# South Park 4/4/07 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817 "2007-04-05T02:33:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/1 "2007-04-05T02:33:38Z")
Pretty decent ep. I liked seeing that pompous asshole Bill Donoghe (sp?) get slagged. Dead on too, since he’s only a Catholic in order to get pissed at people. Also Kyle and Jesus was pretty funny. You don’t understand. I’m a Jew. I’ve got a hangup about killing Christ. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/2 "2007-04-05T02:39:12Z")
-He’s not saying anything! -Exactly what Jesus intended. Great episode. Hare Club for Men. Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/3 "2007-04-05T02:52:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/4 "2007-04-05T04:31:22Z")
“Eric Cartman can never know about this.” BRILLIANT! Also, was Jesus wearing sidelocks? Loved Jesus’s bladed Ninja throwing star, tho it should have been a hexagram!_G_ ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/5 "2007-04-05T04:44:15Z")
“Put the two Jews in a cell…” And they grab Kyle and Jesus. Awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/6 "2007-04-05T05:21:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/7 "2007-04-05T05:24:07Z")
Bill Donohue’s had it in for Matt and Trey for a long time. I’m surprised it took them so long to get back at him. ---
**Author:** ![Valerieblaise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Valerieblaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valerieblaise)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/8 "2007-04-05T05:30:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/9 "2007-04-05T07:36:45Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] “Eric Cartman can never know about this.” BRILLIANT! Also, was Jesus wearing sidelocks? Loved Jesus’s bladed Ninja throwing star, tho it should have been a hexagram!_G_ [/QUOTE] dude wasnt that Krull? from the movie? > **[Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](https://www.yahoo.com/)** > > Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo! scroll down its near the bottom of the page. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/10 "2007-04-05T11:01:39Z")
Good episode, I was laughing so much… I didn’t hear that the guy’s name was Bill Donahue at first, I was wondering who he was… Rove, Cheney? Any other white old man in government? They’ve done parodies of movies and TV series so far this season, right? They’ve been pretty good. 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! ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/11 "2007-04-05T13:45:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/12 "2007-04-05T13:56:09Z")
[QUOTE=Snickers] I don’t know what Bill Donoghue looks like [/QUOTE] [Here’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Donohue.png) a picture of him- he looks pretty much as he did on the show. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/13 "2007-04-05T13:57:55Z")
[QUOTE=KarlGrenze] 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! [/QUOTE] Only on the SDMB will you get a sentence like that in a thread about South Park. Funny episode though. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/14 "2007-04-05T14:13:49Z")
Here’s the [wiki page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Donohue) 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. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/15 "2007-04-05T14:44:05Z")
[QUOTE=Critical1] dude wasnt that Krull? from the movie? [/QUOTE] 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.** ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/16 "2007-04-05T15:04:59Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/17 "2007-04-05T15:15:36Z")
True, but Jesus’s Glaive (Band Name!) had the blades pivot out and lock just like the Glaive in Krull ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/18 "2007-04-05T15:27:04Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] 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.** [/QUOTE] Strange, I thought it was a reference to the movie Blade. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/19 "2007-04-05T17:41:08Z")
[QUOTE=Diogences the Cynic] 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. [/QUOTE] You also have to give them credit for avoiding the all-too-easy “Pope Benedict looks like Emperor Palpatine” jokes. [QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] The sunglasses? That’s just cause Jesus is **BAD. ASS.** [/QUOTE] 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). ---
**Author:** ![FlightlessBird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cdc98d/32.png) [@FlightlessBird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlightlessBird)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817/20 "2007-04-05T17:57:48Z")
Another one for ‘definitely the glaive’. Here’s another shot of the [glaive](http://www.remotecentral.com/dvd/krull-2.jpg) 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-4-4-07/398817.md?page=2)