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Lets go on down to South Park: Season 16, Sweet!
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I has a shop
And women should just take the extra two seconds to lower the seat, m i rite?
aka, classic South Park
Once they start succumbing to fatigue from writing and animating a new episode every week, they'll get better.
I thought the episode was funny and I laughed pretty hard at most of it, but it was just nonsensical. I liked the "cash for holding signs" sign guys though.
I used to talk to people who had to do that, its really shitty. You just stand there for like 6-8 hours for 50$, and if the guy who hires you drives by and doesn't see you, you dont get paid at all(so no bathroom/lunch/breaks). Had a girl who stood outside near the retail store I worked at in college run in talking about being bored out of her ass and needed the cheapest pocket radio we sold so she wouldnt be bored just standing out there. It was near 100 and she wasn't drinking anything, I thought she was going to die. I feel bad for the poor SOB's that have to put on costumes while doing it.
Half the point is to do it on those kinds of days so people quit after 4-6 hours and you dont have to pay them, at least from what I have seen.
Yeah we stick our elderly in homes and far too many never visit then you have the cons and assholes preying on that loneliness through shitty jewelry and identity theft.
We are the enablers.
Yeah I guess that makes sense.
Also they stuck him there because, well he has Alzheimer's and can't take care of him anymore. It's an exhausting disease on a family.
Those pawn places... I get they have to make a profit but it's a bit silly. Had a friend who got a ring appraised at a jewerly store for around 10 grand on gold worth alone with an offer to buy it for around there(with a under cut for small margin reasons), and next day when at the pawn shop asked them what they'd give him and they took it, weighed it and figured out the contents, etc. Told him 125$, then "ok, ok, $140" when he said no thanks. I wonder if they get fucked on the smelting costs in the circle of douchery.
...God, that's dark.
I also liked the song at the end that seemed to just be Trey and Matt doing monkey sounds.
Yeah, the jewelry store was buying the ring, with the craftsmanship and work that went into it to resell it to a person who wanted a ring, unless the guy was walking around with 3 ounces of gold in that ring, the jeweler wasn't appraising it on gold worth. The pawn shop was just interested in the gold to sell it to smelters. Yeah, gold's expensive, but it's nothing compared to the time and effort of a skilled artisan who makes it into something beautiful.
I know it doesn't make a difference to your friend, but that's reason for the difference in the offered prices. Though, I imagine that the owners of the cash 4 gold type chains are screwing over the store managers every bit as hard as the store managers are screwing over the sign flippers. I guess I'm trying to say that there's no limit to the amount of people getting screwed here.
I still don't get how no one realizes how bad a deal it is. "Send us your stuff, then we'll send you whatever we determine it's worth!"
buying a gold coin that is not even an actual currency (and drops in value the second you buy it) with the idea that you are investing
or the idea that buying a shiny metal that (while having some nice industrial applications) is mostly valued aesthetically and does not produce income could even be considered investment
god damn i do not understand why people can't intuit that as a bad idea
It was just a B-plot. If it had been a few minutes here and there of characters doing increasingly bizarre things (and then getting killed by trains) in the background, then it would have been fine. But when there's nothing else, you get a bit bored.
Bad, bad episode.
Oprah's muff was still the worst South Park episode by far, this isn't even close. It did feel padded and I thought they would rip into the memes a bit more, like how they went after harley riders.
Yeah the Oprah episode is probably the worst I've ever seen.
sorta pushing a single sketch idea farther than it should probably go
which is okay with me actually
Some funny bits here and there.
'Go back to the nineties, fah-gootttts!!
The delivery on that line was amazing.
And yeah, I laughed plenty as well.
Though, it was clear they had no idea how to end it. Which doesn't seem unusual based on their mini-commentaries. From their commentaries, it's basically we had a funny idea for a premise and had a few scenes we thought we're really good (T.M.I. for instance, they seemed really fixated on the Cartman and Principal Victoria scene about "Why'd you post the boys' penis sizes?!"/"Why did you?!"), threw it together and hoped it worked.
Sometimes South Park doesn't have to make sense.
Ol' Long Johnson debating the Republicans had me laughing my ass off.
And instead hit the reporter at the end, right before he was killed by the train.