GROUNDED VINDALOOP PATCH

GROUNDED VINDALOOP PATCH

This is where the episode starts to hit a patch of turbulence. Cartman realizes he is not only going to lose grip on a very funny running joke, but it could also get him into a hefty heap of trouble, so he does what any ten year old boy would do and sneaks into the hospital to convince his friend that he is in fact still in the virtual world. Butters still thinks he is in a video game when he decides to steal a car and attack a prostitute (normal behavior in modern gaming), landing him in the hospital. South Park is hardly known for its perfection in the field of animation, so when they take the time to detail a reaction to something as devastating as a sack punch from a ten year old, it hits the funny bone much harder than with other cartoons.Īlas, I digress.

An act that seems so juvenile is brought to hilarity by the perfect sound and facial reactions on Mr. This cues my personal favorite part in the episode in which Butters punches his dad in the groin, giving birth to the hardest laughter I have had in a while watching any television show.

Things get really out of hand, though, when Butters realizes that his actions no longer matter in the virtual world and begins to break the rules. Cartman is able to create a complete pseudo-VR experience by decorating his own room in his house to appear like a command center for the highly experimental headset.īutters is only able to put the goggles on and take them off when in the safety of Cartman’s room, therefore he is never able to piece together the concept that Eric is totally messing with him. Cartman controls Butters by telling him objectives and asking him to describe the “virtual world” around him, all the while Cartman is obviously laughing and bragging about his comic brilliance to the others. It starts strong by centering around Cartman and Butters (one of my personal favorite characters), with Cartman playing a prank on Butters by convincing him that an ordinary pair of protective goggles are in fact a highly powerful Virtual Reality (or VR for the true intellectuals) headset, much like the new Oculus Rift system. Where it begins, who it begins about, and where it ends are three completely different entities. Is this a bad thing? The episode is confusing but, within all the confusion, lies a couple really funny moments. The episode titled “Grounded Vindaloop” hit a brick wall during writing, but they finished the episode anyway. Whether it was forced or fluid, aggressive or lazy, you can sense it, and such is the case for the latest episode of South Park. On occasion, a show’s writing can be felt physically depending on the process behind it.

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