I missed the first 10 minutes, :smack: . Clever place to hide a bomb 
, but they got the accent a little off.
Wow. That was graphic.
Charles must be so happy.
Was that whole episode supposed to be a parody of something? It seemed like it kept referencing some movie or something that I was unfamiliar with. What was the deal with all the clocks?
It was a parody of the Fox show *24 *.
But did the episode actually take place in 22 minutes?
I loved Cartman’s logic at the end. “My intolerance of Muslims saved America.”
A solid parody episode, and a great running joke of how much information could be gained from public social networking websites.
Not to mention another solid entry into “Stan is the only sane one in a fucked up world.”
Oh, ok. Thanks. I’ve never seen that show. Was it a well done parody?
The expressions on the Muslim dude’s face when Cartman was farting at him were hilarious.
I thought so. Cartman’s portrayal of Jack Bauer (played by Keifer Sutherland on 24) was very humorous. Jack is a member of a government counter terrorist unit in LA. Cartman’s hoarse, emphatic whispering was a spot on parody of Jack.
They bugged me, because they looked out of place in South Park. The 3D movement of the British ships annoyed me also. I used to love the slapped together in a garage look that South Park had even after it began raking in the money.
I thought I had read somewhere that HRC had used a deeper Southern accent than she normally has on a recent campaign appearance in the South (sorry, no, I cannot find it now, but I’m sure I read it.) Probably a reference to that.
Bingo. Apparently her put-on Southern accent wasn’t subtle or convincing. At its most egregious, politicians’ (as with celebrities, tourists, etc.) aping a local accent crosses a line from accomodating friendliness to minstrelsy. Damned patronizing, really.
I’ve never watched “24” but guessed that the parody was either of that or directed more generally at movies like “The Peacemaker” (which had a Serb nuke terrorist), “Air Force One” (which had Russian terrorists), “The Sum of All Fears,” a short-lived TV drama about a counter-terrorism unit, etc. But of course, those stories lacked the horrifying element of apple-juice farts.
There was a moment, when the multiple sets of suits were jockeying for control on the scene, that I thought the bomb would be allowed to detonate, to underscore the inefficacy of the federal bureaucracy in homeland security.
And the scene listing our nation’s historic enemies “the Germans,” “before that,” “the Germans again” segueing to the circa-1812 English fleet was hysterical. At least, it had me in stitches. The whole episode was a brilliant return to their “Team America” form, in which the view of the world is subjectively textual, derived from Bruckheimer-like movies and, in this episode, our heroes’ fourth-grade-level of knowledge. (As if they’d just learned a smidgen about our colonial history and these images of George III-era Britain were still fresh in their minds.)
Hillary didn’t try to use a fake southern accent to fool anybody. During a speech in Alabama, she momentarily put on an exaggerated accent when quoting some song lyrcs. It was a joke. It wasn’t intended to fool anyone into thinking that’s how she really talked. Fox News and the righty-sphere lied about what she did, ran tapes of that one moment out of context as an attempt to imply that she had talked that way for the whole speech, and pretended to be offended. Now the meme has entered public consciousness that she used a southern accent to pander to the audience (something Bush has been doing for years, by the way), but it’s total BS.
that’s something that bugge me mildly about the episode. Satire is only funny when it’s based on something truthful. The Hillary accent things was not.
I thought her voice sounded spot-on at first, then got worse as the show progressed, until the very end when she’s effectively quoting Scarlett O’Hara. That seemed pretty satiracle to me - although whether they were taking a shot at her, the news reports, or both is up for question.
Damn-I’ll have to remember to catch the Saturday repeat.
“Not anymore I’m not”
This was my favorite part of the episode. I lost it right here.
“Who got rid of the Muslims huh? That was all me!”
This episode was genius. One of my favorite ever.
right down to the “the bomb is set to go off…WITHIN THE HOUR!” - a reference to the fact that the climax of each one hour episode of 24, being an hour of show time, must subsequently occur at the top of the hour. If you live in 24’s universe, you can pretty much expect that something bad is going to happen about 10 minutes before the hour, every hour.
Snook in the sniz is now one of my favorite things to say. I haven’t giggled and laughed at a South Park this much in a long time.