'South Park' NSA surveillance spoof gets big ratings

Entertainment Weekly ^ | 9-26-13 | James Hibberd

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South Park. It’s the 17th season. And yet Wednesday night’s premiere delivered the animated comedy’s biggest rating in years.

The Comedy Central hit came back to 4.3 million viewers across three telecasts, with the first airing delivering the most viewers for the show since 2011 and the highest young male demo ratings since 2010.

The episode titled “Let Go, Let Gov” mocked the NSA’s mass surveillance scandal (clip below). In the episode, Cartman played the role of an Edward Snowden-style whistleblower who infiltrates the NSA and rants about privacy violations — yet can’t stop revealing his every thought online to anybody who will listen.

South Park fans had a longer-than-usual wait for new episodes this year, given that creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s decision to produce fewer episodes (10 per year). On Sunday, South Park also won its fifth Emmy for outstanding animated program.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-4crRuuu24hbb24/mercury_rising_1998_discussing_patriotism/

Here is Baldwin discussing Patriotism in Mercury Rising.

[ConservativeStatement]

Butters is the greatest human being who has ever lived. :-)

[Sarah Barracuda]

He sure is..oh HAMBURGERS :-)

[wjcsux]

I just got done watching the “let go let gov” episode. It is piss your pants hysterical!

[Nooseman]

Goodnight Government.

[trebb]

Actually I have come across people like that in life. They have the phone up to their ear talking so loud and I’m standing there then they give me the look like “don’t stand close to me”. As if I can’t hear them even from afar, sheesh.

When I'm feeling frisky, I'll put my empty hand to my face like it's a phone and begin a very loud "conversation" which disrupts them a bit - pi$$es them right off because I'm being rude....

[Tanniker Smith]

Common sense has become a “hate crime”

That needs to be a bumper sticker. And my Facebook status.andac twitter hashtag

[andyk]

Spoiler alert! It’s waiting for me on the DVR. :-)

[discostu]

The new ep sure wasn’t leftist. The A plot was hacking on people who put their lives on social media and demand total privacy, which is really a non-political rant. The B plot was hacking on people who put their faith in government, which is pretty anti-leftist pro-libertarian.