• 8Jun 07

  Random Thoughts

  I was thinking about the 'Cartoon Wars' episode of South Park and realized how inaccurate the flashbacks were(at least based on the new 'Family Guy' episodes). "Cartoon Wars' portrayed FG flashbacks as actually being funny, which is more that you get in FG lately. Take for example the Star Wars cutaway from 'Barely Legal', a joke thats seemingly random but on closer inspection it's a joke that tries to make some sort of half-baked point about the Emperor or something. I can only imagine that creative process for that joke-"You know how the Emperor says 'darkside' a lot or something, I guess". Thats where this joke fails, it tries to parody a character from a movie which the writers are obviously in love with and fails miserably as it makes no sense, to top it off even at 10 seconds it feels like forever. It looked like the writers let the source pick the joke, big mistake.

  The South Park flashbacks, however, delivered poetry the likes of which old FG episodes had and new ones wish they did. Absolutely random and gone before you realize what happened. And best of all theres no talent necessary, just pick someone and have them pop up for no reason and leave before people get angry.

  To be fair poorly thoughtout jokes like the aforementioned 'Star Wars' one dont dominate FG but part of the success of FG came from quick Flashbacks that stated their punchline and left. The show is nowfilled with minute-long jokes that go no where. After all, brevity is the soul of wit.

  • Posted Jun 8, 2007 7:15 pm PT
  • Category: TV
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