Thursday, April 28, 2011

South Park Episode 1 Recap, Season 15

South Park Episode 1 Recap, Season 15 - south park episodes download, south park studios, watch south park online, south park online, allsp : It's been five long months since the fourteenth season of 'South Park' bid us adieu. But now, the boys are back and just as awful as ever. Cartman was possibly worse than we've ever seen him -- well, that's not even close to true as he didn't kill anyone or force anyone to eat anyone else -- as he whined and cussed his mother out for not getting him an iPad.
Trey Parker and South Park Episode 1 Recap, Season 15 did a masterful job of tying all their storylines together by the end of this episode, culminating in possibly the happiest moment in young Eric's life beautifully dashed.

At first I was a little disappointed with what the writers did with Cartman and his mother. I felt that 'Saturday Night Live' had taken the gag of demanding kisses and other attention before getting f***** about as far as they could with their various skits featuring Chinese president Hu Jintao and President Obama.

It felt cheap and lazy to simply jump on the same bandwagon and tread a lot of the same ground. But 'South Park' did as they always do and turned even this gag on its side. As longtime fans know, adults in the world of 'South Park' are both stupid and literal. They barely pay attention to anything, but they take every word said at face value.

So when Eric said his mother "f***** him" in Best Buy, that line was taken literally. I still love how Eric turns from this horrible monster to a whining and conniving child when his mother rarely puts her foot down on something.

Not to be dissuaded, he escalated his anger at his mother to accusing her of f****** him on an appearance on 'Dr. Phil' and ultimately a consolation gift from Apple Computers, Steve Jobs and Best Buy. That was the moment that tied it all together.

The other part of the episode dealt with something all too real. Who really reads all of those electronic agreements they click through when downloading apps or signing into the Playstation network? In 'South Park,' everyone but Kyle and two other people apparently read every word, but in the real world people sign contracts and agree to things all the time without reading them.

Stone and Parker wanted to slap us in the face with this fact to ask us why we're so stupid as to blindly agree to things we've never read. It certainly made me step back and wonder if I've read every agreement that's come my way.

The contract Kyle agreed to was part of an iTunes update, and it authorized Apple to do all sorts of things, including tasing Kyle's dad and making Kyle the center part of a human centipede. Yes, they went there, tackling a parody of the disgusting cult horror film 'The Human Centipede.'

By the fifteenth season of 'South Park,' it's almost impossible to shock us anymore, and even more difficult to gross us out. We're probably desensitized after 200+ episodes of envelope-pushing humor mixed with plenty of gross-out moments. Still, thinking too hard about what was happening after the guy in the front ate that burrito is enough to make me gag a little bit.

It was the cleverness of the moment when it all came together that made the episode for me. After his stories of molestation at the hands of his mother in a Best Buy, after she refused to buy him a $900 iPad, the company joined forces with Apple and Dr. Phil to present Eric with the first

HUMANCENTiPAD.

Cartman's pure joy at the new device was one of the best moments of the episode, highlighted by the quote of the night. "It does email and web browsing and it s**** in Kyle's mouth? This is the greatest thing that has ever been invented!"

At the other end of the episode, we had the rest of the kid working with Gerald to try and free Kyle from this contract. It was sadly appropriate that Gerald had to become a part of Apple in order to free his son from their clutches, or just reposition him under his father. But it allowed Stone and Parker to mock the ridiculous elitism and self-adulation that seems to be a part of the Apple experience.

FUN MOMENTS

* Eric dropping his pants and presenting himself to his mother during his tirade about her f****** him at Best Buy and the cut-scene to him crying in the car.
* Steve Jobs saying over and over again that Kyle and the other two victims agreed to everything he was going to do to them (human centipeding them).
* "Hmmm, I'm going to click Decline."--Butters after reading the contract Kyle agreed to.
* Apple Genius Leslie offering Gerald store credit in exchange for Kyle.
* Kyle continuously not reading contracts, even after all that's happened to him (so typical).
* Eric turning his rage on God and the cut-scene to him in the hospital crying after getting struck by lightning.

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