CYBERTRON MESSIAH’S 10 BEST SOUTH PARK EPISODES

Last week on Radiobubble, Chef Rich, John Blabber, and Cybertron Messiah listed there 10 favorite South Park episodes of all-time. After the jump, check out Cybertron Messiah’s list complete with video links(click the pics) courtesy of SouthParkStudios.com

10.  Cartman Get’s an Anal Probe – It’s the beginning, and it belongs on every top 10 list for this show, if only for this.  We can also say the pilot episode, “Jesus vs. Santa,” but as of this writing, I don’t know if its the parameters of the show.  It started a phenomenon like none other, and it is still on today.  If you don’t like it, then fuck you.  It was a meager beginning, but a wonderful bit of foreshadowing to come.

9.  Cartmanland – Eric Cartman is a self-centered, egotistical, maniacal, racist, arrogant, son of a bitch.  Therefore, next to nothing good happens to or for him.  This episode, however, was a change.  Cartman inherits a cool million dollars, and buys the local theme park!  The kid has it run, I think for a week, enjoying all of the rides.  However, he loses the park when he uses all of his money trying to keep the park open…for himself.  It’s a great episode, and is an excellent look into the less racist side of the maniac.

 

8.  Bebe’s Boobs Destroy Society – So…apparently puberty hit elementary school, and like a 90 mph fastball between your eyes.  Bebe was the first girl in class to start growing boobs.  And of course, the kids notice, and start taking up an increasingly unhealthy obsession with them.  It starts with them going neanderthal-ish when she’s around.  Then it devolves to the point where the only thing Stan thinks of is Bebe’s boobs.  It’s a hilarious take on modern day Middle to High School.  The ending, like most of the episodes, was amazingly funny.

 

7.  Raisins – This is the episode that has stuck out in my mind whenever South Park comes up.  Why?  The closing line of the episode…”Hey Wendy, you’re a bitch! Token…right here, buddy!” Then flips him off.  Stan goes through the gamut, and turning into the worst thing known to mankind…a goth.  Doesn’t it send shivers down your spine?  It did to me.  Also gave us our first look at the South Park goth kids.  Don’t worry, these kids will show up later on in the list.

 

6.  Fat Butt and Pancake Head – This is yet another Cartman-centric episode.  Cartman’s hand starts to take on a mind of it’s own; a latina singer named Jennifer Lopez.  After Cartman gets a mall-recorded music video of his hand singing “Taco-Flavored Kisses,” Jennifer Lopez gets a record deal, replacing the real J-Lo.  Wow.  I just realized how confusing this sounds when you read this.  Anyway, J-lo goes on a killing mission to good old South Park. This is where her fiance, Ben Affleck, starts to want Jennifer Lopez.  By the way, she still loves tacos and burritos.  It was a funny look into Cartman, and how mentally deranged he really is.  Oh, and it’s an episode that sets up something monumental later in the series.

5.  You Have 0 Friends – One thing I love: Tron.  One thing I fucking hate: Farmville.  One thing that merges the two?  Facebook.  This episode does what everyone thinks Facebook is becoming…The Grid.  Instead of battling in the Games, you battle in everyone’s favorite mundane dice rolling game.  Everyone starts getting overly involved in Facebook and Farmville, to the point where friends on it are treated like stocks.  Kyle friends the most unpopular kid on Facebook, Kip Drordy, and in turn, makes him the most unpopular kid.  Later, Stan gets so fed up with Facebook, and the constant badgering about friends being friends, family being friends, people he doesn’t know being friends, his relationship status, game requests, that he finally goes to delete it.  What happens next?  Well, the only thing I can say is, “Welcome to The Grid.”

4.  Grey Dawn – Randy Marsh had his first “starring” episode in, “I’m a Little Bit Country.” However, this was the episode that prepped the world for the wonder that is Randy Marsh.  This episode is about South Park taking away the licenses of the elderly, all at the behest of Randy.
Think about it.  What person under the age of 40 hasn’t dreamt of this scenario?  Well, the elderly fights back, bringing the AARP army, and I’m sure there were ninjas too.  All in all, this is the jump in point for any fan of Randy Marsh.  This set the groundwork for other episodes featuring him, like Make Love, Not Warcraft, Something Wall Mart This Way Comes, Bloody Mary, And of course, Fantastic Easter Special.

3.  About Last Night – There are a couple episodes on there for content alone.  This, is on here , both for content, and technological achievement.  Most episodes later on, are done in a week.  That in of itself is a technical marvel. However, this episode was done in less than 24 hours.  This episode revolves around 2 things; the effects of Obama winning in South Park, including Randy Marsh acting like a drunken belligerent (Let’s face it…when does he not act like a drunken belligerent?)  The other plot revolves around a plot hatched by Obama and John McCain, to steal a priceless jewel from the Smithsonian, utilizing an elaborate plot.  Well, as elaborate as a plan using Sarah Palin. The plan ends with the aftermath of both plots, like the town-wide hangover on Wednesday, and the resolution to the jewel heist.  Oh, and my plot summary?  I love Ike.

2.  200 / 201  – This episode is possibly the most groundbreaking episode, ever.  Not for the week turnaround for the episodes, not for the huge celebrity spoof list, but it made national news for it’s content.  Comedy Central was forced to censor Muhammad after 200.  As you would think, the creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, were infuriated with all the edits CC wanted them to make. So, Matt and Trey respond the only way they know how, with a bunch of satire and vehemence.  These two episodes have it all, touching on Tom Cruise and scientology again, all the way back to nods to Mecha-Streisand.  They even have the entirety of the Super Best friends!  Oh, and the world’s worst high schooler makes an appearance. And the Coup de Gras is, after 14 years, there is finally resolution to the “Who is Cartman’s Father?” story.  The two episodes were so controversial, South Park Studios won’t stream it.  We can probably chalk that up to Comedy Central.  This show encapsulate the macrocosm that is South Park.  If the number 1 didn’t exist, this would be the

1.  The Ungroundable – Now, when we set out to do these lists, we had to set some ground rules.  For myself only, I had to add one to myself.  Use as little widely regarded episodes as possible, like Make Love, Not Warcraft,  or the Mysterion Trilogy.  So, that made my choice for number 1 as easy as it could possibly be.

Butters has had quite a few episodes as top bill.  Butters’ Bottom Bitch was classic, as was Scrotie McBoogerballs.  However, this was it.  Butters has always been one of, if not my absolute favorite characters in all of South Park.  This episode was his Raisins. It showed how naive Butters is, and how easily impressionable he really is.  However, The Ungroundable took that right turn to over the top.

Butters sees that there are kids “turning into vampires.”  He goes to tell the group what he sees, and they just dismiss it.  It’s at this point where Butters gets shit your pants scared. Enter: the Goths.  The first time ever, I am siding with them on this…vampire fags are the absolute worst.  What pushes Butters over the edge is his dad yelling at him for, get this, putting the hamburger helper where the Nesquik is supposed to be.

From there, he ends up going to the vampire kids, wanting an escape. So, he starts out as a gopher for them. The goths get increasingly pissed of fat being associated with the vamps, so they go back to dressing like normal for a day or two, then get proactive.  They kidnap the head vampire, and throw him in the back of the goth girl’s mother’s prius. They get how to stop the kids from becoming vamps, and they ship him to Scottsdale.  The final part of the plan, is going to the mall, and torching their local Hot Topic to the ground.  Thus, ending the vampire fad in the little town of South Park.