'South Park' slams George Clooney's Oscar acceptance speech

... and dug at environmentalists and San Francisco liberals! In all, a tour de force in "Smug Alert!" -- the second episode of the new season.

In the episode, Kyle's dad buys a hybrid car (called a "Pious") and starts getting environmentalist ego, putting fake tickets on all the gas guzzlers. When the rest of the town gets angry at him, he decides South Park just isn't enlightened enough and moves the family to San Francisco. Stan misses Kyle and tries to lure the Braflovskis back by encouraging everyone to buy hybrids. After Stan writes and performs a "gay little song" about ecofriendliness, everybody buys hybrids. Then local weather officials freak out because South Park is becoming covered in smug generated by smug eco do-gooders. This combined with the No. 1 smug region in the nation -- San Francisco -- will soon be combining with the smug front generated by George Clooney's Oscar acceptance speech and forming a destructive smug storm. Cartman, upset that Kyle isn't around to pick on anymore, goes into San Francisco -- he swore he'd never go into the city of dirty hippies and liberals -- in a contamination suit, secretly rescuing the Braflovskis from the smug storm that wipes the City by the Bay off the map. Meanwhile, in South Park, the town makes Stan crush all hybrids to try to lessen the effects of the smug storm. The town barely survives, having learned its lesson about becoming smug hybrid drivers.

The best part -- as the George Clooney smug front moves over Arizona, it's full of sound bites about Hollywood being the first to fight AIDS, Hollywood being better than everyone else, etc.

"Smug Alert!" reruns on Comedy Central at 10 p.m. tonight, Friday at 11:30 p.m. and Sunday at 11 p.m. Watch it!!

Comments

[ned]

Thanks for the rehash of the show. I was in the kitchen painting last night and listened to parts of show. Didn't see Cartman in the comtamination suit, that alone makes it worth watching. The liberals and dirty hippies do take piety to new heights and it is great to see them called on it.

[Jason O.]

South Park has taken up the cause of rationality in the public debate. Particularly with this show and the recent global warming skewer "Day before the day after tomorrow"...from a show that began with Jesus brawling Santa Claus to control Christmas, amazing.

[DrSteve]

Wasn't Clooney one of the people instrumental in promoting their original video? I know he's done some voice-over work for them. It'll be interesting to see if/how he responds.

[Rob]

Just an FYI - Clooney has been a big fan of SP in the past. According to the wiki:
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George Clooney, portrays an emergency room doctor similar to his character Doug Ross in the TV series ER in the South Park Movie, "Bigger, Longer, Uncut." Clooney also appeared as a voice actor for Sparky, Stan's homosexual dog, in the episode "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", his only line being "Woof!".
--
I may have my history wrong, but I seem to remember Clooney had a hand in South Park making it to air.

[Mike Andreyakovich]

Man, that's COLD. Especially considering George used to be such a big fan of theirs he was willing to play a DOG in one episode and a parody of his E.R. character in the movie.

[V the K]

You left out the best part about how San Francisco residents are so smug they enjoy the scent of their own farts.

[Charles Zimmerman]

First, the show was not funny, just like last week. It is supposed to be a comedy not a political commentary, so if they can't keep it funny anymore they should give it up.

Second, the idea that hybrid owners are particularly smug did not ring a bell for me. The only thing they got right is that Clooney's Oscar speech was smug. But that's been covered by NRO and Ann Coulter to death already, so who cares?

I just hope the show starts getting better.

[Bridget]

Dude, what kind of hybrid do you drive?

(If you don't see hybrid smug, you obviously don't live in L.A.)

[beautifulatrocities]

HA! I'm sure Clooney will have a sense of humor about this - NOT.

A couple of years ago at the Oscars, Julia Roberts repeated Kate Hepburn's line about acting being the least of the arts, as even Shirley Temple could do it when she was 4. Sean Penn was sitting in the audience not smiling, like, Is she suggesting we're not geniuses??

[PopeRatzo]

What did you guys think of the episode "Red Hot Catholic Love"? That's the one that makes fun of how priests molest boys. I especially enjoyed the ones where they make fun of the Pope or bleeding statues of the Virgin Mary.

It was pretty cool when they showed how idiotic Mormonism is, showing Joseph Smith to be a huckster.

rock on, South Park!

[Lewis B. Sckolnick]

South Beach has it beat.

[Reaps]

"It is supposed to be a comedy not a political commentary"

..For how many weeks have you been watching South Park?

That being said, if topics such as hybrid cars can be considered 'political commentary' (because clearly ALL Repubs and libertarians HATE hybrids and ALL Democrats LOVE them, what?), then *everything* can be argued as 'political commentary' - which is probably part of the problem that I see in the US at the moment. I can't even play a friggin' videogame without thinking to myself how libs and cons would be able to read 'bias' into it..

I quite enjoyed the mormons episode; after all, if anyone actually watched the episode, the mormons get their own back at the end. Sadly enough, that's the latest episode being broadcast on network television in Oz. We're only 2 years behind!

[Paul T]

I loved the depiction of the typical San Francisco liberal family: a graying older man in a tweed jacket who introduces himself as Peter Thompson, his androgynous short-haired wife as Nancy Jarvis, and their long-haired acid-tripping son as Brian Thompson-Jarvis. I lived in Seattle for 8 years and it didn't take long to notice that liberals just love hyphenated names.

[peter]

My favorite South Park jab at liberals was the "aging hippie liberal douche" character from the immigration episode.

I like it when South Park goes after people, and I also like how they are still able to push the envelope, the Virgin Mary statue and the scientologist episodes managed to piss off all kinds of people.

[Katie]

ya, i love south park, does um, does anybody have a fan mail address? I have a great idea for a show. hehe. um, hi mom!

[Vic]

Didnt anyone like Stan's Gay Little Song? I thought it was funny

[Melissa]

Why is it that Kyle never die? Is it because he's Jewish? I'm not racist but I have an idea for a show that might get South Park taken off t.v forever if Trey and Matt dared to try it. Instead of, "Oh my God! You killed Kenny! You're a Bastard!" How about, "Oh my God!
You killed Kyle! You're a Nazi!" Wost yet, have Stan saying that to an American Soldier.

[Ashley]

That episode was hilarious. I enjoyed it. South Park still kicks ass!

[Misty]

South Park is funny but hypocritical. They make fun of people who have political opinions all the while forcing their opinion down your throat on a weekly basis. Sounds smug to me. Good thing their funny as hell at doing it.

[edgesellemild]

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital
and labour. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting
each other's throat.
-- Brooks Atkinson, "Once Around the Sun"

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