South Park 13x06 - Pinewood Derby [**SPOILERS WITHIN**]

Creamy Goodness

Episode 1306 Announcement
From the Comedy Central Press Release:

IT’S PINEWOOD DERBY TIME
IN AN ALL-NEW "SOUTH PARK" ON
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 AT 10:00 P.M. ON COMEDY CENTRAL


NEW YORK, April 13, 2009 – BUILDING A PINEWOOD DERBY CAR IS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME GOOD OLD FASHIONED FATHER-SON BONDING TIME in an all-new episode of "South Park" titled, "Pinewood Derby,” premiering on Wednesday, April 15 at 10:00 p.m. on COMEDY CENTRAL.
RANDY IS DETERMINED THAT STAN WILL WIN THIS YEAR’S PINEWOOD DERBY. He comes up with a PLAN that will assure Stan a first place trophy.

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preview clip: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/224502

I love episodes where Randy is one of the main characters. Hopefully it will be as good as the rest of this season.

Silver-Tiger

i'm a serious randy fan and love when he takes centre stage. I'm yet to see this episode but it sounds like a blatant rip off of a simpsons episode.

Creamy Goodness

well that was awful.

when i first heard the words hadron collider and it being a randy episode i thought this was going to be great.

was totally disappointed from that point on.

Necronomicon

Had it's moments, but definitely not great. It was always going to be hard to match last week's in fairness though.

randomchild

Yeah I agree with the term had its moments. The parts with the heads of state was funny, particularly the Finland bit, but the rest was pretty poor.

Mmcd

I quite enjoyed it overall.

Oh my God Finland's dead. I better tell Norway, they were very close!

994

worst - episode - ever

BlitzKrieg

Randy was good in it but I think it relied on him too much to sell the plot, nothing else in the episode was particulary great.

And you sort of saw the ending coming.

tenacious-me

First six minutes were alright, then it just turned to sh.t!
South park jumped the shark last season, it's been rubbish since! :mad:

BlitzKrieg

???

I thought the fish sticks episode was awesome

tenacious-me

It still, wasn't a proper return to form though, maybe on watching it again, I dunno, still a bit unhappy with this season

calex71

agree had its moments the princess leah bit had me chuckling.

Still for the last new episode till october it was pretty poor.

I feel we where 'Jewed' out of a decent episode before the break
There was an above average amount of jew jokes this series, last week with cartman asking kyle for advice in the bathroom was hysterical.

randomchild

**** that was the last episode before october? Dam that just makes it extra disappointing.

calex71

my bad sorry just checked my episodes site there is one listed for next week , no episode title for it though so not sure if its on or not

Necronomicon

I was just thinking today that we're due that break

Afaik it's always split down the middle (14 eps) so there should be the 7th before the break.

Really is far too long.

Creamy Goodness

no they do half a season, 7 episodes march-april, 7 episodes october-november.

the reason why next weeks episode doesn't have a title is because they only come up with the story on Friday-Saturday and then it airs on the Wednesday in the States.

Mmcd

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

no they do half a season, 7 episodes march-april, 7 episodes october-november.

the reason why next weeks episode doesn't have a title is because they only come up with the story on Friday-Saturday and then it airs on the Wednesday in the States.

You serious
Its written and made in like two days?

Creamy Goodness

pretty much i hear they take Thursdays off, and then work until Wednesday on an episode , then that episode is aired on that Wednesday.

check out www.southparkstudios.com for the Obama episode walkthrough.

nyarlothothep

Thats what they say, the episodes are completed just a day before being showed. According to Matt and Trey they tried doing them in advance but the scripts ending up being unfunny. The pressure makes them work harder to be humourous.

johnny_ultimate

I thought there were a few good chuckles in this episode, but not as good as last weeks which is to be expected. I think the standard overall this season has been considerably higher than the train wreck that was season 12.

Mmcd

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

pretty much i hear they take Thursdays off, and then work until Wednesday on an episode , then that episode is aired on that Wednesday.

check out www.southparkstudios.com for the Obama episode walkthrough.

I see no reason not to have an episode every week then :P

Creamy Goodness

i know you're joking but considering we've gotten some poor-ish episode the last few seasons (notably 12 and 13) thank christ we don't have an epsiode every week :pac:

nyarlothothep

Its weirdly inevitable. Like with bands, they're incredible for the first 5-10 years, then they get stale. Same with tv series I guess. Is there much more to exploit in SP? I have no doubt that they could turn it around if they wanted to though because they have a lucid approach to things.

BlitzKrieg

nyarlothothep wrote: »

Its weirdly inevitable. Like with bands, they're incredible for the first 5-10 years, then they get stale.

If you look at earlier seasons of south park its very obvious that matt and trey are more then willing and able to completely revamp the series. Seasons 1-3 are very different to anything that followed the film and they have repeatable tried new formats. Showing hopefully that when a format does indeed go stale (as it has at least twice) they are more then willing to change it.

User45701

calex71 wrote: »

my bad sorry just checked my episodes site there is one listed for next week , no episode title for it though so not sure if its on or not

Sunday night monday morning is when you find out the name and a rough

btw i thought this was a funny episode

nyarlothothep

That was a good episode. Not the funniest but certainly entertaining. I very much enjoyed the concept. The only episode that has truly sucked so far is prey eat queef.

deisedude

Good without being great

The Don

It was an ok episode. Nothing to write home about. It started off well but got flat towards the end. The alien gangster was good but after that the best was Finland and when countries started buying stuff, Mexico

Morzadec

nyarlothothep wrote: »

That was a good episode. Not the funniest but certainly entertaining. I very much enjoyed the concept. The only episode that has truly sucked so far is prey eat queef.

+1 Prey Eat Queef was possibly one of the worst ever.

Quite surprised with all the negative responses this episode is getting. Thought it was probably above the average standard of the season so far. I said it in another thread: Randy can rescue an episode with a weak story premise (not that I thought this one was particularly weak, but it was very 'out there').

Randy was again brilliant in this episode, and his dialogue with the world leaders was laugh-out-loud funny in my opinion (the Finland and Mexico bits were excellent as already mentioned). Thought the funniest bit though, was probably his reluctance to come clean and filing down the shank to have Stan stab the alien!

Any episode with that much Randy has my approval!

Mossy Monk

I really enjoyed it too. 1000 times better than that queef episode.

Mr.Nice Guy

I've very much enjoyed the current season but I didn't really care for this one to be honest. It had some good moments but overall it felt a bit flat to me.

Don't understand the negativity about the queef episode either. That was a fine episode.

nyarlothothep

Morzadec wrote: »

+1 Prey Eat Queef was possibly one of the worst ever.

Quite surprised with all the negative responses this episode is getting. Thought it was probably above the average standard of the season so far. I said it in another thread: Randy can rescue an episode with a weak story premise (not that I thought this one was particularly weak, but it was very 'out there').

Randy was again brilliant in this episode, and his dialogue with the world leaders was laugh-out-loud funny in my opinion (the Finland and Mexico bits were excellent as already mentioned). Thought the funniest bit though, was probably his reluctance to come clean and filing down the shank to have Stan stab the alien!

Any episode with that much Randy has my approval!

Its very pythonesque, I think, from my limited viewing of python, and I really liked it for this. It also had a very interesting premise, the fact that humans didn't measure up for membership within the intergalactic community,and Randy playing up to his role as the everyman American in representing the human race. The cool thing is that I've thought about this scenario myself so it was nice seeing a tv show portray it.

Rayan

I had to watch it about 3 times because kept getting interrupted but have to say when you watch it a few times it gets funnier. "Baby Fark McGee Zax", yourrr stallin seeeee.. nobody move riiiiggggght.. ROFL

Volvagia

I liked it.

Not the stongest episode this season (Fishsticks!) but watchable. I don't really know why I found it so funny but i burst out laughing for the princess leia bit.

World leaders were very funny, suicide by nuking?

One bit i didn't get was the scene when the space cops are flying away from the planet and they're talking to each other saying, "there's something not right about that planet? etc" Why would they stay in character when there was no one else around?

Bubs101

I thought this episode was fantastic. Randy constantly doing all those tells and his reactions when Stan was handing in his car were awesome