I find "Goobacks" to be an absolutely hilarious little episode. It continues the fine form of season eight so far and deals with immigration and the tension that can result between a preexisting community and an immigration community. In this episode, THEY TOOK ER JEWBS!
The conflict in this episode is hilarious, clever, insightful and compelling and represents what SOUTH PARK so often does so well. On top of being hilarious and entertaining and insightful, this is also a beautiful looking episode and the design on the Goobacks is striking. The opening is hilarious because of how it transitions from one so uneventful to absurdly hilarious. It begins on a highway and shows the vacancy of daily human life through passing traffic and tumbling tumble weeds. I adore SOUTH PARK doing both outrageous humour and banal visual humour (such as in the aforementioned instance OR for another example, the opening scene of "Kenny Dies").
The visual of the first Gooback, who has traveled back in time, navigating his way through traffic to cross the street is something that I find so hilarious, whether it ought to be that funny. In much the same way, I find the entire episode hilarious.
Stan and Randy are both magnificent here, especially their contrary conflicts that both reach a similar boiling point. Stan is immediately cynical and frustrated of the immigration situation whereas Randy is very cooperative until the moment he loses his job....THEYTUKERJEBS.
I adore "Goobacks" for its cleverness, hilarity, relevance and all out sense of entertainment. I find the story and visuals so fun and striking that I feel a cinematic cadence to the visual language here and I think it would have made a very fitting second SOUTH PARK feature film. The entire episode is a wonderful experience and every stage of the plot development is fresh and exciting. Wonderful episode.
The conflict in this episode is hilarious, clever, insightful and compelling and represents what SOUTH PARK so often does so well. On top of being hilarious and entertaining and insightful, this is also a beautiful looking episode and the design on the Goobacks is striking. The opening is hilarious because of how it transitions from one so uneventful to absurdly hilarious. It begins on a highway and shows the vacancy of daily human life through passing traffic and tumbling tumble weeds. I adore SOUTH PARK doing both outrageous humour and banal visual humour (such as in the aforementioned instance OR for another example, the opening scene of "Kenny Dies").
The visual of the first Gooback, who has traveled back in time, navigating his way through traffic to cross the street is something that I find so hilarious, whether it ought to be that funny. In much the same way, I find the entire episode hilarious.
Stan and Randy are both magnificent here, especially their contrary conflicts that both reach a similar boiling point. Stan is immediately cynical and frustrated of the immigration situation whereas Randy is very cooperative until the moment he loses his job....THEYTUKERJEBS.
I adore "Goobacks" for its cleverness, hilarity, relevance and all out sense of entertainment. I find the story and visuals so fun and striking that I feel a cinematic cadence to the visual language here and I think it would have made a very fitting second SOUTH PARK feature film. The entire episode is a wonderful experience and every stage of the plot development is fresh and exciting. Wonderful episode.