Writers Matt Stone & Trey Parker create one of their finest satires in SOUTH PARK by taking the story of "The Iron Giant" (and I'm sure countless other tales of the sort where the lonely kid befriends a robot) and flipping it perfectly. Butters is the lonely boy, often ridiculed at school and something of an outsider in the social circle that he is often a part of and the robot that Butters suddenly finds his companion is....Cartman!
Watching Cartman play the guise of AWESOM-O is absolutely hysterical. It is a perfect little satire and Trey Parker's vocal performance defies words. The fact that his voice is as far from sounding robotic makes the robot guise even funnier.
Cartman's plan to infiltrate Butters' personal life to acquire embarrassing stories with which to humiliate him backfires in the most epic way imaginable. That is part of what I love so much about this episode, watching Cartman's plan misfire to the extent that it does here. While it is often hilarious to watch Cartman escape punishment, the opposite works perfectly here. He finds himself in a position beyond which he bargained for and the result is hilarious, whether it be Butters "starving" his "new" friend OR taking AWESOM-O to Los Angeles on a trip to visit his aunt and uncle OR Cartman getting into the movie business.
This is an outrageously hilarious comedy. It also manages to find something strangely touching about the often sad life of Leopold 'Butters' Stotch and his feeling and experience of being an outsider. It takes the story trope of movies like "E.T" and "The Iron Giant" among other literature and the sort and twists it perfectly.
"AWESOM-O" is absurdly hilarious. One of my favourites. Cartman discovers new levels of being pathetic and cruel!
Watching Cartman play the guise of AWESOM-O is absolutely hysterical. It is a perfect little satire and Trey Parker's vocal performance defies words. The fact that his voice is as far from sounding robotic makes the robot guise even funnier.
Cartman's plan to infiltrate Butters' personal life to acquire embarrassing stories with which to humiliate him backfires in the most epic way imaginable. That is part of what I love so much about this episode, watching Cartman's plan misfire to the extent that it does here. While it is often hilarious to watch Cartman escape punishment, the opposite works perfectly here. He finds himself in a position beyond which he bargained for and the result is hilarious, whether it be Butters "starving" his "new" friend OR taking AWESOM-O to Los Angeles on a trip to visit his aunt and uncle OR Cartman getting into the movie business.
This is an outrageously hilarious comedy. It also manages to find something strangely touching about the often sad life of Leopold 'Butters' Stotch and his feeling and experience of being an outsider. It takes the story trope of movies like "E.T" and "The Iron Giant" among other literature and the sort and twists it perfectly.
"AWESOM-O" is absurdly hilarious. One of my favourites. Cartman discovers new levels of being pathetic and cruel!