Breakfast with Girls

Not funny.

ryuryu2949

That actually is a lot funnier in print than it was on the show. Perhaps Towlie can grow on me...

DRG

I liked the whole 80s slasher parody scene with Manbearpig (aka Al Gore) stalking the kids playing basketball. It even had a cheezy synth score just like many of the films of that era. I actually wish they would've took off with that theme a bit more instead of what they went with. I didn't think it was all that bad, but it really bogged down in the middle. The visual of the guys carrying the bloated Cartman to safety was funny though, and you can never go wrong with crapping out treasure. All of that was made funnier by the fact it wasn't even real treasure. The Al Gore stuff didn't have the satirical punch they were hoping for, though.

SonOfAStu

My thoughts exactly. Although I've always loved Towelie and enjoyed the episode from the get-go, typing out that scene made it much funnier.

Then I rewatched the whole episode and it was much better the second time around. Minge and Gary are now classic SP characters IMO.

Towelie (to Geraldo): "You're a BEANER towel!"

rfduncan

Shows how well those ads work - until I read this thread I had ABSOLUTELY no idea what this episode was about in terms of manbearpig and Al Gore. It seems like the guys were slightly ahead of the curve. If this had been aired after the movie release, it may have been better (not to mention they'd have had more ammo for jokes as Gore would have been in the press more).

Thinking back to those quotes extracted from last week - that actually was pretty funny.

garmonbozia

I loved the Towelie episode, but this week I agree with the majority here. This was a really really boring episode......

milo bloom

I thought the last two eps were pretty funny, though not their best. The treasure thing threw me though, my wife had it pegged as fake as soon as she saw the display, but I thought the words "smuggler's den" were a kind of surreal humor like the bit in Monty Python + Holy Grail where the person carves "arrrggghhh" into the wall.

As for "serial", I was born in Cen. KY, lived a year or so in Indiana, lived about 8-9 years in Kansas and Oklahoma, then about 12-13 in W. KY, then in Chicago burbs since 97. I have never heard that usage of "serial" for "serious" in any of those regions.

nodeerforamonth

Last week's episode (Towelie) was the worst ever.

At least on this week's episode they gave Al Gore a good skewering. Any episode that blasts hippies can't be all that bad.

riley_dude

I was thinking the same thing.
Pretty ordinary episode.

Max Bottomtime

My GF grew up in Phoenix and still says serial all the time. She is the only one I know who said it until I saw last night's episode. I think it may be time for the writing staff to take another retreat. Perhaps an episode with Darth Chef to liven things up.

atlantamoi

Even though the Oprah show might have been the worst I've seen, there were enough funny Towelie moments that my wife and I have been quoting them. We won't be doing that with Gore's episode.

Deftones

I've never heard "serial" out of anyone's mouth and I've lived in Phoenix for 25 years.

gotrice487

This episode stunk almost as much as last week's...and I'm serial about this

ryuryu2949

But are you super cerial?

dhmac

Liked it better than last week's episode, but it was a weak episode. And I do have a bit of a problem with Matt and Trey essentially implying, via ManBearPig, that the threat of global warming is something Al Gore is making up just to get attention, instead of a real danger supported by scientific evidence. Much like they did with Mel Gibson, they went far out of the way to try to make Al Gore look like a complete wacko, and it failed in every possible way (including the most important one: "simply being funny").

The best section of the episode was Cartman and his "treasure" - especially when he's crawling around and accusing the other boys of being greedy and wanting his treasure for themselves (the Cartman/Kyle face-to-face part was classic!).

SonOfAStu

Stan doing his best Mitch Kramer impersonation...




The Hanging Mushroom


Man with Helmet and Two Bowling Balls


The Two Sisters

Jimmy 345

There potrail of Algore was dead on. Global Warming is a natural process caused by greater solar activity. Proof of this is Global Warming being found on Mars. Even if I am wrong and Global Warming is caused by man no serious scientist believes it will be nearly as disasterous as Algore trys to make it out. Trey and Matt clearly aren't kind to environmentalists and they are a refreshing change of pace from the huge liberal bias in most of todays comedy. Great episode.

dhmac

Regardless of the cause, Global Warming is a reality, not something Al Gore made up (aka ManBearPig) just to get attention.

(He may have invented the Internet ...but he didn't invent Global Warming.)

Bill Needle

I had no idea either. I just assumed they were making fun in general of what an immense buffoon Al Gore is. But since that has been pretty obvious for many years now, it sort of ceased to be funny a long time ago. And at least as it related to Al Gore, this episode was no exception.

Cusm

I caught both of these this weekend, and I agree.

Xander

Other than Cartman giving me a couple of laughs, I thought this episode sucked hard. And purely from a humor point of view. I don't care if it's Gore, Bush, or any other political person they're making fun of, the manbearpig/Gore parts were just not funny. Cartman stuffed with fake treasure, on the other hand...

Giles

yet, you could see that coming from a mile.

Jimmy 345

I can't believe they thought Cartman was funnier then Algore. There potrayal of Algore was hilarious. I have the believe the upcoming release of Inconvient Truth is the reason they chose to savage Algore right now. Trey and Matt aren't out of touch. Manbearpig is.

bjhess

I agree. Typically South Park's satire throws at least a small bone to the opposition viewpoint. Not in this case, which made the episode feel more forced and invasive.

Jimmy 345

Trey and Matt just tellin it like it is