South Park (Season 12)

[Khamsin]

Why is there always dancing/singing in canadian episode...Is it suposed to be a stereotype I don't know about? Was a great episode in overall, loved it. The "internet" scene and butter's song were fucking great.

I was kinda hoping for a different morale tho. "Strike get you what you want, no matter how ridiculous your demands are" could have been funny

For me, the fact that they could have earned more money by working during the strike than what they got in reparations stood out more as a moral than the thing they tacked on at the very end.

And for reference, I would normally argue that a strike is worth it if it changes things for the better even if the short term cost outweighs immediate benefits, however in this episode, taken at face value... the Canadians were better off not striking in the first place. Whether that's true of the Writer's Guild, I don't know.

[Metah]

I like how they wrote in Afro Ninja's back flip. Too good.

This is the best answer. I honestly should've seen it coming, but I didn't.

[Exoduso]

This is easily one of my most favorite episodes lol, butters' song was so funny I had tears in my eyes.

I'm not your fwend, buddeh! i'm not your buddeh, guy! i'm not your guy, fwend!

fixed for poetic justice.

[Beckwin]

My favorite part was the kinda subtle thing they did by using all the internet fads... kinda like all the late-night shows did when they didn't have writers.

[Conrad]

This is easily one of my most favorite episodes lol, butters' song was so funny I had tears in my eyes.

I'm not your fwend, buddy! i'm not your buddy, guy! i'm not your guy, fwend!

[Remyo]

This is easily one of my most favorite episodes lol, butters' song was so funny I had tears in my eyes.

I'm not your friend, buddy! i'm not your buddy, guy! i'm not your guy, friend!

I liked those back and forth exchanges especially how they said "fwriend".

[Exoduso]

edit: 'viacom international' are dicks for taking all the vids down.

[wyrmtung]

I like how they wrote in Afro Ninja's back flip. Too good.

This is the best answer. I honestly should've seen it coming, but I didn't.

I lost it when he did the backflip. My GF was just ing her eyes at me as if she is better than me just because I instantly knew all the Youtube references.

[Exoduso]

lol I didn't know panda reference, the laughing baby was genius though... and chokoletttttttttt rainnnnnn.

Oh and I love how everybody referred to butters' video as "what what in the asshole".

[Septimus]

Why is there always dancing/singing in canadian episode...Is it suposed to be a stereotype I don't know about? Was a great episode in overall, loved it. The "internet" scene and butter's song were fucking great.

I was kinda hoping for a different morale tho. "Strike get you what you want, no matter how ridiculous your demands are" could have been funny

For me, the fact that they could have earned more money by working during the strike than what they got in reparations stood out more as a moral than the thing they tacked on at the very end.

And for reference, I would normally argue that a strike is worth it if it changes things for the better even if the short term cost outweighs immediate benefits, however in this episode, taken at face value... the Canadians were better off not striking in the first place. Whether that's true of the Writer's Guild, I don't know.

You missed this part.

What they didn't touch on is how screwed over the writers got with VHS due to not making deals early.

It's not about current revenue, it is about not getting screwed over in the future.

[Correction]

I think the ep was more a reflection on the uncompromising 'oh fuck we can't back down now' attitude than the actual gain to be had from negotiating internet royalties, which is nevertheless a dumb gamble at this stage of things when the current trend is still to give it away. Hundreds of people lost jobs forever because of the strike, and now those writers will never ever see money from DVD or internet royalties because the shows they were writing for are fucking dead. All because the WGA didn't budge a goddamn inch on their demands of the 'imaginary' money. Unions are led by goddamn morons terrified of looking bad in the wake of poor decision-making was the moral I walked away with.

[Metah]

Yeah but people actually care about Canada, right? I mean, if we were gone you guys would all be really sorry, right? Right!?

[Plow]

Why is there always dancing/singing in canadian episode...Is it suposed to be a stereotype I don't know about? Was a great episode in overall, loved it. The "internet" scene and butter's song were fucking great.

I was kinda hoping for a different morale tho. "Strike get you what you want, no matter how ridiculous your demands are" could have been funny

For me, the fact that they could have earned more money by working during the strike than what they got in reparations stood out more as a moral than the thing they tacked on at the very end.

And for reference, I would normally argue that a strike is worth it if it changes things for the better even if the short term cost outweighs immediate benefits, however in this episode, taken at face value... the Canadians were better off not striking in the first place. Whether that's true of the Writer's Guild, I don't know.

You missed this part.

What they didn't touch on is how screwed over the writers got with VHS due to not making deals early.

It's not about current revenue, it is about not getting screwed over in the future.

See the thing is, VHS was purely a developed distribution mechanism. People can't even decide what kind of next gen-dvd is the next VHS, let alone what file type or sharing method to use over the internet. I think their point was that striking is, for lack of a better phrase, serious business. Everyone has to pick their fights and when to fight them, and when essentially nobody is in a position to make any real profit off it is not that time.

I'm sure I don't understand the writer's guild strike exactly, but what I basically got was that it was just like what happened in the show... "We're striking until we get more money." -- "Um, nobody's making money off what you want to make money from... there's no more money to give you." -- "Fuck that, we want more money!" -- "oooook..." Ending in some trivial concessions that weren't worth the strike and nothing really changing as far as the internet situation.

There has to be a better way to make sure that you don't get screwed in the future than by fucking yourself in the present heh.

[Septimus]

I think the ep was more a reflection on the uncompromising 'oh fuck we can't back down now' attitude than the actual gain to be had from negotiating internet royalties, which is nevertheless a dumb gamble at this stage of things when the current trend is still to give it away. Hundreds of people lost jobs forever because of the strike, and now those writers will never ever see money from DVD or internet royalties because the shows they were writing for are fucking dead. All because the WGA didn't budge a goddamn inch on their demands of the 'imaginary' money. Unions are led by goddamn morons terrified of looking bad in the wake of poor decision-making was the moral I walked away with.

Hmm... You mean the moral of the story is that instead of throwing away the lives of countless thousands of more people, you should accept your losses and pull out before you get too deep in the quagmire? Interesting.

But the point is had the writers did not have a strike, in 5-10-15-20 years when the internet does become a valid revenue source, writers would have complained about getting screwed over and people would have laughed at them for not making sure that they were going to get their fair share years before. It is a basic "damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't" situation.

[Cail]

that episode was awesome lol

[Plow]

Hmm... You mean the moral of the story is that instead of throwing away the lives of countless thousands of more people, you should accept your losses and pull out before you get too deep in the quagmire? Interesting.

Yeah there were definitely some Iraq moments that were hard to tell if it was coincidental or not heh.

[HAcoreRD]

The Family Guy reference in the episode was brilliantly placed. Loved cartman's responce

[HAcoreRD]

all the videos gained over a million views now, and spam of:

"I'm not your friend, guy"
"I'm not your guy, buddy"
"I'm not your buddy, friend"

[Exoduso]

lol... what do you expect.

[Rafike]

The Family Guy reference in the episode was brilliantly placed. Loved cartman's responce

So true lol. Not that I am bad mouthing Family Guy because I love that show too, but they were pretty dead on making a joke about the repetitiveness surrounding jokes like "Oh you think thats bad remember the time..." coming from the show.