Most of the time, South
Park is at best hysterical, and at least funny enough to burn a half
hour. But when the show isn’t clicking,
there aren’t different levels of bad to it. When it’s bad, it’s usually HORRIBLE.
Sometimes on the show, Trey Parker and Matt Stone get so
into their surreal storylines that humor is left by the wayside. Tonight’s episode was an example of that.
In it, we find the usually excessively cheerful Butters in an
inexplicable fit of rage, having beaten up a recurring character offscreen (I know
this is horrible, but that might have actually been very funny to see, in the
show’s gleefully offensive way). Turns
out his anger is somehow because he’s a Hawaiian by birth, and he must make a pilgrimage
to the Aloha State to participate in a sacred ceremony with other Native
Hawaiians (in actuality, just regular Americans who make the state their
seasonal home; I guess this was the intended joke, but it didn’t make me
laugh). There’s also some stuff about a
war with the U.S. Mainland, and the ghost of Elvis, and…yeah, it lost me at
about the 12-minute mark.
The one redeeming moment (well, not redeeming enough to
salvage the episode) came when Butters revealed the true source of his anger:
Ben Affleck, who Stone and Parker seem to have something of a grudge against. Butters’ aimless tirade about Affleck (including
a diss/shout-out to his current film Argo)
might give dedicated fans a chuckle, but that little inside joke is about the
only laugh in this one.
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