What a f*cking pile of ridiculous, retarded bullsh*t that episode was.
2/10 at best, if I am forced to dig out a decent (not "good", just "decent") part of a "South Park" episode, and I come up to the point that a talking pussy of an overweight talk-show host was the *most* funny part of an ep, than it says all for itself and does not need any additional word of commentary.
What an utter bullsh*t.
What a f*cking pile of ridiculous, retarded bullsh*t that episode was.
2/10 at best, if I am forced to dig out a decent (not "good", just "decent") part of a "South Park" episode, and I come up to the point that a talking pussy of an overweight talk-show host was the *most* funny part of an ep, than it says all for itself and does not need any additional word of commentary.
What an utter bullsh*t.
"Joten" wrote in message news:444766b4$[email]...
It wasn't the best, but I don't think it's time for Trey and Matt to weigh the anchor and sail off into the sunset like some have suggested.
If the first episode I ever saw was "A Million Little Fibers" rather than "Mr Hankey The Christmas Poo", there's a very good chance that I wouldn't be the fan that I am today. It wasn't all that bad, and you have to let Trey and Matt stuff up every now and again. Elvis didn't produce a winner every time he went into the studio either.
Hell, yeah, but it's the first episode of the 10th season that does not jump the Co$/Cruise/Hayes/censorship bandwagon, which are - after all - Matt & Trey's own private issues. If they go out to be capable of doing just episodes like those already shown in the past few weeks, then... It's a "no-good" for "South Park"... Don't you think?
I start missing the old atmosphere - I mean, where is this show going? It's the third episode after "Pip" (the WORST episode EVER as voted in almost all possible polls) and "Not Without My Anus", that has *absolutely* no boys. They got rid of Mrs. Mayor and her Advisors, they god rid of Mr. Garrison (Mrs. Garrison is not that funny anymore, Mr.'s catchphrases have disappeared, haven't they?), they got rid of killing Kenny, only to bring him back after a couple of episodes and give him brief cameos a couple of times in a *season*, they got rid of Chef... And they have not introduced any interesting characters as a replacement. What "South Park" is in need of, is a solid, firm move forward. Otherwise the show will toss and turn here and there until its ultimate death. Some new characters, some fresh breeze into the show, please - 'cause all the possible "ways around" have already been exploited - giving comments on the current affairs, making one-character-centred shows, making episodes dedicated just to the recurring characters etc.
Please, it's the last call before the curtain calls.
In article , "Joten" wrote:
Fifth grade, anyone?
You mean...?
If I've made some mistakes, sorry - I'm not a native English speaker, so instead of ridiculing me in front of the group, just point me out the mistake, please.
Otherwise - I have no idea what you're talking about.
"Joten" wrote in message news:44479046$[email]...
No ridiculing there..... He was getting at a fresh start with SP where they join the 5th grade They've been in the 4th grade since season 4 (?)
I would like to see next weeks episode to see if viks theory rings true
Your grammar and spelling are excellent for a non native speaker (except all the commas)
Oh yeah, now I understand, thanks ;) I didn't get the joke after the first reading, sorry
Yup, co-sign.
Thanks; where can I learn something about punctuation in English? In fact I've been learning English since I was 4 years old (I'm almost 20 at the moment), but I guess I have not been ever taught about how to put commas in sentences in English. ;(
"Joten" wrote in message news:4447b7a7$[email]...
What is your native language?
I wouldn't worry about the commas 95% of British people can't use them correctly :)
Polish
Cool, but I'm going to pass the TOEFL test in 3 weeks' time, so I wouldn't like to lose some points just because of the wrongly inserted commas in AmEng :)
In article , "Joten" wrote:
Nice. Nothing wrong with that.
Just one suggestion: when tempted to say "foot fingers", substitute "toes" in English. I've heard that one being tripped over before by a native speaker of Polish.
Best bet is to ask a pro about it.
I know that, it's basics, but thanks nonetheless ;)
"pro"...?
On 22-Apr-2006, "Joten" wrote in message :
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Short for "professional".
In article , "Joten" wrote:
Funny. He was one of my college professors, too. Maybe things changed and it's "basics" *now*?
Such as an English teacher. USENET is not the best place to ask for pointers on English.
"�J�n�ao" wrote in message news:i712g.420$[email]...
Aren't they supposed to be inserted wherever a natural pause would occur if the text were spoken aloud?
Joten wrote:
No need to apologize, I doubt 1 in 100 Americans can punctuate properly. :)
"Peter Griffin" wrote in message news:HKN1g.352$[email]...
I, personally, believe that Joten, to whom you replied, does not, in any way at all, overuse commas.
Once Upon A Time Joten wrote:
I have no idea what he's talking about either and I've speakinized English all my life.
One guess, though: maybe he's suggesting that the kids be advanced from fourth grade to fifth? And then the show could tell fifth grade stories. Not sure how those would be substantially different from fourth grade stories, though.
** Captain Infinity
Co-sign. I mean, it would not change much - it would be good to have a one-shot special of boys as sixth-graders (looking kinda like those sixth-graders we got to see e.g. in "The Return Of The Fellowship Of The Ring To The Two Towers), or even late-teens (they started when they were 6 or 7, right? so that would make them at least 16-17 at the moment), just like we had some "flashbacks" of their toddler-past in the earlier seasons (if I recall correct those memories from the past were quite frequent some time ago). Or maybe a Rugrats-like spin-off series in the style of Nickelodeon's "All Grown Up", with the boys aged like Tommy, Chucky, Dil, Phil & Co.?
Co-sign. I mean, it would not change much - it would be good to have a one-shot special of boys as sixth-graders, though (looking kinda like those sixth-graders we got to see e.g. in "The Return Of The Fellowship Of The Ring To The Two Towers"), or even in their late-teens (the show took off when boys were 6 or 7, right? so that would make them at least 16-17 at the moment), just like we had some "flashbacks" of their toddler-past in the earlier seasons (if I recall correct those memories from the past were quite frequent some time ago). On the other hand - the age is just a number in "South Park", I mean - boys are still behaving like adults most of the time, definitely not like 7/8/9/10 year olds. So making them a couple of years older wouldn't change much - the only thing that would actually make a difference would be making them interested in the opposite sex - Cartman dating Bebe, Stan having crush on Wendy again, etc. etc. - but then again it's totally not "South Park"-like, so I can't see that happening.
Or maybe a whole Rugrats-like spin-off series in the style of Nickelodeon's "All Grown Up"? But the question appears - what would it change?
The major change would come with making them *really* older, like at the age of their actual parents, but it would become boring after some (short amount, I assume) period of time...
One episode of stuff like that (late teens/their real age according to the time that has passed since the show took off) would be cool, but maybe not now - it's been enough of the "one-shot" stuff (Tom Cruise, Bloody Mary, killing Chef, Towelie, Cartoon Wars) at least for the first half of the 10th season.
In article , Captain Infinity wrote:
New teacher! Anything to get rid of Ms. Garrison.
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Bikes!
In article , "Joten" wrote:
That's what they did the last time they needed new characters, as far as I remember.
What new characters have they introduced then? I don't remember as I had a few years' pause in watching "South Park", our TV has stopped airing it and I don't have ComedyCentral, so I had to catch up on things and was watching the episodes totally randomly and out of order.
I think that getting rid of Ms. Garrison would be okay (she has just cameo appearances after all), so - introducing a new teacher (who is NOT Ms. Chocksondik or Mr. Mackey) and maybe bringing back Mr. Derp (damn, I'm curious if Matt & Trey even remember him or a couple of others minor characters from the show that are worth making use of)
"Joten" wrote in message news:44478bc8$[email]...
I'm still not sure if we're all missing something about this episode. Did they really just get off their faces and come up with a stupid episode, or is there actually some significance in the fact that both of her bits had uneducated English male voices? I'm assuming there's a link to something, no matter how tenuous. Any clues?
I'm starting to wonder if they planned to do the whole show around Towelie, Oprah, and Geraldo, but then hit the wall, couldn't figure out how to end it, and just went to Plan B beat their deadline.
Vic
You make me wonder: You people *do* know about the whole �A Million Little Pieces� thing, don't you?
It's the minor stuff in this episode, I mean it's neccessary to know the James Frey issue to understand the episode as a whole, but even with the knowledge of that, there's still nothing to laugh about IMO...
Perfectly spoiled and wasted episode, a three-words commentary by one of the boys at the end or using the 207 "City on the Edge of Forever"-esque ending with Cartman waking up and telling his mom about the dream in which Towelie has returned and Oprah's pussy was terrorizing people with a gun, and then Stan waking up and calling Kyle and telling him that he dreamed of Cartman dreaming of etc. etc. could have made it...
I agree completely.
"Klaus Petersen" wrote in message news:e294lf$oe8$[email]...
I'm from Australia, and I don't watch Oprah unless I'm strapped to a chair with my eyelids taped open (an irregular occurrence at best). I'm hoping that's a decent enough excuse to get me off the hook. I can't say the same about those other bastards though...
I just googled "A Million Little Pieces", so I'll have a read and then it might all make a bit more sense.
Oh, I didn't mean it like that. I'm from Germany, and I don't own a TV set. So I'm in no position to know how many people actually followed the controversy around Frey's book, wherefore I thought I'd ask.
My impression is that they tried too hard. Down to the book's cover design, they replicated so many details from the original incident that they didn't have enough freedom left to turn the parody into something creative. They aren't good if they don't have enough freedom. That's the one crucial parallel to the "Pip" episode: Both basic ideas came with a fixed story, a fixed set of characters... the only thing South Park about those episodes is a South Park stock character playing the lead. The plotline around Oprah's private parts feels tacked on because the main plot is too static to allow anything else beside it. IMO.
In article , Klaus Petersen wrote:
Hm, time to do a bit of Googling. Never heard the name before.
In article , "Wog George" wrote:
I expect that one of them was her little man in the boat. Exactly *why* it's supposed to be a *man* has long been unclear to me.
On 2006-04-20 09:25:39 -0400, "Joten" said:
We haven't seen Barbrady on in a while either, he was GREAT!
Cartman: You are the worst character ever, Towelie. Towelie: I know.