In this MEGA episode, cartoon genius Henry Gilbert of the Talking Simpsons and What A Cartoon podcasts helps us unpack South Park’s tangled screed against: Minority women in movies, Kathleen Kennedy’s stewardship of Disney (Lucasfilms), AI, Student Loans, Class Warfare, and How Nobody Knows How to Work with Their Hands Anymore ALSO: Would it be an episode of MDC if we didn’t read a few beautifully-written 10/10 imdb reviews for the Racial Multiverse epic? Sign up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult for instant access to hundreds of bonus episodes right in your podcast app or browser
So while he's talking to his therapist, like another dream sequence occurs and but butters is a woman of color.
I think I think butters is black.
And, you know, he's saying everyone around me is being systematically replaced.
And then we get like a clip, you know, sort of like dreamlike editing.
And we get a clip of Cartman as Kathleen Kennedy, who's pounding her desk and saying, fuck it, make it more lame.
Put another gay, diverse woman in it.
Make it more fucking lame.
Um, and yeah, it's, it's, um, that's what you were saying.
The quote of the, uh, of the episode is put a chick in it, put a chick in it and make it gay.
So like, like we're still hearing stunning and brave.
We are most likely going to be seeing put a chick in it and make it gay or make it lame for the next 10 years.
No, I fucking hate knowing that.
Like I hate knowing that in any, and I also hate being in the position of defending Disney movies that I don't think are good or just like, well, yeah, this movie isn't great.
Like I watched that new Indiana Jones movie.
The problem isn't that a flea bag is in it.
The problem is, is that an 80 year old man is an action star in a two and a half hour movie and it's too fucking long and boring.
She is not the problem.
And I have to say, as a gay, when they say like, oh, and make it gay, that is actually the opposite.
Like I am not being pandered to enough with homosexuality and this stuff because If they ever have a gay character there to the side and in an area that can be clipped out so it can be released in Saudi Arabia or China like this is so they don't make it gay.
So I also I find it to be like even just a shitty joke about pandering in woke movies.
That's okay.
So my mistake, I need to correct myself.
Yeah.
Kathleen Kennedy Lucasfilms did the new Indiana Jones.
I just forgot that because I didn't bother watching the new Indiana Jones because I mean, no offense, Henry, but like, I couldn't be bothered to, like, I don't, I'm not interested in it.
It was a waste of time.
I heard there was going to be a woman in it, and I was like, well, I didn't like the last time that happened.
I mean, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
No, actually, I kind of like Kingdom of the Crystal Skull a little bit.
Shia LaBeouf is the woman in that movie.
They put him in it and made it gay.
I would also say for Matt and Trey, many times for the entirety of South Park, a strong influence for them is reacting to whatever happens in a Star Wars or Indiana Jones movie.
It's led to some of their biggest episodes, and this is them returning to the well of like, well, there was a new Indiana Jones movie.
The previous one they did was after Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
They make it about sexual assault that Indiana Jones has been literally sexually assaulted by Spielberg and Lucas and they're going to be arrested and they then use it to parody famous sexual assault scenes from movies and it's like so they already have their now they're also of the opinion of like the guys who said that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg Raped Indiana Jones.
Now they're like, actually, we miss Spielberg and Lucas.
We wish we hate this Kathleen Kennedy lady.
Um, yeah, I don't, I don't know, like, I don't think I heard really many of the complaints about that movie were about her being in it.
It was just like, this is, the well is dry for this franchise.
Um, let's, let's keep going.
Um, so the background characters in this, in this Eric Cartman dream, they're all, you know, black or brown women in pantsuits or like club dresses kind of, I guess.
Um, I think one of them is supposed to be Miss Marvel.
Uh, she's got like the, Glasses of that character, I believe.
But they're doing a lot of complaining about modern superhero movies and putting chicks in them and no one wants to see them, yada, yada, yada.
And it's like, Ms.
Marvel, that's like an original property.
These new female-fronted superhero movies, I'm not saying they're good, but they're like, Their original ideas.
It's not like Iron Heart instead of Iron Man, which is, again, an original idea, but it's not even at that level.
Well, I do like that later they make the point of saying like, oh, but Miles Morales is cool.
We're not complaining.
They still like him.
They want that to be very clear.
I just hate it.
I hate it that the criticism comes down to, well, good movies are good, you know, and bad movies.
It's like everybody knows this, man.
You didn't have to make an episode of TV about it.
One of the people in the background has Vitiligo.
I don't know if anybody else spotted that, but it's like, man, this person, this, like Matt Stone or Trey Parker, I don't remember who has more influence on the writing or whatever, but one of them definitely like looked at a Levi's email and got really mad.
That's exactly what it was, because I was thinking about it.
You don't see that type of representation in Hollywood, but you do see it in fashion and modeling.
Yeah, or skin care ads.
You're totally right.
Yeah, they saw it in some ad and they were like, I don't like this.
They can't relate to this at all.
If we're going to have our joke about diversity, we have to have that in there too.
Yes.
It really is amazing how much of American politics revolves around like what's on TV, literally what is on TV.
And so many of these great replacement theories and paranoia comes from literally interracial TV commercials.
They will tell you that themselves.
So, yeah, the Vitiligo thing just made me laugh, because, you know, I knew I knew exactly where that was from.
Yeah.
OK, so the therapist says that Carmen's actually afraid of A.I.
and he should become an elite worker like the therapist is so that he can't be replaced by A.I.
And I'm like, OK, so this is going to be the plot of the episode.
Yeah.
And then the outlet goes out.
The handyman comes here, but he can't fix it right now because he's got other work to do.
And the therapist is like, well, I can pay you more.
And the guy's like, oh, they're already offering me $100 instead of your $50.
And the therapist is like, well, I'll pay you in therapy.
I'll give you free therapy.
And then that's when he says, well, I have the Freud bot or the Freud app.
I Freud.
And that's my therapy.
And that's the joke.
There's like no other joke on top of that, but he walks out.
But the joke is that the fat therapist got his ass owned by the handyman.
Like that's basically what I think where the entertainment comes in.
Um, but nobody like nobody who could afford real therapy is going to switch to app based therapy.
It's only going to be people who are too poor to talk to another human being.
Well, I mean, one of Matt and Trey's favorite things is a smug liberal being put in his place by a salt-of-the-earth regular guy.
Like, they love that.
And so here's a smug liberal who's like, well, my job's irreplaceable.
And then a handyman who works with his hands and is a real man, like he gets to tell him, fuck off, loser.
I don't need you like that.
And he puts him in his place.
A handyman who just comes over to tell you he can do the job in three weeks.
Mm hmm.
Well, I do think this also comes personally from like Matt and Trey's lives of just like their homeowners and their giant mansions.
And they they're mad that handymen can't do something the day they call them.
I think I think it really just comes from that.
I don't know.
I've, like, only for, like, giant jobs, like a new roof or, like, a new plumbing system, does somebody come over and, like, get the lay of the land and give you all the options and then they'll get you an estimate the next day or whatever.
If you call an electrician, they'll come over and do the work.
They're not going to come over twice to do one job, you know.
But anyway, I'm just being petty about that.
I do like, I do like how they're all in therapy though.
Like that's, like the handyman's like, oh no, like the therapist is in this, you know, we value therapy.
It has, you know, I can exchange this with you and the therapist.
He's like, I already go to therapy.
AI or not.
It's just fun.
It's just cool.
It's funny that like, They're like, oh, this guy who we're portraying to be kind of like a low IQ kind of dude, kind of just like a dummy.
He knows how to turn a wrench.
Goes to therapy.
So that's cool.
I did expect him to say, I don't go therapy.
That's gay or whatever.
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess so.
Maybe that's the joke, too, is that this guy would go to therapy, would have a therapy app.
I guess that's part of it.
But so then we cut to a breaking news segment.
Nobody knows how to do shit anymore.
We cut to a reporter in his own bathroom standing in his tub.
He's complaining about how his shower tile Needs to be replaced.
And he says something like, well, the local handyman is all booked up by other white collar workers whose practical skills are non-existent.
And it's, you know, the joke again is like, you know, nobody can do anything anymore.
And it's like tile, tile isn't easy to do.
Like you, you definitely should not do your own tile.
Yeah.
Like it's going to take probably if even if you do it yourself, it's going to take, take a couple of days, dude.
Like I don't, and it's like stressful work with the grout and the drying times and all that.
Like I, it's very funny to think like, They're they're hearkening back to an older time when men did their own tie, you know, and it's like maybe if you got a handyman grandpa or, you know, dad or whatever, they're doing that stuff.
But that's not exactly common, especially like somebody who's a full time reporter for the for the news.
Did we ever think that people we see on TV did these things themselves?
I mean, I think they all just have fuzzy memories that my dad could fix anything, even though their dad probably couldn't.
But they're like, my dad could fix anything.
I wish I was as good as my dad.
I feel like it comes from the same place as like, honestly, one of like a Tyler Durden speech about how like we used to be able to do stuff and now we're all snowflakes who can't do anything.
Um, you will.
I mean, that's what happens when, when you take tile and grout work out of public schools, this is what happens.
And replace it with critical race theory, right?
Yeah.
It quote, it appears we've all screwed ourselves by relying on technology and AI.
Again, such phone bad boomer shit.
I'm astounded by it.
Relying on technology and AI.
What do you mean by that?
You're relying on technology.
The only other thing I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, the only other thing we see them trying to use AI for is Stan telling Siri to fix his oven door.
And she's just giving him step-by-step instructions
