this episode is what I want in my life!!
legalized it worldwide!! come on this plant is the shit , tegridy my regridy please!!
Other than the hat song gag and how Cartman always tried to get Kyle to talk somewhere else, this episode just did not work for me. The school had a nicotine vape problem and Randy's whole thing was about weed vapes. I'm sure there are some big vape companies that produce both kinds, but I couldn't get past that hurdle as the show was treating them as the same thing. I would have rather it focused on the kids smoking nicotine vapes at school even if Towelie popping up was fun.
Another average episode to a below average season
This episode was pretty funny.
This is the South Park that I would like to see always!
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2018-10-22T23:27:19Z
[7.5/10] I gotta be honest. I don’t know what the message or point of this one was. Is it maybe something about how we arbitrarily laud one form of inhalation recreation and demonize another? Is it about the halo we attach to farming and the devil horns we draw on big business regardless of who’s doing what and why? Is it just a big riff on weed culture and vape culture?
I don’t know, but frankly, I don’t care all that much, because I really enjoyed both halves of this episode on a pure storytelling level.
Randy deciding to give up city life and start his own cannabis farm was delightful. Everything from his silly little song, to his paean to country life, to his trying to make everything out of hemp was worth a laugh. Stan absolutely hating every minute of it, and Randy not hearing any of it was also played for good comedy. And it had the return of Towelie who was up to his usual tricks. Randy getting too far into some fad or plan is always a good thing for South Park, and it really worked here.
I also loved the Kyle/Cartman/Butters half of the episode. Again, I’m not necessarily sure what the point was, but Kyle trying to expose Cartman’s illicit busisness, only to keep getting drawn deeper and deeper into it was outstanding. Cartman the scurple-less wheeler and dealer is one of my favorite looks from the character, and his constantly steamrolling Kyle’s efforts to tell an adult about what’s happening was hilarious.
(As an aside, for all the ways in which the show gave up on serialization, there’s a steady stream of continuity this season, like the gunshot sounds at the school, or Cartman referencing Ronan Farrow “after what happened last week”, which I appreciate.)
Then it’s just as fun when the two stories come together. Randy’s hatred from vaping and love for cannabis turns him into a pugilistic fool as usual (replete with Spin Doctors-producing hat), and the way his Rocky-esque vendetta manages to free Kyle, Cartman, and Butters from their downward spiral in a multi-colored explosion is superb.
Overall, this one is a bit of mystery in terms of its message, but it’s a lot of fun as two classic South Park stories being told and colliding in the third act.