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July 21, 2025, 05:31:51 AM

we're back, baby

Well, South Park returned to what South Park does better than anything else: making fun of American juvenile obsession with Japanese culture. This time they took a shot at anime, and hit it straight in the balls.

Like their shot at Pokemon, this is one of the better written and funnier episodes they've ever done. Not only do they take a lot of swings at anime, they touch upon another ridiculous childhood riobsession. I mean really, how many of you really wanted to own a nice martial arts weapon?

The story goes like so:

The boys want to buy martial arts weapons at a fair but the guy at the booth won't sell. So they said their parents died and the dumb booth guy caves. The boys then go play with their weapons and invent Japanese personas to go along with their new "toys". Butters assumes his Professor Chaos persona and they have a nice epic, Dragon Ball Z style battle complete with a hillarius, half-translated battle song. All goes well and innocent enough until Kenny throws his ninja star in Butter's eye. Now, most of this battle is drawn in Dragon Ball Z cartoon style with huge, over done musculature and special effects. They only snap back to the regular style once they stop pretending to be their alternate Ninja personas.

The rest of the story follows them trying to deal with Butter's injury. They have a big ninja battle with Craig's friends. There's even a nice DBZ style recap thrown in. Toward the end Cartman decides to use his power of invisibility to cross a stage infont of a charity auction everyone in the town is at. Unfortunately for him, he just merely waddles across the stage completely naked (invisibility doesn't work with clothes).

The end was a tad disappointing. The town merely focuses on Cartman's nudity instead of the ninja star in Butter's eye. But I guess it was a point well made in typical South Park style. The episode really gave combat animes a sound thrashing, especially DBZ. Hey, if you like anime, that's good for you, flame elsewhere.

I know I may be one of the few people that still enjoy this show considering that many believe it jumped the shark sometime in season 3. But lately, I think the show has been coming back in to its own. Good to see them start the season off very strongly.

Something you forgot to touch on that I feel was quite brilliant of them was they in which they chose to deal with butters' injury.

Rather than take him to the hospital and get caught(and grounded), they instead try to pass him off as a dog by glueing dog fur to him so that the vet will remove the ninja star without telling their parents. One of the funniest parts of the episode was seeing butters walk down a street crying and making dog noises while a man in a car slow down, stare for a second, and then drive off.

Probably one of the funniest episodes I've seen.

Favorite parts:

1. The change from anime style to classic SP when butters get the eye injury.

2. Cartman using his invisibility ability.

I think using the anime style wasn't so much a jab at Japanese cartoons as it was an illustration of how entrapping the boys' imaginations were.

The second fight with the j-pop parody was mildly entertaining. Then in the middle of the pseudo-japanese lyrics, the singer belted out "protect my balls" I couldn't stop laughing. It was like being 10 years old again watching horribly dubbed Dragon Ball episodes (the original series) at my local tennis pro's shop hwile my dad played in the tourny they were holding.

Ahh, memories.

Edit: And now thanks to you bastards Im downloading and watching SP eps instead of studying for my Metabolic Biochemistry final. Damn you all to the hells of your respective belief systems.

I saw pieces of this, but not the whole thing. The big fight scene with Craig's friends was fucking hilarious. They absolutely NAILED the whole Dragonball Z anime style.

Here's a translation of the song I found in this thread: http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6462

There are screencaps of the subtitles there if anyone wants to make a better translation.

This wonderful penis thing
And hair of testicles are here.
Is that the sound of a sarubobo?
No! It's the ninjas!
Hey hey let's go fight!
This is important: protect my balls!
I am evil, so let's fighting...
Let's fighting love!
Let's fighting love!

Absolute gold.

This?

Also it was a woman in the car! :p

Neph, how did we carry on with our meaningless lives before having beheld the image of Butters with a ninja star embedded in his eye?

IMO, South Park hasn't jumped the shark -- if anything, it was awful early on and has gotten excellent in the latter half of its lifespan.

Yes, this was a classic episode. As far as the Japanese lyrics, "Sarubobo" means a monkey named Bobo.

"Is that the sound of the monkey, Bobo? No, it's Ninjas! Hey Hey Let's go Fight! The important thing is to protect my balls! Let's fighting love!"

Quote from: Mediocre

"Is that the sound of the monkey, Bobo? No, it's Ninjas! Hey Hey Let's go Fight! The important thing is to protect my balls! Let's fighting love!"

That would make a great sig quote, if only this episode weren't going to become a very large cliche for a while.

Just grabbed a vcd of this from the southpark multimedia newsgroup. I know I am way behind the times here, but that was classically hilarious. I was literally rolling in laughter at cartman sneaking across the stage naked, at the dbz artwork, and at lines like "Oh well, I guess we will murder some other dog".

South park definately didn't jump the shark (god I hate that phrase). They had a lull it seems, I stopped watching in season 3 or 4, or maybe even 2, but came back and found it hilarious still a few years later. Going back and watching seasons in the newsgroups I can pinpoint the episode that drove me away for a few years. Too bad the episodes right after that SHITTY one were great.

It leaves me with lots of episodes to download and watch whenever I feel like though. I love that. Its like Tivo but free.

no one really mentioned it, but the ending was a parody on the nation's reaction to janet jackson's nipplage exposure in the middle of a "family sport" which is, of course, extremely violent. the whole town was outraged that a little boy exposed himself, whereas the throwing-star-in-the-eye and the boys lying to get weapons is largely shrugged off.

someone said they were disappointed, i thought it was a perfect ending!

The ending i think everyone got but personally it felt a little tacked on and unnecessary. otherwise a great episode very funny, i just think they may have not been sure how to end it.

Thoughts on the Passion of the Christ episode?

I really liked the Passion episode. I always enjoy a good Hitler attempt. I also liked when Stan said "That movie sucked, I want my money back."