"South Park" The List (2007)

Director:

Trey Parker

Writers:

Trey Parker (written by)
Trey Parker (creator) ...

TV Series:

"South Park" (1997)

Original Air Date:

14 November 2007 (Season 11, Episode 14)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy

Plot:

The girls in the fourth grade class have made a secret list that rates every boy's looks from cutest to ugliest. When the boys steal the list, they are completely unprepared to deal with the results.

Plot Keywords:

Secret List | Burning Building | Nerd | Shot In The Head | Cover Up

Cast

Trey Parker	...	Stan Marsh / Eric Cartman / Clyde / Craig / Jimmy Swanson / Stephen Stotch (voice)
Matt Stone	...	Kyle Broflovski / Kenny McCormick / Gerald Broflvoski / Leopold 'Butters' Stotch / Tweek (voice)
Adrien Beard	...	Token Williams (voice)
Paula Holmberg	...	(voice)
Jennifer Howell	...	Bebe (voice)
Mona Marshall	...	Sheila Broflovski / Linda Stotch (voice)
April Stewart	...	(voice)
Jessie Thomas	...	(voice)

Quotes:

Wendy Testaburger: [has found out why the list was forged] So that you could justify dating Clyde and get shoes? How dare you take advantage of your position? I'm gonna tell Bebe and have you both disbarred from the list committee!
Girl with grey headband: [walks up to her] Bebe? Who'd you think authorized the buyout?
Wendy Testaburger: [shocked] No... not Bebe!

A great season finale.

This episode will be very highly reviewed by fans of South Park who have been watching from the beginning. This episode felt like an older episode of South Park, not parodying anything in particular and relying on the characters, along with a funny plot.

In this hilarious episode, the boys manage to steal a list of their rankings from cutest to ugliest from the girls. When Kyle finds that he is last on the list, after Cartman, he becomes depressed and begins to hang out with the ugly kids. Meanwhile, Stan and Wendy try to find how this could have happened, and find a huge conspiracy. Not that this should have any effect on my rating of this episode, but it felt like an old episode in so many ways. Stan (along with Wendy) and Kyle had the main plots, while Cartman, Kenny and Butters had a sub-plot at the beginning of the episode, so all the boys have screen time. Kenny, after nearly 40 episodes, finally does die again, in one of his most hilarious deaths. This episode finally felt like it was about the boys, and they didn't just throw them in to make a viewpoint. I think the main thing that this episode had, that has been missing from almost the entire eleventh season, is the innocence of a child.

Humor can be just as funny mixed with emotion as it is in non-stop ripping on someone or something else.

My rating: **** out of ****. TVMA 22 mins.