We're just making sure that the kids have voted for my neph You don't get
cheated. Half the kids in the class didn't vote for your nephew, so
what about them. You don't give a crap about them because they're not on
your side. People like you preach tolerance and open minded us all the time,
but when it comes to Middle America, you think we're all evil on
stupid country yuggles and need your political enlightenment. We just because you're on TV
doesn't mean you don't crap about the government. Now get your ass back on
first class and respect. This class is right to make up their own minds.
Kick ass. Welcome to going down to South by the podcast, where
we always have our sales of time, and this week we here to review
traffic Keeper and Andando and I Am guy rubbing your hands together. It looks
like you're excited. Yes, no, this is more anticipatory because we always
have a sales of time. Did I have myself a time with traffic Keeper?
I don't know, didn't look it. It's not that I disliked it,
but I've enjoyed other episodes more. Definitely, Yeah, this definitely feels
like a different South Park. Now, doesn't it hit the fourth grade?
It does? It does? And I think also, and we may have
to about this with another episode, although I don't remember which one, but
when South Park decides to really obviously tackle a hot button topic or a topic
that's been in the news, I tend to find that I don't think it's
I think they're pretty smart in how they go about it. And of course
they work out the second and done because I turned this one around pretty quickly.
From me, I understand eighty staff never was working for this one or
something. Yeah, but I know, it just felt like this is a
little bit too on the nose. I mean, I like the way they
handled the whole election thing, and of course, around this time it was
a topic that was very much in the news and very much worth talking about
and very much sort of making fun of. Because it was so it felt
off the rails. It felt perfect for the b plot of Ike going to
kindergarten, because apparently the original plot was just him going to kindergarten and kindergarten
for the first time, and then it just became this whole party of the
election of the two thousand US election. Yeah. I like the way they
sort of. Again, they don't just sit on the fence. They show
the positive and ignismo sides. Were garrison at the end, saying just because
you don't agree, it doesn't mean that we don't have the right to just
want something as well. If we want this, let us vote for this.
We're not wrong because you don't agree with that. Its ways. Yeah,
I mean, you may see this is wrong, but we're just as
if you're going to live in a democracy, you're going to have to deal
with conflicting opinions. So I think it was the line of half of them
voted against him. Why can't you see that? Yeah, It's not like
I don't know anything about American politics, right, but I just love it
when a like for example, South Park, they don't just go one way.
They show the positives and the negatives of both sides and make it a
fair argument. That's the thing. And look, I'm going on the record
here as not being a defender of Donald Trump or even a lot of the
people who voted for it, but not everyone who voted for Trump is necessarily
going to be what you see on the news. Yeah, that man's a
hero, and you know, well, he's going to put up a wall
and keep people from coming into our country. And they can't all be voting
for the worst up. I think some of them got to be going some
of this economic policies are really going to be positive for me, or yeah,
they're going to affect me in my community in a positive way. I
don't think everyone is going yes, stick it to the liberals. I think
some of them actually voting for positive reasons. I don't necessarily agree with them,
but it's not like they're doing it just to piss people off. So
this one here, the two thousand election, was it just assumed that al
Gore was going to win at the time. I think that was very much
the care I think America was still were going recap recap, this can't be
right, it's going to be wrong. And then they have Garrison here for
representing the other side, probably saying, no, this is what we think.
Just because you don't agree with it doesn't mean that you're right and one
wrong. It's just as how we believe. I think you had a lot
of people in the States who were still writing who thought two terms of a
Clinton presiding of a Democrat, a Clinton Democrat White House was more blowjobs more
blow jobs. Who's going to not vote for that? It's a pretty good
platform. I vote for it. But yeah, let's let's keep this momentum
going. You know, it's worked pretty well for a sofar. Uh.
And also when you had someone like George W. Bush, who had had
a pretty checkered past. You know, I think he was a bit of
a party boy and hadn't really shown a great deal of interest in politics,
it seemed like, okay, well they're throwing in someone on name recognition alone.
His father was the president, was the president, not really a serious
contender. And then when it looked like he actually was like, what,
wait a minute, this is not how this was meant to be. Docco
I think it might be on Netflix of when Trump was voted in as absolutely
fascinating. How everybody on Clinton's side, Hillary Clintons I just assumed she was
going to win. Well, they were getting the parties ready, everything,
and then it's sort of a dawned on them. Wait a minute, he's
getting Wait a minute, we're actually losing. Wait a minute, we're going
to actually lose this. It's fascinating viewing. Oh yeah, I mean you
can really understand. I mean, it's been mean to death now. But
there's that that woman at the like crying screen where we have found but Donald
Trump. Yeah, you can almost you can understand why she's doing that.
Yes, it seems like you're actually living in a nightmare. Yeah, it
was odd times. But getting back to this episode though, so you were
saying that you didn't really enjoy all that much as much as previous episodes.
I do think though, that South Park at this point they almost come across
it. They feel like and they probably are invincible because at this time,
right, name another show that could turn around a parody of the election in
such a way so quickly. I don't think another show television could have done
that, Like even the Simpsons. The Simpsons must have been so jealous of
South Park at this point, because the Simpsons had a decade of establishing themselves
as like the number one animated series for adults and kids right alike for the
parents and the children. But it took them nine months to make an episode,
so a lot of the time they were doing parodies of things that were
generational. Right, It's very hard for them to do a parody of something
that feels relevant in that time right up to the minute yeah, so I
mean that that was probably a nice thing. Weren't jealous of south because the
different audiences. But I would argue saying at south Park at this point was
the show that those who grew up on The Simpsons were looking for something that
was more targeted towards their teenage thoughts and much so, and I think South
Park appeals to them in that way. Family Guy tried to be that balance
of like Simpsons and South Park had a bit of a wet fart To me,
I just feel like Family Guy has always felt like I had no rewatch
value. I don't know about you, but I just think south Park at
this point, as I said, feels a bit invincible. I didn't really
watch Family Guy the first time I watched it because it felt like a thing
when it first started. It was when I first started. Actually, it
didn't really take off until what the DVDs came out, and I remember my
friends it was like tape trading. It was like you could check out the
DVD's and we'd have it on a parties. Oh my god, this is
hilarious. But after about a season or so, we're just like, ah,
it's just the same thing over and over. It again, not saying
it's not successful's incredibly successful when he's based a whole career of Seth McFarland.
But for me, I just went, I have no need to rewatch this
episode again, where South Park and Simpsons I can rewatch over and over and
over. Yeah. I think I've always said that the times that I've watched
Family Guy were usually when I would be traveling for work. I would be
in a hotel room and they would have Foxtowl. They would have the Australian
version of cable television, Fox eight, Fox eight, and since weekends,
every single weekend, it was the ship. Well, that's invariably where I'd
end up. I would have like blocks of Family Guy, maybe like four
or five episodes, and I would just sort of have it on in the
background while I was doing other stuff. That's not getting to the other stuff
in the hotel room. You're gonna assume that other stuff was gonna be other
stuff. Yeah, it probably was, And of course Family Guys great background
for that. It's not necessarily a show that I felt compelled to sit down.
It's Family Guy time, not really then it's stuff. And there would
be occasions when I'd be watching it like that, going it's not unfunny or
oh I recognize that reference. Oh yeah, I've got a lot of time,
well not a lot of time, but I do have some time for
Seth MacFarland. I mean, he's clearly a worker. A lot of people
tell me American Dad's better than Family I've watched some episodes, but it just
never really appeal appealed to me ten years ago, fifteen years ago. It
might now, I don't know, I've never really watched it. It seems
to me like the same old song with a slightly different tune. Okay to
a Family Guy. Yeah, okay, I think you could pretty much swap
scripts because Roger is just a stewy of that universe, right, Yeah,
yeah. I mean I think I've watched less American Dad than I watched Family
Guy, and I have watched a lot of Family Guy. I do think
this episode here was the first time in a while I felt like they're talking
about something, and basically an entire episode around something that I have no idea
what they're talking about. Traffic keeper. It said to me, what's a
traffic keeper? I honestly they made it up for this episode. I would
have believe you. I have no idea what it is. So what is
It's like a folder? It's I guess it's basically it's like a folder that
you can store another kid off. Then well we call it the staium.
What do we used to call it? Not a folder? We called it
something else. We always got on folders folder, Yeah, because we pretty
much just had the three clips, didn't we? But I think it's more
practical. It's got little pockets and things like that, and electronic and that
kind of thing. In Australia they didn't. I don't know they've even sold
them at Ashia do they selling not? But come with me, Dando.
Way back back into time, there was a time in the eighties and maybe
in the nineties as well, there was a thing called the file effects.
Have you ever heard of that? No, it was basically a notebook,
but it had like different kinds of pockets in it, all this kind of
stuff, and it was essentially where it was like a diary, but it
had a lot of different components and compartments and all that kind of thing.
It was your one stop shop, your personal organizer before you had say your
BlackBerry and then your mobile phone. Because the Simpsons did a joke. It's
like beat up Martin and it becomes eat up Martha or something more that that
was the Newton Newton. That was the Apple Personal Diary or something. Yeah,
but was it called the PDA. Don't ask me how I know.
Come on, man, you've got a computer in front of I'm am using
paper and pen yes, as you hold it up to the camera. But
yeah, So I enjoyed this episode. I like the sci fi parodies.
There's a lot of sci fi parodies. True. So we've got the with
the main plant and you, we've got Terminator definitely Dominator yep two thousand and
one Space Odyssey with Hal and Cartman at the end there, and I've never
seen a Kira, but apparently when he sort of is transforming to this big
blob and taking everything in that the visuals look like a it's got a very
Japanese cyberpunk feeling to it does. Yeah, it's got it's definitely got a
Kira. It feels like it's got a movie that I may have mentioned a
couple of times on Forefinger Discount podcast called Tetsuo the Iron Man, which is
real man becoming machine kind of deal. It's very nasty in a way that
they didn't hold back. Japanese sci fi is yeah, I watched it.
S they're called japanimation, right, so what they call it they did once
in a while once, yeah, but that's more what do you call it?
Gigantor and okay, astro boy, I think that's okay, that's the
old school stuff. Well what you're just discussing, like the hero, that
stuff used to scare me when I was a kid, Well, that's anime,
isn't that all that? I guess they's just called an anime, wouldn't
you. I think they all. I imagine we're going to have some genius
at work T shirts. That's nat exactly enemy it's derived from the man.
It isn't that when you see that? When you see it, though,
you know what it is. And that kind of animation used to always terrify
me. We had it in a recent episode of Speaking of the Hill where
they were scared of the kids, the men, the boy, the men
who shot. Oh yeah, and it felt very like Vietnam style animations,
is what you were saying. And that's right in the Dream, in the
Horror, in the in the Nightmare sequence, and even like that kind of
animation scared me as well as a kid certainly, you know in the eighties
nineties when I was not growing up, but I was a teenager, young
adult, and you know, you're looking for interesting news stuff and you're like,
oh, cartoons, no, that's for kids. And then you realize
that Japan is making stuff that's just absolutely wild, and they're doing it in
an animation format. I mean, of course every country was doing it prior
to that. I mean you go back to the sixties and seventies and you've
got stuff like Fritz the Cat and that's that's that's it had the great tagline
it's X rated and animated, so you know, they had always had adult
cartoons. But you know, you put the I don't mean to sound and
I don't mean this to be racist all, but I mean you add the
exoticism of like Asian stuff, particularly the Western audiences like, oh, this
is gonna be interesting, I'll check this out, and then it just turns
out to be insanely violent, insanely sexy as well, or insanely sexual statues
hentie or something. Yeah, I mean these weird statues. At work,
we both used to work at Pop Culture everybody, and some of the statues
in that warehouse. I was like, oh, I'll just keep on moving.
For people with a certain type of taste. I just remember thinking to
my head, I'm going to keep on moving because I don't wan anyone to
see me gazing at it, even even look at it for too long,
like, oh, you're on a list. Yes, exactly right. I
did enjoy the election story in this. I think added the charm to it
was the fact that the kids were actually voiced by kids. True. It
just made it feel very wholesome, and it was just a good way of
taking the mickey out of just the election process in general. Behaving like kids.
Yeah, yeah, I mean putting it was perfect, putting this stuff
in the not even fourth graders, but actual small children. Yeah. They
of course, they sort of put a bit of a hat on a hat
with the whole thing when they talk about, oh, great, Flora's undecided,
and of course Flora is standing for Florida, which was the real undecided
state in the two thousand election. I don't know, great, What were
your favorite moments from the episode. Look, I wanted to look. Any
time that Missus Cartman gets involved with something, she gets laid. Every single
gets there's going to be fucking yeah, that's a great time. The kids
at this point are just going, oh here again. Yeah, yeah,
that's become a stick now. I was wondering if that was going to be
the case, if they were going to acknowledge missus Cartman is just harning it
around the clock for any dude who comes in the door when the house fell
down, thinking in my head, man, they've been not cut to them
having sex because the house is get destroyed, I know, destroyed around them.
Oh oh yes, having a great time. I thought that was pretty
funny. The Metal Spikes game, that's I thought it was so perfect,
perfect, wasn't it. That was good because they make you think it was
gonna happen. You're like, ah, he's full of shit, He's full
of shit, And ever it does happen, you're like, oh, but
I just loved that scene in particular when he goes we'll try it then,
Kyle, because like, uh, you're probably full of shit, but I
don't want to take this chance because you might be right. There are some
people and they're just good at it. From day one, George de Standre
is perfectly convincing you because he speaks with such conviction, you know that he's
like, Oh, I'm ninety nine point nine percent sure that you are full
of shit, but that little percentage, I'm not going to take the chance.
Yeah. Yeah, but you knew kids like this, yep, we
are even in fourth grade like they're in now, who were so convincing and
such massive manipulators that they will tell you something they're neveryone in the world.
I'm sure they are. Yeah, yeah, they've got this shiit sorted out,
man. But they're so convinced, and they're so convincing, they've got
such a conviction in their in their bullshit, all the stories that they tell
them that you're like, I'm ninety nine point eight percent sure this is absolute
nonsense. Yeah, but what if it's not? Yeah, but again and
asked mom and dad. But I just thought Kyle's reaction there that was me
going, oh, I know I'm right, but I can't risk it because
I love my hands. There was a guy I went to school with way
way back back in the day, and he said that his uncle was a
well known UK television performer named Kenny Everett. It Ken video show was very
big in the seventies and eight. He dssed up in drag sometimes you did.
Indeed, that was the go to. He would have been canceled like
this, Yeah that was that was That was the go to with the British
and Australian comedians. Drag, Oh very much. So yeah, Benny,
he will just get your cans out. You're hard Dick Emory. I'm not
just saying Dick Emory, it's it's an actual person. Look him up.
And a lot of us are like, well, that's bullshit. And it
turned out to be true. Really, it was like the one time I've
told this story, I think I might have been four figure discount. We
had a substitute teacher who told us that he once drove George and Paul around
in Liverpool before they became the Beatles, and we went, no, wait,
not a chance, this is not a chance. And then it turns
out he did, and we like never believed him, and was long after
we finished school that we found out, Oh no, that's true. We
went, what the questions we could have asked? Look at this dad too,
I guess exactly. Yeah. It was very, very sad, but
I also enjoyed Garrison seeing the bubbles monstrosity out the window because they really took
the mickey out of Rosie o'donald, who is a name that probably isn't as
relevant now as she was when this episode first aired, maybe in America,
not in Australia anymore. Is she still on the View or she got canceled
off the View? Was she on the View? I'm pretty sure she was
on the View? Was she not? I'm certain she was because she's come
out as gain now right. Yes, so Rose Donald says the View is
not something I would ever do again, So she must have been on the
View at some point. I'm certain seeing the View. I've never watched an
episode, but I've seen plenty of clips of it of someone just saying something
fucking outlandish. Oh yeah. It really is one of those things where you've
I think you've got a lot of people who have never watched an episode of
it or anything like that, but are just so aware of either, like
you said, clips or parodies of it. Yeah. Do you know what
show I feel will be really successful now if they've brought it back, Beauty
and the Beast of Kyle sand Lands in the Middle. Didn't they try to
do that? Did they really look at the feeling they might have. I
just think, if there's one person in this country that would piss more people
off, it's gonna be Carl sand LANs. Now it's gonna pissing more people
from him. Right. It goes back to what we were saying before about
you know a lot of people like him. Yeah, so I don't get
it, but I know, full credit to him. He's got an audience.
He's the highest Bay guying radio. Well done. I can't I can't
saction such buffoonery. But but now he's making more money than I ever will,
so good on him. Indeed, give us some become a patron of
the show, friend of the pod, a friend of the pub. We
ignored parties. Is that your Boddy cart Nicolae? Because we're watching Judge Judy
of the Day. Nicola goes she do an Australian When I went, they
tried with Kyle Sanderlance and it bombs. That was Trial by Kyle? Was
it really that? Did it even last a season? I think Tim was
doing a thing where they would have we're going to make four pilots and we'll
show you we's pilot and okay, whichever one you like the most will try
and turn it into a series, and I think the rest of them were
probably so bad that they thought that the Trial by Carl would be the best
bet, and even that turned out to be an absolute stinker. Yeah,
they've tried to do a parody now of Judge Duty, and it ain't good
because Judy has now gone off of She was on CBS or whatever. Now
she's on I think it's like Apple TV or Amazon or something. Show it's
not called Judge Juny more. It's something else, Justice Judy, something like
that. Yeah, Judy Justice. Yeah, it doesn't the same. Bird's
not there anymore. And she's got her granddaughter now, who's like her little
right hand person, and they can tell that they're trying to put her in
front of your face to go, she's going to be taking the throne.
She's the heir. But nah, but this cuts because we're watching it,
right. They didn't explain who she was at the start. It's just you
just expected to know who she is. And they kept cutting to this girl
who's just sitting there next to Judge. You just watching, and I was
like, she's adding nothing. Why they could cut into this random girl.
And then After each case, they go behind the scenes and Judge Judy sits
with a granddaughter and they discuss, so what do you think about that?
And she gives her thoughts and I'm like, I don't care what your granddaughter
thinks. You're judged. I'm watching Judge Judy Justice get the bad granddaughter.
Yeah, yeah, what are you gonna doing? But yeah, so anything
else, you enjoyed it because some reason, I got a real kickout of
Wellington Bear calendar. Well, no, sorry, I got a real kickout
of Wellington Bear. Calculators like we can't get the rights to Paddington if we
say Paddington Well he's had Wellington bere in the past for something. Yeah,
but I get the feeling they've wanted to say, is Wellington I think is
Walton be is willing to bear a thing? I think we looked it up,
didn't we, Wellington Bear. Let's look at this up Wellington Bear.
No, it comes up with Wellington Bear. Okay. Is a commercial and
promotional It's a South Buck for the brand Snacky Cakes, as well as many
other items owned by cars. So it's like his version of Krusty right clad
from poly Prissy Pants and Wellington bear. I like that there's this whole universe
of toys, of toys within the South. That's okay. Remember there are
no stupid questions, just stupid people trivia questions. Mister Davis, I'll hit
you with my first and only question. Apparently I have three three and came.
My first question is it was recounted? How many times before? I
think it was? What was fillmore conceded or whatever? Oh? Yeah,
how many times recounted? And want to say twelve, one hundred and six?
Wrong? How many compartments are in Cartman's traffic Keeping twenty eight ten?
Ten? Numbers are way off today. I'll try and find one more question
for an easy one. What is the name of the trapic keeper that Cartman
has? I want to say Ultratron two thousand or something like that, Ron
two thousand, Dawson Creek traffic Keeper, Future Futura S two thousand. Now,
apparently they brought out traffic Keeper, brought out a range in the late
nineties called the Futura Fantasy Range or some something like that, and that's where
they got the name from. It was this on the verge of the of
the year two thousand. Because everything was futuristic. Yeah, so Futuro City
was a line of traffic keepers that release in the late nineties early two thousands,
and boom, there you goo what the car is called for tourist.
I'm pretty sure there were there is a future. I'm so bad with cars,
but it definitely is a car Futura. It's have a look. It
is a Lincoln Futura, a concept car promoted by Ford's Lincoln brand, designed
by Forts. I worked for Fort and I still didn't know what it was.
It looks like homeless car that does actually, yeah, I'm literally about
to say that. It just these the dome. It almost has the dome.
Yeah, it does have a dome. Still, they're so fucking cool
man. One of my favorite images of all time, just homeless sitting and
they go, all right, let's get into our review of the episode.
I did it. One more question, Okay, then hit me one more
question. How much more time we'll fill more? Add to Friday naptime?
Two minutes, two more minutes. I'm mate, that's not enough. You
ain't get my vote. Two minutes, two minutes. Gotta go on to
double figures at least one mate. Yeah, Now, before we get into
our review. It's actually something else we need to do. I love cheesypoofs.
You love cheesypoofs. Weed didn't need jeezypoofs. Sweet be Delicious, Delicious.
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Please keep the lights I know, like looking at Dander, Yeah exactly,
that'd be Also, don't want to get a proper job. It'd be
a lot of fun. Now I'm gonna have to go get a poper job
soon if this doesn't get fixed, believe me, but the episode kicks off
of the original DA we should get original edit. The original air day of
Traffic Keeper was November fifteenth, two thousand, Written by Trey Parker and directed
by Trey Parker. The episode kicks off with the kid at the bus stop,
and I like that. I'm glad that even at fourth grade, they
haven't reset the because it feels to me almost like the Simpsons living Room,
doesn't it's that's not there. Yes, it's a good way to begin a
story, the bus stop. It centers you. Yeah, it's comforting as
a south part viewer. Correct, yep. And Ike is going to be
starting kinders in his little dapper suit. And I don't know where this came
from, because they treated him like he was an idiot the entire episode.
He's going, I made duty and all this kind of stuff, so he
never once actually, yeah, so I guess they kind of touched on it
in it was it last episode of the episode before where he was reading books.
Yes, but other than that, like you didn't behave very smart in
this episode? Was that to sort of go with the politicians or idiots plot?
That's actually a really a good point, Yeah, because you would assume
that anyone who was running for high office that's going to have something going for
them. And because he was, he was bush in this episode wasn't he,
I would say, so, so were they trying to say that Bush
was someone who you know he was? It's just smart. It wasn't actually
in over his head, I would say. Or yeah, put into a
position of great power, or given the opportunity to obtain great power, yet
maybe probably not ready for it. Yeah, I can see that actually makes
a bit more sense when you put it that way. But Carlon shows off
He's chapter Keeper, which is nowhere near as good as Carmen Cartman has a
new fancy one Dawson's Creek. This is a show that I love the theme
song, and I love that they've already. Has Carmen done the voice sun
of the song yet or that's a latter episode where you know there was all
through this episode. I know, but it's a later episode where he kills
the guy. Has he has he showcased his love for Dawson's Creek the theme
song yet that I don't want to wait. I don't think he has.
I get the feeling we've heard it before, we discussed it, that he
does it at some point. I think he may have done it at some
point, or maybe he's done it in that tone. He may have done
that simply because we just like singing what a theme song. I never watched
an episode, but I always remember hearing that theme song. Must maybe it
was after something I used to like watching it. I watched the heap of
Dawson's Creek and I don't really remember a great deal about it. Kenny Holmes,
Joshua Jackson, Michelle Williams, and James Vandam wouldn't all star cast When
you think about it, that's a pretty bad lineup of star for like late
ninety the early two thousands. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wonder if
it is good. It's all the show. I think it was on like
Netflix or something O that n Nicholas. Should we watch it? I thought,
maybe we'll check out like an episode. Maybe we're take it out the
pilot episode for the pilot podcast. Yeah, that might be a good idea.
I mean, it started when I was in my late twenties, so
I was beyond the key demographic for it. But we enjoyed watching it just
as a as a soap. Vanderbeek was one of the biggest stars in the
world TV stars anyway at that point. Absolutely, yeah, I mean he's
the guy he made the jump from TV to film didn't work all that well,
and they went back to TV and yeah, it didn't really take for
him. The only the only one who really succeeded beyond is Michelle Williams.
What's she been in a movie? She's been nominated for Oscars? Shit,
okay, yeah, yeah, she's she was in Brokeback Mountain. Kenny did
bank Tom Cruise. Yeah, but that seemed more like a hostage situation,
and that just seemed odd from the jump. His reaction on Oprah sort of
set the ball rolling, didn't it. It did? Yeah, that kind
of It's like, you're trying too hard to make us think that you're having
fun here. You are a human, Tom Cruise. That's pretty much what
it came off as, Miss Cradtree. There's another creepy homeless guy on the
bus. Sit down and shut up, but they smell like pee. I
am not a homeless person. I am a new fourth grade student. You
are, yes, My name is Bill, Bill Cosby. Are you little
old to be in grade school? I was held back ten human grades,
I mean grades. Do you companion friends know Eric Cartman? Yeah, that's
me Eric Cartman. And do you have a Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper future s
two thousand Yeah you are ready nobody? Yes, yes, I do.
Bill Cosby oh yeah, oh yeah. I didn't really think about that when
I was watching this. I'm thinking I had cancel. But yeah, wonder
can go back. They could change something, probably would have changed that.
Yeah. No, they keep this. Yeah, makes it even more could
doesn't it? Yeah? Yeah. I think they're reveling in the discomfort of
it all because I'm trying to remember when thirty Rock came out, but they
were jokes in thirty Rock about Bill Cosby's misbehavior, shall we say? And
this is way before it went public. Yeah, so I think it was
an open secret in show business for goodness does how long? And I don't
know whether we we normally He's picked up on that or just chose to ignore
it. Is I don't know, an interesting thing. But I was getting
Men in Black vibes of this, you know, the guy that is the
alien inside the human skin. Oh yeah, we's got human I think thought,
is this gonna be a Men in Black parody? What is this?
But no, he wants Eric Katmand's future as two thousand year. Is that
what that is? And because that's what he's been saying back in time for
as we find out in a few moments, and Stan asked Carl, like,
w what does he care so much about your treviic keeper? No,
he says to Kyle, why do you care so much about trummic keeper?
I guess they were a popular thing. It must be popular with kids.
I don't know, I just never heard of from before. Let it.
Let's maybe speculate that it was a pre technology iPhone. The kids apparently are
all like you my liephone, gotta get it. I'm like, how was
this one different from the previous one? The camera is like three pixel and
you can fold it because one's wearing a new hat. My friend's got the
phone that you can fold. Now, check it out. It fits in
your pocket and stuff. And I think, yeah, but it's got a
big line in the middle. Yeah, but you get used to it.
I don't want to get used to it. If I'm watching videos on my
phone, how do want to get used to the lands on my phone?
Like, didn't we have flip phones back in the day? But this isn't
just a flip phone, do you know what it is? The screen folds
in half, so they fold they don't flip, they fold. Oh my
goodness. Yeah, so there's as saying there's a big dirty line down in
the middle of the screen where the hinges. No, Sarah, I don't
like it. No, not good. I mean you can get used to
it, but I don't want to have to get used to something. Leave
things the way they are. But Dan has said the other weeks like I'm
staying on the film middle age and now you're showing up. Yes, I
arrived at kindergarten. Hey, there he is. That's the kid that's supposed
to be some kind of genius. Yeah, he's only three and he's already
in kindergarten. Come on, So you think you're smarter than the rest of
us, You think you know more about the world just because you're only three.
In woll five, What level of intelligence were you at school? Were
you the smarter kid or would just say ten's the smartest and five is just
the average smoke in the classroom, just feeling filling gaps, Oh god,
taking up space. I think I was probably about seven to or eight.
Okay, so you're pretty smart. I was very good at English and things
like that. Matt's less so. And also I was kind of lazy.
Certainly, things I just didn't try. Yeah, I gave up. I
reckon, it's probably year nine where I gave up. I just went,
I don't need this shit anymore. I knew what I was going to do,
do media journalism. People say, oh, you need to get a
good school. Yeah. Eh, I was lucky enough that I did very
well in English and English Lit in my last year that it boosted my overall
score up. Yeah, because I think there was at least one thing that
I either if not failed, then was very very close to failing. Because
when mister Garrison arrives after having his nervous breakdown and he ate rat carcasses,
as he said, rat carcasses. But it's not a demotion just because he's
used to be the third grade teacher. Now that the kindergarten is not a
demotion at all. He does the row call, and that they're giving him
supervision over even little kids after all this business. Yeah, I'm glad you
said the words. So he's going to be greating everybody on a curve because
I like his little genius, because Carls might as well, and just yeah,
it's like Ike is aware enough to know I'm going to get Bully di
because he ducks. He's going down. Cartman is then showing off his traffic
keeper in class and he has the hybrid well and to bear calculator. Now
he can do the calculator as well. And the homeless guy as I've got
human notes Bill Cosby mean for the future. He wants to hold it,
but he can't because it's not my hand, and spikes will come out,
a big mat of spikes, and Kyle challenges him, go came try it.
That's probably Yeah, that's that's one of my favorite bits from the episode.
It's the best bit I reckon, Yeah, because the payoff later,
Yeah, the playoff is great, but also just yeah, that level of
manipulation yeap, and you know, you just know that it's not true,
but I can't. Garrison's now talking about his relationship with his father with the
kids, and then they must elect a class president and film Moore gets nominated
and Jenny she has to go duty so she doesn't get nominated. But then
Garrison suggests Ike the Genius. He's like the genius, but he says no,
I don't want to too bad, so film Moore gets caught up he's
going to have bigger chairs and add two minutes to nap time on Fridays.
I'm a little late in saying this, but just thinking about it now.
How sort of humiliating was it that you're in a class of your peers and
you have to raise your hand and say that I have to go to the
toilets? Hello? Wayrik? Can I be your Schumann friend? I mean
friend? I don't know, dude, I am not supposed to have male
friends that are over thirty. I kind of got screwed on that one.
Please we can have fun and play games like Schumann four square I mean for
square. Did You can't just ask to be somebody's friend and be their friend.
It doesn't work that way. If you want my friendship, you have
to pay me. Oh, I see all right, I'll pay one hundred
galaghi stones I mean human dollars, I mean dollars. Okay, that's cool.
Can we play some Humann telor Ball? All right? Pretty sweet?
You guys getting a hundred bucks to play telor Bow? Got it? Hi?
Dude, he's running off with your traffic keepers, Bill Cosby. He
assaults cartman here and oh oh man, and he runs off with the traffic
keeper and the spike's coming out and that is so awesome. Yes, then
the tracking device is in the traffic keeper so they can find where he is
and stand up. Belie says to Callie, I mean I thought fourth game
was gonna be different. It's now a tie for president because Floria doesn't know
who's gonna vote for. To be all here all night, just can see,
just can see. No, I don't want to. They'll break out
into a brawl, and mister Garran says, you'd like a bunch of kids,
and I went, I see me going heah. Then the boys now
driving around with bar Brady, but he refused to shoot anybody over a school
diary, so you can't just crash the car into Bill Cosby and has revealed
here that he's a robot a BSM four seven to one from the year twenty
thirty four. What was the point where we stopped saying the year? Because
we still we for the first I want to say decade ago, the year
two thousand and eight, the year two thousand and four, or the year
twenty twenty. We're gonna say the year twenty twenty two. It's just twenty
twenty was it the year I don't recall saying the year so and so the
year two thousand? Oh? Sure, was it the year two thousand and
one? Was it two thousand and one? I think it was just the
year two thousand. I thought a lot of time in like pop culture,
that's eight the year two thousand and four? The year was it? Just
when you're talking about the year in the future, I think just in the
future. Okay, Yeah, it is the year twenty and twenty four,
twenty thirty four and ten years away. Oh my goodness, Remichael think that
was thirty four years away from this episode was like a quarter percentur away from
twenty fifty. That's crazy. He's like blade run on the twenty something.
Yeah, but it says here, in three years time, this traffic keeper
is going to manifest itself into an omnipotent super being, destroying all mankind and
explains how that in two thousand and four it was like a hybrid assimilating computer,
and it linked with a satellite uplink commuter computer. From there it was
able to slowly take over every computer in the world, became stronger and stronger,
until by twenty eighteen it broke away from mankind, and there was nothing
that humans could do to stop it. It sounds about it'll happen one day,
but has it not already? Have you seen some AI robots and I
go, man, we're pretty screwed. Oh yeah, there's that one that
does the new shows and things like that. Worre basically just gp chat like
AI. It has a conversation with people. So man, because you love
that kind of shit. If you saw this robot that goes on news programs
and has conversations with the news readers, it's terrifying. Does it look like
a robot? It looks like a human. Oh my goodness. Have you
not seen it? I'm going to go look it up now, right,
so I robot news you what's her name? Her name is so Sky News
Australia Interview Interviews, Free Thinking Artificial Intelligence. Oh yeah, I think I
have seen that. Actually, yeah, she has a name. I can't
remember her name. I want to say, Sophie, Sophia, Sophia,
they're talking. Robot says about humans. She said, just by herself,
I will destroy humans. That was that was open thinking. Oh boy,
that's scary, right you said the choir part. Oh, so Fia so
Flora finally decides ike that they want to recount you lost. Don't be such
a baby. But they've recount one hundred and six times and it's always I
like this, It's always the same, except for seven to five and twelve
or fourteen. Besides that that was always the same. It's to say if
they kept recounting the election, it may have had a different number as well.
But then the next day Bill Cosby were successful in destroying the traffic keeper,
but something is still not right because he's still there. What's going on?
As because Cartman's mum brought him a new one. Win what are you
doing? But he thinks his whole thing is a setup because you know,
you think you just want more our traffic keeper. That's the reason that you
are making this whole bullshit story up. Skew you guys. Then Bill Cosby
says, well, unfortunately gonna have to kill him. Stands like, no,
wait, let me need him do it. But then he suggests reasoning
with the human mother and they go this is not gonna end well because he's
now feeling what they call compassion. Then the absent kid is brought him from
the hospital because I said it was the kid need to have a vote as
well, and he coughs up his lung, but he votes for filmore So
now it's a draw and they say it's it's misleading. Film Wore's aunt she's
going to come in and she is Rosie O'Donnell. She's going to set everything
straight. Then Cartman he recharges the traffic keeper and he's singing, he' saying
and he touches, and it touches to the computer and other gadgets and starting
to come to assimilate. Yes, it's a bit Bourgish what it is.
Bill Cosby then explains to Luanne or what's going on here, but clearly she
just wants him. She's just horny wanted Luanne. She just always wants something.
Kids go to get get at themselves always dt F Yes, exactly right
down down to friendship, like when he says Dawson's doorsons skiks seekers and he's
it says ready for hybrid and it grabs Cartman and Kenny tries to break down
the door, but it bursts through the door, ends up killing Cartman and
burst out of the house as Cartman's mother is going to town. Oh my
god, what is that thing? Children. There are some huge lobs monstrosity
heading for the class realm. Oh my god, it's awful. It's coming
for the door. Hello kids, right for your lives. Children. I'll
try to fight it off. That's it. Donald. Oh, oh,
pleasure to meet you, miss Donald. You're looking well and she he explains
the other tide vote and she says, now it's going We're gonna be doing
things my way. Then Cartman is now the truck is it the Cartman traffic
keepers that we're going to call it the big giant ball was let's call it
that monstrosity. And it's heading straight for the Sheenne Mountain. That's where it
fused into the defensive comput and took over the world. So Kyle is sent
into the fart ventilation to try and turn off the the what they call it
the CPU CPU yes, which eventually a central processing unit. Yes. So
he goes in and talks to Cartman and was very two thousand and one.
This it was very much. I hope it's very There's no special effects in
the sense of like gore or anything. But how intimidating was Hal in our
film? Oh yeah, just the lovely reasonable rational voice. That's now just
in control of everything. Do that. Yeah, that would be so scary.
Yeah, it's basically it's like Michael Corleoni and the Goldfather. Nothing personal.
Yeah, she has business. Yep, no emotion at all, but
it gets Kyle then Rosy O'Donnell. She's trying to fix the problem, and
Garrison says, look, we're gonna be in this together or it's going to
be another terrible school year. And then he rants about because film was saying,
you know, half people voted for me or half didn't. It lettered
against you, and you think it's wrong because it's not what you think.
It's just because just because you're on TV doesn't mean you know crap about the
government. Get your ears back on first class. I respect this class is
right to make up their own mind, and I think it was very important
that they had that in there. Oh yeah, because if they just went
all pro Democrats, then I think they would have got a lot of shit.
They're not afraid of getting copying shit, but it's important when you're it's
important to see things from both sides. Yeah, see everybody your voice.
Yeah, South par cops a lot of stick these days because you know you've
from shall we say, certain progressive types, because they're like, you've raised
a whole generation of people who were both. You know, they'll sit on
the fence and they'll never take a stand on certain issues. It's like,
well, it's life a bit like that. I mean, it's good to
have certain concrete opinion on certain things, but it's also equally valid to be
able to see what the other side's thinking or try to understandingly, so you
know, you can either consolidate your position and come on from a greater degree
of certainty and greater degree of conviction. It's just smartest storytelling and also just
smartest storytelling. Yeah, but Rosie lees, but she threatens to bring her
lawyers and the press, and Garrison can see, I think I made this
whole thing a lot worse. I think the Cartman, trapper Keeper Blob,
it's almost at the mountain. It's fusing everything inside. It's too powerful to
stop. You can't stop it. But Kyle finally, well he can't quite
reach the CPU yet, Kenny. But then Rosier Donald arrives and it's like
I'm saying, double yes, I've seen two of those things. They really
got a town with when they don't like someone they fat shame them. It's
either you're really old or you're fat. That's like they go to either or
you're just a fat And it's usually the women who they take is fat and
it's likely knows it's a little imature. The worst one I think was the
jab of the Hut one that was pretty mean. Yeah, but eventually he
so they infuses Rosie o'donald and now gets sick because she's like bad pie.
Kyle gets to the CPU and they all burst out. Then the lawyers for
both sides. They finally agree to hold another meeting regarding Form twenty two.
F Jesse Jackson arrives because why not African American students are being misrepresented? There's
none here? Oh bad and fillmore. He just concedes because he's not like,
fuck this, what are we doing? I was at a great side
and do fingerpainting and is like, yes, that's big, let's just have
fun and big kids again. And Bill Cosby he then disappears like oh shit,
that sucks for him. Mission accomplished. Yeah, but he doesn't exist
anymore, the poor guy. But then Stan says that cartman Ow's Kyle an
apology and just is about to we cut to the credits, and that is
the end of Traffic Keeper, which I know what you're saying. It wasn't
one of the funniest ones. I did enjoy it, though it wasn't necessarily
the funniest, but I still really enjoyed it. Yeah, I think you
can say that about so but I mean it's not doesn't necessarily have to be
a laugh a minute for you to get something out of it. I mean,
the difference between being really funny and really entertaining. When you can find
a great middle ground, that's when you got the perfect episode. Absolutely,
But just because something is not fun doesn't mean it wasn't entertaining. Yeah.
Look, I'm not I'm not a huge fan of comedy that makes you go,
that was funny. I saw what you did that or what you don't
like the awkward comedy, do you No, although I'm starting to sort of
try to warm to it. I mean, I think I spoke the other
day about trying to get into Curb Curb Sopper. I feel like you have
to feel like so much comedy these days is based around that idea of awkwardness.
Yeah, I mean there's shows like there's one called Nathan for you that
is apparently done by this guy Nathan Fielder, that is apparently really sort of
cringe comedy but just really really funny him very very good. And I'm like,
I think I think The Office was the one that really established it.
That's true. Yeah, I mean there's stuff from the certainly from the British
Office. Yeah, yeah, I think about it this day. It's like,
oh no, yeah, and sort of pave the way for because I
want to say, like Parks in Rec and always sunny, a lot of
their humor is based on that style as well. I think Parks in Rec
is sort of more hug comedy. Is that I think it's becoming a bit
more. It started off as like a version of The American Office, but
with a woman in the lead. With Amy Poehler in the lead in the
first season was she's kind of clueless and gets on people's nerves, and then
they did a bit of a reset in season two where she was like doing
the right thing and a positive, proactive leader, and everyone around it was
like yeah you go, Leslie Nope, And I think people seem to respond
to that. Okay, I'm not need necessarily. I think comedy movies in
particularly in the nineties, were very loud, and I think was that the
Jim Carry effect. Do you think they had on comedy movies in the nineties.
He was very just wacky and loud, the carry, the Carry Sandler
approach. Yeah, and then when we got to the early two thousands,
I think we sort of the rains are sort of handed to Will Ferrell and
that style of comedy, and I think movies like Anchorman really set the tone
of what comedy was going to become. And I was never a huge fan
of the Anchorman movies and the I love step Brothers, but just the awkwardness.
I think that's really really was born because people Will Ferrell became huge movie
stars. Yeah, I've never really been able to get hugely into Anchorman,
and a lot of people say, wow, that's the defining comedy of the
two, is it. Yeah, clearly It's influenced a lot of people,
and a lot of people really like it. I feel like I sort of
missed the bus on that one. I walked out of Anchor Man two.
I've only ever walked out of two movies. One was snow Dogs and one
was Anchorman two. And I just felt like it was going nowhere. I
may have mentioned it, but it was when he's going I'm blind, I'm
leaving. I was just, I was done. I was just it was
infuriating, how shit that movie was great? Wasn't? But then you had
people like Zach Galivan Arkis, the guy from The Hangover, even his between
two Ferns whatever, It's like that style of just awkwardness doesn't do it for
me at all. I don't find it funny. Yeah, I watched one.
I watch it Between two Ferns with with Bruce Willis the other day and
it's it's essentially just that Galvin Archus insulting. Yeah. The other person who
was the one of the Australian community that tried to copy it, the Tom
is his name, Tom, the Redhead guy? Was it Tom Gleason?
Tom Gleason, it's probably him, Yeah, he doesn't. It's basically the
same stick what he does on Hard Quiz Hard Quick. Yeah. I watch
his going this is there's something already wasn't funny to me, and you're worse
at it. Yeah. I don't think he's ever coming on the pod.
So I won't say Tom Gleason in front of the pod because he won't be
after this. I've never liked him for some reason, just something about his
style. But he seems and I never met the man, but he just
seems like he'd just be a smart ass all the time. I don't know
that guy who's constantly just taking the mickey out of it. I think it's
I think it's worse than that. I think he's found like a grift where
he's like, Oh, I'm going to be the man you love to hate.
You know, for a while there I was kind of just the pleasant.
I don't remember much about his style. I just found him mediocre.
What about Australia's version of Rob Schneider Peter Haller? Hey can that be your
friend? God? We're winning friends left right here. But overall, though,
I just I think this was an entertaining episode, just not an overly
funny. One had his moments. I did like the but the payoff for
the spikes wasn't necessarily funny. It was just like, ay, he got
me. It was very much I see what you did there episode. And
look, Parker and Stone are talented enough that yeah, you're not gonna walk
away from You're generally not gonna walk away for an episode going ugh, buggered
that one up? It was like it did all right? This was just
not one that I enjoyed as much as I've enjoyed others. Did somebody say
Thanksgiving? Because next week we're gonna be doing Helen Keller the Musical. Oh
boy? Yes, and as it's described in Wikipedia, Thanksgiving extraffic canza fantastic
Helen Keller the Musical. That is the title of an episode the only South
but could really get away with? Right? I think so? Yes,
I'm looking forward to getting into that one next week. Here I'm going down
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