There was a great special on Comedy Central last
year called "6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park." It showed the
insane creative process these guys go through to crank out an episode
only a week before its air date. They want to stay as fresh as possible.
Theirs nobody out there doing anything like that on this scale. The
special revolves around the "Human Cent-Ipad," creating a mockery of a
film my company released and worked on called, "The Human Centipede II."
If you haven't heard of it, you're lucky. Nonetheless, the special
really conveys how everyone on the South Park production is a
professional. They work long, hard, hours. And when they need to,
quickly and efficiently. They love the guys they work for it seemed, and
that makes all the difference at the end of the day. It certainly does
for me.
(SPOILER ALERT) Last night's season premiere is a
perfect example of you're run-of-the mill type episode. When there's not
something immediately at the forefront of the news on any given week,
they'll pickup on something seemingly common, and dissect it in the
funniest, but most honest way possible. This episode concerned the idea
of women having the issue of potentially falling into the toilet, when
the toilet seat is left up. Clyde's mother dies in a rather awkward but
hilarious way because her son does not take her words about putting the
toilet seat down to heart. As she falls in she accidentally flushes at
the same time, creating a pressure vacuum which will ultimately suck her
insides out and kill her. Ridiculous? Obviously. Hilarious? Depends on
your sense of humor. But all this leads to a serious debate that engulfs
the town. The men take the position that it is very easy for women to
check and see that the seat is down, before they go plopping their asses
in an open hole, and the women argue that it takes no time at all for
men to simply put the seat down when finished. A classic and timeless
debate! Well the story goes on from there, and in 22 minutes they
somehow involve the TSA (who comes in and regulates all toilet bowl
usage), toilet seat-belts, suing spirits (namely Sir John Harrington,
inventor of the modern toilet), and it all gets resolved with the
"Reverse Cowgirl." What's that? Oh, it's simply the fact that all these
years, we've been using the toilet backwards! You're supposed to sit on
it facing forwards, so the flusher is conveniently placed in front of
your left arm, and thus you have a tray to lay your magazines and
incidentals on while you relieve yourself. Plus, you can never fall in
that way, or not notice that the toilet seat is up!
Yes, it's silly. And yes, it can be very crude. But
it can also be thought provoking, and pretty freakin' witty. In one
episode they managed to point out the ridiculous nature of the TSA and
what it has be come, and take a dig at the toilet bowl, forcing us to
see it from a different, well...position?
I stand by South Park no matter what anyone says, and I think their creators are brilliant. If you haven't given the show a chance, then you're potentially missing one of the best and smartest shows out there (I'd recommend watching the "Imaginationland Trilogy" to start with, and then possibly moving on to "The Death of Camp Tolerance" off the top of my head). It's nothing like it was when it began, and truly was a kids show with toilet humor and shitty animation. And I even liked it back then! It's developed into a whole different kind of beat these days, with drastic improvements on all fronts. Here's to another 16 seasons guys.
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