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Doug's 1st Movie (1999)

You know....

[6 November 2011]

I looked up this movie on Wikipedia a few weeks ago to see what it was about. When I read the plot summary, I honestly thought that somebody had trolled the page and typed in the weirdest s*** they could think of. Then, after checking IMDb's plot summary, I realized that it was ACTUALLY ABOUT A FRIENDLY MONSTER NAMED HERMAN MELVILLE.

And the funny thing about this: I actually DID see this in theaters when it came out (back in '99, which made me 9 years old at the time), but I literally had NO memory of this movie. I remember everything else I've ever seen in theaters, to some degree, but not this one.

The fact that this movie was SO ridiculous, yet SOOOOO forgettable is a testament to its quality. I was a fan of the show too (when it was on Nickelodeon, I hated what Disney did to it).

Btw, "Doug's FIRST Movie"? Obviously, that title isn't descriptive enough; should've put "and only" somewhere in that title...

Beavis and Butt-Head: Werewolves of Highland/Crying (2011) Season 8, Episode 1

It's like they never left

[9/10 · 28 October 2011]

I gotta say, I was pretty skeptical when I heard that B&B was coming back. It's been 14 years since the last episode; the 90s are long gone (even the 00s had passed), so it seemed like the boys music, habits, and behavior would look strikingly outdated. Not to mention the fact that Mike Judge ended the show in '97 because he felt it had run its course. So how good could this show, based on 90s youth that supposedly ran its course by 1997, be here in 2011?

Pretty damn good, believe it or not. The show has obviously been updated a bit (obviously no Jersey Shore in the 90s, thank God), but for the most part, it had the exact same feel and charm as the original run of episodes, and it didn't even feel re-hashed at all. Not to mention, these two particular episodes ("Werewolves of Highland" and "Crying") were some of the funniest episodes I've ever seen, and its still just B&B being their classic selves. Some things never change, and they very well shouldn't.

There was one thing that bothered me a LITTLE bit though: Beavis. It's obvious his voice sounds different (lot deeper), but I really can't blame Mike Judge for that. However, he also seems a lot less energetic than he used to be. I don't know, maybe MJ is just getting warmed up.

In the slightly altered words of Joe Bob, "9 stars, check it out!"

South Park: Crack Baby Athletic Association (2011) Season 15, Episode 5

What is going on?

[1/10 · 26 May 2011]

SPOILER ALERT

First of all, the name sounded far-fetched enough: Crack Baby Athletic Association? Even with that title, I still expected something better than what I saw. Overall point: I've been watching the show for about 7 years, saw every one of them, and this was the worst I've ever seen.

The whole episode (or at least the first 3/4 of the episode) deals with Cartman and Kyle exploiting crack babies to get rich (Nowadays, its pretty much common knowledge that crack babies never existed). This whole plot came off as flat, nothing funny was said, and at times, it seemed like Trey Parker was going for shock humor. Don't be like Family Guy, Trey.

Then, it got even WORSE. In the last 5 minutes or so of the episode, they seemed to drop the entire crack baby plot (or rather, conveniently and quickly resolved it) and placed focus entirely on Slash, the GNR guitarist. WHY? What did Slash have anything to do with this episode? Has Slash done anything recently to warrant attention? Who even CARES about Slash these days? Just....ugh.

Fact of the matter is: South Park is in its 15th season. No show is still good at that point, and this is no exception. They've run out of ideas, and they're entering Family Guy territory. It's over.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Kangarilla and the Magic Tarantula (2010) Season 7, Episode 10

I am the ghost of the ghost...of the GHOST!

[10/10 · 21 September 2010]

I'm a very casual viewer of this show, and this is probably the episode I remember best for some reason. It's a great example of the randomness that ATHF is known for: Frylock gets a new smartphone with a cool game on it, and he and Master Shake are too distracted by it to notice that there's a freakin' ghost in their house. Since the ghost can't get their attention by being spooky, he just blows up the smartphone AND their house (it was Meatwad's idea). Only then do the two of them notice and still, they don't care very much. Enter Carl, who out of the blue calls his relative to make fun of her for giving Meatloaf a handjob. His cell phone signal "kills" the ghost, who returns seconds later as "the ghost of the ghost". Eventually, Carl and the Teens just keep killing him with the phone over and over.

And that's the episode...GODD*MN. It was awesome =D