South Park and Doctor Who

I still maintain the South Park is the only TV show to get better the longer it goes on. To begin with it was just 4 kids messing around with Kenny dying every now and again. Then around seasons 5 to 8 there were eppisodes such as Scott Tenorrman must die, A Ladder to Heaven and The Return of the Fellowship of the ring to the Two Towers. The last one being about getting some LOTR porn back from butters and some 'big kids'.

Then who could predict it could get even better?

Season 10 onwards has rewarded us with greats such as The WoW episode, the British trying to recapture the US, Imaginationland, Cartman getting Aids and giving it to Kyle and so on.

Then the three most recent episodes, which I watched last night, were three of the best so far. The first was a parody of the Holocaust using cats, and Cartman ironically trying to save them by hiding them in his attic (and actually at one point telling one of them to write a diary). The next was about Canada going on strike, and in turn reunited us all with forgotten internet fads. Who can remember this guy?




Then the most recent episode was about Mr / Mrs Garrison. For those not familiar with South Park, G started off a straight guy, then decided he was gay (hence introducing Mr Slave who at one point put a live hamster in his ass), then got a sex change to be a straight woman (at one point creating an atheistic future with Richard Dawkins), then became a lesbian (in a 300 parody) and now has just got a sex change back to a man again by growing a new penis on the back of a mouse.

Seriously the two guys who write all this stuff are just geniuses.


Now Dr. Who. Predictably again it was rubbish, there are two or three decent episodes a season and this was not one of them and I don't expect the next one to be either. I am personally looking forward to Silence in the Library in a few weeks. There are no details about it yet, but being written by the same guy as Blink it should be awesome.

Also I thought Caecilius died in Pompeii. Or I could just be remembering my year 9 latin incorrectly. I did spend most of the 45 mins trying to work out how they were going to save Quintus (who I remember surviving).

It is incredibly interesting how much everyone knows about this one family. Especially considering how long ago it was. I suspect I know more about Quintus and Caecilius than anyone else from that time, mythical or not. I also distinctly remember him being a banker or a merchant, not a marble craftsman.