Wow! After a funny if not totally dazzling episode, I was flat-out astonished to see Prisoner Saddam as the PM of Canada! I guess this was planned a month or so in advance and Paul Martin becoming PM was no secret although they didn’t mention his name. But wow! I know they can edit right til the last minute but mad props to Trey and Matt, and it fits in perfectly well with the whole theme of the show, Saddam being a major character of theirs and all (although I wonder what he’s doing back on Earth).
I guess Terrance and Phillip were off doing Shakespeare at Lincoln Center or something, because we didn’t see them. What was the joke with Scott? Was it a takeoff on Scott Thompson? But he’s not that grumpy. I get the feeling he was supposed to be the new PM until Chance dropped a golden oppurtunity into their laps. And the boys HAVE been to Canada once before, to the Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, where we heard the whole last scene of Hamlet in Canadian accents.
I found it to be a thoroughly enjoyable episode. But yeah, they have a quick turnaround. A few years back they had an episode with the kindergarten class deciding on a class president and a girl named Flora couldn’t make up her mind that aired a few days after the election debacle.
I suspect they had the episode ready a while ago with a different ending, and simply “repurposed” it with new Saddam footage. Hey, the original might even have had Saddam as the new PM and all they had to do was C&P the beard photos. Still a work of comic genius.
What, no offended Canadians on this thread yet? Where you at, hosers, eh? Lost on your one road?
Plus they had the whole big musical number and parade at the end where they talked about “the Americans catching Saddam” or something. So it wasn’t just sticking in a photo. Even if they reworked only the last three minutes, that’s still a hell of a quick turnaround.
And I thought it was a moderately weak episode, redeemed only by the killer ending. The square wheels on the cars cracked me up, though.
Did you notice that behind the curtain it was his little ‘spider hole’ complete with fan & air pipe!
Very seldom am I totally surprised by comedy, but that was un-f***ing-believable! To see the barely 3 day old bearded Saddam turn to the camera and say, “Uh-oh!”
I think the character of Scott was from the 2nd season ep which everyone forgets about (and refuses to like), “Not without my Anus”. Everyone hated it because they were supposed to show the “Who is Cartman’s dad” episode and as a joke they showed this one instead. Everyone got all pissed off (I thought it was a hilarious thing to do!)
Anyway, I think Scott was Terrence & Philip’s arch enemy who hated them because, “Farts are not funny!” And because he’s just a dick. This was also the episode where Saddam first appears and he takes over Canada. They kill him at the end with poison gas, i.e. by farting!
Scott was supposed to be Canada’s version of the Wicked Witch of the West. (Duh.)
For me, Cartman’s wailing in wuss pain at the end seemed out-of-place for ol’ Jew-hatin’ grand-schemin’ Eric C… They showed his mouth open wider, and in a weirder (and may I say Batman-logo-like) shape, than I’ve ever seen before, which was eerie. I’d expect that of Mirror Universe Cartman-with-a-goatee, but not of the real mccoy.
But that’s what made it funny. Cartman likes to talk tough and can come up with evil schemes aplenty, but get a little Jew to slap him in the face and he cries for mommy.
There is no traditional animation in SP; they use CGI, and an entire episode takes 4-5 days from start to finish. A bunch of their episodes are topical to the week they air.