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.
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.
So, you think we’re taking it too serial?
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.
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.
The “serial” mystery solved?
Ha! Now I get it! :dubious: