Sometimes I think "South Park" is getting so bizarre that it will soon resemble its first season about as much as Kenny Rogers today resembles Kenny Rogers from 20 years ago.
Their effort to bring back Towelie last week in a James Frey parody was a painful face-plant of an episode. While last night's show was funnier, it was no less perplexing. Follow this, if you can:
The boys run into former Vice President Al Gore, now totally friendless, who has ditched his obsession with global warming in order to relentlessly pursue, Captain Ahab-like, a creature known only as ManBearPig. The hunt takes them to the "Cave of the Winds," which could just as easily be called the "Cave of the Mistaken Penises." There is a rock slide, and the boys are trapped. And at some point, Cartman begins shitting copious quantities of lost treasure.
Really, I'm being totally serial!
I'm not sure how much it helps to see it for yourself, but I thought that at least the cave bit was funny.
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I loved it.
Posted by: Queer Conservative | April 27, 2006 at 04:47 PM
In fact...it was Super Awesome!
Posted by: Queer Conservative | April 27, 2006 at 04:54 PM
I can't believe they got away with those, um, rock formations.
Posted by: Yum Yum | April 27, 2006 at 05:34 PM
it wasn't their best episode but the friendless attention-seeker al gore was pretty funny.. and i laughed out loud at the "mushroom-shaped" stalagmites and stalactites.
Posted by: el polacko | April 28, 2006 at 02:27 AM
Excelsior! Those rock formations were funny.
Posted by: Queer Conservative | April 28, 2006 at 09:37 AM
Cave of the Winds is a Colorado Tourist LANDMARK!!!
Posted by: Cave of the Winds | May 04, 2006 at 08:30 PM
Are you serial! That's super cool!
Posted by: Queer Conservative | May 04, 2006 at 08:44 PM
That episode was hilarious. I just love it when South Park makes fun of global warming or any other leftist pet cause.
Al Gore is an idiot, and i'm glad they made fun of him
Posted by: Dave | May 06, 2006 at 04:34 PM
whatchu talking about? Al gore rocks!
Posted by: to dave | May 06, 2006 at 06:17 PM
What are you talking about al gore is a homo.
Posted by: kurtis | May 09, 2006 at 08:51 AM
we mus all stop manbearpig
Posted by: sam | May 09, 2006 at 04:53 PM
we must all stop manbearpig.
Posted by: C-dude | May 10, 2006 at 12:52 AM
You're right, as far as I can see, the Oprah episode was crappy-- the beginning and ending were hilarious, but the attention starved butthole was fucking stupid.
Manbearpig was classic and beautiful.
Posted by: C-dude | May 10, 2006 at 12:53 AM
Yeah - the minge should have aimed higher.
Posted by: Queer Conservative | May 10, 2006 at 08:58 AM
Im serial!
Posted by: Hemp | May 10, 2006 at 06:17 PM
"The world will one day say, thank you Al Gore, you're super awesome. Thank you class. Excelsior!"
This was a really good episode. It seemed more like their old material, before they started spoofing recent events, when wild and wacky things happened all of the time. Like Scuzzlebutt. Al Gore was cerialy funny.
Posted by: Raindog | July 08, 2006 at 05:05 PM
You are aware that they were making fun of Al Gore's Global Warming campaigne right? Fact is, I've met many people who watched Gore's "documentary" who laugh at him all of the time now. He tells us POINT BLANK that global warming/freezing events have happend at LEAST 6 times according to the geological record. SIX TIMES. Apparently the earth has a cyclical global warming/cooling period that JUST PLAIN HAPPENS -I'm super serial-. So he's a JOKE because we didnt cause the first, second or third, or fourth, fifth or even SIXTH periods of freezing/warming so why do we feel this one is our fault or within our power to 'stop'. We need to learn how to live through it, because you will not stop it. IT IS MAN BEAR PIG in other words, and he's an idiot.
Posted by: Ricci | May 22, 2007 at 04:49 PM