# Do you like fishsticks?-south park **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-fishsticks-south-park/492470 "2009-04-09T02:39:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-fishsticks-south-park/492470/21 "2009-04-10T23:48:35Z")
> [@quixotic78](#): > > Did Kanye West do something specifically to trigger this episode, or were they just making fun of somebody who just generally thinks his shit doesn’t stink? If you check out the article **gonzomax** linked, they cite “his well-documented meltdowns at awards shows when he didn’t win what he expected” as well as a quote where he called himself the “voice of this generation” as a few examples. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-fishsticks-south-park/492470/22 "2009-04-11T00:07:14Z")
I loathe South Park, so, to spare me the unpleasantness of viewing I show I don’t enjoy, could someone explain this “fish sticks” thing to me? ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-fishsticks-south-park/492470/23 "2009-04-11T00:10:20Z")
Fish Sticks, when spoken the way it was in that joke, sounds like “Fish Dicks”. As in, “I like to put fish dicks in my mouth.” A joke that fourth graders would LOVE, but I really didn’t buy the rest of the country finding it funny… ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-fishsticks-south-park/492470/24 "2009-04-11T00:33:17Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > Fish Sticks, when spoken the way it was in that joke, sounds like “Fish Dicks”. As in, “I like to put fish dicks in my mouth.” A joke that fourth graders would LOVE, but I really didn’t buy the rest of the country finding it funny… Really? I told one of my co-workers the joke this afternoon, and it went viral in a matter of minutes just like on the show. I thought the episode what funny and the fishsticks joke is hilarious. Not because the joke itself is so funny, it’s people’s reaction when you “get them” and and they get it. Which is why Kanye not getting it was so fucking funny. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-fishsticks-south-park/492470/25 "2009-04-11T00:44:06Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I loathe South Park, so, to spare me the unpleasantness of viewing I show I don’t enjoy, could someone explain this “fish sticks” thing to me? Wow, aren’t we precious. You’re curious about the show, yet you couldn’t possibly bare being subjected to it or anything related to it for the few seconds it might take to find out the premise on your own? If you loathe it so, why would you even open up a thread discussing it? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-fishsticks-south-park/492470/26 "2009-04-11T01:36:00Z")
I have no interest in the show and I am not in any way curious about it, but I keep seeing references to a joke on the show not only here but several places on the internet. Not wishing to remain culturally ignorant I asked a question. If I had been able to find this out on Wikipedia trust me, I wouldn’t have burdened you with my presence. Somehow, going to a thread talking about fish sticks and South Park seemed to be the logical place to become enlightened about a joke referencing fish sticks that was seen on South Park. As my question has been answered I will now be departing the thread so I will trouble you no further. ---
**Author:** ![TooSchoolforCool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tooschoolforcool/32/19621_2.png) [@TooSchoolforCool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TooSchoolforCool)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-fishsticks-south-park/492470/27 "2009-04-11T01:58:42Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > The fishsticks joke is something I would have thought was hilarious when I was like in 4th grade. Well, it was started by 4th graders, which was precisely its charm. I don’t think the writers meant us to find it uproarious in itself, but rather to simply be amused by how funny a bunch of kids found it… and then the characteristically stupid and childish adults of the SP universe, especially the celebrity comedians/host, who were all parodied for being way too willing to cast it in their own lame comedic styles. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-fishsticks-south-park/492470/28 "2009-04-11T02:26:01Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I have no interest in the show and I am not in any way curious about it, but I keep seeing references to a joke on the show not only here but several places on the internet. Not wishing to remain culturally ignorant I asked a question. If I had been able to find this out on Wikipedia trust me, I wouldn’t have burdened you with my presence. Somehow, going to a thread talking about fish sticks and South Park seemed to be the logical place to become enlightened about a joke referencing fish sticks that was seen on South Park. > > As my question has been answered I will now be departing the thread so I will trouble you no further. Oh come down off the cross. You could’ve asked without offering your opinion, but you chose not to. I wouldn’t go into any Cafe Society thread and basically say the topic sucks in the first place, but if I did I sure wouldn’t get all high and mighty when called out on it. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-fishsticks-south-park/492470/29 "2009-04-11T03:05:00Z")
Broomstick may be bi-curious. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-fishsticks-south-park/492470/30 "2009-04-11T04:54:33Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/kanye-west-ive-been-humbl\_n\_185408.html](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/kanye-west-ive-been-humbl_n_185408.html) Plus Kanye saw it and was humbled. How good is that? “I JUST WANT TO BE A **DOPER** PERSON…” - _Kanye West_ 😃 Doesn’t everybody? ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-fishsticks-south-park/492470/31 "2009-04-11T18:35:14Z")
I wonder…is South Park the first to use the “fishstick” joke? Funny episode. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-fishsticks-south-park/492470.md?page=1)