South Park: “Guitar Queer-O”
This is coming late, so we’re going to turn it in the name of time frames and exhaustion:
Things we liked:
-Heroin Hero and that heroin induced bird.
-The regular mocking of video games that imitate real life talents. All while if the time spent playing the game was spent on learning the actual skill, it would be mastered ten times over by the game player.
-The parody of numerous fictional and non-fictional bio-films.
-Randy impotently trying to bond with his Stan.
-Stan having a moment of self-recognition while playing the racing game.
-Mick
-The kid that Stan was forced into a duo with, because he’s like a carbon copy of my roommate’s brother.
-The typical, impatient Denver fan response to Jay Cutler’s slower than expected professional development.
The things we didn’t like were few and far between, and consists of little more than nitpicks that have no bearing on the entertainment factor of the episode. This is the third episode I can recall where the characters make an attempt at forming a musical act: There was the “Fingerbang” episode mocking boy bands, then the race to go platinum where Cartman forms a Christian rock band. It’s actually four if you include the “Timmy” episode where he joined forces with Skyler and his band of misfits, but I don’t since it involved all peripheral characters.
Sorry for the half-ass job here, but when an episode was as enjoyable as this one, there is very little too write about. This is the second video game they’ve raked over the coals in the past couple of seasons (World of Warcraft being the first victim), we can only hope that Halo is next on the radar.
December 5th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
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