I’m surprised there’s no thread about it already. I have to admit, there were some hilarious, laugh-out-loud, moments for me. Ike, was hilarious. Miley Cyrus references were funny. I don’t know the NFL, who was the player that was taking Ike’s vitamins? I laughed a lot.
Tom Brady, supermodel-marrying New England Patriots QB. I don’t know if his selection has to do with anything, they’re doing pretty good. His coach has been referenced on South Park (the “how can I reach these keeds?” one).
Decent episode. It probably had too much going on, though. The Intellilink parts were a bit repetitive, and I don’t know if the social commentary was on the mark. And Mackey usually doesn’t get so worked up!
I just didn’t want to be the one who started the thread. The Obamacare thing really bugged me, making it hard to watch. I mean, they’ve shared their political viewpoints before, but they were always well thought out. This one’s message seemed to be that computers are horrible and can’t do anything right. They flipping make their entire show on computers. It was just dumb.
The other stuff was pretty funny. Though I don’t get why Kyle and Ike’s parents didn’t seem at all worried about Ike. At first, I thought there was some episode I’d missed. Then I thought they were going the route of saying it was a Canadian only thing.
But, still, waiting for the Intellilink stuff to get smart kept me from liking it too much.
It’s also not so out there. There have been similar instances of schools mismanaging some software, and continuing to invest in it when it’s obvious they should pull out. In those cases, it’s usually someone school PIC’s brother who owns the company or something. A better joke than the next episode’s “done before” kid needing to translate between English speakers.
If some aspect of a South Park episode doesn’t make you squirm, they are off their game. I can’t imagine the viewer who agrees with every second of every episode.
As a newcomer to Colorado, driving through Denver and seeing exit signs for Aurora, Littleton and South Park still freaks me out a little.
Yeah, but there’s a difference between “My beliefs are being challenged” and “This is hitting some off-key notes and just doesn’t work as commentary or humor”.
I didn’t say it was overly political. In fact, I went out of my way to say that wasn’t the problem. I said it was stupidly political, making a point that made no sense. Part of what made the episode fall flat for me was that I was distracted trying to make it make sense in my head.
But, no, the message, clearly stated at the end, is that you never do anything important via computer, as computers will always mess it up. It actually feels like they pulled their punches, really. The actual conservative/libertarian position is that it’s fucked up because it was handled via the government and not private industry.
That’s the only argument about the whole thing that actually makes sense–that the bungling of the website shows that the government isn’t ready to handle something that was originally handled by the free market.
It does not make sense to convert that into “computers are evil.” Because, guess what? Your prescriptions are now sent by a flipping computer. Every pharmacy uses a computer system to keep track of your medications. Yet there is no rash of Ike/Manning mixups.
The humor fell flat for me because the satire was bad.
I got distracted and didn’t catch the very end, so if they explicitly made the point that doing anything on a computer is bad, that is stupid. But from what I watched, I thought they were saying that contracting out your IT work to a 3rd party and just blindly trusting whatever they say is bad. Part of why I got distracted is because I thought the rest of the episode was lazy/uninteresting. I actually liked what I saw of the healthcare satire, though.
However, you did preface your argument with “their political viewpoints”. I guess that really had nothing to do with it and one could be equally dissapointed that they didn’t hammer Obamacare more thoroughly. Maybe that is down the road.
Were they slamming the ACA (i.e. “Obamacare”) itself or just the technical bugs of the rollout? I mean computer glitches… yay… some classical satirical potential, there, it’s just… yay… such a sacred cow… yay… oh, no they din’t…
…yay…