Rablrablrablrablrabl!
The first episode of the new season was absolu-freaking-tively perfect! I loved it so much. It was a great way to start off the midseason. More in my video. I’ll probably do a text recap later; for now, I’m off to the capital!
Tonight Is The Night- Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
South Park will be airing tonight on Comedy Central at 9 pm C! This video will give you the low-down on tonight’s episode and future episodes. I will have a new vlog up sometime tomorrow with my response/review of the episode.
South Park Blog Prep
I decided I needed some new South Park duds in lieu of the new episodes and for my vlog.
I made these shirts by printing out pictures of Tweek and Craig onto iron-on sheets. You can see the entire process (plus some bonus footage) here: http://youtu.be/Mn6O0cFcAjU
I will be wearing one of these three shirts for every vlog I make! Stay tuned, my friends.
South Park Midseason Predictions
“Respect my authority.”
“Oh my God! They killed Kenny!”
This is how I have looked since April. Bring on more Tweek!
Next week, the first episode of the second half of season 16 of South Park will air. You can guarantee that I will be squealing like a fangirl. My favorite 4th graders will be back for a brand new episodes and more mischief. Since April 25 (the day the midseason finale aired), I have been contemplating what will happen next.
History was made in 2008. The first Black president of the United States was elected president. South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker predicted the outcome of the election. Well, they at least hoped they were correct. South Park airs on Wednesday night. The Presidential Election Day fell on a Wednesday four years ago. Stone and Parker decided to make an episode of South Park based on Obama becoming president. They worked on the episode for eight days, and made the episode open enough for them to make sudden, last minute changes in case McCain did win the election. However, their prediction came true. Obama became president and the episode of South Park aired mere hours after the new president was announced.
Since the beginning, South Park has taken pop culture and current events and reconstructed them tie in with the show’s characters. Despite popular belief, I don’t have magical powers. I can’t look into the future to see what big events will take America and the world by storm. When the first half of season 16 aired earlier this year, school bullying was a big thing. Internet memes became even more popular. A girl contracted a flesh-eating disease after a ziplining accident. South Park had episodes relating to all of these things. That being said, the ziplining episode premiered a couple of weeks before the girl’s incident. Stone and Parker must be the ones with future sight.
The only major events I know that will be happening during the second half of the season are Halloween and another Presidential Election Day. Stone and Parker have not had a Halloween episode in quite a few seasons (season 10, to be exact). Last year, they made an amazing mash-up of Thanksgiving and the History Channel’s love of aliens. I hope they’ll have something extra special for Halloween this half-season.
The last episode of the half season airs on Nov 7, the day after Presidential Election Day. Generally, Stone and Parker end the half season a week later. I can almost guarantee that the guys will have a special episode focused on some hijinks the president (whether it be Obama or Romney, or if both will have a role in the episode) will put the boys through.
Besides Halloween and Presidential Election Day, I want this half-season to focus more on secondary characters. The midseason finale focused on South Park’s only Black boy, Token Black, finding love with the new girl (who also happens to be Black), Nichole. Of course, Cartman is a manipulative ass in the episode, and Kyle plays a part in the episode. I hope that my favorite secondary characters, Craig and Tweek, will get more screen time like Token did with the midseason finale. The girls at South Park Elementary haven’t been featured in a while either. It’ll be great to give Bebe, Wendy, and even Nichole more screen time in at least one episode.
Besides things to come, I bet Stone and Parker make at least one superhero episode. This summer, comic book fans and moviegoers had three big blockbusters. We saw the end of Nolan’s Dark Knight series; the beginning of a new Spiderman chapter; and the first major, big screen conglomeration of blockbuster superheroes The Avengers. DC and Marvel fanboys and girls can agree that it has been an amazing year for comic-based movies. Stone and Parker will probably cash in on this. I don’t know of a single person who did not like the superhero storylines that introduced The Coon (Cartman) and Mysterion (Kenny). I’ll be surprised and more than a little disappointed if there isn’t an episode where Mysterion makes an appearance.
While I’m on the topic of Kenny, I want at least one episode where audiences see Kenny’s face. Kenny has been getting more and more face time in recent seasons, but he hasn’t spoken clearly without his face covered since The Jeffersons (season 8). Even if he has one unmuffled line, this fangirl will be more than happy.
The new episodes of South Park will begin airing on Wednesday Sept 26 at 9 pm until Wednesday Nov 7. Reruns will also play periodically throughout the week. Let’s keep up with this new half-season, and see if my predictions are correct or completely off base.
South Park Episode Reviews 