My guess would be that it’s a joke the creators decided to play, much like the special Terrence and Philip episode to start off season 2 instead of the ending to the cliffhanger from season 1. Especially since Mrs. Cartman said that Cartman was still grounded because he tried to exterminate the Jews two weeks ago, which is when the Passion episode came out.
Best episode of the season so far IMO. There is a note on this one over at TVtome.com:
"This season’s Lemmiwinks episode was announced to originally air on this date, but due to a production delay its airing was postponed to a later date. Before the standard disclaimer appears, Trey’s voice is heard making the following announcement:
Due to this week’s tragic events in Hawaii the “Lemmiwinks” episode of South Park will not be shown tonight. Instead, we present the all new and slightly better episode, AWESOM-O. "
“Are you by chance a ‘Pleasure Model’?” Jeez, a hand job for Ben Affleck, who knows what with this studio exec., and Butters gives away his movie pitch money. Cartman has absolutely no luck with Hollywood.
I loved the lampooning of the ASIMO’s name by spelling it A.W.E.S.O.M.-O.
That aside, I so much prefer South Park when they’re not trying be socially relevant.
Heh. The scientist and the Pentagon staff all have no trouble believing in a robot that’s achieved consciousness (“Number Five is alive!”), but can’t imagine a robot that can fart.
And you have the hollywood writers who couldn’t have possibly come up with 2000 crappy Adam Sandler movie ideas on their own. They had to have Cartman do it.
High-larious. Cartman desperately eating toothpaste was awesome. Though I halfway expected him to be skinny when he finally took the box off.
Seems like the last few episodes have been a lot better than average, considering the dip the show went into for a while. Are we in a new Golden Age of South Park? Some of what they’re doing is approaching the high point that happened around the time the movie came out. Do we know if Matt & Trey are signed through just this season or if the network wants them back after this one is done? Maybe they’re inspired by a looming climax and want to end on a strong note.
I guess Butters didn’t lose an eye, after all. Nice to see that kid get a break for once. (Did you notice that his birthday is September 11?)
I have to wonder, though, if Trey and Parker know what “Catamount” means. I guess it’s a take-off on “Paramount”, but possibly they also had it confused with “catamite”.
[By the way: I missed a whole year of the show. How did they finally settle on one, permanent Kenny?]
They had a very special episode where Kenny died of a terminal disease and Stan had to come to terms with him dying. The next season they replaced Kenny with Butters and then Tweak. At the end of the season Kenny came back (literally, walked in to frame, Stan:“Oh, hey, where have you been?”) and he hasn’t died since.
Considering that the “Catamount Studios” logo looked like the spittin’-image of the Paramount logo – not to mention the fact that Paramount Pictures were the ones who released the South Park movie to the theaters – I’d definitely say it’s a take-off on “Paramount”.
I had to look up “catamount” in the dictionary when I saw this. Man, I had no idea there were so many different words for mountain-lion!