REVIEW: SOUTH PARK “SARCASTABALL”
Randy’s campaign to prevent head injuries in football radically changes the way the game is played, but the new rules become a national sensation and even make a South Park student a star athlete.
Spoilers Below
By the time you read this, the NFL referees strike is over and normalcy returns to the NFL starting tonight on Thursday Night Football. But, in South Park, Randy is sick and tired of how football is portrayed as being too violent and sarcastically comes up with an idea about a game played by players who wear bras, give hugs, and say nice things to each other while scoring with a balloon. He pitches that idea to South Park Elementary in the most sarcastic scumbag way possible which of course instates a new “Sarcastaball” league for the school and names Randy as a coach. Eventually, the local news catches wind of support or the new sport which eventually goes all the way to the Senate! Commissioner of the NFL and all-around scumbag announces that he is changing the NFL to a Sarcastaball league and Randy is the new coach of the Denver Broncos.
Randy’s sarcastic ways are leading the Broncos on a winning streak. Unfortunately, Randy’s sarcasm is having medical side effects and asks Sharon to help so she takes him to the hospital who sarcastically implies that Randy is wasting his time. Randy comes to grips that sarcasm is an ugly yellow brick road to go down and should probably stop. Not only that but Randy wants to shut down Sarcastaball once and for all.
The kids at first don’t buy into the game thinking its just another over-exaggeration from Randy which in this case is exactly what it is. That said, Butters is getting really good, and as such usually leads the Cows to victory with his heartfelt speeches. As a matter of fact, the kids anoint Butters their new team captain in light of Randy’s exodus not only for his speeches but because of a warm goo that oozes inside of him. That goo actually is cum, and usually Butters splooges after a wet dream and his dad refuses to explain what the hell is going on. Worse yet, Butters takes samples of his cum and stores it in his closet. One day Cartman comes over to Butters and talks about how he isn’t very good at Sarcastaball and he wants in on some of this goo and drinks the shit out of it.
Cartman isn’t the only one downing Butters’ cream, as the entire team is on the stuff and soon even Jim Rome is promoting “Butters Creamy Goo”! Soon, Randy comes to his senses and interrupts the kids’ game to try and tell the other parents of what is going down and that everyone should stop playing Sarcastaball but the kids won’t hear it and instead recommends that Randy drink “Butters Creamy Goo” of which Randy breaks it to everyone that the goo is really Butters’ cum.
There are strands of the premise that I got from the episode of “Sarcastaball”. The protagonist creates a game that involves (to an extent) name-calling and as such becomes a national phenomenon. An antagonist from the team that started the game becomes a big-time celebrity and totally sells out all the meanwhile telling the protagonist to fuck himself near the end but soon they resolve the dispute and all is well that ends well.
Does this premise remind ANYONE else of the Matt and Trey Parker produced film Baseketball??
That said, Baseketball is a classic film and “Sarcastaball” gives enough to the point where it separates itself just enough from the film and gives us new classic moments in the South Park lexicon. Examples being the sarcastic tone in Randy’s voice that I am sure everyone’s going be trying out at work this morning. Plus, on the same night in which the NFL and the Refs come to a deal, leave it to South Park to give them one more dig about the replacements. Also, the Butters Creamy Goo story arc might be the grossest thing I have ever seen in South Park history since “Eek, a Penis” and further adds to the South Park lore. Yep, the best-animated series of all time is back in full swing and it’s leaving a stain all over 2012.
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