This episode begins with all of Stan's friends being obsessed with Facebook. Stan starts of being anti-Facebook, so his friends make him a profile. Once Stan's profile is made he is soon engulfed in the Facebook world, by everyone around him asking why he hasn't accepted their friend request, posted, or poked back. While Stan's profile is growing in popularity due to everyone adding him. His friend Kyle's profile is losing friends left and right due to him adding, someone with zero friends, everyone sees this as a plague and deletes Kyle. Kyle turns to his friend Cartman who hosts a TV show that talks about Facebook and what popular trends are going on with that.
This episode concludes with Stan getting feed up with having to deal with everyone in real life, and also having to respond to everything on Facebook as well. As Stan try's to delete his profile, his profile sucks him into the virtual world of Facebook. His profile has become so strong in this virtual world that it doesn't want to be deleted, so Stan has to battle his profile for survival.
Honestly I believe that this is one of South Park's funniest episodes i've seen. I personally haven't laughed so hard, at anything I believe what makes this episode so funny is that we can relate some of these characters to people that we know. I know that I have friends, that are addicted to farmVille and have to check it every couple of hours.
Here is the link to South Park's website and should connect directly to this episode. However I had trouble playing it on my laptop, not sure if thats just my computer.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/267112
That episode sounds hilarious! Isn't it funny how facebook made its way into a tv show and had such an effect on life that it got its very own episode?? I wonder if facebook had to pay anything to the creaters to ensure they used the "facebook" name rather than making up a fictitious company. Even though it was making fun of the website and how crazy the users can be it was a great way to gain some publicity and laugh at how obsessed we all are.
ReplyDeleteGreat episode! The best part about South Park is how they turn real life into a funny cartoon. Most of the time it is to shed light onto how ridiculous people are being about a particular situation. Looking past the cartoon characters to this episode's story line, it shows us how consumed people have become with social media.
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