What the heck was that??? I can usually understand what Matt and Trey are aiming for, but they totally lost me in this one…
And no Kenny or Cartman??? WTF?
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Lips_Obsession is an ordinary Doper, but tonight, (s)he will learn that not all South Parks can be easily explained
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Lips_Obsession is Confused! 
I kept waiting for someone to slug that guy
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Seconded.
Stone. Parker. Don’t tease us! :mad: :mad: :mad:
Think The Mighty Ducks and every other horribly cliched sports movie that you’ve ever seen…
The sad part is that they were pretty much spot on with the peewee hockey scenes…they had the same thing at Mellon Arena, and while it’s cute to see the little ones on the ice…there weren’t exactly breakaways going on in the action.
BTW – is there such thing as ice hockey for four-year-olds?! :eek:
Whoever thought that up should be staked out on the centerline during a Stanley Cup final! And every broken bone counts as a goal!
Hockey for 4 year olds doesn’t allow checking, in the United States or Canada, so it’s not really a big deal.
It was just a satire of movie plots – not any single movie plot, but predictable, formulaic movie plots in general. The kind that kind be exposited in 30 second trailers. One of the gags was that they kept deliberately doing the opposite of what the formulas always dictate.
I thought it was funny.
[spoiler]I liked how the evil super-badass team turned out to be as bad as Stan’s team.
Ike as the Canadian ringer was good, especially since his main skill was being able to actually hit the puck more than a few feet.
The ending with the Red Wings was sick and hilarious, especially how it looked like they were in their own different trite sports movie.[/spoiler]
Aren’t the Red Wings the ones where the fans throw octopi on the ice? I would have loved to see the little kids freak out at that. Poor widdle guys.
The last shot, though, was even sadder than the dead whale on the moon.
Yep there is such a thing as 4-year olds playing hockey. And they are so darned cute! The Mighty Mites play between periods at Canes games, and it looks pretty much like what you saw on SP tonight.
I got home from the Canes/Rangers game and turned on SP…YAY! more hockey! I thought it was an OK episode. Definitely not Matt and Trey’s best work, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I sort of liked a Cartman free night after the last 2 weeks shows. YMMV.
Did anyone else feel like they were going back to the well a little too much in this one? You’ve got the making-fun-of-sports-movies gimic they used in “Asspen”, the kids-sports motif they used in “The Loosing Edge”, and the movie-voice-over bit they did in the Rob Schneider episode (which one was that?). Also, the Randy-gets-obsessively-involved-in-Stan’s-activities plot is an old standby (e.g. “Something You Can Do With Your Finger”, “Make Love, Not Warcraft”).
This wasn’t a bad episode, but seemed kind of stale.
Oh my god. That was really, really twisted.
Which is why I loved it.
Actually, they carefully follow every step of the “underdog sports movie” formula while simultaneously underlining this fact in red ink, only to lure you into a false sense of emotional security before the final few minutes, when they pull the carpet out from under the whole thing with a twisted anti-climax that gives the exact opposite outcome you’ve been hoping for.
The entire episode was a big, brilliant sucker punch. It made me feel like Steve Irwin in a tank of stingrays.
“It’s as if his cancer was… tied.”
I watched this with my parents, and laughed my ass off. Of course my mom thought it was awful.
It had every cliche in a sports movie that I could remember… I saw
the pee-wee team playing a pro team (though I predicted the avalanche)a mile away. I actually spoiled it for my parents. Ooops!
My favorite part had to be the first game montage, set to Song 2 by Blur (WOOO Hoooo!), and nothing happening at all, except for little kids sliding around and sometimes getting hurt just doing that. At the end of the game, the puck is seen to be in the exact same position as when it was dropped by the ref at the beginning.
They took the sick kid thing as far as it could go.I loved it.
“Coach…Does God hate me?”
I loved this episode.
I thought this episode was brilliant. I laughed the entire half hour. The whole Stan’s dad being so involved in his life is not a stale motif, it’s continuity. That’s how he is.
One of the better ones this season. I nearly wet myself during the first hockey game.
WOW!
So people here loved this episode? I was amazed that they had managed to cram so much suck into a half hour. Honestly, while I saw humor potential in this one, there was no actual humor as far as I was concerned. YMMV
And I really wish the Redwings had spent the end of the episode beating up the jerk with the record player! Talk about beating an unfunny joke into the ground!