South Park (TV Series) D-Yikes! (2007) User Reviews

Surprisingly Good

[KingMFreak · 8/10 · 12 April 2007]

Usually around this time in the South Park run, the episodes get a little stale. However, I felt that D-Yikes was, while nothing special in the South Park spectrum, a well done episode.

Herbert Garrison (now Janet) has been the shows most diverse character. He started as a straight man with a talking puppet (Mr. Hat) who hated gays, but eventually found he was gay (and in this process Mr. Hat disappeared). Garrison stayed gay for several seasons, providing some great story points (Death Camp of Tolerance). In season 9, he was unfortunately made into a woman (or so he thought), and eventually forced to stay. The Garrison character stopped being very funny, and now is actually amusing again. Now she's a lesbian.

Garrison, after being dumped again, meets a fellow female at Curves who brings her to the bar Les Bos (see the pun?), a lesbian bar. Garrison discovers "scissoring," in the most graphic sex scene on South Park since Dawkins made love to Garrison last season.

Then the show turns into a 300 spoof. I have to admit my feelings on this are very mixed. 300 is a rather easy target, and the jokes they make are fairly predictable. However, it is still funny to see how they dramatize things. Several times a character does something meaningless (like bite a chip) and the whole sequence slows down to emphasize the action. Garrison making coffee is probably the most inspired use, making fun of how 300 constantly goes to slow-mo for its action scenes.

The whole Persian thing was a bit forced, but then I have to admit I didn't get the Persian joke (where they came from or what group they were making fun of, if any). I won't speculate too long, but when Xerxes and Garrison scissor, it's one of the funnier and more graphic scenes I've seen.

Very little is seen of the four boys, except when they hire Mexicans to help do their homework at write essays. The Mexicans think they mean Eses (I'm not sure how spell that, but the latino slang for friend) and is one of the funnier moments of the episode. Otherwise the episode isn't anything special.

It rises above the lice episode simply because it once again reinvents Garrison for the better this time (the Mayor's reaction, "You're a lesbian now," is priceless). Garrison is one of the most conceited characters to walk South Park's screen, almost as bad as Cartman. Hopefully episode 7 will whet our appetites for what will come again in the future. We can only hope.

Scissor Me Timbers!

[niallb_arseface · 8/10 · 7 November 2008]

D-Yikes is definitely one of the stronger episodes of season 11, funny, imaginative and intelligent, as always it's hilarious and extremely enjoyable to watch. The episode revolves around Mrs. Garrison, at the beginning she is aggravated that her date blew off, because she was asked if she used to be a man. Later on she becomes friends with Allison, and is invited to her local bar "LesBos", and proceeds to find out "LesBos" is actually a lesbian bar. It is at this point South Park start to mock the film "300". Persians attempt to buy out "lesBos", a reference to the Persians attacking the Spartans. Garrison kicks a Persian in the balls, a reference to when Leonidas kicks a Persian messenger down a hole, and ans many more. The episode is full of "300" style special effects, and is still remains hilarious. The dialogue is funny, written very well and just a well rounded good episode in my opinion.

I give it 8/10

Decent

[gangstahippie · 8/10 · 21 September 2008]

I thought D-Yikes was a pretty decent South Park episode.It has Mr Garrison changing once again.It's really funny, at the beginning of the series he started off as a straight(maybe in the closet) male, then he comes out of the closet as a homosexual male, then he got a sex change operation and became a straight female, then in this episode, she becomes a lesbian! After she becomes a lesbian, she visits a bar where lesbians hang out called "LesBos".But it is being bought by Persians and as a spoof of the movie "300", the lesbians fight the persians while Garrison finds a secret of her own about the persian leader.It's alright but not the best South Park episode.

This...is...Les Bos!

[clownbaby866 · 11 April 2007]

Once again, another great SouthPark episode for Season 11. this time it's a parody of the current film 300. With the stylish camera angles, dark clouds, the persians as enemies, voice over narration, and of course, the slow-motion & fast motion editing techniques. This is all taken straight from 300. The parody starts a little later in the episode, with the earlier part surrounding the boys quest to get their paper done, and Mrs. Garrison first discovering she's a lesbian.

Other various quarks of this episode are the portrayal of the Mexicans, and the idea of lesbian sex being called "scissoring." this term will definitely catch on with fans. I immediately loved it, and knew i would repeat it as a common SouthParkian catch phrase. the Mexican portrayal was quite humorous. not too offensive, not overdone in any way, but just a nice little addition to the episode.

Overall, this episode was great. Not sure how it will be viewed in years to come, like many SouthPark episodes, they really on current political issues, or other media sources (ie. the last two episodes, parodies of 24 and the Da Vinci Code). Anyways, I believe that in the future this will still be considered a humorous episode...Now...who wants to scissor?

"Scissor Me Timbers"

[Bizzy-Mystery · 10/10 · 29 December 2007]

A great Episode of South Park once again, Mr/Mrs Garrison decides that she is a lesbian, going from a straight man, to a homosexual man, to a straight woman, Garrison has got to the sexual preference of lesbian.

The episode is a spoof of the film 300. cartman gets his friends to get their homework done by some Mexican immigrants which goes wrong.

Once Garrison becomes a lesbian she goes to the "girl Bar" with her "friend" she met at the gym. They join with all the other girls to try and save there bar from being bought out

Quite disturbing ending.

My favourite quote "scissor me timbers".

10/10

One half of the episode I adore, the other half not so much

[SLionsCricketreviews · 6/10 · 2 January 2018]

"D-Yikes" is yet another slight letdown for me personally in this eleventh season and is making my fears that the show is now on its inevitable and eventual decline more palpable. Here is another episode of Ms. Garrison which in itself is always delightful as Mr. Garrison was always one of my favourite characters and Ms. Garrison herself has proven to be a wonderful asset to the show.

The first half of the episode concerns Ms. Garrison's exasperation with the superficial experience of dating men reaching a boiling point, only to then seek solace among women. This episode sees Ms. Garrison become a lesbian, a story arc that I look forward to watching. There is plenty of humour in this half whether it be the events that surround Ms. Garrison and her passionate hate speeches on men (which are hilarious) or the repercussions of her frustrated dating life on her students (who are forced to read an Ernest Hemingway novel and write a book report on it). This half of the episode feels as natural and as fresh and funny as South Park when it is near its best.

The unemployed Mexican characters are perfect, funny, subdued in their portrayal and the payoff in the final scene is truly perfect. The fact that Matt and Trey, who are renowned for their indifferent racist portrayals of various cultures on the show could portray the unemployed Mexicans as intelligent, friendly and competent is fantastic. The final scene with the Mexicans substituting for Garrison and teaching the class how to add fractions is fantastic and the degree to which they are not only competent but informative to the class is hilarious and dare I say, beautiful.

The half that does not work so well for me here is the majority of the second half which acts as a parody of the film "300". This is due mostly to the parody element being the far less interesting part of the greater story for me as well as the fact that I personally did not find it particularly funny. The attempts at an aesthetic replication of the film, whether it be the oblique "camera" angles or the emphasis and overuse of slow motion or the drab colour palette or even the narration never meshed in a way that feels totally satisfying and coherent for me, especially within the context of the episode. The show has done mimicry and parody much better earlier in the show but here it felt somewhat forceful to me. This half is where my concerns that the show might be on the decline are becoming increasingly more real despite the fact that this eleventh season still has a number of very highly regarded episodes to come.

"D-Yikes" is an overall interesting experience for me. My feelings are very mixed, on the one hand there is half an incredibly strong episode that is funny, enjoyable and loyal to the spirit of South Park and there is another half that aspires to the parody and satire that the show usually does very well but leaves me feeling cold. Is South Park on the slow decline at this point? It would not be surprising given just how emphatic a run the show had between season five right through to season nine (and even season ten) which were magnificent television.

buen episodio, ese

[RainDogJr · 29 December 2008]

So this episode is the first one of the second disc of the Season 11 3-disc set. I'm writing this after watching all of the four episodes of that second disc then the only episodes from Season 11 that for me are still left to see are the 3 Imaginationland episodes. With D-Yikes! and Night of the Living Homeless the first run of Season 11 ended and while both are funny and overall good episodes both episodes are probably my least favourites of this Season in contrast of the first two episodes of the second run (that also are on the second disc) that are two of my favourites but that is certainly another story.

So D-Yikes! has more about Garrison, you know he was gay, later he had a sex change operation, she was against gay marriage, she finally had a date with a man and she is now a lesbian. So is funny! 300 stuff with Persians as the new owners of the bar Les Bos, the place of the lesbians. 300 style, very funny stuff and the truth about the Persian leader Xerxes! Also hilarious stuff with some Mexicans (and Jimmy, one of their eses), I just loved the very last scene with the Mexicans replacing Mrs. Garrison at the South Park Elementary and doing by far a better job!

Something from Trey and Matt's mini commentary: basically both hated 300 ("looks like s*** and is stupid, look at our stuff is real quality"!) unlike the remake of Dawn of the Dead that for them was amazing (I haven't seen it yet) so being the same director they though 300 was going to amazing.