Everytime I watch South Park, I wonder why I don't keep up with the show more regularly. Somehow Matt and Trey manage to put out episodes that still manage to make me almost convulse with laughter and wonder how the heck they get away with this stuff. Ten-plus years of scatological humor mixed with social satire and it somehow keeps getting better unlike a certain Fox comedy that perhaps should have been put down about a decade ago.
The first two parts of the "Imaginationland"-trilogy have been absolutely brilliant. Take note Family Guy: this is how you work in pop culture references as jokes. As Cartman explained in the equally ingenious "Cartoon Wars" episodes, South Park's jokes are not just throwaway non-sequitors, but actually work in the context of the story. The "Imaginationland" episodes have managed to work in references to Saving Private Ryan, The Abyss, "Thundercats" and damn near every other 80's cartoon staple plus comment (in a heavy-handed, but nonetheless funny way) on the climate of fear created by the ever-popular war on terror.
How can you not love a show where Kurt Russell gets raped by small woodland creatures? Can't wait for next Wednesday.
Here's half of part 1 (the rest is out there too, if you just dig a bit):
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