This season's "South Park" has really been hot. Okay, they've had a few misses, but most of the new shows have been pretty good. They skewer just about anything that anyone would hold sacred, and they do it in such a hilarious way.
The season started out with a goodbye to dear old Chef (Isaac Hayes) who left the show to follow the dictates of the Super Adventure Club (Scientology). Then in a two-parter, the show poked fun at the Islamic cartoon rioters. It was marred, only slightly, by Comedy Central's decision to block the image of Muhammad, but the show was quite good nonetheless.
Last week the show involved Oprah and the author whose true story was made up. And that show stunk, big time. But in the most recent episode they were back in focus with none other than Al Gore as the target of their fun.
It seems that Al Gore has made a movie all about global warming titled An Inconvenient Truth. Here's an excerpt from a glowing review by David Corn:
The documentary follows Gore as he travels the world giving a slide show on the reality and perilous consequences of global warming, and much of the film shows him presenting his laptop show-and-tell to what seems to be a hand-picked crowd in a space-age auditorium.
So in Wednesday night's South Park episode there was Al Gore in the South Park Elementary school auditorium giving the kids a slide show and speech about the grave danger facing mankind. Let's let him tell it:
Al Gore: "Thank you Mr. Mackey, Students of South Park Elementary."
"I am here to educate you about the single biggest threat to our planet."
"You see, there is something out there which threatens our very existence and may be the end to the human race as we know it."
"I'm talking of course, about Manbearpig."
"It is a creature which roams the earth alone. It is half man, half bear, and half pig."
"Some people say that Manbearpig isn't real. Well, I'm here to tell you now, Manbearpig is very real, and he most certainly exists. I'm cereal."
"Manbearpig doesn't care who you are or what you've done. Manbearpig simply wants to GET you."
"I'm super cereal."
"Have no fear, because I'm here to save you. And someday, when the world is rid of Manbearpig, everyone will say 'Thank you Al Gore. You're super awesome.'"
"The end."
Mr. Mackey: "Okay. Thank you Al Gore."
Al Gore: "Thank you class. Excelsior!"
As the episode progresses, the kids get trapped in a cave, and Al Gore's efforts to extinguish what he thinks is Manbearpig almost result in the kids getting drowned. But that couldn't happen to the loveable little tykes of South Park, so they get out of it in fine shape.
Great stuff. Keep it coming, South Park.
Trivia: The South Park creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, made a theatrical movie with puppets released in 2004 titled Team America: World Police. It will make you laugh. It will make you vomit. Not many people saw it, so if you did, then you are among a very select few.
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