South Park "Insecurity" Review

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I looked forward to this one as soon as I saw Cartman in a Bane mask. Unfortunately, the episode is not the Dark Knight Rises parody I had hoped it to be. Instead, the episode's primary focus is on home security systems and Amazon shoppers. Once again, South Park does what it does best by chastising its target, and we get a pretty decent South Park episode.

Once again, one of the boys has a misunderstanding about sex and spreads rumors throughout the entire town of South Park, causing massive panic. The Gravedigger from Marjorine is back to give the town some advice and as a horror movie fan, I always find his accent and over the top voice fun.

The a running gag of this episode is a bit overplayed but maybe that's the point. The part I liked about it were the random new people involved in each joke; it made me wonder how Trey Parker and Matt Stone came up with all the names (maybe Random Name Generator that I use often?)

As an internet shopper, I couldn't agree to one of the messages of this episode which was something along the lines of: "internet shoppers forget what they order" which is untrue because here in Korea, products arrive in a day's time and I ALWAYS remember what I buy. Maybe this is an American thing but I've ordered (a copy of Inception) from Amazon before and I waited each day longing for it (hehe, nerd laugh, hehe)

The Bane scene was out of nowhere which made it funny. The voice imitation of Tom Hardy was great and we get to hear Cartman say "authoritah!" in Bane's voice! The exaggeration and emphasis of dark comedy works in this episode, especially when the men of South Park go around being the dumbasses they are.

Overall, Insecurity is a routine South Park episode that we're all familiar with but it's a good show.