South Park - "About Last Night..." - Talkback [11/5]

Ok, can this stop now? This is the "discuss Wednesday's South Park" thread, not the "lets find an excuse to bash Family Guy" thread. Jeez.
 
I'm under the impression they made it because of... well, the presidential election. The MacFarlane thing was probably secondary.

Dissing FG in the interview was probably unnecessary, I'll admit, but I'm pretty sure they would've done the episode regardless.



EDIT: Here's another article about the episode -- 4 pages this time. http://tv.ign.com/articles/928/928073p1.html It actually does describe what they might've done if McCain won the election:
That could've been really funny in its own way.
 
Strangely enough, this isn't the first time Trey and Matt gambled with the election, with the short-lived "That's My Bush." The show was going to be either that or "Absolute Al." They even had a script with President Gore written.
 
They weren't even dissing FG the show though, they were dissing the lame McCain-Palin joke that fell flat. Honestly, very few people on the discussion thread for that episode found that funny, why shouldn't Matt and Trey diss it?



That's why I love South Park; far too many shows are politically partisan (especially coming from the liberal camp, as shown by the aforementioned FG gag), but South Park disses, praises, and exploits in weird situations such as an Oceans Eleven parody both sides of the politcal spectrum. Really, it's a shame there aren't more shows that take this direction...
 
Having seen Family Guy last week, and then catching "About Last Night..." I can only whole-heartedly agree with you. South Park is cruder and yet much cleverer than FG. And again, I like the even-handedness of its jibes and parodies, as opposed to the tiresomely left-leaning skew of most TV comedies (not that there's anything wrong with leaning left, but a little too much of anything gets old after awhile). Now that the election is over (thank god!!!) I hope Matt and Trey don't shrink from taking on the Obama administration. After all, since our Exalted Leader has chosen a former director of Freddie Mac as his chief of state, comedy gold is definitely there to be mined. :evil:
 
Finally getting around to posting in here I just wanted to say that I loved it. Classic South Park right here. I mean so far the second half of season 12, well the whole season actually as been kinda hit or miss but episodes like this tell me that Matt and Trey still got it. And amazing they were able to get some of Obama's actual speech in there. Anyway great episode.
 
Barak Obama in his press conference made a crack about Nancy Reagan having seances. So what's the big deal?

Sorry guys, nothing is inappropriate for comedy.

Doesn't matter that the impressions weren't perfect. In South Park the real-life people impressions usually aren't.

The Obama partying reactions weren't exaggerated either.

There is no doubt in my mind that Randy Marsh is the best television character today. Also, nice return of the shop teacher character from one of the early seasons.
 
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