| Thursday, October 20, 2005 |
08:01 - WE DIDN'T LISTEN!!!
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Boy, Trey and Matt show no signs of slowing down. At this rate, South Park will outlast The Simpsons—because here in the, what, ninth season? ... it's showing no signs of the rot that eventually started to consume the latter. In fact, it's only getting more and more ambitious and ingenious.
Last night's episode, the season premiere, certainly covered a lot of ground: Katrina, global warming, and The Day After Tomorrow, the parody of which was thoroughly brilliant right down to "Cliché Dissenting Republican". Also they covered the media's miserable performance: "We're reporting mass deaths, looting, rioting, rape, murder, and even cannibalism here." "How awful! You mean you've actually seen these things happening?" "No, Tom, we're just reporting it."
Before they started blaming the broken beaver dam and floods on global warming, though, they had to put up two equally deridable groups of premature blamemongers, in the interest of presenting some semblance of impartiality; and whereas one group blamed the dam breakage on George Bush, the opposing group of rednecks blamed it on Al Qaeda. What's funny is that whereas we all heard plenty of people in the real world making the former claim ("George Bush doesn't care about beavers!"), I never heard anybody making the latter. Trey and Matt had better watch out, or people will notice them pointing out uncomfortable truths they didn't even intend to expose. Then Comedy Central will have to screen a Trey/Matt vs. Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert deathmatch.
Oh, and as for Adult Swim: I don't know what "Dangerdoom" is, but whose-ever idea it was to have Matthew Lesko record a couple of promo spots for it, pelting through a park in his question-mark suit, babbling and yammering incoherent syllables, and then yelling DANGERDOOM! into the camera, deserves a freaking medal for all-encompassing awesomeness.
UPDATE: Aha. That should be entertaining...
Thanks to Ben D. for the link.
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Brian Tiemann
