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Wow, I'm incredibly picky with South Park fanfiction.
Mostly because well...it's not Anime. So to me, these children are not effeminate girls filled with emotions longing for a lover somewhere in the world. (except Kyle! lololol) They are brats. They are rebellious, white, and american, and their morals may not be where it should be. So the only fic I've actually liked was one where the author emphasized writing the characters "as boys" and not...the other 9000 cliche fanfictions. Otherwise I tend to read the general stuff because other genres just fly off the charts.
But that's not what I'm specifically talking about here in this entry at the moment.
While going through lots of South Park episodes (completely out of order. I didn't do something like watch from the very beginning to the end like someone I'm not going to mention... P: ) I watched an episode called "Are you there God? It's me, Jesus" which I didn't expect to like very much. I was dead wrong.
First, from the title and the preview picture I assumed it was basically about Jesus which while a cool character just doesn't excite me like ones about the boys, but it turns out that the episode had two plots, one the actual plot and a Stan subplot. They eventually tied into together in the end. Nowadays plots are usually one single plot without a subplot in the newer episodes, but I really liked how this one episode melded together (especially since at this point I was preferring the newer episodes since it had less senseless Kenny deaths and more pointful Kenny scenes) but this episode made me love a lot of the old school episodes too!
One of the biggest differences from New and Old South Park are the adults and children. In the early seasons the adults were not developed as much so they couldn't be stupid, simply remaining in the background or being, well, adults in what seemed like a series focused a lot on the kids. And in the early seasons there were more naive-like kids, rather than just having Butters being the naive one in the present. (I mean there are still instances of this in some newer episodes, such as Fatbeard when Cartman thought the "Somalian pirates" were like the pirates in folklore, and that the time to pillage and plunder has come forth once again! (Except he was the only one, along with a few other kids that seemed to believe this, unlike older seasons when pretty much all the kids were naive to adult things (except Kenny to adult adult things, but again there were exceptions [for example he didn't know what a lesbian was in a season 3 episode])) so rather than kids being naive...it was just Cartman being retarded.
I believe part of this effect is due to the killing off of Chef, who served as the person to tell kids what things mean and basically be the advisor to the children, without him to balance out the adults all the adults became stupid and the children had to take on this "WTF WHY ARE THEY BEING SO STUPID" role, especially Stan.
So that's why I love this episode (and it's hilarious). See, in "Are You There God? It's me Jesus" the episode focuses on Y2K. You might remember that tons of shows had one of those OMFG THE WORLD WILL END IN THE YEAR 2000! episodes, but I never found any of them very memorable. Here since it's been two thousand years since the birth of Christ, everyone thinks Jesus owes them something, like maybe God appearing for the first time! Meanwhile, Cartman gets his "period" and disowns the others as his friends because now he is mature and finally becoming a man (and this is here where the naive part comes in, they don't know only girls have it) when really the blood is just a colon infection spreading through South Park. Kenny soon contracts it and believes he too is going through puberty. Kyle doesn't want to feel left out so he decides to pretend he has his to not be left out, leaving Stan to be...left out.
Jesus decides to hold a gigantic concert in Las Vegas (at least I think it was there) with Rod Stewart for the New Year, and everyone goes because of a rumour that God will appear. Stan on the other hand, goes to Dr. Mephisto (this character never appears anymore in the newer seasons, with the exception of 200/201 :C ) and he gives him Hormone pills thinking Stan is talking about his dad and not himself. Like a child rather than following the instructions and taking a tablet a week, he just downs the entire bottle...
Rod Stewart meanwhile is ridiculously old and can't exactly do concerts anymore, but he's put in the concert anyway, while Stan grows a beard, breasts, and his voice starts to crack. He continues to be frustrated that he still doesn't have his period and during the concert, Jesus is being booed because Rod Stewart is too old to do anything. When Stan goes up to Jesus and asks him why God never answers his prayers (he's been praying to get a period for days) Jesus answers that if God did everything people asked him to, life would have no point since life is all about problems and solving them for yourselves. Jesus then realizes he should've known this as well (since he also asked God to help him out about the concert) thus bringing God down to Earth due to Jesus learning his lesson. (God looks hilarious)
Because this is the first time he's ever shown himself and that it's been two-thousand freakin' years, he allows one question. The crowd tries to think of a deep, meaningful question everyone's been wanting to know forever (such as "what is the meaning of life?") but Stan goes up and asks why he doesn't have his period yet, to which God replies that he is a boy and boys do not get periods. The others had colon infections, and Kyle simply lied. The question now answered, God leaves and promises to return in another two-thousand years to answer another question. Stan is initially happy to know everything will be all right, and tries to sing "Auld Lang Syne" in an incredibly hilarious broken voice but when the credits roll the crowd gangs up on him for using up the question for that.
Now that is comedy. :D Before Stan became the "Only Sane Man" and before all the adults became incredibly stupid (otherwise they'd probably have asked a silly question themselves, like whether it's called catsup or ketchup). Honestly if an episode like this aired recently and all that happened, except the adults were the stupid ones and Stan facepalmed...it wouldn't be as funny. Many comedy cartoons have adults being complete morons already, and it's been like what, eight seasons of stupid adults in South Park? It would not be surprising for me. Also for once it's not Kyle left out (Stan, if left out, usually goes against the "conformist" ways, such as not wanting to be a part of Facebook) while Kyle is more "I'm left out. I'm sad." and the audience goes "Awww." (somehow he managed to do that in the same Facebook episode, LOL)
Instead, it's a naive little boy (This being Stan, not lonely!Kyle or naive!Butters or retard!Cartman, and Kenny would just die) who gave himself facial hair and breasts trying to get a period, and then wasting the question of the millennium on why he can't be like the other boys by having a period too.
Damn, it just felt very different from today's South Park. Don't get me wrong, I love all of SP, but that episode has become one of my favourites because of how off it is compared to the present plus Stan being misunderstood and naive is somehow endearing. I don't know why. :D That's just my analysis anyway.
That is all from Spotto.
Wow, I'm incredibly picky with South Park fanfiction.
Mostly because well...it's not Anime. So to me, these children are not effeminate girls filled with emotions longing for a lover somewhere in the world. (except Kyle! lololol) They are brats. They are rebellious, white, and american, and their morals may not be where it should be. So the only fic I've actually liked was one where the author emphasized writing the characters "as boys" and not...the other 9000 cliche fanfictions. Otherwise I tend to read the general stuff because other genres just fly off the charts.
But that's not what I'm specifically talking about here in this entry at the moment.
While going through lots of South Park episodes (completely out of order. I didn't do something like watch from the very beginning to the end like someone I'm not going to mention... P: ) I watched an episode called "Are you there God? It's me, Jesus" which I didn't expect to like very much. I was dead wrong.
First, from the title and the preview picture I assumed it was basically about Jesus which while a cool character just doesn't excite me like ones about the boys, but it turns out that the episode had two plots, one the actual plot and a Stan subplot. They eventually tied into together in the end. Nowadays plots are usually one single plot without a subplot in the newer episodes, but I really liked how this one episode melded together (especially since at this point I was preferring the newer episodes since it had less senseless Kenny deaths and more pointful Kenny scenes) but this episode made me love a lot of the old school episodes too!
One of the biggest differences from New and Old South Park are the adults and children. In the early seasons the adults were not developed as much so they couldn't be stupid, simply remaining in the background or being, well, adults in what seemed like a series focused a lot on the kids. And in the early seasons there were more naive-like kids, rather than just having Butters being the naive one in the present. (I mean there are still instances of this in some newer episodes, such as Fatbeard when Cartman thought the "Somalian pirates" were like the pirates in folklore, and that the time to pillage and plunder has come forth once again! (Except he was the only one, along with a few other kids that seemed to believe this, unlike older seasons when pretty much all the kids were naive to adult things (except Kenny to adult adult things, but again there were exceptions [for example he didn't know what a lesbian was in a season 3 episode])) so rather than kids being naive...it was just Cartman being retarded.
I believe part of this effect is due to the killing off of Chef, who served as the person to tell kids what things mean and basically be the advisor to the children, without him to balance out the adults all the adults became stupid and the children had to take on this "WTF WHY ARE THEY BEING SO STUPID" role, especially Stan.
So that's why I love this episode (and it's hilarious). See, in "Are You There God? It's me Jesus" the episode focuses on Y2K. You might remember that tons of shows had one of those OMFG THE WORLD WILL END IN THE YEAR 2000! episodes, but I never found any of them very memorable. Here since it's been two thousand years since the birth of Christ, everyone thinks Jesus owes them something, like maybe God appearing for the first time! Meanwhile, Cartman gets his "period" and disowns the others as his friends because now he is mature and finally becoming a man (and this is here where the naive part comes in, they don't know only girls have it) when really the blood is just a colon infection spreading through South Park. Kenny soon contracts it and believes he too is going through puberty. Kyle doesn't want to feel left out so he decides to pretend he has his to not be left out, leaving Stan to be...left out.
Jesus decides to hold a gigantic concert in Las Vegas (at least I think it was there) with Rod Stewart for the New Year, and everyone goes because of a rumour that God will appear. Stan on the other hand, goes to Dr. Mephisto (this character never appears anymore in the newer seasons, with the exception of 200/201 :C ) and he gives him Hormone pills thinking Stan is talking about his dad and not himself. Like a child rather than following the instructions and taking a tablet a week, he just downs the entire bottle...
Rod Stewart meanwhile is ridiculously old and can't exactly do concerts anymore, but he's put in the concert anyway, while Stan grows a beard, breasts, and his voice starts to crack. He continues to be frustrated that he still doesn't have his period and during the concert, Jesus is being booed because Rod Stewart is too old to do anything. When Stan goes up to Jesus and asks him why God never answers his prayers (he's been praying to get a period for days) Jesus answers that if God did everything people asked him to, life would have no point since life is all about problems and solving them for yourselves. Jesus then realizes he should've known this as well (since he also asked God to help him out about the concert) thus bringing God down to Earth due to Jesus learning his lesson. (God looks hilarious)
Because this is the first time he's ever shown himself and that it's been two-thousand freakin' years, he allows one question. The crowd tries to think of a deep, meaningful question everyone's been wanting to know forever (such as "what is the meaning of life?") but Stan goes up and asks why he doesn't have his period yet, to which God replies that he is a boy and boys do not get periods. The others had colon infections, and Kyle simply lied. The question now answered, God leaves and promises to return in another two-thousand years to answer another question. Stan is initially happy to know everything will be all right, and tries to sing "Auld Lang Syne" in an incredibly hilarious broken voice but when the credits roll the crowd gangs up on him for using up the question for that.
Now that is comedy. :D Before Stan became the "Only Sane Man" and before all the adults became incredibly stupid (otherwise they'd probably have asked a silly question themselves, like whether it's called catsup or ketchup). Honestly if an episode like this aired recently and all that happened, except the adults were the stupid ones and Stan facepalmed...it wouldn't be as funny. Many comedy cartoons have adults being complete morons already, and it's been like what, eight seasons of stupid adults in South Park? It would not be surprising for me. Also for once it's not Kyle left out (Stan, if left out, usually goes against the "conformist" ways, such as not wanting to be a part of Facebook) while Kyle is more "I'm left out. I'm sad." and the audience goes "Awww." (somehow he managed to do that in the same Facebook episode, LOL)
Instead, it's a naive little boy (This being Stan, not lonely!Kyle or naive!Butters or retard!Cartman, and Kenny would just die) who gave himself facial hair and breasts trying to get a period, and then wasting the question of the millennium on why he can't be like the other boys by having a period too.
Damn, it just felt very different from today's South Park. Don't get me wrong, I love all of SP, but that episode has become one of my favourites because of how off it is compared to the present plus Stan being misunderstood and naive is somehow endearing. I don't know why. :D That's just my analysis anyway.
That is all from Spotto.