South Park‘s “Insheeption” episode on Wednesday night started out as a parody of Hoarders and ended up a critique of Inception. Stan, with his school locker full of maggot-ridden sandwiches and junk, was diagnosed a hoarder by Dr. Chinstrap.
He had a therapy session with guidance counselor Mr. Mackey — also a hoarder. Dr. Chinstrap took Stan and Mackey into “memory regression,” and the episode turned into an extended spoof of Inception.
I could have used this South Park a few months ago, when Inception was in theaters and causing me headaches, reading and listening to people trying to explain its insufferably prolix plot. Or as someone told Stan’s mom last night, “You don’t get it ’cause you’re not smart enough.”
The episode had some nice touches. Stan’s father entered Mackey’s dream and discovered he was a happy butterfly. South Park made the connection between the dream ideas in Inception and those of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. And then there was Woodsy Owl, who turned out to have done something naughty to Mr. Mackey when the latter was a boy.
Oh, and the “sheep” in the episode’s title? They belonged to a sheep herder, mistakenly drawn into the plot. Because it was thought he was hoarding sheep.
Not the greatest South Park, but amusing enough. Agree? Disagree?
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I love South Park, usually. I guess I am like Sharon, just not smart enough. They do get a pass since the Jersey episode from last week was just fantastic and is bound to become one of those special episodes in my heart like Casa Bonita. Thanks to you I can sound half intelligent explaining it to my husband.
I don’t care if it was dated, I laughed my butt off. I haven’t laughed out loud repeatedly during a South Park episode in a long time.
I actually agree with LBoogie, I laughed all the way through and thought it was hysterical!
I thought it was great. Woodsy Owl killed me every time he showed up, especially in his evil incarnation.
I’ll admit, I giggled every time he started with the “background noises”.
@ tracy bluth : so did I, it was so hysterical, but it’s also very true that Hollywood uses enthralling musical compositions to sell the most absurd, convoluted and overly ridiculous plotlines to audiences.
Weakest episode of the season so far, but then again, all of the others were hilarious
Liked it way better than the Nascar one. The one Dr. making all the noises in the background when they were explaining stuff was hilarious.
Background doctor was HILARIOUS!!! Wasn’t the best episode ever, but enjoyable. I laughed out loud a few times.
Liked, didn’t love the episode, as always Randy has the best lines in the episode as a beautiful but-ter-fly ha. So funny. Check out the full review below
http://uberscoop.com/?p=3020
Randy Marsh is definitely South Parks most underappreciated character … and he was phenomenal yet again as a butterfly. “I’m off to find some butterfly poon!”
The guy providing the soundtrack was hilarious.
Agreed. He was easily the best part of the episode. Without him it would have been “meh,” but because of him I actually laughed.
South Park is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the criminal One-Termer who destroyed our Gulf Coast, our troops and our once fine nation. He has already lost 2012. Fact.
Thanks for the laugh. It’s a great way to start the day.
LOL
Oh how I wish I knew who you were!!! It’s very easy to spew your mentally-ill diatribes with the comfort of internet anonymity. Yeeeah, Parker & Stone are the poster children of liberal bias, no doubt (must hold back laughter!), they make Seth McFarlane look conservative (must hold back…).
You pathetic braindead douchetroll, Obama is gonna win 2012 just like Clinton did, albeit not by as large a margin, but good enough. There is NO republican who can make him lose in 2012, and THAT’S a FACT.
ps: A part of me feels conflicted about roasting this bum ‘cuz his post is so ridiculously & cartoonishly over-the-top (I’m not even sure your average teabagger would dare argue SP was left-wing) that I suppose he could always easily be a liberal mocking the worst kind of right-wing fanatic by inserting typical braindead rightie diatribes into subjects where it is completely unwarranted and have absolutely ZERO relation to what they’re bitching about. Even so, I think liberals who do that are really annoying & wasting time ‘cuz there are plenty of far-right kooks writing this kind of vile nonsense daily in topics with actual political connections (i.e. any “Daily Show” or “Faux News” topic), so why be a “satirical” troll when there are plenty of REAL trolls to be found in other topics??? Stupid!!
WTF? What are you on dude? It’s a comedy show. It’s funny and I don’t care if Parker or Stone are liberal or conservative! But as for the show? I thought it was terrific!
What the heck does south Park have to do with President Obama? BTW, BP spilled the oil, and the country has been going downhill long before Obama was in office. Nixon anyone??
Thank you John! If some idiot wants to make political comments, let’s state the FACT that it was George W. Bush that started the country rolling downhill, and Obama’s administration is just trying to clean up his mess!!
this country started going downhill when george washing took office no there is a total douchebag liberal rightwinger with a teaparty agenda this is a south park article why is it that someone always has to bring in politics even when the article has nothing to do with politics?
Ha
So they started in 1998 in anticipation of a black president?
I like SP but recent episodes have lost that magic… still my favorite show on TV.
I like SP but recent episodes seem to have lost that magic… still my favorite show on TV.
Inception really wasn’t that complicated. They spent the entire first hour explaining the rules and how everything was going to be executed. Here’s a fun graphic for it:
http://techland.com/2010/08/03/how-to-understand-inception-in-one-easy-chart/
Doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy the human beatbox version of the Inception score, esp. the sheep being used for the horn sound!
“They spent THE ENTIRE FIRST HOUR explaining the rules and how everything was going to be executed”
(caps added by me)
Not complicated. Not complicated at all.
Paraphrasing Stan’s mom: Just because an idea is unnecessarily complicated doesn’t make it cool.
It wasn’t as good as the Jersey episode from last week, but it was still pretty funny. We hadn’t seen or heard much about “Inception” so I’m sure some of those references were lost on us. Even so, it was an entertaining episode. Loved the whole Butterfly Randy bit. It’s so typical of him.
My favorite episode this season. Which they waited a month for Blu-Ray release of Inception, but still thought it was great. When the Doctor grabbed goat and pulled its tail – brillant!
I like Southpark but I am sick and tired of them making fun of Cable shows over the past two seasons they have had episodes covering the following shows
-Hoarders, Nascar, WWE, Whale Wars, and Jersey Shore.
loved it.finally someone makes light of the people with disorders because they cant clean..please just clean your crap up
Southpark ain’t what it used to be before the whole Muhammad debacle. I think Parker & Stone lost their balls after that. Now the jokes are so tame and controlled that it aches my heart
“tame and controlled”
–the jokes aren’t funny???
Al Quaeda crashing airplanes into American citizens (albeit Jersey folks) is “tame and controlled”?
South Park should tackle controversial issues like health care & gay marriage