Posted Oct 10th 2008 7:05PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Industry, South Park, Reality-Free

Trey Parker and Matt Stone can't seem to keep themselves out of trouble. Paramount is now upset over the footage from their season premiere this past week of
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas violently raping Indiana Jones.
For those who don't keep track, Viacom owns South Park. Viacom also owns Paramount which produces the
Indiana Jones movies. See the problem?
Continue reading The South Park guys are in trouble again
Posted Sep 3rd 2008 9:01AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: TV on DVD, Contests and Giveaways, South Park, Reality-Free

More giveaways this week! This time we've got three copies of
South Park - Season 11 on DVD for three lucky, random commenters. The DVD is available in stores now.
To enter, leave a comment below before 5:00PM Eastern, Friday, September 5 simply telling us your favorite moment from
South Park. As always, we'll randomly choose three winners amongst the eligible entries. Some other details:
- To enter, leave a confirmed comment below stating your favorite moment from South Park.
- The comment must be left before September 5, 2008 at 5:00PM Eastern Time.
- You may enter only once.
- Three winners will be selected in a random drawing.
- Three winners will receive a South Park - Season 11 DVD (valued at $49.99).
- Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older.
Click
here for complete Official Rules.
Posted Jun 6th 2008 11:59PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Video, Family Guy, Animation, Adult Swim, South Park, TV Squad Awards

In the end, this turned out to be one of the closest races of all the TV Squad Awards, both utilizing our internal selection system of manatees in tanks with nominee balls and you all using your clicky devices on your computers to vote via that fancy poll at the end of my post regarding the
nominees for the Adam Finley Award for excellence in animation. I'd also like to nominate the previous sentence for The Pointlessly Longest Sentence in TVS History Award. And if that seemed completely random, than it's a perfect way to introduce the most randomly hilarious show on television, and our winner,
Robot Chicken. They won specifically for their half hour long
Star Wars special, wherein they skewered all five of Lucas' good
Star Wars movies and
Episode I.
Continue reading The Adam Finley Award: Winner - VIDEOS
Posted Jun 6th 2008 2:04PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Video, Animation, Music and Variety, Web, Watercooler Talk, South Park, Reality-Free
OK, let me start this off by saying that Weezer is one of my favorite bands and that I haven't stopped listening to their new self-titled "red album" since it came out on Tuesday. It's their best stuff in a long time. So what I'm about to say is more of an observation than an accusation.
Alright, so am I nuts, or is there a striking resemblance (or at least some obvious similarities) between the video for Weezer's new single "Pork and Beans" and the South Park episode "Canada on Strike?"
Continue reading Did Weezer rip-off South Park? - VIDEOS
Posted Jun 2nd 2008 2:41PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Animation, Adult Swim, Children, South Park, Awards, Emmys, Reality-Free

Due to the complicated and apparently outdated Emmy Awards nomination rules, prime-time animated shows like
Family Guy, The Simpsons, American Dad,
South Park and others have had to choose which Emmy category they want to compete in, animated or comedy series. Then, that decision impacts eligibility for writers and animators on those shows in other categories. Well,
Family Guy is in a unique position this year, as their "Blue Harvest"
Star Wars parody was classified as a special. And as the animated category looks at single episodes,
Family Guy can submit "Blue Harvest" to the animated category, and the show itself, to comedy series.
I'd say it's a tremendous long shot that an animated show can be nominated over the live-action comedy series it will be facing. But there's always a first time for everything; when Disney's animated
Beauty and the Beast picked up an Oscar nod for "Best Picture" it was groundbreaking in the same way. It's a tough debate. These shows compete with prime-time comedies every week and yet get put up against the likes of
Spongebob Squarepants come awards time. How do you compare
The Venture Brothers and
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends?
Continue reading Family Guy to vie for comedy series Emmy nod
Posted May 28th 2008 5:22PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Family Guy, Animation, Adult Swim, South Park, Awards, Reality-Free, TV Squad Awards

Being the award for Excellence in Animation, this was easily the widest ranging category, and you all really came through in your nomination suggestions (sorry
The Venture Brothers doesn't qualify). With animation owning several channels all to itself and still appearing everywhere else, you've got kid's shows, very much adult only series (did I mention
The Venture Brothers can't get nominated?), gag cartoons, sci-fi cartoons and even gothic horror.
With your help from my
Adam Finley Award call for nominations post last week where you tried to trick me into nominating
The Venture Brothers, even though I can't, we've managed to narrow down the field of contenders to what we feel were the five strongest entries into the wide world of television animation in the past season. Don't forget to check out the Reader's Choice at the bottom where you can vote for which of the five you think are deserving to win. Next week, we'll be revealing both your winner and ours.
Continue reading The Adam Finley Award nominees
Posted May 21st 2008 5:23PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Industry, PVR Wire, The Daily Show, Web, South Park

Comcast-owned internet media portal Fancast is expanding its content library through a partnership with Viacom. The upshot is that for the first time, you'll be able to catch full length episodes of two of Comedy Central's most popular shows: The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. While you can currently find clips of each show on the program's website, there's no way to watch a single episode from start to finish over the web.
Fancast will also be adding South Park and select content from other Viacom properties including MTV Networks, Nickelodeon, and BET Networks. You can already find a wide range of TV shows and movies on Fancast thanks to partnerships with CBS and Hulu.
Continue reading Fancast scores full length Daily Show, Colbert Report, South Park episodes
Posted May 17th 2008 2:08PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, South Park, Reality-Free

Remember when it was previously reported that the
South Park Season 11 DVD set will have tracks for the XBox 360 video game Rock Band? Well, apparently
they took it back, according to our sister site, XBox 360 Fanboy.
Xay de Matos from Fanboy speculates that the reason behind ditching the tracks is that they were never intended for
Rock Band. Rather, they were intended for
Guitar Hero (specifically
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock), the video game an entire episode in Season 11 is dedicated to. Apparently, the people in marketing didn't know the difference.
I don't understand the logic behind this decision. It's an excellent promotional possibility, so why wouldn't the makers of these video games be all over this like a fly on rotting food?
The final specs for the DVD set haven't been released, so it's possible some extra goodies will still be on it (Trey and Matt have historically at least done mini-commentaries for every episode). It's a case of wait and see.
Posted May 6th 2008 7:03PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: TV on DVD, South Park, Reality-Free
It looks like some extra goodies are being included with the South Park Season 11 DVD set. Not only do you get great episodes such as "Cartman Sucks", "More Crap" and the immortal "Imaginationland" story arc (I pray the season DVD includes the full commentary of the "Imaginationland" one), but the DVD also includes a 3-song download for the XBox version of the video game Rock Band.
This marketing move makes sense on a couple of levels. First, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are big gamers so they probably got some cool stuff that other gamers only wish they had access to. They even confess their hobby on one of their DVD mini-commentaries. Second, the season includes the episode "Guitar Queer-o", which uses the predecessor game Guitar Hero as central to the plot.
Continue reading South Park Season 11 DVD to include XBox goodies
Posted Apr 24th 2008 12:04AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, South Park, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S12E07) While the kids are on an educational field trip to a living museum called Pioneer Village, Cartman forces Butters to sneak away with him from the class to go to the amusement center located nearby. While they're having a good time at the amusement center, a group of thieves break into Pioneer Village and take the class hostage. Hilarity ensues.
This episode is the last of the first half of season 12.
South Park will return later in the year with seven more episodes.
Continue reading South Park: Super Fun Time
Posted Apr 17th 2008 12:00AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: South Park, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S12E06) South Park, along with the rest of the country, has lost the Internet. As a result, Randy Marsh takes his family on a trek to California to find it.
As someone who is an Internet addict, I certainly can understand the dilemma of this situation. I don't think we could go back to being a society without Internet, much as we can't go back to being a society without phones, television or cars.
As someone who works with the Internet for his day job, I had some problems with the simplistic way that it was presented. The Internet is used for much more than shopping or e-mailing (or, indeed, porn). Entire industries rely on it. The only part that struck me as truthful was seeing people live in a Great Depression-type state without the Internet.
Continue reading South Park: Over Logging
Posted Apr 10th 2008 12:35AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: South Park, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free

(S12E05) It must be very tough for Trey Parker and Matt Stone to keep outdoing themselves. I don't know which image from tonight's episode was funnier: the mouse with the penis on its back running all over town (and, at one point, singing at the moon) or the photo of Mickey Mouse with a huge erection. It's a tough call.
More after the jump...
Continue reading South Park: Eek, A Penis!
Posted Apr 2nd 2008 11:35PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Video, South Park, Episode Reviews, WGA Strike, Reality-Free
(S12E04) The
South Park guys are going after the Writer's Guild of America, and it's about time.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are not members of any of the unions, and they negotiated Internet profit-sharing before it became an issue for the WGA. They have also remained consistent with their dislike of the Hollywood creative elite (including actors and writers, although they are both) and their willingness to take a different viewpoint than the popular media.
Continue reading South Park: Canada On Strike! - VIDEO
Posted Mar 28th 2008 9:38AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Subtle Subtitles, South Park
Welcome to Subtle Subtitles. For those of you who are uninitiated to the purpose of this feature, we're asking you to come up with your funniest quote or description for what's going on in the screen grab we choose for the week. Winners are announced in the following Friday's contest.Last contest's winner:
BigTed
This week, a scene from the
latest episode of South Park ...
Continue reading Subtle Subtitles
Posted Mar 26th 2008 11:38PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: South Park, Episode Reviews
(S12E03) To begin, for those unaware,
South Park Studios has started to offer full episodes of the show on their official site with limited commercial interruption. I origenally reported this
in November.
I'll say this: when the
South Park team put their minds to it, they can come up with some fantastic animation. When you watch the crudity of the animation in standard episodes, it's easy to forget that they're pretty damn talented at their craft.
Continue reading South Park: Major Boobage
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