# Excelsior! (South Park, 4/26) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excelsior-south-park-4-26/354406 "2006-04-27T02:36:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excelsior-south-park-4-26/354406/41 "2006-04-28T17:03:01Z")
Laughed out loud with every scene with Cartman in it. From the basketball game to eating the “treasure”. I think they were just making fun of Al Gore as a self-centered, egotistical wanker more than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excelsior-south-park-4-26/354406/42 "2006-04-28T23:07:25Z")
I still think you guys are missing the point. It wasn’t meant to be topical, like the Katrina episode. Gore was merely made a comedic device by exageration. It was more like the Russell Crowe episode. Having Crowe singing “Fightin’ round the world” and saying “C’mon Tugga!” in has Aussie accent had a real intrinsic, almost onomatopoeia-tic type of humor to it. So the way Parker did Gore’s voice in that lockjawed cadence with just a hint of a lisp, was freakin’ hilarious! I’m still walking around mumbling “Totally serial” and “manbearpig” to myself. You guys are complaining about SP’s over-preachiness but you’re seeing preachiness that isn’t really there. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excelsior-south-park-4-26/354406/43 "2006-04-28T23:36:31Z")
> [@Hail Ants](#): > > You guys are complaining about SP’s over-preachiness but you’re seeing preachiness that isn’t really there. So, you think we’re taking it too serial? ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excelsior-south-park-4-26/354406/44 "2006-05-03T19:55:45Z")
I have to say that Gore’s two appearances as himself on Futurama were about eighty times funnier than this total snoozefest. Yes, we get it. You don’t like people that have opinions or positions that aren’t yours, and they are all stupidheads and preachy and whiny and uncool. Everyone else feels the same way. Difference is, we all don’t have TV shows that are supposed to actually entertain viewers for 23 minutes or so. Lampooning celebrities because you thought of a really funny angle or some killer jokes is cool. But lampooning celebrities out of rote obligation is tiresome. At least Mingy and Gary were creative, even if that ep still suffered from the same “make an ep that makes a big preachy deal out of an otherwise forgettable celebrity event” syndrome. Even the treasure stuff was lame, because it’s just more of the same Cartman and you could see where it was going because you’ve already seen a million times where it goes. More Cartoon Wars and Team America, less Manbearpig. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excelsior-south-park-4-26/354406/45 "2006-05-03T20:46:37Z")
[QUOTE=Lissa] You know, I never got that vibe from the show. On the surface, it appears they’re deriding the idea, but the characters who oppose the view that GW is real do so with exaggeratedly absurd statements. [/QUOTE] In my experience, it’s been the exact opposite. Stan telling the Earth Day nutcase “My dad is a geologist and he says there’s no proof of global warming” to which the Earth Day nutcase responds “That’s not true. Republicans are causing it. Republicans are evil!” (Paraphrased, that is.) Or, in their Hurricane Katrina episode, they did a _Day After Tomorrow_-esque portrayal of global warming panic when the flood was actually caused by the boys running into a dam with a speedboat. And I have to agree with **Apos** … when I saw this episode I thought of Al Gore’s actual appearances on Futurama, and this episode was pretty unfunny in comparison. South Park is best when they stick to the basics: monsters with Patrick Duffy legs, fake split-screen artifacts whenever evil twins are on screen together, Cartman crapping out treasure, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excelsior-south-park-4-26/354406/46 "2006-05-08T23:42:26Z")
The “serial” mystery solved? > **[ManBearPig](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manbearpig)** > > "ManBearPig" is the sixth episode in the tenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 145th episode of the series overall, it first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 26, 2006. In the episode, Al Gore visits South Park to warn everyone about a creature called ManBearPig, an allegory for global warming. Gore then gets Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny trapped inside the Cave of the Winds. Al Gore (voiced by Trey Parker) visits South Park Elementary and ... > [@](#): > > Al Gore uses the word “cereal” in place of “seriously/serious”. This is in reference to his gaffe on The Oprah Winfrey Show when he was asked for his favorite “cereal” and his answer was “Oprah”, thinking that the “Oprah” show was a serial. [2] Ha! Now I get it! :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excelsior-south-park-4-26/354406.md?page=2)