South Park (TV Series) The Red Badge of Gayness (1999) User Reviews

Solid early South Park episode on Civil War reenactments

[dangood107 · 8/10 · 22 July 2010]

This was one of the stronger episodes of South Park's 3rd Season, in my opinion. Cartman is hilarious as a Robert E. Lee impersonator. There's no other way to describe what he does in this episode than "Cartmanesque"- leading the residents of South Park on a country-wide rampage to "win" the Civil War for the Confederacy, not for any noble or high purposes, but purely out of his hate for Stan and Kyle (if he wins, they become his slaves). The episode also features Butters with an early speaking part, and great spoofs of Clinton and Gore. I especially recommend this episode for Civil War buffs- as long as you can deal with Civil War reenactments being made fun of.

A classic episode that has stood the test of time

[andy-gianniotis · 9/10 · 4 February 2022]

I came here expecting to see universal praise for one of the more iconic of episodes but it is a mixed bag instead. This is Cartman at his finest (in terms of the episodes to-date at the time it was released) and one of the first episodes where we see his genius at work, instead of just being pathetically funny. How anyone can not see the greatness in this episode is beyond me.

Easily 9 stars.

One of the weaker episodes, still decent though

[gangstahippie · 7/10 · 5 November 2008]

Red Badge of Gayness is one of the weaker episodes of South Park.It's not as funny or entertaining as the other episodes.It's still pretty decent though.There is no real "bad" episode of South Park.This episode has the men of South Park engaging in a civil war reenactment.Cartman places a bet with Stan and Kyle that if the south wins, they have to be his slaves.The boys agree knowing that they lost, however Cartman has some tricks up his sleeve as usual.The men get really drunk while participating and with the aid of Cartman, they go around the United States and take over towns.It's up to Stan and Kyle to stop them.The episode has some laughs, and was overall decent, it was just one of the weaker South Park episodes.

Just too tedious

[10086cn · 1/10 · 10 November 2021]

This episode suffered through the same issue that the Bob's Burgers episode Burger War and the American Dad episode The Long Bomb did, in that it was extremely slow to get through the entire episode. During the first 10 minutes, I personally found it really hard to focus on the plot of this episode of South Park and after every minute I would constantly forget what was going on, and in the last 10 minutes, I decided "enough is enough" and got a speed increaser extension and had to watch this episode in 4x speed, JUST SO THAT I COULD FINISH OFF THIS EPISODE WITHOUT LOSING MY SANITY.

If I HAVE to do such a thing whenever I watch an episode of a TV show, the 1 star rating is wholly justified. I definitely DO NOT recommend this episode to people who have short attention spans.