As usual for South Park after it airs a few high-profile media-baiting episodes, last night’s edition was a smaller-scale riot. Read the full post.
Apr 29
2010
10:05 AM ET
'South Park' staged its own 'Intervention' in 'Crippled Summer' last night
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I agree with J707, it was awful.
It just goes to show that you can show Buddha doing cocaine and a shark raping a handicapped child, as long as it doesn’t piss of muslims.
One of the worst South Park’s ever. Those beach camp scenes with Mimsy just dragged on and on… it felt like watching a 6-hour History Channel documentary.
J707 wins flawless victory. As I watched I became more and more convinced Trey and Matt did this to show Comedy Central/Viacom that if they don’t stand up and give them support well hell they’ll just phone in unfunny, no-effort, Bugs-Bunny-template-clone, time-killing crap like this. At first I thought oh they’re going for all the golden age characters hey where’s Foghorn Leghorn but it quickly became clear this was a calculated effort to do as little work as possible to make a point. Spoofing Intervention takes no time. Anybody else feel the change of tone and jolt of humor when Cartman’s diatribe about Jew shapeshifters showed that Trey and Matt can be funny when they want?
I appreciate all the effort being made to construe the episode as a subtle response to the censorship of 201, but I just don’t buy it. Matt & Trey have shown us countless times in the past: if they want to address an issue, they actually address it. They’ve never relied on such indirection in the past; it’s unlikely that they’re relying on it now. More likely is the fact that they just moved on, not knowing what to do / how to handle what happened over 201.
I saw similar apologies for them when the original censorship of 201 occurred. A lot of people kept on trying to float this idea that the near-complete censorship of the last 5 minutes of that episode was some sort of ‘meta commentary’ or ‘meta joke’ by Matt & Trey about censorship and Mohammed.
Which was a good theory. Except that it was completely wrong. They came right out and said ‘there was no joke about censorship there–we just were censored by Comedy Central’
We shouldn’t make excuses for them not facing up to what happened over 201. It was timely and relevant and they ought to have commented on it. Instead, we get a shark rape. And no, that’s not the point. It really is just a shark rape.
I thought this was one of the poorest episodes ever. I love South Park, and will continue to love it, I just think sometimes you lay a dud. It happens. I think they need to get away from spoofing shows though. How many have they done? Let’s see….Supernanny, The Dog Whisperer, 24, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Whale Wars, Intervention……it’s getting kind of old. I miss the random, creative madness….such as Jackovasours, Butters Very Own Episode and the ones involving Satan.
Still love you, South Park, but love you more when you don’t copy the style of the show after other shows so much.
This episode was the worst of the season. I stared in complete boredom the whole time. Anyone who thinks this episode is funny obviously don’t know what funny is.
loved the episode. thought it was awesome. Laughed the whole way through.
Unfortunately, I was bored by it, probably because I have never watched “Intervention.” Or shows about summer camps, for that matter. It was gratuitous, as always, but not funny with it because it was so repetitive and predictable.
Probably doesn’t help that I hate Towelie. He is an unfunny and tiresome character. If Comedy Central is going to censor something, couldn’t they go after the drug-addict towel?
Only good parts involved Butters. LOVE Butters. MORE BUTTERS!!
Just a poor episode, which Towelie episodes invariably are. I’m a massive South Park fan, but lets be fair; this wasn’t the best. In fact, barring two or three good moments, it was one of the worst SP episodes ever made. Indeed, without the shark rape scene it would have been THE worst episode ever made!
This episode was simply brilliant. But , yeah .. just goes to show how retarded censorship can become. My country is the ass of the world though.
They aired South Park on VH1 and censored even ‘bitch’ and ‘ass’ etc , and why? Cuz apparently , Indians love the ‘beep’ sound. They go all out ‘omg ! what could THAT *beep* represent. Damned Idiots!
By far, the best episode this season, and one of the best ever in the history of the show!
The host is hot he has a very strong voice. the ntntestacos should be segregated and sat down in seats if possible ntntestacos that have went up should stand aside and the ones that haven’t should have a shot also remind the ntntestacos to be more enthusiastic don’t stand there like a bump on the long