SP E1014 - Stanley's Cup, short and sour. Dry, with no substance. A pretty dumb piece of work. As dead as (as put in the episode) Steve Irwin in a tank full of stingrays.
First off, I'd like to say that I've seen every episode of SP and have enjoyed most of them, even the ones that make fun of things I side with...but this episode was the worst display of South Park that I've ever seen. I can appreciate the poke at cheesy, cookie-cutter sports flicks (especially having some of the incessant male-hugging scenes evolve into Brokeback Smooching) and their trailers, but it left me feeling like I'd pretty much wasted my time. I understand that it wasn't making fun of cancer kids, but the death in the end was put there for a laugh (Kenny doesn't count for comparison, given his immortality). Additionally, after the backlash from the Irwin joke in Hell on Earth 2006, you'd have thought they'd at least wait awhile before poking fun at a dead man again. Irwin did stupid things, and he would've probably laughed at the Irwin jokes, but he did leave a family behind. How tasteless can you get, rubbing it in? Yeah, yeah, free speech and all that, but I honestly think that crap like this is an abuse of rights.
Of course, the more people talk about it, the more people will see it...but I don't see how it's truly worth it. I was thinking of picking up the first few seasons on DVD, but now I'm having second thoughts.
(edit: thinking back, the annoying narrator was the episode's only redeeming aspect; Ike got too little attention to be much of a factor)
First off, I'd like to say that I've seen every episode of SP and have enjoyed most of them, even the ones that make fun of things I side with...but this episode was the worst display of South Park that I've ever seen. I can appreciate the poke at cheesy, cookie-cutter sports flicks (especially having some of the incessant male-hugging scenes evolve into Brokeback Smooching) and their trailers, but it left me feeling like I'd pretty much wasted my time. I understand that it wasn't making fun of cancer kids, but the death in the end was put there for a laugh (Kenny doesn't count for comparison, given his immortality). Additionally, after the backlash from the Irwin joke in Hell on Earth 2006, you'd have thought they'd at least wait awhile before poking fun at a dead man again. Irwin did stupid things, and he would've probably laughed at the Irwin jokes, but he did leave a family behind. How tasteless can you get, rubbing it in? Yeah, yeah, free speech and all that, but I honestly think that crap like this is an abuse of rights.
Of course, the more people talk about it, the more people will see it...but I don't see how it's truly worth it. I was thinking of picking up the first few seasons on DVD, but now I'm having second thoughts.
(edit: thinking back, the annoying narrator was the episode's only redeeming aspect; Ike got too little attention to be much of a factor)
Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2006-11-17 15:50:35)
