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the South we're having a great time going back and revisiting these classic episodes of
South Park. But we're now mister Davis entering the third season, which as
Trey Parker says in the commentary or the commentaries they put on the DVDs,
that this is where he believes the show really turned to corner and sort of
discovered itself. And he put it to the fact that they were working on
season three at the same time they were working on Bigger, Longer, and
Uncut, and he thought by doing the film that I would just learn more
about storage, structure and character development, things like that, and he thought
that I were to apply those new skills to the show, and he thinks
the show was better for it. And yeah, this this this episode was
a great way to kick off the season. If you ask me, I
would have to agree with you on that point. Down. Yeah, I
mean, we've gone through season two, which I think had really peaks and
valleys in a lot of ways, and the show was very much fun against
feet during that time. But yeah, from the first episode of season three,
it's like, it doesn't feel radically different, but it does feel more
confident, yes, and it definitely sure. Yeah, and look, we've
got maybe twenty other seasons or even more to compare it to. But yeah,
I mean, sort of looking back at this one was like, oh,
this is where it begins. This is where, Yeah, the momentum
really starts. Yeah, it's just evident from the from the gags, from
the characterization, from the from the visuals, from the themes. Yeah,
there's so much to enjoy in this episode. And Jennifer Aniston and Missus Stevens
was so good. I completely forgot. I'm halfway through. I'm like,
oh, that's right, this is Jennifer Addison. I was like, she
just did this. So Jennifer Addison is one of the last people I would
have thought when you watch Friends, almost like she doesn't come across like someone
that would watch South Park. But man, apparently her and Brad Pitts was
dating break Bit at the time. We're huge fans, and she was so
good as Missus Stevens. From what I understand, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston
were pretty heavy stones Is back in the day. Would not have taken it
for that. Okay, I can just imagine getting baked and just enjoying South
Park. Is that Pitt's influence on her? Though? Do you think I
would say so? Yeah? From what I understand, Pitt was a pretty
big Stone. Was he her bad boy phase? Who was it was her
bad boy face Addiston, because every major star has got a bad boy face
or a bad girl phase. Well, that's the thing. I mean.
It seemed like domestication for both of them, really, more so Pitt though,
right, I think so, Yeah, because I mean I'm trying to
remember Pitt's chronology of girlfriends, and I think it was Juliet Lewis, then
Gwyneth Paltrow. Lewis no ship. I did not know that. Yeah,
back in the back at the very start of his career or back in the
mid nineties or so. But then maybe from seven onwards, he was with
Gwyneth for a while. The other sister, right, that's Juliet Lewis,
Is that who I'm thinking of? Yes, Natural warn Killers and kape here
and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, then Jen for a while,
and I think Jolly for a long time, and then Jollie for a while.
Yeah, had done Jennifer Anderson for Angelina Jolly. They were married,
they had a bunch of kids that imploded or exploded, and yeah, Pitton
and Jen seemed to be no quite friendly now, you know, and occasionally
sort of giving each other shout outs from stage or there was a I think
during COVID there was like a zoom read of the script of Fast Times Bridgemond
High that they were both in, and you know that was sort of very
friendly talking to each other prior to it, and it's like, oh,
I think these two they are the ones who were really meant to be together
and all that. Although you look at Affleck and it's like, are you
happy right now, dude, because you don't look like they're happy. There
was some I don't know if it's viral video, but the door yeah,
yeah, I'm like, no, he looks pissed because someone stand in the
film. Because if you see the last shot of of that video, he's
about to go, what are your filming for? You can tell he's about
to say something to the guy of filming. That's what he looks pissed off
about that someone stand there for the fucking camera, because how annoying would that
be. You're just out with your part, obviously your huge stars. I'm
just want to get in my cart and he just fuck off. But I
mean Affleck especially, I mean he's one of those guys who seems to have
resting sad face yea all the time, And I think paparazzi and videographers and
all those types are just like, oh, maybe I can go ral off.
I get him sort of looking, you know, there's that image of
him standing at the standing on the shore at the beach, when he's got
the new tattoo on his back and he's got a little bit of a gut
in his towel wrapped. It's like, oh my god, that's gold.
Or him at the Grammy's kind of look, how long much longer I'm gonna
have to be here? I've never related to that man more than at that
moment. It's like, Yeah, you've been at some event that not that
you were dragged to by your partner, but it's like your wife's friend's birthday
or something. Yeah, can we go? Can we go here? I've
made my pleasant trees? Can we please leave? The football is about to
start, I've got We've got ninety days at home, Luke, come on
exactly. Janiston was just so good in this, and her rant at the
end was one of my favorite moments. I thought it was so well done.
I get the fel that she might be It's hard. It's difficult to
say or odd to say that she might be underrated as a comic actor.
But she's got really just nifty timing and nifty delivery. I mean, of
course that's home from years on Friends, but I never gave her any credit.
But now we're still in season one and from the very first episode of
Friends, she like she had it. She really did. Yeah, I
mean, I think it's easy to throw a little love Lisa Coudrow's away because
she's Phoebe's more. I mean, sorry, I'm encroaching on Dando nick territory
talking to bad friends, But you know, Lisa Coudro's sort of had the
bit of an eye catching role early on Phoebe's you know, spacey and old
ball. That's that's not easy laughs, because her performance is just as good.
There's not a false note in the Friends ensemble. Courtney Cox is just
you know, she's fantastic. She's really really good as well. And I
think Jennifer Ranson might be easy to underrate when she's surrounded by a talent like
this because she's sort of she's not going for the obvious zingers. But her
timing is just like a Swiss watch. It's really really good. Um and
yeah, then you see it in a different context like this, and she
does so many things so well, and yeah, but you're you're right,
that ran to the end. It's like, oh, it's been building up
to this. Yeah, she just nails it. It's great. It's yeah,
got a lot to get a lot of time for jenn and this in
this particular, a particular role. What I liked about it too was that
you could tell it was Jennifer Anniston, but it wasn't her voice though she
didn't just do Jennifer Anison the voice like she created this character, Missus Stevens,
like she she created this, and I thought, yeah, she did
a great job. I particularly liked the head tilt Missus Stevens, and i'vet
that down as well. You're watching this and it's like, I feel like
Jennifer would have tilted the head as well, like to sort of just to
emphasize that that sort of vibe. When she was talking. But apparently Trey
was saying that that she was incredibly nervous to do the show, to the
point where when she was in the studio she was like visibly shaking because he
said that, you know, she'd done so many shows like you know,
Friends and things like that, but she hadn't done voice roles and a was
so different to the usual way of in front of a live studio audience to
this, and she was so nervous. But once she sort of got those
nerves out of the way, she was just incredible. Yeah. Well,
how long had Friends been going by this stage? Well, this was ninety
nine, so I'd been going for about five to six years. I started
ninety four, but yes, early ninety four, about about five years.
Yeah, So, I mean Jen's part of the establishment this stage. But
I don't know. Maybe there's there's a fear that actors have. It's like,
oh, well I do friends, and that's it. I mean,
of course she'd been in movies. I think she was, you know,
she'd been in Picture of Her Effect and a few others by this stage,
and I think that'd done well, which you hadn't quite broken out, and
a couple of movies in the nineties. Yeah. Yeah, there's that fear
that maybe friends is what is all I'll be remembered for, and especially when
and especially when you're part of you know, the new big kid on the
block. Yeah, South Park. I mean like we see you know,
and then in previous seasons George Clooney had been a part of it. I
mean, George Clouney was one of the biggest stars in the world at this
stage, and it comes on and does as as the gay He just appeared
on the episode of Friends that we we reviewed a couple of weeks ago,
him and Noah Wiley. Yeah, as that was such a big deal.
Yeah, this is the thing that I say, we're saying on that podcast
that it was incredible that I found it interesting that they played doctors. They
looked like their characters from Er, but they weren't playing the characters from ar.
But then we sort of thought about when oh yeah, but you know,
ear as a drama and you can't really have the wackiness and zannius of
Friends being applied to those characters because you couldn't then watch those characters on a
drama again in the same way. No, No, it's good the synergy
as well, because I think they're both NBC shows. Yeah, though I'm
back to back. Yeah, I was saying it was the same episode they
had Helen Hunt and her friend from Mad About You on at the same episode,
because Phoebe played by Lisa Kudrow, was actually on Mad About you first,
La, so they sort of caught. They created the character of Ursla
on Friends and tied them all in and yeah, here's Marvel thinking they created
shared universe. I cared about it and NBC just ate lunch. Yeah it
was really well done. I really appreciate it was really fun to reviews.
It was called the one with two parts. It was a big deal.
They aired back to back on that night, so was the one hour special
of Friends. But yeah, yeah, Jen Jen very very good in this
spiod. She definitely was, and I can understand why she might be nervous,
but yeah, it's it's great to hear that. You know, once
she came overcame those initial nerves. He just nailed, because she really really
does. I feel like Tray and Matt two would be. They seem like
the kind of people that would never put you under any pressure. They'd make
you feel as comfortable as possible. They don't expect anything of you. Like
even if she just got halfway through and went I just can't do it,
guys, they would never make her feel bad for it, but well whatever,
you know, that seemed like really cool, relaxed guys. I think,
Yeah, the only people they put under pressure themselves and the people that
they're really closest with, like the writing team. Yeah. Yeah, because
they just want it to be the best it can be. That's all it
is. Yeah. Again, if you have not watched the documentary, I
think it's seven days to air? Is that what it's called? Something he
stays to air? Seven days to watch? It's on YouTube. It's one
of my favorite documentaries of all time. It's fantastic how they make an episode
of South part But so this the story for this one actually came from Tray
and his girlfriend at the time visited Costa Rica and he was told by Flee
from Chili Peppers that are you're gonna go down there, You're gonna love.
It's gonna be fantastic, And he says he fucking hated it. So he
says, basically, I can write an episode where Cartman was him. So
Cartman was everything he says in this episode. That's that's Tray what I something
I really loved about that aspect I went particularly about. You know, Cartman's
response to Costa Rica is like, initially, oh no, he's just being
a dreadful racist little kid. You know, he's being a pest, like
he always is, but it all sort of turns on a dime when he
said it's not funny, it sucks. Yeah, I'm just pointing out how
bad everything is here. Yeah, it's like, oh my god, this
smells like as it probably doesn't smell like us, and that's not a good
thing. I mean, apparently Costa Rica was not a fan of this episode.
There's probably a lot to enjoy in Costa Rica. But it was a
similar aspect when the Simpsons went to Brazil. They're like, you know,
these are some of the biggest shows in the world. We rely on tourism
to survive. You've motherfucker's a talent. Everyone not to come here. But
so the story basically is, and there will be people out there that say,
oh, you know, they're taking the mickey out of the rainforest.
They're saying, don't save the rainforest. What they say in the commentary is
that it wasn't necessarily a fuck the rainforest. It's fun the celebrities and the
people who try to save the rainforest, who don't actually go and visit the
rainforest, who don't really care. They're trying to make themselves feel better because
they're the reason the commentators say in this episode, they're the reason that the
rainforests are the way they are. Absolutely, Look, if you're gonna if
you're going to be an activist, go all in on that shit. I
mean, people give Sting a bit of crap, but he actually went down
to Brazil and hung with a bunch of tribes and all that kind of business.
Yeah, I mean it's a line I say a lot, but yeah,
you've got to walk it like you talking. You've got to go all
in. Yeah, exactly. Otherwise people are going to see right through even
if you have the best of intentions, have the courage of convictions, and
be you know, bold and forth right in your activism. Don't you just
say, I'm going to give you the gift so so good. Sorry,
I've already jumped into one of my favorite moments. Yeah, this song is
is so good and just that is that what's what's the name of the choir?
Again? That the gay being gay with getting gay with kids? Yeah,
I'm assuming it was the height of humor again nine And in all honesty,
look, it's it's retrograde and cheap, but I still laugh at it.
And I've said when on four Fingered dis game. When we're talking about
the Simpsons, there are certain lines that just stick with you. Um,
no context necessary, but the delivery of it it just always lingers. And
there's lots of Simpsons ones like that. But for some reason, I've always
remembered the drug Lord and this was saying we're not getting gear with any kids.
I just thought that was the funniest. Yeah, so I can imagine
like you would have been a thirty year old guy hires a kite watching it's
just laughing head off. Well, you've spoken at one of your favorite moments.
Let's talk about the rest of them. I've already mentioned Miss Stevens Rand.
Just hearing Jennifer Anderson say fuck, just like I was like, yeah,
I'm so Ingrained and friends at the moment. I haven't seen any of
her movies, I'm sure, but she says, oh the time of the
movies, but I think Horrible Bosses. She probably says it's a lot,
but I'm watching this. I'm just like hearing Rachel say fuck just felt like
a big deal. Yeah, something like Horrible Bosses a little way down the
line. I think the movies she was making around this time when it was
like, oh, I got. The stars of Friends are huge, but
we can't really put them in any R ratements or anything like this. So
yeah, I mean, pitch of perfect. The rom comps she did was
PG thirteen. Yeah, not cookie cutter, but like go to think of
the sponsors. Well, yeah, I mean the kinds of movies that Matthew
Perry or General Lisa, not Lisa Coudrow so much. But Roby Michelle she
did, That's true. What's the good movie Rochelle? Rochelle's fantastic? Oh
yeah, a lot of time for that, a lot of love for that.
But they're, you know, essentially the kind of rom coms that you
now find on Netflix. Yeah, so um, yeah, they're perfectly good.
There's nothing specially wrong with them. But it's not like the love for
them is probably out of nostalgia more than actual quality. They tried to make
LeBlanc and actually start with Lost in Space and it just didn't worked at it,
which I feel bad about because he seems like such a good guy.
You watched the Friends, You're like, he is the good one. Out
of all these people, he's the good one, I think. So yeah,
I mean, again, sorry to sort of jump on the one about
Friends is good promotion. It isn't you know? You thought NBC was a
bad synergy to try a four finger discount? Baby. Um, but I
think Schwimmer took himself quite seriously as as an actor. And I don't mean
that in a bad way. I mean I think he's a very talented comic
actors as he's seen on Friends. I think the character of Ross sort of
rubbed a few people the wrong way. Include but full credit to David Schumer
because he's the reason they got the money they did, because he was like,
no, we want to pay you this much, but not not pay
them. And he's like, if you want me to stay around, you're
paying me this much and then the same So full credits. Yeah. Um.
I think I thought if anyone was going to actually going to be like
a huge star out of out of the Friends, Castle was going to be
Matthew Perry. And well clearly he you know, personal demons. He had
demons. Ye, So so there's that. I mean, Look, I'm
not can't feel too bad friends of these guys. They've got residuals to film
now until he residuals, that'd be better than Seinfel. Did you imagine right,
Yeah, um, I don't know. They were all I don't think
anything we're ever going to be like Megastars Beyond Beyond TV. Apparently Matthew Perry
was in the running for that Lost in Space role no ship and then bunk.
Yeah, well I think it was. I think it was down to
either Perry or le Blanc. That would have been an awkward conversation, wouldn't
it. I reckon so, but when you think about it, like,
no, not Perry, it's just I don't think so. I think the
tone would have been different than the whole movie. And also that Lost in
Space movie is an absolute pos I was saying as a kid and just not
or being really excited for it and then just realizing it was just really shit.
Yeah, it's just look a real shame. Well, wow, this
looks kind of cool. I know, it's got a really interesting central idea.
This is all over the place, and this kid's kind of annoying.
And wait a minute, they're going back in time. I'm lost. I'm
lost watching Lost. But I also enjoyed that carton. We mentioned this on
our King of the Hill review that we just recorded for this one. You
nah me naw guy And the guy that saves the day in the end just
by being carbon. Well, that's a very South Parking thing, it is,
isn't it. Yeah, the ones that they're to protest against the ones
that saved the day. Yeah, the most selfish and destrophic, destructive actions
are the ones that actually save everybody's lives. But if we're talking about the
things I've enjoyed the most, yeah, I mean, like I said before,
that just garment saying that's not funny, that sucks. It's like,
yeah, you bang on. But also I think this might be the first
time because I think Carmen really enjoys doing his Mexican or south of the Border
style accents, and or I think Parker and Stone enjoyed doing that because you
know the sex workers in Costa Rica. Why don't you get beach anyone who
knows click I think I'm necessarily proud of. But it's one thing that I
enjoy hearing and I enjoy doing is just a really broad, speedy gonzale because
the joke is that it's meant to be stupid, you know it is.
They're doing it in such a way that you're allowed to laugh at it.
It's one of my favorite lines from zoo Lander where you know Handsel is going
don't get crazy where they're say, don't you know I'm local? So you've
got anything else though that you you found in this episode particularly enjoyable. I
think we might have already talked about them. The head tilted the steam,
Ye're right. I feel like if we keep going or just cover everything,
because there's just something I enjoy. Yeah, like I said before, we're
not getting gay with any kids, and yeah, the runt at the end
of Fuck the Rain Frost, I fucking hate it's Yeah, So yeah,
you're right. Jen wouldn't have had a chance to really yeah swear on air,
I mean not something on on Friends, and I don't think in any
of the movies that she was making. So yeah, the opportunity to really
just let the potty to rip. And I think that's why they probably gave
her those lines because tram mat a smart guys. They would have known no
one's going to expect her to do this, absolutely right. Yeah, yeah,
because she was well, everybody loved the Rachel she was. She was.
Yeah, she was like the fashion queen of the nineties, wasn't she
Like everyone wanted to look like Rachel every wanted. That's why I said the
Rachel everybody wanted that haircut and that whatever she wore people like, they like.
It was like a sponsorship deal in itself. Whatever the character of Rachel
would wear like that would just booming sales. And yeah, Friends was a
huge deal. Like I don't think I was old enough to understand to appreciate
how impactful it was when it comes to just pop culture and general Friends as
a show. Yeah, it's funny. I read a really interesting threat on
Twitter the other day talking about how there are certain shows that aren't necessarily racking
up huge rating numbers, but they always get talked about. Yeah, you
know it, shows like Succession. Yeah, I was gonna believe that Succession
isn't doing that well on the ratings. I was like, everyone's talking about
Succession though, and the show's any like what one. Yeah, But for
journalists and TV writers and things like that, it's sort of easier to write
about shows that have an ongoing storyline like that, you know, it's easier
to sort of recap it week to weekends, like this happened, then this
happened, and this happen. Was opposed to say a show like Candalorian Young
Sheldon, Yeah yeah, or even the popular shows on Freedom Wear TV.
Yes, you know, like classic sits. Yeah yeah, classic sitcoms or
classic cop shows or anything like that. I mean, I've never watched an
episode of like any of those Chicago shows, and there's like four of them
Chicago, Chicago that was a hospital show. But yes, I do.
You mean they're just the spinoffs of Law and Order that kind of thing.
Yeah, well, they're all made by the same guy. They're all made
by Dick Wolf, mister Dick Wolf. Yeah. And it's it's easier to
write about shows that have sort of those kind of arcs as opposed to this
week on this than this happened, Easier and more enjoyable, I would assuming,
because you can actually expand and say what's going to come next? You
know, think so, yeah, yeah, where are those of the shows
that are actually making money for advertisers and all that kind of what TV used
to do. Um. But then you know, back in the nineties,
shows like Friends and the like we mentioned, I mean, well, people
weren't really recapping or anything like that or you just do the old review,
but they were shows that were both being watched by a lot of people and
talked about a lot in the media, and they still I didn't realize how
many arcs and threads Friends actually had. I didn't appreciate the show, and
like Nicholas, loves the show, she watches every single day. But even
in the first season, there's like three or four main story arcs that just
sometimes they sort of be put to the back bird a little bit, but
they're still sort of there. And I thought it was very, very well
written. Friends was not for everybody, but it's very well written for what
as men constructor any more brain Busters? All right, mister Davis, this
episode aired right. I'm eight l seventh of ninety ninety nine, so I'm
going to ask you a question. This is the blockbuster Brainbuster, So do
you tell me what were the top three films at the US box office on
April seventh of nineteen ninety nine. First clue, These ones are a bit
easier, trying to make a bit easy for your first clue, Green,
Second Clue, Frankie Valley, Third Clue seventies remake. Okay, then think
of a movie that was very green Number one at the US box office nineteen
ninety nine. Oh gosh, well, I'm singing a bunch of things stripping
down the screen. You know, I don't even see that anymore. I
just see blonde redhead the Matrix. So it's the Matrix. It's the Matrix.
Arguably, would you put up there like top ten most influential films of
the nineties, It's pretty fucking close. If it's not, it's like it
changed the way you made films. Oh yeah, for the next decade at
least you were having either overt tributes and ripoffs to Matrix style. They still
do it now, they still do it, yeah, or it just bled
into the DNA and how you make action movies or sci fi movies or things
like that. Absolutely influential. Well, the next one, who Frankie Valley
was too Frankie Valley. I think of a Frankie Valley song. Oh yeah,
well, this question is just too good to be true. Yes,
I'm gonna wager this is the late great Heath Ledger and the still with us
and still lovely Julius styles in Ten Things I Hate About You heat that he's
most charming. He was utterly charming in this. It's one of those films
that, like, I feel like we'll always send a test of time because
it's just everyone, so it perfectly encapsulates that part of your life, that
point in your life where your lady years of high school. I just think
it's one of those generational movies that everyone will be able to really enjoy this
and never feel dated. I don't think it's It's got the best of both
worlds in that. In that sense, I mean, the story is kind
of like, oh, I can relate to this, and I think every
generation can relate to it in one way or another. But at the same
time as a terrific time capure of nineteen ninety nine, it is as well,
just the music, the fashion, all that kind of stuff. Yeah,
and two terrific performers. Just a sort of peak charismon as well.
I mean, you know, everyone loves Ledger from Dark Night, and of
course he displayed that he was a fantastic actor and things like Broke Back and
all that kind of business. But you're right, he's very, very charming
in this, and he doesn't seem to be working too hard at it either.
He's just kind of like, oh, you've just kind of got it,
haven't you. It's like, guys love Ledger for the Joker role girls
Canto, but like guys like, oh You're fucking awesome where girls love him
for the Ten Things I Had About You role? Oh yeah. And the
third one is the movie. It's a seventies remakeer remake of a classic seventies
movie starring one Steve Mutton. Didn't ever know this film existed, to be
completely honest, but I've read the premise and I was like, this looks
like it would be fun. Is the other person Goldie Horn? Yes,
I think this might be the out of town good movie or not the remake.
Um, it's all right, it's all right, yeah, I mean,
but so is the original. Yeah, from the seventies where yeah,
essentially you've got a married couple from I think Midwest America or somewhere in Middle
America. They come to New York because he's got a job interview with the
company he works where it's like, oh, we're gonna move in to Manhattan,
and they sort of come there. It's like, oh my god,
Manhattan nuts. This sucks. I think it worked a bit better in the
seventies because, you know, coming to New York in the seventies, the
city itself literally called itself Fear City, and it was handing out brochures to
say people saying, all right, if you come to New York, don't
do this, don't do that. Definitely don't do that. You want to
be hit tomorrow. Yeah, and Steve is just great at playing flustered very
much, so very much. And yeah, team dwell with Goldie Horn.
I think they'd I don't know how many movies I made together. They were
definitely in house sitter a few years and that was quite good. What was
nineties his peak era of for film? Do you think maybe just because I
grew up in the nineties, but I feel like he just seemed to appear
in more films than the nineties and any time else. And I think it's
when he was maybe most successful because he had parenthood, Father of the Bride
movies, yeah, which sort of steered him into a bit of a new
direction, bit of a family friendly direction as well, because, Yeah,
Steve Martin when he started as a comedian was like this guy's weirdo. He's
incredibly handsome, very almost square looking kind of guy. I mean, you
look at pictures of young Steve Martin, you're kind of looking at Harrison Ford
he's really incredibly handsome. I mean, not that he's not ugly, not
that ugly now, but but then he's sort of doing weird, absurd comic
bits, and he was like a rock star comedian. He was selling out
stadiums with stand up Yeah yeah. And then in the eight and when he
sort of was transferring that the film, he was making movies like The Jerk
and The Man with Two Brains that were very much in sync with his kind
of weirdness. It wasn't in the Uppet Movie as well, and he was
fucking weird in that. Yeah, yeah, I mean, and I think
that was his stick. Essentially, was like he was this very square looking
guy who was nonetheless extremely strange. I don't think it was until the late
eighties he made a wonderful, wonderful romantic comedy called Rock Sand with Darryl Hannah,
and that that was kind of the turning point where it was like he's
odd and sharp and very very comically astute, but also you know, kind
of mainstream. Yeah. So yeah, but the out of Town is it's
looked not one of his most memorable, but he's paired well with Goldie Horn
and it's perfectly fun back in the day when you used to have just a
few, like channels of teeth and it's like, oh, the out of
Towners, there's nothing else on. Okay, fine, I don't think it's
necessarily when you're going to go searching for on Netflix. Yeah, the Matrix
Ten Things I Had About You and the Oud of Towns is a top three
at the US box office when this episode originally aired. Matrix's I feel it's
gonna be number one for for a while. You're gonna have to come up
with new clues for it all the time. Okay, now, let's try
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trivia, mister Davis. My first question for you is president of Costa Rica
says, put the rainbow pick next to what, oh, holy Moley when
they're setting up the arm for the concert goes put it over there next to
the picture of something sad oh dying turtles? He says, turtle. Okay,
sorry, no, I did not get there one at all. Uh.
And maybe you'll get this one though. What is the bus number of
the getting Gay with Kids busy? You've got me? What is it?
Is it the Pixar number? It is not three or something A one one
three or a one one four? Yeah, this is three nine nine one
nine nine one. Okay. My next one, very easy one for you.
What type of snake was it that eats the guy? Coral coral snake
snake? Yeah, nice, shout out to anaconda. There thing, Um,
what does Kyle want for breakfast? Kyle? What does you want for
breakfast? Oh? Um? Shit, because it's I know tacos is a
tacos? Now? Stan wants a taco stands attacking? Now is what does
Kyle want? Kyl wants two non starters with mild sauce. There you go,
that's right. I know Cartman asked for chicken wings later on the episode
as well. My final one is how many things cause cancer in the jungle
on the rainforest? Seven hundred? Over seven hundred, yes, over seven
hundred year? Am I going to ask you one more question? Do hit
me with one more and we'll get into our review. Okay, there?
How many deaths does the rainforest cause a year? Is at three thousand?
Or over three thousand? Around three thousand? Yeah. Going Down to South
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this podcast. All Right. The original air day of Rainforest Schmaine Forest was
April seventh, nineteen ninety nine, written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and
directed by guess who I want to say, Trey Parker. I think you'd
be right. Yes, I just love the tray had He's just always had
full control of the show, like this is his baby, and he just
brought Matt along for the ride. And obviously Matt obviously brings his fair share
of the of everything. But this is our Trey's baby, isn't it.
It really is. It's not unlike the four Finger discoun Network with Brendan Dano
is the is the Trey Parker and I'm just the Mat Stone passenger. There
would be no four figure discount without you, though, sir. So.
The episode kicks off with the National A choir to a recruiter she's at the
school and we'll have that moment of school where someone comes in like we should
have joined this choir. I want you to join this group, and I'm
like, I really don't want to. I just want to go to have
recess. Yeah, or even just having to sit through their staff and the
overall positivity on everything. I was like, who was excited? Like not
me? Absolutely enough? Yeah, but yeah. Apparently this is a bit
of a tribute slash piss take to a group called Up with People that I
think many shows over the years of take the piss out of South Park did
the I'm sorry. The Simpsons did something similar when they did Hooray for Everything,
and um, well, of course they're getting gay with kids here,
But apparently when Parker and Stone were writing the Book of Mormon, they also
were taking the piss out of up up with People as well. Oh okay,
yes, yep, there you go. Apparently they couldn't get the rights
to up with People, And I'm like, getting gay with kids is much
more South Park. It really is. But it also shows how you know,
what nifty songwriters they are as well, because yeah, you can't get
that out of your head. The whole getting gay with kids he is here.
That's a near worm. All their songs sound very similar, but that
it's all unique in their own way as well. They're very, very good,
very catchy. Better you know who's excited? I can't hear you Carton
farts? What was the deal with Garrison? Just be overly angry in this
scene. You just don't really go anywhere, which is he just starts yelling
at him? Go ahead, you see, we take kids from all over
the country and put them in a choir where we sing and dance to raise
awareness about our wishing rainforests. Did you know over ten thousand acres of rainforest
or bulldozed every year. That's right, and over thirty percent of the world's
oxygen is made in the rainforest. So who wants to join the fun?
Well, if you don't have any rhythm, do you excuse me? We
like my fan Kyle, he's Jewish, though we didn't have any rhythms.
Yeah, that acquires suck, Carbo Blaski. You watch your language, Jack
Carmen, you be nice to paper stand marsh You mind your man. Who's
Kenny mccarmen. You'll pay attention. Go ahead, Well, that's all really,
So if anyone is interested in seeing the rainforest and joining our choir.
I'll even information packets up front. That's Kain. We need some more toilet
paper. That doesn't and it costumes to Mackie and over here and you think
it's Carmen, but no, it's crazy. Yes, he crave for the
rest of the episode. But you know, kid, give no fuck.
I'm like, as he's got turretz or something, he just can't stop slipping
the boot. I think it's just a kid who's just realized. I think
he's worked out the matrix. He's like, I can kind of do what
I want and you can't stop me. It's no, I can just kick
you me the bird and you can keep yelling at me. But do you
think I'm bothered? No? Are you gonna do anything to me? No,
I don't give a fuck. I'm gonna keep giving me the bird.
And what are you gonna do about it? Absolutely nothing? What can you
do? You can't. So I said he's worked out the matrix. He's
like, yeah, fuck, you can't rest the kid or anything. He
just and he just gets sent out and he gives ibe. He gives the
kid the bird on the way out. Gives comming bird as well, you
don't actually see the Yeah, and then miss mister Mackie said, I think
that is really enjoyed saying, you know, getting gay with kids. It's
not doom that they just love being able to say getting gay with kids in
search of the height of him back in the day. Yeah, And I
don't know, does it appeal to the to the kids watching it as an
appeal to the dumb adults watching. I think it appeals to everybody, the
kids. The kids were like, is this funny in twenty twenty three?
Was it was in ninety nine? I don't think so. Not that I'm
uncomfortable listening to it, but I'm just like, I don't know the whole
cheap It feels cheaper now, doesn't it. Yeah, because we're much more
understanding now. Well yeah, but I mean it wasn't wasn't that long ago?
Or maybe it was. I mean, I've lost all track time,
but they did a whole episode where it was the one where the Harley Riders
come to South Park. I haven't seen this one, Okay, Yeah,
I forgot much season. It feels like it maybe season sixteen or seventeen or
one of those Harley Riders come to South Park and they're just revving their engines
all the time, and the kids are calling them gay, and they're sort
of taking the Homophobicslarton. It's like, no, no, when we say
gay, we just mean it's lame. And they're like, well, what
do you say when you want to call someone homosexuals? Like, well,
that's a gay a word. I can't use it. But they're sort of
saying, why is no one getting this? It can't be that difficult.
So yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think yeah, Parker
and Stone are definitely of an age at a type where it's like, it's
not really an insult, it's just a fun it's not even a hard insult
to use. I'm not sure though, that someone who isn't homosexual has the
how or the right to say it's not defensive. It's like, well,
I'm not sure you're in a position to have any thora. This is where
you enter the state. It was like, but their equal opportunity offenders.
But anyway, mister Mackie says he's going to sign all the four up for
the getting gay with the kids choir, and Kenny's accidentally shows excitement because he
wants to see more of Kelly and they beg him not to, but they're
gonna do it anyway. He's gonna do it anyway they are. They are
either bus and they're all waiting to get on. Cartman's clearly not happy,
but all the parents are kind of like happy just to see them go.
I was expecting when they drove off that the parents were gonna go, yeah,
but that joke's been done so many times in the past, I guess
it. We kind of feel redundant doing it here now. Now off to
Costa Rica and this is where Missus Stevens brings up to Cartman. I liked
a little few that had going on here, the little relationship where it's like
it's almost like she respected him to an extent, Like she's like, you're
fucking annoying, but like, you know what, there's something about you.
There's always been that. Whenever I think about school, there's always those kids
that you know, the teachers just they fucking hated him. But that this
mutual agreement, unspoken agreement, was like, if you just behave yourself,
I won't put you, I won't give your attention. You've got my numb
but you realize how absurd this shit is. Yeah, if if you promise
not to tell anybody else, yes, i'd appreciate that. However, she's
like, behave yourself, I'll buy some ice cream, you know, like
just fucking just do it, just be respectful for just a minute. But
she says, you don't respect nature or other cultures. And she said it's
a long trip ahead of hers, so he's got plenty of time to learn
the choreography. The nightmare begins. Man, just going on a bus ride
in general as a nightmare for me. Now, I haven't caught the bus
for a long time, but Nicola had to catch the bus to Melbourne recently
because the trains were down. Can you imagine having to catch a bus from
Geelong to Melbourne stopping at all train stations? No thanks, It took her
over two hours to get there. It's been a long time since I did
it. And yeah, it's no fun at all. The train is bad
enough, the bus is exponentially worse being stuck in traffic. No thanks,
But out there arrive car but just yells out the window, tells him what
to get a job. But before that, though, you get a bit
of Kenny and Kelly, you know, bonding and having a bit of a
chat and something that I really loved. You know, Kenny's clearly infatuated with
this girl, and the easy thing to do would just make her perfect,
this absolute dream girl. But you know she's missing, she's misnaming him all
the time, and she's always picking her nose. Yes, always, yeah,
I noticed that. Yeah, but she's the kids. Yeah, yeah,
kids do that. You've got a problem with a complaint of the manufacturer.
But you know, your finger is a certain size and your nostrils a
certain side. I think you meant to do it. The other day at
Elliott doing I'll sit on the couch. The funny moment between his bath because
I saw his finger up there and put in his mouth and I went,
dude. He looked at me. I was like, you do it.
He sort of looked at me like, yeah, right, you got me.
Yeah. The first the first part I got an excuse. The second
part, No, you don't want to be doing No, No, it's
just like, yeah, right, I won't do it anymore. It's just
you didn't say that. He was to away his face. He's like yeah,
all right, oh okay, yeah, yes, it was just like,
it's amazing when even at that age you've got that kind of shorthand or
yeah you've got the weirward order. Go ohhh okay, yeah, but Kenny,
Kenny says he's not poor. It doesn't want um Kelly to think any
less of it, because unfortunately for Kenny, he's been made to believe that.
You know, the way his lifestyle is not good and it's not great,
but it's like Kenny's fault. It's just he always gets constantly made fun
of for it. Well, dad, look out again. Wow, Court,
you're making practitude. Look at practitude. A guess why aren't you looking
at mate? Yeah, why don't you take a picture? Okay, cleek,
sit down. I just love that. You know, if we get
more of this cart in the season three, I'm gonna be very happy because
he just gives no fucks. He's he's already always given no fucks, but
it's always kind of come across the bit like immature and silly. This is
here is just like he's just speaking a lot of people ink. Yeah,
he's not as bratish. There's something he's a he's someone with no filter basically.
Yeah, he's still a brat, but not as childish with it.
Yeah, he doesn't think any less of these prostitutes, but he's just almost
like taking the he's taking the piss, but not in a mean spiritual way.
I don't know, it's hard to sort of put it, but I
do know I appreciate a cart with a lot In this episode, Well,
it's almost like he knows them, yeah, you know, and it's like
it's almost like a gag he can do between mate, between between it's like
an in joke between them, even though he's never like he's been driving by
there every day and like hey, ladies, and just arriving at the Capital
building smells like ash. How I mean that accident gets me every time he
can say anything like that. It's just so good. Yeah, it's just
like anything bad. But the culture, it's just the city smells smells like
ass. It's like it's kind of like we did the The westy Side Story
episode of King of the Hill recently, where he's like, I don't hate
he's people. I just hate the man. You know. It's nothing to
do with the color of his skin. I just don't like the is it,
dick. It's like I don't hate the cost He can be well,
but I hate the situation that they've found themselves in that you know that their
situation is like this. I mean they refer to m cost ricas the third
World country, which, by the way, we're not allowed to do anymore.
It's um in my day job as a sub better And I was like
someone, so I was written the third world country. We've got to sub
that out and put in developing country. Oh, developing okay, so third
world is just out? Now? Is it? Third World's out? Yeah?
Okay, good to know. I did not know that. There you
go. But yeah, I just I like that aspect of the Cartman carriage
in this episode, where that he wasn't necessarily saying anything bad about the culture
or the people. He was just putting out this place is shit, And
it's like you're taking that and running with it and saying that's that's being Yeah,
it's not on them. No, No, I'm pointing out how bad
this is, this should be, this should not be like this, This
needs to improve. How can we improve this? But she says, you
know, behave yourself. I'll buy you. She buys me with some ice
cream. He doesn't offer any solutions. No, I mean, that's the
thing. He's very much the he's part of the problem, not solution.
But Trey Parker says in the commentary that everything he says in this episode I
said all this months when I was in Costly Guy. It's like I just
did not like the fights at all, and the president doesn't understand at all.
And I got a little bit nervous here, much like she was Missus
Stevens, because she's like, I don't speak their language. And I thought
that they played it up to where it's like she tries to preach that,
you know, let's be understanding and accepting of everybody. But the second that
this guy doesn't understand it, she gets uncomfortable because she knows the situation that
she's really in. She's putting on this brave face, but she's like,
this could go very pear shaped for us very quickly. We could probably disappear
right now and no one would ever know. But missus Mackie thankfully arrives and
he can speak Spanish. That's something I love, is that, Yeah,
despite it in speaking a different language, has still got his Makiearsm's like,
yeah, it's trans it's translated. Yeah, it's no good, and she
says they're gonna go practice outside. They've gotta out the gift that do dwown.
There's a place that is magical and full of rain. But now I
need tell because it is in pain. Cleaning the earth is a mighty big
joor. We spreading awareness might never before. Getting Game with Kids is here
spread the word and bring you cheer. Let save the rainforest. What do
you say? Being an activist is totally gay and someday if we work hard,
boys and girls, now being nothing but rainforest covering the entire ward.
Getting Game with Kids is here to spread the word and bring you cheer.
Getting Game with Kids is here to stay the rainforests. Totally game. It's
totally gay. Great job, gang, you were really all over the place.
Kyle, Thank I told you Jewish people don't have rhythm. Car dang,
No, dude, I think Cartman might actually be right. No,
that's a stereotype, dude, Maybe you really don't have any rhythm. We
come out from commercial and now on the tour through the rainforest and Stan thinks
he saw a snake, but it's just a branch. And this would be
me in like a jungle Laura rainforest. I'd see anything that resembles some sort
of animal, I'd freak out. I reckon, Oh yeah, yeah,
I mean even a big insect. Yeah, but they went way over the
top with that insect on their back. But I'm like, there's probably fucking
bugs and there's probably bugs that actually that side. Oh god, absolutely no
fun at all. But Cartman asserts himself with the monkey and the sloth,
and this is it's like a payoff from like the Nomes episode said, he's
a perfect look at him. His first response is just to hit everything,
and then the kids wish that one of the kids, I think it was
like it's called it Greg Gregor seems got the kind of name for this kind
of kid as part of the choirs, Like I just wanted to see these
kind of people. It was the Yalla Gapper, the Yella Garpa. Yeah.
Oh is either one who keeps coming up with the facts all the time.
I think he leans his head out of the window when they did you
know that? Yeah, because it's did you know three hundred and siventy thousand
because of the reinforests, if you which I think is the Parker Stone default
voice for anyone who's just a knob and not that. Yeah, it's um,
it's Scott Malcolmson. A little later on a few seasons down where it's
like, gett got diabety. I'm sorry, I'm not making fun of diabetes,
but I'm making fun of Scott Malcolmson because that kid's a dick. This
is where though they see the coral snake and it just eats to a guy.
It's one of those moments where if you were there, you would be
so shocked that you wouldn't want to watch, but you wouldn't be able to
look away. You'd be like, what the fuck? Oh yeah, yeah,
there's life is going to afford you so few opportunities to see a person
get devail with a lie, even an animal toil by a snake. I
think to live, yeah, but by by nature. I would try and
stop, I think, but then it comes upon Me're like, but if
I get closer, I'm going to be that victim. So no nosquenia circle
alife. Man. Yeah, I don't know. Just I accidentally because I
had to turn off my YouTube settings because I was looking up some sort of
hippo's right. I was trying to find that footage of the lions that were
coming towards the news read at that time on the back of a car.
Have you seen that footage? And then the one with the line leaps,
Yes, that's that's so dope, terrify. I've got to give of it
somewhere or a jif. Yeah. Yeah. And then one of the video
Hundre, it was like a person gets eaten by hippo. It's that auto
playing, and I was like a boat bot to change my settings to like
not auto play. But then I saw a bit of it and I was
like, just imagine, imagine like being eaten alive, wholely shit like man,
because there was a video. There was a documentary I saw once where
a guy got eaten by hippo. We didn't get eaten. He went like
head first, he was like waist deep and he survived. He got out.
Imagine be like imagine that. Oh yeah, hippos are Hippos are dangerous,
man, Yes, they killed like thousands of people a year. They
killed more people than the shots only kill four people a year, and we
hunt them and we're like, oh, let me see you think of hippos
like hippos, aren't they cute? It's like, no motherfucker. They are
big and they can jump and absolutely. One of the bravest things I saw
recently was a video of some zookeeper. It looked like somewhere in Africa and
a hippo. You know, the security enclosure had clearly been poorly designed or
had been damaged in some way, but the hippo was on the virgie getting
out. This guy comes up and slaps it on the snout andos like every
time he slapped it. The hippo goes and opens the mouth wide. It's
like, and then it closed it and he slaps it again. He slaps
it like four times. I mean, not like give that better race,
you don't like bitch lab it. But I mean he's just like get back
there and eventually it does. But I'm like, so, do you not
know about hippos? Yes, they are so fast and terrifying. Yeah,
but yeah, yeah, when I went when I went to Africa, you
know, I mean when I was in Kenya, we were in the middle
of this you know, wildlife preserve, and the people telling us like,
elephant's going to be walking near your tents. You're gonna hear lines, don't
be don't worry about that, But there are hippos over there. Stay away
from there. Don't go near the hippopyd Yeah, but an elephant could,
Christian, don't worry about that, that's all. Ye don't worry about that.
But hippos watch out for hippos. Yeah, not good. Just the
idea of being half of it in a hippo's mouth and living to tell the
tale. Man, oh man, I don't want to think about it.
I don't want to think about at all. But yea, how do we
get to that? I just just fucking seeing a go snake and they're just
like, they're just gobs back. They just can't believe it. And this
is where missus Stevens starts to go, oh shit, now what do we
do? But then Gartman tries to assert himself with the snake, and even
he realises oh shit, he runs off as well. And then they're they're
looking for their way home, and the girl says, you know, I
really like you, Kenny, but I don't think it's gonna work because I
don't want to get heartbroken so far away from each other, so over dramatic,
it's like the kids young love. And also he's Benny he's Larry.
He's Lenny, Yeah, Lenny. So she's got all these incredible feelings with
this guy whose names she just can't nail. And now it's nighttime. It's
a big thunderstorm, and yeah there's another game that but nowhere. I just
saw Tony Danzer is it so? Is that that's just a random that's just
random. I mean it's a nice little payef It's like the minute they said
Tony dancers and you know you're gonna have lightning flashes, like you're going to
see a subliminal flash of Tony Dancer in there, and sure enough you do.
I mean I didn't see it. Fuck this, I was like,
I missed it. Okay, I was obviously taking my notes at that point
in I was like, what the fuck was with this joke? That's yeah,
I mean that's happened to me a few times when oh, that's that's
kind of I need to look down, take a note. Then you look
up, it's like, oh, I missed a probably visual gag. The
Dando will pull that point out to me later, because it was two.
It was two in your face for it not to be paid off somewhere.
Yeah. Yeah, but now the next day and all setting up for the
concert back in town, and Mackie says, you know, have you seen
the kids and the presidents doesn't give a shit about the Kids's just angered.
Now there's gonna be no singing at the concert. One thousand people coming.
Exactly. Yeah, missus stevens Now, She says, you know you relaxed,
don't worry about that, don't worry about the rainforest, everything here,
that's just part of nature. Sees the giant bug in her back and screams,
and I mean I would be doing the same thing. I would be
freaking the fuck out of the giant bug on my back like that. Something
about bugs and just creepy Crawley is just yeah. Absolutely. I mean I
was going out my gate last night and it was bad. Put my hand
on the handle and realized, what is that. That's a praying mantis.
Not not huge, but it was like unusual enough. That's like, hm,
by my way, do you get down? Sort of wave my hand
near you, do you go away? Yeah? I know about you.
If you're a female praying man, you're gonna rip the head off the one
that you made with later, yes, but I'd say you we recently were
laying like Alice slips in their bed sometimes and we're getting into bed and he
goes, there's a spider it's like coming down from the roof. And I
was like, it's tiny, Like it wasn't too big. It was just
like a small and spider. I'll be right. I've just said I'll just
just go it's like blow and make it crawl back up to the roof again.
I said, it'll be fine, because what kind of spider is it.
I'm like, nah, this is like a huntsman. Don't be fine,
you know, I don't kill spiders whatever. And Alice's like, why
was it red? I was like, it wasn't red. I'm looking at
it. I'm like, holy shit, it's a red back spider. I
was like faced. I was like right right in my face and blew it
like blew towards me again, like fucking red back spider in the bedroom.
Those things can really hurt you. Those things are dangerous, seriously dangerous.
And I was just like going to pass it off. And then yet I
couldn't believe it was I'd never actually seen a redback spider in person before.
Yeah, yeah, I don't think I've seen. Um, I don't even
ever seen one of those so usually in letterbox and stuff. It was just
like, it's the myth, the legend the red back spider. It's there,
it's been better. What's happening here? They're not an urban myth after
all, No, not at all. This is where Missus stevens. She's
freaking out because of the bug. The kids are now all really tired,
they're falling over. They run into this art, this armed gentleman who we
learned as part of the People's Army. But before that they request some tacos
and sabritos. That's just a stereotype. I'm like, this is the second
time they've had that in this episode. That's just a stereotype, Like this
is a recurring theme here. But they know he says to follow him,
so they arrive at the camp of the People's Army. She thinks they're all
gonna be in the same sides. And really, these guys could have just
killed them all. They didn't, so I guess they would kind of on
the same side. And in a sense that's true. Now I must apologize
as well. I indulge in my own stereotyping for some reason, I thought
these guys were like a drug a gain. No, I refer to that
guy as a drug lord. And he said, we're not getting gay with
any kids. So no, he's just a he's a leader of the People's
army, the gorillas, so the government. Yeah, yes, indee,
my apologies to that animated fictional character. They offer the gift of song.
I love that when she's turns the head song and fades off screen. But
the gift of song, I'm saying, it's it's it's brilliant. I love
that so much. Duditude. Wow, there's a place that is magical and
full of rain. Kyle in pain Cleaning Earth, there is a mighty big
joy. We're spreading awareness like never before, getting gay with kids is here?
You know. Well, we hope that our gift of song has warmed
your hearts. We're not getting gay with any kids. Okay, yeah,
So do you have a phone we could use. Yes, we have a
phone. It's right over there next to the twelve person. You're couzy.
Now get out of here before we kill you. If it's because of the
Little Jewish Boys choreography, Oh, you white Americans make me sick. You
waste food oil and everything else because you're so written, and you tell the
rest of the world to save the rainforest because you lack it. Pretty flowers,
rap it off. We come back from commercial, the President is now
furious that there's no choir there. The kids are still the rainforest, and
Jacas gets eaten by a flower, thinks of flowers. Pretty be gets eaten
by the flower, and Kenny's comfying the girl, but she's still hesitant.
He's getting angry about that. And then we get the commentators and I'm like,
Okay, so this is the point of the episode. They know they
come here to feel good about themselves, and they act like they aren't the
ones responsible for the rainforest peril. And I was like, yeah, that's
the point of this episode to a nutshell, because it's just taking the piss
out of all these rich Americans that are there to watch this big concert benefit
concept, isn't it was? It's kind of taking the piss out of like
Live aid as well, that kind of thing. So you're coming here and
got watching your concert, But what are you're all really doing for world hunger?
But I guess, yeah, I mean I'm guessing that people like Bob
Gellof and that who are organizing Live Aid and things that just you know,
they'd say, oh, we're raising awareness and we're raising funds and all that
kind of stuff. We've not We've done our past, but I mean,
you know, we've done a fair bit of work and we're putting in a
bit of effort to entertain you. But hopefully within you know, in the
middle of these songs will be saying, by the way, you know people
are starving in Africa, you might want to try and help out. I
get where you're coming from that it can seem like lip servers, but I
think their hearts are at least in the right place with certain things, certain
things like Live Aid years. I think there are other things that come across
as a bit, a bit disingenuous and a bit kind of that's the word
I'm looking forward. It's more about the organizer that is the actual benefit.
For example, everybody loves wonder Woman, but I think Galaga Dot kind of
dropped the ball and then some at the start of COVID when she she gonna
Celebrity Pals. You put it out a video saying where were we going to
sing imagine together? And it just I don't know. I don't think those
people are insincere, but I just reeked of insincerity, and it's like,
what the fuck's the point? Yeah, you know, it's like, how
is this helping anybody? How's this helping? You're in your compound? Yeah,
you're not going to get COVID. You know, you're basically sort of
you know, doing a little you know thing on the chin, same buck
up a little trooper, Look where I am? Buck off on that note
talking about like the live aid things like that. What was the American version
of the We Are the World song? That was we Are the World?
Or what was the English person was doing? They do? They know it's
Christmas? Yeah, so we Are the World. So it's one has Michael
Jackson at right, and there's a clip that's going around on social media at
the moment where he sings He's part, and then it cuts to three other
singers singing their little versus their lines or whatever came who it is, but
it's like it's like any singers and m J just gives us and this looked
like you guys are fucking terrible, Like like he's just he's so angry at
their delivery of their songs. I've got to find the clipp and center through
because m Jedda says he's lying, and he just looks at him and he's
just like, are you for real? Like he's just he just can't believe
how bad that these people sound. They're so off key. It's a fucking
amazing Like m J was such a perfectionist. Oh my god, he said.
MJ just seems like he was, you know, I don't know what
the truth about the stories behind MJ were, but like he seemed like he
had a heart of gold to an extent. Obviously maybe too much in some
ways, but he was such a perfections with his art. So like just
seeing em and J just looking at these people like, you guys are fucking
terrible, It's like it just epitomized him as an artist. That yeah,
it speaks to that whole thing about people who make it look easy, and
so you're going like, oh my god, they're just they're so naturally gift
and that kind of stuff. And I remember, you know, long,
not long after Michael Jackson died, there was that documentary I think it was
just called His or was it this is It? I mean? Or maybe
that was this is this is It was like a film. Yeah, yeah,
but it was very much they showed concerts by those, they showed what
went into the concerts. Yeah, like a real taskmaster. Yeah, he's
like, no, we're doing it again until we get it right. And
because because he was still Michael Jackson Michael Jackson. So I watched the backup
dances and stuff. They're doing their moves and like he was so to the
point, but like he did in the Michael Jackson way where it's like he's
still doing it in a loving way though. Yeah, that's the thing.
I mean, it was kind of like James Cameron in one way, and
it's like you can probably do it better than you, so maybe listen.
But at the same time, he wasn't like, fuck, I do it
this way. It was no, you do it this way. It's like,
oh, well, he actually is doing perfectly, so maybe I should
try to be more like m Jane that. Yeah, it's it's like another
m James, like Michael Jordan. I mean you can say, oh man,
he's such a prick and he know it's taking personally all the time,
but it's like every but if you can if you can walk it, then
yeah, by all means talk it because yeah, yeah, it's not bragging
if you can do it. There's that my favorite bit in that whole documentary.
I probably already discuss this on the podcast show people, that fucking bit.
You've seen that the documentary. But where the last dance? Yeah,
yeah, it's the start of like episode seven I think or whatever, one
of the one of the second last ones. And he's they're all shot trying
to shoot hoops from like halfway and they're all missing, and MJ just goes,
get out of the way, picks up one ball fucking sinks at first
shot, like from like half court, on the on the on the sidelines.
It's just like he just he just he just had it. He makes
everything looks so effortless. But like there's a reason though, because he just
he worked harder than anybody else. Oh, there's just no enter this place.
I think maybe we're going in circles. Oh dear god, this someone
starts in an hour, I'm going to lose my job. Buk, I
am not filing. Is stupid hippie around anymore? Eric? Where are you
going? And going? Yes, young man, I am the adult here,
and I say you go this way, you can stay over. Yeah,
but I'm going over. Yeah, young man, and I have had
it. No, no, no, no ya minya ya good. You
deserve to die, you a little bastard. Oh, someone had to take
charge and all. And as she says, yeah, you deserve to die,
you a little bastard. And it's like Carmen's at a point though,
was like, We're probably gonna die this way. Anyway, I'm gonna go
die my own way. I'd rather die trycisely, Like, if you haven't
that point, i'd probably be the same. I'm like, if my gut
is telling me go this way, i am fucking going this way. Because
you've gotten us nowhere, I'm going to try something else, you know,
And then yeah, you'd be right in doing so. He finds the guys
who are cutting down the forest. Thank god, they're going to save him
now, the ones that they're they're fighting against. There, the ones they're
gonna save me us some chicken wings. Then the President tries to buy some
time by telling some jokes which don't grow well. Oh, by the way,
this is a very old school, a very old school American thing.
When you're telling jokes about Polish people, that seems like a very seventies and
eighties kind of kind of thing. I mean, I remember reading things like
that back in the day and it's like, oh my god, why why
Americans got against the Polish. It's now English and are like that because like
Nicholas Nikola's family to an extent, but where she's from Boston, there's a
lot of Polish people there now, and it's I could stop, there's more.
They say, there's more Polish here now than there is English, and
I'm just like, oh shit. And then like you walked down the street
and they just sort of they're just sort of standing there looking at you,
and I'm like, I shouldn't feel uncomfortable, but you're looking at me with
the cigarette of your mouth, and I just you're unpredictable. I can't get
a read on this. That's I mean when I was when I was a
kid, growing up, when I was a kid, I mean the Australian
version that was Irish jokes for me growing up, Irish wite, dumb jokes.
You're an irishman, that is it. Yeah, And likewise here,
I mean, yeah, if you were making fun of anyone in particular in
America, it was usually the Polish or to use a slur pole axe,
either Irish or blonds. That was the jokes law growing up. Yea,
he became blondes a bit later, to the best of my recollection. I
mean maybe maybe more so in the in the nineties and early two thousand,
but for a long time it was the Irish. Why it's funny and for
good reason. But I feel like when I was growing up, you go
to a party, you'd always hear someone teller a blonde joke or something like
that. I can't remember the last time I heard somebody tell a blonde joke.
I can't remember last time I heard someone tell a joke. That's that's
the thing as well. I can't last I heard someone just tell a joke.
It's almost like people just don't want to tell jokes anymore, too afraid.
Yeah, it's weird. Speaking of guess he's playing at the The Sphinx
tonight in Gelong one Kevin Bloody Wilson, Oh KBW, Like I couldn't pay
me together that I'm getting that a lot of people are going to pay to
go and see. Yeah, apparently sat out its apartment's being saved. They
find the other the people the tribe that they would mention it at the start,
that are the people who live in the rainforest what they called again the
yeah yeah, Garpa garpo ye by the way, speaking even sensitive, oh
boy, oh boy, yes, indeed yeah, and they just even the
design of them. I'm like, whole shit, they were not thinking when
I saw it, because we got the Chikova Saws episode coming up in a
couple of weeks, and the design is not dissimilar. I think the Chicovosas
are meant to be the most annoying, irritating, sub standard race in the
universe, and they're not dissimilar to these. To this rainforest RUMs like it's
gonna fly. It barely flew back in the late nineties. You barely got
this one off the ground. Tray tray, and man, so they go,
they turned them here. They chase the kids with their their arrows and
they try to kill them all they got stuck in the quicksand and then that
cuts through after the commercial and the kids are all tied up and there's always
various heads on spikes outside and the girl says to kidding out, I do
want to be your girlfriend. Regals of us living in the other side of
the country. I've I've decided here, I'm going to be your girlfriend.
And missus stevens Now is about to be sacrificed. It's gonna have sex with
her, It's gonna make love to Missus Stevens And she goes and this this
is where she goes in the rant. All right, rain fast. This
place fucking sucks. I was wrong. Fuck the rain forest. I fucking
hate it. I fucking hate it. Oh now she figures it out.
I didn't expect this, and I feel like it would have been newsworthy in
nineteen ninety nine. Oh yeah, I think so. Just um, yeah,
America's Sweetheart drop An f bombs left and right with the with the bad
boys of of animated comedy. They were seeing as the bad boys at that
point where they were that were like the yeah, the cheeky lads. Yeah
yeah, they weren't like yeah, when you think of bad boys, you
think of like in the nineties. I want to say, maybe like Artie
j. Yeah, when it came to comedy, I mean maybe guys like
this is early nineties guys like a late Sam Kinderson and Andrew Dice Clay,
you know, and there were guys who were eighties. Was Eddie Murphy He
was a bad boy, wasn't he? I'd say so? Yeah? And
Richard Pryor prior, and there definitely, you know, there were certain comedians
who like, don't let your mummy that you're listening to this. They I
guess they they kind of came across like they'll treat like man child, won't
they know the thing? No, No, they would treat it more like
um men, I'm talking about the Trader Matt though, oh Tray Matt.
Oh sorry, I thought you're talking about the other guy. Yeah, yeah,
sort of naughty precocious children. Yeah, because whenever they're going to talk
show, they going ConA. It's you know, Cona's sort of easy in
with it, he understands it, but like going like the other ones and
someone's like let him and didn't like them, and like you watched the way
they behaved on those earlier talk shows for someone who didn't want to like them,
for someone who just went in there not wanting to like them, you
can understand why. Like they fueled it. They they turned it right up.
It's not they went in there wanting to piss people off, you know,
yeah, oh yeah, absolutely, yeah. I mean you can see
why that would Rubs want let him in the wrong way. Who was again
for all his um rule breaking and rule bending? No, no, fairly,
I mean it was kind of middle aged when he was doing this stuff.
You know, he's not necessarily gonna go. But I'm damn what they
used. He could not sanction theft buffoonery? Correct, Yes, Tommy Lee
Jones of talk to our hosts. But the guy in the bulldozer he arrives
and kills all the people and kills all the animals that were posting a threat
throughout the episode. And how do you find us? Carbon found us?
Who do you expect? Mav Griffin? And then missus Stephens says, you
know, just plow the whole thing down. Fuck the rainforests. Ate the
rainforest now, and a bit of lightning kills Kenny. Oh my god,
they killed Kenny. Bastards what they did? How they you know they their
bastards? Help him? What? Help him? Come right? Right?
Whoa gi does he does she bring him back to life? I think so
because because because he seems to be coughing and they're like, oh dude,
but was he singing in the choir at the end, I must admit I
didn't see him in the choir. I wasn't paying attention. I have to
go back and have it looked after this. Yeah, I was just closing
eyes and swaying, just doing enjoying that Cuba Do wah, the anti rainforest
song and the new lyrics. Yeah, and just that. What do you
know you've never been to the rainforest before. Yeah, this is this is
the message of the episode. Yeah, I just I just love the whole
Yeah, getting here with kids to see it, to tell you things you
might might not like to hear. Yeah, that's that's South Park in general,
isn't it bringing up things that you know, you know, you think
it, you don't want to say it, but we know you're thinking it,
and you know, well you hear it for you. Yeah, all
you activists can go fuck yourselves and then we get the cards over the topic
of the credits. Each year, the rainforest is responsible forever three thousand deaths
from accidents, attacks of illnesses. There are over seven hundred things then in
the rainforest that caused cancer. Join the fight now and help stop the rainforest
before it's too late. So yeah, a really fun way to start off
this season and a good get Jennifer Anderson in nineteen ninety nine. That was
like peak Friends era, a really good way, just a clever way to
kick off the season, just to get people talking. It's a real fastball
episode because it's just it's a hot button topic. It'll offend some people.
It's got a big name guest star doing something you wouldn't normally hear it do.
And yeah, yeah, some people we offended, some people have their
eyes opened. There's lots of great lines in it. It sort of shows
all the different facets of Parker and Stone's comedy. And you're right. And
then so, oh, by the way, if we've also got one of
the biggest stars in the world as our guest star, Yeah, exactly right,
because the Friends cast that were well, that were the biggest stars of
television, right maybe, but that were bigger than Seinfeldt's cast or in nine
Seinfeld's finished. But who was who was more famous in the mid nineties.
Was it the Friends cast or was it the Sinfeld cast? I think on
a global scale the Friends cast. Yeah, seinfeld didn't really have as much
appeal to like Australia and England as what Friends did no. I mean,
you know, the Seinfeld cast were on covers. I mean they were on
the cover of Rolling Stone and all that kind of stuff. That was the
bigges show on television. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, but I know,
I think friends worldwide everyone knew who these guys were, and you know,
and and want to hang out with new bodies. And like, it
pains me to say this because Seinfeld is one of my favorite shows, but
I feel like, now, just say, for example, when Elliott grows
up, I feel like if you didn't grow up with Seinfeld, you won't
appreciate it as much as and like it won't be as renowned as what I
feel Friends are going to be around forever. Sithe will be around forever,
but I think it's going to be a matter of people who grew up with
Seinfeld and watch Seinfeld when it was on passing on the Torch where Friends are
going to be a show that new generations will just discover. And I know
there's articles out there that you know, Friends should be canceled and this that,
and it's like the fuck, you know what I mean, I don't
buy into any of that, right, but I just feel like I feel
like Friends as a show that would be rediscovered time and time again, where
Seinfeld might not be. I'm not saying this to Sledge Friends or any thing
like that, because I think it's a really well acted, well constructed,
really good example of a sitcom. Yeah, it's more sort of a it's
more friendly for one of it for one of them. Better term it's comfort
food. It's more comfortable. Absolutely, yeah. I mean I think Seinfeld,
You're gonna students and real efficionados of comedy and particularly TV comedy are going
to go watch and go, oh my god, that's really well put together
and oh god, that's so clever. I'm sorry, Basis, you know,
I don't know how we got in as I closed all the doors.
Yeah, they're going to look at and go, oh yeah, this is
this is really textbook comedy. And friends are going to be like, there's
really good comedy. But you know it's it's also oh I like hanging out
with my buds. Yeah, Sinefeld for me is like I get it,
Like I watched it and I just laugh hysterically become just like that's so genius.
Friends. I chuckle throughout it occasionally to laugh. It's usually me chuckling
on. Oh, yeah, it's pretty funny. Yeaheah, sometimes I'm going
to see yeah sometimes, like going to see a great stand up comedian.
Friends is like going to a party with your friends who are really funny.
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've definitely appreciate Friends more having gone
back and revisited for a long time, I just sort of folded Friends off
and went, it's that dumb show. But now it actually does have some
substance to it if you actually watched the show properly. But yeah, nothing
about that. Let's talk about south Park again once more. Yeah, main
Farrest May is a great to kick off the season. The next episode of
south Park is going to be Spontaneous Combustion. I don't remember much about it
at all, if anything, any recollection of that at all by a title,
but I'm sure when I watch it I certainly will. But I do
feel like I had stopped watching south Park by this point, which is sad.
But I just think I rode the wave of the fad and there was
a I'm pretty sure like the Nomes episode seems to be the last one I
can remember watching and going and again it and it almost became like the south
Park was still big when the movie If You came out, but it was
almost like My Friends. It was like the cool show to watch anymore.
And it which sounds silly, but it was almost like for a while there
was a hot new thing. But by season three it's like, oh,
yeah, it's whatever. You know, it wasn't. It wasn't new and
fresh anymore. It wasn't like as taboo to watch as it was when in
the first season. And anyway, well, it shows how horribly uncool way
I just kept watching. I was also ten, I was well, I
was well into it. Yeah, it's good. I'm looking forward to sinking
my teeth into these episodes because everyone, even Tray, says that these are
the when the show really found its footing. And again though, they also
say that that season two is at least favorite, which is why they didn't
do any commentaries. And season two, like I had its moments where it
wasn't very good, but I think overall it was. It wasn't terrible.
No, no, but uneven let's say, yeah, Uneven's a good word.
Yea. All right, So next episode of Going Down a South Buck's
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