Comments | polaris93: South Park Season 15, Episode 1: feh

polaris93

South Park Season 15, Episode 1: feh

Jun 28, 2011 09:53

Last night I watched Season 15, Episode 1, "Humancentipad," of South Park. Normally I love South Park, but this was the first episode I have ever watched that I take issue with. In this episode, Kyle gets kidnapped by Apple Corporation because he signed one of their iPad agreements without reading it, and it permitted Apple to kidnap him, throw ( Read more... )

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rosebranch June 29 2011, 00:58:32 UTC

It probably won't change your opinion of the episode, but it's intended to parody a horror movie "The Human Centipede" which you know everything you need to know about. Except that South Park combined the horror concept with the Apple/not-reading-contracts concept.

polaris93 June 29 2011, 01:02:10 UTC

In all other episodes I've seen, South Park has been spot on. I even loved Team America: World Police, which was horrendously gross, but in service to the message: "You don't like this? Then clean it up, Hollywood!" -- great satire, and great concepts.

Why this episode hit me all wrong, I don't know, but it still does. I've never seen The Human Centipede, but as you say, I don't need to now that I've seen this SP episode. The one thing that was good about it was the parody of Apple Corps high-handed ways with customers. It's just that for some reason that mouth-to-anus business totalled my lunch.

brezhnev July 9 2011, 03:51:40 UTC

Of course it's gross; that's what South Park is all about, right? I must say, since the show's concept is to keep pushing the envelope, they're pretty creative to be able to keep coming up with new stuff after all these seasons.

As for realism, of course that wouldn't fly in the real world for one second. But it's a cartoon, so considerable suspension of disbelief is implied.

I saw Team America too. That was a hoot! I wonder if Li'l Kim has seen it -- he has a huge collection of movies, I've heard -- and if so, what he thought about it.

polaris93 July 9 2011, 03:58:07 UTC

It's kind of embarrassing to admit that at the time I wrote this review, I hadn't even heard of The Human Centipede, and so didn't realize this episode was a satire based on it -- if I had, I'd have had a very different opinion of that part of it. However, I still was disappointed by the idea that Apple Corp. and Steve Jobs would stick their heads far enough into legal and social nooses to get hung high and handsome by behaving the way they did in the episode. That sort of treatment of anyone, above all a child (Kyle), is utterly illegal in this country, not to mention socially repugnant, and of course Apple Corp. and Jobs would know that and never do anything so stupid. As I said before, the situation described in a humorous piece has to be at least vaguely plausible for anything in it to be funny. You have to start with something plausible, though you can build upon it and stretch it and twist it until it's very nearly impossible, and still get people to laugh. But if it simply can't happen, if it's flatly impossible, and your ( ... )