Posts with tag Trey Parker
Posted May 6th 2008 7:03PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: TV on DVD, South Park, Reality-Free
It looks like some extra goodies are being included with the South Park Season 11 DVD set. Not only do you get great episodes such as "Cartman Sucks", "More Crap" and the immortal "Imaginationland" story arc (I pray the season DVD includes the full commentary of the "Imaginationland" one), but the DVD also includes a 3-song download for the XBox version of the video game Rock Band.
This marketing move makes sense on a couple of levels. First, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are big gamers so they probably got some cool stuff that other gamers only wish they had access to. They even confess their hobby on one of their DVD mini-commentaries. Second, the season includes the episode "Guitar Queer-o", which uses the predecessor game Guitar Hero as central to the plot.
Continue reading South Park Season 11 DVD to include XBox goodies
Posted Apr 24th 2008 12:04AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, South Park, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S12E07) While the kids are on an educational field trip to a living museum called Pioneer Village, Cartman forces Butters to sneak away with him from the class to go to the amusement center located nearby. While they're having a good time at the amusement center, a group of thieves break into Pioneer Village and take the class hostage. Hilarity ensues.
This episode is the last of the first half of season 12.
South Park will return later in the year with seven more episodes.
Continue reading South Park: Super Fun Time
Posted Apr 17th 2008 12:00AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: South Park, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S12E06) South Park, along with the rest of the country, has lost the Internet. As a result, Randy Marsh takes his family on a trek to California to find it.
As someone who is an Internet addict, I certainly can understand the dilemma of this situation. I don't think we could go back to being a society without Internet, much as we can't go back to being a society without phones, television or cars.
As someone who works with the Internet for his day job, I had some problems with the simplistic way that it was presented. The Internet is used for much more than shopping or e-mailing (or, indeed, porn). Entire industries rely on it. The only part that struck me as truthful was seeing people live in a Great Depression-type state without the Internet.
Continue reading South Park: Over Logging
Posted Apr 10th 2008 12:35AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: South Park, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S12E05) It must be very tough for Trey Parker and Matt Stone to keep outdoing themselves. I don't know which image from tonight's episode was funnier: the mouse with the penis on its back running all over town (and, at one point, singing at the moon) or the photo of Mickey Mouse with a huge erection. It's a tough call.
More after the jump...
Continue reading South Park: Eek, A Penis!
Posted Apr 2nd 2008 11:35PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Video, South Park, Episode Reviews, WGA Strike, Reality-Free
(S12E04) The
South Park guys are going after the Writer's Guild of America, and it's about time.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are not members of any of the unions, and they negotiated Internet profit-sharing before it became an issue for the WGA. They have also remained consistent with their dislike of the Hollywood creative elite (including actors and writers, although they are both) and their willingness to take a different viewpoint than the popular media.
Continue reading South Park: Canada On Strike! - VIDEO
Posted Mar 26th 2008 11:38PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: South Park, Episode Reviews
(S12E03) To begin, for those unaware,
South Park Studios has started to offer full episodes of the show on their official site with limited commercial interruption. I originally reported this
in November.
I'll say this: when the
South Park team put their minds to it, they can come up with some fantastic animation. When you watch the crudity of the animation in standard episodes, it's easy to forget that they're pretty damn talented at their craft.
Continue reading South Park: Major Boobage
Posted Mar 19th 2008 11:49PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, South Park, Episode Reviews
(S12E02) The thing that makes
South Park stand out above all other television shows is the creators' ability to take an old idea and put a new spin on it with depth and good reasoning. This episode is a perfect example of that.
Britney Spears tries to escape her fame by hiding out in Colorado. Sadly, the paparazzi follow her and through a confluence of events, she blows her own head off with a shotgun. Fortunately, this is
South Park and such things aren't fatal here.
Continue reading South Park: Britney's New Look
Posted Mar 13th 2008 1:00AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, South Park, Episode Reviews
(S12E01) After a routine tonsillectomy goes horribly wrong, Cartman comes face to face with his own mortality.
Season Twelve is out of the gate pretty strong. Unfortunately, it seemed to lose momentum towards the end.
Matt and Trey tackle the issue of AIDS...again (they have done so before, such as in the episode mocking Jared from the Subway commercials). They tend to present AIDS as a shock-value joke, but this time their take is slightly different.
Continue reading South Park: Tonsil Trouble (season premiere)
Posted Nov 30th 2007 8:10AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, South Park
According to Extremetech.com, MTV Networks, part of Viacom and the parent
company of Comedy Central,
plans to put every clip from the show South Park online and available to any viewer at no cost. Since Trey Parker and Matt Stone have already worked out a deal with the parent company to get a piece of
South Park's online presence, they should be making a hefty chunk of money out of this (assuming the online episodes will work on an advertising model).
Continue reading Every South Park episode online, free and legal
Posted Nov 15th 2007 12:27AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: South Park, Episode Reviews
(S11E14) It's a shame that this is the last episode of the season. Since the writers of
South Park aren't in the WGA, they could continue and potentially increase ratings. However, it is the final episode of the season. So here's the final TV Squad review of the season.
The boys learn of a secret list that the girls in the fourth grade rating them from cutest to ugliest. Every seven episodes, the writing team partially writes an episode in advance so they don't fall behind schedule. This strikes me as that episode.
Continue reading South Park: The List
Posted Nov 7th 2007 11:02PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: South Park, Episode Reviews
(S11E13) After seeing the title of this episode, I'm more embarrassed than I already was to admit that I'm a fan of Guitar Hero. In fact, I own all four versions of the game. There. I said it.
Thankfully, I will say that I never have, nor will I ever, play in my underwear. As far as you know.
This was a strange episode given what we've been seeing the past few weeks. We barely got anyone other than Stan and Kyle this time, but what we got was, as always, pure gold. Oh and by the way, one of our sister sites, Joystiq,
liveblogged the episode tonight.
Continue reading South Park: Guitar Queer-o
Posted Nov 1st 2007 7:01AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: South Park, Episode Reviews
(S11E12) In the final chapter of this exciting trilogy, Cartman goes out of his way to get Kyle to suck his balls. Oh, and the government is trying to nuke Imaginationland.
It's kind of ironic that Trey Parker and Matt Stone celebrate imagination so much yet loathe the institutions that produce it (specifically Hollywood). But that's a discussion for another time.
Continue reading South Park: Imaginationland Episode III
Posted Oct 24th 2007 11:58PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: South Park, Episode Reviews
(S11E11) So, it is a trilogy. And the barrier has been broken and the bad part of imagination is free.
There were enough references in the episode that made me deduce that Trey Parker and Matt Stone are fans of the current incarnation of
Battlestar Galactica. The first hint was the opening words "Previously, on
Battlestar Galactica..." The second was having Butters wake from death (as with the Cylons from the aforementioned show). And finally, a reference to the Council of Nine at the end of the episode (or was that a
Babylon 5 reference?).
Continue reading South Park: Imaginationland Episode II
Posted Oct 18th 2007 10:22AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: South Park, Episode Reviews
(S11E10) Holy crap. Where to begin?
I think this is going to be the first three-parter in South Park history. I'm only inferring this from their use of the world "trilogy" in the opening credits (right after "Kyle Sucks Cartman's Balls"). Which opening credits are they trying to emulate in that segment? I think it was the Superman movies.
Continue reading South Park: Imaginationland
Posted Oct 10th 2007 11:57PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: South Park, Episode Reviews
(S11E09) "One Katie Couric is approximately 2.6 pounds of excrement."*
*(Might not be the EXACT quote. Don't go Katie Couric on me.)
Randy Marsh takes a crap. A big one. The biggest one in history. It's so big that the European Fecal Standards and Measurements Board has to be called in.
Continue reading South Park: More Crap
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