There were some good scenes along the way—particularly Butters’ Paranormal Activity-inspired discovery that Dr. Janus was sneaking into his bedroom to both piss on and punch his face—but maybe it’s that Butters felt so tangential to the action that his plot never quite veered off to that dangerous, hilarious place in the way many a solid Butters episode has in the past. It’s somewhat ironic to see the show approach this topic from the opposing perspective, as this turning of the tides sees franchises such as Red Lobster suffering due to meteoric rise of more gourmet culinary options. “What isn’t wearing thin, then, you critical prick?”, you may be asking. It was an unexpected twist, and it dovetailed its two seemingly unrelated plotlines as masterfully as any other South Park episode has done in the past. RELATED: The 10 Best Seasons Of South Park, Ranked. But, as I criticised in my review of “Stunning and Brave”, I’m growing weary of Randy as a character, as it feels as though he is sharing as much screen time as the boys these days, as opposed to working perfectly well as a complimentary ancillary character.

Professor Chaos accepts Dougie as his sidekick, General Disarray. They realize the little baby cows are too weak to walk, so they carry them one by one to Stan's house. ... City Wok Guy's Great Wall. As the boys attempt to make their final choice for a new best friend, Jimmy just happens to be in the neighborhood with a gift basket. Enter SoDoSoPa (Southern District of South Park), which intends to revitalise the impoverished area with a sense of “charm that hipsters like”. As Dan Caffrey of the A.V. However, that lift leads to another presentation.

And thank god, Kenny’s humility is rewarded, as SoDoSoPa is abandoned, returning to its former status as the true shitty part of town, much to the glee of the McCormick family. Despite their hard work, Lu Kim and Kenny (who is consistently referred to as “Dennis” by the City Wok owner) are still struggling to see any success, and forge a plan to gentrify their newly-recognised “shitty part of town”, as it becomes CtPaTown. This is a new place, ready for the next decade. City Wok is the local Chinese restaurant in South Park.It also doubles as a small commercial airline. I think the last few episodes have been great, better than the first few episodes of the season. I personally hold the belief that his character was severely denigrated in the name of a lazily executed twist in “City Sushi”, where it was revealed that he was actually a caucasian child psychologist within Dr. William Janus, who treated Butters for a poorly diagnosed Dissociative Identity Disorder. Professor Chaos goes down to the docks ready for a confrontation, only to find Dougie. SoDoSoPa becomes quickly defined by restaurants such as “Bi The Garage” that boast about their in-house brewed ales and locally sourced salmon, while all being served to you by a douchebag millennial with a man bun.

Mongolians attack his wall.

Sorry to all those reading with man buns, but don’t shoot the messenger; South Park burned you, not me. And how can you criticise social consciousness? This isn’t to say that Randy is terrible; I just feel that he would be more effective in smaller doses. While it can be argued that this was merely another facet of the characters development, I believe that it was using Lu Kim as a means to an ends, or, much rather, a way to quickly wrap up the episode. The FBI brings in a negotiator. While the boys audition the final six at a baseball game, Professor Chaos hijacks the Jumbotron to inform the crowd of his evil plan to flood the world, with a garden hose. Butters may have been left wanting, but the elder Stotch got two good lines tonight: “We’ll ground the shit out of him” and “It’s clear it isn’t our parenting—we’re awesome.”, “Oh no, I’m the Japanese and I had a bad day—I think I’m gonna kill myself!”, “It was sneaky, kind of like Pearl Harbor. South Park. Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. Oddly enough it was Postman Butters—as opposed to Porn Star Butters—which just serves to illustrate that Asia is a very unpredictable region.).

Season 6 E 11 • 07/24/2002. It will be home to the young and the young at heart, families, new residents and long-time residents who want to be where the action is.

It shouldn’t take a genius to figure out the the naming of SoDoSoPa is just an absolute send-up of the absurd acronyms assigned to gentrified areas such as Louisville’s NuLu, Cincinnati’s OTR, and LoDo in Denver. It’s just a sweet little funny moment that goes a long way in making this episode an example of a sum of its parts. Tegridy Farms.

The parents suit up for the slopes, then get stopped for a condo presentation. I have some conflicting issues with Lu Kim as a character. Watch Random Episode. The news does a brief story on the boys.

Games. This beautifully amplifies the severe juxtaposition of the self-satisfied yuppies and the horrible realities that face certain impoverished demographics. And don’t get me wrong, gentrification undeniably has its benefits, as buildings and parks are beautified, jobs and employment opportunities are created, and crime rates begin to decline dramatically. This is a difficult topic to approach, as it’s only seemed to truly permeate our culture within the past five years. The boys and their friend candidates hit the amusement park, and the confessional booth, to start the competition for Kenny's replacement. Menu. About. Overall, it was a bit akin to its ending, which recreated the denouement of Psycho right down to having Janus/Lu Kim repeat Norman Bates’ interior monologue word-for-word: It was clever in its execution, but ultimately lacking that extra madcap sting that pushes South Park over the edge from good to great. And like that, Kenny’s house is whored out as a “historic” landmark that acts as the foundation for these newly established trendy bars, gourmet restaurants, and frozen yogurt stores. With SoDoSoPa proving to be a great success, Randy calls Whole Foods headquarters to assist in the towns endeavour to establish one of the socially conscious supermarkets. This is South park. Tweak — who is one of the greatest examples of a highly under-utilised character. What is smarm, exactly?

(Actually, I suppose it’s hardly a “trick” considering the title, but still…) After all, for most of the episode, the battlin’ Asian stereotypes seemed like they were just intended to be an even-more-cartoonish-than-usual distraction from the darkness of the main plotline, not unlike Lu Kim’s very similar war with the Mongolians back in “Child Abduction Is Not Funny.” Of course, that’s not to say that their feud didn’t go to its own dark places, like when Lu Kim illustrates the differences between Japan and China in his “Asian Diversity” assembly by pointing to both Japan’s high suicide rates and the Nanking Massacre. The end of show cliffhanger reveals that Tweek will win, Ms. Choksondik will die, and Professor Chaos' new plan will fail. It is here that “The City Part of Town” asks the painfully basic question that the shows dissidents always fall back on: “How would you like it if we made fun of you?”, While Butters sits in bed crying over these criticisms, the still politically-correct Randy demands a call to action in an attempt to repair the “image problem” that Mr. Garrison inflicted on the town and its residents.

Tuong Lu Kim builds a giant wall around South Park. Tuong Lu Kim builds a giant wall around South Park. The boys break into the cow farm. Perhaps the episodes funniest moment comes as the Whole Foods representative is taken to the fourth graders classroom, where Garrison has been replaced with a PC approved female asian teacher. It’s been almost two years since South Park has done a Butters episode, which probably speaks to how mindful they are of diluting the character through oversaturation. Melting Antarctic Ice Exposes 800-Year-Old Penguins That Still Look Fresh, Secretly Recorded Tapes of Melania Trump Reveal Her Frustration At Criticism Over Immigration Policies, Kimberly Guilfoyle's Departure From Fox News Came Amidst Allegations of Sexual Harassment, Marine Layer Diver Dave Button Down Shirt, Galarian Slowking Is One Messed Up Pokémon, Last Call: Remembering the golden age of fast food buffets, Here's How Much Damage An F1 Driver Does To Your Car. Tuong Lu Kim builds a giant wall around South Park. If you look close enough, you’ll see appearances from characters of old, such as Dr. Mephesto, Officer Barbrady, Big Gay Al, and even rhinoplasty surgeon, Dr. Tom. Randy’s greatest comedic assets have always been grounded in his over-the-top annunciation, with “More Crap” being a classic example, as he repeats, “HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT” during the intense heat of taking a world-record breaking shit. This moment is particularly cute, as Lu Kim sings and claps along to his own sing-song of, “Let’s go child labour”, to which Kenny innocently and comically claps along. The District will connect Downtown and Midtown into one contiguous, walkable area, where families, sports fans, entrepreneurs, job seekers, entertainment lovers and others who crave a vibrant urban setting can connect with each other and the city they love. (Remember: There’s no burn more ultimate than bringing up somebody’s history of mass murder and rape.) More.

But it’s a battle that needs to be fought, and I’m glad that South Park have finally decided to tackle the issue. But, as I criticised in my review of “Stunning and Brave”, directly quote from the website of a current gentrification project within District Detroit, Tom Scocca of Gawker best critiqued this phenomenon through his article where he refers to it it as “smarm”, Gary Goodspeed: The White Savior We Hate to Love, Super Mario Galaxy — Nintendo’s Claustrophobic Cosmic Corridor, Dear Millennials (with apologies to Big Gay Al), 6 Signs a Woman Wants to Be Approached by You, Why You Don’t Have to Feel Too Sick About What Happened Last Night, 9 Micro-Habits That Will Completely Change Your Life in a Year, How To Make Enough Money to Retire in the Next 5 Years, 12 Age-Reversing Habits: How I Made My Brain 10 Years Younger.