Good send up of The DaVinci Code. I also liked the skewering of Bill Donohue. He couldn’t deserve it more. I liked that they took it kind of easy on the Pope and made him show some sincere concern about adhering to a Christian ethos. It would have been easy to make him evil. I’m glad the took the high road…well, maybe more of a medium low road…still pretty good for Parker and Stone.
Heh … I didn’t even know there was an actual Bill Donohue. The character looked to me like Karl Rove. I spent the episode trying to figure out what he was doing there; he’s EVIL, certainly, but his particular evil didn’t seem relevant to the episode.
Oh, holy everloving crap, that was funny. I never read or saw “The Da Vinci Code,” but it was still a hoot. And the marshmallow Peep explosion was an awesome bonus.
Count me up as another one who thought it was Karl Rove. I don’t know what Bill Donoghue looks like (or really who he is, even), but they guy looked a ton like Karl Rove. And the character was the bad guy, which absolutely fits Rove.
Medical observation: Poor bunny was at risk of a lumbar fracture at L6-L7 all the time the kids were holding it… Support its hind legs!
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Only on the SDMB will you get a sentence like that in a thread about South Park.
Here’s the wiki page on Bill Donhue. You can see from the picture that he does kind of look like Karl Rove but that’s just a coincidence. He turns up on cable news shows a lot as a screaming head.
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dude wasnt that Krull? from the movie?
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Definitely the glaive. It’s been ages since I’ve seen the movie, but I’m pretty sure that was his throwing stance. I can’t recall if that’s how the Beast died, though. It wouldn’t surprise me.
The sunglasses? That’s just cause Jesus is BAD. ASS.
Re. Jesus’ throwing star, I’d just watched AVP [Alien Vs. Predator], in which the Predator badass who links up with Sanaa Lathan uses one, to good effect. And the star’s a returner, too, boomerang-style, although no real boomerang would be able to make a return like that after slicing through something (and I have experience throwing boomerangs).
There must be a zillion action flicks that feature spiky, multi-armed large throwing stars of some sort or another…
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Definitely the glaive. It’s been ages since I’ve seen the movie, but I’m pretty sure that was his throwing stance. I can’t recall if that’s how the Beast died, though. It wouldn’t surprise me.
The sunglasses? That’s just cause Jesus is BAD. ASS.
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Strange, I thought it was a reference to the movie Blade.
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I liked that they took it kind of easy on the Pope and made him show some sincere concern about adhering to a Christian ethos. It would have been easy to make him evil.
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You also have to give them credit for avoiding the all-too-easy “Pope Benedict looks like Emperor Palpatine” jokes.
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The sunglasses? That’s just cause Jesus is BAD. ASS.
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Actually, I thought that was a reference to Neo in The Matrix (especially since the Matrix movies are rife with heavy-handed Neo=Christ references).
Another one for ‘definitely the glaive’.
Here’s another shot of the glaive
Now we just need a shot from the ep to compare.
I would have liked it if there was a mention of the fact that there were thousands of HCFMs around the world. I mean, they’re rabbits, there should be more than one descendant! In fact they should have killed Snowflake only to have a few hundred more pop out of the crowd.