South Park - "Royal Pudding" - Talkback [5/11]

Guys, the Tooth Decay subplot had nothing to do with Book of Mormon, musicals or anything. It's connected with the allegory of the main plot. Tooth Decay = OBL, Mackey = family member of 9/11 victim seeking vindication, Princess kidnapped = royal wedding's attention stolen by OBL's death.

Not a bad episode. Laughed a good deal, mostly because I loved Canadian South Park episodes.
 
South Park keeps curbing expectations about Osama Bin Laden. In case everyone's forgotten, we already saw Bin Laden die in South Park in the new episode two months after 9/11.

What would've been the point of the musical riffing the Spider-Man musical situation which was already dated six months ago when it was joked about at the VGA's? The allegory was Mackey was a victim of 9/11 and tooth decay was Osama Bin Laden. OR tooth decay was tooth decay and Mr. Mackey is just a drama queen.
 
They're getting better at hiding what they're saying, like last week it was a cleverly disguised poke at that Koran burning, but they made sure not to reference it directly to avoid death threats and censoring. Think about it: small school/church says Germans aren't funny/burn Koran claiming Islam is violent. Germans protesting reaction cements into those who already think so that they aren't funny/Afghan protesting riots lead to dead people confirming to those who already think so that Islam is violent. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it.

I didn't catch the Tooth Decay=Osama thing, but I'm sure I would've gotten it eventually.
 
This kind of clashes with the plot of "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs" then doesn't it? Reading into what might not be there?
 
Pretty much agree here.

If Trey and Matt were actually going to make Tooth Decay an allegory of Osama Bin Laden, they probably would have made it more obvious than just Mackey seeking vindication (and the events taking place around the time a royal wedding).
 
Eh, no. It was fairly obvious to be an allusion/allagory to his death once Mr. Mackey started his story, then even more obvious when the cop said "we got him, its over". I don't think the creators can be more clear on this one, they have finally found a way to hide the obvious in plain sight it seems, two times in a row (first with Obama speech towards Perry, second with Tooth Decay and the crying scene).

~ ftw
 
Yeah and originally in "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants". Then again sometimes just for the sake of making fun of a celeberity again they'll have them come back from the dead years later despite dying previously (Speilburg and Lucas died in "Free Hat" but were back again for "A China Problem" and "200"/"S01"). Really this only worked IMHO with Saddam Huessin who died but was shown being kicked out of hell, and then trying to make bombs in heaven, so I could see him being sentanced back to earth. Not the same for Osama though.



To be fair the Spiderman Musical hasn't even come out yet (new previews of it started yesterday and it doesn't come out till June 14th) so I don't think it's dated yet. However the Mackey cursing wasn't referring to that, or even The Book Of Mormon. Actually that refrence was far more obscure: that was a refrence to Augie Garrido, coach of the University Head of Texas's baseball team. He went on a simialrly cursed filled rant after his team lost a game, which you can find clips of online.
 
I knew it was a parody of OBL's death, but it could have been executed better.

Best part was the Giant's introduction.

"Fee fi fo fum. I smell Kraft dinner!":D
 
Well, it wasn't for me, as Tooth Decay could very well easily represent any killer that's on the run (with Mr. Mackey and the police knowing the person's identity).

The Tooth Decay/Bin Laden allegory probably needed some more hints than just the Mr. Mackey bits in order for it to be obvious (i.e. some reference during the rescue of the Princess of Canada).
 
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