An RT from RT regarding South Park and kids in balloons.
Author: Sterling Heltzel | Filed under: Uncategorized
The title is confusing, I know. The first RT means re-tweet, and the second one means Rotten Tomatoes. I’m so clever. Fastness threw out a fantastic observation (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?p=16146699&posted=1#post16146699) and I would put money down that he is absolutely correct. Today, in some weird I don’t know way, though I’m sure the explanation and all is out there at this point, a six year old in Colorado got into a helium balloon and flew off. When it landed, they couldn’t find the boy, but apparently he’s alive and well from what I hear. I don’t really care, as this would kind of just be natural selection at work, but there is something here I definitely care about. A Colorado boy getting into a balloon, in a less flashy but just as effective way as Carl and Russell in Pixar’s Up…Trey Parker and Matt Stone totally have the idea for next week’s South Park episode.
It is a known fact that they create each episode, with notable exceptions, the week before. They work from Thursday to Wednesday and get them up on the air by Wednesday night, which is in itself, a tremendous feat. Since this happened on the first day of production, which is usually the concept building part of the process, they have a perfect amount of time to put Cartman in a balloon in the air. Easy to animate, easy to make quickly, as it would mostly be a Cartman-centric episode. Tasteless? Yes. But last week’s episode had a cop pose as a prostitute and have anal sex with an entire fraternity and fart out a whole evidence bag’s worth of semen from his anus. There are no rules with this show, and this is almost certainly happening. I hope, anyway.
It would be funnier if it was Butters, but Wednesday’s episode was about him, and no way could they top it.
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Tags: balloon kid, Cartman, Cartman balloon, Colorado, Colorado balloon, Fastness, helium balloon, His Royal Fastness, kid in balloon, Matt Stone, South Park, Trey Parker
October 17th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
It could happen week after next, and it’s an episode I could see being watchable once people have forgotten about this event.
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