So far I’m enjoying it, much funnier than last week.
You mean 11/6, the one with Obama as a key character?
First good episode this season. Did not see the Jewel thief angle coming. And the funny thing is I was at a drunken impromptu street celebration last night. Not quite as extreme though.
I loved it. Ike being in on the whole thing was the best part.
My computer says today is Wednesday, November 5th. Unless I’m not getting the joke…
I know it takes about a week to do an episode. Since Obama and McCain were actually working together there were SOME scenes, (not all, like with Obama in the Oval Office) , along with the kids getting Ike to the hospital.
Do you think they just presumed what was going to happen? Think they planned for the outcome to be different at all? Just wonder how they approached this one.
This episode was GREAT. I love Palin’s second persona.
Was just about to say the same. Boom baby!
“Where are my pants? And where’s my TV?!”
I guess they were just going to switch out a few scenes and change the t-shirt logos and some dialogues if McCain won.
Yup… easiest thing in the world for them to do… they already have all the scenes and animations set up… swapping the obama stuff for mccain stuff woulda been simplicity in itself.
Most likely was they simply had that done already, and just produced two versions of the episode. I bet a ‘mccain wins!’ version will leak someday, or show up on a dvd.
Didn’t they make direct references to Obama’s speech last night? Like the ‘getting kids a puppy’ bit?
It seemed that they had some stuff from McCain’s concession speech (especially the “Aw no come on!” after McCain said it was his fault that he lost, not the fault of his supporters), and they also had some stuff from Obama’s victory speech (the bit about how Melia and Sasha will get a puppy). So they’ve got to be able to do <24 hour turnaround on some scenes, at least, which is damn impressive.
Well, they can do the voices at any time, so its not that impressive. In the thread about the episode where Kenny gets a PSP, someone mentioned what kind of software they’re using. Given that the animation’s gotten a lot better (more high deffy), it seems obvious to me that they’re constantly upgrading their gear. They might have a deal like Lucas had with SGI, where they get to play with the “toys” before they’re released.
A good ep, and I have to wonder if the Obamas aren’t going to be recurring characters. (I also liked Michelle saying “Fuck it!”)
I’m still impressed. A huge number of scenes were contingent on an Obama victory, not just signs and dialog but every scene where Obama was in the Oval Office and therefore the guy in the secret tunnel, as well as the ending. I do wonder what their backup plan was. Or would they have really animated 2/3 of the show in – what – 20 hours or so? That’s remarkable.
I’m glad that the commercial kind of teased it as an “Obama is trying to take over!” plot, and that they didn’t go there at all.
This isn’t the first time they’ve had a ~24 hr turnaround on an episode. Remember Christmas in Canada, one day after we got saddam, they had saddam as the prime minister of Canada.
There were a lot of obama-centric parts as well besides those already mentioned… dunno if we’d have everyone going nuts in the streets about “CHANGE!!!” and “everything’s different now, you can do whatever you want” if McCain won. I think they just assumed it was inevitable and began the episode before the election.
All they would have to do is change Obama being in the Oval Office/Tunnel to McCain. They use some good software, and it’s almost as easy as just going in and saying “delete Obama character, insert McCain character.” All the backgrounds and other characters in the scene can stay put.
Awesome episode. Finally.
Boom baby!
This is why people who say the show is dead are full of shit. A show can have a slump without being dead or jumping the shark. This was the best episode since Imaginationland. If they do crap the rest of the season this still makes up for it. Hilarious.
Re: the timely stuff; they’ve said before that they’ve put off even starting an episode until the night before it airs, so this is nothing new. I doubt they made two episodes or designed the script to be easily flippable.
I agree 100% South Park is nowhere near dead. It’s true they’ve had some crapola episodes recently, but this and Imagination Land are brilliant.
That’s an awfully low standard. All the episodes since then have been horrible.
But this one was much better than the other episodes this season.
I theorize that if McCain had won, those parts would’ve parodied “blacks/liberals/everyone will riot if Obama loses!” predictions.