sunny where they discussed how FX bought four or five more seasons of it. It will be around for a long long time to come.
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many people here. I think what most of you wanted was some brutal political satire (which has not been in short supply this year)- mostly targeting Obama (not coincidentally, those who hate the show seem to be largely Pro-O), and yet it is precisely this inability to disconnect from an ended election, the inability to step back from the partisan hyperbole, that the show was mocking.
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Jeesus get a fucking grip. At least the cloverfield Episode strayed into PARODY once in a while.
It pointed out again and again how ludicrous the idea of someone clinging desperately to a cam is when ubelievably catastrophic and dangerous shit is happening around you.
It also made the point that being STARTLED (the clue was in the fucking title) or merely surprised by something is different from genuine horror. The guinea pigs were highlighting that almost ANYTHING can be horrific if it mutilates and destroys on a grand scale just by the framing of it in a movie.
And it ended with the ultimate punchline of a "found footage". film. There was no tape in the cam.
Course that doesn't mean it was a brilliant Episode (it wasn't) but at least it was TRYING.
See that means it was making POINTS not just blindly copying the style of something like the totally random Oceans section was.
The Oceans bit was shit. Simple as that.
The supporters bit was FAR better and the Episode would have been pretty damn good if it was just about the supporters.
And the Grandmother reference wasn't just pointless but STUPID. There was a perfect place in the Episode to put in a reference to faking someones death. Ike would have deleted all the files and accidently deleted the Grandmothers then said "oops." Would it have been any funnier ? Not much but it would have made more fucking sense than a Random Bomb threat line insertion.
And for fucks sake! a Bomb Threat !! and they DIDN'T think of having their Obama say "my friend Bill Ayres phoned a Bomb threat in ?????" Fucking obvious chance for a gag missed.
Let me be clear though, as horribly patchy as this season has been South Park is still (when it's good) far better than Family Guy or The Simpsons.
I pretty much gave up on Family guy not long ago and haven't watched the Simpsons in years.
And if you DIDN'T think that there was some Bizzarre convoluted plot coming as soon as Obama walked into the Hotel room after the Election then you simply don't know South Park very well.
So it's not that a strange plot twist was unexpected, just that it was shit.
It could have been Obama removing a "Black suit" and turning out to be... (take your pick) and McCain doing the same. OR Obama and McCain could have been Robots controlled by... (again take your pick) OR Aliens or 1000 other possibilities. But a copy of Oceans ??? Yeah that's REAL fucking funny dude.
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I'm an Obama supporter, and I thought the episode was funny! I'm a liberal who thinks South Park is funny. This episode was so-so, but it had its moments.
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I must've missed whatever movie that was from.
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I enjoyed it more before the suits shoehorned Danny DeVito into the cast, but it's still the funniest show on TV right now. I imagine FX must have thought that the show needed a "name", but the cast of relative unknowns makes the show. The less DeVito appears the better.
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C'mon, what should they have done? It was the time-liest funny-est thing they could have pulled out...I love how they went for straight retarculousness, instead of super bitey satire--haha! Cos it's all the same really. Toaday ain't no diffrent than yesterday. As long as Randy's down to his skivvies... But, SUPERNARTURAL: TED RAIMI!!!! And, yes, Always Sunny rocks my cocks.
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damned drunken typin-G!
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Best comedy on tv by far. A travesty that there's no aicn talkback for it.
The first season was better before devito, but it's not devito's fault... I like his characters plotlines as well.
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