South Park: Super Fun Time
By fred | April 24, 2008
(S12E07) For one last time before the summer the bad boys of South Park came to our screens. No, the season isn’t over, but it’s taking its usual break and won’t be back with new episodes for months (probably sometime in October). Yeah, I know, but let’s not think about that and focus on last night’s episode instead. So far, I think this season has been pretty good.
It had its ups and downs, of course, and a few episodes haven’t been as funny as one could have hoped, but this is already the 12th season of the show, and it remains incredibly good, and more than once it had me, and you too I’m sure, laughing out loud. Last night was the mid-season finale, and to celebrate this special occasion we had a somewhat special episode of South Park.
What I mean by this, is that it didn’t feel like many episodes have recently. I’m sure I missed a few references from the episode, I’m sure I always do, but this episode wasn’t really a satire of a recent event, it had no real direct connection with a recent headline from the news, and its plot wasn’t taken directly from a movie, or a genre.
Of course there were references, we all saw a little of Bruce Willis somewhere, but it wasn’t like the plot of the episode was directly taken from inspired from Die Hard either, it wasn’t the typical plot from your zombie flick or anything like that. No, this time it felt a lot more like a typical South Park story, with the boys going on some adventure and having to deal with unbelievable things, much like what we used to see in the first seasons of the show.
This isn’t a complaint, though, absolutely not. I love it when South Park react on a recent event or parody some movie, there’s pretty good at that, but they do not need to do so to be good, and this episode felt like a nice little break from recent satires, to just enjoy the boys’ latest journey in South Park. And while I felt like this episode wasn’t as hilarious as previous episodes - to be honest, I’m not sure it really had any laughing out loud moments - it had this overall feeling about it, that made it just really fun.
Take Cartman and Butters escaping to have some “super phun thyme”, it don’t think anything from that whole trip made me really laugh out loud, I don’t think anything was that funny, but the whole thing was fun, and I actually enjoyed it. Of course, teaming those two together was a great idea, and to have Cartman throw such great lines at Butters was indeed really great : “Don’t be too hard on yourself Butters. You can’t help being a douchebag!”
As for the rest of the episode, and those annoying folks who refused to break characters, even when “terrorists” invade their camp and started killing some of their friends, even when they threatened to kill innocent children, they couldn’t break character. And while they knew of a back exit they could have used all along, they couldn’t possibly mention it, of course.
Well, that was fun, so was the fact that those bad guys just robbed… a Burger King! And little things like Mr Garrison caring more for his own safety than any of the kids, or how you might have almost thought for a second they’d kill Kenny again, it was all good stuff, but again none of it were actually hilarious. Still, not once was I bored with it, not once did I wish it’d get funnier and anything, though not hilarious it was funny - you have to love it when Cartman asks Kyle, after he refuses to partner with him, “Jesus, what have I ever done to you!?” - and it felt quite good, I really enjoyed this episode.
Maybe not the most hilarious episode of the season, but a really good episode nonetheless, and a pretty good way to end this first half of the season I think. Now, I can’t wait for the show to return, hopefully with completely hilarious episodes that make you roll on the floor for half an hour or more…
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Shows: South Park
I’m sorry but you are completly lost in saying this episode doesn’t relate to recent events. Super Happy Fun Time was clearly linked to the Mormon ranch and the recent arrests.