Much better then the last two episodes, although the Mel = Daffy Duck thing went on a little too long.
The Mel=Daffy thing was a little over the top, but I did have to laugh out loud when they made the image complete by having Mel grab a gun and fire randomly while bouncing from his feet to his head and going “woo-woo-woo woo.”
I noticed in this episode that the animation seems to be gradually improving. Cartmen at a side angle kneeling in prayer, tiptoeing away from the phone, that sort of thing.
If we’re talking best lines, how about “I … have a friend who is a member of a certain … chosen people of Israel…”?
I hadn’t watched South Park in years, having drifted away around S4 and not had an incentive to go back after I heard they permanently killed Kenny. Just recently I’ve been on a mad DLing spree to catch up on what I missed. I missed a lot. Not many shows manage years of continual improvement, but this is one of them.
I noticed that, too - like when he bowed to the audience during his speech. Those’re some nice touches, but the style’s still pretty crude. Not that I’d have it any other way.
Anyway, not to repeat myself, but what was that photograph they flashed at the end of Kyle’s dream? It looked like Alan Alda, but that doesn’t make any sense. Does it?
Yep, that was Alan Alda and nope, didn’t make much sense. Still funny, though!
Just like the dog that crapped all over Butters in “Good Times with Weapons” two weeks ago.
I wonder why the whole world is suddenly developing explosive diarrhea…
Well, in Mel’s case, he was just trying to get someone to torture him.
I ask you, is that so wrong?
In America, all cartoons are for little tykes, and therefore must be whitewashed to the point of incomprehensibility.
I don’t see it that way. I don’t think they “erased” them at all. If you watch Cartman, he gradually gets more “Hitlery” as the episode unfolds. For example, at an early rally, the poduim has a red/black/white banner, and later it clearly has the Eagle with outstreached wings. I think the message was that he was moving towards something, and it was allowed to build to the logical conclusion. I was anticipating swastikas to appear on the armband and the banners eventually.
I think it would have been much less funny to have Cartman go directly from 8 year old to Neo-Nazi in one fell swoop. Him turning evil slowly, and duping the masses into following him was pretty funny, in my book.
Thats the way I saw it.
I agree. I had to laugh out loud whenever they showed Cartman getting ready for his MG Fan Club meeting, and he was dressed in the Hitler garb. And again when it progressed further with the marching and chanting in the “parade.”
Yeah, I noticed this too. Like in the “Good Times with Weapons” episode, when the kids were crying because their parents were “dead”- this was where I first noticed it (on Cartman).
On the same note, they also seem to be getting a bigger variety of photos from Corbis to use for some of the characters. I noticed Mel had a plethora of expressions. 
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They’re using Maya on a flock of SGI Octane2 workstations to render the show, for crying out loud! Quite a leap from the early paper and scissors days. It is simultaneously amazing and funny how they’ve had to create such crude textures and not have Maya do the photo-realistic work it’s capable of.
So, will Mr. Gibson be amused or pissed at how they portrayed him?
It was a fairly entertaining episode but I’m annoyed that they have been using the word “shit” in episodes, what with the horrible dragon and all.
Is there any word on what next week’s is about? Comedy Central’s ads say that it is new but I haven’t seen any previews for the episode.
One other point; this was probably intentional on the part of the creators, but as I was watching I suddenly got the parallel between Passion of the Christ and Braveheart. Remember when Braveheart came out, and everyone said pretty much the same thing?
“Good movie, but that torture scene at the end went on waaaayyyyy too long…”
And now Passion comes out and is essentially one great honkin’ big “torture scene at the end.” It seems like Mr. Gibson has a bit of a thing for torture scenes; anyone else notice this?
Or am I way behind the curve and everyone has already noticed this?
I hated Mel Gibson’s movie, and I love this SP episode.
Eh, they’ll decide over the weekend. 
When I heard Mel was making this movie, that’s the first thing that occurred to me: his penchant for scenes of suffering, a straight line from getting zapped by jumper cables in Lethal Weapon to the end of Braveheart. Personally, I really do think there’s something wrong with the man.
It was okay. My son and I watch sometimes, we knew it was about The Passion so we watched.
It seemd realistic.
The chanting freaked me out though.
German 1300 was a while back.
“We must the Jews [something]”
And what was Cartman chanting in the parade?
As far as I’m concerned, it’s impossible to overplay Gibson as a nut case in this situation. The man is disturbed and needs help.
I thought that most of the themes were very nice, but the execution (oops!) was poorly done. But complaining about that aspect of SP is pointless.
Years ago, Harper’s pointed out a disturbing number of Mel’s movies featured him getting tortured. IIRC, they even had a medical expert come in and point out the flaws in some of the tortures (like he’d die if they did the bit with the car battery IRL). He has said that it was thinking of Christ’s suffering which helped free him from depression. Methinks the Gibson children are going to be writing Daddy Dearest tell-all books when they grow up.
Car battery?