![]() ![]() ![]() His escalating frustration at his inability to come with an original idea is a source of great comedy. Simpsons Already Did It (S6)īutters is in “Professor Chaos” alter-ego mode here, but his continual attempts to cause trouble throughout South Park – from blocking out the sun, to beheading the town statue – all seem to be sourced from The Simpsons. In the real world, meanwhile, a city-wide ban on cats is being enacted and implemented with an eerie resemblance to Hitler and the Holocaust. The tone of the film -a cross between the animated Lord of the Rings, Thundercats, Frank Frazetta, Iron Maiden and pornography -is perfectly recaptured. Surprisingly, the sight of Kenny receiving a shot of kitty widdle to the face isn’t the most memorable sequence here: it’s the wild and wacky hallucinations that linger in the mind, breast-obsessed homages to 1981 film Heavy Metal. Read more: How South Park Became The Last Survivor of the Shock TV Era Major Boobage (S12)Ī new drug craze has taken hold of South Park: getting high on male cat urine, a phenomenon dubbed “cheesing” by Fox News (“it’s fon to due!”). Insane, fun and just plain silly, the episode is a great ode to Toho films. Only the combined power of giant monster versions of Leonard Maltin, Sidney Poitier and The Cure’s Robert Smith are able to defeat her. When she completes the diamond, she turns into a evil “mech-streisand/Godzilla” and tries to destroy South Park. Here are 20 geeky highlights from the series… Its short production schedule and Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s continued willingness to reflect contemporary real-world events through the South Park lens ensure it shows no sign of flagging just yet. It’s had a phenomenal run, traversing political satire, social commentary, laugh-out-loud humor and even character development deftly and with great ease. Two decades later, and far from having been consigned to television history, South Park is an establishment icon still brave and boundary-pushing, but revered by the majority, not feared, as much a part of the contemporary TV landscape as predecessor-in-anarchic-spirit The Simpsons. Best noted for the ire it drew from parents groups and the weekly deaths of perma-hoodied fourth-grader Kenny, it bore all the markings of a flash-in-the-pan success as tie-in merchandise quickly shifted by the millions and a movie was fast-tracked to the multiplexes almost immediately. It was an ode to all things sexual and scatological that looked like it had been animated in the creators’ garden shed. Long, long ago, way back in 1997, South Park was a counter-cultural and revolutionary TV show. It’s funny how time can shift our perceptions. ![]()
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