'South Park' back Oct. 5 with 'Ass Burgers'

[Pedro]

'South Park' back Oct. 5 with 'Ass Burgers'
By Curt Wagner
RedEye
11:50 a.m. CDT, October 3, 2011

Cartman might be a little confused when "South Park" returns Oct. 5 with "Ass Burgers." Um, Cartman, it's called Asperger's Syndrome.

In the episode, Cartman finds a unique way of coping with Asperger's Syndrome. Even Kyle and Kenny are on board. Meanwhile, Stan can't seem to get his life back to normal no matter what he tries. Will anything ever be the same in South Park again?

"South Park" returns at 9 p.m. Oct. 5 with all-news Season 15 episodes on Comedy Central. And at 9 p.m. Oct. 9, Comedy Central premieres "6 Days to Air: The Making of 'South Park,'" a new documentary from Arthur Bradford that gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at how a "South Park" episode is created.

Says CC: "Shot extensively over the course of three months at the South Park Studios in Los Angeles, this exclusive documentary film by renowned documentarian Arthur Bradford chronicles the rigorous process of producing the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series in under a week.

"Bradford's cameras were granted unprecedented access to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creative masterminds behind 'South Park,' and their creative process, opening up Parker and Stone's world to reveal the high-pressure work environment that allows them to turn an idea into a full 22-minute episode each week."

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[IContainMultitudes]

I wonder how much controversy this episode will stir up. I haven't actually watched the show in at least a few years, but I think I'll have to check out this episode. Based on the little clip that I saw, it looks like it will probably be more silly than offensive (of course, getting offended by South Park doesn't really seem like a productive use of one's time and energy to me). We shall see...

 

[GhettoButterFly]

I knew they were going to hit this topic sooner or later. I guess I have to catch the episode a day after it airs. :S Let me know how "unfunny" or "funny" it is. I laughed at most South Park episodes expect for certain ones. :S Cartmen always been a pain and I guess he'll make this episode really epic. Hm... I wonder if Stan will ever be the same again. :O

 

[Droopy]

My friends are fans of South Park and know that I have Aspergers. I hope they don't start calling me "ass burgers" after seeing this episode.

 

[CaramelCookie]

This will help spread awareness, and people will remember it!

 

[kasmanaft08]

I used to watch South Park quite a bit, not really anymore. There was a point where they became stale and over-polished in my eyes. Sometmes funny, but eventually I lost interest (a similar thing happened with me and the Simpsons). But there's a lot of episodes I really love and think often enough they have some dead-on morals and points. So I'm really curious what will be said (or if it's just an unrelated joke) and what the reaction will be.

Hopefully it will play here about the same time as you guys in the U.S.

But regardless, I have to agree with ICM. Even if I end up not liking it, I don't see much of a point in getting mad at a cartoon.

 

[. . .]

I'm not excited -- I don't care for South Park and haven't since I was in my early teens ("gross out" humor does nothing for me anymore) -- but I think it's kind of neat that this episode will (probably) put Asperger's in the mainstream (though, hopefully it won't give aspies a bad image . . . but who, other than kids, take cartoons seriously enough to be influenced by them?).

Even if I end up not liking it, I don't see much of a point in getting mad at a cartoon.

Well, I could see people getting mad at the writers of the episode. But it would be dumb to make a huge fuss over it. There's lots of offensive stuff out there. If something offends you it's best to avoid the thing that's causing offense.

Hopefully it will play here about the same time as you guys in the U.S.

I guarantee that it'll be on torrent sites within hours of being aired on TV.

I won't tell you to download it, but hey - that's always an option.

 

[epath13]

South Park did have some funny jokes, so as any other comic cartoons. I watched a couple of episodes here and there so I have an idea.. But nowadays I don't really watch it at all. It's not entertaining enough for me. one thing that worries me. Some kids do watch it (whether their parents want them or not) and the only thing they might get from it is the "ass burgers". So it might give them just another reason to make some jokes about it. And for many kids with Aspergers it might be annoying or even hurtful. Creators of the cartoon keep forgetting not all the people are intelligent enough to understand the point, and sometimes it doesn't even have anything to do with intelligence. Some people could take things literally, some will use it as an opportunity to make fun of other people. But the thing is, that is the freedom of speech... If I'm not mistaken they've made fun of pretty much anything so there's no surprise there. The question is, should you make fun of certain things or not... But I personally keep coming to one conclusion. This is very normal for the current level of human race's development.

 

[King_Oni]

So...

Did anyone see it yet?

As someone who watched it regularly a few years ago and haven't seen the show for a good while, I watched it and felt a bit underwhelmed. Not directly, cause I expected big things cause of the title... but meh, I don't know... I think it's one of the reasons I don't watch it that often anymore.

As for the content... I have yet to see what actually was funny about it. To me, it just felt that they thought that "Ass burgers" was funny enough instead of "Asperger's" and they had to work around "how to make something work with a joke like this", and that's where I felt, it failed totally. I'm all for absurdist stuff in general, and that's what I sometimes liked about the show... but this one was kinda bad. I also thought, that they just used the name for their joke to 'work", nothing else.

But perhaps I'm just not getting it...

The only thing I can see happening is whenever someone says "I have asperger's" and people are not familiar with it, are familiar with South park and aren't childish enough to go into the entire "hahah... you said ass", they think it's a state of mind where you're just being "depressed". And I'm quite sure that a lot of people on this board are far from actually being depressed. So in effect people might try stuff around you to just try and "cheer you up" but that's not really the remedy, thus it fails, people get upset...and you're back at the beginning. Cause I seriously doubt most people who see this episode actually open up wikipedia (or any other reference) to look it up and see if the show portrays something correct or if it's just fun.

 

[epath13]

Didn't find where to watch the episode and not sure if I'm going to see when it's on comedy central. But I did read what's it about... typical south park... Not sure if there's a point in anything they do or not, it's hard to say, well... Maybe it's not going to have as much influence after all... Will people joke about ass burgers more than usual... I kinda start doubting it. At this point it all starts looking pretty harmless to me, as for being funny, it probably is for people who like that kind of humor... As for awareness... Not sure either.

Reading some more... Some people seem to be really upset about it but as I've already said - typical, predictable, nothing new...we'll see what happens next

 

[maximus]

I thought it was pretty damn funny
Probably a little insulting towards aspies,but not that much if you can take a joke at your expense..
Its up on Southparkcentral.com as we speak..if anyone that aint living in the US and dont use proxies,hers a direct link:QSS DivX: High Quality Streaming Video

 

[IContainMultitudes]

I watched this a little while ago and found it kind of disappointing. Nothing to really get offended about, but there's actually not that much in it about Asperger's and that part of the story gets pretty much dropped after about the halfway point of the episode. I did find the line "Do you think that if it was a real disease, it would really be called 'Ass Burgers?' Now that's just mean." kind of funny.

 

[Droopy]

I think this episode airs next week in the UK. I'm not a South Park fan but will probably watch it.

 

[kasmanaft08]

I did recently watch the Ass Burgers South Park episode...and I have to say, I kind of left it thinking WTF....okay...

First of all, I'm rather disappointing with the quality of the episode. I do remember why I quit keeping up with the show...but I did expect that. It's kind of like new Simpsons. May be a funny moment or two, and it's not necessarily bad...but...yeah, you know.

Two, the episode didn't make much sense to me and the jokes weren't that great in my opinion. I also wasn't fully sure what to think about the Asperger's references, and whether they meant anything in particular. I didn't find it to be particularly offensive. But I didn't find it particularly clever, either...there were a few moments that looked like they were about to bring in some message/point or link, which is what I've always liked about South Park, but it never really worked or went with it.

Eh. Oh well.