South Park (TV Series) The Ring (2009) User Reviews

Mr. Mouse

[RainDogJr · 9/10 · 12 March 2009]

Well friends South Park is finally back, Season 13 and yesterday aired the first episode "The Ring". I haven't seen yet last Season's premiere episode, "Tonsil Trouble", but I do can say that "The Ring" is a really solid show, actually just as mind blowing as the previous premiere episodes "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson" and "The Return of Chef". Trey and Matt always remarks that as the Season goes on shows get better and better, I certainly expect many great things of the upcoming 6 episodes that will complete the first run of Season 13, meanwhile I found in "The Ring" a truly great and very memorable episode.

We have two stories; we have the Jonas Brothers (nice to see their 3D movie in the second place of IMDb bottom 100 movies with a user rating of 1.3/10. Just terrific), little girls love them blah blah blah. There's great stuff on Disney, how they sell (certainly in this case with the Jonas C***s******) sex to little girls disguised as something pure. Certainly the Jonas F****** are just untalented f****, their boss is the boss, the one with the control since the 50s, is damn great, maybe I wanted more bizarre stuff with Mr. Mouse but still is just fantastic to hear him saying why he thinks of the fans of the Jonas Brothers and of the Christians!

The ending of this episode is truly great just as the beginning, and it begins with the boys amazed by a fact, something that looked just impossible, especially for Cartman ("you are poor, chicks don't like that"), but that now is real: Kenny has a girlfriend! Only great fun (kids being kids) when the boys tires to warn their friend of the fact that his new and first girlfriend is for everybody a whore, is great because we know Kenny damn well so you imagine what happen when the boys say to Kenny that is known that his girlfriend gave a boy a B.J.! But we will lose Kenny, the Kenny who loves to look at playboys or to get high with paint and all because of that Christian ring that reminds him about the fun stuff he now can't do. When we have Kenny buying a DVD of Grey's Anatomy is time to act, is time to save a pal. South Park is back, first show of 2009 is a terrific one! 9.5 out of 10

A surprisingly good season opener

[piperian396 · 8/10 · 15 March 2009]

This episode is very good as far as South Park's recent episodes go. Lately I've been getting the feeling that South Park doesn't feel like an animated comedy, and more of a vehicle for Trey and Matt's commentaries on modern culture.

This episode has commentaries on culture, but the plot relies on one of the characters, this time Kenny. Kenny doesn't usually get very many episodes centered around him, but when he does they are usually incredibly funny, such as Major Boobage.

The plot revolves around Kenny getting a girlfriend, and in an attempt to get her to perform a certain act on him he gets her tickets to a Jonas Brothers concert. But the Jonas Brothers take her back stage, and instead of using her like a groupie they give her a ring to have her pledge abstinence and stay out of trouble. I don't want to give away too much of the plot, but it all turns into a funny commentary on subjects like Disney and Grey's Anatomy.

All in all I'd recommend this episode to fans of the show.

South Park takes a stab at tween & teen girls...yet again!(minor spoilers)

[gangstahippie · 9/10 · 14 March 2009]

"The Ring" is the season premiere of South Park.The show is now in it's 13th season.Season 12 was fairly good, but not as good as the others.Season 13 however has started off with a bang! The episode spoofs the Disney tween & teen sensation "The Jonas Brothers".The episode is about Kenny getting a new girlfriend, however finding out she is a slut.He is happy about this.She says that the jonas brothers turn her on, so he takes her to a concert.His girlfriend goes backstage and the Jonas Brothers give them "purity rings" meaning they cannot have sex until they are married.Kenny and her slowly start becoming an old boring married couple.Stan, Kyle and Cartman are worried about him and they try to stop the Jonas Brothers and the purity rings.However the boss of the Disney network wants the purity rings to go.Guess who the boss is?...It's Mickey Mouse! Mickey Mouse is shown as the boss of the Disney channel and is shown as somewhat mean and profane.The episode in my opinion was very good.The concert scene was very realistic as it had all the tween and teen girls screaming loudly during the concert.I currently attend high school and I am in my final year.There are plenty of girls who still go crazy over "The Jonas Brothers".This actually is not the first time Trey and Matt have made fun of the tween/teen demographic and Disney.Season 12's "Elementary School Musical" was also another jab at this demographic and it made fun of the "High School Musical" series.Also "The Ungroundable" mentioned "Twilight" and made fun of the whole vampire counter-culture(which I actually never have seen)."Britney's New Look" might have been a jab as well.However out of all of those, "The Ring" is probably the best one! It's hilarious and very entertaining.A great start to Season 13! It also features Kenny dying again for the first time in a while!

This time Kenny died with a smile on his face

[Payback1016 · 10/10 · 7 July 2009]

I love this episode the best parts are how evil Mickey Mouse and Disney can be even attacking there own profit makers as demonstrated when Mickey bootf**ks one of the Jonas Brothers for refusing to play the music ha-ha. still the best part is when after Disney's evil plan to sell sex was exposed. Kenny finally gets laid and dies afterwards, however unlike his tragic and funny deaths in the past 11 seasons (he doesn't die in season 12 sorry folks) he died with a smile on his face. but seriously folks Syphalis is a terrible disease so those still rocking the casbah that don't wish to die a painful death use protection.

Political Commentary on Tween Sex

[Filmmaker 13 · 10/10 · 12 March 2009]

South Park takes on Disney. Trey and Matt always say that the simplest idea is one that ususally turns out good and this episode proves their point. What is continually impressive and entertaining about SP is that they continually focus on just one story without getting side tracked and still have it rife with political and social satire. In this episode they explain the real reason why the Jonas Brothers wear purity rings (turns out Disney likes to sell sex to little girls. Just watch the episode). What is truly amazing is that at the end of what is an episode I predict will never be in syndication on a major network, they make the point about tweens not having sex that is far more convincing and brilliant than those rings ever could. I still have loyalty to the Simpsons so it makes it hard to admit this, but South Park is the best show on television. Not so hard to admit that it even on it's worst day South Park surpasses Family Guy on its best.

Oops, they predicted everything!

[minutolo · 9/10 · 3 September 2021]

This is just commentary on Disney being a corporate hellhole. This is nothing new.

Welp... time to re-watch Wandavision.

Really funny until..

[rhcplolla2012 · 6/10 · 1 May 2022]

The episode was a fantastic exposure of the perverse minds at Disney and their history. It goes downhill, near the end, with the antichristian drivel, that always seems to slither into entertainment, whether we notice it or not. I think South Park can be hilarious and a brilliant satire but sometimes they become hypocrites of intolerance.

I feel, frankly, disappointed...

[clumsy85 · 5/10 · 12 March 2009]

Premises for South Park have always been popular culture. However, one of the strengths of the series has always been the subtlety with which the writers showed their opinions towards the subject matter. This lacked both subtlety and real substance.

Amusing moments, no doubt. However, amusing in a chuckling way, not the 'laugh out loud' manner to which South Park fans have become accustomed. The last five minutes of the episode showed some depths of creativity and intelligence, however this did little to reflect the lack of depth of the rest of the episode. Caricaturing was grossly exaggerated, and not in an intelligent way. Over the top. Perhaps unnecessary.

A good idea ruined by an elongated beginning which never quite metamorphosised into a full episode. The major characters were marginalised, focusing too heavily on pop-culture references which could be lost on a large part of the audience.

However, let it be said that Cartman, albehim a peripheral character, was as ever amusing and insightful. What a shame that his intelligence was lost in a maelstrom of OTT zeitgeist humour.

5/10 - perhaps South Park has, as ever, set its standards incredibly high. However, most people should expect more from satirical writers.

Trey and Matt...you're better than that

[randomorwhat · 5/10 · 12 March 2009]

Season beginnings are always tough, particularly when you have raised the bar as high as South Park has with regards to satire. However, I approached season 13 with trepidation. I'd been hurt before by recent seasons (Pandemic 1+2, Imaginationland) and was thus understandably nervous. First off, whilst the Jonas Brothers are a much deserved object of ridicule, are they not simply too easy a target? The same accusation could have been levelled at Paris Hilton; however, Matt n Trey carried THAT episode off with panache, poking fun at a culture that deifies promiscuity and reality TV without resorting to cheap, corporate symbols (an increasingly irritating Mickey Mouse). In all the episode, whilst containing a number of amusing moments, did not do enough to justify its content. The main comedic sources (the boys) were marginalised to the detriment of the episode, whilst the Disney references were overdone (I mean WHO KNEW that Disney were an evil corporation?) That said, seasons often have a tendency to start off slowly, and it is this hope that keeps me on edge, praying for a return to form.

South Park is going down hill......

[richenstony · 4/10 · 12 March 2009]

This episode of south park has to be without a doubt , one of the worst i have ever seen in my entire life! I mean its so dam boring , hardly any swearing , any rude jokes , its going down hill fast the writers need to come up with something more original if it wants its millions of fans to keep watching because write now i think their loosing the plot or they was extremely high when they wrote this episode. I thought the idea of these shows was to expose the frauds and facts of the world ... Sure the Jonas brothers are lame and fake , but they could of picked someone a lot more interesting to rip! That's all im saying , i hope the next episodes are better than this horse plop.