Good episode :D. I always love it when Cartman rails against the hippies. The funniest part, for me, was when the mayor came on with the bandage over her head, revealing that, well, she really doesn’t have anything between her ears.
I didn’t like it at first… but it’s kind of grown on me. I seem to have met more than my fair share of know it all university hippies and they are kind of irritating. Especially when I make the mistake of asking “DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO CHE GUEVARA WAS!!!”
Hmm. You have a point.
College Hippies during the day, Drum Circle Hippies at night. All hippies, all the time.
Gah!
Not-nearly-a-hippie piping up here.
I thought this episode was a riot, with the exception that at least in one instance, the music at the festival sucked harder than even an average baked-to-the-gills hippie would tolerate.
The Phish lookalikes are the ones that come to mind specifically. I actually like a pretty fair percentage of their music, because it’s actually well-played and not as prone to the medium-slow noodle dancing tempo as a lot of other bands working the territory. That’s really the only place where the parody didn’t ring right.
However, in the course of my radio gig, I have heard more than my share of really soporific weedly-weedly-wee jam bands. A lot of the music in the show outside that one example did sound awfully familiar, and not in a good way.
I think the joke with the mayor was more that they were going to freak out the South Park fanatics by making them think that she was dead (the same way they did with Mrs Crabtree), and then show later in the episode that she infact wasn’t.
Yeah, I was actually thinking at that moment (when she pulled the gun), how are they going to keep her alive after that? I assumed she wasn’t dead, but since Mr. Garrison is now Mrs. Garrison, who knows… maybe they were going in a new direction with the Mayor. Glad to see she’s ok :D.
It’s probably also a safe assumption you’ve never been in Washington, D.C. when the IMF and World Bank are having their meetings. True, those protests don’t draw an exclusively “hippie” crowd, but the meetings still bring all sorts out of the woodwork.
Was anyone else surprised not to hear the word “AUTHORITIE!” uttered?