Ooookay. Very weak attempt to mock the Katrina disaster.
I expected better. Hopefully, it’s all uphill from here.
Yep, fairly lame and tame for South Park. Can’t even quote a good line tonight. 
The only line I laughed at was when Kyle was asking Stan who broke the dam and ran down the list of possibilities.
"was it George Bush?
Terrorists?
“Communists?”
“Chinese Radicals?”
“Cartman?”
Other than that it was a pretty lame episode.
I was reading while my brother was watching it, but I watched bits and pieces. I lost interest when I realized that the sum of the political humor is knocking down strawmen of right and left wingers. This episode was no different.
The one part that made me laugh was when Cartman said to Kyle (paraphrased): “If you care about those people so much, then why don’t you share your jew gold with them?”
I dunno. I got some laughs out of it. I laughed when the reporters were talking about all the looting and killing and raping and were asked, “OMG, that actually happened?” “No, we’re just reporting it.”
It was pretty funny when everyone was running down the street to get away from Global Warming, and that one guy fell down and acted like he expected to get stepped on or something. But the episode fizzled towards the end.
Hey, I liked it. Not the most amazing or outrageous thing they’ve ever done, but it still made me laugh.
That reminds me…wasn’t one of the original concepts for the “Team America” movie to be a fairly straight-up “remake” of The Day After Tomorrow, just with supermarionation? Or was that a fever dream?
And boy, they sure have come a long way with their “cardboard cutout” animation style over the years, haven’t they?
Seconded.
Other than that I thought it was a very weak attempt to mock Katrina and the Global Warming Panic…except that there isn’t any Global Warming Panic. So…
They weren’t mocking global warming as much as they were “The Day After Tomorrow.” A lot of the stuff in the ep is straight from the movie, including the scene where there’s a chase scene with “global warming,” only in the movie they’re running from a cold front (seriously!).
Clearly it’s an ep that gains a lot from having seen “The Day After Tomorrow.” My gf and I enjoyed both, though only one was intentionally funny :).
I liked it - I thought it was silly
the only thing is I’m getting real tired of Cartman’s anti semitism. It was funny at first - and the “Kyle Sees The Passion” episode was funny (and a little scary), and yes, I know Matt & Trey are making a point, and neither of them are anti-semetic, and Cartman is an azzhole. But it still irks me.
Now, Drawn Together (for which I will start another thread after I post this) did a nice take on Holocaust survivors
You guys must be filthy, covetous Jews or something. Great episode, I thought.
Then again, I’m a big fan of mocking irrational panic based off of sensationalism.
Best line:
Stan: “I think I have a way we can help the people trapped in Beaverton”
Kyle: “How?”
Cartman: “Why?”
Also, I’m probably a little too fond of the jokes where Cartman’s bigotry is proven right - the Jew gold in this episode, and just the other day I was watching Christian Rock Hard where token, to his surprise, plays bass.
I like it when Cartman goes into violent bully mode, and someone calls him on it and hits him, and he stops, then whines for “Maaaaaaaaa”
I only caught the very end (from when Cartmaqn was demanding Kyle’s Jew gold…and he had it!), but I enjoyed the Spartacus send up at the end, and the blaming of the flood on Crab People (did you notice the crab people song played in the background?)
I thought that the second boat scene was funny:
1st Roof Guy: “It looks like three kids in a boat.”
2nd Roof Guy: “I’ll take what I can get!”
Stan, Kyle, and Cartman: “AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH” as they go screaming by into the refinery.
2nd Roof Guy: “Thanks. That’s so much better!”
I just think they had too long to think about this episode. If it was done in their normal ‘turn everything into Comedy Central the morning it airs’ mode, it would have been tighter and funnier. The boys produce better stuff when they just shoot from the hip, more often than not. (IMHO, YMMV, and all that.)
My favorite, too.
By the way, where the hell was Kenny in this episode?
I caused the mediocrity!
Kind of weak, but I’ve never seen “The Day after tommorow” I’m probably not appreciating it as much as I could.
The Jew Gold thing suprised me, but I loved it when Kyle threw it into the fire so cartman would try to go after it.
My question is: Why the hell does Stan believe Cartman when he says “I’ll take full responsibility”? Cartman’s never taken responsibility for anything he’s done, unless he thought he could use it againest kyle.
Someday, I want to see Stan bitchslap Cartman a couple times for this kind of crap…and maybe for the anti-semintism.
I caused the mediocrity
No, I caused it! 
Close, but the wrong movie.
Trey and Matt’s original idea for TA:WP was to recreate the movie “Armageddon” word for word with puppets. In one of the “Making Of” specials on the TA:WP DVD they talk about it.
–FCOD