I am so going to hell for laughing at the bit about Obama’s grandmother faking her death.
I didn’t recognize Joe Biden anywhere in the episode… maybe because depicting a secretly savvy Biden would overly burden our suspension of disbelief?
They sometimes throw in contemporary - and I mean really contemporary - stuff into their eps. How long after Gore won the Nobel prize did he appear in the show wearing it?
I don’t think they would have made the ep in advance assuming Obama would win. After all, they called Gore for the 2000 election, and that threw them on their That’s My Bush!/Everybody loves Al sitcom thingy. I’d think they would have learnt their lesson.
Glad to see the boys back in good form. Another plot sitting just beyond the boundary of absurdity, tantalisingly out of reach of your sanity. Makes the show what it is, IMO
Well, going backwards I had to stop there because it was a highlight of the series. If you take it as one episode it would easily be top 10. This one was maybe top 25.
That was one of the funniest jokes of the episode, I thought. Everyone else was in on it… except for Joe Biden.
I think it was the Elian Gonzales parody episode where the said they’d been working all week on the new episode and then scrapped it late monday night and threw together a new one in 1.5 days. Comedy Central trusts them enough at this point that as long as the get it there with like an hour to spare, it’ll go on.
no cite because I’m too lazy to look it up right now.
(pretty good episode, too. My favorite was Palin’s accent shift. That had me chuckling.)
There was no second version. The crew knew Obama had it in the bag, and only had to wait for the actual speeches to animate JUST THOSE SCENES Wednesday morning. If McCain managed to win, then a “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment would have been the least of their concerns…
Woodland Critters Christmas was the fastest produced episode - they started doing it Tuesday night, to air Wednesday night, after scrapping a totally different Christmas special that they’d been working on since Saturday, which Trey & Matt thought was going to hell due to them getting really stumped. Listen to the commentary for that episode’s DVD…it’s probably the most interesting one they’ve recorded.
Best South Park episode I’ve seen since Guitar Queero. I loved that they WENT THERE with Obama’s Grandmother.
What do you mean? They’re not Democrats, if that’s what you’re implying.
Holy crap! That was a good episode too! It’s as if the less time they have to work on a show, the better it is.
I liked the generic heist movie parody. This is one of the very, very, very rare times where I actually like/have-seen the film/genre-of-film that they’re trying to parody. Really, it’s almost uncanny how much stuff they’ve parodied that I’ve never seen compared to what I have.
References to Ocean’s Eleven are here and there, up to the last scene where they are waiting for their flight out of town, complete with the same music as the fountain scene from Ocean’s.
Sort of like in school, when the paper you spend weeks slaving over gets only “C,” but the one you slapped together the night before gets an “A+.”
Couldn’t they just have done two versions of the same episode, one with Obama winning and one with McCain winning, and shown the Obama one? It’s not like they’d have to do any new animating in the twenty hours remaining, right?
He also says they figured Obama was going to win, so they didn’t bother producing a second version.
That’s cool. I was wondering how they did it *that *fast.
I could be wrong, but I think I heard Obama say, in his Saturday Address, “I hope South Park is funny this Wednesday.” 