Really?
Seemed to me that Dawkins was there to show his athiest view, and it was Garrison’s insane anti-thiesm (after getting banged by Dawkins) that caused everything. Garrison just went from batshit insane anti-evolution to batshit insane anti-thiesm.
Because Garrison is just batshit insane.
-Joe
Best episode yet this season. The sea otters–atheist sea otters, at that–Cartman’s idiotic cryogenic plan, Richard Dawkins banging Miss Garrison doggy style, The Buck Rogers theme, (Is that what that music was as Cartman was being thawed?) all had me in stiches. Also, it was well plotted and paced, something which has been off this season. I can’t see there not being a part two, but who knows?
As far as the atheism goes, it’s South Park. They’re generally not as smart as they think they are, especially when dealing with an issue where there’s some controversy. (As opposed to no-brainer stupidity like Scientology or John Edward.) Still Dawkins has in fact said that evolution makes it impossible for any rational person to believe in God. He’s never said it disproves God and his parody didn’t on the show either. Also, I’m pretty sure if religion went away people would still find reasons to kill and brutalize each other, though I doubt they’d be yelling out “Science damn you!”
I think it’s a reflection on Ms. Garrison’s insanity more than atheism, myself.
(Watched it mostly for the Wii jokes. I need some brain bleach to erase the sex scenes, though… :ick: )
Well, they did it back in Season 2 with starting the season with the Terrence and Philip movie episode instead of the conclusion of the season 1 cliffhanger “Cartman’s Mom Is A Dirty Slut” and they took a lot of anger about it. Yeah, I could see them doing that.
Heck, speaking of messing with expectations, I’m still hoping for the return of Lemmiwinks that they promised a couple years ago.
I thought the pacing was horrible and a lot of the jokes fell flat - but this may be because my DVR really screwed it up and it was patchy and jumpy.
Overall it was pretty mediocre. Highlights were “Science-damn you!”, etc., and the whole Buck Rogers theme, and Ms. Garrison’s tits.
Boy, I’m glad I don’t watch this damn show anymore. They (inaccurately) slam transsexuals, and now they (inaccurately) slam atheists, too? Somebody let me know when they start (inaccurately) slamming 5’4" brunettes from Philadelphia, too, OK?
I dunno, Eve, I was kind of upset when you stopped watching. IIRC you were a pretty big fan of the show. I know the transsexual episode was a little bit harsh, but I feel like if I were to get offended at one episode of South Park, then I would be very, very guilty of not being offended by the rest of them.
I’m as diamond-hard an atheist as god makes, but I took this episode in stride. I didn’t like it a couple episodes ago when someone said a conspiracy theory had several holes in it and (I believe it was Kyle) replied, “so does the theory of evolution,” but I took it in stride.
I know your situation has a little more gravity to it than mine, but they way I look at it: If I get offended when they come after me, then where was I when they were going after blacks, gays, jews, muslims, mormons, Canadians, Democrats, Republicans, scientologists, environmentalists, transsexuals, movie stars, etc.?
I just watched the episode, and it appeared to me that they were satirizing that the fact that some atheists believe that atheism is the solution to all the world’s problems. When all of the religions are eliminated, instead of the various religious wars that have plagued the world since time immemorial, one group of atheists ends up fighting another group since they don’t agree on which type of atheism is right. Seeing as not even like-minded Christians agree with each other (just look at all the sects of Christianity out there), they’re probably right.
I might be inclined to agree with you there, but I’m waiting till the payoff (hopefully) next week before I cast judgement.
Was the scene where he was in bed with that guy supposed to be a spoof on Six and Baltar in Battlestar Galactica? It seemed to have the same “dink…dink…dink…dinkdink…dink” music and manipulative “you’re the smartest human” dialogue.
The gratuitously violent head exploding darts were pretty cool.
Especially saince it looked like they had enough time to actually pull them out before their head exploded, but would rather scream,
“No! Oh, science, no!” 
I think that if religion vanished, people would just fight about politics instead. People can get just as murderously pissed off about political differences as they can about religious differences.
On the plus side, I think that if we can just survive a few more decades without any civilization-destroying events, we’ll probably be able to figure out what causes people to get murderously pissed off about things and fix it so that we don’t have to worry about that kind of thing anymore. But that’s probably a subject for another thread. 
I looked for the IPU in the rerun tonight - didn’t see it. But if it were there, I love that it and the FSM are being given this exposure
Stone and Parker said awhile ago that they were going to do an episode on atheism. To not do it would be contrary to the show’s principle of mocking everyone equally.
Everyone likes it when someone else’s ox is being gored…
“Know this, Time Child: I shall smash your skull, like a clam on my tummy!”
That’s the first thing that popped into my mind too!
I was just coming in to post that line!
But they already did an atheism-mocking episode, “Red Hot Catholic Love.”
Well you know she is pink and more importantly Invisible. So she can be very had to see.
Jim {Sorry, just a joke about seeing her, I thought someone might catch the humor of it}
Can anything bad happen if you freeze yourself and then unfreeze yourself three weeks later?
Yes…you die.