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Zero One
Dec 30, 2004

HAIL TO THE VICTORS!
Hungover Randy is great.

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Alkabob
May 31, 2011
I would like to speak to the manager about the socialists, please

Small White Dragon posted:

No, you broke the rules.

No you broke the rules to prove I broke the rules.

Harry
Jun 13, 2003

I do solemnly swear that in the year 2015 I will theorycraft my wallet as well as my WoW
Holy poo poo Randy

I. M. Gei
Jun 26, 2005

CHIEFS

BITCH



"I had some refreshments and I checked your friend's privilege."

Alkabob
May 31, 2011
I would like to speak to the manager about the socialists, please
Oh poo poo they just did a call back to that scene in the movie Silverado.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Send in Jared!

Zero One
Dec 30, 2004

HAIL TO THE VICTORS!
SEND IN JARED

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


JARED

DivisionPost
Jun 28, 2006

Nobody likes you.
Everybody hates you.
You're gonna lose.

Smile, you fuck.
what's wrong, kyle

you have your cake

eat it, too

I. M. Gei
Jun 26, 2005

CHIEFS

BITCH



If they keep the continuity theme going, this is going to be a fun season.

I. M. Gei
Jun 26, 2005

CHIEFS

BITCH



And now, Moonbeam City, or "Patrick Nagel does Archer".

I. M. Gei fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Sep 17, 2015

DivisionPost
Jun 28, 2006

Nobody likes you.
Everybody hates you.
You're gonna lose.

Smile, you fuck.
That's a REALLY interesting episode. I worry that it's enough of an over-exaggeration of what I see on Twitter that some people will get the wrong message and think it's a problem that's more prevalent than it actually is. But I don't think it's a non-existent problem, and it's something that absolutely demands to be kept in mind as we learn to police ourselves and others a little better.

And that ending was a BRILLIANT way for Trey and Matt to turn the knife onto themselves, right down to Cartman humming the South Park theme.

Anyway, something tells me the guys haven't made their full point yet, and that we're getting another season with episode-to-episode continuity. If that's the case, I can't wait to see how this develops.

Tenzarin
Jul 24, 2007
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Taco Defender
I hope PC guy dies. Its like if dnd could be come a person, he would be PC principal.

Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Sep 17, 2015

Vanilla Mint Ice
Jul 17, 2007

A raccoon is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
That was a strong loving start to the season

MoPZiG
Jun 6, 2006

So principal Victoria is gone for good then?

Struggling to remember much about er.

Dr_Amazing
Apr 15, 2006

It's a long story
I really didn't care for this one. PC Principal is more annoying than funny.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

DivisionPost posted:

That's a REALLY interesting episode. I worry that it's enough of an over-exaggeration of what I see on Twitter that some people will get the wrong message and think it's a problem that's more prevalent than it actually is. But I don't think it's a non-existent problem, and it's something that absolutely demands to be kept in mind as we learn to police ourselves and others a little better.


Howso. Like, how is literally any of PC Principal's stuff not a non-existent problem?

Also I'm a big fan of all of this starting because Jerry Seinfeld didn't like that college kids didn't laugh at his 'people flip through iphones like some kind of gay french king' joke.

Duro
May 1, 2013

by Lowtax
Can someone explain how exactly Cartman "won" in the end? Unless it's continuing from last season, I don't get it. Maybe I'm just tired and missed something

Sally
Jan 9, 2007


Don't post Small Dash!
Ha, good ep.

"What the gently caress is that, Bret Favre, are you washing your hands?"

SpiderHyphenMan
Apr 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
I was going to call this a rather unfocused and thematically nonsensical episode, but Cartman's "You have your cake. Eat it too" loving put everything into perspective. The whole loving thing is a huge joke about how South Park wants to indulge in politically incorrect humor to make a larger, ultimately socially progressive point. It's kind of brilliant.

Also I call bullshit on Tom Brady being Cartman's hero, that honor obviously belongs to Donald Trump.

VagueRant
May 24, 2012
Were the PC bros' teeth a reference to something? Is that just considered a bro-ish look now?

I was a little thrown off by the idea of making frats the PC ones, when they'e associated with being rapey as gently caress, but hey. Thought it was an alright episode overall. I dug Randy's "refreshments" line (watching him hungover reminded me of some bad nights and legitimately made me feel ill!), and Cartman's failed attempt to frame the guy - the part where the kids at the window just give up and walk away was pretty funny.

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

Also I call bullshit on Tom Brady being Cartman's hero, that honor obviously belongs to Donald Trump.
Urgh, now I need this to be an episode. But maybe they'll save it till he wins the election.

GaussianCopula
Jun 5, 2011
Jews fleeing the Holocaust are not in any way comparable to North Africans, who don't flee genocide but want to enjoy the social welfare systems of Northern Europe.

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

Also I call bullshit on Tom Brady being Cartman's hero, that honor obviously belongs to Donald Trump.

May I refer you to the episode "Eek, A Penis" in which Cartman's longstanding admiration for the New England Patriots is already documented, although it focuses more on Belichick.


But what I absolutly dont get is how anyone can say Gisele Bündchen looks like a dude.

VagueRant
May 24, 2012
It's in the jaw, I think.



Kinda Jennerish.

Slightly Absurd
Mar 22, 2004


Yeah, I don't really know anything about Gisele, but she's got a pretty strong jawline, and at certain angles/lighting conditions looks kinda dude-ish.

Kind of a "meh" episode for me, but it seems like it was more about building a new status quo for the show. It could be kinda interesting to see Cartman exploring the darker side of hyper political correctness

Dr Christmas
Apr 24, 2010

Berninating the one percent,
Berninating the Wall St.
Berninating all the people
In their high rise penthouses!
🔥😱🔥🔫👴🏻
The PC frat boys were like the racially tolerant rednecks in the "naggers" episode.

TelevisedInsanity
Dec 19, 2008

"You'll never know if you can fly unless you take the risk of falling."
I am with some of you, I really don't really like "topical episodes", I've been rewatching older episodes (from like 7-8 years ago) and man some things just don't hold up.

I think this episode is one more textbook "poke fun at both sides and reach the middle", but I think the writing on this episode was pretty poor. Especially when it came to the PC Principal.

I really like the episodes that are completely bonkers stupid, or something that is based on current events, but never really discusses it, the last episode I really had a great laugh was "Sarcastiball", and am hoping we see something this season just as silly and not as current-events based.

E:

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

I was going to call this a rather unfocused and thematically nonsensical episode, but Cartman's "You have your cake. Eat it too" loving put everything into perspective. The whole loving thing is a huge joke about how South Park wants to indulge in politically incorrect humor to make a larger, ultimately socially progressive point. It's kind of brilliant.

Also I call bullshit on Tom Brady being Cartman's hero, that honor obviously belongs to Donald Trump.

I really love this take on the episode, and that puts a new perspective on the situation instead of just roughly 16 minutes of Tom Brady jokes.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
I thought making them all frat boys was pretty clever. I mean, you could make them a bunch of tired feminist stereotypes but then it looks like you are attacking feminists or women. This way you are really left with just satirizing the ideas. It was a very PC choice. :P

GZA Genius
Jan 29, 2009

FuriousxGeorge posted:

I thought making them all frat boys was pretty clever. I mean, you could make them a bunch of tired feminist stereotypes but then it looks like you are attacking feminists or women. This way you are really left with just satirizing the ideas. It was a very PC choice. :P

I thought that the whole frat theme was catering to the whole "drinking the kool aid" ideals that a lot of society adopts when PC ideas start to steam roll.

e; How easy it is to turn people into social sheep

squarerandom
Mar 24, 2007

Obviously you're not a golfer.

Duro posted:

Can someone explain how exactly Cartman "won" in the end? Unless it's continuing from last season, I don't get it. Maybe I'm just tired and missed something

He got out of detention I'm guessing? TWO DAYS DETENTION FOR ASKING A QUESTION BRUH *puts on sway oakleys*

Niwrad
Jul 1, 2008

GZA Genius posted:

I thought that the whole frat theme was catering to the whole "drinking the kool aid" ideals that a lot of society adopts when PC ideas start to steam roll.

e; How easy it is to turn people into social sheep

Same. I also thought the point of it was to call them bullies by using the most stereotypical form of a bully.

My Q-Face
Jul 8, 2002

A dumb racist who need to kill themselves

Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:

Somebody tell Matt and Trey that this is not what SJW Tumblrinas look, act, or talk like.

Bullies are bullies, whether they're jock-bros or the PC brigade or tumblrinas, which is the point they're making.

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat
GZA Genius seems to have the best read on it. The people joined the PC group not because they actually believed in it but because they wanted to fit in and/or were susceptible to groupthink.

After all, that's what a frat basically is isn't it? A chance to fit in, a group that enforces groupthink (or at least, that's what the stereotype is)

Stare-Out
Mar 11, 2010

I didn't get any references in that episode. I'm not american so that's possibly why. Still Randy hungover was pretty funny I guess?

Onmi
Jul 12, 2013

If someone says it one more time I'm having Florina show up as a corpse. I'm not even kidding, I was pissed off with people doing that shit back in 2010, and I'm not dealing with it now in 2016.
The outrage brigade has made this episode an amazing start to the season.

EDIT:



Some people take this poo poo far too seriously

Onmi fucked around with this message at 11:22 on Sep 17, 2015

bbf2
Nov 22, 2007

"The White Shadow"
I thought the joke was the fact that that earlys 20s frat boy douchebags are the LEAST likely people to be Tumblr SJWS so they were trying to make a funny juxtoposition.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USShHXK21ds

Onmi
Jul 12, 2013

If someone says it one more time I'm having Florina show up as a corpse. I'm not even kidding, I was pissed off with people doing that shit back in 2010, and I'm not dealing with it now in 2016.

bbf2 posted:

I thought the joke was the fact that that earlys 20s frat boy douchebags are the LEAST likely people to be Tumblr SJWS so they were trying to make a funny juxtoposition.

I took the joke as that SJW's basically are early 20s frat boy douchebags who bully and abuse anyone who doesn't share in their deluded groupthink and the only thing missing from this depiction was pretending to be the victim afterwards.

also I think this only benefited Cartman because Kyle was made to look foolish and be abused.

Jean Eric Burn
Nov 10, 2007

Episode made me feel kinda melancholy TBH.

Sir Lemming
Jan 27, 2009

It's a piece of JUNK!
This sort of seemed like the template of a South Park episode, with a relentlessly "PC" group of people going a little too far to enforce the behavior of "regular" people. (And I'm now having trouble describing that template in more generalized terms because it is, essentially, exactly this episode.) The references were updated but it felt pretty rehashed otherwise.

Jared was a hilariously executed cheap gag, though.

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Irish Joe
Jul 23, 2007

by Lowtax

DivisionPost posted:

That's a REALLY interesting episode. I worry that it's enough of an over-exaggeration of what I see on Twitter that some people will get the wrong message and think it's a problem that's more prevalent than it actually is. But I don't think it's a non-existent problem, and it's something that absolutely demands to be kept in mind as we learn to police ourselves and others a little better.

Yeah, the problem is that they exaggerated the problem of people trying to "police" what others say and think, not that there are a group of people deluded enough to think that policing what others say and think is socially admirable behavior (its not, btw).

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