I don't know, I really liked this episode just as I liked the rest of the episodes of the second run from Season 12 (I have The China Problem still to watch) but there's not a single one that I consider as one of my all time favourites. Still with Elementary School Musical and The Ungroundable we had a solid and hilarious final part of the Season, March is still very far. Anyway, this episode has not in Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny its protagonists and actually we see new kids, vampire kids and at the very last scene of the episode one of the goth kids says something like this: "anybody who thinks they are actually a vampire is a freaking retarded!", those are his last words after a speech that let the other kids know what are the differences between goths and "vampires". So who will believe that the vampire kids are actually vampires? Certainly a retarded, certainly Butters! And hell is truly hilarious, you see Butters first very afraid of the vampire kids but soon you see him looking for blood, he is weak, he has not eat, he will try to bite Cartman, he "got gay with one of his schoolmates". Butters is on fire during this episode, I can't wait for Season 13 but meanwhile I will watch the first run of Season 12.
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"anybody who thinks they are actually a vampire is a freaking retarded!"
RainDogJr20 November 2008
Warning: Spoilers
A Decent Season Finale from South Park
piperian39630 November 2008
This is definitely one of the better episodes of this season. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy South Park's crazy episodes that lampoon current events and tear everything happening in the media to little pieces. But this episode slows that down a little bit (at least compared to the rest of this season) and lets some character oriented comedy happen.
The last 2 episodes are pretty good examples of South Park doing their character oriented humor. This episode brings back the Goth kids and helps to expand who they are. This episode also has plenty of great Butters moments.
This episode does have it's social commentary, but it is not as overpowering as "About Last Night".
The last 2 episodes are pretty good examples of South Park doing their character oriented humor. This episode brings back the Goth kids and helps to expand who they are. This episode also has plenty of great Butters moments.
This episode does have it's social commentary, but it is not as overpowering as "About Last Night".
I loved it!
havanagirl19885 March 2009
I think it's great that Matt and Trey are spoofing on current events. I didn't think the episode was dry or humorless at all. Twilight is very popular in our current media right now and I love it when they spoof on current fads like that. IE: "You got Served", "Scientology", "Paris Hilton", "Pokemon", etc...I'v recently got into their show a little over a year ago and I do know that they have done some episodes that were a little too random and the whole episode itself was never pulled off to its full potential but I'm still shocked that I never bothered getting into the show much earlier. Overall, it's a wonderful cartoon and I love how their not afraid the censor themselves with any topic. No one is left untouched no matter how taboo the subject matter may be. I can't wait to see what they have stored for their upcoming 13th season.
One of the best episodes of season 12!
burteriksson4 December 2020
This was definitely one of the best episodes on the season. It maybe didn't have jokes that make you laugh out loud, per se, but in overall this a very enjoyable viewing pleasure. I like the goth kids - and the emos and the vampires are cool too. I like the design of the characters alone; how they look. And the goth kids definitely are an interesting bunch to watch.
What was this?
TOMNEL23 November 2008
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
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
When did the funny parts start?
phenomynouss28 January 2009
Warning: Spoilers
To an angry, hateful person as I am, it's easy to get into the faggy goth kids' hatred of the faggy vampire kids. In my view, they're pretty much exactly the same.
As soon as the vampire kids were there, I groaned and expected yet another topical, soon-to-be-outdated spoof/parody on "Twilight", which I've never read nor seen, so I wouldn't be in on this joke.
I wouldn't know if it had "Twilight" references or not; it was little more than Butters being retarded, joining the vampire clique, and the opportunity for Stone and Parker to talk in lisps for both the goths and the vampires.
There was no real running joke or plot aside from Butters being a retard, in a way that just makes a caricature of his childlike idiocy in earlier episodes. He's just a blank template upon which plot devices can be wielded upon.
There was no real theme to the episode or to the vampire-clique rise or even any funny situations or jokes. It was just a long expository, perhaps the show's creators' excuse to vent on vampire fads that come around every few teenybopper vampire movies.
In somewhat atypical South Park style, they went way too far with the goth kids kidnapping and abandoning of the head vampire guy, in a manner kind of like "Scott Tenorman Must Die" but without any real justification or purpose; just because the goths have a bitchfit over the vampire kids dressing and looking like them, they commit a capital crime that doesn't even further deaden an already dead episode.
Something of a post-addition: I fail to see what the purpose of the vampires constantly saying "per se", or rather "per thay", or if that references something. Like I said, I never saw/read "Twilight" so I wouldn't know even if they weren't referencing it.
As soon as the vampire kids were there, I groaned and expected yet another topical, soon-to-be-outdated spoof/parody on "Twilight", which I've never read nor seen, so I wouldn't be in on this joke.
I wouldn't know if it had "Twilight" references or not; it was little more than Butters being retarded, joining the vampire clique, and the opportunity for Stone and Parker to talk in lisps for both the goths and the vampires.
There was no real running joke or plot aside from Butters being a retard, in a way that just makes a caricature of his childlike idiocy in earlier episodes. He's just a blank template upon which plot devices can be wielded upon.
There was no real theme to the episode or to the vampire-clique rise or even any funny situations or jokes. It was just a long expository, perhaps the show's creators' excuse to vent on vampire fads that come around every few teenybopper vampire movies.
In somewhat atypical South Park style, they went way too far with the goth kids kidnapping and abandoning of the head vampire guy, in a manner kind of like "Scott Tenorman Must Die" but without any real justification or purpose; just because the goths have a bitchfit over the vampire kids dressing and looking like them, they commit a capital crime that doesn't even further deaden an already dead episode.
Something of a post-addition: I fail to see what the purpose of the vampires constantly saying "per se", or rather "per thay", or if that references something. Like I said, I never saw/read "Twilight" so I wouldn't know even if they weren't referencing it.
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