Geek Addicts - Episode 31: Lets Talk About South Park!

[00:00:00] , the following is a GNC podcast production. Welcome to Geek Addicts, a pop culture podcast. What's up everybody and welcome to Geek Addicts. I made a new intro this time. Yay me. Hey Matt, how are you doing? I'm doing alright. How about yourself?

[00:00:47] I am really tired. This week was brutal. Yeah, we're not recording in the afternoon this time. Oh yeah, we did record and I forgot about that. Oh geez. So what's new with you this week?

[00:01:04] Yeah, not much. It was just we just got off Memorial Day weekend so it was a short week. Somehow that makes it feel longer. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

[00:01:19] And not a whole lot's gone on this week, mostly just trying to catch up on getting back into the work grind. It's the end of the month so all the bills are coming in which is always fun.

[00:01:31] Yeah, end of the month is always kind of stressful time at my work because it's when all the managers are running around like crazy trying to figure out where all these last minute jobs are going and where they are.

[00:01:43] I don't know. It's funny because like you know early in the week I'll start getting a bunch of jobs that aren't due for like another three months or longer, and then when the end of the month comes is when I start getting all the stuff that was due at the beginning of the month.

[00:01:57] I was like where was all of this? Yeah. Yep. Now that that's basically my job just all the time is, I swear everything there is always just no one knows what the fuck's going on.

[00:02:10] Yeah, I'm actually getting like swamped right now. I have a ton of work, which is weird because it hasn't been like that for like a year. I mean that's good, I guess in hindsight. Yeah, I'd say so. We're actually kind of light on work right now. Oh really?

[00:02:33] Well I mean, you got to imagine people got plenty of a supply of golf balls while it was still cold and now that it's warm people actually using them. So I'm sure it'll pick up. The golf the golf ball part of the company is still busy as hell.

[00:02:50] Just for us because we're technically a maintenance department. We're just pretty caught up right now so we're just kind of...

[00:02:57] Summers are always kind of slow for us because a lot of the stuff we need isn't necessary right now. It's usually once the fall hits that's when everything starts breaking. Gotcha. Gotcha. I had a question for you. What's up? So with persona, the...

[00:03:20] Are there some personas that are just better than others? Or is it like, okay. Because like, I didn't know if like ultimately like they all have like the same potential, so to speak, or if some of them have better starts than others or...

[00:03:40] Let's just say, any chance you have to go into the velvet room and mess around with personas always do it because you'll... You're bound to always make something better. And if you screw it up, you can always bring back an old persona with the compendium so...

[00:03:59] Yeah, well I asked because like... Like I've still been like going in and experimenting and like mixing stuff, trying to make new stuff. If for no other reason than to add more stuff to the compendium. Also to free up space when I fall up.

[00:04:16] But like, I'm at a point now, like I've had the same persona for like a while in the game. And the reason for that is because... Maybe it's just because I'm such a low level. Like comparatively like to somebody who's doing a new game plus or something.

[00:04:32] I can't make anything better than I have. And because I get so many... I get so many like arcana cards that raise stats.

[00:04:41] I get those so constantly and my stats are getting boosted so much that like nothing I make is going to be better than what I have. So here's a little strat for future playthroughs and possibly still this playthrough.

[00:04:56] You want to actually make personas of all the different arcana? Because having high level personas of a certain arcana... So say like you have a priestess arcana, like persona. And it's decently high leveled.

[00:05:11] You actually get a boost when you're doing like say Yukiko's social link for having that persona. So you actually do want to have these... Like a full selection of personas of different arcana choices because that helps you with the social links immensely.

[00:05:29] Yeah, well I try to do that anyway because I mean maybe I just misread it. But I was under the impression that you couldn't continue a social link if you didn't have that kind of persona. No, no, you can do the social links. The social links...

[00:05:44] So some of them get kind of roadblocked by like stats like your courage isn't high enough or stuff like that. The social links, none of them are really roadblocked by not having a specific... Well, some of them are. Some of them have to do with persona fusing.

[00:06:00] Like Margaret's social link is entirely based around using personas. You can actually theoretically if you're high enough leveled and you have enough time and patience, you can actually max Margaret's social link in one day. Oh wow. Because it doesn't require time.

[00:06:19] You do it all in the TV world. You just basically have to go around and use personas. And once you fuse a persona that she wants, that's how you get the social link up. Gotcha.

[00:06:30] It's worth doing because it unlocks a super boss at the end of the game. But it's not the easiest thing to do on your first playthrough. I gotcha. Yeah, I was just curious because I've been using Eligor like pretty much from the beginning.

[00:06:44] Like I think I got him early on and just... I think I had him specifically because he had like a higher strength than anything else I could... I had at the time. But at this point I've gotten so many Arcana cards that like...

[00:06:58] Even all of his regular stats are like normal, but like his strength and endurance are like far and above anything else that I could make or anyone else has. Like his endurance... he's level 30 and his endurance is like almost 60.

[00:07:13] So a good strat to have as well is like if you're ever going through like an old dungeon again just to like grind. Have like... swap out your persona so you gain stat boosts on the other ones in your party just so you can get them higher levels.

[00:07:28] That makes sense. It's... you know, honestly it's kind of hard a first playthrough. A second playthrough it's significantly easier because you have all your stats already maxed out. Yeah.

[00:07:40] Well I mean that's the thing is until I am able to get a better persona I'm just going to stick with Eligor. But I mean it's been going well for me great so far. So... What difficulty are you playing by the way? I'm guessing normal. I don't remember.

[00:08:00] I usually do normal if... like whatever the middle ground is. Okay, so that's like the safest way to play. Well yeah, the safest way if you want to have a challenge. Yeah. Yeah. My games need to have at least a little challenge.

[00:08:15] It doesn't have to be like, you know, balls hard but... Well... Persona 4 Gold is amazing because the... The very hard mode, the description for very hard is literally, do you hate yourself? Yeah. Which I love. I've done a very hard playthrough once and it fucking sucks.

[00:08:36] Like it's not worth it. Yeah. Very easy mode is fun too because that's literally a... You can't lose mode. Yeah, well see for me is like... Like I wouldn't be against doing like a hard playthrough on a game but just you know...

[00:08:53] I have limited time to play games so I'd rather not spend my time like struggling for however many... Like struggling for two hours to beat one boss. Like I'm not about that life. I'm not 12 anymore. I don't have the time for that shit.

[00:09:07] Yeah and in an Atlus game normal mode makes you do that anyways so... Yeah, no shit. But yeah I've actually put a decent amount of time into that game this week. I have Kanji on my team now. I booted Yosuke. Poor Yosuke.

[00:09:26] Yeah, Kanji is a good party member. I swap him out every now and then. The only permanent party member on my team besides the main character is Yukiko just because she's the best healer. I just love that Kanji just beats people with random furniture.

[00:09:40] Well he starts with a chair then he gets a desk and then he gets a shield. A shield? That's lame. I was hoping he would just like have a trash can or something. Like just random ass shit. Yeah. Oh man. Sneak peek for our eventual Persona 4 episode.

[00:10:01] Yeah, I'm sure there will be little updates as we go along because it's a big game and you know it's a lot to do. Yep. Besides that I finished Sandland this week because the dub is done.

[00:10:16] I gotta still do that. That was my goal for probably this weekend. It was good. I don't know how far it was when you watched it but it's some fun little twists in it. I think I got like four episodes into the second arc.

[00:10:32] I think it's only like... Because I think the seventh episode of the show is like half ending the first arc and half beginning the second. I think so. So it's like six and a half episodes per arc.

[00:10:47] And that's just it for the whole...that's just the whole show which I'm totally fine with just a solid 13 episode show. It was fun. Yeah, I've liked what I've watched so far so I'm looking forward to finishing it. Yeah.

[00:11:04] Also actually right before I came over here I showed my wife the first episode of Jujutsu Kaisen and she seems really into it already. Oh, I hope she's ready to be depressed. She watched Attack on Titan. She's primed. There I guess. Oh boy.

[00:11:26] Aside from that, nothing too much else new this week. Yeah, I didn't do a whole lot. My copy of Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door finally came in today. Oh yeah? Yeah, it was a Middle Eastern copy. That's bizarre.

[00:11:44] It's because Amazon is kind of shit and like if you buy a brand new game off Amazon, sometimes they'll just send you a European copy. That's so weird. I've actually heard...because a new Stephen King book dropped I think last week.

[00:11:58] And I've been seeing a bunch of people online being like, hey I pre-ordered this like months ago and they just cancelled my pre-order, refunded me because they didn't have enough stock. It's like do they not keep track of how many pre-orders they have? No.

[00:12:11] Make sure they have enough. I mean I got mine so I'm satisfied. I've actually almost finished it. I'm on like the third to last story. Which actually is a couple of those...a couple of stories in that that are really, really good.

[00:12:24] There's this one called Danny Copeland's Bad Dream.

[00:12:27] And it's about this guy who just like randomly has a dream of him finding a body and he has it like a couple times and he's like alright I'm just going to go to this place and just try to get it out of my head.

[00:12:39] Just going to go to the place and you know prove to myself that it's just a dream so I can go on with my life. And then he goes there and he's like well fuck there's an actual body there.

[00:12:48] So he goes and buys like a burner phone to make an anonymous call to the police just because I guess there's like a dog eating it or something.

[00:12:55] So he makes an anonymous call just so the police can pick it up and like the body could be taken care of and shit but then like they pretty much track him down and think that he killed her.

[00:13:05] So like the whole story is like just him trying to prove his innocence and shit. It's a really good story. That's where I feel like Stephen King is at his best is when he's doing like those kinds of like two, three hundred page books. Yeah.

[00:13:22] Right now I'm reading the, it's actually a sequel to Cujo. Oh cool. And it's really interesting because when I heard he was writing a sequel to Cujo I didn't know it was going to be like a direct sequel.

[00:13:34] So based on that because the title is called Rattlesnake and obviously like you know Cujo is about like a rabid animal. So in my mind, like I didn't think it was going to be a direct sequel. I thought it was just going to be like related to it.

[00:13:47] So like you know some fucked up thing was gonna happen with a snake and it was gonna bite somebody and it was gonna be something similar to like going rabid.

[00:13:53] But now it's like actually a direct sequel. It's about like the dad but like now so he's like in his 70s. I have to look into it. You know, you know, it was really funny about the, you know, it was really funny about the Middle Eastern copy though.

[00:14:11] What's that? It had a North American game inside. So weird. Like I got it in the mail and at first I was confused because it didn't have like it didn't have an ESRB rating on it. So I was like that's weird. Yeah.

[00:14:26] So at first I thought it was like a bootleg or something and then I flipped it over and it said Middle Eastern region. I was like that's odd. And like half the wording on the back was in English and the other half was in another language.

[00:14:42] What's funny though is I opened it up and then the ESRB logo is there so I was like that's weird. So I looked into it and I guess that's just how they sell Middle Eastern region games.

[00:14:51] They just put American like it like North American NSTC carts in there. I was like that's bizarre. That's so weird. So I mean it's kind of like I got this guy and I got my medieval remake for PS4. They sent me that the case was Spanish.

[00:15:08] Everything was in Spanish but the game was like I want to put the game in and actually played it. It was English. Amazon's weird like that. So sorry. But hey I mean if it plays fine then whatever I couldn't give a shit. Yeah. Yep there's that.

[00:15:28] Other than that though not much else happened this week. You got 15 minutes cold open which probably start with the topic. Yeah so our topic for today's episode is we were thinking about going a little different. We're not talking anime, gaming or anything this time around.

[00:15:51] We're actually going to be talking about some American television. We're going to be talking about South Park for an episode. Which is like pretty much the adult animation of our generation. It came out like right after we were born.

[00:16:07] Late 90s like right at the end of the 90s I want to say. I want to say 96, 97. Should have done my research for this. Let's see here. South Park first aired 1997. Yep. Yeah that's what I thought. Yeah that's wild. I can't believe it's gone so long.

[00:16:39] I mean I can because it's like it's always kind of current and relevant with whatever is going on in the world but they also got away with a lot of shit. Yeah it is the most timeless.

[00:16:52] It's like the most timeless adult cartoon because like The Simpsons definitely has it on in terms of like length and like running time but The Simpsons hasn't been relevant in years. Family Guy's never really been relevant honestly.

[00:17:10] Which I guess kind of works in its favor in a lot of ways because it's not really like rooted in a specific time. Yeah. King of the Hill had its run and apparently it's coming back so that'll be interesting. Yeah. Futurama refuses to die.

[00:17:28] Yeah this is like its third run maybe fourth. Third reboot. Well yeah South Park has always kind of been there in the background. I can't tell you about any other adult animation because I've never watched it but yeah.

[00:17:44] Was South Park ever canceled like how Futurama has been or has it just been continuous? South Park has never been canceled as far as I know. I guess that makes sense because. I mean Man and Trade tried to get it canceled once.

[00:17:59] Yeah well apparently this is not happening. You remember that when like they were making fun of cancel culture so they just made that petition online cancel South Park. Yeah.

[00:18:11] Well I think by that point they just knew like you know we've gone through decades of going as far as we possibly can and nothing has worked so I think at this point we're just good.

[00:18:23] We could just say whatever and everyone's just like oh that's South Park at it again. Well what amazes me about South Park is it is literally since its inception pretty much been the same two guys.

[00:18:34] Obviously they have more guys working for them but it's always been Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Yeah I feel like the only way South Park will ever die is if one of them dies honestly. Or just doesn't want to do it anymore.

[00:18:49] Yeah well I mean if you keep it going for almost 30 years and you still got ideas you still have plenty of motivation. I feel like it's not going to dry up anytime soon after that long. Plus they do pretty much all the voices.

[00:19:06] I mean there's obvious exceptions like obviously the female voices are all different. Isaac Hayes was there for a while. Yeah. We'll get to that later. Yeah it's crazy though.

[00:19:21] It's funny looking at the old episodes where they actually were all papercraft animated and then you look at the modern ones that are all digitally done now. Yeah it's wild to see honestly.

[00:19:36] This is kind of like if this was made 10 years later it would have been a YouTube internet show or Newgrounds or something. Yeah kind of.

[00:19:47] It's really funny like you go back and watch the pilot episode Cartman Gets an Idol Probe and it's like it is weird to watch because it looks so different from what the show is now. Big time. Big time.

[00:20:00] Especially since they don't even really do like the oh you killed Kenny thing anymore. But they did it like when you go back and watch the old episodes it's like literally every episode. So we're not going to do a full retrospective where we go throughout season to season.

[00:20:14] We're going to kind of jump around kind of like we've done with some of our other retrospectives but I want to start with Kenny because Kenny is to me one of the most interesting characters on the show just because they have literally done everything with him. Oh yeah.

[00:20:29] He started off as legitimately a one joke pony where like the entire joke was he just died every episode and would come back and no one would question it. Then they straight up just killed him for an entire season. Yeah they gave him like leukemia or some shit.

[00:20:44] Yeah and he just like there's the episode Kenny dies he just dies and like straight up an entire season. He's just dead. And then he comes back and literally the last episode his response is literally oh hi guys said they're like oh hey Kenny where have you been.

[00:21:00] Then they, they stopped killing him every episode and they would only kill him when it was funny. Then they made it an actual continuity thing where like he literally can't die. Like his entire, he's like a superhero. Yeah, Mysterion.

[00:21:14] Every time he dies his mom just gives birth to another Kenny and it's just an unending cycle. When I saw it the first time like my jaw hit the floor I was like what the fuck.

[00:21:26] We should, we should say like every episode massive spoiler warning for anyone that hasn't seen that at this point. I mean I think most people know by now but. I think if you haven't watched South Park at this point like what are you doing with your life?

[00:21:38] Yeah, we've seen an episode here or there. Yeah.

[00:21:42] Kenny's a funny one where it's like they he's like the perfect example of the long running joke where like they ran into the ground and just completely changed it to something else and just made it they basically became self aware with it, which is just funny.

[00:21:54] And I love that Kenny has like some of the funniest lines but you can only really tell what he's saying if you're really, really listening.

[00:22:01] Yeah, he's only really shown his like face like a few times in the show like famously in the movie when his final line in the movie is saying bye guys and he was voiced by Mike Judge, the creator of King of the Hill and Beavis and Butt-Head which is really funny in hindsight.

[00:22:17] That is fucking funny. Yeah Kenny, Kenny's a great one.

[00:22:23] Yeah, one of my favorite things is when they do the whole Mysterion thing with the Coon episodes and they did the whole like oh I'm gonna reveal who I really am or whatever and he just like you know like moves his mask over.

[00:22:34] But it's just, it's just the cut out face for everybody has in South Park so. Yeah. Everyone's just like oh but you don't actually know who it is until the later ones.

[00:22:44] Well, they actually they trick you at the end of the episode because they make you think it's Kyle. And then Mysterion actually shows up and he goes hey thanks for taking the fall for me. And it's like yeah. Super funny.

[00:22:56] Yeah, they don't really even reveal it right away until he actually like shows his whole like death thing and it's like oh shit. Yeah with the Cthulhu stuff. Yeah, they got really deep with that.

[00:23:08] I've actually been replaying South Park The Fractured Butt-Hole like recently and like that game is still like an A plus to me. Maybe I need to get back to that maybe um, maybe I'll maybe I'll switch between that and persona.

[00:23:23] That'll be like my more casual just chilling out game. So I can't play that can't play that one around the kiddies though. Yeah, yeah especially. So I have to say watching South Park on like HBO Max or like the DVDs is really funny to me because it's uncensored.

[00:23:44] Oh yeah. And it's cool they just drop all the bombs and stuff and in one of the most recent specials, they did a special called Not Suitable for Children. And it's mostly making fun of like only fans and like prime energy drink and stuff like that.

[00:24:04] But in the episode Randy wants to become a an only fans model so he's literally the entire episode not wearing pants and it's just straight up dong everywhere. It's like Jesus, you can't watch this shit. Yeah, I'm not like current current.

[00:24:26] I know I caught up at one point. I know I at least saw as far as Mr Garrison becoming president. Yeah, that was an arc.

[00:24:36] And then after that like I had seen like the next few arcs after that and some of the specials but I couldn't tell you. Like because they've done a lot of specials and stuff in the past few years, and I definitely haven't seen them all.

[00:24:51] So I think a season at one point, they've done I don't think I watched that. So since the pandemic will so the the pandemic special and the vaccination special are considered season 24. And then they've since done season 25 and 26 which are both six episode seasons. Okay.

[00:25:16] And then they do like two specials in between each season which is which has been nice you're getting a bunch of content. So yeah, for sure. Yeah, I think up behind at least a couple of the specials.

[00:25:28] I will say season 25 and 26 are really good like they have really kind of found themselves again. To watch some of that this weekend. Yeah.

[00:25:39] That being said though going back to some of the characters we, we'd be remiss if we didn't talk about a possibly the most infamous character on this show. Eric Cartman. Yeah.

[00:25:52] And he kind of like jumped the shark with his fucked up this, like pretty early with Scott Tenenman episode.

[00:26:01] Yeah, that one's darkest fuck especially the reveal that you find out later that he's actually his half brother, which is yeah, he actually fed his own father to his half brother. And he wasn't even upset about it. He was just upset that his dad was a ginger.

[00:26:18] Oh god. I think it's even funnier because the episode, I think it was earlier on when they snuck into Cartman's bedroom to like dye his hair and like give him the curls. Turned him into a ginger. Then he like rose up as like Ginger Hitler.

[00:26:38] Yep, he sure did. Wouldn't be the first Hitler joke with Cartman. There's one in season 26. So Cartman is literally like, he's, he's supposed to be kind of like the epitome of like having a bad opinion, just about everything.

[00:26:56] Because like literally all of his takes are terrible. And I think that's kind of the joke because like, he's meant to be just this awful character. Yeah, he's the guy they put there specifically for you to hate. But you also kind of love him because he's fucking hysterical.

[00:27:13] You love him for his antics, but you also, you just want him to fucking get it because he never gets what's coming to him except for the one time that he did, which is still my favorite episode of the series ever.

[00:27:26] And that is a breast cancer show ever. Oh, when Wendy kicks his ass. When Wendy gets so fed up with him, she just beats the ever loving shit out of him.

[00:27:36] And it is the most satisfying ending to that episode because it's like he had it coming and she finally just said fuck it and just beat the ever loving shit out of them. Yeah.

[00:27:48] It's always funny to whenever like you know he's just being a little shit and one of them will just pop them one and it won't even be like a serious like punch it just be like a little, you know, hey, hey, just pick out. Yeah, yeah, man.

[00:28:06] Yes, so Cartman's had his ups and downs over the years. Trying to think another character. I mean obviously you got Stan and Kyle and they so Stan and Kyle are basically just like self inserts for Madden Madden Trey.

[00:28:22] Yeah, and they get like they get paired together like constantly. Because I believe Kyle is supposed to be that stone and pray is supposed to be our Stan is supposed to be Trey Parker. Their little inserts. They've had some interesting character arcs as well over the years.

[00:28:40] Like I still remember the Jersey episode. Oh god, I love that one. So many things happened in that episode. Yeah. They did a they did they did the cast of Jersey Shore very dirty in that episode which is kind of funny.

[00:28:57] Well, I mean to be fair they do everybody pretty dirty so they're equal they're equal opportunities for to come to that kind of thing. They did snooki incredibly dirty. She was like that deformed like rabbit creature. Yeah, as goofy as part.

[00:29:13] Anytime Alex is because Alex likes to watch a Jersey Shore, unironically. Anytime she's watching it I'll always like walk by and I'll just say I'll just go snooki go smush but she just looks at me and goes, he goes I fucking hate that episode. I bet. Oh man.

[00:29:33] And there's also the one of the big Stan episodes when he has a birthday, and all of a sudden everything seems like shit to him. Oh yeah, you're getting old and alcoholic Asperger's.

[00:29:47] Yeah, that's the episode that ends with like Randy and Sharon getting a divorce and like the moving out of self park, and then it just all gets fixed by the next episode.

[00:29:56] Yep, man you just like Stan's just taking nips out of his dresser by the end of it and she's like yep that's that's how I'm getting through my life.

[00:30:04] I always remember that episode I also always remember the, the episode where Clyde leaves the toilet seat up and it killed his mom. Oh god I forgot about that one.

[00:30:15] And then they have a they turn like all the bathrooms into like the TSA we're like you have to like make sure you're strapped in.

[00:30:23] And then it ends with like the episode going, you guys are using it wrong you're supposed to sit on it this way and then use the back as a little desk for your drink. Because butters have been doing that the whole time. Yeah.

[00:30:39] He's super funny. Butters is a great character too. Butters is probably one of my absolute favorite characters in that show. He is like you just feel bad for him with all the fucking shit he goes through.

[00:30:53] The Lord of the Rigs episode with Butters is fucking hilarious. My favorite Butters episode is is Butters bottom bitch where he becomes a pimp. Yes, and I was in company.

[00:31:05] I love the fact too where like he's trying to explain to Kyle like what, what like why he's making a kissing company and he's just like, Kyle you don't get it. You see, when you when you when you're in love with a girl.

[00:31:17] You end up when you're with a girl when you have a girlfriend it's like you end up paying for it in the long run, like look at Stan over there.

[00:31:23] He's got to listen all her motherfucking problems just because she kisses him and it just shows Wendy just yelling at Stan running around like, and it's just like, I love you like that. Yeah, it's fucking hilarious.

[00:31:35] Oh man, that it's like one of the many occasions that show Butters is a really good like entrepreneur. Yeah. Well, I mean, till he starts trying to sell NFTs. Yes, that that does happen in a bad future.

[00:31:49] Yeah, I don't know. It was wasn't there one where he was like obsessed with Kim Kardashian or something. Oh yeah the tale of Scrooge McBooger balls. Yeah, the kids write the the awful.

[00:32:04] The most disgusting novel ever and it's so disgusting that the parents all think it's like fine art. Yeah.

[00:32:11] And Butters takes advantage and like Clint basically pretends to be the writer, and then like, well I think they blamed it on him because they thought they were going to get in trouble.

[00:32:19] Yeah, and then he took advantage and went with it and got all this praise and then he ended up writing a sequel called The Poop That Took a P and it was so bad that it caused the shooter to go and kill the Kardashians.

[00:32:32] It was such a good because he because he read the Catching the Ride he was like kill John Lennon. Yeah. It was such a bizarre episode. Oh boy. I remember this year. It's a good book. It's dark but it's a good book. Yeah.

[00:32:50] Do you remember the the World of Warcraft episode. That's, that's one of the best ones. Make love not not warcraft.

[00:32:58] That's a top 10 episode right there. Did you know Trey Parker wanted it to be scrapped like he was so afraid that it was going to bomb and ended up being like, arguably the most famous episode in the series.

[00:33:08] Yeah, I heard about that. It's wild to me, like why wouldn't, I don't know. I don't know. It's just weird. It was a very ambitious episode and it was a risk I will agree with that.

[00:33:19] It's just, it's funny to me how in hindsight that episode is actually very like kind of realistic like I love the whole thing where it's like, they must obtain no life. Yeah. They must have absolutely no life. And then they all just become these fucking gargantuan blobs.

[00:33:43] I quote Cartman in that from that episode like all the time. Like, I want to be chilling out like playing video games and was like man, my head pockets. Yeah, I always think of the line where he's like, Mom.

[00:33:57] He's like, oh, he's like, oh shit, gonna have to area, mom, bathroom. Just the bucket. I do that one too.

[00:34:08] Another iconic episode is the one with where all the camps he's get outlawed and replaced with medicinal marijuana establishes medicinal fried chicken, and Randy in one of his schemes to get high gives himself a cancer in the balls and then they start bouncing around on their fucking sacks everywhere.

[00:34:29] Like fucking hippity hops. That is, that is such an unsettling like image to watch and I'm always like, oh my god.

[00:34:36] I couldn't tell you how many times like back of the day where it should be like hanging out with some friends and we just be getting absolutely lit watching that episode and we'd all just be dying laughing.

[00:34:47] I just love the fact too that there's like a B plot with Cartman trying to find KFC. Every time I get KFC I'll always taste the gravy like this is kind of a bucket my buzz at Boston Market. Yeah, it's a KFC gravy. That was a good one.

[00:35:08] Another great Cartman episode Do you remember the episode where they discovered that shoving food up their ass and shooting out their mouth.

[00:35:14] Yes, oh my god. I love that one because it's like Cartman's like he tries to he does it the first time and like the second the shit comes out his mouth. I think it's Kyle's just like, get the fuck out of my house right now.

[00:35:26] They're all just like holy shit. And then it becomes like a news thing where it's like, this is actually the proper way to eat now. It's like what. Yep.

[00:35:36] I think that was, I think that was around that time when they were, what was it Kyle's family moved to San Diego or San Francisco or something like that.

[00:35:52] And like they were all just having like a little house party and they each had like a little wastebasket they would just eventually like occasionally vomit poop into.

[00:35:59] I love the, there's a scene where like Randy's talking to some guy and he's like, oh excuse me for a moment. He just shoves a fucking sandwich up his ass and then just coughs out a fucking turd and it's like what the fuck. For real. Why?

[00:36:11] Some of the stuff they come up with that one. Like the biggest shit episode. Oh yeah and it's like Bono you are the biggest shit. I swear to god Randy Meyers is like the main character of that show. He's been the main character lately. I swear.

[00:36:28] Like for a while now. Ever since ever since Tegra D Farms he's really been the main character.

[00:36:35] I mean even before that he's had a lot of episodes where like he may not like be the only one on screen doing shit but he's, he's heavily involved in everything that's going on. Even the World of Warcraft one. Oh yeah, he shows up.

[00:36:48] With the Sword of a Thousand Truths. Yep, and then gets murdered. Another great great Randy episode is Cock Magic. Yes, I forgot. Where he completely misunderstands what the kids are talking about and starts doing all this ridiculous shit. Yep. Yeah, god.

[00:37:11] Did you ever did you ever see those like videos on YouTube of the people using like South Park sound boards to do prank calls? Yeah, that is so funny. So funny, especially the Randy ones. I remember the one where Randy discovers the Broadway musicals.

[00:37:28] And he just makes all the ladies want to give them blowjobs.

[00:37:34] There's the B plot where Shelley gets the boyfriend and then like they go to the broad Broadway musicals and Randy's like no she's too young and then he dresses up as Spider-Man and kills her, kills her boyfriend and like, he's like, Shelley, I'm sorry Spider-Man killed your boyfriend.

[00:37:52] Oh god. Another it's just so many good episodes. Another favorite of mine is a you have zero friends which is the one that just makes them on Facebook.

[00:38:04] Yeah, where it's like all of them are obsessed with Facebook and Stan wants nothing to do with it, but they make them one anyways and it's like the whole thing he's being just harassed by Facebook. Yep. Like Wendy chases him down and she's like relationship status single.

[00:38:20] Am I a joke to you? The entire episode he's like, fuck this shit and then he gets sucked into Facebook and he's like, his response is great. He's like, God damn it. I didn't want to get sucked into Facebook. Oh man.

[00:38:37] What was your first episode that you remember watching? Oh god, what was it? This is tough because it's there's so many from back then. Oh, it's actually the one where Trapper Keeper. That was the first one I remember. Oh really? Which is the one with Barbara Streisand.

[00:39:02] No, that was that was a different episode. Trapper Keeper was the one that's like an Akira parody where it's an Akira parody.

[00:39:10] It also is the 2000 election and it was a Terminator reference where it's the one where Cartman turns into the giant blob monster and then they kill him. Right. Wow. As a kid I had no idea and then I saw Akira and I got it and I was traumatized.

[00:39:30] Makes sense. The first one I remember watching was the Loch Ness Monster one with Chef's parents. With the succubus. Right. That was good. Yeah, that was one of my favorite ones. I think it still is really. It's classic. I remember that one.

[00:39:48] I remember the one where Wendy fucking sends the substitute teacher that all the boys think is hot into the sun. That was wild. That was the one where they send a whale to the moon. Oh yeah, that totally worked out. I saw this going back.

[00:40:10] I always remember Wendy's line though at the end of that episode where she's like, nobody fucks with Wendy Testaberger and it's like holy fuck. For real.

[00:40:18] She had a different voice actress at that point too so whenever I go back and listen to the older episodes she's got that really high pitched like shrill voice. I'm always like wow, it's so weird with her current voice actress who was a lot more mature sounding. Yeah.

[00:40:33] What's your favorite side character? Not one of the main group? So I count Butters as part of the main group so I take him out of there. Probably Jimmy. I love Jimmy. That's fair. Jimmy and Jimmy. Oh yeah, the one where he keeps popping a boner.

[00:41:01] I love the one where him and Timmy start a gang called the Crips and then they realize there actually is a gang called the Crips and they join the Crips. And then they end up uniting the Crips and the Bloods, which is hilarious.

[00:41:14] Yeah that was a great one. I love that one. That's just so many. Remember the golden PSP? Yep. Yep and then that's the one where Kenny goes to heaven because it's like all a mission.

[00:41:29] Yeah he dies because the angels needed his help or whatever because he's really good at PSP. But then he gets resurrected as a vegetable and he gets stuck in purgatory. Yep.

[00:41:43] And there's a whole court case over whether to pull the plug on him or not and it's just because Cartman wants the PSP. I forget what episode it was but wasn't there one where somebody dies and they...

[00:41:54] No, you know what? It was the one when Michael Jackson died. And everyone was in purgatory waiting and they get there and they're like, oh so it turns out the correct religion was Mormon. Mormon is the right religion.

[00:42:08] I love that episode because that's dead celebrities because they make fun of all the celebrities that died around that point. Billy Mays. Billy Mays. Yeah, Billy Mays here with mighty mendis or whatever. Chipotle way.

[00:42:23] My favorite part is the subplot of Kyle being like, so wait you're telling me that you ate Chipotle and it caused you to shit blood and you kept eating it? And Cartman's like, dude Chipotle is that good. It's really not.

[00:42:40] No it's really not. I never got the hype for it but... I'd rather eat Moe's honestly. You know what's kind of depressing? We're getting to a point now where kids don't even know who Billy Mays is. Yeah, my little brother cried when Billy Mays died.

[00:42:56] So many commercials that we grew up with. Yeah. It's wild. Also that episode also makes fun of ghost hunter shows and creepy child beauty vagins. I love the ghost hunter show part because my wife loves those shows.

[00:43:13] So I always quote that episode to make fun of her when she's watching them. I feel a strange substance running down my leg. It's warm. It's moist. And there's another one. It's coming out the back of my pants. It's warm. It's hot. Oh, and it smells.

[00:43:32] And then they all run out screaming and Kyle's just like what the fuck. That's too funny. That's a good one. And then the fucking beauty pageant where Ike finally gets his body back and he's like what the fuck am I wearing? Kyle, what the fuck? Yep.

[00:43:51] But I think it was while Kenny was dead-dead from leukemia or whatever he had when Cartman drank his ashes. Oh yeah, and Kenny inherited his body for a little bit. Yeah, he was just possessing Cartman for a while. That was a fun little joke.

[00:44:12] That was a good one. So speaking of celebrities who a lot of celebrities would make not really guest appearances but they'd be parodied. One of the funniest ones to me is the fact that Subway Jared got parodied like three times and each time was for completely different reasons.

[00:44:29] Like the first time they made fun of him was because of the whole like he lost weight on Subway which was totally bullshit. Yeah. And then years later it was for much, much worse reasons. Yeah.

[00:44:41] It was like oh man, like it's really funny seeing that episode in hindsight and be like wow, they had no idea. Remember when Korn was in an episode? Yeah, and they voiced themselves which is still the... they're like a Scooby Doo parody. Yeah, they're fucking Scooby Doo.

[00:44:56] And they're like, all right guys, we're going to finish this up by singing a little song. And a one and a two and a... Yeah. That one was great.

[00:45:09] Then there was the episode where they actually they've referenced the first episode of the series where they find out that Earth is actually just a TV series that aliens watch. Like that was just funny to me.

[00:45:20] Yeah, and they blackmailed them with pictures of them like sucking each other off. Sucking their whatever the ear thing was. The jaggons. Yeah.

[00:45:32] So we mentioned it earlier, we should probably talk about probably the most infamous yet famous episode of South Park which was the Scientology episode, Trapped in the Closet. Oh yeah.

[00:45:46] That episode single handedly I think was the start of the take like Scientology being like actually like losing its power. Yeah, it's also that episode is the reason why the actor played Chef left because he was a Scientologist. Supposedly there's a lot of debate behind that now.

[00:46:06] So the episode essentially is like Stan joins Scientology and they actually like reveal all of the inner deep secrets of Scientology and my favorite way is whenever they explain these things, they just have a text on the screen that says this is what Scientologists actually believe. Yeah.

[00:46:23] And it's which apparently is true like that's legitimately the beliefs of Scientology because it's all and they basically reveal that it's all just one giant scam. Yeah, because wasn't the guy who founded Scientology like actually a science fiction writer.

[00:46:37] Yeah, he was a sci fi writer and he wrote this fantastical story and started a religion and basically just made a bunch of money and created a bunch of whacked out people. I mean, I don't know.

[00:46:51] I feel like it's just a really popularized version of like you know people who take being a Jedi as a real religion. Yeah, the thing was somehow it just took the world by storm and like fucking all of a sudden Tom Cruise and shit just joined up.

[00:47:05] Like what the hell? The thing with Scientology is there's a lot of shady shit that goes on in the scenes that we really don't know exactly what's going on. I mean to be fair, there's a lot of shady shit with every organized religion. True.

[00:47:18] That's actually part of the reason why because I think Isaac Hayes son actually revealed later on that he never actually quit the show. The Church of Scientology quit in his behalf.

[00:47:30] Oh, because I guess he like he suffered from a stroke around the time and he was like not in any shape physical shape to really do anything and they basically just quit on his behalf. It's pretty suspect.

[00:47:43] They the Church of Scientology actually like put sent out a probe to try and dig up as much dirt as they could on Matt Stone and Trey Parker. They found nothing. All right.

[00:47:55] But I love that episode too because of the whole like Tom Cruise joke because they so apparently behind the scenes like it was revealed like I guess like Tom Cruise is one of those guys that like sues people if you like slander him.

[00:48:07] So they couldn't they couldn't explicitly use him of being gay. So they they made the whole joke being like he's hiding in the closet. Yeah, he was he was an actual factory packing actual fudge. That was his later his second appearance like later on.

[00:48:25] Yeah, I just remember because he goes and hides in the closet. They're like God damn it Tom Cruise is in the closet again. That R. Kelly joins him later. Oh yeah, that was another thing that was like they didn't know yet. Yeah. He is wild.

[00:48:43] So speaking of chef do you want to talk about the episode chef returns where they kill him off really. Yeah, after making him like a brainwashed pedophile.

[00:48:54] That episode is so weird to watch now because of like all the AI shit like the way they did it was they just used like old clips of chef so he sounds really fucking unnatural the entire episode. Yeah, didn't they do the same thing with stick of truth.

[00:49:10] Yeah, but it was much it wasn't as like abrupt sounding like it sounds deliberately bad in the effort turns just to kind of play on the whole joke that he's not right. Yeah, the way they killed him off was brutal though.

[00:49:29] Oh yeah, extremely fell down the burning fell that collapsed on the burning bridge started caught on fire fell down the burning bridge.

[00:49:38] Started caught on fire fell down the thing hit all the rocks got impaled by a tree and then got brutally mauled by a mountain lion and a bear. Yeah, it's pretty rough. And then and then turned into a Darth Vader XP that never gets followed up on.

[00:49:52] Oh yeah, forgot about that. Yeah, they ended it with that and then it just never got brought up again and then the next time we see him he's a Nazi zombie. Yeah, I was bizarre. And he gets blown up again. It's about right.

[00:50:11] That's funny though how there's there's like an entire era of South Park after chef left for a lot of people don't remember chef. Yeah, I know.

[00:50:20] Yeah, I feel like a lot of like people getting into South Park nowadays just don't even unless they go all the way back and watch the old episodes. Because that was the chef was a thing. That was like season. I was barely early on.

[00:50:36] I think it was season 10 where he they killed him off. Might even been earlier. I'm not sure. It was around 10 or nine. I know that. There was also do you remember the episode super fun time? You have to remind me.

[00:50:55] It's the one where they go to the the old timey town where like the people won't break character. Yeah. And then was it didn't they like one of them sneak off to go to like that planetarium or something.

[00:51:06] So planetarium Cartman and Butters sneak off to go to a like a super fun time like Chuck E. Cheese basically. Right.

[00:51:15] But then while they're there a frickin group of like like high people on a heist show up and they lock down the thing and they take all the kids hostage. Because they robbed a Burger King.

[00:51:26] The best part of the episode is where the kids are like trying to get them to like get help but they won't break their damn character. They're like they're like this is not the time for this.

[00:51:37] And then they just they start like one guy's about to reveal the secret to how like to how to get out of the thing and then like the frickin guy who's running the old timey town just shoots him and he's like what he meant to say was we don't have fancy door locks at old timey town.

[00:51:53] And then the guy holding like holding the hostage like you people are fucking insane. It's too funny. That's also like one of those.

[00:52:01] I was gonna say that was also the episode where Cartman gets partnered up with Butters and like Mr. Garrison's like all right Butters you can't let go of Cartman's hand. Oh yeah.

[00:52:13] Butters will not let go of his hand until like the very end of the episode where like he's like dragging his like corpse onto the bus and he's like oh my god.

[00:52:21] Until like the very end of the episode where like he's like dragging his like corpse onto the bus and he's like Mr. Garrison my partner is on the bus so that he just passes out.

[00:52:33] Oh god that's always one of those things that I've always wanted to do is go to like one of those kind of those kind of old timey like from those plantation me places and just dress as like a member of Starfleet.

[00:52:46] See people do that at like King Richard's Fair all the time. Yeah, it'd be funny as hell.

[00:52:52] My favorite part of that episode too is like they're going around the town and like they're talking all like old timey and Stan's like so normally I'd play along but I'm here with my girlfriend so I don't want to like embarrass her and Wendy's just like thanks Stan.

[00:53:07] Oh man. You remember the like the anime episode they did? Yeah I remember that because Butters gets shot in the eye with a ninja star. Yeah, they shot him up as a dog to take him to the vet. Mr. Carr was live today. Tis the season.

[00:53:28] Yeah I remember that yeah because like I love the cut because that episode has like the great like animation changes where like they switch from They'll switch from like the anime style to like the regular animation the scene where Butters gets the ninja star in his eye.

[00:53:44] It just pauses on Professor Chaos and then it immediately cuts to Butters in reality and they're just screaming. Yeah. If I could dress up like a dog and run around going woof woof. And then they're like we're gonna have to put it down. Yeah. Oh God.

[00:54:02] God there's so many good Butters episodes. Another one that I love is do you remember the list? Oh was it the one where it was like their height? No no no so it's the girls make a list. All the hottest guys?

[00:54:19] Hottest guys in school and they put Kyle at the bottom. And because it's because it's all a conspiracy and Kyle starts like this terrorist plot he's gonna burn down the school. Yeah. Because he's hanging out with all the loser kids.

[00:54:35] Yeah they're like they go to find talk to one of the kids and they're like have you seen Kyle and he's like he said he's got a burn down the school. Yeah but it did a ground. Burned. Burned it to the ground.

[00:54:48] And then like fucking Bay Bay shows up with a gun and she's gonna shoot Wendy over the shoes conspiracy. And then it ends with Kenny getting shot because of course it does. Yeah that's true. So many. Do you remember Bastamouth? Do you remember the episode Bastamouth?

[00:55:13] I don't know. So that's the one with it's there's the it's basically making fun of WikiLeaks where it's like the school has all this like website that's leaking personal information. The return of Lemmywinks.

[00:55:28] Yep and there's a point my favorite in that episode is like they a kid like killed himself and they were like basically another another kid does something and they're like Eric Cartman if this kid kills himself you're going to you're going down.

[00:55:47] And he's like he's like okay fine. And then he makes the other girl shit herself and they're like they're like she only broke her arm. She's not dead. He's like good well everyone's not thinking of Pete Melman anymore. She's like you weren't supposed to kill someone else Cartman.

[00:56:03] And then after they try to figure out a way out of it because now they're caught like poisoning all the kids with the pizzas with all the laxatives because they were trying to hire school shit themselves. Speaking of remember that Brown Note episode? Yeah that was good.

[00:56:19] My favorite line from that episode though is like they're like so what are we going to do? We're going to have to throw Eric Cartman under the bus. How? No we throw him under the bus.

[00:56:32] At the end of the episode right as the kids are on the bus chasing after WikiLeaks they're all like oh my god someone ran over Eric Cartman this is awful. So many good episodes. Yeah it's like we could literally go on all day. It ends.

[00:56:51] The episode ends with like Mr. Mackie walking through the hallway and he's like Eric we're sorry about throwing you under the bus. We're happy you've chosen to forgive us. He's like that's okay. And he's like thank you for the muffins you made us do.

[00:57:03] And then as he's walking he's like oh children I don't feel so. And he's like it's bad shit. And he's just like rocket shitting across the hallway. Yeah. And Cartman's like I put a lot of horsie sauce in that one. Remember the episode with a.

[00:57:21] It was like a. What the fuck was it? When they decide that like football is too dangerous and they make up the new sport. Sarcastic ball. Sarcastic ball. That's the one and then fucking. Butters is like bottling up his. Oh yeah. Butters special creamy goo. Yeah.

[00:57:40] Fucking Tom Brady's drink in it. That was like the that was the second time they made fun of or no the third time they made fun of Tom Brady. It's always fun.

[00:57:50] There was also the episode where Ike goes through puberty and then we find out at the end that he accidentally had. He was taking a nail in the head and he's like.

[00:57:58] And his baby medication they're like what happened to that it shows Tom Brady on the field just like shit in himself. Like wow Tom's just really off his game today.

[00:58:11] There was also the episode where they had Cartman teach the school of this the class of bad kids and he's the whole time he's like he's like how can I reach these kids. And he teaches. I was based off of some movie. I forget what the fuck.

[00:58:25] They showed it to us in school multiple times and I can never remember what it's called. The Freedom Riders maybe. I don't know. I remember it was a I just remember it was the whole thing with like the inner city teacher or whatever.

[00:58:38] So there there is two movies that have the same plot and I always mix the two of them up. I think I think that was just a popular thing from the time. Like there's a lot of those movies just only a couple that really took off.

[00:58:49] I just love how he's like we have to teach you how to cheat and he's like this is Bill Belichick and it's like oh my god which which is great because in a South Park this the the fractured butthole there's a lot of like puzzles where you have to solve the puzzle.

[00:59:01] And if you know the passcode in advance and you try to enter it in before you learn it Cartman will pop up on screen in the corner dressed up as Bill Belichick and he'd be like who do you think you are Tom Brady.

[00:59:12] So I'll solve the puzzle first and then he'll just disappear and it's like what. That's too funny.

[00:59:17] I was like when you when you go to start a new game of stick of truth you're like oh well what is your name traveler and you type in whatever name you want they say you've selected the name douchebag and you type in whatever name you want and they say you've selected the name douchebag.

[00:59:28] And you're like oh well that's so funny. In a fractured butthole it has my favorite one where the difficulty select is your skin tone and like the lighter skin is easy mode and the darker skin is hard mode.

[00:59:40] And what that does is it's like you're like oh well I'm going to go with the color of the skin and I'm going to go with the color of the skin.

[00:59:47] In a fractured butthole it has my favorite one where the difficulty select is your skin tone and like the lighter skin is easy mode and the darker skin is hard mode.

[00:59:59] And you're scrolling through it Cartman just goes don't worry this doesn't affect combat just every other aspect of your life. Like that's fucked up but really funny. Jesus.

[01:00:14] So they actually did a retcon recently which I thought was really funny where they revealed that a token's name is actually Tolkien like J.R. Tolkien. Yeah. And they made the joke where like if you've been pronouncing it Tolkien this entire time you're part of the problem.

[01:00:33] And they actually they went back on their website and changed every single mention of Tolkien to Tolkien and just done like a mess with people.

[01:00:43] That's awesome. I have to go back and like listen to early episodes just to see like if they actually are trying to pronounce it that way or if it's always been I mean I'm pretty sure it's always been Tolkien but.

[01:00:56] It always was but they made that that joke revealed was really funny. Yeah, for sure. For sure. It was the COVID special I think when they were in the school and the fucking cops were the teachers and they shot Tolkien.

[01:01:14] They shot Tolkien and they were like oh it's a COVID related injury. That was so fucked up. It was like yeah well we wouldn't have been in the school if it wasn't for COVID therefore it's a COVID related injury. Yeah. So dark.

[01:01:30] Another one too is I was thinking of like do you remember the episode one of the most famous episodes is a Cartman and Jimmy write the famous fish sticks joke. Oh yeah that was great. That's the. That's the one they make fun of Kanye.

[01:01:46] Yeah, I was getting confused with there was a follow up episode. Yeah. Where all the girls are photoshopping. Yeah. My favorite part is in real life Kanye still doesn't get the fish stick joke. I believe it. Like there's interviews of him like where they ask him about it.

[01:02:06] This is before he went psychotic like earlier that like last year but they'll interview him about it and he'll be like oh yeah. Earlier that like last year but they'll interview him about it and he still doesn't get it. And that's the funniest part about it.

[01:02:24] I believe it.

[01:02:25] The Hobbit was funny though because there's a point where he's like defending Kim Kardashian because they refer to her as a hobbit and he's like she is a short like I figured what he says like short like mystical creature and then he calls on the phone just like bitch are you a hobbit?

[01:02:40] How would you do the hobbit again? Yeah. I love that episode. Oh we need me to talk about the fucking Black Friday trilogy. That I love that trilogy just because they predict well first you got who's the writer of a. Georgia RR Martin.

[01:03:03] Yeah Georgia RR Martin doing his like humor. Yep. His butters is like it's just dicks everywhere. You'd be surprised like how often me and like my buddies would just be hanging out and one of us would just go on wiener wiener wiener.

[01:03:20] You'd be surprised how many times we'd just do that in public over the years.

[01:03:26] Also Randy becoming a mall security guard just to sneak in and like he completely is like ends up just running this thing and that was like one of the big Randy like becoming the main character episodes. Yeah for sure.

[01:03:38] And with the like leader of the security guy like dies and he like peels off his fucked up eye and puts it up your face. Also they predict they they famously predicted wrongly that the Xbox one would beat the PS4.

[01:03:53] Yeah PlayStation's kind of been kicking Xbox's ass since since then. Yeah like that was a famous time they got it wrong. They usually get it right though they fucking predicted it predicted a lot of stuff. That is true. I remember the member the Britney Spears episode.

[01:04:17] That episode so fucking dark now how it ends with with like a picture of Miley Cyrus and they're like the next one or whatever and it's just like yeah they fucking nailed it. They nailed that up.

[01:04:29] That episode also ends with like one of the darkest like endings to an episode that not a lot of people got the reference they were going for. Where they stoner to death and I'm like it's it's a reference to the lottery.

[01:04:42] Yeah, it's like that's a fucking dark story to reference but it's South Park so it makes sense. That's like that's a fucking dark story to reference but it's South Park so it makes sense. You know South Park's not strange to that shit.

[01:04:58] Do you remember the episode where apartment gets AIDS and he gives he gives Kyle AIDS. Yep. They go find out. Magic Johnson. Yeah, Magic Johnson.

[01:05:11] He's like how if he how has he lived so long and they go to his can we look at your bedroom and it's just full of like full of his his like cash everywhere.

[01:05:19] And he's like oh I don't trust banks and $200,000 injected directly into the bloodstream is the cure for AIDS.

[01:05:26] Yeah, my favorite though is like they get the guy goes to fucking Kenya or whatever and he's like everybody guess what they've cured age you just have to inject yourself with all your cash. Bye now. He just drives off and all the kids. What the fuck. Oh God.

[01:05:45] Man, I love the whole joke though it's like, it's like oh yeah AIDS that's such a 90s virus everyone cares about cancer now and it's like, that's fucked up. Yeah.

[01:05:58] There was like, was it the age thing when they were like, they did the episode on it and at the end they were like, oh my god it's been 28.4 years ages funny. It's finally funny. Yeah.

[01:06:13] There was also the episode where they finally were able to say shit. So they just made the shit counter to see how many times they could get away with it. Yep. That was good. Oh man.

[01:06:27] This is just so many. Oh, do you remember the episode where Cartman becomes the school announcer. Oh vaguely. He becomes the morning and now it's announcement guy because the other guy got murdered.

[01:06:42] And he basically goes on a slander campaign against Wendy basically claiming that she kills the Smurfs. Oh yeah. That's right.

[01:06:52] And they're all and she's like, it was like an avatar reference wasn't it. Yeah, it was there's a reference to avatar and I remember because he's like he does his whole like film he's like dance with Smurfs and if he's caught he for the Wendy scenes he's dressed up as her in a tractor he's like, he's like, fuck you Smurfs.

[01:07:13] And then the episode ends where Wendy like basically steals his idea and he's like, you can't steal dances with Smurfs. She's like, I already did. So that James Cameron, the movie's already out.

[01:07:22] And he just runs out. It's a movie theater for avatar. He's like, fuck you James Cameron. Good. You know without the Russell Crowe episode. Yeah, that was a good one. That was too good. Oh man.

[01:07:39] It's just funny how there's like millions of episodes and they're all that funny.

[01:07:44] It's definitely a lot more hits than misses I'll say that much. Like, so even the ones that are like, like a mess for South Park is still funny. It's just not like, you know, rolling on the floor.

[01:07:58] So I need, I need your take on. There's one episode of South Park that's considered the most like divisive episode of the series and that's the. I should have never gone zip lining episode. I know I've seen it.

[01:08:17] So it's the one where like specifics. It's the one where they go on. So it's a parody of the entire episode is a parody of a show that like not a lot of people remember called like I shouldn't be alive.

[01:08:30] And then maybe the whole joke is that they're trying to find something fun to do so they go, they go zip lining and the whole joke is how boring as fuck zip lining is. Yeah.

[01:08:40] That's the one that ends with the live action parrot like seeing that everyone's like what the fuck is this. Right.

[01:08:47] Yeah, that was weird. I just remember that episode because like the whole time they're like talking about the kids like going through like peril of like the boring like zip lining thing.

[01:08:56] And the whole time it's like Cartman's like eating like all this disgusting food and they're like inside Cartman's stomach is this disgusting bowel that is about to blow and Cartman just farts and they're like, I was like, you do did you just shit your pants.

[01:09:08] He's like what no. But he's also drinking. He's drinking double do which is like Mountain Dew top with twice the sugar. And then later in the episode he's drinking diet double do which is just regular Mountain Dew. Just a great, great joke. Yeah.

[01:09:27] Did you see that I vaguely I vaguely remember that one but like, it doesn't really stick out in my mind very much. That episode is like either effort people love it or they absolutely hate it. I don't know I apparently didn't make much of an impression on me.

[01:09:43] I think it's entertaining when I watch it but it's not an episode I watch regularly. Do you remember the episode where they, they canceled Mr. Hankey? Oh yeah.

[01:09:57] The problem. It was making fun of that whole the problem with up who thing where they can't they canceled up who for no reason. So instead they make a whole episode making.

[01:10:06] Excuse me, I'm making fun of cancel culture and they cancel Mr. Hankey for being for sending out awful tweets. Yeah. Remember, should I keep remember the guitar hero episode.

[01:10:19] Oh yeah we're standing and Kyle become like this amazing guitar here do and then they have a falling out over it. Yeah, like oh I just need a game to relax and just kind of let go and forget about everything is a hero hero hero.

[01:10:35] She says yeah, you chase the dragon but you never catch it. That was a good episode. I teach them how to play actual guitar and they're just not interested.

[01:10:49] Yeah, well that reminds me of episode two where like they're starting the band and like, like, token you play bass he's like, why do I always have to play bass you racist and he's like, it's because because obviously token black people do just play bass naturally.

[01:11:01] And then tokens just like fine he just starts playing and he just puts up this random baseline he just looks horrified as he's doing it. He's right. That was the those that Christian rock band episode right yeah yeah I think that's what it was.

[01:11:14] Yes, when Carmen was going through his little arc of trying to make a million dollars to get by an amusement park. Yes, yep I remember that. Um, what was another good one. Imagination land. Imagine late nation land is a very bad episode went deeper than it should have.

[01:11:35] Oh, for sure. That was wild. I was just like they wanted to have fun with all their crazy animation. They wanted to reference a bunch of other random shit like, I know I'm getting confused with another one by me that that one did it too.

[01:11:52] Yeah, that was crazy. There was also the episode. When I'm thinking of episodes that didn't age well like one for me is always the one with Indiana Jones.

[01:12:05] Yeah, that was hard to watch. Anytime I see that episode I'm like I can't watch the isn't that an election episode too. If it was it wasn't like the big one from a few years ago. Well I know they skipped the 2020 election for obvious reasons.

[01:12:25] They didn't skip it they had a whole season about it and there's just Mr Garrison instead of Trump. Well no that was 2016.

[01:12:32] All right. They skipped the second they skipped 2020 because because well because that was season 20 and season 20 is arguably like the worst season of South Park in a while just because they went way too hard into it. I like season 20 I thought it was good.

[01:12:48] I don't know I thought there was a little bit. It followed a little bit too closely to current events. Is that with all the trolls.

[01:12:56] I think it was the trolls that and the fact that they had to rewrite the end of the season on a whim because they they didn't think Trump was going to win. Yeah.

[01:13:05] Well I don't know why they didn't just do the same thing that they did with the 2008 election where they just wrote two different endings to the. Because they, they were so sure with this one. Did they ever release the, the version of that episode where John McCain wins.

[01:13:24] No, to be honest I don't even know if it was fully animated or not. I don't know because I always thought that they made both episodes and then they just released whatever one for whoever won. Maybe, I don't think it's ever been released.

[01:13:44] What if that'll ever come out.

[01:13:46] I know for season 22 I think one of my problems with that season is like, there was just so many things going on in the world that I just hated at that point that like it was like a little bit too close to the home for me during that one.

[01:14:01] I mean to be fair that's kind of always been South Park's thing.

[01:14:05] I mean, we were always looking at it like looking back. So it was never like a big deal but once, once we get to like current events and like there's a bunch of serious shit going on it's like, like yeah we get that.

[01:14:18] Believe it or not South Park has always been a very political show. Well yeah it always has. Like it's just one of those things that most people think oh, South Park is just a bunch of shit and dick jokes but it's honestly extremely political.

[01:14:32] To me, I think my thing with South Park that I've always liked is the fact that it's always kind of been. They make fun of everybody. I feel like they were just like going a little bit too hard one way that season. That's fair.

[01:14:48] Then it was like also like the gender war was a thing at the time it just a whole bunch of stuff that I really wasn't a big fan of in the world. Yeah. I mean, they kind of fall off of South Park after that.

[01:15:04] Which is weird because I like that season. It just, I don't know for whatever reason after that it just kind of fell off. Yeah, I did too for a bit because season 21 I didn't really enjoy either.

[01:15:14] I was the whole one with fucking the Cartman Heidi thing where he basically just destroys her. Yeah, he like starts off like trying to be like better, because he doesn't want to like scare away. Yeah, then he then he ends up becoming worse because of it.

[01:15:32] Yeah, and then he basically turns her into another him. Yeah, that whole that whole season is fucked up. And then after that was the start of the integrity integrity arc. Yeah, integrity farms. Yeah, I love the integrity farm stuff.

[01:15:49] Yeah, that's grown on me quite a bit, especially because it led directly into like, have you seen the post COVID specials yet. The, the like feature ones. Yeah. Yeah, I saw those a video. Yeah, I really like those. Yeah, they're really funny.

[01:16:08] I love the fact that Stan's girlfriend and that is just as Alexa. Yeah, that was great. I love Carmen and that how he just like did a complete 180 and is like actually a decent guy now. Yeah, it has like a nice loving family.

[01:16:26] But he's still kind of a prick at the same time though. He is but like, I don't know, I feel like until his family is kind of like put it like honestly like I feel like, like that's like if everything went exactly right.

[01:16:44] That's like the best version of carbon. Well, I don't think yet. The irony behind that is the whole fact that because you know that the ironic joke behind that is the fact that like in that world, everybody's life was shit.

[01:16:57] So, in the world where everybody's life goes to shit Cartman has a great life. But then like when they fix the timeline, everyone's life is good Cartman has like the worst life. Yeah, then he's like a homeless dude living in a box.

[01:17:11] I think someone said it said it best that like the reason why Cartman was so good and that's in that timeline is because he was separated from the rest of them, because they bring out the worst in him.

[01:17:22] Yeah, that makes sense. Well there's been a lot of episodes like that where like all the ones that you consider to be like kind of the good ones.

[01:17:30] Like, you kind of see them from a different lens and you realize like wow they're actually making like everyone's life worse.

[01:17:37] Yeah. Well early on in like the series like the kids like Stan, Stan and Kyle were kind of assholes like they would always just like provoke start trouble. Yeah, for sure.

[01:17:50] I kind of wish like for the upcoming specials they would have done more with like the future timeline. Yeah, well I'm sure they'll touch on it every now and there are they'll do so because they've played around with like future stuff before.

[01:18:07] Never like too seriously I think that was definitely the biggest occasion of that but remember the episode where I'm future Stan shows up. Because he touched the joint. Yeah.

[01:18:22] It's like it's like a business where parents can like hire actors to like play adult versions of their kids and like oh, everything was so awful because I smoked that joint and then I became a drug addict and all this stuff. Yeah, that was good.

[01:18:38] That was a wild one. Let's see I'm trying to think of another good one. I mean the Lord of the Rings one was one of my favorites. That was good too. With that backdoor sluts nine. Yeah. Stupid, stupid spoiled whore video plays that was a good one.

[01:18:57] That was a good Mr. Slave. Mr. Slave does something unspeakable to Paris Hilton in that episode.

[01:19:04] Yeah, that's that's still one of those ones that like you see every now and then you get a South Park episode where your jaw literally hits the floor by the end of it. That was one of them.

[01:19:16] To me one of the episodes that's unwatchable is Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina. Yeah, that was the... That episode starts with footage of actual transgender surgery and I'm just like what the fuck. Yeah, that's always rough.

[01:19:36] Nothing against it to anybody in that space but I don't need to see it. Don't need to see it. Yeah. Yeah, that was that episode is... I'm sorry. I just got distracted. My Discord thing popped up and it said Barack Obama is typing. Didn't know he's a fan.

[01:20:05] There's some weird shit going on in the super pod socket server right now. I'm gonna move my phone so I don't get distracted by whatever's happening there. Speaking of Obama though, the first election special where they find out the entire thing is a heist.

[01:20:26] Yeah, that was a heist episode. Yeah, that was a funny joke. Also the fact that Mickey Mouse is a fucking like terrorist in like the South Park universe. Oh, the Jonas Brothers episode.

[01:20:39] That one's great also like when like right after Disney got Star Wars he's like this shit's all mine now. You were all ads and I am your destroyer. I'm amazed they get away with that. I'm surprised Disney didn't sue their asses after that.

[01:20:58] Well, technically it's parody and parodies protectable by fair use laws but in South Park probably has good lawyers. With the cartoon wars two-parter? That was good. Yeah, I don't know what he meets fucking Bart Simpson, Cartman does.

[01:21:16] And they're like oh what the worst thing you ever done is like stole the head of a statue once or whatever. Cartman's like hey that's cool, that's cool. What's Fedekid's parents to this kid I didn't like? My favorite is the episode where Cartman hates Family Guy.

[01:21:36] I think that was that one. Maybe that's what it was because I remember the Simpsons actually sent them a letter thanking them for it. There's also the episode where Butters is being Professor Chaos in the entire episode.

[01:21:50] He kept coming up with all these plans and these little sidekicks always like Simpsons did it. Yep, yep. That's a good one. Oh do you remember the pee episode? Where they go to the water park and it gets flooded. Yeah, yeah.

[01:22:10] I think they brought him back recently didn't they? They did for the other streaming wars. Yeah, yeah. He got killed off. He got killed off brutally. Everyone forget about the pee.

[01:22:21] My favorite part of that episode is how real that is though like where Butters is like I gotta go to the bathroom. And Kyle's like okay go ahead. And he just pees in the pool. They're like dude what are you doing? He's like well you said go ahead.

[01:22:33] And Kyle's like that's gross. I'm not getting in the pool. And he's like Kyle everyone pees in the pool. And he's like that's fucking disgusting. Yep. He's like wait so you're saying like when you're taking a shower and you have to pee you don't get out there.

[01:22:45] I'll just like no. He's like dude. But then the entire park they're like we just did the pH tests. It's mostly pee and no H. It's like you must you have to equalize with the pee Kyle. You must drink the pee. It's like drink the pee Kyle.

[01:23:10] Oh God. And then at the end he's like not even being necessary. Yeah yeah because Randy comes in with the rescue because they're like we've made an antidote.

[01:23:18] We've only tested it on monkeys but we've noticed that pee when it comes into contact with people makes them very angry and they just start pissing on these monkeys. Yeah super mad. And then they finally make a quote unquote antidote and they're like let's test it on Randy.

[01:23:35] And he starts getting annoyed and like he's they're like oh no we have to shoot him. He's like no no I'm fine. But there's also like the best is when like Sharon calls too and she's like she's like Randy what do you mean it's P.

[01:23:48] She's like it's all P. They're all trash here in the P. Geez. That reminds me of the homeless episode. Yeah it's another good one. They're like oh God I've lost my job. My house has been foreclosed. I'm homeless. I just need some change. They just shoot him.

[01:24:12] Do you remember the episode with when Cartman wants to be a pirate so they all go to Somalia? Yes. And then they become Somali pirates. I think that was around like when that episode came out was around the time I like actually started watching South Park.

[01:24:27] Yeah that was a good season that one in particular. Yeah I think it's like right around like season 13 season 14 when I like actually started seeking out South Park and watching it back before streaming when when if you wanted to watch specific episodes you had to go to.

[01:24:41] You had to go to a sketchy third party site or go to Comedy Central and watch it there because he used to be able to watch it there. I mean Comedy Central still puts on like South Park marathons all the time.

[01:24:51] Well I meant like this is that Comedy Central website. Oh yeah they used to have like every South Park episode on their website at one point. Yeah. What's another great episode?

[01:25:02] Oh do you remember the episode with over logging where like they all lose the internet and they end up traveling to find more internet? Yes. And then they solved they solved the internet problem by unplugging it and plugging it back in. Yep.

[01:25:16] And it was another one the Margaritaville. Oh yeah where like South Park goes in serious debt meanwhile Stan's on a journey to get rid of the damn Margaritaville thing. Yep and like they do like a weird like parallel between Kyle and Jesus. Yeah Kyle pays off everyone's debt.

[01:25:33] Yep. God. And at the end of the episode where Stan can't get rid of the Margaritaville so he just fucking smashes it on the ground he's like fuck this.

[01:25:43] I just remembered that in the Stick of Truth the whole like little side quest you have to do when you try to find like the secret ingredient for a tweak coffee and it's just cocaine. Yep. Which explains a lot. Yep.

[01:25:56] Speaking of speaking of tweak later episode but tweak x Craig. Oh yeah with the Yowie. Yowie poiseu la vu. My favorite part too is the fact that like they actually got a bunch of like artists to draw like Yowie art for the episode.

[01:26:16] I know it's too funny and then they like are actually like a canon couple from that point onward. Oh yeah they're still together in the future too. Yep.

[01:26:25] What's funny is there's a side quest in Fractured Butthole where you have where Craig's dad is like I need you to go and find me. Yowie arts. Like you just have to find Yowie art throughout the entire game.

[01:26:38] You remember when Butters got sent to Preyway the gay camp? Oh yeah because Cartman sucks that's the episode where Cartman takes the picture with Butters dick in his mouth and they're all like Cartman that makes you gay. I was like no. Butters gay. It's like no.

[01:26:59] So then he tries to stick his dick in Butters mouth and then his dad walks he's like Butters so what are you doing? He's like oh hi dad. And the whole time. You're gonna give me a surprise.

[01:27:12] And then the whole time he doesn't get like what the hell is going on like he's just at the camp. At the camp. At the camp I'm very confused.

[01:27:22] Oh do you remember the biker episode where all the bikers are coming through South Park and the kids are calling them fags? Yep.

[01:27:34] I actually I do that whenever like I'm outside and like I see a bunch of bikers or something go by or someone like you know like how we hear the car all the time on the podcast and everything like if I'm outside I'll just start doing that at people.

[01:27:49] See my favorite is when they try to be even more annoying and they are all like have like sirens and stuff and there's the one guy with the thing it's like chicken spears. Chicken spears. It's just like what?

[01:28:01] And then the whole time it's like they start the whole like revolution to change the meaning of fag. It's like hi little boy can you take these two pictures and point to which one is the faggot?

[01:28:13] And it's a picture of a very camp man and then a biker and they just all pointed at the bikers. And then Butters wants to and then Butters is like well I'm not a fag yet but I am bike curious. Oh jeez it's too funny.

[01:28:32] Have you ever have you ever gotten trouble like not in trouble but like I don't know like said the wrong thing at the wrong time because you were quoting South Park.

[01:28:45] No I'm usually pretty careful about that like there's certain episodes I try not to talk about I mean I think when people know you're talking South Park the context is usually there. True.

[01:28:58] One of the most famous episodes of South Park speaking of that is the one where Randy says the N word. Yeah that was great. That's still one of my favorite episodes.

[01:29:07] Well it's just such an effective episode because it really kind of made a lot of sense in the long run. Say token I finally get it. I don't get it. Now you get it guy. Now you got to stay in.

[01:29:20] Well my favorite too is the B plot of that episode is like Cartman fighting a midget which I guess in the in the commentary for the episode is literally they just wanted Cartman to fight a midget so they just had stuck it there for no reason.

[01:29:32] That's like honestly like even putting the whole like Wheel of Fortune stuff aside like for that whole bit alone that's like one of my favorite episodes. Well especially when like Michael Richards shows up but it's like Michael Richards.

[01:29:46] Because that was right after his whole freaking meltdown on stage. Yeah. Remember the vamp kid episode. I love any episode with the goth kids. When Butters thinks he's a vampire. Yeah he's like so hungry but I can't drink blood. Blood is gross. They're like he's ungroundable. Ungroundable.

[01:30:12] That was the hot topic was the source of their power. They burned it down. Like a fucking hot topic of course.

[01:30:20] Burn it to the ground. My favorite is like when they're like in like the vamp kid meeting and the guy that the adult in the Twilight Church like wait you're telling me what does here is not a vamp kid. Which one of you sons of bitches live.

[01:30:34] It's like this. It's like shit in context that just doesn't make any sense but only when you're watching South Park does it make sense. Yeah for sure. I don't know I just feel like it's one of those shows that it just it just never gets old.

[01:30:49] No it really doesn't. The fact that it's still going like they just made an Ozempic episode that makes fun of Ozempic. There's so much so much of it.

[01:30:58] Actually I think I just saw recently that Walmart is well I don't know if it's just Walmart but I saw it at Walmart. They are selling like like 10 season bundles.

[01:31:11] So you can get the I know they have seasons. So there are these big box sets that have seasons 1 through 5, 6 through 10, 11 through 15, 16 through 20 and then they just released 21 through 25. Yeah well at Walmart at least they had bundled the bundles I guess.

[01:31:35] They bundled the 1 through 5 and the 6 through 10 into one and they're just selling that as one big thing. And they did the same thing with the following 10 seasons.

[01:31:43] It's like we're gonna have to get that at some point because then South Park is one of those shows I would already own a DVD if like some of them weren't so expensive to get.

[01:31:52] Yeah those bundles are pretty convenient. I think you can get them all online for pretty cheap now. Yeah I'm definitely gonna have to look into that for sure. Yeah and like all the new seasons are all super cheap because they're only like 6 episodes so.

[01:32:08] Yeah and usually like you know new seasons of stuff with the exception of anime new seasons of shows tend to be like decent if you're just getting the one. Yeah well anime is just expensive in general. Yeah for some reason. The weeb tax.

[01:32:26] Yeah you are a nerd. You must pay extra. Pretty much. Any other episodes in particular? I know that there are others it's just none of them are coming to mind at this very moment.

[01:32:43] Yeah I'm trying to think. I mean there's probably more I'm just not thinking of it right now. Oh I mean there's always more. That's the thing with South Park. There's always more. I'm sure we could we could do another episode at some point in the future.

[01:32:56] Yeah going over maybe talking about the games at some point. That's true. There's a lot with the games as well. Yeah even if we just do one on like an episode for each game and didn't did the new one come out yet or is it still.

[01:33:14] It's out I have not heard great things about it though. Well when I heard that they were they were changing up the style and weren't making it like like an RPG like the other ones like that automatically kind of made me feel like.

[01:33:29] Yeah apparently you can finish it like super fast like it's not a very long game. Well I mean. Again for me a game doesn't have to be long for it to be good but like.

[01:33:41] Like the gameplay has to be there if it's not going to have that kind of RPG element of the other two games had.

[01:33:46] Then it just needs to be a good game like it has to have engaging gameplay and like obviously if it's a South Park game like I don't care if the story is good but it needs to be funny. That's first and foremost.

[01:34:02] From everything I've heard from people like they say it's fine but it's just not very engaging. Very engaging. Oh I might pick it up at some point just to.

[01:34:14] Especially if it's a short game that's actually good for me with my limited gaming time you know I actually feel the beat it in a reasonable amount of time. I'm waiting for it to go on sale. Yeah I'm not paying full price.

[01:34:28] No I mean it's not even a full price game it's like a half price game but I still don't want to pay that much. I didn't pay full price for either of the other ones.

[01:34:36] If I'm not going to pay full price for the good ones I'm not going to pay full price for the fucking okay one. I think the only one I paid full price for was the launch my launch copy of Fractured But Whole. Hmm yeah.

[01:34:50] Although I bought Fractured But Whole three times. That's besides the point. No we didn't talk about the movie. Maybe we'll just make that a whole episode on its own. Oh bigger longer uncut. Yeah. Yeah maybe. That's what I watched.

[01:35:08] Yeah that's what I'm saying it'd be better to push that one off for another one. Yeah maybe talk about that maybe some maybe we can deep dive into some of the specials in particular too.

[01:35:16] Yeah and some like the multi-part ones like the Black Friday and Imagination Land and all that. Yeah yeah this so I guess to wrap this up though this was basically just a general South Park talk.

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