It took me a bit to get this episode but I ended having a blast. To be honest, during the first minutes I was thinking a lot in the previous one and in the issue of having two disappointing (or just not very funny) episodes in a row. Boy was I mistaken! "Royal Pudding" was certainly a reminder of last year's ridiculous interest of a whole lot of people in my country to watch the royal wedding (hell, I don't even know the names of those who got married!). However nothing here is British
it's actually an Ike Broflovski show so the royal wedding we get to see happens up there in Canada. If you're a Rush fan, there's a surprise for you! Also, look for that Canadian racist guy and his insults to the Native Canadians, which I found quite hilarious!
If you have seen enough SOUTH PARK it will make complete sense that Ike is the one and only kindergartener, in the whole world perhaps, who won't miss, by any chance, the broadcast of the Canadian royal wedding. And it was Ike's cuteness the first element that gained me: he is the only kindergartener suffering because of the Canadian princess, who was mysteriously kidnapped during the wedding.
"Royal Pudding" goes also for simple humor based on the character Mr. Mackey and his problems with getting together a kindergarten play (in one of the two plots). This is actually a reference to Trey Parker and Matt Stone's very own experiences with producing the Broadway musical THE BOOK OF MORMON (I didn't get that reference but that is said on the commentary track, by the way). And that simple humor works perfect; is having Mackey insulting the kids over and over again – believe me, it's hilarious! So forget about watching those royal weddings, here you have everything you need to experience about them. That last scene, for instance, definitely ranks as one of my favorite SOUTH PARK endings! Crazy stuff!
*Watched it on 21 June, 2012
If you have seen enough SOUTH PARK it will make complete sense that Ike is the one and only kindergartener, in the whole world perhaps, who won't miss, by any chance, the broadcast of the Canadian royal wedding. And it was Ike's cuteness the first element that gained me: he is the only kindergartener suffering because of the Canadian princess, who was mysteriously kidnapped during the wedding.
"Royal Pudding" goes also for simple humor based on the character Mr. Mackey and his problems with getting together a kindergarten play (in one of the two plots). This is actually a reference to Trey Parker and Matt Stone's very own experiences with producing the Broadway musical THE BOOK OF MORMON (I didn't get that reference but that is said on the commentary track, by the way). And that simple humor works perfect; is having Mackey insulting the kids over and over again – believe me, it's hilarious! So forget about watching those royal weddings, here you have everything you need to experience about them. That last scene, for instance, definitely ranks as one of my favorite SOUTH PARK endings! Crazy stuff!
*Watched it on 21 June, 2012