Yeah, this is a South Park episode I’ll probably never watch again, as are about 10% of the episodes that have aired so far. I get the feeling that the writers wanted to do a Britney Watch-themed episode, but weren’t sure where to go with it, and had NO IDEA how to end it until the last 24 hours.
So where is the doper discussion about how much of your head you can blow off and still continue living in real life? What if you followed it up with a hemicorporectomy and amputation of both arms?
The connection to the historical sacrificing of young women was the point. Good crops require a human sacrifice. We still do it but we drive them into killing themselves with excessive adoration and the pressure of endless following and flash photography. It was not as compelling a theme as some others.
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Maybe Wicker Man and The Lottery? I haven’t seen either in years.
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The Lottery (1969) is viewable in two parts on YouTube. After seeing this episode, I just had to see The Lottery again.
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The [mostly] headless Britney really squicked me out for some reason
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Yeah, me too, and I’m usually not all that squickable. I’ve always been a huge South Park fan but I turned it off at about the time her manager showed up at the hospital. I don’t remember any other time I turned off an episode because I just didn’t want to see any more of it.
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So where is the doper discussion about how much of your head you can blow off and still continue living in real life? What if you followed it up with a hemicorporectomy and amputation of both arms?
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Kinda reminds me of that headless chicken from a while back who wasn’t entirely decapitated and they fed him with a little eye dropper.
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Kinda reminds me of that headless chicken from a while back who wasn’t entirely decapitated and they fed him with a little eye dropper.
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Mike.
For whatever it’s worth, or says about me…I thought it was great. Seriously, I don’t think I’ve laughed that much in weeks. At least weeks.
BTW…what was with that sculpture garden that Kyle ran into? Movie reference? Real-world landmark?
Moderator notes: I’ve changed the thread title to reflect the actual title of the episode, since the prior title was a spoiler.
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What was that song they were singing/chanting in last night’s episode? It seemed be evocative of “Ave Satani,” the theme from The Omen, but the melody and, so far as I could make out, the lyrics were entirely different.
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According to the transcript at South Park Scriptorium, the words are
Hetus. Alte omnebus.
Virtu e poquebus.
Rectus. Hoc honebus
They are nonsensical Latin words that have no direct translation into English.
Ufabet has every script from all 12 seasons of South Park online for anybody who needs to refer to specific episodes. The latest scripts are usually up 2-3 days after the episode first airs.
I liked Butters’ resolute declaration that he was a squirrel. But not much else.
The ep had some funny bits but it really was the most heavy handed episode I’ve ever seen - pretty obnoxiously so at some points.
I had a really hard time looking at the Brittany with 2/3’s of her head gone. But they did make me laugh several times. Definitely one of the creepier episodes.