By Robert Scucci | -What are you doing?
Having just kicked off its 28th season, South park It has a lot of newcomers because of its weighty political satire that people can’t seem to get enough of (personally, I’m done). Those who came to dig these stories but found themselves curious about it In South Park Decades – long legacy may not know where to start if he wants to take the right Deep-Deep-deep.
Diehard fans all agree that the series’ golden age runs between seasons 5 and 10, and they’re right. Indeed, any episode up to season 18 is a clean entry point because Trey Parker and Matt Stone always play fast and loose continuously before taking the approach made in keeping with their storytelling in their later days.
You can go to IMDB and look at the top 100 episodes in order. Considering that it’s a solid place to start, I’d like to zero in on what I think is the best episode of South Park. Rated 49 with an average of 8.6 stars, “Cartman’s amazing gift” is Peak South Park for every reason it will enter.
Buckle up, Buckaroo, because there’s a lot to get out of here.
“Cartman’s Amazing Gift” is Piek South Park
Focusing on the boys, “Cartman’s surprise gift” is much more than what you’d expect from your first glance. It is important for psychics, a by using the line that started in season 6 Episode 6 The biggest douche in the universe, “which spent its time running to John Edward with the desire to communicate with the people he loves doing. That episode has not met; While still funny, its humor is combined with a certain period when TV psychoscs were working in the wild. The humor raises the general South park Fashionable, but very high fashion may be lost on newcomers who don’t remember John Edward, even if he wasn’t born yet.
“Cartman’s Amazing Gift” takes that same criticism of psychics and is to offer an endless delivery of the present through interaction. Showing sad movies The red dragon, A giftagain A dead spotthis period of In South Park Satire relies on humanity by accepting the targets instead of openly laughing. Even if you don’t see those movies, you know what the sign does. For those most familiar with the source material, the references hit hard, adding another layer of humor. It’s the best of both worlds: vague enough for casual viewers but specific enough for people who know what’s going on.
Adults are idiots, and boys are boys
The storyline in Cartman’s amazing example “is so simple it’s stupid. Cartman jumps from his roof thinking he can fly, he wakes up from a two-day coma (you can remove his warm face now), and he convinces everyone that a traumatic brain injury gave him the power of pain. Sergeant Harrison Yates brings him to help solve a string of murders, and Cartman has no time to exploit this situation for money. Kyle, its bs detector he never fails, he knows the release of cartiman’s money is just for Yates’ entry and deciding to investigate his own.
The serial killer, Michael Deets, is right in the open all the time, emerging from active crime scenes in a dirty room spilled under his underwear. It doesn’t take Kyled long to realize that this guy killed the residents of South Park and chopped off their hands like clubs. Yates, fully convinced that the “Powers” of Cartman “don’t care about Kyle’s crimes because they are not rational.
Kyle’s frustration builds when Cartman’s new gift leads to a ‘telekenetic war of minds’ with a group of books called “Real Psychics.” Meanwhile, the Yates, after forcibly arresting many innocent people thanks to the leadership of the ONLING MOGUS, finally decided to look for Deets’ house. He finds a trophy room full of split hands nailed to the wall but insists the thumbs are facing the wrong way, meaning the deets collect the right hands, not the ones they left. It’s clear he’s a serial killer, but he’s not their guy by Yates’ logic.
Back at the precinct, Yates continued a thorough examination to confirm his positive outlook. Deets, that Cartman gave the wrong citizens of South Park Card to rule his reign, kidnapping and tormenting them with an endless slide of relaxation pictures.
Wall-to-Wall Gags Its creators remember a little
South Park has always been made in a grueling six-day schedule, and season 8 was especially brutal because Trey Parker and Matt Stone were working Team America: The police of the world at the same time.
They’re on fire, flying by the seat of their pants, and their little “Cartman is an amazing gift” comment is telling. When he remembered the development of the episode, he really remembered the left-hand gag and some other jokes that were lost. They were in a fever – intellectual voice, writing quickly and trusting their nature. There was no time for excessive unpacking.
Unlike the current seasons of South Park, which now run on two or three week rotations, season 8 was pure fluff. That manic, sleep-deprived Energy unleashes the amazing gift of “deceptive deception,” an epiphany. The focus on the boys and the adults’ inability to appreciate it, all while Michael Deets first gets killed, gave the episode a laugh-out-loud rhythm and surreal tone that perfectly captured what made this season of the show great. It’s cheap art, silliness, and humor that still feels inappropriate and alive.
If there is a first episode, this is it
“Cartman’s Amazing Gift” is one episode I always recommend when people ask where to start South park. Using over-based parody, dark and natural humor, and self-made jokes (“he was considered an irreverent character, one of the fans will not miss much”), completely captures the balance between friends. Everything that defines Golden-Era South Park is here.
“Casa Bonita” and “Scott Tunorman must die” may be the favorites of the fans, but the amazing gift of Cartman “has X-Factor they do not. Thanks to its parody and the sense of humor, it is firing in South Park on all cylinders.
If you can make it through this episode without chuckling, you’ll feel right at home from the start and enjoy everything South Park has to offer.
