South Park (TV Series) #HappyHolograms (2014) User Reviews

Ruined

[Thomas-Pedersen_Denmark · 8/10 · 11 December 2014]

This episode ended very very badly.

Since when did South Park begin promoting celebrities instead of making fun of them? I f****** hate that c***, I bet >90% of the south park audience agree, and yet producers let him finish off the season with accusing the audience of being hes "brohs"? And two segments, one of 44 sec and the final at 11 seconds? Could have sworn it lasted way longer.

Completely trashed the episode for me, I look back at it only with negativity because of this.

Usually the episodes are great, but this a** licking of a celebrity IS NOT south park! WT*? Did they get paid off or how did this happen? Who will they team up with and promote next, Miley Cyrus*? I f****** hope not.

Far from the best, but not among the worst either.

[Mucceroo · 7/10 · 14 December 2014]

Wow, a lot of people really have a problem with this one. While it's almost certainly the worst Christmas episode of the show, it's far from the worst overall. In my opinion, this episode was messy, but had a number of funny parts throughout. With all of the holograms, the CartmanBrah, PewDiePie, etc., it was very cluttered. But honestly the messiness was part of the fun, especially since they liberally made fun of themselves and how little sense the episode was making toward the end. The use of tweets as a meta-commentary on the episode was the best part--lots of great "blink or you'll miss them jokes" in there.

I definitely didn't love this episode. It was far from perfect--but so are a lot of South Park episodes. It has the same problems that a lot of (tomorrow is a) latter-day South Park episodes have been having, which is just trying to stuff too many ideas into one episode, to the point where certain jokes they could explore more are cut short and are just explored at a cursory level. And while I'm sure Matt and Trey's heads are in the right place, the cops' jokes are in that uncomfortable "too soon" realm--but that can often be where South Park's humor lives, and I'm aware that almost nothing has been off-limits for the show before.

I just am not getting how apparently so many people are finding this to be the "worst episode ever" and say they'll never watch the show again. This seems to be akin to the reaction to Matt and Trey's April Fools Joke from 16 years ago--it's almost absurd to me that people cared SO much about finding out who Cartman's father was, they failed to see the humor in Matt and Trey playing a meta-joke on them, on APRIL FOOLS DAY of all things. Similarly, I can't understand how so many fans of the show are failing to see the humor here. Obviously they don't look up to PewDiePie as some sort of savior; it's an ironic, tongue-in-cheek joke like...oh, I don't know, several thousand jokes from this series. I feel like they knew what they were doing, too, that a lot of their fan base would be (THANKS FOR THE CENSORSHIP, IMDb) annoyed. Hey, they've messed with their viewers a number of times before. And maybe they just find the guy funny--is there something really so WRONG about that? It's of course rare for them to have a guest star on the show and it hasn't happened in many years. It sure was an interesting choice.

I don't know, I just figured South Park fans were more easy-going, kick-back-and-laugh-at-the-world type people. That is the whole purpose of the show, after all. Instead, it seems that a number of the fan base are quick-to-jump-ship type of people when they don't find something funny. This is nowhere near the best episode, but it's also nowhere near the lows of "A Million Little Fibers," "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining," or "Pee," to name a couple. I'm surprised people weren't jumping ship after some of those ones.

Why are people so salty about this one

[ecrayles · 8/10 · 5 June 2021]

I really don't get it. Everyone commenting on this seems to hate pewdiepie with a burning passion.

Overall, though, this episode seemed A little too preachy in my opinion. South park has always been a little preachy but this was far more preachy than the other episodes.

Frustrated

[Timgrewal6 · 10/10 · 12 December 2014]

It's so annoying and frustrating seeing people say they're such big fans yet they bash and talk crap about episodes. I've been watching South Park since it started and Parker and stone are the most intelligent writers in this screwed up biased industry. They can make fun of people and events and people are so dumb they take it as them promoting those people and don't listen to how they make fun of them. When they make light of a celebrities crimes or actions they're making fun of how lightly people take it they perfectly show how dumb and blind kids have become and they do it perfectly it's awesome!Best cops in town.Fyi. Christmas critters 2 would be the sh*t They can and have done no wrong.BOOK OF MORMON APRIL 2015 VANCOUVER!

You guys just aren't getting it right..

[cyberguroo · 1/10 · 13 December 2014]

Its like, old people trying to be appealing to the younger gen, and incidentally copying the most hated celebrity instead, since they don't have the proper idea of what's cool/hip and what's worth hating.

This is exactly what SP did in this last episode, I mean Seriously!!!! You guys took the wrong side, even though you think that you made fun of that commentator but what you did is more of a promoting job.

Second last episode was kinda passable but dedicating a whole of 2 episodes to a rather unknown/ and popular in a specific niche personality just ruins the fun.

You guys are just loosing it. The humor.

As Cartman would say: "Totally Lame"

[trolliyama · 1/10 · 25 June 2020]

Imagine dedicating not one, but two episodes to kiss Pewdiepie untalented ass.

Epicly Bad

[justinboggan · 5/10 · 13 December 2014]

Look back at the funny episodes of this season. Look back at the continuity that ran threw it and all the potential it could have had. Then look at the introduction of Michael Jackson's hologram last episode. There was SO MUCH that could have been done with this. Instead it was all squandered. I mean in an EPIC squandering.

What did we get with all the build up and history from previous episodes with Michael Jackson? We got rehashed jokes from the previous episode, empty rehashed jokes about Michael Jackson (who himself seemed to serve no use whatsoever in this episode other than to bring him back), a plot so boring and uninvolving you'd be surprised it was saved for the season finale, a quickly shoved in attempt to make fun of Bill Cosby; more retreaded ground about the Washington Redskins; and the most stunning attempt at humor involving racism, using the propaganda about police being peddled in the news right now. Maybe if Trey spent as much time writing these things as he apparently does watching propaganda cable news networks, the show would be funny like it used to be years ago.

I mean the police were making jokes about black people, using tactics like shooting them and choking them, and other things. The the dead aborted National Socialist (AKA: Nazi's) mutated fetuses from the "Stick of Truth" game is nothing compared to this. I literally said aloud in a disgusted manner, "Wow. You've got to be kidding me." I almost quit season seventeen because of unfunny and boring episodes, taking it one at a time and ultimately skipping one or two of them after reading reviews. I decided that is season eighteen wasn't funny, I'd stop; thankfully there were more funny episodes this season, but after this painful experience with the culmination of the previous season, I honestly at this moment can't say I'll tune in next season. I stopped watching "Family Guy" when it became unfunny and needlessly disgusting; I stopped watching "The Simpsons" about season nine when it stopped being funny, and it looks like I might end up not watching this show anymore. Folks like to say garbage like, "Oh, you'll watch it anyway." Ah, no. I wasn't kidding about the aforementioned shows.

That's how bad this episode was. If I had known in advance, I would not have watched it.

And you know what's sad? It doesn't need to be! The show hasn't outlasted its potential, it hasn't become a tiresome slosh. It could still be the laugh out loud belly rumbling experience it used to be. It could easily go another years, yet Trey and the staff writers just don't seem to care anymore.