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Some thoughts on the new South Park episode "Dead Celebrities" !!SPOILERS!!
- I still like this new opening. The faux-drum and bass thing is class.
- Sheila and Gerald's role playing sex. Great start, chuckling already.
- I hope I'm wrong, but I think they're trying to make Ike a more central character.
- The dead celebrities so far are David Carradine, Farrah Fawcett and Billy Maze. I don't know who Billy Maze is.
- Ike's voice is a lot clearer, isn't it?
- My dog just bit my ankle. Little fucker. It's alright - I've hidden her toy bone on the top shelf of the cupboard.
- Ike on the psychiatrist couch is quite funny.
- "I see dead...celebrities." I don't think the topicality of the reference matters that much. The scary violin sound makes up for it anyway.
- The therapist is funny.
- "'Sup Jew?" :D
- Cartman loves Billy Maze. Nice. His character just gets better and better.
- What is cha-polt-lay?
- I've never understood why someone would eat something which made them crap blood, either. I had a friend who once shit a turd of blood. He'd torn something inside his rectum.
- Ah, "Ghost Hunter". Sweet. "The gayest show in the fucking world."
- Ever seen that one over here with Derek something?
- My friend had tried forcing a turd out the week before and torn something open. So he says.
- "Woah! Shh, shh! What is that? Is that a...shh, shh!" <-- Exactly how they act.
- The one with Jennifer Ellison and Paul O'Grady is the only one I've seen. Two in the morning. I was pissed up, I promise. It's a ridiculous program.
- Michael Jackson will undoubtedly turn up in this. He was Mr Thompson though, right? So will they acknowledge that?
- Jennifer Ellison is so fit. A chavvy tart.
- "What was that?! It was like a...like a...[pop]." <-- This will be this episode's running joke.
- South Park has elevated the running joke (RJ) to the level of artform.
- The planetarium owner RJ is one of the best. There's also: "D'fuck?"
- "What is that? What is that?"
- The piss joke sucks.
- Oh, the Ghost Hunters have gone.
- The cha-polt-lay callback didn't work.
- "Golden rectum of the gods." :D
- The little fat doctor is based on the woman from Poltergeist, but her voice sounds like the sea otter from the Dawkins episode.
- The little girl from Poltergeist died of meningitis, didn't she?
- If she turns up in this I think that might be going a bit too far.
- The plane analogy is ridiculous. Good stuff.
- "Are you tired of always having to put the toilet seat down?" "Yes, yes I am, Billy Maze!"
- Oh, shit. Jacko's here. "That's ign'ant."
- "I'm alive. [Pause] And I'm a child. [Pause] And I'm white."
- MJ just possessed Ike. I can't make up my mind whether this is funny or not.
- They've started "drawing" some of the scenes, I've noticed. Things have black lines around them where previously they had none.
- A threesome with Jenneifer Ellison and Scarlett Johansson. That's my final offer.
- Official: This Ike thing is funny.
- What if Jen and Scarl' liked it better without me?
- That would still be really hot. I'd stay in the room anyway.
- The blood shit is this ep's RJ. It isn't funny.
- The purgatory thing is going to slow the remainder of the episode down.
- Actually, the blood shit thing is quite funny.
- There's a lot of plot drift in this episode.
- I'm not complaining. I like stories which "unfold", as opposed to following predestined points.
- The paedo judge at the child pageant is so spot on. Why would you choose, as a middle-aged man, to judge the looks of small girls?
- In town earlier this year I almost got with a girl who was fourteen. She looked nineteen, seriously. Proper Barley moment.
- Americans are fucking wankers. Why would you create a beauty pageant for little girls?
- I would hate to have parents like the ones you see at those shows.
- The fourteen year old cried when I told her her friend had told me how old she really was.
- "Ms Michael Jackson."
- "I'm just a little girl, a dainty little thing, cha-mon! HO!"
- Cartman found someone eating cha-polt-lay. The female judge. Turns out she'd love to eat more but can't afford the underwear. Cartman says he'll fix her up with the cleaning product Billy Maze was selling if she'll fix the contest.
- I bought the minor a drink after to say there were no hard feelings. Then I legged it.
- I swear to God, why do they have these child beauty pageants? Shit is fucked up, yo.
- Truly awful people.
- They better not make Ike a major character. He's rubbish.
- Would it be wrong to say I found her attractive? I mean, why else would I have gotten myself into that situation if I thought she wasn't attractive?
- All the celebrities ended up in hell.
- Not quite sure if there was any message to this one. Seemed to putter along in third gear for the majority of it's 20 minutes.
Had some funny parts, but I didn't care much for the central role Ike was afforded. Was hoping Stan's dad would pop up but he didn't. Cartman had the best scenes, as usual, while the Ghost Hunter sequence was a mix of funny/not funny. Overall, a decent enough way to kick of the second half of the season.
In closing:
6.5/10