Into every generation a shitty movie is born. One story for all the world, a chosen one. It alone will have the perfect tone of bland cheerfulness to command the attention of teenagers, mouthbreathers, and the forces of stupidity, and to spread its vapid memes and swell the trousers of the foolish. It is the Phenomenon.
Oh man, society’s not going to like that! I assume that they both realize that they should stick with their cliques and not branch out, and by the end everything is back to normal and no-one learned anything?
Of course not- after the snooty drama siblings conspire to have the drama tryouts at the exact same time as the big basketball game and the academic decathalon, the closest friends of the jock and the nerd realize how wrong they were for wanting them not to try out and cleverly conspire to interrupt the big game and the academic decathalon so they can still try out and do the other thing they love, and everyone (even the snooty drama siblings, for some reason) sings about how you should stick up for your friends no matter what they want to do!
(Hey, the moral may be cliched, stupid, and unrealistic, but at least it’s a lot better than the message of the sequel, which appears to be “Never betray a friendship, even if doing so will lead you to success and a career doing what you love.”)
Proves South Park can be hilarious without being dirty. I hate when people say the humor of the show is only that little kids are using bad words.
For the same reason that Nickelback have sold millions of albums…
For the same reason so many people rave about The Davinci Code…
Because the average person has bad taste.
HSM, or South Park? 
Did not like this episode at all. Saw the “twists” a mile away. Very, very predictable. The songs went on forever.
Well, not everything was bad.
“Where have you guys been?”
“Peru.”
Craig is my new favorite secondary kid. Move over Butters.
I get the “songs went on forever” part of the argument. I may argue that was the intent, not because I don’t enjoy a musical South Park episode. Just lame music M&T are subjecting us to. I think that the songs, and the fact that there was a lot of female dialog, (something that I read was voiced in last minute, which is probable why they aren’t as prevalent), had me thinking that they really worked hard this week, as they did last week.
As far as the twists though, to which twists are you referring? Maybe this was a joke that was reffrenced by the movie, but I thought it was kind of neat how the father found out how he could appreciate the sport more. I knew as soon as I heard the music what was going on, but I didn’t really make any leaps as to why or if the father would get to accept his son’s real interest before that.
This is so mindblowingly gay that if you played the song over a bunch of clips of m4m Craigslist listings and pride parades, it might actually straighten it out a little.
Indeed. While HSM is terrible IMO my generation had Footloose and other drek.
It was amusing though, that in South Park, the school’s administrators apparently are so insulated and clueless that they would allow “Rock and Roll, Part 2” to be played at a basketball game in light of Gary Glitter’s conviction on child molestation charges.
And Footloose is being remade, so expect Matt & Trey to savage that when its released.
Given that most people in the States don’t know who Gary Glitter is, or what the name of the song is, its not really surprising that they would play this at a kids sporting event. AFAIK, they haven’t quit playing it at pro sporting events, where Glitter would be receiving royalties from the performance.
I was referring to “twists” (in quotes). Things like the singing boy was going to want to do something else (probably sports related), that at the end the gang of four would go over to the dark side just in time for the fad to end, the father was going to come around. That sort of thing.
On further reflection, it’s how they handled the predictable stuff that tanked. I’ve been comparing this episode to “Guitar Queero” which had a thoroughly predictable storyline. Fame, sinking into the gutter, the split up, the reconciliation. Saw them all coming, but loved it nonetheless.
I can’t put my finger on it. Sometimes being predictable helps the story, sometimes it doesn’t.
The NFL has asked its teams not to play the Gary Glitter recording. AFAIK cover versions are permissible, so I guess Glitter still gets publisher’s royalties. Many other pro and college teams have also quit playing the Gary Glitter recording of R&R PT. 2.
Ah, so it’s the second coming of Grease!
I think that’s kind of the point. When you are lampooning material that is predictable and cliche, it makes sense to use the same predictable plot devices and cliches.
Tuckerfan is right. I can assure you that not knowing who Gary Glitter is, or that he’s a pervert, or the name of Rock and Roll Part II, does not make you insulated and clueless. It makes you a member of the vast majority of Americans who do not know these things.
Fine, you agree with him, but have you taken a poll? You have opinions. I have a cite.
Rock and Roll (Gary Glitter Song)
Apparently there is enough awareness so that there is a backlash against Gary Glitter and his recording of Rock and Roll Part 2.
OK, let’s back it up a bit. Deep breath here. A couple of you are missing my point. I never said that people in general who don’t know about Gary Glitter or his child molestation convictions are insulated and clueless.
I said that South Park’s school board is insulated and clueless. By definition, almost everybody within the context of the show is insulated and clueless. That’s what makes it South Park. It’s a quiet, little, redneck, podunk, white-trash mountain town. There’s almost a smugness about the population’s cluelessness. That doesn’t translate to the real world.
Also, you’d think at least someone in a school administration, say a music teacher, maybe, might know who Gary Glitter is and about his convictions and say, “Hey, do you think it’s appropriate to continue to use this song at school events? I have doubts about this and here’s why.”
Again, that’s why I found it amusing. I wasn’t comparing the situation to real life and real world people. I found it amusing within the context of South Park.
I apologize for my snarkiness in my previous post.
It’s worth noting that this is an important thing. Glitter lives off those royalties. It’s how he’s able to afford to go to Asia and screw little girls. Without it, he’s broke. I want him to be very broke.