For the South Park fans..

Perhaps they made two episodes - just in case of a McCain upset. Then aired the appropriate one.

Haha, that would be funny. I'm betting they wrote the episode to work regardless of who wins, staying vague enough. However It wouldn't surprise me if they went back and added in a few quips here and there

Screw live-blogging the election.. I do it for South Park

I was wrong, it looks like they tailored the entire episode after they were confident Obama won. So far it looks like the plot itself works regardless of who won, but they've had a ton of things like direct references to both candidates speeches, and people talking alot about Obama winning / Mccain losing.

"It's Obama time come on!" ~ Randy

Ok, commercial break is over...

AHAHA, best episode this season in my mind. It really is amazing how quickly they can pump out episodes. Current news from Monday and Tuesday were scattered throughout.

The plot was funny as well, even more so for me because I just recently visited DC, and saw the hope diamond myself. Before that I had never heard of it. AND, I love Randy, and this was a Randy heavy episode (and a drunken Randy at that).

Damn, can't see it online yet. Looking forward to it.

if you find it, might ya post it, sir...


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(no tv, but a jones)

All South Park episodes are available online here:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/

But the latest ones usually have a delay before they go online. Looks like the delay is a month for the latest ones.

appreciated.

(no longer pay by MB...)

Ha, great episode. But I thought they should have tried to steal a portion of the $700billion bailout package instead of the Hope Diamond.

Actually, the side story of the town's reaction was better than the Ocean's 13 rehash. I cracked up when one of the town's two doctors partied too much while the McCain supporter hung himself in a closet. And then at the end when the McCain supporters realize that not much has really changed and they "may" have over reacted... reminds me a little too much of the Emails my extended family are sending around right about now

After seeing the full episode, I think this is the fastest they have put current events into an episode. They have done some quick ones before, no doubt. According to wikipedia, they depicted Saddam Hussein being captured 3 days after it happened in real life. However, the episode had alot going on with depicting the life of Canadians, etc. Sadam really didn't play a huge part in the episode, if I remember correctly.

However, this was ONE day. Maybe even less then that (what time did Obama/McCain give their speeches?). The episode also really relied on Obama winning. What with people being afraid of 'Change' and all. I really don't think they could have done the same episode in reverse if McCain had won. It wouldn't have worked.

I find it very impressive that a cartoon offers as much commentary and jokes on yesterdays election as The Daily Show and Colbert Report does.

Waaaaah...stamps feet...throws toys....



Edit: WORSE!!!!

We can't even GET them in Australia!!!

I was able to watch it (I think the day it's released it's available then has to wait a month) and it was pretty funny. The overenthusiastic Obama supporters and the irrationally disillusioned McCain supporters reminded me of a2k political discussions.

Clips:





I also liked their take on Palin:



The whole episode's here:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/207897/?autoplay=false

I don't get any sound on the clips and can't access the video site.

On South Park being current, the show only has like a 3 week turnaround. Don't know about finishing it on the day it airs. I suspect they had this one ready.

try southparkzone.com

Being the cynical SOBI am, I can actually half believe the plot line. The clips from the election were so current as to be almost like a news show.
It was ok, not one of the greats , but its schtick was memorable

Thanks for that. Can't find the Obama episode, but there's plenty more there that haven't made it down under yet.

Nice satire.

It was made last minute according to the Production Blog

But as I suspected, they made most of it in advance predicting an Obama win:



http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/11/obama-south-par.html?%3F