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Mods: If you feel this belongs in OT then feel free to move it there. Since South Park is very much a political show, I figured it fit better here.
Obviously, if you don't watch South Park then this probably isn't the thread for you.
Season 22 just kicked off yesterday and so far the marketing team has definitely been propping up this season. Apparently they started #CancelSouthpark in an effort to drum things up ahead of time - even going as far as to advertise it on billboards and NY subways. Sounds like they might be trying to push people to their limits this season? Episode 1 definitely hits it.
So with that said, Episode 1 kicked off - below is a summary:
The obvious message here is how numb our society has gotten to school shootings as often occurrences.
Oh yeah - Black Panther sucked and the entire stigma on society to act as if it was some amazing film that everyone was assumed to have seen made me laugh. Also everytime Randy was trying to get people to stop conversing with Sharon because she was on her period had me falling over laughing.
Obviously, if you don't watch South Park then this probably isn't the thread for you.
Season 22 just kicked off yesterday and so far the marketing team has definitely been propping up this season. Apparently they started #CancelSouthpark in an effort to drum things up ahead of time - even going as far as to advertise it on billboards and NY subways. Sounds like they might be trying to push people to their limits this season? Episode 1 definitely hits it.
So with that said, Episode 1 kicked off - below is a summary:
A school shooting occurs at South Park Elementary resulting in a fatality, though the Fourth Grade teacher and her students are nonchalant when a S.W.A.T. member storms the classroom to secure it, attempting to ignore the disruption while reviewing the class's recent mathematics test. Cartman is angry because having copied his answers from classmate Token Black, he failed the test, and believes that Token initially put incorrect answers on his own test paper in a deliberate ploy to cause Cartman's failure. Cartman becomes worried that Token was motivated by rumors that Cartman disliked the feature film Black Panther, whose success holds cultural significance for black Americans,[3][4][5] but Token says he has not seen that film, spurring the paranoid Cartman to spend the episode attempting to resolve his suspicions. Ultimately, despite Token's repeated denial of ever having seen the film, Cartman concludes that Token saw it, and shares his own opinion that the film was not that good. After Cartman and Token successfully evade gunshots at yet another shooting at their school, Token allows Cartman to copy his answers on their next test.
Sharon Marsh, the mother of Cartman's other classmate, Stan, is outraged not only at the school shootings, but at the lack of similar distress on the part of other townspeople, including her husband Randy, who comes to believe that her disposition is caused by either her menstrual cycle or the onset of menopause. He attempts to shower her with love in the form of a party at which he serenades her, but Sharon angrily informs Randy and their neighbors that she is not undergoing menopause, and storms off. She later apologizes to an astonished Randy for the pain and suffering they've been experiencing, admitting that she may have been overly emotional lately. They receive word that Stan was shot at another shooting at his school. Instead of panicking, Sharon exhibits a calm, nonchalant attitude like those of Randy and the others, giving a relieved Randy cause to share a loving embrace with her.
The obvious message here is how numb our society has gotten to school shootings as often occurrences.
Oh yeah - Black Panther sucked and the entire stigma on society to act as if it was some amazing film that everyone was assumed to have seen made me laugh. Also everytime Randy was trying to get people to stop conversing with Sharon because she was on her period had me falling over laughing.
