Global Warming, still less believable than MBP.
[6.8/10] I’ll be frank. I don’t know that this really needed to be a two-parter. There’s nothing in this episode that couldn’t have been folded into the prior one, or any big things setup in last week’s episode that was paid off in this one. It felt more like a case of stretching things out than about having too much material to contain in a single half-hour.
Still, the points were made clearly and mostly amusingly. The idea that everyone would rather play video games and worry about worrying about whether it’s time to start worrying rather than take action about Climate Change is a solid one. And I especially like the idea that the current generation lashes out at the older generation for putting us in this predicament, while at the same time hypocritically being unable to give up even a small part of their creature comforts for the same reasons.
On top of that, the fight between Satan and Manbearpig was legitimately intense, and while it turned into a comedy cul de sac at times, I liked the absurdity of Al Gore interacting with his own ghost/mentor. Plus Cartman complaining about having to be in school on the weekend was good for some laughs.
Overall, this episode was more of the show’s typical observations on a topical issue, as opposed to last week’s mea culpa, and it dragged things out with the faint spackle of “you just have to believe” spoofing, but it still wasn’t bad.
Waiting for Manbearpig to come back on South Park's season 30 to kill third-world children.
Fabulous two-parter. Since The Stick of Truth came out, Parker and Stone have been a lot more self referential in the show than they ever were before, call-backs to previous episodes have become more and more common and these can be hit or miss, but in this case it seems like a genuine attempt to make up for past wrongs. The original ManBearPig episode from 2006 was straight up climate denial, and while I believe they have apologized for this before, these two episodes seem like they are using their platform to make a genuine apology, not to Al Gore, as they make it clear they still (correctly) think he sucks, but to their audience and only after they did this in the first half were they able to finally begin lampooning the public response to the climate emergency, which is obviously hilarious. I watched seasons 20 through the first half of 22 as the episodes came out but for some reasons stopped watching after episode 5, which I liked a lot so I'm not sure why I suddenly stopped but my point is it's been a while and I'm glad I finally got around to watching this because this show is still absolutely hilarious.
Shout by onlimeBlockedParent2018-11-15T13:16:34Z
I don't think there is any more room for not considering underestimating the importance of beginning to start the process of moulding over the conceptualization of starting to worry about ManBearPig. And the time to do it is... very soon.