ashwink14: Five years and beyond

Internet Fun on South Park and Inferno
2:00 p.m. on April 17, 2008

Hey, folks! How are you all doing? I'm doing well today.

World Lit. We finished up Inferno, finally. I was shocked and completely offended that Muhammed and his son Ali were in the 8th Circle of Hell. That's right, Medieval Christian epic has the holy prophet of the Muslim religion in Hell. And, here I was sitting there thinking, "No wonder the radicals hate us so much." Basically.

Western Civ. Lecture on the Dictatorships of the 20s and 30s.

Okay, Over Logging! Let's talk about that! Whoohoo, same style as the last few times!

The episode begins with the Marsh family doing their various online activities---Stan browsing, Shelley iChat-ing with her online boyfriend Amir, and Randy watching Internet pornography. Sharon has them all get off for bed, but when they wake up the next day, they discover the Internet is not working. Soon it becomes apparent that no Internet in South Park is working, and without the Internet to find out why, they cannot figure out what to do.

Haha, that's great. Stan's on YouTube. And yep... Randy into porn. FIGURES. Also, I noticed that apparently Stan has a Mac. He uses Safari as his Internet Browser. We all know how I feel about Mac. But I forgive him, because he's 9. And I loved him before.

The TV news - which has almost nothing to report without the Internet - gives vague rumors of there being some Internet access in Silicon Valley, so the family sets off "Californee way." On their way there, however, in a Grapes of Wrath inspired monologue, a man who is coming back from California reports that it is so crowded there from other travelers that there is not enough Internet to go around.

Also, haha, so funny to see how upset everyone was. I mean, the Marshes went to the Broflovskis house. Kyle was trying to get the Internet back up. "I even tried unplugging it." Also, I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! Grapes of Wrath! It was interesting. It was in black or white!

When the Marshes arrive, they are placed in an "Internet refugee itinerant camp," which is so filled with others that each family is only permitted forty seconds a day. Shelley is still enraged as she waits to use it, and constantly beats up Stan out of frustration that she cannot communicate with Amir.

LOL. Seriously? 40 SECONDS A DAY? Dude, that's not even enough! Also, apparently the Marshes use NetZero. Cheap much?! It's so funny to see Shelley beat up Stan. What a little BITCH.

Randy quickly becomes agitated, and explains to a guard that he has not masturbated since the Internet went offline, because, having gotten so use to being able to find any weird thing he wanted with a click, simple porn is no longer sufficient for him. His attempt to use an "Internet pornography simulator" (crude stick figures) fails, but when the camp's computer is put inside for the night, he sneaks in to use it in secret. His loud moans attract attention, however, and he is found sitting in front of a computer, with the entire room covered in semen.

Dude, what the fuck?! This was so messed up. I hate Randy's idioticness. Dude, no reason to be LOUD. Jeez. And Shelly, Sharon, and Stan came into the room. I wonder what Shelley thought. Poor Stanny.

Meanwhile, the government has attempted to find a way to fix "The Internet," a gigantic Linksys-looking router which no longer works properly for unknown reasons. Several methods to fix the internet---negotiating with it, communicating with it musically, etc.--- were tried, to no effect. Kyle, who discovered the problem, cycles the modem, by disconnecting and reconnecting the power. The network indicator now glows green to indicate that the internet has been re-established.

HAHA! This was FUCKING AWESOME. I cheered. Mainly because Kyle saved the ~~World~~ Internet. That was so great. I loved it. And it's funny, he even SAID what to do at the beginning of the episode. What a little smarty.

Back at the camp, everybody discovers that their laptops are working, and rejoice and begin to go home. Shelley celebrates that she will now be able to communicate with Amir, only to suddenly have a boy come out of the crowd---the actual Amir, whose family has also traveled across the country to get the Internet. The two are unable to look at each other, and awkwardly make plans to e-mail each other before quickly leaving. Similar to 1994 environmental action-adventure film On Deadly Ground, Randy makes a speech at the end to the town about the abuse of overlogging, similar to Steven Segal's speech about the abuse of oil complete with the Native American attire. Randy makes a speech to everyone, saying that they should learn from the experience not to "over-log...on," because the result may be that they will be unprepared if the Internet is lost again. He advises that people stop doing pointless browsing, only use it when truly necessarily, and only view Internet pornography up to two times a day.

Oh, Randy... Again?! Jeez.

Overall, this episode gets a 9/10. The episode was great. It lost 1 full point because of no explicit Style. Though, I do believe Kyle decided to save the ~~world~~ Internet, because he missed Stan a lot. Also lost a point because of how annoying Randy was. But, it got a high grade because I can RELATE so well. I mean, I had modem problems (as we all know) for months, until TWC stepped in and divorced my tv and modem. LOL.

I'm definitely planning to put in a order for a new box of checks. Mine are almost done.

Thought/Quote of the day: "It was pretty good."-- Christy and Will Stoppable, Kim Possible: Kim Gives The Talk by myself, March 2007

Word of the day: preexist

Hakuna Matata.

The AW/AB Countdown to episode 7 of Season 12 of South Park: 6 days and 7 hours!

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