(S11E06)
Mrs. Garrison: Kids, I need to tell you something that you might find a little shocking: I'm gay.
Stan: Again?
Longtime fans of South Park know that Mr./Ms. Garrison is a mercurial sexual beast. S/he's now been both straight and gay as a man and as a woman, but the one constant that remains is that whatever her preference happens to be that week, she takes it very seriously.
Perhaps that's why this episode, while funny, didn't quite knock my socks off, or "scissor me timbers" to use Ms. Garrison's orgasmic exclamation. I've seen this tenacious side of Garrison before in the episode "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina," and while I thought her obsession with scissoring and the culmination into a 300-style battle against Persians who want to ruin Les Bos with their horrible design sense was funny, it lacked that element of surprise that's at the core of all the best South Park episodes. The episode leaned more toward parody than satire, which is fine, but it's not my personal preference. I like those episodes that take the viewers in a million directions, like last week's Easter episode.
I don't want to say the episode was a complete write off, because the 300 spoof was inspired, and the narrator at the end telling us "no dyke should be without cocktails" was pretty damn funny. Still, I felt this episode, overall, was funnier in theory than in execution.
The miscommunication with the Mexican workers over what "essay" meant was the best part of the episode, though, so I have to give Matt and Trey props for that one.
From a scale of 1 to 7, I'm going to give this one a 4, because I hold South Park to a pretty high standard, 5 seems too high, and we can't do a 4.5 rating.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-12-2007 @ 12:29PM
Kyle Beasley said...
I am one of the 3 people in the country who still hasn't seen 300, but I still appreciated the parody. The stylizing of the show was spot on.
But yeah the best joke of the night was the Mexican "essay." Then with Jimmy walking with the letter. Funny stuff.
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4-12-2007 @ 12:43PM
Bill said...
The essay joke was definitely the the highlight, but I'm enough of a 300 fanboy to have loved all the parody elements.
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4-12-2007 @ 1:17PM
LordPaul said...
Are you the same person who reviewed last week's show, because it's almost identical - "I liked it, but it's been done before so it's not funny but it is"
Uhh, whatever dude.
I've not watched it yet, but it just seems like you've nothing to say.
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4-12-2007 @ 1:18PM
scotty said...
What a brilliant parody and social satire this episode was. Trey Parker (who's the only one writing South Park these days) continues to amaze me.
"This is... LESBOS!!!"
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4-12-2007 @ 2:26PM
Amy said...
The way the Mexicans were used all around was hilarious. Garrison dressing them up as Persians with hair gel, gold chains and lots & lots of cologne was too funny!
I do have to say, while I LOVE South Park, that Mr/Ms/Whatever Garrison's libido has gotten a little old. I actually prefer it when he/she/whatever is used as the voice of reason. Like in Lice Capades, when Garrison yells at the kids, "You ALL have lice! Lice spread very quickly, you little dumb-asses!"
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4-12-2007 @ 2:40PM
Sabas said...
Scale of 1 to 7... ?
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4-12-2007 @ 4:21PM
Nick said...
That whole thing with Xerxes was really random and, in my opinion, the highlight.
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4-12-2007 @ 10:07PM
Borat said...
"Les Bo" LOL.
And they managed to "offend" (Is that the right word in this case?) 3 different minorities. I laughed at the hair gel thing...I have spent enough time with Persians to know that they love the stuff.
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4-14-2007 @ 8:37AM
Bash said...
This post is hilarious. Because of the "innovative" ratings from 1 to 7 you can't give it that rating and that's why you give it a 4. This is so f*cking hilarious I laughed out loud :-)
Who says you cannot give it a 4.5 and simply use whatever image you feel like? Because, you know, the rating itself is totally random. If you at least would have used school grades or 1 to 10 or something that is comparable to OTHER websites but nooooo you need to be "unique" just like Fahrenheit compared to Celsius and pound instead of kilos and barrels and whatever god help us we'd use a standard you could actually use to COMPARE something to something else. "This episode got a 4.5 on IMdB but a 4.5 on TV Squad but no wait it got a 4 because they don't have 4.5 on TV Squad but there they use a scale of 1 to 7 so actually that's a 5.7 but it would've been a 6.42 could the author have used that scale but he couldn't because THEY ONLY HAVE 7 GRAPHICS".
*grraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah*
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