On Randy’s crap:
“There is something inside you that made you do that!”
LEMIWINKS?!
I love how the “Emmy-Award Winning Series” pops up. 
A classic episode, so far. A certain quirk of humanity (or of masculinity, anyway), a bizarre secret society, lampooning of sanctimonious and self-regarding celebs, and Randy Marsh is again totally full of shit.
No Eric Cartman, yet, but nothing’s perfect.
They’re spoofing the King of Kong movie.
And something tells me they won’t be winning another anytime soon. 
Oh my, that was just perfect. Broke the fourth wall and everything!
My favorite dialogue from the ep: the male and female CNN newsreaders [paraphrasing]:
Man: “…another war in the Middle East! But first, a Mr. Randy Marsh of South Park is the new world’s record holder for the largest crap!”
Woman: “Is this really newsworthy?”
Man: “You just don’t understand.”
I did not know that.
That was my favorite bit.
Bono is sanctimonious, but he’s not a bad dude. Still, I guess he was ripe for roasting.
Not the funniest ep, but It’ll do. I might have to watch King of Kong now.
That was a really shitty episode. 
Actually, I didn’t laugh at much in it accept the Guiness America employee.
Jim
I think it was pretty good except for the ending. I also don’t think Bono really deserved that. I don’t get where their hostility comes from for him. I think I detected a hint of envy there.
South Park does lean right politically, IMO. Being liberal and Hollywood was enough for Bono to end up on Matt and Trey’s … shit list.
Diogenes, you’re referring to Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong, right? I haven’t seen that one. IMDB’s quotes page lists a couple of lines about crap or crapping… is that it?
As for going too far, yep, it was cringe-inducing, but Trey and Matt have always been extreme, especially regarding their abuse of celebrities. I think their take on celeb-abuse is the same as Spinal Tap’s on volume:
Nigel Tufnel: What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Excellent. I’m kind of burned out on remakes these days, anyway.
No, there’s a documentary called The King of Kong. It’s about a battle over the world record for the high score in Donkey Kong. It centers on a high school science teacher (basically an easy going family guy) who buys an old Donkey Kong arcade game that he plays in his garage and ends up breaking the world record. He sens in a video tape of the game to this cabal of nerds who keep the official records. They come to his house and take apart his arcade game and say there’s a spot on one of the boards or something and deny him the record. The official record holder is this complete tool who’s like some kind of hot sauce mogul or something and has a bunch of records for classic video games. The nerd cabal basically just act like his bitches all the time and do whatever he says. He’s like their king. I think Bono was intended to be an exaggeration of that dude in the SP cartoon.
After the science teacher gets denied his record, he takes up the Nerd King’s challenge to do it in this public arcade where he and his dork posse all hang aout. Science teacher goes there and breaks the record again, in public, on a machine they can’t question. Then the Nerd King submits a very shady videotape (after he’d already been bitching about how videotapes shouldn’t be accepted) wher he allegedly beats THAT score.
Throughout the movie, the Nerd King always refuses to play in public or have a showdown with science teacher.
It’s a documentary but it plays like a Ben Stiller movie. You can’t believe these people are real. The science teacher is like the only normal guy who gets thrown into this tiny, bizarro universe of classic arcade game dweebs.
Yep, I’m definitely going to rent that.
Erm, Zooropa? Pop? Nah, I’m sure it’s Bono’s high profile in green and progressive causes – not just walking the walk, but talking the talk.
I don’t expect the episode will draw any public reaction from him, but it could be funny if it did. Most celebrities seem to have gotten the memo, though – no matter how crude, how unfair, or how poor the impersonation (visually or vocally), registering a complaint just makes you seem that more undignified and pathetic.
You guys saw the last scene right?
They stuffed the Emmy into Marsh’s turd. Do we really need to analyze the episode more than that?
Who gives a shit if Bono was the object of satire. It’s SATIRE.
I like Bono, agree with him religiously, have political differences with him but he does put his money where his mouth is… but I will say- sometimes he is a bit much.
I can definitely see Matt & Trey taking down a notch or so someone they may essentially like. Who are their known celebrity friends and have they ever done anything on them?
Yeah, George Clooney is a friend of theirs. He even circulated around about 500 copies of the “Spirit of Christmas” cartoon that led to their getting the TV series. Yet in the episode “Smug Alert” (the one with everybody driving hybrid cars) they had a cloud of “smug” over South Park and a “smug” cloud from San Fransisco merge with the cloud of smug from George Clooney’s 78th Academy Awards acceptance speech to create a “perfect storm of self-satisfaction” that would destroy both places. He’s a friend of theirs, though, and reportedly took it in good humor.
If I recall, Clooney was also the voice of Sparky, the gay dog.
I really don’t think that an obsession with feces is characteristic of adult male humans. Definitely characteristic of Parker and Stone, though.