South Park: The Ring [season premiere]
By fred | March 12, 2009
(S13E01) The bad boys of South Park were back for their brand new and thirteenth season already, and I am not sure how good/funny an episode they just had for their return. It might all depend on your knowledge of the Jonas Brothers — as this episode decided to give them a key role of the episode. Often South Park does episodes that relates or depicts current events, or social phenomena, from the election of Obama to World of Warcraft.
After having their take on the whole High School Musical last season, they opened this new season by focusing on another “musical” hit : the Jonas Brothers. Now, I don’t really known anything about them, so I can’t tell how close to the truth their representation was, how close to the actual songs & lyrics what we got was, and maybe I’m missing lots of jokes because of it.
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Shows: South Park
In Series: South Park Season 13
(S13E02) Last week’s episode wasn’t any kind of bad, but ended up being disappointing to me, mostly because it was a season premiere and, as such, I have to admit I expected more than just a typical South Park episode, I had hopes for something different, special, and even more hilarious than usual. Now this week there’s no more such thing as a season premiere, it’s just another episode of the (very fresh) new season.
(S13E03) For the past two weeks, I’ve been saying how I felt disappointed and underwhelmed by what South Park had to offer, not because the episodes were bad (cause they were not), but because they were just exactly what you’d expect from the show, and (to me) failed to really deliver the goods, not just have a message and make fun of whatever they targeted this time, but also be freaking hilarious.
(S13E04) This episode aired on April 1st, a day otherwise known as April Fools Day. This is true everywhere, not just in the South Park universe, but of course it does have a special meaning for fans of the show, as one time, about 11 years ago to the day, a new episode was coming up. Back then it was the second season premiere, and all fans were waiting for the answer, for Cartman’s Mom Is Still A Dirty Slut.
(S13E05) This season might still be young, it’s already had its ups and downs, some episodes being nothing but hilarious, while others were your average South Park episode and others ended up being simply disappointing. This week, they did something they often do and that usually makes for a winning episode, as they focused a little less on the boys and a little more (among others) on the one and only Eric Cartman.
(S13E06) I don’t know if there are rules, things that must or mustn’t occur during the course of one episode in order for one to enjoy it. For instance, while most episodes have of course the kids, at least the four most-known kids of South Park, as central characters of the story, every once in a while only a few of them, maybe one or two, are involved. Other times none of them is even seen at all.