South Park has been ragged on a lot this season, and most of the time I defend it, but his second half of the season both started and ended very weakly. We started the second half of the season with that awful Cartman/Butters crotch shooting gag, and we end the season with Butters pretending to be a vampire. I would be one to advocate going back to the show's roots every once in a while and just having a random funny episode not about current events, but this was too random. Twilight may be a popular movie, but this episode will not be remembered as a series classic, but instead more of a lame attempt at finishing off a season with a handful of stinkers (This being one of them).
Butters begins noticing that many of the students at South Park Elementary are becoming vampires. He wants to join in also, and after a trip to Hot Topic, Butters is also one of the living dead, and along with that, his parents can't ground him. The goth kids aren't too happy with preppy kids claiming to be vampires just because of Twilight, and they feel their culture is being stolen.
Nothing about this episode was very funny. The best gag was probably that Butters' dad alphabetizes the food pantry, and if something goes out of place doesn't think to check the label. Other than that, there were just some amusing scenes, but none of that stood out. This episode felt extremely random, and in no way was the situation relate-able nor funny. There must be no news to parody, because if a vampire themed episode due to the release of Twilight is the best Trey Parker can come up with, then all I can do is hope he tries a little harder for the thirteenth season.
My rating: * 1/2 out of ****. 30 mins. TVMA