Am I to be the offical South Park thread creator from now on?
An average episode, IMHO. Not as good as last week, but better then the first one.
High points included Wing singing in the boxing ring, unfazed by the guy punching her and Cartman screwing up the cell phone gag. Stallone’s mumbling was amusing as well.
Anyone know what City Wok guy was shouting at her in Chinese(I assume it’s chinese)?
And it appears we now know City Wok guy’s name, but I keep missing it. Kim something. Anyone catch it?
Interestingly, the website at the end is real, and the samples provided sound very much like her singing in the show. Is Wing listed in the credits? I also wonder how Matt and Trey stumbled across her, because I’ve never heard of her in my life before this episode.
Actually, they did it. If you can re-view it, check out what Kyle says as he enters the room with Cartman and Stan, and Stan’s response. It’s paraphrased, but it’s there.
What is the address of that website?
I liked how the entrance of the kids marching ‘into certain death’ -style atmosphere (no weapons, no plan, against an army of guys with machine guns) – just like so many awful movies that have shown the ‘good guys’ getting about eight THOUSAND rounds of machine guns fire shot at them where every single bullet misses. Then one of the kids picks up a fun, fires randomly without a clue and manages to slaughter everyone in the room. After watching Hannity discuss the Schaivo case, any Southpark episode is going to be good in my book.
This episode just wasn’t funny. The only part I chuckled at was during Token’s singing scene (with the winking and the pointing and all that).
Oh, okay, and Cartman using Abraham Lincoln as the famous celebrity. That was worth a “Heh.” Everything else, though? Not funny. This is supposed to be a comedy, right?
We all just assumed Trey and Matt had a major blow-up with their own agent last week, and dashed the episode out quickly as a result. It wasn’t anything special, or terribly memorable, though. I still loyally watch the show and follow anything they do, but so far this season definitely seems like Trey and Matt are on auto-pilot.
Something else I noticed but forgot to post. Do you remember how many women were left in the pageant when Token came on to sing? 16. And some of them really didn’t look like pageant finalists, even by South Park animation standards (underdogs lasting longer than they should have?) An obvious NCAA tournament reference to me. I wonder if it was originally scripted that way, or added at the last minute. I’m sure if I could have read some of the sashes, it would be more obvious.
Alas, I cannot replay anything, Honest Turtle. I never record these things, and have yet to discover the wonder that is Tivo.
I took this to be a slam on Colorado women – they’s ugly (at least according to Trey and Matt). The sashes had town names, but most of them seemed to be in Spanish (another dig at Colorado that a non-native like myself doesn’t get?)
If they wanted to do something with the NCAA Tournament, they could have done it two weeks ago with Kyle getting his operation.
What a bleh episode. Not particularly funny or thought-provoking. The Stallone gag was ancient and went on for way too long.
I went to the website mentioned at the end of the show and was pretty surprised to find out that Wing is apperantly a real person. With a whole bunch of cover albums. For some reason I really like her. No idea.
This struck me as a way in-jokey installment that made them and a handful of their friends laugh, but is either old hat or entirely opaque to the rest of us.
And to think, three weeks and two days ago I was so excited at the thought of new episodes…
I’m kind of suprised that this week’s episode wasn’t related to the whole Florida/Schiavo thing. It would have been nicely timed on wensday, because next week it’ll probably be too late.
Or have they already done an episode about assisted suicide/right-to-die/etc?
I know they did one about stem cell research, that didn’t seem quite the same thing…
I wouldn’t be so sure of that. Several of the episodes featuring asian languages have had authentic, err, language spoken/written.
Examples:
-the recently aired episode where the children are recruited, via the Japanese “Chinpokoman” cartoon, to bomb Pearl Harbor featured real Japanese. I know this because my wife speaks Japanese (somewhat… not fluently). She was climbing out of the shower while I watched it. There is the scene in the classroom where Cartman spouts some Japanese and then farts. My wife stopped, midway between bathroom and bedroom, stark naked, and parroted him in English “Hey guys! Guys! Listen! (poot)” complete with a lifting of her leg. (kinda surreal watching a Korean woman parrot a cartoon farting in Japanese, but this is the life I lead…) While she was dressing, she continued to translate the Japanese she was hearing; all of it made sense in the context of the show, and even agreed with the parts that actually had subtitles in English.
-the episode where Barbrady confesses to the town that he cannot read (specifically the note from the ‘chicken lover’); he drives away after the confession, and shortly thereafter stops at a stop sign. He looks at the sign, and (showing he cannot read it) the letters kind of swim around for a second before settling into what would be gibberish if you could not read Korean (I can). The stop sign read, in Korean, “Mong-chong-i”; literally “Moron”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Chinese was also authentic.
Having said that, however, allow me to agree that the episode of 3/23 was pretty weak.