How about some love for this episode. I think it was maybe the best this season. The panic at the loss of the internet (which I think would totally happen just like that), the Grapes of Wrath references, Randy with the sick porn sites (loved the stick figure “simulation” porn). I loved how “The Internet” looked like a giant modem. I knew immediately that it just had to be recycled.
That was a great episode. I can’t believe some of the stuff they get away with, though.
I thought it was rather boring. I smiled maybe once throughout. Just didn’t catch on with me. I caught the Grapes of Wrath references and enjoyed how they pronounced California. Other than that, meh.
But I’m also the guy who thought the “Canada on Strike” was the best this season so far.
I thought it was pretty funny. The “simulated” porn site was hilarious. I also thought it was funny that the “Internet” was depicted as a giant router, and all Kyle had to do to fix it was unplug it and plug it back in.
Only twice a day – max?!
:dubious: Get real, Randy!
I really dug it when Shelley ran into Amir – in meatspace!
It’s ectoplasm!
I thought it was rather brilliant, and loved the multiple references (I am Legend, Close Encounters, War of the Worlds (?), etc.). Loved the old timers on the porch talking about what they’ll do when the internet comes back, love Randy’s never ending quest to beat off to bizarre porn- the audio of the Japenese schoolgirls vomiting was priceless. Also dug the acknowledgement that Playboy just won’t do once you’ve had internet porn. Randy’s m.o. while masturbating did hit a little close to home though. 
A keeper.
I thought the first 15 minutes were lame but it turned itself around rather nicely towards the end.
Hmm, I was thinking about posting how this was an especially lame episode. The simulated porn was pretty much the only thing that registered on my funny-meter at all. I’ve found most of this season to be pretty boring actually, maybe the internet has desensitized me to humor.
This episode did make a really nice point. Just what WOULD happen if the internet were to all suddenly go down. Because of the way the Internet was designed and implemented, there is a lot more work involved to shut down the entire thing than just a giant router which needs to be recycled. I did live the first 12 years of my life with no online access (and I’m sure many more dopers have gone the majority of their life without it), but it’s something I couldn’t imagine living without at this point. I get angsty like that whenever my ISP goes out for a couple hours…the difference is I actually SAVE my good porn for just such an occasion.
Was I the only one who thought some of the scenes were mirroring Jericho, or did Jericho just rip off Grapes of Wrath too?
Best episode of 2008…although it’s painfully obvious that every episode made this season was written and produced during the writer’s strike, so that they could take their time. The staff works much better under pressure…
:mad: Bite your typing fingers!
Some fun references:
Steven Spielberg look-alike on the Close Encounters keyboard.
Randy’s Steven Seagal-esque jacket from On Deadly Ground.
Wish they had not revealed The Internet was a big Linksys router until the end, because it was obvious what the fix was almost the entire episode. (I would have gotten a giant pen and pushed the reset button though.)
I wish, at some point, they would have tried sacrificing a goat to it.
Any Japanese speakers here who can offer a translation?
In the commentary(one of the best EVAR!) for Cannibal: the Musical, Trey Parker reveals that the Japanese dubbing of the “Native Americans” is actually him saying something along the lines of “This movie is so shitty!”. Bonus trivia from the same part of the movie, while “translating” for the rest of the group Matt Stone’s character also uses sign language; his signing can then be translated into “Jesus is dead.”
I just know that they snuck something in there this time too.
Fine episode; superb season.
Henry Fonda was drawn in briefly at the camp, but he did not say anything.
I liked the episode, especially the Grapes of Wrath stuff.
The initial freak-out was good and the Grapes of Wrath references were good at first.
The spooge scene was lame and predictable until he said, “it’s ectoplasm!” which was hilarious.
Other than that a pretty weak episode. None of the eps this year have especially blown me away. I’m far from shouting ‘they’ve lost it,’ though. Last fall was some of the best stuff ever.
I thought this episode was just fantastic once I was able to tell my inner computer nerd to shut the hell up about the impossibility of it all. The giant Linksys router was perfect. “See that light that’s blinking orange? Well, it should be solid green.”
A lot more work is an understatement. You’d have to not only cut hundreds of millions (billions?) of wires in every city, town, and village in the world, but you’d have to ensure that nobody fixed those wires, too! Don’t forget that this is a network that was built from the ground up to be so decentralized that it could withstand nuclear war.
I wonder if there really are people out there who believe that there’s some building out there somewhere that says “INTERNET” in giant letters on the side, and that if someone pulls a 9/11 on it, that the Internet would be no more. Considering the techno-ignorance of the majority of the population, I’m sure there are.
“And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.”
-Sen. Ted Stevens
Damn, I just googled “asian girls puking on each other”. Damn, I really wished I wouldn’t have googled that let alone watch it. In my defense I did close it after four seconds.
I can’t make out the very first word they say, but the rest of it basically goes: “<something> is cute, isn’t it?”
“Yea, it really is!”
“Me too!”
“I really like (implicit subject; probably vomiting)”
Also, I’m pretty sure that’s Trey Parker doing the voices, which is pretty disturbing. :eek:
Considering that many of our public library internet users can't seem to understand that the internet isn't actually in the library building, I'm certain that there are. ;)