Wednesday, 4 May 2016

Good Times with Weapons

The South Park with their weapons.
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Introduction
Hello everyone! This is Ao, and today I will be reviewing what is in my opinion, one of the funniest episodes of South Park. South Park is a show set in Colorado USA, that follows the adventures and shenanigans of four elementary school boys, Eric, Kyle, Kenny and Stan.

Plot Summary
In this episode, the boys head to a carnival. While walking around the carnival, they find a stall selling exotic weapons from the far East. They manage to purchase a weapon each, after tricking the salesman into thinking that their parents are deceased. The boys envision themselves as ninjas, and walk around town talking about their special ninja powers. On the way, they bump into their schoolmate Butters, who is wants to join the boys, but is rejected. Butters then assumes his alter ego, 'Professor Chaos', a super villain out for revenge. The boys bump into Professor Chaos and a play fight begins. During the fight, one of the boys, Kenny, throws real ninja stars at professor chaos and strikes one of his eyes. The play fight ends and Butters yells out in plain.

Butters, aka Professor Chaos, is struck on the eye.
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Butters pleads with the boys to take him to the hospital, however, afraid of getting in trouble for playing with dangerous weapons, the boys instead dress butters up as a dog and takes him to a vet. In order to return their weapons, Cartman, who believes he has invisibility powers, strips naked and attempts to sneak past a group of adults. Cartman is caught. During a town meeting, the parents surprisingly are not angry at the boys for playing with dangerous weapons, but at Cartman for indecent exposure. The episode ends with Stan telling Kyle that he has not learnt his lesson.

Review
Overall, I found this episode to be one of the funniest South Park episodes ever. I was laughing non-stop at the boy's shenanigans. At one point, during the play fighting, I was laughing so hard that it hurt my stomach. I especially liked how the animation would turn into a Japanese style Anime graphics when the boys started play fighting, very creative. Look, I'm going to be honest here, if you enjoy toilet humor and random humor, this episode is for you. If you like a good plot that makes sense, or do not enjoy toilet humor, then this episode may not be for you. In fact, if you are offended by some of the outrageous antics the boys on South Park get up to, then this show really isn't for you. 

Overall: 8/10. Extremely funny! 
Plot: 4/10: This is South Park, there is a very loose plot that makes little sense.
Creativity: 9/10. Incorporating Japanese style Anime graphics during the fight scene added so much depth to this episode.




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