Review of Pinkeye

South Park: Pinkeye (1997)
Season 1, Episode 7
10/10
South Park of the Dead
2 June 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Warning do not read unless seen episode.

This is another of my favorite episodes, it was one of the shows first Halloween episodes and it's one of the best, it's one of my favorite Halloween episodes in general. It's a basic zombie plotline but what makes it really funny is in what the characters do under the circumstances.

One highlight of course is seeing Cartman in an Adolf Hitler costume. When I saw him wearing that I thought OMG, once again shows this kid has no moral qualms and how big his bigoted streak knows no bounds; though in his defense he probably doesn't know much about World War 2. It's funny when he is watching that PSA video his reaction which is of admiration, though what's really funny about that video is it has a Smokey the bear like mascot and his slogan just cracks me up, "Dressing up as Hitler isn't cool" it makes me wonder how often does that happen in South Park. And then Cartman's case is made even worse when we see the principal puts him in another costume to be a ghost but inadvertently makes Cartman into a Klansman. That just made me laugh harder even liked seeing Chief's reaction which was priceless.

Chief as usual is great, really like that he's in an Evol Kieval costume, as usual he exercises common sense. He has two comic silver moments, from one when he's in the doctor's office he tries finding out about the cause of the zombies but also demonstrating the existence of one, when he pulls out the arm of the doctor's patient whom unfortunately wasn't a zombie. That just cracked me up but show that Chief kind of has super strength to be able to do that. But the other was when he becomes a zombie and then does a parody of the "Thriller" music video, I'll admit Issacs's version of it was really cool.

Really like the zombie battle near the end which was cool as we see both Cartman and Stan are just going to town with the zombies with the chainsaws. Just left and right slicing and dicing off heads and limbs, guts flying all over the place, it's just gory mayhem. There is of course another sweet moment with Stan and Wendy. Wendy, we see has became a zombie and Stan is almost tempted to do her in. But he doesn't do it, sure what Wendy did was uncool, but it doesn't justify lethal action, and Stan's feelings for Wendy are strong so he's willing to forgive her.

This episode is contagious with fun.

Rating: 4 stars
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