South Park (TV Series) Douche and a Danish (2016) User Reviews

The past is only the future with lights on

[shonenpunk · 10/10 · 21 October 2016]

I've always loved South Park from the beginning but now they've reached a new level I've never seen before. To not say that I am full of praise, I must admit that I had low expectations for this season cause last season didn't do much for me (except from a few episodes that I had a lot of fun with), but, boy, they surprised me again! Season 20 is a perfect cartoonization of our current society and their message should be listened by all this people on social media that don't realize they are acting like puppets.

At the same time that it's real and credible, it's full of ludical elements that enriches it even more as a story and a cartoon, and the way they are connecting everything is just genius. Member berries are something fictional but they make perfect sense to our world and it already became part of my speech when talking about people driven by nostalgia ("it's time to quit those member berries and focus on the future").

South Park is the proof that no matter how interesting and magic the past can seem, we should always be looking to the future to make it even better. Of course the past will seem comfortable for you because (guess what?) it happened already so everything their is bright and simple for us to understand, but on the other hand the future can be ANYTHING we want it to be. It might seem dark and scary but that's the fun part about it, all you have to do to make it brighter is to turn the idea light on you.

We should all follow Matt and Trey and stop dividing ourselves in selfish groups and focus on the future to make the world a better place!

South Park is at it again, and they're different, but still very, very good.

[ericks-86892 · 9/10 · 20 October 2016]

The value of social commentary like South Park is that it puts big issues we're all trying to understand in a novel, creative form, that somehow distances us from the issues while also making them clear and, if done well, making us laugh. South Park has always had a great voice, and been able to make current events funny and bizarre in nuanced ways, from 'Warcraft' to 'Margaritaville.' This is the second season in which they've committed their entire season to a specific range of social issues, however, and they've upped the ante from PC culture and gentrification to the election, nostalgia, tribalism and a sadistic version of terrorism called trolling (and now, how governments respond to that trolling, i.e NSA).

To judge any particular episode is somewhat unfair, because each is a juggling act, moving each thread a bit at a time, maybe having them collide every once in a while. This episode in particular, however, has a lot of interactions. By the end of the episode it seems we've shifted from 4 stories to two, with the elections and nostalgia threads meeting to face off against the true enemies, "memberberries and J.J. Abrams" (isn't this hilarious!!) while tribalism and trolling, which have always been circling each other, finally looking like they're about meet (Eric and Heidi working with the Danish to find Kyle's Dad!! -- I suspect that, if Cartman has been dishonest in some way or another, it's been that he's known SkankHunt_42 and wants to take down Kyle like he took down Scott Tenorman).

There are lots of specifics here to love, like making the Trump stand-in look like Bill Hicks telling dirty jokes in a comedy club, the Danish singing a stupid but spooky sounding song as they prepare to create a publicly available NSA, showing Gerald unable to be sensitive to even other trolls' life-stories, and a Star Wars parody (as the trolls take down the Danish) followed immediately by Randy saying that wanting to relive Star Wars is what's fueling the Republican nominee (there have been lots of throw-away references to the old South Park episodes too, I hope this is a subtle commentary on the nuances of reliving the glory days and not hypocrisy). This episode was a blast, it hooked me and pulled me along, and it left me wondering how it's all going to end.

(P.S. -- Matt and Trey have said that "Reality" is going to have an appearance that will "blow everyone's mind." Keep an eye out for anything in the plot that Reality's resurrection might be able to defeat.)

I got it wrong

[ericstevenson · 10/10 · 24 October 2016]

In my previous reviews, I referred to the member berries as "member grapes". For some reason, that ended up being my most liked review here! At least I'm setting the record straight. Speaking of those guys, we finally get to learn more about them. It's the set up that really makes this work. It appears as though these guys have been around forever, so we don't really know explicitly where they come from. It's great to finally get around to that. I'm also glad we get more into the plot of Mr. Garrison running for President.

We need to mock Donald Trump all we can. I'm glad that he has been losing in the polls because of his remarks towards women. I believe Mr. Garrison was imitating Andrew Dice Clay in this. Was the joke that it was okay to mock everyone but women? I haven't seen much of Clay, but he doesn't seem very funny. It looks like Gerald is going back to his old ways and is a complete troll now. It even has a nice lesson about not constantly being nostalgic and wanting to have new things. I still haven't gotten over Dipcifica not happening in the last "Gravity Falls" episode. ****