South Park: Manbearpig (Al Gore on global warming)

TV Squad ^ | 04/27/2006 | Adam Finley

[Panerai]

God must really want those kids dead. -- South Park

(S10E06) I'm like, totally cereal, guys.

If nothing else, last night's episode proved that South Park is still an equal opportunity offender. In this episode, Al Gore comes to South Park to warn everyone about Manbearpig (read: global warming), a creature who is half man, half bear, and half pig. Or possibly half man and half bearpig. No one really knows for sure because Gore is apparently the only one who believes he exists.

Al Gore is depicted as a crazed, friendless drifter who believes he's doing the right thing but only manages to hurt those he's trying to help. The gist of the show is that despite Gore's supposedly noble intentions, he's really just using issues to get people to pay attention to him. I was almost expecting the episode to culminate into a message about global warming, but of course, they already did that once. Instead, it was essentially about Gore's tactics, which is fair game for satire as much as anything else, but I felt like they belabored the point more than a little. The episode felt like one joke stretched out for a half hour.

On the other hand, the scenes with the boys trapped in the cave were a nice throwback to the show's earlier days when the episodes were written around the characters themselves. I always love when they explore the relationship between Cartman, who is willing to put himself through serious physical stress to satisfy his own insatiable greed (he eats what he thinks is actual pirate treasure in order to sneak it out of the cave) and Kyle, whose compassion and willingness to forgive causes him to try and save Cartman from drowning under the weight of all the treasure. Of course, Kyle doesn't know Cartman ate all that treasure, and Cartman doesn't tell him.

So yeah, probably not the best episode of the season in my opinion, but it wasn't without its moments.

[Panerai]

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[Blzbba]

"I kinda feel sorry for him. I don't think he has any friends." was one of the better lines uttered.

Still, I thought they went easy on my most hated politician ever.

[cripplecreek]

I liked it, + it had the added bonus of slapping the almighty DUmmie idol around.

[Miss Behave]

MUST SEE TV. I AM SO SERIAL.*

*said in my best Algore silly lisp.

[mnehring]

Gore sounded so much like John Header in the Benchwarmers I was rolling.. I'm cereal, he really sounded like him. exCELsior.

[Miss Behave]

OMG I was rolling around on the floor like my clothes were on fire or something.

[EveningStar]

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[Ramius]

I really liked this episode... classic SP theme. Really nailed AlGore.

"Excelsior!!!" LOL

(What the heck is that, anyway?)

[EggsAckley]

I loved Gore's lisp. They really nailed him.

[rdb3]

[EveningStar]

Excelsior!

[Dog Gone]

The episode was great. Not A+ like Tom Cruise in the closet, but guarandamnteed better than anything on any other channel at the same time.

How can you NOT like an episode that rips Al Gore a new one?

[Ramius]

Ah! thanks!

Though, as AlGore pronounced it:

Ekthelthior!!

[ssaftler]

The episode felt like one joke stretched out for a half hour.

As opposed to the Wooden one hisself, who feels like one joke stretched out for a decade and a half!

[RatsDawg]

After seeing this episode I could just imagine what Trey and Matt would have done if they were to do a sitcom on Gore. Like they had to do with Bush after the 2000 elections. Remember "Thats My Bush" or "Thats Our Bush" or whatever it was called?

[feedback doctor]

who believes he's doing the right thing but only manages to hurt those he's trying to help.

Actually, he knew the consequences of flooding the mine, that it would drown the boys. But the cause, for him, was more important than the people.

[hoosierboy]

You guys can download it here


http://www.southparkx.net/

I go there every week and show it to my co-workers

[JRios1968]

Sounds like you need someone to put out the fire...