South Park: Tonsil Trouble (season premiere)
March 13th, 2008
(S12E01) After a routine tonsillectomy goes horribly wrong, Cartman comes face to face with his own mortality.
Season Twelve is out of the gate pretty strong. Unfortunately, it seemed to lose momentum towards the end.
Matt and Trey tackle the issue of AIDS…again (they have done so before, such as in the episode mocking Jared from the Subway commercials). They tend to present AIDS as a shock-value joke, but this time their take is slightly different.
Rather than the disease itself, the creators analyze the media treatment of AIDS. The disease has fallen out of favor and is not really in popular culture anymore. Perhaps it’s because we better understand and can control the disease, or perhaps it’s just an old hat. In either case, it’s really not in the spotlight anymore.
I love the psychedelic style of the new intro. The music is the same, but I laughed at the silly angles in which the kids suddenly appeared to say their lines.
The “f” bomb is dropped a few times in this episode. “F**k your ice cream!” “F**k you, Jimmy Buffett!” This is nothing new for the series, but it was still very noticeable.
Butters kissing Cartman was a classic moment, as was Kyle’s reaction to learning that Eric was HIV positive. What was up with the cap Cartman wore after he was diagnosed? There was a “P” on it. Was that a baseball reference? I don’t think so, otherwise he wouldn’t have been wearing a Rockies cap.
Tags: new, park, south
March 16th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I’m tired of the misuse of the word “capitalism”. It doesn’t mean some kind of utopian ultra-free market system (that has never existed). The word stands for the real, existing system we have today which is characterized by capital accumulation and wage labor.And that has been the case ever since the word capitalism was coined by socialists in the 19th century.And as Marx and Engels wrote in 1848:”The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.”
March 16th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Oh, how clever. I noticed you slipped “neo-liberal” there.There is nothing liberal nor neo-liberal about Plutocracy.Fascist yes, liberal? No.
March 16th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
You aren’t entirely wrong but stop using the word “social” when attacking your hated ism, as you are part of the community too. From how you are arguing your point you sound like you are against police and fire protection, and education as well, all social programs.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I think Bearnake was correct.Remember the guy who came across two teenage sisters with a huge bag of quarters? He asked one of them,”How did you manage to hoard all those quarters?” The older one replied, “It wasn’t just me. She hoard half of them.”
March 16th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Not rich enough to afford a clean whore, eh? Enjoy the syphilis!
March 16th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
It’s not socialism, it’s corporatism.