Glad to see that South Park still have that never-play-safe attitude!

It's been a while since I was being shocked by a TV episode, but after watching the latest episode of South Park (Season 10 Episode 14: Stanley's Cup), I can't help but have to write about it. Thank goodness, South Park! You still have it.

After seeing a unsettling ending, I jumped to the Net and see other viewer's response. As expected, most people HATE it. In fact, many rated this the worst episode of South Park ever. And after I read some of the hater's review, I realized the reason why they hated the episode so much. That before THESE VIEWERS are the exact group of people the writers try to pop fun off: audience who got too used to formulated feel-good sport movies/TV episode. It's like the writer of this episode pull these people out of their cozy warm bed and give them a "gottacha" kind of look and then run away!

But this is exactly the spirit of South Park: challenging the mainstream cliche. The episode poked fun on all the typical sport movie routine, and doing almost exactly opposite to the norm of these genre. Audience almost have to aware of the sarcastic attitude of the writers in order to appreciate or laugh at the those routine. And historically people hate shows that are too smart. Only when you are open minded enough to have courage to laugh even yourself in order to really appreciate this episode.

Most people don't, so the bad reviews.

Hang in there, Trey Parker. Don't let the bad review upset you, cause eventually, you get the last laugh since jokes are really on those nay sayer.